Intrepid Museum
Virtual Astronomy Live
Space Tourism w/ Blue Origin
Past EVENT
Thursday, Sep 16, 2021
5:30 PM EST
Hear from Ariane Cornell Director of Astronaut Sales at Blue Origin as she talks about developing technologies and vehicles to enable human space transportation.
A pre-show will take place at 5:00pm EST with an Interactive talk: featuring the NASA “Visions of the Future” Space Tourism Poster Project, from Elysia Segal, Intrepid Museum educator
The event is hosted and co-produced by John “Das” Galloway, founder of the Kerbal Space Academy.
This program is supported through a NASA Cooperative Agreement awarded to the New York Space Grant Consortium.
Participants
Michael Massimino
Moderator
Former NASA astronaut, Professor Columbia University, School of Engineering and Sr. Advisor Space Programs, Intrepid Museum.
Ariane Cornell
Ariane Cornell is the Director of Astronaut and Orbital Sales at Blue Origin.
Ariane supports the international aerospace community in other capacities and organizations. She has served on the boards of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) and Women in Aerospace – Europe.
Ariane was formerly based in Vienna, Austria as the Executive Director of the Space Generation Advisory Council in Support of the United Nations Programs on Space Applications (SGAC). She headed SGAC’s delegations to international conferences and the United Nations, as well as ran the organization’s operations, business development, strategy, and policy output. Ariane earned an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Stanford University.
John “Das”Galloway
Host and Producer
“Das” is a science outreach communicator who specializes in live, interactive video content. He is the creator of the Kerbal Space Academy, where he uses video games as a tool to start science and engineering conversations with viewers of all ages, and VECTORS Virtual Field Trips, which brings real-time interactive video to museums, events, and historical locations. “Das” also serves as a host and producer for NASASpaceflight.com.
Produced by Intrepid Museum in partnership with Kerbal Space Academy and Egress Productions, LLC.