Intrepid Museum
Virtual Astronomy Live
10th Anniversary of Shuttle Decommissioning
LIVE EVENT
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
3:00 PM EDT
Hear from Stephanie S. Stilson of NASA’s Enterprise Program/Project Management Office as she gives us a behind the scenes look at the decommissioning of the space shuttle orbiters and the transport to their final destinations.
A Pre-show will take place from 3:00pm-3:30pm and will feature the 10 year anniversary of the arrival of the space shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Museum.
The event is hosted and co-produced by John “Das” Galloway, producer for NASASpaceflight and creator of the Kerbal Space Academy.
This program is supported through a NASA Cooperative Agreement awarded to the New York Space Grant Consortium.
Participants
Stephanie S Stilson
NASA
Stephanie Suzanne Stilson is currently the Chief of NASA’s Enterprise Program/Project Management Office in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Stephanie began this newly created role in October 2021 providing direction and leadership in the functional areas of Program/Project Management, Risk Management, Performance Management, Governance, and Content Management to support the delivery of Information Technology services and systems necessary to accomplish NASA's missions.
From 2000 to 2011, Stilson was the flow director for space shuttle Discovery planning, scheduling and conducting the ground processing efforts for eleven of Discovery's missions. These missions included NASA's return to flight after the loss of Columbia (STS-114), delivery of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) during STS-124, and the last mission for Discovery (STS-133).
At the conclusion of Discovery's last mission in March 2011, Stilson became flow director for the transition and retirement of the space shuttle orbiter fleet responsible for preparing and delivering Enterprise, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour to their final display sites.
Summer Ash
Moderator
Summer Ash has been both a rocket scientist and an astrophysicist. She is a freelance science writer and communicator whose work has been published in The Atlantic, NBC News, Smithsonian, Now.Space, Scientific American, Slate, and Nautilus.
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.