Intrepid Museum
Virtual Astronomy Live
Spacesuits
Past EVENT
Thursday, Aug 19, 2021
5:30 PM EST
Guests will learn about the different spacesuits, past, present and future. Hear from NASA Engineer, Alicia Baker as she talks about the evolution of spacesuits, from past to present, and what technologies they are working on to test the hardware intended for use in the next generation of spacesuits..
A Pre-show will take place at 5:00pm EST with an educator from the Intrepid Museum.
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
Alicia Baker
NASA Johnson Space Center
Alicia is a Project Manager and Test Engineer at Jacobs Technology Inc. working on the Portable Life Support Systems (PLSS) Spacesuit Evaporation Rejection Flight Experiment (SERFE). Baker coordinates testing with Electrical, Mechanical, and Thermal Engineering on hardware intended for use in the next generation of space suits. As SERFE Project Manager Sustaining Operations, she also coordinates simulated EVAs (space walks) on their FLIGHT unit on Space Station and the GROUND unit at Johnson Space Center.
David Westheimer
NASA Johnson Space Center
David received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas A&M University in mechanical engineering. He has spent over 20 years working in various positions with NASA at the Johnson Space Center focusing on thermal control and life support systems to enable human exploration of space. He currently provides technical support for the Spacesuit Evaporation Rejection Flight Experiment (SERFE) payload on the International Space Station (ISS) and coordinates testing activities for the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) project that is developing a new spacesuit to use on ISS and the moon.
Summer Ash
Moderator
@Summer_Ash
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.