About
Our future deep-space exploration faces many daunting challenges, but three of them loom high above the rest: physiological debilitation, radiation sickness and psychological stress. Many measures are presently being developed to reduce these difficulties. However, in the long run, two important new developments are required: abundant supply of power, and advanced space propulsion. The future looks bright, however. While the road is a long one, it is now well defined and many exciting explorations are within near-term reach.
Biography Dr. Chang-Diaz graduated from MIT in the field of applied plasma physics and fusion research. He has been a NASA space shuttle astronaut on seven missions between 1986 and 2002. As director of the ASP Laboratory in Houston, he continues research on plasma rockets. For more details: see
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chang.html
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- EP Seminar
- Speaker
- Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz (NASA Astronaut, Director of Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, Houston)
- Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Astronomy and space
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
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