# Space exploration - Present and future challenges

- 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](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3014458)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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

Note: Tea and coffee will be served at 16:00 hrs..

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## Lectures

1. [Space exploration - Present and future challenges](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3014458/c2d1d4d775ed), 1 h 6 min (CERN's player)