The Intrepid Space Museum is hosting a new installment in their Virtual Astronomy Live program featuring NASA engineers and scientists about new technology making further space exploration possible.
NASA’s Technology Demonstration Missions is working on bringing deeper space exploration into reality through technological advancements needed to continue the conquest of space. This includes making space missions safer, commercial and government space missions, proof-of-concept tests, flight testing of these new technologies and more.
The program is hosted by John “Das” Galloway, creator of the Kerbal Space Academy and VECTORS Virtual Field Trips, who is known for his creation of interactive videos and games to transmit science and space know-how to everyone. Special guest speakers include Tawnya Laughinghouse, Program Manager for Technology Demonstration Missions, and Trudy Kortes, Program Director of Technology Demonstrations for Space Technology Mission Directorate. Both of them will touch on NASA’s TDM program and what it means for the future and the challenges now overcome by innovation.
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