Dr. Alan Stern, NASA’s Principal Investigator for its New Horizons mission that successfully explored Pluto and its moons and is currently navigating the Kuiper Belt, will be giving the keynote address at the 2020 International Mars Society Convention’s virtual banquet on Saturday, October 17th at 7:30 pm PDT (10:30 pm EDT).
A respected planetary scientist and author, Dr. Stern serves as Associate Vice President at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. His academic research has focused on the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, comets, the satellites of the outer planets, the Pluto system and the search for evidence of solar systems around other stars.
In 2007-08, Dr. Stern served as Associate Administrator at NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. During his tenure, a record 10 major new flight projects were initiated and deep reforms of the agency’s scientific research and educational outreach programs were put into place.
Dr. Stern consults for a variety of aerospace companies and institutions, including Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, the Moon Express Google Lunar X-PRIZE team, Ball Aerospace, Paragon Space Development Corporation and Johns Hopkins University. He is also chief science officer of World View, a near-space ballooning company, as well as CEO of Uwingu and The Golden Spike Company.
For more details about the virtual Mars Society conference, including how to register, please visit our web site at: https://www.marssociety.org.
