Schedule
See below for all keynotes and concurrent sessions.
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Saturday November 12, 2022
All sessions will be hosted live via Zoom, and recordings will be shared on our YouTube Channel.
Click on the title of a session below to read more details including a description and the presenter’s bio.
Opening: Astronaut Panel
8:00 - 9:00 AM PST
Session 1
9:15 - 10:15 AM PST
Room 1: Psychedelics in Space
Leonard Lerer
Room 2: Evolving Space Culture
Cheryl Gallagher
Room 3: Space Science - A Revolution in Education
Ashwini Bhadravati Ramesh
Room 4: Space Ethics
Nick Nielsen
Room 5: Preparing Students for Humanity’s Multiplanet Future
Mark Wagner
Session 2
10:30 - 11:30 AM PST
Room 1: Human Reactions to The Extreme Environment of Space
Anastasia Stepanova
Room 2: Interstellar Messaging Education as a Means to Develop New Collective Human Narratives
Chris Richardson
Room 3: What Education for the Space Exploration Generation?
Dan Profir
Room 4: Due Regard for the Future?
Michelle Hanlon
Room 5: Nations, Money, UFOs and Human Expansion
Martin Schwab
Session 3
12:30 - 1:30 PM PST
Room 1: The Relevance of Transcendent and Psychedelic Interventions in Space
David Luke
Room 2: Making Space More Human - CANCELED
Phnam Bagley
Room 3: It's Not Rocket Science (A Hands-On Session)
Cristina Paredes-Murrell
Room 4: U.S. and China Space Rivalry - What Caused It?
Rebecca Schembri
Room 5: How Will We Live In Space? Fundamental Limitations and Practical Considerations for Large-Scale Space Settlements
Jeffery Greenblatt
Session 4
1:45 - 2:45 PM PST
Room 1: Well-Being in Space: Human-Centred Design for Meaningful Heritage-Based Extended Reality Experiences
Kaja Antlej, Bahareh Nakisa, & Annahita Nezami
Room 2: Expanding Loop Processes - Sustaining Independent of Earth's Natural Resources
Daniel Tompkins
Room 3: Navigating Your Career in the Aerospace Industry as a Student
Gitika Gorthi
Room 4: The Future of Interplanetary Space Governance
AJ Link
Room 5: The Case For Mars - The Plan to Settle The Red Planet and Why We Must
Robert Zubrin
Closing: Capstone Session
3:00 - 4:00 PM PST
Registration is FREE and includes access to the complete full-day schedule.
The symposium features a morning astronaut panel, followed by four concurrent breakout sessions, and a closing capstone session. The global event will take place virtually on Pacific Standard Time (PST) in the US, so that participants from Europe or Africa, the Americas, and East Asia can all participate. We welcome participants from Australia and Asia as well, but know the timing may be more challenging for them.