Viitorul Roman Society in association with the Columbia Memorial Space Center has the pleasure of inviting you to a unique event: an insight into the details of Space Exploration. How does Space feel like? What does one feel when watching the Earth from Space? How do we get to the Moon? How do we explore the Planets and how do we measure and interpret the scientific data telling us what is beneath the surface of the Moon, Jupiter, Jupiter’s moons, the asteroids and comets?
Join us and our special guests :
Romanian Cosmonaut Dr. Ing. Dumitru Prunariu, our Guest of Honor, visiting from Bucharest. Dr. Prunariu is the 103rd human who flew into space, aboard a Soyuz 40 rocket in 1981, and executing an 8-day mission on the Salyut 6 space laboratory. We will hear firsthand from Dr. Prunariu about man’s presence in space.
Dr. Virgil Adumitroaie, Data Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an expert in planetary environmental modeling, remote sensing and data interpretation, currently working with the Juno Mission team.
Dr. Bogdan Marcu, expert in Liquid Propulsion technology, author of designs for the Space X Falcon 9/Merlin engines, the Space Shuttle, and Delta IV rockets.
After the presentations, you are invited to a snack and a glass of wine, where our guests will answer your questions and share some more of their experiences.
