Date: Wednesday, 18 May, 2011
Time: doors open from 18.30, dinner starts at 18.45
Location: Lab111 (Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam)
Ticket: 20 euros (three course dinner, excluding drinks).
Subscription possible until: Friday, 13 May
Abstract
Since Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space exactly 50 years ago, man has walked on the moon and lived for months at a time in the International Space Station. Who keeps the crew and their Space Station refuelled? And how do you make a delivery to the International Space Station?
Virginie Hager will be talking about her work at the Space Agency, including her current trip for a shuttle launch at NASA, Florida (!) and her work on part of the operational system to keep the International Space station and crew supplied with provisions.
Speaker Bio
Virginie Hager is a mechanical engineer at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk. She works in a team solving these supply and delivery issues into space with their Automated Transfer Vehicle for the International Space Station.