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Featured Program: Keeping Humans Alive in Space
Human bodies change in space. Their delicate physiology requires oxygen and expires carbon dioxide. Other considerations are less obvious: invisible radiation, muscle atrophy, bone loss, and more. This fascinating presentation explores the ways that habitats and spacesuits support life.
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About the Speakers:
With almost 20 years in the aerospace industry, Julie N. Strickland is an experienced engineer, program manager, and innovator. She earned her degree in mechanical engineer so that she could facilitate space exploration. After all, her older brothers had raised her on a steady diet of science fiction, from Star Trek and Star Wars to Asimov and Bradbury. She is a space enthusiast to her core!
Strickland holds five patent awards with many others in the pipeline. The book Strawberry Innovation: The Practical Guide for Innovating within a Fortune 50 Company, which contains all the wisdom that Strickland has gathered over years of developing inventions, will be published later this year. She is available for presentations and private workshops to teach the innovation process and to brainstorm on your toughest problems.
Montgomery B. Goforth has over 30 years of experience as both an Engineer and Manager in various highly technical space and defense-related efforts. He joined NASA in 1990 as part of the Mission Operations Directorate, working on planning systems and automated procedure execution tools for the International Space Station (ISS). He became Deputy Project Manager for the Portable Computer System, the laptop used for command and control of the ISS, in 1996. He became Chief of the Branch responsible for all laptops onboard the ISS and the Space Shuttle.