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X-WR-CALNAME:Our Fragile Space: Protecting the Near Space Environment
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DESCRIPTION:Register with Password: ASTROPHOTO912\n\nABOUT THE EVENT\nThis 
 event will begin in the Elliott School's Harry Harding Auditorium and will
  feature a fireside chat with space photographer and science communicator 
 Max Alexander. A reception will follow in the exhibition space outside the
  auditorium.\n\nPlaces are limited so please be confident you can attend p
 rior to registering. We also kindly ask that you cancel your reservation i
 f you're no longer able to attend.\n\n\n- 5:30pm | Welcome and Opening Rem
 arks\, Space Policy Institute Director\, Scott Pace\n- 5:40pm | Artist's R
 emarks\, Photographer Max Alexander\n- 6:00pm | Fireside Chat\, Featuring 
 Max Alexander\, Moderated by Director of Space Applications Programs at Se
 cure World Foundation Krystal Azelton\n- 6:30pm | Closing Remarks and Invi
 tation to the Reception and Exhibition\, Space Policy Institute Director\,
  Scott Pace\n6:35pm-8pm | Reception | Exhibition Space\, 2nd Floor Atrium\
 , Elliott School of International Affairs\n\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\nOur Fra
 gile Space comes to GW's Elliott School after several successful showings\
 , including at Lloyds of London and the United Nations in Vienna. Award-wi
 nning journalist and author Dr. Stuart Clark provides an introduction to t
 he exhibition:\n"For most of human history\, space has been a remote realm
 \, unreachable and mysterious. Earlier generations filled it with their va
 rious hopes\, dreams\, and fears\, all born in the inner reaches of the hu
 man psyche. Then in 1957\, things changed. The former Soviet Union launche
 d Sputnik 1\, and we began filling space with actual pieces of hardware.\n
 We have now transformed the orbital space around Earth into a technologica
 l bridgehead. In the process\, we have proven the societal and scientific 
 benefits of using this environment. With the tumbling cost of satellites a
 nd launches\, more and more companies are thinking of how to use space. No
  longer can we consider it 'outer space'. It has become 'near space'\, par
 t of the Earth's environment\, inextricably linked to our way of life and 
 the functioning of society. Instead of a frontier to be tamed\, the near-s
 pace environment is one over which we must now exercise stewardship. As th
 e problem of space debris increases\, along with the sky becoming progress
 ively crowded and light polluted\, our new role is to ensure that space is
  used sustainably. This means guaranteeing the benefits remain available t
 o future generations and also to preserve the night sky for humanity.\nTo 
 tell this story\, Max Alexander travelled to the top of volcanoes in the P
 acific and Atlantic Oceans\, clean rooms across Europe\, mega-constellatio
 n launches on both coasts of the United States\, and a farm in England. He
  also went on a journey through the space sector: government\, space agenc
 ies\, the military\, regulation\, insurance markets\, academia\, astronomy
 \, and space sustainability enterprises. Through a series of reportage pho
 tographs and portraiture\, he documents the benefits of using space\, the 
 cost to the near-space environment\, and the beginnings of our stewardship
 . After seeing these images\, our relationship with near space will never 
 be the same again."
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LOCATION:1957 E Street NW\, 213\, 2nd Floor
SUMMARY:Our Fragile Space: Protecting the Near Space Environment
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 he_near_space_environment
CATEGORIES:Academic
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
CATEGORIES:Research
CATEGORIES:Science & Technology
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