by Brianna Suazo | Aug 10, 2021
Door Time: 7:00 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission seeks answers to some of human-kind’s oldest questions. Where did we come from? What is our destiny? Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid, may contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and Earth’s oceans. Bennu is also one of the most potentially hazardous asteroids, as it has a relatively high probability of impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century. OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018 and has spent the time since then collecting imaging, topographic, and spectral data that have enabled the team to determine Bennu’s physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties. Important results of the mission are that Bennu’s surface is dominated by minerals containing water, and that the surface appears to have experienced geologic processing in the last few hundreds of thousands to millions of years. Bennu’s size, primitive composition, and potentially hazardous orbit make it one of the most fascinating and accessible NEOs … and the ideal OSIRIS-REx target asteroid.
Dr. Vicky Hamilton will share insights from OSIRIS-REx’s final year of asteroid operations, the sample collection event, and predictions for the returned sample.
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by Brianna Suazo | Aug 10, 2021
Door Time: 7:00 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
This event has been rescheduled from Feb 10, 2022.
Sasha is one of the best female climbers in the world, with over 800,000 followers across her social channels. She is an Adidas Global athlete, and RedBull’s only North American female climber.
Sasha has been climbing for 22 years. She has been Female Overall World Champion in climbing, as well as the undefeated panAmerican Champion for a 10-year span, and 3-time US National Champion. Sasha was the first North American Woman, and 3rd Woman in the World to climb the grade 5.14d, (9a). She has traveled to over 50 countries globally and accomplished 30+ First and First Female Ascents around the world, including Big Walls of 5.14 grades. These accomplishments have garnered her world-wide attention, including gracing the cover of 27 magazines, and features including Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, 60 Minutes Sports, Nightline, CNN, BBC, Vogue, TIME, as well as global endorsement deals.
Sasha believes in the transformative power of sports on youth and female development. As a woman making a career within a traditionally male dominated space, she has stood for equality in sport, access, pay, and treatment of female athletes. As founder of Female Focused Adventures, a production company that centers around storytelling in the female adventure space, and empowering female content creators, Sasha strives to bolster the access and experiences of other women in the outdoors.
She is the recipient of the Golden Piton Award, Arco Rock Legend Award, and the American Alpine Club Robert Hicks Bates Award, which honors young climbers who show “outstanding promise for future accomplishment.” She was also one of Glamour Magazine’s College Women of the Year recipients. She has been recognized in the Virginia Legislature for her achievements in rock climbing under the House Joint Resolution 533. She is on the board of the Women’s Sports Foundation, as well as the board of Ascend Afghanistan, and an ambassador for Protect our Winters and Right to Play International.
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by Brianna Suazo | Aug 10, 2021
Door Time: 7:00 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
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Seth Walker is often cited as one of the most prolific contemporary Americana artists on the scene today. He’s a multi-dimensional talent who combines a gift for melody and lyric alongside a rich, Gospel-drenched, Southern-inflected voice with a true blue knack for getting around on the guitar. His most recent studio album, Are You Open, produced by Jano Rix of The Wood Brothers, and a string of singles, including “We Got This,” “Spirits Moving” and a cover of Van Morrison’s classic “Warm Love” further build upon this reputation.
Most recently, Walker added published author to his oeuvre with his first memoir, ‘Your Van Is On Fire.’ A riotous and charming melange of a touring musician’s life, the book is comprised of many short essays, poems and paintings he’d accumulated over a near 30-year career. Written during the 2020 lockdown, Walker offers a first hand account of an artist in perpetual motion who’s dedicated his life to chasing the muse wherever it may lead.
Seth Walker is currently based in Asheville, NC after previously residing in Austin, New Orleans and Nashville. He’s used those experiences wisely, soaking up the sounds and absorbing the musical lineage of these varied places. With a bluesman’s respect for roots and tradition, coupled with an appreciation for—and successful melding of—contemporary songwriting, Seth sublimely incorporates a range of styles with warmth and grace. Perhaps Country Standard Time said it best: “If you subscribe to the Big Tent theory of Americana, then Seth Walker –with his blend of blues, gospel, pop, R&B, rock, and a dash country—just might be your poster boy.”
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by Brianna Suazo | Aug 10, 2021
Door Time: 7:00 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
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Sturtz’s music stands out for its distinctive, soothing instrumental and vocal harmonies. The acoustic quartet – Andrew Sturtz [vocals, guitar], Jim Herlihy [banjo], Courtlyn Carpenter [cello], and Will Kuepper [bass] – falls somewhere at the intersection of folk, jazz, and soul, with lead singer Andrew Sturtz’s melodic vocals soaring over the lower string instrumentals. Sturtz is based in Boulder, CO, making appearances at venues like eTown in Boulder, CO, the Belly Up in Aspen, CO, and the Mishawaka Amphitheater in Bellvue, CO. The band was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered in 2020 and will be releasing a full-length album on August 15, 2021.
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by Brianna Suazo | Aug 10, 2021
Door Time: 7:00 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
This presentation will discuss the set of current and future missions exploring the Moon and Mars. We’ll highlight the ways in which robot precursors are critical for subsequent human explorers, and how humans ‘in the loop’ will markedly improve the efficiency of scientific exploration. We’ll cover NASA’s Artemis program of lunar exploration, including Orion and lunar surface activity, the rovers and orbiters at Mars today, the upcoming robotic Mars Sample Return mission, and Lockheed Martin’s Mars Base Camp concept for crewed exploration of Mars. By learning more about our solar system, we’re learning more about our home planet. Humans and robots working together make it possible.
About the Speaker:
Timothy Cichan (Chee-haan) is the Space Exploration Architect at Lockheed Martin, where he leads a multi-disciplinary team of engineers who figure out how to help astronauts and robots visit the Moon, asteroids, and Mars. He previously was the Orion System Architect. Timothy joined Lockheed Martin in 2002, and has worked for both human spaceflight and commercial communication satellite teams, in optimal trajectory design, mission analysis, subsystem development, and systems engineering. He has a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State.
Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Marcella Yant will not be presenting at this event.
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