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- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Format: Zoom Webinar
- CPD Category: Passive
- Cost: $25 for each webinar or $40 for both plus taxes + fees
Mars: From Inspiration to Spirit and Ingenuity - February 14, 2025
Mars is a very challenging target for humans; we have sent more than 50 robotic emissaries from multiple countries with varying levels of success. When will we see boots on Mars? There are significant hurdles that we need to overcome if humans want to become a multi-planetary species. Getting to Mars, living and working there, and returning safely to Earth will require considerable skills and planning to overcome the weakest link, the astronauts.
The International Space Station: an Engineering Marvel - April 18, 2025
In 1998, two former Cold War enemies came together with 14 other countries to build and operate the world's largest object ever placed into space, the International Space Station. Parts built in 16 different countries had never touched each other on the ground and had to fit together nearly perfectly for the project to succeed. With many cultural and engineering challenges ahead, the International Space Station has now been operating in space for 24 years with 6 years left of operations, and we will look at how this engineering marvel was built and maintained for a quarter century.
About Brian Ewenson
Brian Ewenson is the current Executive Director of Spaceport Sheboygan in Wisconsin, USA, and an Aerospace Educator, Consultant, and Professional Speaker, on Aviation and Aerospace. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and speaks several languages. Brian attended McGill University and John Abbot College, where he studied Astrophysics, American History, Political Science and Elementary Education. He has worked for the Canadian Space Agency, Lockheed Martin’s Space Day, and Challenger Learning Centers. He has also designed, developed, and flew student and corporate experiments on the shuttle and space station; and subsequently trained astronauts on how to do his work in space. If that was not impressive enough, he was the conceptualizer, designer, and technical writer for Spaceport Calgary, the world’s first air and space museum located in an International Airport. (YYC). In addition, he has served as the Director of Education at the Calgary Aerospace Museum, Pima Air and Space Museum, Spaceport Sheboygan, and as Executive Director of the Challenger Learning Center of the Southwest / Challenger Learning Center of Wyoming and Spaceport Sheboygan.
Brian has presented to more than 250,000 people in the past 20 years at schools, museums, science centers, community groups such as Boys and Girls Clubs, Scouts and Guide, as well as at Aerospace and Education conferences and for corporations, with audiences ranging from four years old to 94 years old. He has been a volunteer with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) since 1997. Beyond this, Brian has presented at numerous International Space Station Educators Conferences (ISSEC) and Space Exploration Educators Conferences (SEEC), where he was the recipient of the 2010 Cherri Brinley Aerospace Educator the Year Award.
Brian has co-authored “Hangar Flying: An Up Close, and Personal Look at Airplanes” (Calgary Catholic School Board 2001) and “The Thrill of Flight” (Alberta Learning: Learning Technologies Branch 2002).
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