Human Space Exploration - Challenges and Opportunities

Explore a captivating 58-minute talk by Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first woman of color to go into space, as she delivers the Presidential Forum address at AGU's Fall Meeting 2019. Gain insights into Jemison's groundbreaking six-year NASA career, including her pivotal role aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the STS-47 Spacelab J mission. Discover her contributions to material science, life sciences, and human adaptation to weightlessness experiments. Learn about Jemison's current leadership of the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) initiative, a visionary nonprofit project aimed at enabling human interstellar travel within a century. Understand how this ambitious endeavor is fostering a global community to support the scientific, cultural, social, and technical aspects of space exploration while simultaneously transforming life on Earth.