Photo: Dr. Richard Holdaway
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Engineering is hosting a free lecture series with Distinguished Speaker Dr. Richard Holdaway. The first lecture is Tuesday October 18 from 7-8 pm at the Davis Learning Center Auditorium on campus at 3700 Willow Creek Rd.
Dr. Holdaway has 45 years of experience working in multi-national Space Programmes, having worked on numerous missions in Space Science and Earth Observation with NASA, ESA, Russia, Japan, EU and many others. He was appointed Director of the UK National Space Lab “RAL Space” near Oxford UK in 1998 and is now a Chairman of Stratospheric Platforms Ltd based in Cambridge UK, but also lives half the year in Prescott.
He is a Fellow of the British Royal Academy of Engineering, a past Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Southampton, Kent and Beijing. He is a member of numerous National and International Committees, Boards and Councils. He was awarded a CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in the New Year’s Honours List in 2013.
This series of six talks will cover the Global Space Programme, from The Stars, Planets, Comets and Asteroids to Overserving the Earth, Climate Change and Future Missions.
OCT. 18th The Space Programme & the “Right Stuff”: 500 BC to 2019 AD
OCT. 25th The Universe – Are we Alone?
NOV. 8th The Solar System – Our Sun and the Planets, and other strange things
NOV. 15th Climate Change – The Facts & The Myths we have learned from Space
DEC. 6th Looking down on Planet Earth
DEC. 13th Been there; done that. What’s next?
