Change in Date: Distinguished Speaker Series with Dr. Richard Holdaway at Embry-Riddle University Prescott

The previously scheduled free lecture on Tuesday, December 13 has been cancelled and rescheduled for Tuesday, January 17. The time and location will remain the same: 7-8 pm at the Davis Learning Center Auditorium on the Embry-Riddle campus at 3700 Willow Creek Road. Topic of discussion will be: “Been There; Done That. What’s Next for the World’s Space Programs?“

An additional free lecture has been added on Tuesday, January 24 with a topic of “Oops! That Shouldn’t Have Happened” covering a variety of engineering mishaps in space. This will be the final presentation by Dr. Richard Holdaway in the Embry-Riddle College of Engineering’s Distinguished Speaker Series. The lecture will be held from 7-8 pm at the Davis Learning Center Auditorium on the Embry-Riddle campus at 3700 Willow Creek Road.

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.