Live Science Bar “The conquest of space: for science or for power?”

Online on the UM YouTube channel

Since the 1960s and the space race between the USSR and the United States, technologies have improved considerably. After being primarily an ideological issue, space exploration has become a scientific, economic, and geopolitical issue.

Today, a growing proportion of human activity (the Internet, communications, geolocation, meteorology, robotics, etc.) is linked to inventions resulting from space exploration since the 1960s. Space innovation is a powerful driver of development that fuels many economic sectors.

Long the preserve of the world's major powers, private players are now competing for a place in the cosmos. Betweenlow-cost rockets, space tourism, and ambitious projects, space has become a gold mine for the private sector, and the space race continues to grow.

To discuss this topic, four multidisciplinary experts will come together and answer questions live from the online audience: 

• Jean-Louis Fellous, member of the Van Allen Foundation, former director of the Committee on Space Research (COSpAR).
• Georges-Emmanuel Gleize, PhD student in History of Space at Toulouse 2 University – Jean Jaurès / FRAMESPA Laboratory.
• Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez, Associate Professor of Space Systems Engineering, Head of Space Systems for the Master of Science program at the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE – SUPEAERO).
• Denis Puy, Director of the Montpellier Universe and Particles Laboratory (LUPM).

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