Science Bar Live: “The Conquest of Space: For Science or for Power?”

Available online on the UM YouTube channel

Since the 1960s and the space race between the USSR and the United States, technology has improved significantly. Once primarily an ideological endeavor, space exploration has become a scientific, economic, and geopolitical endeavor.

Today, a growing share of human activity—including the internet, communications, geolocation, meteorology, and robotics—is linked to inventions stemming from space exploration conducted since the 1960s. Space innovation is a powerful driver of development that fuels many economic sectors.

Long the exclusive domain of the world’s major powers, the cosmos is now the subject of a race among private companies. Withlow-cost rockets, space tourism, and ambitious projects, space has become a gold mine for the private sector, and the space race continues to gain momentum.

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

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

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