NASA chief administrator to speak on campus, review research
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. will deliver this year's William E. Boeing Lecture "Our Nation's Future in Space" on Sept. 7 at Purdue University.
Charles F. Bolden Jr.
The lecture, sponsored by the College of Engineering's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Indiana Space Grant Consortium, will take place from 7-8:15 p.m. in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. A webcast of the lecture is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCTiG7AZcDw
Bolden also will meet with selected researchers and Purdue students who interned at NASA this summer. A time has been set aside for him to speak to fourth- through sixth-graders from
"We appreciate that the NASA administrator is investing his time in our faculty and students," Purdue President France A. Córdova said. "This is a rare opportunity for the campus and community to meet the leader of our space program, a doorway to our universe and one of the key agencies not only for exploration but also for research. I know that administrator Bolden, himself a former astronaut, values Purdue's contributions to space exploration and engineering."
A retired Marine Corps major general and former astronaut, Bolden began his NASA leadership in July 2009. He traveled to orbit four times aboard the space shuttle between 1986 and 1994, commanding two of the missions. His flights included deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first joint U.S.-Russian shuttle mission. After his final shuttle flight in 1994, he left the agency to return to active duty as deputy commandant of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Purdue established the Boeing Lecture Series in 1999 in honor of the company's founder and in thanks for Boeing's generosity to the university and its students. The lecture series features an internationally known speaker from the aerospace or air transportation industry.
Writer and contact: Jeanne V. Norberg, 765-494-2084, jnorberg@purdue.edu