Alice Bowman, the operational head of the mission New Horizons NASA, which made news in July this year by being the first spacecraft to flyby Pluto, will be present at the Auditorium of the Faculty of the University of Porto Sciences (Rua do Campo Alegre, 1021/1055), at 11:00 am next Monday (5th), for a entitled ‘Reaching for New Horizons’ lecture.
The New Horizons probe It was launched into space by NASA in 2006 in order to study the dwarf planet Pluto and Kuipe waist and reached its first objective on 14 July this year when he flew over Pluto the shortest distance ever and got pictures with greater detail the surface of the dwarf planet made so far.
Mission Operations Manager of New Horizons mission, Bowman works in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University (USA), an end without research center profit independent but linked to the University, which provides services to the Department of Defense, NASA and other US government agencies.
In this lecture organized in partnership with the US Embassy in Portugal, will unveil Alice Bowman behind the scenes of the New Horizons mission and the work involved in preparing a project of this magnitude, including the role that science plays in space exploration
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