Onward to Mars! (Eventually)
2018-19 CUSP Distinguished Speaker Series
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
NASA and official Washington love to say that America is going to Mars. The problem is, we’ve been going to Mars for the past fifty years—we just never seem to get there. Why is that? How could the United States go from a standing start in 1961—with no American ever having been in space—to the Sea of Tranquility in 1969? And why are the resources that made that possible missing now? Jeffrey Kluger will discuss what the nation needs to make a Mars landing happen, and how a widely agreed-upon national dream can be deferred for so long.
Biography
Jeffrey Kluger is the Editor-at-Large for Time magazine and Time.com, principally covering science and social issues. His most recent nonfiction book is Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon, which was published in May 2017. His most recent novel is Freedom Stone, a young-adult tale set on a South Carolina plantation in 1863, published in 2011. He is the author of seven other books, including Apollo 13—coauthored with Jim Lovell—which served as the basis of the 1995 movie of the same name. He is also the Executive Producer of Time’s Emmy Award-winning “Year in Space” series, which appeared both on Time.com and on PBS. In his time at Time, Kluger has written hundreds of stories, including more than 40 cover stories. He has appeared regularly on CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC and others. He has also made guest appearances on The Colbert Report and Late Night With Seth Meyers.