You are invited to join the Michigan Section for a Distinguished Lecture featuring Alice Bowman, Mission Operation Manager for the New Horizons mission. Alice will be presenting "Exploring Pluto and Beyond" Thursday January 23rd 6:30-8:00pm in 1571 GGBL which is the GG Brown building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Pizza, salad, soda provided at 6:30. Lecture and discussion to begin at 7:00.
Abstract: "Mission to Pluto"
Alice Bowman, the New Horizons Mission Operations Manager (MOM), talks about the voyage of
NASA's historic mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt– which culminated with the first flight past the
distant dwarf planet on July 14, 2015 and the first encounter with a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) on
January 1, 2019. She'll speak about this continuing journey through the eyes of the APL mission
operations team and describe some of the technical, scientific, and personal challenges of piloting the
New Horizons spacecraft across the solar system on its voyage to the farthest reaches of the
planetary frontier.
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Thomas Mirowski
Williams International
tmirowski@williams-int.com------------------------------