TEDxESA is happy to announce that Jan Woerner, the new ESA Director General, will be part of the first TEDxESA event on 11 November 2015 at ESTEC, ESA’s engineering and technical heart, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands With the theme ‘Science Beyond Fiction’ and since it’s the first time that ESA organises its very own TEDx […]
Monday 20 July is Moon Day and celebrates the day man first walked on the Moon in 1969. So how about this: BBC Future interviewed European Space Agency’s new Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner who shared his vision for a future of space exploration involving the Moon. Ahead of this upcoming memorial Moon Day, what are […]
We are happy to announce that ESA astronaut André Kuipers will be hosting the first TEDxESA event on 11 November 2015 at ESTEC, ESA’s engineering and technical heart, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. With the theme of this TEDxESA 2015 event being Science Beyond Fiction, Dutchman André is the perfect candidate to be our host: he […]
Earlier this year, European Space Agency’s Fred Jansen was at TED in Vancouver to talk about the journey of landing on a comet. As manager of the Rosetta mission, he was responsible for the success of Philae landing on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. At this TED Vancouver talk Fred revealed some of the intricate calculations that went into landing the […]
The first TEDxESA event will take place on 11 November 2015 at ESTEC, ESA’s engineering and technical heart, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The theme of the TEDxESA 2015 event will be Science Beyond Fiction. We’ll take you out of this world and lift you into new heights. Let us take you on a space journey where […]
Well, here’s some food for thought from TEDx Rhein-Main’s Rocketminds featuring Marco Durante on how to keep astronauts happy and healthy in space! Marco Durante dedicated his research efforts to the biophysics of heavy ions and how they can keep astronauts happy and healthy in space. “We’re all radioactive,” says physicist Marco Durante, yet the […]
Where does fiction stop and science begin? What will our future be based upon, both, or neither? In an episode of National Geographic Channel’s Star Talk sharing their thoughts on this subject are Star Trek’s George Takei and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Watch this great combination of masterminds talk about the origin of life in the solar system. Image […]