Conversation Club 2 19 Life on Mars Andrew Edkins
Channel: Steve Wake's Conversation Club
Date: 2022-05-26

Outline
Half a century ago, a few truly heroic humans made their way onto the surface of Earth’s closest planetary body – its moon. We are now actively planning on returning humans to the Moon and then beyond.

This presentation outlines the arguments for creating an academic unit to consider the longer-term and wider set of issues that result when we start to think about more than just a brief and infrequent venture onto extra-terrestrial bodies. What results is a panoply of  topics/issues/challenges that will demand the very best of project/program/mission management.

Presenter
Andrew Edkins is an academic at UCL with experience and focus on built environment projects. His interest in ‘Off World Living” was sparked with a conversation about the European Space Agency’s interests in creating a ‘Moon village’. This then developed to the point of him proposing and founding the UCL Off World Living Institute.