Discussion / The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
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Author and Space Historian Eric Rice Toldi discusses the history of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, its current work and the impact it is likely to have on future exploration, including both the privatization and militarization of space. Cocktails will be served and a Q&A will follow.
Eric Rice Toldi received his Bachelor of Arts in the History of Science at Marlboro College and has published with The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and The Proceedings of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the author of The Bion Story: A U.S. Status Report, the first book about the Soviet and American space biology flight program, Acceleration, an historical account of the space race within the Cold War, as well as the soon-to-be published story of the wives of German rocket scientists relocated to the U.S. after World War II. He has presented at Nerd Nite, The Walt Disney Family Museum and Real Time & Space. Toldi is the Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Bay Area.
