LivWiSE is excited to welcome Holly Ridings to the University on Wednesday 9th October.

Holly is the first female Chief Flight Director at NASA. She works at Mission Control in Houston, Texas, and is responsible for all NASA Human Space Flight missions including the International Space Station, the Orion Programme, NASA's return to the Moon, and future manned missions to Mars.

Holly will talk about her career and role at NASA, current and future of human space flight missions - including the ISS, return to the Moon, and Mars - before opening up to questions from the audience. This talk is suitable for adults and children over the age of 12.

Submit a Question

If you would like to ask Holly a questions, you can submit one during registration. A number of questions will be selected. There may be an opportunity on the night to take questions from the floor.

Blackwells

Blackwell's Bookshop will be attending the evening providing an opportunity to buy Space based books and materials.

Disability Access

The event will be taking place in the Lecture Theatre 2, Sherrington Building, on the main University campus. Venue access information can be found on the AccessAble website https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/sherrington-building. If you require any individual adjustments during the event please contact LivWiSE@liv.ac.uk.

About Holly

Holly Ridings is NASA’s chief flight director, managing human spaceflight missions from the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Holly manages 32 active flight directors and flight directors-in-training who oversee a variety of human spaceflight missions involving the International Space Station, including integrating American-made commercial crew spacecraft into the fleet of vehicles servicing the orbiting laboratory, as well as Orion spacecraft missions to the Moon and beyond.

Ridings, a native of Amarillo, Texas, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1996. She joined NASA in 1998 as a flight controller in the thermal operations group

This event is part of the University's programme of activities marking the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landings

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The Future of Human Space Flight with Holly Ridings