NASA Astronaut Bonnie Dunbar will present the Laurence Levine `52 and Barry Traub `53 Lecture titled “From Apollo
Into the New Millennium – Human Space-Flight Exploration”
on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Dunbar will meet with high school and college students Thursday at 12:45 p.m. in the Olin Auditorium. She will meet with elementary and middle school students at 4.p.m., also in the Olin Auditorium. There will be a reception at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin Lobby.
Her talk is part of the Perspectives at the Nott
Series. Dunbar's talk last spring was postoned due to weather.
Dr. Dunbar is a veteran of five NASA Space Shuttle
flights. She has spent more than 50 days in space as a mission
specialist and payload commander. She flew on Space Shuttles in
1985, 1990, 1992, 1995 and 1998. She was a mission specialist
aboard the Atlantis in 1995, the first shuttle to dock and
exchange crews with the Russian Mir. She was payload commander
on Endeavour in 1998, which exchanged crew members
and delivered 9,000 pounds of equipment to Mir.
She received bachelor and master of science degrees
in ceramic engineering from the University of Washington.
She earned her doctorate in mechanical and biomedical
engineering from the University of Houston.
Dunbar will meet with elementary, high school
and college students in events scheduled during before her talk.