30-Year Battle to Send Humans to Mars Subject of IIT Lecture
The Social Sciences department at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will host a lecture, “Mars Wars: The 30-Year Battle to Send Humans to the Red Planet.” Dr. Thor Hogan, science and technology policy researcher with RAND Corporation, will be speaking January 23, 3:15–4:30 p.m. at The McCormick Tribune Campus Center, 3201 South State Street.
Hogan has served as principal investigator on several studies for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is currently leading a study for NASA, analyzing the impact of federal investment in aerospace research and development. He recently completed a report that examined post-Cold War trends in federal procurement and research and development spending within the US aerospace industry.
Hogan has worked closely with OSTP to develop long-term strategies for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit and national space transportation policy. He has worked on projects for NASA assessing the International Space Station program obligations. Prior to joining RAND, he was a NASA fellow at The George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute and also served as a policy analyst for Analytical Services (ANSER), where he supported the Missile Defense Agency.
This event is the first in a series of lectures sponsored by IIT’s Department of Social Sciences.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.
