NASA Tech Talks

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Category: Academic Network, Aerospace, Corporate Innovators, Founders & Startups, General Community, Investors & Capital, Networking

Free

Past Event

WHEN

Thursday

March 28, 2024

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CDT

WHERE

Ion

4201 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002

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what

We want HOU! Join us to discover NASA’s toughest tech challenges and apply your skills and expertise to solve them.

Featured Program: Keeping Humans Alive in Space

Human bodies change in space. Their delicate physiology requires oxygen and expires carbon dioxide. Other considerations are less obvious: invisible radiation, muscle atrophy, bone loss, and more. This fascinating presentation explores the ways that habitats and spacesuits support life.

Program Partner and Moderator

In these presentations, occurring on the fourth Thursday of the month, Mr. Montgomery Goforth, Assistant Director, Strategic Pursuits & Partnerships – Engineering Directorate, NASA JSC, and other aerospace subject matter experts will discuss the technology development challenges faced by NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) and the surrounding Aerospace community in our ongoing efforts as the hub of human spaceflight. Presentations will focus on how these challenges, and the associated opportunities, can be leveraged by Houston’s innovation community.

Join us after the talk for drinks and networking at Second Draught!

NASA Tech Talks topics include dual-use (space/terrestrial) technologies and focus areas in:

Avionics / Communication / Sensors
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for ultra-long-lived wireless sensors
Power Storage and Distribution
Autonomous & Robotics Systems
Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) Systems
Virtual/Augmented Reality in Human Spaceflight Training & Execution
Human Health & Performance / Human Systems Research
NASA Intellectual Property suitable for commercialization by small/start-up companies
Orion’s parachutes and risk identification and mitigation strategies
Leveraging Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for ultra-long-lived wireless sensors
Featured speakers from Intuitive Machines and Orbital Mining Corporation

About the Speakers:

Julie N. Strickland, PMP

With almost 20 years in the aerospace industry, Julie N. Strickland is an experienced engineer, program manager, and innovator. She earned her degree in mechanical engineer so that she could facilitate space exploration. After all, her older brothers had raised her on a steady diet of science fiction, from Star Trek and Star Wars to Asimov and Bradbury. She is a space enthusiast to her core!

Strickland holds five patent awards with many others in the pipeline. The book Strawberry Innovation: The Practical Guide for Innovating within a Fortune 50 Company, which contains all the wisdom that Strickland has gathered over years of developing inventions, will be published later this year. She is available for presentations and private workshops to teach the innovation process and to brainstorm on your toughest problems.

Strawberry Innovation
Spacesuit Engineer, Author, Innovator
Master’s degree, Material Science & Engineering, University of North Texas (UNT)
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (UT)

Montgomery B. Goforth has over 30 years of experience as both an Engineer and Manager in various highly technical space and defense-related efforts. He joined NASA in 1990 as part of the Mission Operations Directorate, working on planning systems and automated procedure execution tools for the International Space Station (ISS). He became Deputy Project Manager for the Portable Computer System, the laptop used for command and control of the ISS, in 1996. He became Chief of the Branch responsible for all laptops onboard the ISS and the Space Shuttle.

In 2002, he moved to the ISS Avionics and Software Office as Manager of the Flight Software Development Office and later served as Chief Engineer. In 2005, he spent several months at NASA Headquarters working in the Robotics Lunar Exploration Program. In 2006, he joined the Constellation Program as Chief of Avionics and Software Test and Verification and became Chief of the Software and Avionics Integration Office in 2007. In this role, he was responsible for leading a large nationwide Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization which provided program-level coordination, oversight, integration, and management of the system-of-systems avionics and software, including the coordination of integrated modeling and simulation and test activities across the Constellation program and the technical integration of Constellation’s Command, Control, Communications, and Information (C3I) architecture.

PARKING

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