Each year the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence gathers the community to honor an international exemplar of ethical leadership with the Inamori Ethics Prize. Case Western Reserve will present the 2018 Inamori Ethics Prize to NASA scientist and geologist Dr. Farouk El-Baz, during Inamori Center events on the Case Western Reserve campus, September 13-14, 2018.
Inamori Ethics Prize Ceremony and Recipient Lecture by Dr. Farouk El-Baz
Thursday, September 13 – 6:00 p.m.
Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple-Tifereth Israel at Case Western Reserve University, 1855 Ansel Road, Cleveland, Ohio
Free and open to the public. Online registration requested. https://case.edu/events/featured-events/inamori-ethics-prize
As part of the coverage by the American Broadcasting Network (ABC) of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, a panel of science fiction writers led by Rod Serling and including Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and John R. Pierce discuss the accuracy of their own lunar landing predictions. Asimov muses on science fiction topics “beyond the moon.” From the ABC News compilation: Apollo 11: As it Happened.
The new John Glenn Astronomy Park opens Thursday June 21 at 6:30 pm with events going on until 12 am. They are located at : The John Glenn Astronomy Park 20531 OH-664, 43138, or around 3 to 3.5 hours from Cleveland.
They say:
The John Glenn Astronomy Park will be conducting its official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on the evening of the Summer Solstice. Please join us to celebrate our opening!
If the skies are clear, we will watch the sun set through the summer solstice gap in our Plaza. We will then turn our telescopes towards the moon and Jupiter, which will be high in the southern sky that night.
All weekend, June 22 and 23rd, there will be opening activities without all the ribbon cutting and speechmaking.
Curious about where Cleveland was during the triassic? Interested in Ohio’s location when life first arose? You can find all of your answers on the Dinosaurpictures.org’s Ancient Earth Globe. This interactive globe lets you sweep back and fourth through time itself to watch the evolving face of mother Earth.
Conceived as the first Soviet space probe, Object D was bumped by the less ambitious Sputnik in a bid to beat the Americans. It worked. They won. Object D finally flew as Sputnik 3 on May 15, 1958.
The Object D was conceived as a multi-functional science laboratory with an ambitious array of instruments onboard. It was expected to measure the density and ion composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and its magnetic field, and to study solar radiation and cosmic rays. The first satellite also promised a wealth of engineering data, which could later help in the development of attitude- and thermal control systems for future spacecraft, as well as information on the interaction of satellites with the upper atmosphere.