Rockets Get You to Orbit. Culture Gets You to Stay

About This Event

Getting to orbit is a rocket problem. Staying there is a culture problem.Join us at the Ion for a morning built around that idea. Rick Tumlinson, author of Why Space? The Purpose of People, has spent decades making the case for why we go. Scott Solomon, author of Becoming Martian, explores what we’ll actually become, generation by generation, if humans stay in space long enough to call it home. David Alexander and Alexander Regier, from Rice’s new Space Humanities Initiative, explore how culture