[Mitworld] NASA's William Gerstenmaier on the Space Shuttle, Media in Transition on Global Media

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 39 |  May 21, 2009

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Transitioning from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation System
April 15, 2009

As a 30-plus year veteran of NASA, William Gerstenmaier has managed the operational dimensions of the space shuttle, 
international space station, and other space flight missions. For this talk, he dissects a problem that recently grounded the shuttle, coming at it from the perspective of both an engineer, and a top-level manager with responsibility to the highest levels of government.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/668

Speaker:
William Gerstenmaier
Associate Administrator for Space Operations, NASA


Event Host:
Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium

"All you hear about in the press is that the shuttle didn’t fly, you hear that it’s an aging hardware problem. But it wasn’t aging hardware, but a design problem, that was there from the beginning of the program. We were exposed to the same risk all along. We had seen this a couple times in other failures but didn’t pursue it to this level, and when we finally did pursue it, we understand it, and know where we are."
-William Gerstenmaier

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Global Media
April 23, 2009

Just as digital technology has expanded the means of producing media, so has it increased the geographic range new media may travel. Locally generated content can zip around the world in a heartbeat. 
But, says moderator Henry Jenkins, “as a society we’re in a contradictory state in terms of having greater access to global content than ever before, but not having developed a conceptual 
framework to think about it very well.” These panelists attest to an unsettled time for global media.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/670

Moderator:
Henry Jenkins
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities 
 Director of Comparative Media Studies Program

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"The situation of  “reculturization” is a terrible one, because Mexican telenovelas in particular take a majority of space on African TV.  A country like 
Mauritania for the last 10 years produced three films. Sadly, I’m the director of the three films. "
-Abderrahmane Sissako

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In The Pipeline:

U.S.-Iran Relations

Presented By:
MIT Center for International Studies
Starr Forum

Moderator:
Barry Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science
Director, MIT Security Studies Program

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