Name: Interstellar Research Group (IRG) (Formerly TVIW) Update Panel on Space Exploration
Start: 2025-06-21T16:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T18:00:00-0400

Saturday June 21, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Rm 6 (Science Track)

The IRG Update Panel on Space Exploration will cover the recent activities of the Interstellar Research Group along with our vision for the future of space exploration both within our solar system and eventually to planets orbiting other stars. Stephen Euin Cobb moderator.

Moderators

Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, novelist, magazine writer, futurist, award-winning podcaster, and host of The Interstellar Research Group's video series “From Here to the Stars,” for which he won the Iridani Award in 2021. For over ten years, he produced a weekly podcast, "The... Read More →

Guests

Ken Roy

Kenneth Roy is a retired, professional engineer who is currently living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a long-time hobby he has been working with the idea of terraforming. He invented the “Shell Worlds” concept as a way to terraform planets well outside a star’s Goldilocks’ zone... Read More →

Les Johnson

Les is a physicist, author, and NASA technologist. He has been a LibertyCon GoH 3 times, winner of the Phoenix Award, and was featured in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic. Les leads two NASA space missions, holds 3 patents, and is a member of the International Academy of... Read More →

Doug Loss

Doug Loss is retired, but was an IT security analyst from Maryville, TN. He has been an SF reader since childhood (more than 55 years) and a war gamer for over 50 years. He's an avid blues music fan and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Interstellar Research Group... Read More →

Martha Knowles

Now retired, Martha Knowles was a professional librarian and records management specialist. She was the TVIW Treasurer from 2014-2020, and administrator and Registrar for the first four TVIW symposia. Since TVIW became the Interstellar Research Group, she has continued to be involved... Read More →

Stephen Fleming

At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Rm 6 (Science Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

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