by Prof. David Southwood, Science Director at ESA.

"Exploring Space at ESA"

(Venue is Trinity College Dublin)

David Southwood "the billion dollar man" currently has spacecraft orbiting Venus, Mars, Saturn, and several (like the Hubble Space Telescope) orbiting Earth as well as being in charge of incredible future missions to explain the Big Bang, detect life and planets around other stars directly and many more fascinating projects.

This will be an incredible opportunity to hear a man who has a unique perspective of mankind's exploration of the universe.

We are currently living in the golden age of space exploration.  There have been countless missions to nearly all the planets in the last 10 years with many new projects planned for the future.  Dr. Southwood, who is science director at the European Space Agency will outline the achievements of the last few years and give an up date on the missions planned for the next 10 years.

In May 2001 David Southwood took up his post as Director of Science (D/SCI), in charge of the ESA Science Programme.
Over the past 35 years David Southwood has published more than 200 publications and scientific articles, and has worked on a variety of space missions. One of his most challenging tasks was to head the team that built the magnetometer for the Cassini Saturn orbiter of the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission.

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