VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES

Beyond Billionaires: Bringing Space Down to Earth

with Theresa Hitchens

Tuesday, April 21, 7:30pm | Social Hour Begins at 6:30pm

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

How many times a day do you think you touch outer space? Probably more than you think. GPS navigation, weather forecasts, and even the value of your stock portfolio all rely on satellites orbiting Earth. So do essential government functions, from national security and environmental monitoring to managing the electric grid and dam operations. In reality, we already are space people—and as more nations work to build infrastructure beyond Earth, from space stations to the Moon and beyond, humanity may not be far from becoming true inhabitants of the heavens.

So who are the players shaping the rules for managing, developing, and protecting the space environment? Is space and its future being thoughtfully and collaboratively utilized or is it more akin to the “Wild West”? How do the world’s militaries factor in? What challenges come with humanity’s growing presence in space, and what is being done to address them?

Please join us for an evening with journalist and space expert Theresa Hitchens to gain a deeper understanding of these issues—and to consider what role, if any, we as citizens can play in what remains a space of geopolitical competition and billionaire ambition.

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Theresa Hitchens is a journalist and researcher based out of Washington, DC, with almost 40 years of expertise on US and international military defense programs and budgets, space governance and regulatory issues, and space-related technology. She is a former director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, and the first American to hold that position. She currently writes about defense-related space activities for Breaking Defense.

The Voyager Lecture Series is generously sponsored by Voyager Wealth Advisors, Proven Law, and Cache Valley Bank.