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NASA officials visit UA
Alex Lanis
Issue date: 10/17/07 Section: News
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Kennedy Space Center director William Parsons and Joe Dowdy, Parsons' Chief of Staff, visited Fayetteville over the weekend and spoke to a number of local high schools, junior high schools and attended Wal-Mart's weekly meeting Saturday morning.
Dowdy addressed the Walton College's MBA ethics class Monday morning and gave a presentation in the Willard J. Walker Hall Auditorium later that day.
"Wouldn't you like to hear someone from NASA speak? I would," said Claudia Mobley, the director for the Center for Retailing Excellence, during the introduction to the speech on Monday. "Our goal here at the UA is to bring you opportunities that you wouldn't receive anywhere else in your education."
Parsons originally intended to speak to students at the university, but because of a schedule change for a meeting in Florida concerning the upcoming launch of the space shuttle Discovery, Parsons left Fayetteville early. Joe Dowdy stepped in to finish the presentation.
Dowdy spoke about the future of NASA and how the loss of wonder and imagination can affect even the most powerful nations. The space program can not only benefit the world scientifically, but it can also bring back the sense of victory Americans had during the first space missions, Dowdy said.
"Were those our best days? Are we capable of those things again? Now the time is upon us, to take that next leap," Dowdy said. He quoted Nobel Laureate author William Faulkner; "I believe that man will not only endure, but will prevail," and then stated that "our greatest days are not behind us, but in front of us."
Dowdy spoke about future propositions for NASA, which included the complete retirement of the shuttle fleet by 2010, and a new endeavor to put a base on the moon with the intent to bring mankind to Mars. America will not be able to put a person in space for five years after the shuttles are retired, when the new fleet of manned rockets, the proposed Ares I, are produced, Dowdy said.
Dowdy addressed the Walton College's MBA ethics class Monday morning and gave a presentation in the Willard J. Walker Hall Auditorium later that day.
"Wouldn't you like to hear someone from NASA speak? I would," said Claudia Mobley, the director for the Center for Retailing Excellence, during the introduction to the speech on Monday. "Our goal here at the UA is to bring you opportunities that you wouldn't receive anywhere else in your education."
Parsons originally intended to speak to students at the university, but because of a schedule change for a meeting in Florida concerning the upcoming launch of the space shuttle Discovery, Parsons left Fayetteville early. Joe Dowdy stepped in to finish the presentation.
Dowdy spoke about the future of NASA and how the loss of wonder and imagination can affect even the most powerful nations. The space program can not only benefit the world scientifically, but it can also bring back the sense of victory Americans had during the first space missions, Dowdy said.
"Were those our best days? Are we capable of those things again? Now the time is upon us, to take that next leap," Dowdy said. He quoted Nobel Laureate author William Faulkner; "I believe that man will not only endure, but will prevail," and then stated that "our greatest days are not behind us, but in front of us."
Dowdy spoke about future propositions for NASA, which included the complete retirement of the shuttle fleet by 2010, and a new endeavor to put a base on the moon with the intent to bring mankind to Mars. America will not be able to put a person in space for five years after the shuttles are retired, when the new fleet of manned rockets, the proposed Ares I, are produced, Dowdy said.
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