Cutting-edge NASA research and technology will be featured May 14-16 at WIRED NextFest, a festival showcasing more than 100 innovative exhibits highlighting the future of design, entertainment, exploration, health, the home, security, and transportation.
Sponsored by General Electric and Wired magazine, WIRED NextFest will be held at the 50,000-square-foot Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco.
Featured in the NASA exhibit will be several displays, including technologies representing space exploration, personal exploration rovers, personal satellite assistants, a full-scale model of the Mars Exploration Rover, a model of the scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) engine-powered hypersonic X-43 aircraft, a display of “power beaming,” a futuristic concept that uses lasers to beam energy to an aircraft so it doesn’t need to carry fuel; a video and display of sub-vocal voice recognition technology and an authentic Moon rock collected during one of NASA’s Apollo missions.
On Saturday, May 15, at 5 p.m. PDT, NASA Space Architect Gary Martin and Dr. James Luyten, Executive Vice President and Director of Research for The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will participate in a panel discussion entitled “The Future, Above and Below: A Conversation with Two Pioneers in Space and Deep-Sea Exploration.”
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