50 Years of Space Exploration and Looking for Life

2007 marks 50 years of space exploration. Whilst there have been many discoveries, all the planets in the Solar System (except Pluto, which may not be a planet anyway) have now been visited. But there have been world over….In fact people have laughed at space explorers and their efforts to find life elsewhere in the universe for more than 400 years. Organised by IET Peterborough and Huntingdon Local Network

Colin Pillinger, CBE, FRS, is a professor of planetary sciences at the Open University in the United Kingdom. He graduated with a BSc. and a PH.D at the University of Wales, Swansea. For more than four decades he has been an enthusiastic NASA team member and world-class research scientist and was the driving force behind Beagle2, the Mars Lander. Always optimistic about space exploration, he says: “We’re good at science, we’re good at engineering and we’re great at ideas. This country should be pushing forward in the exploration of the Solar System.”