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JAPAN SOCIETY LECTURE

In conjunction with the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM SPACE

A Lecture by Dr Mamoru Mohri

At 6.00pm on Monday 18th March
In Lecture Theatre 1, The Sir Alexander Fleming Building,
Imperial College, South Kensington

Dr Mamoru Mohri became the first official Japanese astronaut in 1992. In
this lecture he will talk about his experiences with this and other missions
and about Japan's space programme. Dr Mohri is renowned for his ability to
make science and technology accessible to people of all ages and he will
also discuss how his perspectives on the earth, science and life have all
changed due to his Shuttle experiences.

Dr Mohri was born in Hokkaido and was inspired from childhood by the example
of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. A graduate of Hokkaido University, in
1975 he was appointed Associate Professor of their Department of Nuclear
Engineering. His early research focussed on nuclear fusion and followed into
containment materials.

In 1985 he was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan
(NASDA) as a payload specialist for First Material Processing Test Project
(Spacelab-J). He was subsequently appointed prime payload specialist on
STS-47 and first travelled into space in 1992. He was then appointed mission
specialist on STS-99.

He has logged over 459 hours in space and has conducted numerous experiments
during his missions including the topographical mapping of over 47 million
square miles of this planet's surface. Most recently, he became the first
director of the pioneering National Museum of Emerging Science and
Innovation (Nippon Kagaku Miraikan) which opened last year in Odaiba, Tokyo.


The lecture will be co-chaired by the Japan Society and Imperial College.
Professor Peter Bearman, Professor of Experimental Aerodynamics and Deputy
Rector at Imperial College will introduce the speaker and questions will be
chaired by Professor Louis Turner of the UK-Japan High Technology Forum.

The lecture will start promptly at 6.00pm. Those wishing to attend are
advised to arrive early to avoid disappointment. A map indicating the
position of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building (building #5) is online at:
http://www.publications.ad.ic.ac.uk/maps/sk.stm

The nearest tube station to Imperial College is South Kensington on the
Circle & District and Piccadilly lines.

This is a Japan 2001 event.


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