This course provides a comprehensive
overview of modern planetary science to
professionals in engineering, management and
policy fields. The student will receive the basic
elements of planetary physics, planetary origins,
the content and geography of our planetary
system, and a state of the art survey about what
is known about extra-solar planetary systems.
At every step we will show how these fields
relate to existing and planned missions and new
ground-based facilities. In our solar system, we
will focus on what has been learned through
NASA exploration missions ranging from
Apollo to Voyager, Viking, Magellan, Galileo,
and the Pathfinder/MER Mars landers. The
attendee will leave this course with a state-of-the-
art overview of modern planetary science, as
well as a mastery of the terminology,
instrumentation needs, and science goals of this
important scientific field.
Instructor:
Dr. S. Alan Stern is a planetary scientist, writer,
NASA spaceflight experiment and mission PI, and
the Executive Director of the Space Science and
Engineering Division of the Southwest Research
Institute. Dr. Stern, a PhD. in astrophysics with an
M.S. in Aero Engineering, has over 20 years
experience in space science and spaceflight
engineering. He has been principal investigator of
numerous instruments on NASA and
ESA planetary missions, has
personally flown experiments aboard
numerous high-performance NASA
aircraft, and is the author of over
170 technical publications in
planetary and astrophysical
research.
Special Topic: The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper belt Mission
Tuition:
Tuition for this course is $940 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@aticourses.com.
