Space Station Central
Join us Thursday, Feb. 24
The Central College community will present “Space Station Central” on Thursday, Feb. 24, in Harry and Bernice Vermeer Banquet Hall of Graham Conference Center on campus. The event is free to attend and open to the public.
The in-person programming will begin at 2 p.m. Starting at 2:45 p.m., those in attendance and tuning in online will have the unique opportunity to hear from Raja Chari — husband of Holly Schaffter Chari ’99 — who is currently aboard the International Space Station. Chari is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut and the current commander of the NASA SpaceX Crew-3 mission which launched on Nov. 10, 2021.
The program also will feature a short presentation from Pavi Premaratne, assistant professor of physics and engineering at Central. Premaratne is serving as a co-principal investigator for his alma mater, Iowa State University, on a research project developing a 3D printing process for a zero-gravity environment. This work has been submitted to and is being tested by NASA.
Don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!