Close Modal Space: The New Frontier Boston Premiere Join the Museum’s Center for Space Sciences and the Aurelia Institute for a special Boston preview screening of Space: The New Frontier in the Mugar Omni Theater. Featuring an introduction and Q&A with space architect Ariel Ekblaw, one of the film's stars! An entire generation came of age with the indescribable awe of landing on the Moon — and the ensuing Golden Age of Space has changed our world forever for the better. More than 50 years later, what is the next step for humankind? A second golden age of space has quietly dawned on us, with new hope for humanity as a spacefaring species. Join the Museum's Center for Space Sciences and leaders from the Aurelia Institute, a Cambridge-based space innovation lab featured in the film, for this special screening and hear from Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, the Institute's founder and CEO.Event Schedule6:30 pm | Introduction6:45 – 7:30 pm | Film Screening7:30 – 7:45 pm | Presentation by Featured Speaker Ariel Ekblaw7:45 – 8:00 pm | Audience Q&A8:00 – 9:30 pm | Reception Register for the Event Date and Time Tuesday, February 11 | 6:30 – 9:30 pm Audience All Ages Location Mugar Omni Theater View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Tuesday, February 11 | 6:30 – 9:30 pm Audience All Ages Location Mugar Omni Theater View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English An entire generation came of age with the indescribable awe of landing on the Moon — and the ensuing Golden Age of Space has changed our world forever for the better. More than 50 years later, what is the next step for humankind? A second golden age of space has quietly dawned on us, with new hope for humanity as a spacefaring species. Join the Museum's Center for Space Sciences and leaders from the Aurelia Institute, a Cambridge-based space innovation lab featured in the film, for this special screening and hear from Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, the Institute's founder and CEO.Event Schedule6:30 pm | Introduction6:45 – 7:30 pm | Film Screening7:30 – 7:45 pm | Presentation by Featured Speaker Ariel Ekblaw7:45 – 8:00 pm | Audience Q&A8:00 – 9:30 pm | Reception About the Film In the quest to make human spaceflight accessible within a decade, not a century, and ultimately affordable to ordinary citizens, leading innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers and daredevils are locked in a race into the unknown. Learn More Image Featuring Image Ariel Ekblaw Space architect, founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute Dr. Ariel Ekblaw is the founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute and GP for Aurelia Foundry Fund, where she strives to bring humanity’s space exploration future to life. Through space architecture R&D, education and outreach, and investments in new space start-ups, she is building an ecosystem to expand humanity’s horizons, democratize access to opportunities in low Earth orbit, and scale up life in space. Ariel was the founding Director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, a team of 50+ students, faculty, and staff building and flying advanced technology for space exploration. Ariel graduated with a BS in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy from Yale University and designed a novel space architecture habitat for her MIT PhD in autonomously self-assembling space structures. Her research work and the labs she leads build towards future habitats and space stations in orbit around the Earth, Moon, and Mars. Ariel is the author/editor of Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative (MIT Press 2021), serves on the NASA Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Executive Committee and XPRIZE Global Visioneering Committee, and holds an appointment as a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center. Ariel’s work has been featured in WIRED, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, CNN, NPR, numerous academic papers, top tech podcasts, and more.
