Marsha Ivins is giving a public lecture in English about the past, present and uncertain future of human spaceflight at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (BME VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) on December 6.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of BME, the Hungarian Astronautical Society and the Embassy of the United States of America invites you to Marsha Ivins’s presentation ’Human Spaceflight, past, present and uncertain future’.

Date and venue: 6 December 2012, 3:00 p.m. at BME, building I, room I.B.025 (2 Magyar tudósok krt., Budapest, 1117).

Marsha S. Ivins is an engineer at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and has travelled to space five times as a crew member of Space Shuttles Columbia and Atlantis. She has spent more than 55 days in space during her 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997 and 2001 space travels. She has been to both Mir and the International Space Station. The astronaut – originally an engineer – is going to talk about the past, present and uncertain future of human spaceflight.

To attend the presentation, please register at BME VIK’s website.