Christer Fuglesang: Spaceflight: past, current and future

Lecture by Dr Christer Fuglesang, Sweden's first astronaut in space, at the Molecular Frontiers Symposium "On Human Origins and the Future of Humanity", at Lund University April 18-19, 2024. The symposium was co-organized with Lund University and the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund.
ABSTRACT:
After sharing the experience of going to space and what is done on the International Space Station today, I´ll discuss the many benefits of spaceflight. Both from the thousands of satellites around Earth, providing a tremendously important infrastructure for better life on Earth, to future human space exploration to the Moon, Mars and even beyond. What are the possibilities, requirements, and challenges.