Earth is the cradle of the mind–but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

SpaceTalk Alumni

Any previous participant in SpaceTalk is welcome to be listed on this page. To obtain a spot, email RBRuss@gmail.com with your name, graduation year, what you're up to now, and anything else you'd like to make known.

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Kate Harris ('04)

Founder, former President

Why explore space?: Because it's there. Because it's unknown. Because no other frontier has the potential to teach us so much and inspire so many.

Random:
Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset...till I die...
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
-Tennyson

Amy Ivey
('04)

former Vice President

Year and major: senior, psych

Why explore space?: Space is our final frontier that we have not truly explored. We have charted all of the earth yet we have know idea what really exists beyond our small solar system. We don't really even know what our own solar system is and was in the past. There is such vastness that we have ignored for so long, now is the time to explore this. Who knows who or what is waiting out there for us to find it.

Random: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden


former Special Events chair

Year and major: senior, physics and economics

Why explore space?: Well, we have find somewhere to go before life on Earth becomes impossible because of a catastrophic event. We might as well start looking now. Look how far travel has advanced in only the past 100 years. We went from a flight of just 12 seconds to the moon within 70 years. That only happened because of dedication and innovation though, and we have to keep that up for the human race to travel past our tiny neighborhood around the Sun.

Random:

"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
- Stephen Hawking

"I'm a star. I'd rather be a comet by far, rraahhhhh" - Outkast

Prem Thomas
('04)
former Treasurer

Year, major, hometown: senior, business from Palm Harbor, FL


Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
-Lord Kelvin, 1896