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Ex-NASA official tells CU conference, “We have to keep exploring”

Dava Newman launched the Conference on World Affairs into its first day

Dava Newman, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, speaks during the first day of the Conference on World Affairs on Monday at the Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder April 10, 2017.
Jeremy Papasso, Daily Camera
Dava Newman, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, speaks during the first day of the Conference on World Affairs on Monday at the Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder April 10, 2017.

By Elizabeth Hernandez, Daily Camera

Anyone itching to blow this popsicle stand that is planet Earth can count on Dava Newman to figure out how and where to go.

Newman, former deputy administrator of NASA, spoke to a packed Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus on Monday morning, delivering the keynote speech that launched the Conference on World Affairs into its first day.

The current Apollo Program professor of astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology served in the Obama administration through Jan. 20. She is best known for designing and developing advanced space suits utilizing a “hybrid-human biosuit design” that works like a second skin.

“All of this exploring is not for the faint of heart,” she said. “But we have to keep exploring.”

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