The face of space is changing and Colorado has emerged as a competitor in this rocketing arena! Against a backdrop of billionaires striving to realize their ambitions in space and a new race to solve humanity’s problems, Boulder County, and Colorado at large, remains a steadfast leader in the advancement of Earth and space sciences. Fiske's Theater Manager, Nickolas Conant, takes you on a trip through the 2020s and what is to come from our ascending space economy. We explore the Boulder science that makes future exploits in space possible, including NASA’s upcoming missions to the Moon, addressing global climate change, and the increasing threat of solar activity on our everyday lives, and more!
Bio: Nick Conant is the Theater Manager at Fiske Planetarium and an instructor at CU Boulder. He began working at Fiske in 2011 as a volunteer and student employee, and later earned his BA in Astrophysics in 2014 from CU. It has been Conant’s passion to develop visualizations for university classes and music shows, as well as mentor the multitude of Fiske's student employees. In Fall 2022, Conant is instructing a course on Ancient Astronomies of the World, partly hosted at Fiske.
