Provost's Seminar | The Future of Space Exploration with FGCU's Prof. Edward Grace MSEE

Provost's Seminar Series is hosting Prof. Edward Grace, FGCU Academy Lecturer. Former Principal Engineer MIT Instrumentation/Draper Laboratory Apollo 13 Missions Operations Team. Prof. Grace will discuss "The Future of Space Exploration," on Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m., in The Water School (AB9), Room 106.

More about Prof. Grace: Edward Grace graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BSEE and Northeastern University with a MSEE. He spent 10 years at the MIT Instrumentation/Draper Laboratory working on the Apollo program. MIT had a contract with NASA to design and develop the Primary Guidance Navigation & Control System (PGNCS) used by both the Apollo Command & Lunar Modules. Ed’s office was in Cambridge, MA, but he would travel to Houston and be on site at NASA’s Apollo Mission Control Operations Center during the Apollo flights. He was a member of the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon on April 18, 1970. In subsequent years, he founded several high-tech companies, one of which was acquired by Data General Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange Corporation. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Electronics Association (AEA) for 5 years. The AEA consisted of 1500 high-tech companies with the main purpose of lobbying for the high-tech industry. He moved to Naples FL, in 2008 and is now actively lecturing to schools, groups and organizations on Space Exploration and the Apollo 13 Mission. He is active in the Astronauts Scholarship Foundation (ASF), which was founded by the original Mercury 7 Astronauts.