TY - GEN
T1 - Space Renaissance Event
T2 - 2025 IAF Space Education and Outreach Symposium at the 76th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2025
AU - Alotaibi, Ghanim
AU - Moukarzel, Maria
AU - Almadani, Sakhaa
AU - Alrudaini, Dalia
AU - Autino, Adriano
AU - Foing, Bernard
AU - Heuser, Marie Luises
AU - Grandl, Werner
AU - Stone, Jerry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2025 by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). All rights reserved.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The space domain is more than just commercial applications or engineering problems only. Expanding Humanity to outer space should be seen as a quest for a better human civilization on earth. This involves all aspects of humanity such as sociology, philosophy, and the arts. As a non-profit organization, the Space Renaissance Initiative (SRI) promotes intellectual discussions about the justification of expanding humanity into outer space. Unfortunately, educational institutes around the world lack intellectual and philosophical aspects of the space domain and focus more on engineering and commercialization. The SRI, represented by the Towards the Young Generation Committee, has organized a fully online program that is called Expanding Humanity into Outer Space (EHTOS) in 2024. EHTOS is a hackathon targeting youth from around the world. The aim of EHTOS is to introduce the intellectual aspect and the justification of human civilization in space. Students and young professionals were requested to design a rotating habitat motivated by the vision and manifesto of SRI. This paper describes the event educational lectures, the preparation, and the output. EHTOS 2024 is just the beginning of a series of activities in the coming years. Plans for the future will be also explained.
AB - The space domain is more than just commercial applications or engineering problems only. Expanding Humanity to outer space should be seen as a quest for a better human civilization on earth. This involves all aspects of humanity such as sociology, philosophy, and the arts. As a non-profit organization, the Space Renaissance Initiative (SRI) promotes intellectual discussions about the justification of expanding humanity into outer space. Unfortunately, educational institutes around the world lack intellectual and philosophical aspects of the space domain and focus more on engineering and commercialization. The SRI, represented by the Towards the Young Generation Committee, has organized a fully online program that is called Expanding Humanity into Outer Space (EHTOS) in 2024. EHTOS is a hackathon targeting youth from around the world. The aim of EHTOS is to introduce the intellectual aspect and the justification of human civilization in space. Students and young professionals were requested to design a rotating habitat motivated by the vision and manifesto of SRI. This paper describes the event educational lectures, the preparation, and the output. EHTOS 2024 is just the beginning of a series of activities in the coming years. Plans for the future will be also explained.
KW - EHTOS
KW - Rotating Habitat
KW - SRI
KW - Space Entrepreneurship
KW - Youth Engagement
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105036337155
U2 - 10.52202/083097-0098
DO - 10.52202/083097-0098
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:105036337155
T3 - Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC
SP - 935
EP - 937
BT - IAF Space Education and Outreach Symposium - Held at the 76th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2025
PB - International Astronautical Federation, IAF
Y2 - 29 September 2025 through 3 October 2025
ER -