The Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County is proud to announce that award winning journalist Pat Duggins will be the featured speaker for their next Four Seasons Author Series luncheon. This special event will occur at the University Club, 38th Floor, One Tampa City Center in downtown Tampa on Friday, October 22, at noon.
Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles--both technological and financial--have kept human exploration of the red planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars: NASA’s Next Giant Leap offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream.
Award-winning journalist Pat Duggins examines the extreme new challenges that will be faced by astronauts on the journey there and back. They’ll have to grow their own food, find their own water, and solve their own problems and emergencies without hope of rescue or re-supply. Can the technological hurdles be cleared? Will the public accept the very real possibility of astronaut death? Should a mission be publicly or privately funded? Is the science worth the cost?
Pat Duggins is known nationally as the “voice” of NASA coverage on National Public Radio. Pat has spent over twenty years broadcasting news on the space program, including the development of NASA’s next generation spacecraft at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He has covered over one hundred space shuttle missions for National Public Radio, starting with the 1986 Challenger accident, and has earned a national Sigma Delta Chi Award and a National Headliner Award for NASA coverage.
The Four Seasons Author Series is presented by the Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County, Inc. The subscription series offers four literary lunches annually at which guest authors are invited to speak on a variety of subjects. A non-subscriber one-time luncheon ticket is $30 and a subscription for four consecutive luncheons is $100. To reserve your seat for the luncheon, call the Friends office at (813) 273-3616 by Monday, October 18th.
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