LIMELIGHT: Dr. Mae Jemison

Fri Sep 30 2022 at 07:00 pm

Tampa Theatre | Tampa

Tampa Theatre
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LIMELIGHT: Dr. Mae Jemison
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Dr. Mae C. Jemison leads 100 Year Starship (100YSS), a bold, far reaching nonprofit initiative to assure the capabilities exist for human travel beyond our solar system to another star within the next 100 years. Jemison is building a multi-faceted global community to foster the cultural, scientific, social and technical commitment, support and financial framework to accomplish the 100YSS vision-An Inclusive, Audacious Journey (that) Transforms Life Here on Earth and Beyond. 100YSS programs include: Annual public conference NEXUS- Pathway to the Stars: Footprints on Earth; the Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing; the 100YSS Crucibles-Invitation only, transdisciplinary workshops to generate new disciplines to disrupt technological and systemic hurdles; and 100YSS True Books to engage elementary students. The 100YSS Way Research Institute seeks to generate the radical leaps that accelerate knowledge, technology, design, and thinking not just for space travel, but to enhance life on Earth. Jemison led the team that won the competitive, single awardee seed funding grant in February 2012 from premiere research agency DARPA.
Jemison, the first woman of color in the world to go into space, served six years as a NASA astronaut. Aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-47 Spacelab J mission in September 1992, she performed experiments in material science, life sciences and human adaptation to weightlessness.
LIMELIGHT tickets range from $30- $45 plus applicable fees (from $33.50-$48.50 total at the Franklin Street Box Office or online at TampaTheatre.org from $36.75-$52.25 total.)
A limited number of VIP reception tickets are also available for $100 plus applicable fees ($103.50 at the Box Office or $109.25 online), which include premium show seating, photo-op, and a pre-event cocktail reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar.
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