Gateway: Humanity's Lunar Space Station

Day: Thursday 5 October
Time: 11:20 - 12:20 AZT (GMT+4)
Location: Heydar Aliyev Center (HAC) Auditorium

NASA’s Gateway Program is an international and commercial collaboration to establish humanity’s first space station in lunar orbit. Building on decades of success with ISS, Gateway is an enabler of the emerging lunar economy by extending more than 20 years of partnership and technology from low-Earth orbit to cis-lunar space and beyond. The audience will hear directly from leaders at NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency about how public-private partnerships spanning more than a dozen countries on three continents are delivering the core elements of the lunar space station. They will leave the forum with a new understanding of how Gateway will:

Provide benefits for all of humanity through onboard science investigations to study heliophysics, life sciences, and human health;
Grow the aerospace industry through the application of existing and leading-edge technologies in deep space, advanced solar electric propulsion and autonomy;
Inspire the next generation of Earth’s children when international teams of astronauts fly to and live on Gateway for longer duration missions at the Moon and prepare for journeys to Mars.

The audience will also receive a status update on Gateway’s progress ahead of the 2025 launch of the space station’s first elements to lunar orbit.

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