UBC experts on Artemis I lunar mission

UBC experts are available to comment on the Artemis I mission and future lunar missions.

Dr. Aaron Boley
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy
Email: acboley@phas.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English

• Space exploration, space sustainability, physics of spaceflight

Hamid Kian Gaikani
PhD candidate, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Cell: 778-323-3632
Email:  h.gaikani@gmail.com
Interview language(s): English, Farsi

• Member of team sending biological experiment into space onboard Artemis 1
• Investigating unique proteins conferring resistance to environmental stresses upon extremophile organisms

Dr. Jaymie Matthews
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Email: matthews@astro.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English

• Physics of spaceflight and lunar landings, science on the moon, orbital logistics, rocket engineering, humans and effects on the moon

*Unavailable August 26 all day; August 28 before 2:00 p.m.

Anya Jacksteit
MSc student, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: ajacksteit@eoas.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English

• Moonquakes, lunar structure and geophysics, science on the moon

*Unavailable August 25 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Francis Rossmann
MSc student, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: frossmann@eoas.ubc.ca
Interview language(s): English

• NASA missions and geophysical data analysis

*Unavailable August 25, 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and August 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.