AAKF booth

 

Ad Astra Kansas Foundation (AAKF) presented information on space education in Kansas at a booth in the Kansas State Capitol Rotunda on February 7.  Cosmosphere is the home of AAKF (http://www.adastra-ks.org/), which brings space science education to the community through events such as their annual Galaxy Forum.  One initiative is Interstellar University, a collaboration with Space Age Publishing.  Kansas is the natural home for Interstellar University given the state's motto – Ad Astra Per Aspera – To the Stars Through Challenges.  A course at ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½, Interstellar Seminar, was featured in the presentation as the first Interstellar University course.  Interstellar Seminar is a nonmajors nontechnical course, open for free to the public, which remotely brings to campus world-renown speakers on diverse topics in space science and humanities related to interstellar travel.  You can learn more through Wichita Space Initiative:  www.wichita.edu/space.