News and Events - archive

long-duration isolation

Event: 29th April 2015, Leiden

 

The 3rd Mars Meetup event will host an old hand in the domain of human spaceflight, Dr Kass, who will speak on the subject of psychology of long-duration isolation. This subject is of especial concern and relevance with regard to potential human missions to Mars and eventual settlement of humans on the Red Planet.

Website launch

We are proud to announce the launch of an upgraded version of our James R Kass Space Consulting website! This new website is based on Joomla 3.x, which is a highly sophisticated upgrade from the previous version used, Joomla 2.5. One of the major improvements is responsive design of the website, which provides visitors the opportunity of comfortable viewing on all devices, including smart phones and tablets.

The Human Mission

Event: 6th January 2015, Vaudreuil, Quebec

 

All classes were cancelled for the afternoon and pupils of 7th-11th grades in the small Quebec school near Montreal listened spell-bound to Dr Kass describing an exciting career in human spaceflight.

The Human Mission

Event: 23rd November 2014

 

At 19:00 EST (10:00 PST) a live talk-show on human mission to Mars will take place, hosted by WatchHollywood. Participating as official guests are Dr Norbert Kraft (Chief Medical Officer) and Dr James Kass, human spaceflight expert and advisor for Mars One project.

xignum logo

Event: 23-24th July 2014, Noordwijk

 

The key experts of Xignum Ltd from Warsaw, Poland, visited four Estec directorates to whom they presented their elegant and agile solution for Project, Process and Data Management. The demonstrations were well received, and aroused much interest.

esa european space research and technology centre

Event: 24th June 2014, Noordwijk

 

Professor Dr Francesco Sacerdoti, CEO e‑voluzione srl, recently visited ESTEC where he met with representatives of several labs at ESA’s Directorate of Technical and Quality Management (TEC), and visited their space engineering labs after the meeting.

e-voluzione

At the recent Industry Space Days event at ESTEC Dr Kass concluded an agreement with Dr Francesco Sacerdoti, CEO of e-voluzione srl, based in Naples, Italy, to be their exclusive agent for the European Space Agency.

Event: 23rd May 2014, Amsterdam

Mars One organized a private event in Amsterdam to share and discuss Mars One's accomplishments with advisers, ambassadors, sponsors, investors, and other stakeholders. Dr Kass, adviser for Mars One, was one of the speakers at the event.

Xignum

At a recent demonstration at Ampyx Power, the power of an elegant configuration and project management system – Xignum Aerospace – was clearly exhibited. Built by Xignum Sp. z o.o., an SME in Warsaw, Poland, for Ampyx Power, based in The Hague, Netherlands, this system is designed to meet the high demands of product lifecycle management in the aerospace sector.

health center

The Kosovo-based Health Center of Excellence (HCE), which is an interconnected collaborative centre of professional knowledge and skills, recently nominated Dr Kass as a member of its advisory team.

Event: 1st March 2014, Winterthur, Switzerland

A group of worldwide Mars enthusiasts who applied to go to Mars with the Mars One project have organised a one-day event in Winterthur, Switzerland. Dr Kass, who is an advisor for the project, was amongst the key guests invited.

Event: 6th February 2014, Kiruna, Sweden

At the international Arctic Light e-Health Conference - ALEC a satellite event: “Engaged Community for Active and Healthy Ageing” will take place on 6-February. One of the three themes at this event will be Mutual Learning using Lessons Learned, which will be chaired by Dr James Kass (ENGAGED_Newsletter_N2_January 2014 Edition - PDF).