Organized by the Fuengirola City Council through the Department of Culture, the talks will feature two renowned professionals with extensive careers in space research and missions: Valeriano Claros Guerra and Jesús Jiménez Ibáñez.
The Councilor for Culture, Rodrigo Romero, highlighted the opportunity to have experts linked to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). "We are living in a particularly interesting time for space exploration, with new projects that once again place the Moon as one of the major objectives and open the door to future missions beyond our planet," stated Romero.
The first lecture, on Wednesday, September 16 at 7:30 PM, will be given by Valeriano Claros Guerra, a telecommunications engineer and Hijo Predilecto of Fuengirola. Titled ‘From Apollo to Artemis: NASA Returns to the Moon to Stay’, it will cover the objectives of the Artemis program, NASA's plans to re-establish human presence on the Moon, the differences with the Apollo program, and the establishment of permanent infrastructure, especially in the lunar south pole region.
Claros Guerra, with a long career at INTA and ESA, participated in tracking missions such as Apollo and Skylab, and in the development of infrastructure for deep space mission tracking.
The second conference, on Thursday, September 17 at the same time, will be titled ‘Crewed Space Flights: Evolution, Objectives, and Technological Challenges’ and will be presented by aeronautical engineer Jesús Jiménez Ibáñez.
This talk will review the evolution of human presence in space, key milestones, technological challenges of crewed missions, and their scientific, social, and economic repercussions. It will also address the current status of the International Space Station (ISS) and plans for permanent infrastructure beyond Earth's orbit.
Jesús Jiménez Ibáñez, with experience at CASA and ESA, participated in the development of the European Columbus module for the ISS and led the engineering and logistics group responsible for that module and European equipment operated on the station.
