Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization in collaboration with Rakia Mission, The Space Torah Project and Horizon Space Community held an event with:

Eytan Stibbe: AX-1 Astronaut and Member of the Tel Aviv University Board of Government

Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman: MIT Professor, NASA Astronaut (ret.) and MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) Deputy Principal Investigator

Vered Cohen Barzilay: CEO Out of the Box & Horizon Space Community member, an Alumna of Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University

Prof. Colin Price (ILAN ES experiment): The Jose Goldenberg Chair in Planetary Physics at The Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, and Head of TAU Climate Crisis Initiative

Prof. David Burstein (CRISPR experiment): Assistant Professor at the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences

0:00 Intro
0:12 Space Torah Trailer
02:56 Sigalit Ben Hayoun, TAU Alumni Organization Co-Founder and Head, opening remarks
04:58 Amos Elad, TAU Vice President of Public Affairs, Resource Development and Alumni Affairs, opening remarks
07:42 Hila Yeshurun, 'Horizon' Community Manager, opening remarks
10:52 Rachel Raz, 'Space Torah Project' Founder, Executive Producer, and Educator, opening remarks
14:06 What do Jeffrey Hoffman and Eytan Stibbe consider to be their top achievement
19:19 Why does Jeffrey Hoffman feels he is a second-generation astronaut
22:06 What does being a third-generation astronaut means to Eytan Stibbe and what will be the forth-generation
26:03 Will women have more opportunities to go to space in the third and fourth generations?
30:14 What is MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment)?
39:29 When we will get to Mars and will it be a government or a corporation that will get there first?
42:12 Is it necessary to send humans to Mars or can robots do all the work?
47:32 Eytan Stibbe wishes to go to the Moon
51:49 'Zikaron BaSalon' ("A memory in the living room", a Holocaust Remembrance tradition) in space
53:34 Eytan Stibbe's relationship with Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut who died at the Columbia mission, and was Eytan Stibbe's commander in the Air Force
54:55 The risks of space travel
56:41 NASA phrase 'Failure is Not an Option' and the differences between the private and the public sectors
1:00:44 Eytan Stibbe's experience in space
01:03:02 Jeffrey Hoffman played with a dreidel in space and used a mezuzah
01:07:12 what does Jeffrey Hoffman taking Jewish items to space mean for Jewish people
01:09:33 what personal items Eytan Stibbe took to space
01:11:52 Matzah in space
01:12:46 How can astronauts communicate the experience of being in space
01:14:00 has being in space changed you?
01:18:01 Prof. Colin Price lecture on the ILAN-ES experiment which deals with observations of electric storms from the Space Station and optical phenomena in the upper atmosphere
01:33:26 Prof. David Burstein lecture on the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) experiment, a system that could be used for accurate diagnosis of infection of crew members in space missions