April 5, 2012 - Richard O. Gray, Ph.D., Appalachian State University
"Search for Habitable Planets"
May 3, 2012 - Stephen van Vuuren, Filmmaker—SV2 Studios
"Outside-In, an Imax Film of Saturn"
June 7, 2012 - Dan Reichart, Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill
"The Drake Equation - for estimating the number of detectable extra-terrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy"
July 5, 2012 - Chris Mullis, Ph.D., Charlotte Astronomy Club & retired European Space Agency Astronomer
"X-Ray Astronomy"
August 2, 2012 - Joshua Emery, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Water and Organics on Asteroids"
September 6, 2012 - Richard Wright, Sr., Software developer at Software Bisque
"Learn more about The Sky astronomy software and the Paramount ME telescope mounts"
October 4, 2012 - Stephen Danford, Ph.D., UNC-Greensboro
"Dark Matter"
November 1, 2012 - Tony Rice, NASA Solar System Ambassador
"Making the Transition from the Space Shuttle to Commercial Space Flight"