The Space Generation Forum at UNISPACE III: ten years on
- Paper number
IAC-09.E1.2.11
- Author
Dr. Werner R. Balogh, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Austria
- Coauthor
Mr. Norbert Frischauf, QASAR Technologie(s) GmbH, Austria
- Coauthor
Mr. Gernot Groemer, Austrian Space Forum, Austria
- Coauthor
Dr. Lance Bush, PARAGON - Space Development Corporation, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Aron Lentsch, Orbspace - Rocket Engineering and Technologies, Austria
- Year
2009
- Abstract
This year we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III), held in Vienna, Austria, from 19 to 30 July 1999. Through the recommendations contained in its resolution “The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development” the conference set a new course and defined a strategy for promoting international space cooperation in the years to follow. The Space Generation Forum, the youth forum held at UNISPACE III, became an integral part of UNISPACE III. Organized by alumni of the International Space University it would not only become the starting point for many space careers but would also contribute to focussing the attention of governmental and non-governmental space entities on the importance of nurturing the next generation of space professionals. This paper, written by some of the original organizers of the event, takes a comprehensive look back at the origins and the organization of the Space Generation Forum, as well as at the deliberations and recommendations made at UNISPACE III, and reviews the achievements accomplished in its aftermath.
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