session 2

Title

Space Expectations: Involving the Public in Space Activities

type

oral

Description

Space activities have historically been based upon technological successes with science and exploration leading space activities toward major projects throughout the solar system. However, periodic disconnects have occurred as the public used to seeing major successes suddenly sees failures and begins to question the value and cost of space initiatives. An IAA-sponsored study to determine the depth of understanding and backing of space activities by the general public (in particularly young people) was recently completed. Following on from sessions at previous IACs, papers are invited which review and describe society’s expectations from space programmes, ascertain how society – particularly youth - could become more involved in space exploration, and indicate how space activities could maintain the interest and excitement of tomorrow’s youth and thus be supported (both financially and intellectually) by the public.

Date

2010-09-28

Time

15:15

Room

Club C

IPC members
papers

Order

Time

Paper title

Selection result

Mode

Presentation status

Speaker

Affiliation

Country

1

Anyone Can Be a Rocket Scientist: Collaboration and Participation at NASA

accepted

15

Prof. Jeanne Holm

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

2

2050 – Living on Mars: Children design future Habitats

accepted

15

confirmed

Dr. Sandra Haeuplik-Meusburger

Vienna University of Technology

Austria

3

NASA's Centennial Challenges Program -- Prizes as a means of participatory exploration.

accepted

15

confirmed

Mr. Douglas Comstock

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

United States

4

Virtualizing the ‘Warp Drive’. Can Visual Arts influence pioneering research?

accepted

15

confirmed

Mr. Alexandre Szames

France

5

Space Expectations of Young Indians

accepted

15

confirmed

Mr. P R Goutham

PES School of Engineering

India

6

Space exploration and exploitation: Technical and economical capabilities versus legal and political regulations: The civil aviation paradigm

accepted

15

confirmed

Dr. Alvaro Azcarraga

SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas, S.A.

Spain

7

Empowering Scientists and Citizens Through Participation in Space Exploration

accepted

15

confirmed

Dr. Linda Billings

George Washington University

United States

8

The Barcelona Moon Team at GLXP

accepted

15

confirmed

Mr. Marc Zaballa Camprubi

Galactic Suite SL

Spain

9

Rise Above the White Noise

accepted

15

confirmed

Ms. Beth Beck

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

United States

10

The Analysis and Suggestions on Applying space technology on Dealing with global climate warming issue

accepted

15

confirmed

Dr. Hua Cai

China

11

Future or fantasy - space tourism from the perspective of architecture and design professions.

accepted

15

confirmed

Mr. David Wong

United Kingdom