session 3

Title: History of Canadian contribution to astronautics and history on early SETI activities
Description: Special session with invited & proposed speakers. Origin (technical & political aspects) of the space activities & programs of Canada. Historical overview of some early SETI activities.
Date: 2014-10-02
Time: 14:45
Room: 803A

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Geoffrey Languedoc, Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institute (CASI), Canada;
Co-Chair: Dr. Otfrid G. Liepack, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Philippe Cosyn, Independent scholar, Belgium;

papers
Order	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	100 years of Aerospace History in Canada. From McCurdy to Hadfield.	accepted	20'	confirmed	Mr. Robert Godwin		Canada
2	Space for Canadians – Explaining Canada’s Logic and Motivation to be Active in Space	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Dr. Deganit Paikowsky	Tel Aviv University	Israel
3	A History of the Canadian Space Program: Policies that Guided the Program through Its First Thirty Years and Lessons Learned Coping with Modest Budgets	accepted	20'	confirmed	Mr. Graham Gibbs	Canadian Space Agency (RETD)	Canada
4	Bruce Aikenhead: Canada’s Most Versatile Space Pioneer	accepted	20'	confirmed	Dr. Christopher Gainor		Canada
5	Message to an intelligent civilization: a historical perspective	accepted	20'	confirmed	Mr. Stephane Dumas	SETI League	Canada
6	Canadian contribution to SETI - past and present	accepted	20'	confirmed	Ms. Lori Walton	Tigerstar Geoscience	Canada
7	SETI science: the first 25 years	accepted	20'	confirmed	Prof.Dr. H. Paul Shuch	The SETI League, Inc.	United States
8	Evolution of SETI technology to pick up messages from ET	accepted	20'	confirmed	Dr. Claudio Maccone	International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)	Italy