session 1

Title

Language Issues after Half a Century of Space Exploration

Description

This round table will consist on invited papers as well as on contributed papers. It will be an occasion to gather lexical results of half a century of space exploration and descriptions of Space terminology. It will be also aimed at proposing important directions to follow. An attempt will be made to summarize how space terminology was developed in the different countries and on the international level. It will also focus on the current situation, dealing with emerging concepts and domains (such as life sciences, astrobiology, microgravity, communications, remote sensing, global positioning, legal aspects…), new words and their definitions. It will include new ways of constructing and exchanging terminological data on the international level, in developing both the academic and industrial fields. The final objective is to arrive at synthetic description/analysis of the work done and the work to be carried out in the future (including methods, processes, data exchange protocols, communication tools currently used or needed) in different countries participating or expected to participate in the international Space terminology project at IAA.

Date

2008-09-29

Time

15:00

Room

Argyll 2

IPC members

• Chairman: Prof. Keiken Ninomiya, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;

• Chairman: Mr. Gordon P. Whitcomb, United Kingdom;