session 1

Title

Overview Session (Present and Near-Term Human Space Flight Programmes)

Description

This session provides the forum for “Overview” papers and presentations on present and evolving human space programmes in and beyond Low Earth Orbit. It is anticipated that this session will include the current status of the International Space Station, the future plans of those nations with an autonomous or evolving human space flight programme and the spacecraft being developed to support them, and other human space flight programmes including those under development as commercial ventures. Technical papers to be presented are expected to portray the latest development of these programmes.

Date

2012-10-01

Time

15:15

Room

TS11 (Sala Egadi, Palacongressi)

IPC members

• Chairman: Dr. Carlo Mirra, Airbus Defence & Space, The Netherlands;

• Chairman: Mr. John Uri, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center, United States;

• Rapporteur: Prof. Rainer Willnecker, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;