session 1

Title

Governmental Human Spaceflight Programs (Overview)

Description

The session provides the forum for “Overview” presentations on present and evolving governmental Human Space programs. This Session will include the latest status of human space flight programs and the spacecraft being developed to support them, including the International Space Station and the Chinese Space Station. Emerging nations’ manned spaceflight programmes, evolution concepts (e.g. ISS 2020 and beyond) and governmental manned exploration initiatives are also addressed in this session.

Date

2014-09-29

Time

15:15

Room

715B

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Carlo Mirra, Airbus Defence & Space, The Netherlands;

• Co-Chair: 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;