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    Title

    50th Anniversary of Manned Space Flight

    Description

    Memoirs, political and industrial history and overviews of the first manned spaceflight projects in the USSR and the USA.

    Date

    2011-10-04

    Time

    15:00

    Room

    TS-15

    IPC members
    • Chairman: Prof. Yasunori Matogawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;

    • Chairman: Ms. Kerrie Dougherty, Australia;

    • Rapporteur: Dr. Otfrid G. Liepack, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;

    • Rapporteur: Mr. Philippe Cosyn, Independent scholar, Belgium;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    50th Anniversary of the Yuri Gagarin Flight

    20

    confirmed

    Ms. Olga Zhdanovich

    European Space Agency (ESA)

    The Netherlands

    2

    The Strange Career of the Spaceplane: NASA and the Quest for Routine Human Space Operations

    20

    confirmed

    Dr. Roger D. Launius

    Smithsonian Institution

    United States

    3

    The 'Spiral’ project (1965-1978) – The first attempt to realise a ‘real’ manned spaceplane

    20

    confirmed

    Mr. Oleg A. Sokolov

    The British Interplanetary Society

    United Kingdom

    4

    Gagarine, a special relationship with France

    20

    confirmed

    Mr. Philippe Jung

    Association Aéronautique & Astronautique de France (3AF)

    France

    5

    Opposing Apollo: Public Resistance to the Moon Landings

    20

    confirmed

    Dr. Roger D. Launius

    Smithsonian Institution

    United States