session 1

Title

Governmental Human Spaceflight Programs (Overview)

Description

The session provides the forum for “Overview” presentations on present and evolving governmental Human Spaceflight programmes. This session will include the latest status of human spaceflight programmes 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, MPCV, Tjangong) and governmental manned exploration initiatives are also addressed in this session.

Date

2016-09-26

Time

15:15

Room

Guadalajara Hall Salon 2

IPC members

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

• Co-Chair: Mr. Kevin D. Foley, The Boeing Company, United States;

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