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session 2

Title: Scientific and Technical Histories
type: oral
Description: The symposium will cover the history of space science, exploration, innovation & technology. Furthermore reflection on the cultural and socio-political impact are parts of it. This will include the entire spectrum of space history, at least 25 years old.
Date: 2022-09-21
Time: 10:15
Room: 733/734

IPC members

Co-Chair: Ms. Vera Pinto Gomes, European Commission, Belgium;
Co-Chair: Mr. Hannes Mayer, Karl Franzens Universität Graz, Austria;
Rapporteur: Mr. Karlheinz Rohrwild, Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt Museum e.V., Germany;
Rapporteur: Mr. Piero Messina, European Space Agency (ESA), France;
Rapporteur: Mr. Randy Liebermann, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	“The First `Space Age,' Ca. 1850-1915---A Re-Examination of the Earliest Known Appearances of Spaceflight in Popular Culture and Science, Part I: The Role of Science Fiction	12	confirmed	Mr. Frank H. Winter	National Air and Space Museum	United States
2	10:27	The Hitler-Valier conversation on rocketry	12	confirmed	Dr. Wolfgang Both		Germany
3	10:39	Scientific Diffusion at the End of World War II	12	confirmed	Dr. Mike Pavelec	Air University	United States
4	10:51	The Origin of the Geostationary Orbit Concept	12	withdrawn	Mr. Michael Tilgner		Germany
5	11:03	The Lunar Module Simulator: An Instructor's Account	12	confirmed	Dr. Albert Jackson	Triton Systems LLC	United States
6	11:15	Khruschev’s “Sputnik diplomacy” in West Africa (1957-1964)	12	withdrawn	Mr. Virgiliu Pop	Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)	Romania
7	11:27	Historical lessons of the Orion and NERVA projects: managing public opinion and political uncertainty in space programs	12	confirmed	Mr. Amaury Dufay	Institute of Strategic and Defense Studies (IESD)	France
8	11:39	Rocketry projects at “Ort Ramat-Gan” Technical high school in Israel, 1972-1973	12	confirmed	Mr. Tal Inbar		Israel
9	11:51	Pre-hispanic cultures: ancient cosmovision and its impact to nowadays space missions, such as Mayan Space, a mexican space agency.	12	confirmed	Mr. Sebastián Sala Baltazar	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico
10	12:03	One small step that deserves preservation: Human trace fossils on the Moon	12	confirmed	Dr. Alice Gorman	Flinders University	Australia
11	12:15	Social-Constructivism and Space: How History Influences Modern Space Policy	12	confirmed	Ms. Raveen Sidhu	University of British Columbia	Canada
12	12:27	The origins of the astronaut program in Israel 1998: Between astronaut training and payload development	12	confirmed	Mr. Tal Inbar		Israel