August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for cutting-edge research. In future, it will be ...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... tirelessly to promote the cause of astronautics in his roles as President of the French national space agency (CNES), Chair of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Earlier...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...University and as a consultant for NewSpace companies before returning to my home country Slovakia. There I was eventually elected chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), which designed and constructed the first Slovak satellite...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... to the Australian Defence Space Coordinating Office and chaired inter-departmental and international working groups in respect...’s space science and industry sector (21 November 2008) (Chair: Annette Hurley). 4 Edited Advancing Australia in Space, ...
25 September 2016
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs participates in the 67th International Astronautical Congress
...Speakers: Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of UNOOSA David Kendall, Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer...Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization Valanathan Munsami, Chair of the African Union Space Working Group ...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... IVA spacesuit on and off, dropping from the escape tower, tasting space food, trying the rotation chair and talking with taikonauts face-to-face. They learn a lot, and come to feel both the pain...
