If you find yourself in Noordwijk, The Netherlands check out the 2nd Space and Society Conference Space Options for the 21st Century.




This conference follows o­n from the 1st Impact of Space o­n Society conference held as a stand-alone International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) event held in Budapest in March 2005 and is intended to gather experts interested in this broad, complex and international topic at a time when the world is celebrating not o­nly the 50th anniversary of spaceflight, but also the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical/Polar Year.

The conference is hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) at its large R&D establishment in Noordwijk, The Netherlands and is co-organized with the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) and the International Academy of Astronautics. It is anticipated to hold a third such conference, organized by CASI and co-organized with ESA and the IAA in Canada in 2008