Day 1: Keynote Address: Lennard Fisk | Session 1: Space Policy – Expectations and Reality | Session 2: Space Science – the Next Decade | Session 3: Role of Education in American Competitiveness
Day 2: Session 4: Mars – The Best is Yet to Come | Session 5: Space Entrepreneurs | Luncheon Speaker: Andrea Seastrand | Session 6: Exploration – One Year On | Session 7: Earth Science – the Next Decade | Session 8: Report on the Hubble Servicing Mission

Session 6: Exploration – One Year On

Moderator: Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc. and AAS Vice President - International

Panelists:
Bernhard Hufenbach, Directorate of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Programmes, Strategy and Architecture Office, ESA-ESTEC
Kohtaro Matsumoto, Research and Development Office, Lunar and Planetary Exploration Program Group, JAXA
John Olson, Exploration Transition Manager, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters

Bernhard Hufenbach, “Status of ESA’s Space Exploration Activities and Plans”

Kohtaro Matsumoto, “Japan’s LUnar Exploration Program for Next 20 Years”

John Olson, “NASA’s Exploration Plans”

Looking Ahead - Key Space Events

Jan 30-Feb 4 — AAS Guidance and Control Conference
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Breckenridge, Colorado

Feb 8-12 — AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Winter Meeting
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Savannah, Georgia

Feb 22-24 — Legislative Blitz 2009
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Washington, DC

Mar 10-12 — Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
Theme: Sustainable Space Exploration
Greenbelt, Maryland

May 26-29 — 12th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS)
Montreal, Canada

Jun 12-14 – 5th Student CanSat Competititon
Amarillo, Texas

Aug 9-13 — AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Abstract deadline:  March 9
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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