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21 Oct 2008: Session 1: Ares - A Project Making Progress | Luncheon: Mike Griffin, NASA Administrator | Session 2: Constellation: Enabling Research and Discovery | Session 3: Huntsville and the U.S. Space Program - An Historical Perspective
22 Oct 2008: Session 4: What's Ahead for the Space Program with a New Administration and Congress? | Session 5: Industry Perspective and the Future of Exploration

2008 Von Braun Memorial Symposium Session 3: Huntsville and the U.S. Space Program – An Historical Perspective

  • Moderator: Roger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum
  • “Rocket City Rising: Huntsville and the Early Space Race, 1940-1963,” Stephen Waring, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • “Rocket City: Signs, Symbols, and Icons,” Michael D. Wright, MSFC Historian
  • “Rocket City USA: MSFC in the Saturn Years – A Personal Memoir, Jesco von Puttkamer, NASA Headquarters

Stephen Waring, “Rocket City Rising: Huntsville & the Early Space Race, 1940-1963″

Michael D. Wright, “Rocket City: Signs, Symbols, and Icons”

Jesco von Puttkamer, “Rocket City USA: MSFC in the Saturn Years — A Personal Memoir”

Looking Ahead – Key Space Events

Aug 2-5 — AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Sheraton Centre Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aug 3-5 — NASA ISS Research Academy & Pre-application Meeting
South Shore Harbour Resort
Houston, Texas

Sep 20-22 — International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Abstract Deadline August 2

Sep 27-Oct 1 — International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
Prague Congress Centre
Prague, Czech Republic

Oct 10-24 – USA Science & Engineering Festival 
Washington, DC

Oct 25-27 — Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama

Nov 16-17 — AAS National Conference
“ISS: The Next Decade”
Radisson Resort at the Port
Cape Canaveral, Florida

Feb 4-9 — AAS Guidance and Control Conference
Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center
Breckenridge, Colorado

Feb 13-17 — AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Winter Meeting
Lowes New Orleans Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
Abstract Deadline October 11, 2010

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