Emphasis On Commercial Spaceflight, Robotic Developments
The American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold its SPACE 2011 Conference &
Exposition September 27–29 at the Long Beach Convention
Center, Long Beach, CA, focusing on the theme “Enhancing
Today, Inspiring Tomorrow.”
SPACE 2011 will examine how best to pursue the nation’s
space and technology goals to explore, educate, build, and innovate
in the post–space shuttle era, and in a time of severe
budgetary constraints, and how to drive the advancement of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the
nation’s schools to preserve and enhance our nation’s
scientific and technological capabilities.
Specific topics of discussion for the conference include:
- How can commercial space enhance our current space program and
what are the current issues and challenges?
- How might recent global political events change requirements
for national security space?
- What are the latest developments and innovations in robotic
exploration technologies?
- What key technologies are required to meet the needs of NASA
and the Department of Defense?
- What is the legacy of the space shuttle program and what
developments will affect the future of human spaceflight?
- How can academia, government and industry support education in
space-related subjects?
Other areas of discussion during SPACE 2011 include: space
history, medicine, law and policy, logistics, operations, remote
sensing systems and sensors, transportation and launch systems,
systems engineering and space economics, and human sustainment
using in-situ resources on the moon and other bodies.
Guiding the formation of the SPACE 2011 Conference are the
executive chairs: Charles Elachi, director, NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, commander, U.S. Air Force
Space and Missile Systems Center; Roger Krone, president, network
and space systems, integrated defense systems, The Boeing Company;
Jeff Grant, vice president and general manager, Space Systems
Division, Northrop Grumman; and Joanne Maguire, executive vice
president, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
The conference is co-chaired by NASA and the U.S.
Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The conference will
kick off with remarks from AIAA president Brian Dailey and The
Honorable Gavin Newsom, lieutenant governor of California.
Following their remarks will be an opening panel discussion on
“Enhancing Today, Inspiring Tomorrow,” moderated by
Wanda Austin, president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, and
featuring Lt. Gen. Eugene L. Tattini, USAF (retired), deputy
director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as the
conference’s executive chairs.
Luncheon speakers include George Nield, associate administrator,
Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation
Administration.
Thousands of Long Beach area school children will participate in
the conference’s “Education Alley” program, which
allows students in grades K–12 to take part in exciting
hands-on learning activities reinforcing the value of the
“STEM” subjects of science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics in their daily lives, as well as in potential
future careers in aerospace engineering and scientific disciplines.
“Education Alley” is sponsored by Lockheed Martin
Corporation, The Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation,
Raytheon Company, The Aerospace Corporation, Wyle, Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne, and the AIAA Foundation.
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