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CONFERENCE: FUTURE OF HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION The Next Giant Leap…

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2005— The CSIS Human Space Exploration Initiative will host a major conference in coordination with the European Commission’s Earth and Space Week on the future of human space exploration in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 16.

The conference will explore particular challenges in three key areas central to putting humans in space: technology and innovation, political will and public support, and new models of governance for space exploration.

Over the past 500 years, there have been three great ages of exploration, from Columbus and Magellan and the Age of Discovery, to Gagarin, Glenn and Armstrong and the Space Age. For the last 30 years, humans have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, with few advances in human space exploration. Today, with Europe, the United States, Japan, and China considering new independent roadmaps to send humans back to the Moon and beyond, the world is at the frontier of the next giant leap in space exploration.

The CSIS Human Space Exploration Initiative is designed to develop new international perspectives on human space exploration, assess their relative prospects, and build a common global vision and agenda.

“Space is still a boundless frontier, but the family of pioneers is changing,” said CSIS President and CEO John Hamre. “Human space exploration is no longer the quest of the rich and the few. Today, millions of people who can imagine a bright future are banding together for this common purpose. This conference brings together these pioneers to chart new paths of collaboration for the years and decades ahead.”

Conference participants will include leading authorities and experts from the various space agencies, an international panel of and chief executives from the world’s leading industrial aerospace companies. Speaking appearances will be made by Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, AIAA President Don Richardson, Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, former International Space University President Karl Doetsch, UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Chairman Gerard Brachet, International Institute of Air and Space Law Director Frans G. von der Dunk, MDA Space Exploration Director Christian Sallaberger, NASA astronaut and MIT lecturer Jeffrey Hoffman, OECD International Futures Program Director Michael Oborne, ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, Boeing Vice President and NASA Systems General Manager Michael Mott, Lockheed Martin Space Exploration Architecture Director John Stevens, former ESA astronaut and Head Brig. Gen. Michel Tognini, Executive VP for Business Development EADS Stephen Graul, and other international leaders and promoters of space exploration.

A full program is now available at http://www.csis.org/hse/. The HSEI program overview, specific conference details, a full list of confirmed speakers, and conference registration form may also be found at this website.

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The Next Giant Leap: HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION INITIATIVE The Future of Human Space Exploration February 16, 2005 ● Autoworld Brussels, Parc du Cinquantenaire 11, Brussels, Belgium

AGENDA: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005 08:00-08:30 Registration and Coffee 08:30-08:45 Welcome Remarks: Dr. John Hamre, President & CEO, CSIS; Dr. Carlos Bulgheroni, Senior Advisor, CSIS Honorary Guest Speaker: The Honorable John Glenn; United States Senator (retired) and Mercury and Space Shuttle Astronaut

08:45-09:00 Presentation: The Next Giant Leap

09:00-09:30 Keynote Address: The Vision Speakers: The Honorable Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D., Apollo 17 Astronaut (invited); Brig. Gen. Michel Tognini, Head of the Astronaut Division, EAC

09:30-11:00 Session I: Exploring the Future Panelists: Dr. Anatoly Perminov, President, Russian Space Agency (invited); Mr. Jean-Francois Clervoy, ESA Astronaut; Mr. Donald W. Richardson, President, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics; Dr. Mae Jemison, Astronaut, NASA (invited); Dr. Andre Kuipers, Astronaut, ESA

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:45 Session II: Challenges - Governance and Cooperation Moderator: Dr. Karl Doetsch, former Chair of the Technical Subcommittee for the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and former President of the International Space University Panelists: Dr. Gerard Brachet, Chair, United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and former Director-General of CNES; Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, NASA Astronaut and Senior Lecturer, MIT; Dr. Michael Oborne, Deputy Director-General, Science, Technology, & Society Directorate of the OECD; Dr. Mazlan Othman, Director-General, National Space Agency, Malaysia and former Director for UNOOSA; Dr. Frans G. von der Dunk, Director, Space Law Research International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden

12:45-13:45 Lunch and Keynote Address: Extending Life beyond Earth Speakers: Mr. Jin Zhuanglong, Vice Administrator, China National Space Administration (invited); Dr. Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO, Arianespace

13:45-15:15 Session III: Challenges - Public Support Speakers: Ms. Yolanda Berenguer, Space Education Program, Division of Earth Sciences, UNESCO; Mr. Christian Cabal, Member of French Parliament, President of European Inter-Disciplinary Space Conference (invited); Dr. Peter Diamandis, founder of X-Prize and co-founder of the International Space University; Mr. Ramin Khadem, former Chief Financial Officer, INMARSAT

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session IV: The Builders – Who Will Get Us There and How? Speakers: Dr. Bradley Edwards, Space Elevator Concept; Mr. Stephan Graul, Executive VP Business Development EADS; Dr. John Stevens, Director of Space Exploration Architecture Studies Lockheed Martin Corporation; Mr. Michael Mott, VP and General Manager, NASA Systems, Boeing; Dr. Christian Sallaberger, Director, Space Exploration, MacDonald Dettwiler Associates

17:00-17:30 Keynote Address: The Next Steps Speaker: Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 Astronaut

17:30-18:15 Summary of Conference

17:45-19:00 Reception

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