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Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference to Showcase Opportunities for Science, Education

On February 18-20, researchers from government, industry and academia will gather in Boulder CO for the 'Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference' (NSRC2010). Suborbital space vehicles could revolutionize space access by providing frequent, low-cost access to space and the capability of delivering research and education crew members and payloads. Objectives of NSRC2010 include educating a broad array of research communities to the opportunities human suborbital vehicles offer for research and education missions (REM), and to solicit ideas, questions and feedback from the researchers concerning REM applications and user requirements. Southwest Research Institute Associate VP Alan Stern and Commercial Spaceflight Federation Chairman Mark Sirangelo will give welcoming remarks before keynote addresses from NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Ames Director Pete Worden. The conference will also feature a public talk by former Space Shuttle commander and chief test pilot for XCOR Aerospace Rick Searfoss. (Credit: NASA, SRI, Virgin Galactic, LPI, USRA, CSF)

14th ISU Symposium To Focus On Sustainable Space Program, Public Outreach

Over 150 participants from 30 countries will attend the ‘14th International Space University Annual Symposium: The Public Face of Space’ on February 16-18 in Strasbourg, France.  The 3-day event will target ways to raise public awareness of space through education and outreach and to enhance synergistic efforts towards building a sustainable space program.  ISU President Michael Simpson (TC) will open the event followed by keynote speaker Deputy Associate Administrator for Public Outreach Alan Ladwig (TL) of NASA. Other speakers include Kaori Sasaki of JAXA, Theo Pirard (CL) of Space Information Center Belgium, Nicole Sentse of ESTEC (C) and Foundation for Space Development Director Carla Sharpe of South Africa.  The event will also feature the Excalibur Almaz Reusable Return Vehicle (BR) developed in the 1970's by Vladimir Chelomei in Soviet-era Russia. (Credit: ISU, NASA, NSS, excaliburalmaz.com, myspace.com)

THIS WEEK
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All times for terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for international terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for space events, and...
All times for international space / astro events in Hawaii Standard Time unless noted. Add 10 hours to obtain UT ('Universal Time;' Greenwich, England).
Weekly Planet Watch – Morning Planets: Saturn (S) / Evening Planets: Venus (WSW), Mars (E), Saturn (E), Jupiter (SW).
 

MONDAY
Feb 15 — 'Reduce National Deficit by Utilizing Space Resources:' Dr. Phillip Harris outlines 3 key objectives: Raise public awareness / investment of space through global conferences, find innovative ways for space financing and create a Global Space Administration;' http://rbrtfrnt.edublogs.org/what-are-scholars-have-written/.
Feb 15 — International Space Station, LEO: E-22 crew members continue joint operations with STS-130 crew to implement Tranquility Node to increase station interior space; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html.
Feb 15 — NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Lunar Orbit: Lunar Orbit: LRO functioning nominally from lower mapping orbit (50 km) as scientists continue to analyze data and images; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html.
Feb 15 — Mars, Red Planet: Scientists optimistic for future discoveries as Opportunity clicks over 19.31 km mark, going 32 times farther than original mission goal; http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/20100201a.html.
Feb 15-17 — Group of Earth Observation, Kochi, India: 'Remote Sensing and Fisheries International Symposium;' http://geosafari.org/kochi/index.html.
Feb 15-17 — The National Academies, Irvine CA: 'Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space;' http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/meetingview.aspx?MeetingID=3830&MeetingNo=5.
Feb 15-18 — Prague Relativistic Astrophysics Group, Prague, Czech Republic: 'Probing Strong Gravity near Black Holes;' http://astro.cas.cz/bh2010/.
Feb 15-19 — American Geophysical Union, Hyderabad, India: 'AGU Chapman Conference on Complexity and Extreme Events in Geosciences;' http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2010/bcall/.
Feb 15-20 —The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria: '12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation;' http://vci.hephy.at/2010/.
Feb 15-20 — University of Alberta Department of Physics, Alberta, Canada: 'Lake Louise Winter Institute 2010;' http://cpp.phys.ualberta.ca/LLWI/.
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Jan 30 — Museum of Science and Industry, Confucius Institute / University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom: 'Exhibition: From Gunpowder to Space Rockets - The China Space Program,' includes models of ancient rockets, recent satellites, rockets, space ships and a lunar rover; through Aug 7; http://www.mosi.org.uk/whats-on/china-space-exhibition.
Feb 8 — United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna, Austria: '47th Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space;' through Feb 19; http://www.raes.org.uk/event.asp?eventcode=000927&mastereventcode=Branch%20Lecture.
Feb 8 — Committee on Space Research, International Astronomical Union, et al, Bangalore, India: '11th COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop: Data Analysis of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope;' through Feb 19; http://www.rri.res.in/fermi_cospar_2010/fermi-cospar-2010_files/page0008.htm.
Feb 14 — National Center for Radio Astrophysics, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India: 'Library and Information Services in Astronomy;' through Feb 17; http://libibm.iucaa.ernet.in/conf/index.php/LISA/conf.
Feb 14 — American Astronautical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Diego CA: '20th AAS / AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting;' through Feb 17; http://www.space-flight.org/AAS_meetings/2010_winter/2010%20winter.html.
Feb 14 — Reflective X-ray Optics LLC, Big Sky MO: '10th International Conference on the Physics of X-Ray Multi-layer Structures;' through Feb 18; http://www.rxollc.com/pxrms/.
Feb 14 — Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen CO: 'Conference: Formation and Evolution of Black Holes;' through Feb 20; http://ciera.northwestern.edu/Aspen2010/.
Feb 14 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nationwide: 'National Engineers Week: Reach, Respect, Recognize;' through Feb 20; http://aiaa-sf.org/.
TUESDAY
Feb 16 — Space Department of Society of Aerospace Students Leonardo da Vinci (RVD / VSV), Delft, The Netherlands: 'RVD Lecture With Astronaut Anousheh Ansari;' http://www.vsv.tudelft.nl/en/node/344.
Feb 16 — Livermore National Laboratory (LNL), Moffett Field CA: New devices developed at LNL to test / improve semi-truck's fuel efficiency to be tested at NASA Ames Research Center; http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/02/08/daily6.html.
Feb 16 — Moon Society St. Louis Chapter, St. Louis MI: Moon Society Meeting; http://www.moonsociety.org/chapters/stlouis.
Feb 16,16-17 — NASA Advisory Council, Washington DC: 'NASA Commercial Space Committee Meeting;' 'NASA Advisory Council Exploration Committee Meeting;' http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/?itemid=18311&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter; http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=33330.
Feb 16-18 — International Space University, Strasbourg, France: '14th ISU Annual International Symposium: The Public Face of Space;' http://www.isunet.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=36&Itemid=146.
Feb 16-18 — Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand: 'SKANZ 2010: Pathways to SKA Science in Australasia,' aims to highlight recent developments of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA); http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/computing--mathematical-sciences/skanz-2010-conference.
Feb 16-20 — The Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India: 'Conference: Cosmological Reionization;' http://www.hri.res.in/~reion/index.html.
Feb 16 — Venus: .54° SSE of Jupiter; 16:00.
Feb 16 — Moon: 5.4° NNW of Uranus; 05:00.
WEDNESDAY
Feb 17 — NASA Advisory Council, Washington DC: 'Science Committee / Heliophysics Subcommittee Meeting;' http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=5786.
Feb 17 — The SETI Institute, Mountain View CA: 'Astroseismology in the Era of CoRoT and Kepler Space Missions,' Conny Aerts; http://www.seti.org/csc/lectures.
Feb 17-18 — ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands: 'ESA Techno / Innovation Days;' http://www.congrex.nl/10m14/.
THURSDAY
Feb 18 — Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX: 'Origin of Pseudotachylite in Terrestrial Impact Basins,' Ulrich Riller; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/.
Feb 18 — The Kansas Cosmosphere, Hutchinson KS: 'Coffee at the Cosmo - Got Cold Feet?: Temperature Control in Space, Part 1;' http://cosmo.org/calendar/ne_calendar_day.cfm?start_date=02/18/10&end_date=02/18/10.
Feb 18 — University of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston TX: 'Space Center Lecture Series: End of an Era - Collecting and Curating the Space Shuttle,' Robert Pearlman; http://spacecenterlectureseries.com/.
Feb 18-19 — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA: 'von Karman Lecture Series: Humanlike Robots - The Realization of the Science Fiction of Synthetic Humans;' http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=2010&month=2.
Feb 18-19 — Applied Technology Institute, Colorado Springs CO: 'Understanding Space,' Thomas S. Logsdon; http://www.aticourses.com/fundamentals_of_understanding_space.html.
Feb 18-20 — Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, et al, Boulder CO: 'Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2010,' with keynote speaker Lori Garver; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nsrc2010/.
FRIDAY

Feb 19 — Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo: Closest Approach to Earth (1.066 AU).

SATURDAY
Feb 20 — Moon Society Phoenix Chapter, Phoenix AZ: MSP Meeting; http://www.msphx.org.
Feb 20 — Institute of Noetic Science, Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland CA: 'Institute of Noetic Sciences Cosmos and Consciousness Gala Fundraiser Event,' Edgar Mitchell; http://www.noetic.org/.

Feb 20 — Asteroid (Near Earth Flyby): 2009 UD2, (0.038 AU); 2002 XY38, (0.042 AU).

SUNDAY
Feb 21-23 — National Space Society, Space Exploration Alliance, Washington DC: ' Space Exploration Alliance 2010 Blitz;' https://www.nss.org/cgi-bin/register/tdregister?$Origin=Blitz10.
Feb 21 — Moon: .92° SE of Pleiades, 11:00; At First Quarter, 14:42.
 
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