SPACE CALENDAR DOWNRANGE - TOWARD 2010
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2008
Jul 14-20 — British National Space Center, Farnborough, England, UK: '46th Farnborough International Airshow;' celebrates 60 years of air shows at Farnborough; http://www.farnborough.com/intro.aspx.
Jul 15 — International Space Station, LEO: ISS Expedition 17 crew conducts spacewalk today to attach additional docking equipment and experiments to the hull of the Zvezda service module; Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko to conduct EVA; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html.
Jul 15-16 — AIAA, National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly VA: '8th NRO / AIAA Space Launch Integration Forum;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2041.
Jul 15-16 — National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil: 'SICINPE 2008: Seminar of Scientific Initiation of INPE;' http://www.inpe.br/pibic/.
Jul 15-17 — National Institute for Space Research, BR Petrobras, et al., Sao Paulo, Brazil: 'GEO Summit Latin America: Infrastructure of Space Data - A Corporate Vision;' http://www.geobr.com.br/.
Jul 17-19 — Space Frontier Foundation, Washington DC: 'NewSpace2008: Creating the Future or Living in the Past;' annual conference dedicated to commercial space; http://www.space-frontier.org/.
Jul 17 — Moon: Full or Buck Moon; Hoku I Hinaiaeleele; 21:59.
Jul 18-20 — Association of Rocket Mavericks, Black Rock NV: 'Mavericks 2008 International Civilian Space Competition;' http://www.rocketmavericks.com/Events/default.aspx.
Jul 19 — SETI Institute, Mountain View CA: 'Celebrating Science 2008 Family Science Fair;' http://www.seti.org/celebratingscience2008/index.php.
Jul 20 — 39th Apollo 11 Observation, Nationwide USA / Global: 1st Human mission to land on Moon in 1969; 1st steps by humans on another planetary body taken by Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin.
Jul 20-23 — NASA Lunar Science Institute, Moffett Field CA: 'NLSI Lunar Science Conference;' http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nlsc2008/nlsc20081st.shtml.
Jul 20-23 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Hartford CT: '44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1874.
Jul 20-24 — Australian Institute of Geoscientists, Geological Society of Australia, Perth, Australia: 'Australian 2008 Earth Sciences Convention;' http://www.iceaustralia.com/aesc2008/.
Jul 20-26 — University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia: 'International Symposium on Topical Problems of Nonlinear Wave Physics;' http://www.nwp.sci-nnov.ru/.
Jul 21-22 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Hartford CT: 'Passport to the Future Teachers Workshop;' held in conjunction with '44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2073.
Jul 21-23 — National Space Society of Australia, Adelaide, Australia: '10th Australia Space Development Conference: Making Sustainable Decisions;' biennial event; http://www.nssa.com.au/ASDC10/.
Jul 21-25 — NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena CA: 'NASA 20th Annual Planetary Science Summer School: Session 1;' https://pscischool.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm.
Jul 23 — NASA Headquarters, Washington DC: 'NASA Headquarters Agency-wide Infrastructure Improvement Program Industry Day;' http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=4988, http://i3p-acq.ksc.nasa.gov/i3p/default.cfm.
Jul 23-25 — International Lunar Observatory Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada: 'ILOA Board of Directors Meeting;' http://www.iloa.org/.
Jul 25 — Moon: Last Quarter; 08:42.
Jul 26 — Space Age Publishing Company, International Lunar Observatory Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada: 'Galaxy Forum;' focus on Galaxy awareness, education, physics and astrophysics in the 21st Century; http://www.spaceagepub.com/.
Jul 27-Aug 2 — Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia: 'Dynamics of Solar System Bodies;' http://sibeclipse2008.nxt.ru/, http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html.
Jul 28 — Scaled Composites / Virgin Galactic, Mojave CA: White Knight 2 rollout expected, probably in Mojave; first look at carrier for SpaceShipTwo commercial suborbital spacecraft; http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2008/05/29/white-knight-2-rollout-on-july-28/.
Jul 28 — National Institute for Space Research Division of Astrophysics, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil: 'Brazilian Decimetric Array Workshop;' http://www.das.inpe.br/fmi/BDA/bdaworkshop.html.
Jul 28-30 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cleveland OH: '6th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1836.
Jul 28-Aug 1 — Meteoritical Society, Matsue, Japan: '71st Meeting of Meteoritical Society;' http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2008/.
Jul 28-Aug 1 — International Astronautical Union, Staffordshire, UK: 'IAU Symposium 256: The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies;' http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/iaus256/.
Jul 28-Aug 1 — Imperial College, London, UK: 'Symposium on Saturn after Cassini-Huygens;' http://www.saturnaftercassini.org/.
Jul 28-Aug 3 — Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc., Oshkosh WI: 'EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008;' http://www.airventure.org/.
Jul 29-Aug 1 — American Geophysical Union, Cairns, Australia: '2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting;' http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp08/.
Jul 30 — NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX: Media briefing introducing next International Space Station crew, Expedition 18, set to launch to ISS on Oct 12; Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri Lonchakov and Spaceflight Participant Richard Garriott; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_M08129_EXp_18_briefing.html.
Jul 31 — ILEWG, LEAG, SRR, FL: Abstract submission deadline for '10th ILEWG International Conference on Exploration and Utilization of Moon;' joint meeting of ILEWG, LEAG, SRR; http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=34125.
Jul 31 — Total Solar Eclipse: 23:23-01:20 (Aug 1); The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China where it will end at sunset; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2008/TSE2008.html.
Jul 31 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts close flyby of moon Titan (T45) to determine if Titan has internal ocean; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Aug 1-2 — Rocket Racing League, Oshkosh WI: 1st RRL Exhibition Race; during Oshkosh AirVenture 2008; http://www.rocketracingleague.com/media/press_releases/2008_4_14_oshkosh.html.
Aug 1 — Moon: New Moon; 00:13.
Aug 2 — NASA Centennial Challenges, CSEWI, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo CA: '2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge;' US$750,000 purse; http://regolith.csewi.org/.
Aug 3-6 — International Astronautical Union, Yunnan, China: '10th Asian-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting;' http://aprim.ynao.ac.cn/.
Aug 3-8 — International Radiation Commission, Iguassu Falls, Brazil: 'International Radiation Symposium (IRS2008);' http://irs2008.org.br/site/index.php.
Aug 4-8 — NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena CA: 'NASA 20th Annual Planetary Science Summer School: Session 2;' https://pscischool.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm.
Aug 4-14 — European Space Agency / ESRIN, Frascati, Italy: '4th ESA Earth Observation Summer School: Earth System Monitoring and Modelling;' http://envisat.esa.int/envschool/.
Aug 5 — Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD: 'Measuring the Cosmic Distance Scale' lecture with Asaf Pe'er of STScI; http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public-talks.shtml.
Aug 6-14 — International Polar Year, et al, Oslo, Norway: '33rd International Geological Congress;' http://classic.ipy.org/about/events/, http://www.33igc.org/coco/.
Aug 8 — Moon: First Quarter; 10:20.
Aug 11-14 — Utah State University / AIAA, Logan UT: '22nd Annual Conference on Small Satellites;' http://www.smallsat.org/.
Aug 11-16 — Missouri University of Science and Technology, Arlington VA: '6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering;' http://campus.mst.edu/6icchge/.
Aug 11 — Cassini Enceladus Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts flyby of moon Enceladus to obtain high resolution view of the active south pole region; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Aug 14-16 — Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab, Laurel MD: 'The Great Planet Debate: Science as Process; scientific conference and educator workshop; http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/.
Aug 15 — European Planetary Network, Institute for Planetology at Westfälische Wilhelms-University at Münste, Munster, Germany: Pre-registration deadline for 'European Planetary Science Congress 2008' on Sep 21-26; http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2008/.
Aug 15 — Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston TX: Seminar: Jonathan Lunine of Lunar and Planetary Lab at University of Arizona; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/#980.
Aug 16 — Partial Lunar Eclipse: 09:36-12:44; Visible primarily from the Eastern Hemisphere as well as eastern South America; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/OH2008.html#2008Aug16P.
Aug 16 — Moon: Full or Sturgeon Moon; Hoku I Mahoe-mua; 11:17.
Aug 17-Sep 7 — Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen CO: 'Characteristics and Habitability of Super Earths;' http://aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer08.html.
Aug 18-21 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Honolulu HI: 'AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit;' includes '26th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference,' 'AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference,' 'Modeling and Simulation Techniques Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1853.
Aug 18-22 — Lunar and Planetary Institute, Vredefort Dome, South Africa: 'Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution 4;' up to 150 participants to debate all aspects of impact cratering and its consequences on Earth and solar system; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lmi2008/home.shtml.
Aug 19 — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA: 'Semi-Annual Science Forum;' http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/images/events/JPL-smbizoutreach-forums.pdf.
Aug 22-23 — Apogee Books, Toronto, Canada: Apollo 11 Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin to appear at 'Fan Expo 2008;' http://www.hobbystar.com/fanexpo2008/.
Aug 23 — Moon: Last Quarter; 13:50.
Aug 24-29 — University of Florence, International Astrobiology Society, Florence, Italy: '15th International Conference on the Origin of Life;' http://www.dbag.unifi.it/issol2008/.
Aug 25-29 — Nicolaus Copernicus University / Torun Centre for Astronomy, Torun, Poland: 'Extrasolar Planets in Multi-Body Systems: Theory and Observations;' http://www.astri.uni.torun.pl/~workshop/.
Aug 29 — NASA Lunar Science Institute, Moffett Field CA: Deadline for lunar research proposals in response to NLSI cooperative agreement notice; http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/articles/proposal-opportunity-nasa-lunar-science-institute.
Aug 30 — Moon: New Moon; 09:58.
NET Sep (19?) — Launch PSLV / Chandrayaan-1, Sriharikota, India: First India Moon Mission to conduct two-year, three-dimensional mapping mission; will carry 25-kg impactor that will descend on Moon in hard landing mode; will be released from craft's final circular polar orbit at 100-kg altitude; effect of device's impact will be used to analyze chemical composition of Moon's dust; will take spacecraft 6 days to reach Moon; http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan-1/announcement.htm.
NET Sep — Launch Long March 2F / Shenzhou 7, Xichang, China: China to launch its third human space flight that will see its crew conduct country's first space walk; liftoff after Beijing Olympic Games; http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/09/content_4403079.htm.
Sep 2 — Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD: 'Comets, Asteroids, and Minor Planets' lecture with Max Mutchler of STScI; http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public-talks.shtml.
Sep 2-5 — International Telecommunications Union, Bangkok, Thailand: 'ITU Telecom Asia 2008;' http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/23.html.
Sep 5 — Space Age Publishing Company / ILOA, Santa Clara CA: 'Lunar Commercial Communications Workshop 3;' a forum to facilitate and advance pioneering ventures by public, corporate and enterprise sectors to create a lunar communications industry – enabling science, exploration and entrepreneurial utilization of the Moon while expanding the sphere of commercial communications by 1,000 times; http://www.spaceagepub.com/ilo/WorkshopIndex.html.
Sep 5 — Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston TX: Seminar: Roger Phillips of Southwest Research Institute; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/#980.
Sep 5 — ESA Rosetta Mission, Deep Space: Spacecraft conducts 1st flyby of Asteroid Steins; spacecraft en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=2279.
Sep 7-12 — University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK: '11th Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering;' http://www.els-xi-08.org/.
Sep 7 — Moon: First Quarter; 04:04.
Sep 8-11 — Euroconsult, World Satellite Business Week, Paris, France: 'World Space Business Week: 12th World Summit for Satellite Financing;' http://www.satellite-business.com/news.php?id=30.
Sep 8-12 — Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany: 'Cosmic Dust: Near and Far;' http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/DNF08/.
Sep 8-12 — ESO, INAF, Livorno, Italy: 'Elba 2008: Future Ground Based Solar System Research: Synergies with Space Probes and Space Telescopes;' http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~elba2008/.
Sep 8-12 — National Institute for Space Research, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil: '9th EATUS: Encounter with the Services to the Users of Satellite Images;' http://www.inpe.br/comunicacao_comunidade/calendario.php.
Sep 9-11 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, San Diego CA: 'AIAA SPACE 2008 Conference & Exposition;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Sep 10-12 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Victoria, BC, Canada: '12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1876.
Sep 10-14 — Rocket Racing League, Reno NV: RRL Exhibition Race; during Reno National Championship Air Races; http://www.rocketracingleague.com/media/press_releases/2008_4_14_oshkosh.html.
Sep 11-12 — OCR Services, Chicago IL: 'Focusing on the ITAR: Training in Defense Trade Regulatory Requirements and Practices;' http://asdevents.com/event.asp?ID=97.
Sep 13 — National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil: '8th Meeting of the Secretaries of INPE;' http://www.inpe.br/comunicacao_comunidade/calendario.php.
Sep 14-19 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Anchorage AK: '26th Congress of the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences,' including '8th AIAA Aircraft Technology, Integration and Operations Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Sep 14 — Moon: Full or Harvest Moon; Hoku I Mahoe-hope; 23:14.
Sep 15-17 — Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX: 'Workshop on the Early Solar System Impact Bombardment;' http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/bombardment2008/.
Sep 15-19 — International Astronautical Union, Ioannina, Greece: 'IAU Symposium 257: Universal Heliophysical Processes;' http://iau257.uoi.gr/.
Sep 17-20 — American Bar Association, Montreal, Canada: 'ABA Forum on Air and Space Law: Annual Conference;' http://www.abanet.org/forums/airspace/home.html.
Sep 18 — NASA, Boston MA: 'NASA Future Forum: Boston;' celebrating NASA's 50th anniversary; http://www.nasa.gov/50th/future_forums/sanJoseWithGallery.html.
Sep 18-21 — International Meteor Organization, Sachticka, Slovakia: '2008 International Meteor Conference;' http://www.imo.net/imc2008/.
Sep 21-26 — European Planetary Network, Institute for Planetology at Westfälische Wilhelms-University at Münste, Munster, Germany: 'European Planetary Science Congress 2008;' http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2008/.
Sep 21 — Moon: Last Quarter; 19:05.
Sep 22-25 — Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council, Jeju, Korea: 'APSCC 2008 Satellite Conference & Exhibition;' http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/html/events.html.
Sep 22-26 — European Space Agency / ESRIN, Frascati, Italy: '2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop;' remote sensing; http://earth.esa.int/meris_aatsr_2008/.
Sep 22-26 — Latin American Society of Specialists in Remote Perception and Systems of Space Information (SELPER), Havana, Cuba: '8th Symposium of SELPER;' http://www.selpercuba.unaicc.cu/.
Sep 22-27 — International Academy of Astronautics, Paris, France: '1st IAA SETI Symposium;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Sep 23 — NASA Constellation Program, White Sands NM: First of 5 planned abort tests for Orion CEV from new launch pad at US Army White Sands Missile Range; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/nov/HQ_M07158_ESMD_White_Sands_Groundbreaking.html.
Sep 24 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics / NASA, Chantilly VA: 'NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2001.
Sep 25-27 — Roosevelt Academy, Middleburg, Netherlands: 'Symposium: The Invention of the Dutch Telescope' and 'Its Origin and Impact on Science, Culture and Society, 1550-1650;' http://www.iau.org/OTHER_MEETINGS_OF_INTEREST.108.0.html.
Sep 28 — International Academy of Astronautics, Glasgow, UK: 'Academy Day;' precedes '59th IAC; http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Sep 28 — Moon: New Moon; 22:12.
Sep 29-Oct 3 — International Astronautical Federation, British Interplanetary Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: '59th International Astronautical Congress;' http://www.iafastro.com/.
Sep 29-Oct 3 — European Space Agency / ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands: 'Symposium: 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes – A Review of History, Science, and Technology;' http://www.iau.org/OTHER_MEETINGS_OF_INTEREST.108.0.html.
Sep 30 — International Lunar Exploration Working Group, Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, Space Resources Roundtable, FL: Deadline for early registration for '2008 International Lunar Conference;' joint Meeting of ILEWG, LEAG, SRR; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/leagilewg2008/leagilewg20081st.shtml.
Sep 30 — NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: Deadline to submit concepts for American Student Moon Orbiter; RFI released by NASA on Jul 1; http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/.
Oct 1 — NASA, Washington DC: 50th anniversary of founding of USA space agency; NASA was created by the National Aeronautics and Space Act and began operations on Oct. 1, 1958;
Oct 1-2 — European Space Agency, Brussels, Belgium: 'Dual-use European Security IR Element (DESIRE) Workshop;' use of Thermal Infra-Red (TIR) space-borne assets for Defence and Security; http://earth.esa.int/DESIRE/.
Oct 1-3 — National Space Organization NSPO, Taipei, Taiwan: '4th Asian Space Conference;' http://www2.nspo.org.tw/ASC2008/index.html.
Oct 1-10 — Space Education Institute, Moscow, Russia: 'Spacepass Mission 5: Huntsville Goes Moscow;' Huntsville AL students visit Star City in Moscow, Mars 500 Project; http://www.spacepass.de/.
Oct 4 — 51st Sputnik Observation, Worldwide: World's 1st artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957; orbited Earth in about 98 minutes.
Oct 5-9 — Geological Society of America, et al, Houston TX: '2008 Joint Annual Meeting: Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth;' GSA, SSSA, ASA, CSSA, GCAGS; https://www.acsmeetings.org/2008/.
Oct 5-10 — International Association of Geomagnetism ad Aeronomy, Cairo, Egypt: 'IAGA International Symposium: Space Weather and its Effects on Spacecraft;' http://iaga.cu.edu.eg/.
Oct 6-10 — Institute for Millimeter Radio Astronomy, Grenoble, France: 'Sixth IRAM Millimeter Interferometry School;' http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/IS/school.htm.
Oct 6 — MESSENGER Encounter, Mercury Trajectory: Spacecraft conducts second of three Mercury flybys today; 200 km altitude; http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/MESSENGERTimeline/TimeLine_content.html.
Oct 6 — Moon: First Quarter; 23:05.
Oct 8 — Launch Atlantis STS-125 / HST SM4, Cape Canaveral FL: 5th U.S. mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope; 1st visit to HST for Atlantis, switched from Shuttle Discovery; http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22996, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/index.html.
Oct 9 — NASA, Chicago IL: 'NASA Future Forum: Chicago;' celebrating NASA's 50th anniversary; http://www.nasa.gov/50th/future_forums/sanJoseWithGallery.html.
Oct 9 — Cassini Enceladus Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts flyby of moon Enceladus to pass through the plumes for fields-and-particles measurements near closest approach; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Oct 10 — Space Age Publishing Company, Stanford on the Moon, Stanford CA: '2008 Stanford on the Moon Conference;' http://www.spaceagepub.com/SOM/index.htm.
Oct 11-15 — American Astronomical Society, Ithaca NY: '40th Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS2008);' http://www.aas.org/dps/meetings.html.
Oct 12 — Launch Soyuz / Expedition 18, Baikonur, Kazakhstan: Next International Space Station crew, Expedition 18, set to launch to ISS; Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri Lonchakov and Spaceflight Participant Richard Garriott; Garriott will return to Earth with E17 crew on Oct 23; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_M08129_EXp_18_briefing.html.
Oct 13-17 — International Astronautical Union, Baltimore MD: 'IAU Symposium 258: The Ages of Stars;' http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/iau258.
Oct 14 — Moon: Full or Hunter's Moon; Hoku I Ikuwa; 10:03.
Oct 15 — Space Investment Summit, Los Angeles CA: '5th Space Investment Summit;' http://www.spaceinvestmentsummit.com/index.html.
Oct 16 — NASA Advisory Council, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: NASA Advisory Council meeting; http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oer/nac/dates.htm.
Oct 16-17 — OCR Services, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 'Focusing on the ITAR: Training in Defense Trade Regulatory Requirements and Practices;' http://asdevents.com/event.asp?ID=97.
Oct 18 — Space Age Publishing Company, International Lunar Observatory Association, Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China: 'Galaxy Forum – China;' focus on Galaxy awareness, education, physics and astrophysics in the 21st Century; contact Space Age / ILOA at 650-324-3705; http://www.spaceagepub.com/.
Oct 20-24 — Smithsonian Institution, Moab UT: '2nd Workshop on Mars Valley Networks;' http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/.
Oct 21 — Moon: Last Quarter; 01:56.
Oct 22-23 — X Prize Foundation, Arianespace, Las Cruces NM: 4th Annual 'International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight: Positioning for Profit;' http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/isps/.
Oct 22-24 — German Society for Aerospace (DGLR), Hamburg, Germany: 'International Meeting for Aviation Product Support Processes (IMAPP 08);' http://www.imapp2008.org/.
Oct 24-25 — NASA Centennial Challenges, X Prize Foundation, Alamogordo NM: '2008 Lunar Lander Challenge;' http://www.xprize.org/llc/press-release/x-prize-foundation-announces-2008-lunar-lander-challenge.
Oct 26-27 — Young Lunar Explorers, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL: 'Young Lunar Explorers and Outreach event;' precedes 2008 ILC / ILEWG-ICEUM-LEAG-SRR;' http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/leagilewg2008/leagilewg20081st.shtml.
Oct 26-31 — NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL: '2008 Huntsville Workshop: The Physical Processes for Energy and Plasma Transport Across Magnetic Boundaries;' http://hsvworkshop.msfc.nasa.gov/.
Oct 28-31 — International Lunar Exploration Working Group, Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, Space Resources Roundtable, FL: '2008 International Lunar Conference;' joint meeting of ILEWG, LEAG, SRR; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/leagilewg2008/leagilewg20081st.shtml.
Oct 28 — Moon: New Moon; 13:14.
Oct 29-30 — Science and Technology Education Partnership, Riverside CA: 'STEP 9 Conference;' http://www.myscienceeducation.com/, http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/html/events.html.
Oct 29-Nov 1 — International Academy of Astronautics, Shanghai, China: '3rd IAA International Symposium on Impact of Space Technology Innovation on Economic Development;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Oct 30 — NASA Headquarters / Ames Research Center, Washington DC: HQ decides whether or not to release Announcement of Opportunity for American Student Moon Orbiter; RFI released by NASA on Jul 1; http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/.
Oct 31 — Cassini Enceladus Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts flyby of moon Enceladus (200 km) to obtain images as well as compositional and thermal information on the north and south pole regions; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Nov 3-7 — ESA, JAXA, et al, Rhodes, Greece: '2008 Joint PI Symposium of the ALOS Data Nodes;' http://earth.esa.int/ALOS2008/.
Nov 3-7 — International Astronomical Union, Tenerife, Spain: 'IAU Symposium 259: Cosmic Magnetic Fields from Planets, to Stars and Galaxies;' http://www.aip.de/IAUS259/.
Nov 3 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts flyby of moon Titan (T46) to probe Titan's atmosphere in the north mid latitude; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Nov 5 — Moon: First Quarter; 18:03.
Nov 6-7 — OCR Services, Las Vegas NV: 'Focusing on the ITAR: Training in Defense Trade Regulatory Requirements and Practices;' http://asdevents.com/event.asp?ID=97.
Nov 8-9 — Rocket Racing League, Las Vegas NV: RRL Exhibition Race; during Aviation Nation at Nellis AFB; http://www.rocketracingleague.com/media/press_releases/2008_4_14_oshkosh.html.
Nov 9- 14 — Japan-US Science, Technology & Space Applications Program / Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems, Waikoloa HI: 'JUSTSAP-PISCES 2008 Conference;' http://justsap.org/category/2008-symposium.
Nov 10 — Launch Endeavour STS-126 / ULF 2, Cape Canaveral FL: 27th U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver Multi-Purpose Logistics Module; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Nov 10-13 — NASA Langley Research Center, Williamsburg VA: '3rd International Workshop on Mars Atmospheres – Modeling and Data;' http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/Mars_Calendar_Current.html.
Nov 10-14 — European Space Agency / ESRIN, Frascati, Italy: 'ESLAB `08: Cosmic Cataclysms and Life;' http://www.congrex.nl/08C16/.
Nov 12 — Moon: Full or Beaver Moon; Hoku I Welehua; 20:18.
Nov 14 — NASA Constellation Program, White Sands NM: NASA will break ground for a new test launch pad at US Army White Sands Missile Range for a series of tests of a launch abort system that will help ensure the safety of astronauts aboard the new Orion spacecraft; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/nov/HQ_M07158_ESMD_White_Sands_Groundbreaking.html.
Nov 14-16 — Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), College Station TX: '2008 SEDS National Conference: SpaceVision 2008 – Advancing Humanity;' at Texas A&M University; http://spacevision.seds.org/index.php.
Nov 17-18 — NASA Headquarters, Washington DC: '1st Annual NASA Small Business Symposium & Awards Ceremony;' http://acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/boo/default.htm.
Nov 17-19 — American Astronautical Society, Pasadena CA: 'AAS National Conference and 55th Annual Meeting;' http://www.astronautical.org/.
Nov 18-20 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Monterey CA: 'AIAA Missile Sciences Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Nov 19 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts flyby of moon Titan (T47) to observe the Huygens probe landing site, and to study Titan's atmospheric structure and composition; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Nov 19 — Moon: Last Quarter; 11:32.
Nov 24 — Launch Atlas-Centaur / NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LPRP-1) / LCROSS, Cape Canaveral FL: Lunar Precursor Robotic Program first mission (LPRP-1) will circle the Moon for at least one year and return detailed maps of the lunar surface; carries Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite as secondary payload, which will search for water ice at one of the lunar poles; time TBD.
Nov 24-28 — National Institute for Space Research Division of Generation of Images, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil: '5th Seminar of Remote Sensing, Interpretation and Processing of Satellite Images;' http://www.dgi.inpe.br/ndc/index.html.
Nov 27 — Moon: New Moon; 05:55.
Nov 28 — NASA Headquarters, Washington DC: USA space agency expected to announce selection of one or more ISS commercial resupply contractors via COTS Program;
Dec 1 — Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: Ames scheduled to release Announcement of Opportunity for American Student Moon Orbiter; http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/.
Dec 5 — Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston TX: Seminar: Renu Malhotra of Department of Planetary Sciences at University of Arizona; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/#980.
Dec 5 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts close flyby of moon Titan (T48) to sample Titan's ionosphere on the dayside; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Dec 5 — Moon: First Quarter; 11:25.
Dec 12 — Moon: Full or Cold Moon; Hoku I Makalii; 06:38.
Dec 15-19 — American Geophysical Union, Can Francisco CA: 'AGU Fall Meeting;' http://www.agu.org/meetings/.
Dec 19 — Moon: Last Quarter; 00:30.
Dec 21 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts close flyby of moon Titan (T49) to carry out altimetry observations over the area known as Ontario Lacus, in Titan's Southern hemisphere; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/index.cfm.
Dec 27 — Moon: New Moon; 02:22.
Late 2008 — NASA and Spaceward Foundation, TBA: '2008 Telerobotic Construction Challenge;' NASA Centennial Challenge offers US$250,000 prize purse to private industry; http://exploration.nasa.gov/centennialchallenge/cc_index.html.
2009
NET Jan — Launch STS-128 / 17A, Cape Canaveral FL: 30th U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver Multi-purpose Logistics Module, LMC, TVIS2, CHeCS 2; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Jan 5-8 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Orlando FL: '47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting: The New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Jan 6-7 — American Astronomical Society Historical Astronomy Division, Long Beach CA: Meeting of AAS Historical Astronomy Division; http://www.aas.org/had/meetings/2007-11.html.
Jan 7-10 — American Astronomical Society, Long Beach CA: ‘213th Meeting of the AAS;' http://www.aas.org.
Jan 27 — 42nd Apollo 1 Observation, Nationwide USA: Spacecraft fire took place 27 January 1967 killing Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee; Apollo Command Module crew were conducting a preflight test for the Earth-orbiting mission at Cape Canaveral FL.
Jan 28 — 23rd Challenger 51-L Observation, Nationwide USA: Shuttle accident took place 28 January 1986 killing seven crew members including Commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, its pilot, Michael J. Smith, and its crew, Christa McAuliffe (the first 'Teacher in Space'), Mission Specialists Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnick and Ronald E. McNair, along with Payload Specialist Gregory B. Jarvis.
Jan 30 — Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: Submissions due for American Student Moon Orbiter; Announcement of Opportunity released on Dec 1; http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/.
Jan 30-Feb 4 — American Astronautical Society / Rocky Mountain Section, Breckenridge CO: '32nd Annual Guidance and Control Conference;' http://www.aas-rocky-mountain-section.org/conf_info.htm.
Feb 1 — Sixth Columbia STS-107 Observation, Nationwide USA: Shuttle explosion took place 1 February 2003 on its return to Earth killing David M. Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon.
Feb 10-12 — AIAA, US Air Force, Los Angeles CA: 'US Air Force T & E Days;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2104.
Mar — NASA Dawn Mission, Asteroid Belt Trajectory: Spacecraft conducts Mars gravity assist en route to study Ceres, Vesta asteroids; launch in Sep 2007; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/mission/index.html.
Mar 1 — Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: Student teams to be selected for American Student Moon Orbiter; http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/.
Mar 23-26 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington DC: '7th US Missile Defense Conference and Exhibit;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1961.
NET Apr — Launch STS-129 / ULF3, Cape Canaveral FL: 31st U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 and 2; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Apr 15 — Launch Ares 1-1, Kennedy Space Center FL: First test of Ares 1 CLV to take place; suborbital test flight with dummy upper stage; http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/NEWS02/804130338.
Apr 6-9 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Seattle WA: 'AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference and Exhibit;' 'AIAA Unmanned...Unlimited Conference and Exhibit;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2070.

Apr 12 — Yuri's Night and Space Generation, Worldwide: 'Yuri's Night 09;' world space party celebrates 1st piloted flight to space, 1st human in space (1961) and 1st NASA Space Shuttle launch (1981); http://www.yurisnight.net/.
Apr 15-17 — International Academy of Astronautics, Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine: '2nd IAA Conference;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
May 4-7 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Palm Springs CA: '50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference 17th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference 11th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference 10th AIAA Gossamer Spacecraft Forum 5th AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialists Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2047.
May 6 — National Space Society / Space Florida, Orlando FL: 'Space Venture Finance Symposium;' precedes '28th ISDC;' http://nssflorida.org/isdc-2009/.
May 6-10 — National Space Society / Space Florida, Orlando FL: '28th International Space Development Conference;' http://nssflorida.org/isdc-2009/.
May 11-13 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Miami FL: '15th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference (30th AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference);' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2131&viewcon=submit.
Jun 1 — NASA and Florida Space Research Institute, TBD, probably Cape Canaveral FL: Expiration date for 'MoonROx Challenge (Lunar Regolith Oxygen Extraction);' NASA Centennial Challenge offers US$250,000 winner-take-all cash prize goes to the first private team to mine 2.5 kilograms of oxygen from 100 kilograms of lunar regolith simulant over no more than a four-hour time period, operating within the rules; http://www.fsri.org/space_research_Moon_ROx.htm#.
Jun 7-11 — American Astronomical Society, Pasadena CA: ‘214th Meeting of the AAS;' joint meeting with High Energy Astrophysics Division and Historical Astronomy Division; http://www.aas.org.
Jun 15-Aug 21 — International Space University / NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: ‘22nd ISU Summer Session Program;' http://www.isunet.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=127&Itemid=365.
Jun 22-25 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Antonio TX: ‘19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics / 1st AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments / 27th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics / 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference / 40th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference / 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Jun 22-Aug 28 — International Space University / NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: '21st ISU Summer Session Program;' http://www.isunet.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=127&Itemid=365.
NET Jul — Launch Artemis Lander / Red Rover, ?: Google Lunar X Prize competitor Astrobotic Technology, Inc. intends to land in the Sea of Tranquility on Moon in time to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission; http://www.astrobotictech.com/index.html.
NET Jul — Launch STS-130 / 19A, Cape Canaveral FL: 32nd U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver Multi-purpose Logistics Module, LMC; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Jul 7-12 — Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group, Melbourne, Australia: '7th International Conference on Geomorphology;' http://www.geomorphology2009.com/.
Jul 13-18 — Meteoritical Society, Nancy, France: '72nd Annual Meetings of the Meteoritical Society;' http://www.crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr/NEWS/MetSoc/.
Jul 20 — 40th Apollo 11 Observation, Nationwide USA / Global: 1st Human mission to land on Moon in 1969; 1st steps by humans on another planetary body taken by Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin.
Jul 20-22 —American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Williamsburg VA: '7th Annual International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Jul 21 — Total Solar Eclipse: 14:51-18:19; The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in India and extends through China, Southern Japan, and the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html.
Jul 27-31 — University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany: 'Magnetospheres of Outer Planets Conference;' http://mop2009.uni-koeln.de/.
Jul 27-Aug 2 — Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc., Oshkosh WI: 'EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009;' http://www.airventure.org/.
Aug 2-5 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Denver CO: '45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=1980.
Aug 3-14 — International Astronomical Union, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27th IAU General Assembly; http://www.iau.org/IAU/News/deadlines.html.
Aug 10-13 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Chicago IL: 'AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics / AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control / AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Sep 15-17 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Pasadena CA: 'AIAA Space 2009 Conference and Expo;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Sep 29 — MESSENGER Encounter, Mercury Trajectory: Spacecraft conducts third Mercury flyby today; 200 km altitude; puts spacecraft in position to enter Mercury orbit in March 2011; http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/MESSENGERTimeline/TimeLine_content.html.
NET Oct — Launch STS-131 / ULF4, Cape Canaveral FL: 33rd U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 3 and 4; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Oct — Launch Soyuz 2 / Phobos-Grunt, ?: Russia mission to collect samples from one of Mars' moons; craft will carry up to 150 kg of international equipment; time TBD.
Oct 4 — 52nd Sputnik Observation, Worldwide: World's 1st artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957; orbited Earth in about 98 minutes.
Oct 4-10 — American Astronomical Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico: '41st Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting (DPS2009);' http://www.aas.org/dps/meetings.html.
Oct 5-9 — International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland: 'ITU Telecom World 2009;' http://www.itu.int/WORLD2009/.
Oct 11 — International Academy of Astronautics, Daejeon, South Korea: 'IAA Academy Day;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Oct 12-16 — International Astronautical Federation, Daejeon, South Korea: '60th International Astronautical Congress;' date TBA; http://www.iafastro.com/.
Oct 15-16 — SATCON, Intelsat, Hughes, New York NY: 'SATCON 2008: Satellite Content and Delivery Conference and Expo;' http://www.satconexpo.com/.
Oct 18-21 — Geological Society of America, Portland OR: '2009 GSA Annual Meeting;' http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009/index.htm.
Oct 21-23 — International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, Rome, Italy: '3rd IAASS Conference: Building a Safe Space Together;' http://www.congrex.nl/08a11/.
Oct 27-30 — United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, Nashville TN: 'GEOINT 2008;' http://www.geoint2008.com/.
Nov 13 — ESA Rosetta Mission, Deep Space: Spacecraft conducts 3rd Earth gravity assist en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=2279.
Dec 31 — Partial Lunar Eclipse: 08:51-09:53; Visible primarily from Europe and Africa to Asia and Australia; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2009Dec31P.GIF.
2010
2010 — Launch Long March 5 / Chang’e-2, ?, China: 2nd China robotic Moon Mission expected to launch; 2nd orbiter follow-on to Chang'e-1 launched in late 2007.
2010 — Space Technology & Applications International Forum, Albuquerque NM: 'STAIF 2010;' major international technical forum hosts six concurrent conferences organized by the University of New Mexico's Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies; http://www.unm.edu/~isnps/staif/main.html.
NET Jan — Launch STS-132 / 20A, Cape Canaveral FL: 34th U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver Node 3 with Cupola; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Jan 3-7 — American Astronomical Society, Washington DC: ‘215th Meeting of the AAS;' http://www.aas.org.
Jan 4-7 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Orlando FL: ‘48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Jan 10 — America's Space Prize, Las Vegas NV: US$50M award goes to first person to build spacecraft capable of taking at least five people to altitude of 400 km, complete two Earth orbits, and then do it again within 60 days; no more than 20 percent of hardware can be expendable; also, must be able to dock with Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable space habitat and stay docked in orbit for up to six months; http://www.bigelowaerospace.com.
Jan 27 — 43rd Apollo 1 Observation, Nationwide USA: Spacecraft fire took place 27 January 1967 killing Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee; Apollo Command Module crew were conducting a preflight test for the Earth-orbiting mission at Cape Canaveral
Jan 28 — 24th Challenger 51-L Observation, Nationwide USA: Shuttle accident took place 28 January 1986 killing seven crew members including Commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, its pilot, Michael J. Smith, and its crew, Christa McAuliffe (the first 'Teacher in Space'), Mission Specialists Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnick and Ronald E. McNair, along with Payload Specialist Gregory B. Jarvis.
Feb 1 — Seventh Columbia STS-107 Observation, Nationwide USA: Shuttle explosion took place 1 February 2003 on its return to Earth killing David M. Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon.
 Apr 12 — Yuri's Night and Space Generation, Worldwide: 'Yuri's Night 2010;' world space party celebrates 1st piloted flight to space, 1st human in space (1961) and 1st NASA Space Shuttle launch (1981); http://www.yurisnight.net/.
Apr 25-30 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Huntsville AL: 'Space Ops 2008 Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Jun — Hayabusa, Earth Return: Japan probe using ion engine returns to Earth, hopefully with samples from Asteroid Itokawa; http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/hayabusa/scenario.shtml.
Jun 6-10 — American Astronomical Society, Miami FL: ‘216th Meeting of the AAS;' http://www.aas.org.
Jun 26 — Partial Lunar Eclipse: 00:16-03:00; Visible in Asia, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, and the Western portion of the Americas; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2010Jun26P.GIF.
NET Jul — Launch STS-133 / ULF5, Cape Canaveral FL: 35th U.S. mission to the International Space Station; the flight will deliver EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 5; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html.
Jul 10 — ESA Rosetta Mission, Deep Space: Spacecraft conducts 2nd asteroid flyby (Asteroid Lutetia) en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=2279.
Jul 11 — Total Solar Eclipse: 08:15-10:51; Eclipse is visible in the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Easter Island, and in Southern Chile and Argentina; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2010/TSE2010.html.
Jul 18-25 — Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Bremen, Germany: '38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly;' http://cosparhq.cnes.fr/.
Jul 19-25 — Farnborough International Airshow 2010, Farnborough, United Kingdom: '46th Farnborough International Airshow;' International Space Pavilion offers 1,100 square meters of exhibit space dedicated to the products, projects, and professionals in the space industry; http://www.farnborough.com.
Jul 20 — 41st Apollo 11 Observation, Nationwide USA / Global: 1st Human mission to land on Moon in 1969; 1st steps by humans on another planetary body taken by Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin.
Jul 26-Aug 1 — Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc., Oshkosh WI: 'EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010;' http://www.airventure.org/.
Aug 2-5 — American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 'AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist / AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics / AIAA Atmospheric Space Environments / AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control / AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Oct 4 — 53rd Sputnik Observation, Worldwide: World's 1st artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957; orbited Earth in about 98 minutes.
Oct 11 — Deep Impact / Epoxi, Deep Space: Deep Impact spacecraft to flyby additional target, Comet Hartley-2; spacecraft involved in Epoxi mission (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization and the Deep Impact Extended Investigation) since successful primary mission impact of Comet Temple-1 in Jul 2005; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/dec/HQ_07279_EPOXI_mission_to_comet_Hartley.html.