30-31 August 2010:  50th Anniversary Memorial Symposium What can we do for our mother Earth, Nagoya, Japan. Hiroki Matsuo, IAA Vice-President, Keiji Tachikawa, President of JAXA, Yasumshi Horikawa, JAXA, Jean-Michel Contant, John Mankins, USA, Berrien Moore, USA, Ray Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Gen Inoue, Roy Gibson,  Tomukum Chia, Cameroon, Max Grimard, EADS Astrium, France,  Akimasa Sumi, University of Tokyo will be present.

29 July 2010:  President Madhavan Nair and Vice-President Yannick dEscatha announced in Paris that 20 Heads of Space Agencies have officially confirmed their participation to the Summit to be held on November 17 in Washington DC, USA.

18-21 October 2010  The First IAA Regional Conference in Middle East, to be held in Damascus, Syria from 18 to 20 October 2010 is postponed to the first half of 2011

19 July 2010:  Lev Zelenyi, Director IKI, Moscow, received the Basic Sciences Award of the Academy from Dr. Madhavan Nair and S. Krimigis, during the opening ceremony of the COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Bremen, Germany.