IAA Academy Day in Mysore, India:  this Academy Day will take place on 14th July 2012 on the occasion of the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Program and registration to be released shortly.

IAA Regional Meeting in Kiev, Ukraine: it is the first Summit Follow-on Event that will take place in Kiev on 30 May 2012 with the participation of the head of the Space Agency of Ukraine and other space agencies have also been invited.

New Study Release:  The study on "The First International Assessment of Space Solar Power: Opportunities, Issues And Potential Pathways Forward" was handed out by the International Academy of Astronautics to delegations of the forty-ninth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on February 9th, 2012.  The UN delegations also received the IAA 50th anniversary book entitled: "Celebrating 50 years of Excellence".

Heads of Space Agencies Summit Follow-On : during the Summer 2011, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) sent a questionnaire to all the Academicians asking for their top three priorities of the Summit Declaration recommendations. The input has been integrated in the Fall 2011 and presented to the Board of Trustees which endorsed the top IAA Summit priorities .

  The Summit Follow-On Announcement was presented during the IAA plenary event at the International Astronautical Congress on October 6th 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa (see the video at http://iaaweb.org/content/view/465/626/ ).