Academy Day International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)
Joint with the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum
Pala Congressi, Mostra d’Oltremare, Naples, Italy
Sunday September 30th 2012
08h00 Commission 2 and 6 parallel meetings 08h30 Commission 1, 3, 4 and 5 parallel meetings
IAA Plenary Session: IAA Studies (Auditorium EUROPA) Chair: Claudio Maccone, IAA Director
10h00 Welcome Address by Prof Anatoly Perminov, Vice President, International Academy of Astronautics 10h05 SG4.11- Coordination and Cooperation for Global Environmental Impact by Gu Xingfa, China 10h40 SG4.9- Intl Aerospace System for Monitoring of Global Geophysical Phenomena (IGMASS) by S. Lysyy, Russia 11h20 SG1.5- Particle Radiation Hazards en route to and at Mars, by Susan McKenna-Lawlor, Ireland
12h00 IAA Luncheon (Mostra d’Oltremare, walking distance, in advance registration required)
IAA Plenary Session (Auditorium EUROPA) Chair: Antonio Viviani, IAA Regional Secretary
14h00 Welcome Addresses by Madhavan Nair, President, International Academy of Astronautics, and H. Ex. The Most Rev. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 14h15 50th anniversary of the Kosmos-1 spacecraft designed and launched by Yuzhnoye, by Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine 14h45 Laurels for Team Achievements Introduction by Yannick d’Escatha, France, Vice-President IAA 14h50 Laurels for Team Achievement: the Messenger Mission, the first to orbit Mercury, as a breakthrough in scientific solar system exploration, by Ralph McNutt, USA 15h30 IAA Summit Follow-on Activities Overview 16h00 Round Table on Head of Space Agencies Summit Follow-on, Moderator Jean Michel Contant Yannick d’Escatha, President CNES, Enrico Saggese, President ASI, José Raimundo Braga Coelho, President AEB, Madhavan Nair, former Chairman ISRO, Keiji Tachikawa, President JAXA, Francisco Javier Mendieta Jiménez, General Director AEM, Yuriy Alekseyev, Director General NKAU 17h00 Adjourn Plenary Session
19h30 Reception and Inductions of Newly Elected IAA members, Presented by Rainer Sandau, IAA Director, Annual Awards Gala Dinner,

 (*) Venue: Pala Congressi, Mostra d’Oltremare, Naples,
 (**) Venue: Excelsior Hotel, located front sea harbor in front of the Castel Dell’ Ovo, 10mn by car from Mostra d’Oltremare
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