26 September 2010: Deadline to register to the Academy Day in Prague is 6 September 2010. Presence confirmed of Heads of Space Agencies include Yannick d'Escatha, CNES, Keiji Tachikawa, JAXA, Marius-Ioan Piso, ROSA, K. Radhakrishnan, ISRO, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, DLR, Yurii Aleksieiev, NSAU.

3 September 2010:  Minister Chen Qiufa, Administrator CNSA, confirmed to Dr. JM Contant during a visit in Beijing that an official important delegation of China will participate in the Heads of Space Agencies Summit.

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 in the Summit to be held on November 17 in Washington DC, USA.

2 September 2010: The new IAA Study Center is now operational with a new team who will be present at the Washington DC Summit, thanks to CASC and its President IAA Academician Ma Xingrui 

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, Max Grimard, EADS Astrium, France, were among the 140 participants. Keiji Tachikawa, President of JAXA officially welcomed the intiative of the Academy to address the climate change at the upcoming Heads of Space Agencies Summit. The Academy appreciated the contributions of Dr. Kibe, Chair of the Program Committee  for his very successful conference that concluded with a traditional Japanese dinner.

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.