History

The history section of the IAA website is including:

- historical texts (redactional, survey, etc.) describing evolutions during specific periods,

- original data about past events that are useful for historians Usually data are photographs, scanned original documents or electronic documents related to immediate past activities and stored for historical purpose without any alteration. 


The Study entitled "Dealing with the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets" will be officially unveiled during the official dinner of the Academy in Goa, India, on the occasion of the Low Cost Planetary Missions Symposium on 1st September 2009. The book was printed courtesy of the Indian Space Agency (ISRO). The study chaired by Ivan Bekey was composed of: Jonathan Campbell, USA, Clarke Chapman, USA, Eric Choi, CANADA, Mark Cintala, USA, Lee Clarke, USA, Bill Cooke, USA, Liara Covert, CANADA. Richard Crowther, UK, Dan Durda, USA, George Friedman, USA, Albert Harrison, USA, Syozu Isobe, Japan, Gregg Maryniak, USA, Dan Mazanek, USA, Allessandro Morbidelli, FRANCE, Volodymir Prisniakov, UKRAINE, Evan Seamone, USA, A. Taylor, USA, Richard Tremayne-Smith, UK, Ron Turner, USA, Harvey Wichman, USA, Makoto Yoshikawa, JAPAN, Anatoly Zaitsev, RUSSIA.

As proposed by Prof. Matsuo and Prof. Ninomiya, a Japan Regional Meeting  of IAA at the occasion of ISTS conference in Tsukuba was held during the week of July 6, together with IAA Astronautical Lecture on the same day.

The University Nebraska Lincoln, College of Law Space and Telecom, hosted a two-day conference 23-24 April 2009, on Near Earth Objects: Risks, Responses and Opportunities - Legal Aspects, under leadership of Academician Frans von der Dunk, (Social Sciences). Astronauts Rusty Schweickart, Chairman of the Board of the B 612 Foundation and Dr. Thomas D. Jones presented an ASE NEO Report recently published. Dr. Jean-Michel Contant presented the new IAA Study entitled “Dealing with the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets” that received great attention from the audience.

An IAA ambitious study on a major project for establishing an International Aerospace System is undertaken with Prof. Menshikhov as Project Leader and a symposium on "Space & Global Safety of Humanity" was held on November 1-4, 2009 in Cyprus. We are very pleased to have partners in the symposium especially the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics and the International Association "Znanie". The Academy is willing to engage the United Nations in the project that fit particularly their goals and plans.

130 members and their guests were presents at the dinner on 16 March. Dr. Jean-Pierre Marec received the Engineering science award and the following members and corresponding members were introduced: Masato Nakamura CM1 Japan, Mrs. Rumi Nakamura CM1 Japan, Nicolas Thomas CM1 UK,  Andre Vargas CM1 France, Richard Brook CM2 UK, Olexander Novykov CM2 Ukraine, Michel Tognini CM2 France, Anatoly Karpov CM4 Russia, Efim Malitikov CM4 Russia,  Michel Blanc M1 France, Genevieve Debouzy M1 France, Christos Zerefos M1 Greece, Paolo Teofilatto M2 Italy, Sergei teselkin M4 Russia.

Eutelsat and CNES Space Agency France are joining the IAA Supporting Donor program together with JAXA the Space Agency of Japan, the Polet JSC Company, Russia, IHI Corporation, Japan. The Supporting Donor is a special class of membership to recognize individuals or organizations who are recognized as having contributed to the Academy through donations, gifts and bequests. The Academy is grateful for the support to its activities. As to now, the 2008-2009 Supporting Donors list is as follows: Lockheed Martin corp., EADS Astrium Space Transportation, ESA, CALT-China, JAXA Japan, ISRO, Arianespace, EADS Astrium Satellites, SAFRAN, Polet JSC Air company, Aerospace Corp., Yuzhnoye, CAST, China, Dassault, France, DLR, IHI corp. Japan.

 

 

1960 - 1980

Introduction

The Role of History in the Academy

Conception, Birth and Childhood of the International Academy of Astronautics

Building the Organisation: Structure, Programmes and Activities

Evolution of the Statutes and Membership of the International Academy of Astronautics

Data of the 1960-1980 period (under construction)

Oct 67-Oct 69 Stark Draper President

Oct 69-Oct 71 Stark Draper President

Oct 71-Oct 73 Stark Draper President

Oct 73-Oct 75 Stark Draper President

Oct 75-Oct 77 Stark Draper President

Oct 77-Oct 79 Stark Draper President

Oct 79-Oct 81 Stark Draper President

 

 

1980 - 2000 (under construction)

Oct 81-Oct 82 Stark Draper President

Oct 82-Oct 83 George E. Mueller President

Oct 83-Oct 85 George E. Mueller President

Oct 85-Oct 87 George E. Mueller President

Oct 87-Oct 89 George E. Mueller President

Oct 89-Oct 91 George E. Mueller President

Oct 91-Oct 93 George E. Mueller President

Oct 93-Oct 95 George E. Mueller President

Oct 95-Oct 97 George E. Mueller President

Oct 97-Oct 99 Michael Yarymovych President

After 2000 (under construction)

Oct 99-Oct 01 Michael Yarymovych President

Oct 01-Oct 03 Michael Yarymovych President

Oct 03-Oct 05 Edward E. Stone President

Oct 05-Oct 07 Edward E. Stone President

Oct 07-Oct 09 Edward E. Stone President