Engineering, science and technology are the obvious focus of the Congress. Equally important, though, are the people. As well as allowing us to find out about the latest developments in astronautics, the IAC is a prime opportunity to engage with and talk to all the different people who make things happen in the space world and to generate new ideas. So, here are a few pictures of some of those people.
Last night after the presentation by Daejeon (the Korean city where IAC2009 will take place) a group of 25 or so decided to go out for a meal. In the group were Loretta Whitesides (founder of Yuri's Night), George Whitesides (Executive Director of the US National Space Society), Julia Tizard (Operations Director for Virgin Galactic), Bill Pomerantz (Director of Space Projects for The X Prize Foundation), Denis Stone (President of World Space Week), as well as Alison, Victoria, myself and a whole bunch of UK space people that I've known since they were undergraduates.
Left to right we see Colin Hicks (former Director-General of the British National Space Centre), Anne Brumfitt (space educator from Australia), Professor Richard Brook(Co-chair of the the committtee who organised the whole congress), Professor Lachlan Thompson (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and Sergei the Space Bear (who has flown into space in a rocket launched from Woomera).
Here are Anne Brumfitt (again!) and Professor Roger Malina. Roger is the son of Frank Malina the first Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has a medal for space education named after him. Anne is the winner this year. Incidentally, Roger says he is the first person to fly marijuana into space!
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