Already now there is a significant international indication of interest and this mission promises to produce a significant scientific, engineering and operational output.

The deadline for proposals is 15. June 2012.

Space tourism is now big business. Tens of millions of dollars have been paid by customers, queuing up to spend time in space. Space Adventures has been operating for over a decade, XCOR and Excalibur Almaz are rolling out their vehicles, and Virgin Galactic is in the final stages of certification in the US – the top management of all four will be here, as well as passengers from the first three.

Spaceport America has opened in New Mexico, Spaceport Sweden hopes to be the first to do so in Europe while Curaçao will offer a Caribbean base – the top management of all three will be at the conference as will the lawyer helping Spaceport Sweden negotiate the regulatory corridors in Brussels.

Prices start from £110.00 + VAT for RAeS Members. This conference will provide delegates with great networking opportunities and the forum for discussion on hot industry topics.

You can register online, by email to conference@aerosociety.com or by calling +44 (0)20 7670 4345.

For more information, a list of conference themes and to see the full programme, please click here

• Kent University – 31st March/ 1st April
• Two days of talks on everything from astrobiology, space planes, colonisation, rockets and our most successful projects of the year so far.
• Exhibitions from industry leaders including; HE Space, Vega, AspireSpace and many more.
• UKSEDS AGM – election of next years committee.
• Social fun!

For further information visit the UKSEDS homepage here

"China’s Expanding Space Programme"

Karl Bergquist - Europe’s leading expert on China’s space programme.

Thursday 26th January at 1800.

4 Hamilton Place,

London

Note that the talk will be followed by a drinks reception sponsored by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
See http://aerosociety.com/Events/Event-List/318/Chinas-Expanding-Space-Programme for more details and registration.

The Aerospace Medical Association offers three scholarship opportunities to financially assist those pursuing Aerospace Medicine training programs.  Deadlines for applying for these applications are rapidly approaching.  Scholarship descriptions and application requirements are listed below and can be found here http://www.asma.org/pdf/asma-scholarships.pdf.

The Jeffrey R. Davis, M.D., Aerospace Medicine Endowed Scholarship: awards $500.00 to a recipient. AsMA /AMSRO members can use the scholarship to attend any of the aerospace medicine conferences at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX). Students/residents currently attending UTMB can use the scholarship to attend the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting. Apply by completing the application form (http://www.asma.org/pdf/davis_scholarship_app.pdf) and submitting it to the AsMA Headquarters (jsventek@asma.org)  by January 31.

Aerospace Medical Students and Residents Organization (AMSRO) Scholarship: offers a $1,000 travel stipend to students and residents for attending an aerospace medicine meeting of their choice. Applications (http://www.asma.org/members/AsMA_scholarship_app.doc) are currently submitted to Alex Garbino at garbino@bcm.edu; electronic submissions are required. Deadline is January 31.

AsMA Fellows Scholarship: $2,000 is given annually to an AsMA member who is a student in an aerospace medicine residency program, graduate program in aerospace medicine (Masters or Ph.D.), medical certificate or aerospace diploma course, or in a full time education/training program in the allied fields such as nursing, physiology, human factors, psychology, ergonomics, engineering, etc. Selection criteria include delivering a slide or poster presentation as a first author at an AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting and then publish a manuscript as first author in the Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine journal that is based on the same topic and/or material covered in the slide or poster presentation delivered at the AsMA meeting. All AsMA members whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at the next AsMA meeting will receive detailed information on eligibility criteria and the application process (including an application form). For detailed information about this scholarship and the application form please go here http://www.asma.org/pdf/fellows-scholarship_docs.pdf.  Deadline is January 31.

European Space Agency (ESA)
International Society of Gravitational Physiology (ISGP)

‘Life in Space for Life on Earth’

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Society for Gravitational Physiology (ISGP) announce the ESA / ISGP Joint Life Sciences Meeting 2012

The Symposium combines the 33^rd Annual International Gravitational Physiology Meeting, and the 12^th European Life Sciences Symposium and will be held in Aberdeen, UK on June 18^th – June 22^nd, 2012.

The second announcement and call for papers brochure will be posted within 2 months.

You are most cordially invited to attend this meeting, for more information please visit the conference website.

Dr Jeff Davis, NASA's Director of Space Life Science and Medical Operations will present on the topic of collaboration for space and terrestrial benefit and provide an opportunity for delegates to discuss human space flight topics with one of the world's leading experts in this field.  

Early bird registration is £81 (£57 for students) before 1 Apr 2012. Further details and registration arrangements will be presented at this site over the next few weeks.

UK Space Environments Conference

“UK Research & Education for Space & Terrestrial Benefit”

16 - 17 June, 2012

Satrosphere Science Centre

Aberdeen

In October 2003 China became the third nation to launch humans into space - Yang Liwei is now immortalised as the first Taikonauit. Just eight years later, on 29 September 2011, the Tiangong-1 space station was placed in orbit to be visited by Chinese astronauts over the next two years. 

London, 19 June 2012.

llowing the success of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Space Tourism events in 2006 and 2009, the Society will host the 3rd European Space Tourism Conference in June 2012. This event will bring together stakeholders such as private space companies, venture capitalists, payload integrators, industrial partners, lawyers, tourism agencies, and safety, regulatory & insurance experts. It will be a unique opportunity to hear and interact with the leaders and innovators from the space tourism industry.

For details of future conferences and other UKSA events go to  the UKSA events site.