Newsletter of the European
Low Gravity Research Association
Number 2, December 2000
Editor:
Prof. Dr. Antonio Viviani
Seconda Università di Napoli
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale
via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, Italy
Elgra - Registered in Munich, 22
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President’s page
Dear ELGRA Members,
"2000" - the year expected with so much enthusiasm has passed as fast as any
other year. I hope that it was a very successful year for you and your work,
but that you also found some moments to relax and to recover. 2000 is also the
year where an important part of the International Space Station has been assembled.
Since a few weeks a crew inhabits it.
For the ELGRA Management Committee it was a year with quite some work. In April
we could present you our new ELGRA homepage. In June we have sent out the first
Newsletter.
Furthermore we have printed an information leaflet on ELGRA, a poster announcing
our meeting in Banyuls and prepared a folder with the ELGRA logo. The printing
house offered us for free stickers with the ELGRA logo as well as note blocks.
They will be distributed at our next ELGRA meeting. The poster is included in
this mail. Please post it at the board in your institute, office etc. The folder
will be used at our next meeting in Banyuls and contain the programme and further
information.
At its last meeting, the Management Committee had an intense discussion on our
homepage. We think that we should include some new features to make it more
informative and more attractive. Of course any suggestions from your side are
highly welcome.
The joint ASGSB-CSA-ELGRA meeting in October in Montreal was very successful.
Several of our life scientists participated to this meeting and widely used
the possibility to discuss their scientific work with our colleagues from the
USA and Canada. More information is given in a separate report in this Newsletter.
In view of the next Ministerial Conference, ESA has defined an outline of the
European Research Strategy for Life and Physical Sciences and Applications in
Space. A first draft was discussed extensively in the Life Sciences Working
Group, Physical Sciences Working Group and the Life and Physical Sciences Advisory
Committee. But also you, as ELGRA member, had the opportunity to give your comments.
A revised version of the research plan has now been discussed in a workshop
organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF). As president of ELGRA I
had the opportunity to participate to this workshop as an observer (see report
in this Newsletter).
Now - at the beginning of a new year, the new millennium - we are looking forward
to new challenges. For ELGRA the next important event will be the Biennial Meeting
and General Assembly in Banyuls sur mer (F) on September 25 – 28, 2001. A description
of the venue place as well as a preregistration form is included in this Newsletter.
The preregistration form can also be found on our homepage. (www.elgra.org).
I invite you to use this form. The titles of your tentative contribution will
give us a guideline for your interests and the selection of key speakers.
I wish you a very happy and successful New Year and a good start into the new
millennium. In our new information leaflet we have a saying from Heraclitus:
"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to
be sought out and difficult". Take this saying as your motto for the New Year.
Yours
Marianne Cogoli-Greuter
(President of ELGRA)
Reports on Conferences and Meetings
Workshop on the assessment
of ESA’s research plan in life and physical sciences in space
Le Bischenberg, Strasbourg, 28-30 November 2000
In view of the next Ministerial Conference, scheduled for late 2001, ESA has
defined a first draft outline of the European Research Strategy for Life and
Physical Sciences and Applications in Space, based on the inputs of the user
community. Six top-level objectives have been identified and grouped in six
pyramids. The top-level objectives were selected so that they should have a
direct connection with general research priorities in Europe, such as identified
for example by the EC, or as seen as a need by the general public. At the lower
levels of the pyramids, the objectives are divided into research priorities
and specific themes. This draft was discussed extensively in the Life Sciences
Working Group, Physical Sciences Working Group and the Life and Physical Sciences
Advisory Committee. But also you, as ELGRA member, had the opportunity to give
your comments.
A revised version of the research plan, divided now in 4 pyramids instead of
6, has now been discussed in the above-mentioned workshop organized by the European
Science Foundation (ESF). The participants - space and non-space related - came
from 6 different research fields: Biology, Physiology/Medical research, Exobiology,
Fluid Sciences, Material Sciences and Fundamental Physics. Among the space scientists
were also several ELGRA members. Two members of the ESF standing committee,
P. Omling and R.P.H. Thomson participated as auditors. In my function as president
of ELGRA I was invited as an observer to this workshop, together with some members
of the Programme Board.
In the introductory session, Marc Heppener from ESA gave first an introduction
to life and physical sciences in space: achievements and the need for a new
approach, and than an overview on the research strategy and the ESA’s objective
for this workshop. He pointed out that the future programme presented to the
next Ministerial conference, describes the activities planned for 2002-2006.
This programme contains four basic ingredients: (1) Define a user-driven research
strategy; (2) Integrate ESA and national activities in an overall European strategy;
(3) Harmonise with other European research activities and (4) Guaranteed work
share for SME and medium-sized companies of approximately 75%.
In a series of splinter sessions, for which the participants were divided according
to their disciplines, the participants had the task to assess ESA’s research
strategy according to several criteria.
In a first splinter session, two selected speakers gave an overview, one for
the non-space perspective and the other for the space perspective. These overviews
were followed by a first discussion of the proposed research plan.
Between the splinter sessions, the outcome of the discussions was presented
in plenary sessions were further guidelines for the continuation of the work
were given.
After almost two days of intensive discussions the workshop was closed with
the recommendation to repeat this "exercise" at regular intervals.
As outcome of the workshop, each group had to give recommendations with regard
to the general strategy (general findings), the different disciplines (specific
findings) and the 4 objectives (thematic findings). The auditors will now present
the recommendations to the different ESF committees. ESF will than present a
position paper to ESA for further discussion at the next meeting of the Programme
Board.
Marianne Cogoli-Greuter
4th International Conference on
HIGH TEMPERATURE CAPILLARITY
Kurashiki, Japan, 19-22 November 2000
This International Conference is the fourth in a series initiated in 1994 (Smolenice,
Slovakia), and continued in Cracow (Poland, 1997). This Conference, conceived
by Dr. Nicolas Eustathopoulos (Grenoble) with the support of Institutes in Kiev,
Genova and Cracow, is intended to bring together scientists from western and
eastern countries to discuss high temperature surface and interfacial problems,
like wetting, surface tension, joining, interfacial mass transport, Marangoni
phenomena and so on.
Microgravity related phenomena have always been a part, and not the least one,
of the Conference programme, highlighted in ad-hoc sections or embedded in the
different sections.
This year the Conference, under the direction of Prof. Kiyoshi Nogi, has been
divided into three Sections, namely: Processes, Surfaces and Interfaces and
Wetting. The nearly 100 participants from Western European countries, Poland,
Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Japan, USA presented some 45 oral papers and
52 Posters.
Interesting papers have been presented dealing with microgravity-related problems.
Thermocapillary flow studies on molten silicon as a function of oxygen partial
pressure, performed on board sounding rockets and parabolic flights, have been
discussed by Profs. T. Hibiya and K. Mukai. The same subject, i.e. molten silicon
surface properties, has been afforded by Prof. K. Nogi's equipe, through the
measurement, at microgravity, of the Si surface tension by the levitated drop
technique. The results have been compared to on ground sessile drop experiments,
showing a good reproducibility and a smaller scatter in the microgravity data.
Thermocapillary convection, the subject of a space programme of the Inst. of
Materials Res., Sendai, Japan, has been taken into account to model three dimensional
patterns in liquid bridges for floating zone crystal growth. Joining problems
are of high relevance in space applications. Two studies have been presented
directly linked to the joining of truss structure members and to convection
(gravity or Marangoni driven) in molten pools. The first study, from the Paton
Inst., Kiev, has a direct technological relevance: it has taken into account
a wide range of heating parameters, specific joining alloys and different electron
beam morphologies. As expected, it was found that increasing surface tension
forces improves the formation of the soldered joint at microgravity and that,
in space, the best results are obtained by using a focused beam. The second
study, presented by the equipe of Prof. K. Nogi, has examined the behaviour
of molten aluminium alloys pools both on ground and at microgravity. It was
found that, in particular, convection due to surface tension effects (Marangoni
motions) was much less than expected in microgravity conditions. This effect
is ascribed to the formation of surface oxide layers which hamper, for that
specific alloy, the set-up of free surface movements.
Many other papers have been presented which may become relevant also for space
applications. In fact, it is clear that all joining, wetting and interfacial
reactions problems are part of physico-chemical processes in space. They all
depend on surface and interfacial tension values and on their dependence on
temperature, composition and presence of contaminants. For these reasons, the
large number of theoretical and experimental approaches presented at the 4th
International Conference on High Temperature Capillarity, deserve much importance
for the development of Physical Science studies in space.
The next HTC conference will be held in Genova, Italy, March 2004.
Alberto Passerone
JOINT MEETING OF ASGSB-CSA-ELGRA
Montreal, Canada, 25-28 October, 2000
The American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB) is organizing
every year a scientific meeting that is the most important in this field. Two
years ago it was decided to organize the 16th ASGSB meeting as a
joint meeting together with the Canadian Space Agency and ELGRA in Montréal.
Although the ELGRA Management Committee was well aware of the fact that only
the life scientists within ELGRA will be interested, it highly welcomed this
opportunity.
About 400 participants from research institutes, space agencies and industries,
coming from more than 30 countries, attended the meeting, among them also 30
from Europe. Although the Europeans were in a minority they were clearly recognized
as all of them contributed actively to this very interesting meeting either
with an oral presentation or a poster.
The highlights of the meeting were the two Symposia, the first one on the "Consequences
of contamination of the spacecraft environment" and the second one on "Psychosocial
issues in long-term space flight" as well as the Minisymposium on "Current ground
based models". Furthermore some 48 oral communications and 96 posters were presented,
16 posters were from undergraduate and 18 from graduate students that took part
in a competition.
In the first symposium on the the "Consequences of contamination of the spacecraft
environment" Duane L. Pierson and co-authors gave a lecture on the microbial
contamination of spacecrafts, in which he presented the results of investigations
on the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the microbial characteristics
of closed life support systems and the interactions of microbes with the spacecraft
environment and crewmembers. William T. Shearer reported on the influences of
the space environment (radiation, weightlessness, stress, but also contamination
of the spacecraft environment by micro organisms) on the immune system of astronauts
and cosmonauts and proposed countermeasures for long term space travellers.
Barry W. Glickman and co-authors presented her studies on the "Individual Variation
in human DNA repair genes: consequences for the space traveller", and showed
that the earths space environment is not mutagenic.
In the second symposium on "Psychosocial issues in long-term spaceflight" Larry
Palinkas gave an overview on the current understanding of the psychosocial issues
related to long duration space missions from three different perspectives: individual,
interpersonal and organizational. Improved screening and selection, leadership,
coping and interpersonal skills training are key elements to the prevention
of performance decrements on long duration missions. Nick Kanas and co-authors
presented results on this topic from a 4.5-year study involving 5 US and 4 Russian
from the Shuttle/Mir space missions. Gro Sandal presented an outlook to the
future. On the International Space Station astronauts and cosmonauts will form
one international crew although living in different national modules. The scenario
of rotating, multinational crews presents a challenge for mission planners in
the field of optimising performance and interaction within and between crews.
In the Minisymposium on "Current ground based models" David Klaus gave an overview
on different types of clinostats and bioreactors used as devices for simulating
low gravity conditions on Earth and analysed the validity of the different systems.
He stated that all underlying biophysical principles thought to give rise to
gravity-dependent physiological responses must be identified and thoroughly
examined in order to accurately interpret data from flight experiments or ground
based analogs. Enno Brinckmann reported on studies on humans and rodents under
conditions simulating a space environment, as confinement and bed rest studies
for humans and suspension for rodents. Neal Pellis summarised his studies in
the NASA bioreactor or rotating wall vessel. This Minisymposium was very well
attended despite the fact that is was the last session of the meeting and was
held on Saturday afternoon, thus demonstrating the importance of this topic.
The oral and poster presentations were grouped in different sessions with the
following topics: Animal development, physiology and gravity sensing, advanced
life support and biotechnology, cell biology, plant development, physiology
and gravity sensing, spaceflight experiment results, and spaceflight physiology
and medicine. Most of the authors presented the results of their studies on
the influence of real and simulated low gravity as well as hypergravity on all
kind of organisms and plants. In the session on advanced life support and biotechnology
some reports on new and challenging projects as programmable plants for long
term life support systems and tissue engineering in zero gravity were given.
A special poster session was reserved for undergraduate and graduate students
taking part in a competition. Senior scientists have evaluated all posters.
The first three in each category were honoured during the congress banquet.
As one of the judges I had to study some of the posters very carefully and was
really surprised about the high scientific level of the work presented.
Marianne Cogoli-Greuter
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Banquet
speaker Bob Thirsk, a Canadian astronaut, presents a commemorative plaque
to the three organizing partners of the joint meeting. From left to
right: Bob Thirsk, Richard Wassersug (Canada), Marianne Cogoli-Greuter
(President of ELGRA), Jay Buckey (ASGSB President 1999-2000).
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
on MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS in PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Sorrento, Italy, 10-15 September 2000
The First International Symposium on Microgravity Research and Applications
in Physical Sciences and Biotechnology has been held in Sorrento (Italy) on
September 10-15, 2000, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the
Seconda Università di Napoli (SUN), the host Institution in Italy. The
symposium, open to participants from all over the world, is the continuation
of the successful series of European Symposia sponsored by ESA, which started
with the two pioneering editions held in Frascati (Italy, 1974,1976), followed
by the editions of Grenoble (France, 1979), Madrid (Spain, 1983), Schloss-Elmau
(Germany, 1984), Bordeaux (France, 1986), Oxford (United Kingdom, 1989), Bruxelles
(Belgium, 1992), Berlin (Germany, 1995) and S. Petersburg (Russia, 1997).
The launch of the first element of the International Space Station (ISS), a
joint venture by the USA, Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe took place in 1998.
Assembly is scheduled to be complete in 2004 and six astronauts will then occupy
the ISS on a permanent basis. The utilisation of the International Space Station
is now being defined, in part based on recent ESA Announcement of Opportunity
soliciting proposals for basic microgravity research and research programme
proposals addressing industrially relevant problems. At the same time, the International
Microgravity Strategic Planning Group (IMSPG), where ASI, CNES, CSA, DLR, NASA,
NASDA and ESA are represented, has agreed on a strategic plan for coordination
and cooperation in the utilization of the ISS. To mark the opening of this new
era of international cooperation for microgravity sciences exploitation, to
the European series of Symposia has been given the attribute "International"
thus starting with the First International Symposium on Microgravity Research
and Applications in Physical Sciences and Biotechnology, co-sponsored by the
Space Agencies represented in the IMSPG.
The Symposium opened with the introductions of Antonio Rodotà, Director
General of the European Space Agency, and Jörg Feustel-Büechl, Director
of Manned Space Flight and Microgravity at the European Space Agency, a welcome
address by Antonio Viviani, Chairman of the Symposium, and a lecture given by
Ilya Prigogine, "Nobel Laureate" and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of
the Symposium.
The Symposium has been a forum for scientists from academia and industry to
report on their recent results, to discuss and exchange information, to assess
the state-of-the-art, to identify key areas where greater effort is required
and to establish cooperation, over the broad field of gravity dependent phenomena
in Physical Sciences and Biotechnology. More than 200 papers, oral and posters,
have been given; results originating from theoretical work, numerical modelling
and flight investigations have been presented over a wide range of topics, the
major ones being Fundamental Physics, Fluid Physics, Heat and Mass Transport
Phenomena, Physical Chemistry, Thermophysical Properties, Combustion, Solidification
Physics, Crystallization of Inorganic Materials and Biological Macromolecules.
A special goal of the Symposium, in view of the ISS utilization, has been the
presentation and discussion of the draft of an International Announcement of
Opportunities (IAO) in Physical Sciences and Biotechnology, then issued in November
2000 with deadline for responding on January 12, 2001. In this contest, the
gathering has been also an excellent occasion for scientists to get detailed
information on the objectives of the IAO and to discuss joint research programmes
for responding to the outcoming International Announcement of Opportunities.
Antonio Viviani
20th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
ON THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS Chicago, USA
August 27-September 2,
2000
For more information, see: http://www.tam.uiuc.edu/ICTAM2000/
A Pre-nominated session (P56) on Microgravity Mechanics was held as part of the 20th edition of the International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. It was chaired by S. Ostrach (co-chairs H. Rath and V. Polezhaev). The level of the conference was very high; only about half of the submitted abstracts were acepted for presentation.
An overview on the session can be found at: http://www.tam.uiuc.edu/ICTAM2000/Program/P56/Overview/
Some details of the summary
by V. Polezhaev are reproduced here:
".... Any time we drop or throw something and watch it fall to the ground, we
see gravity in action. The macroscopic effects of gravity on fluids are, generally,
well known. In fluids at rest hydrostatic pressure results from gravity. The
buoyancy force on matter submerged in a fluid is proportional to both the gravitational
force and the difference in density between the matter and the fluid. Thus,
suspended particles such as gas bubbles, liquid drops, and solids move upward
if they are less dense and downward if they are more dense than the surrounding
fluid. Similarly, non-homogenized miscible but different liquids become stratified
with density decreasing upwards. Immiscible liquids become aligned in similar
layers of phases. Such liquids are stabily stratified. If heat or a solute is
added to a fluid column, density gradients are established in the fluid and
the ultimate result is that, in the presence of the gravitational force, fluid
motions are generated that are called buoyancy-driven convection. The flow can
influence transport phenomena, such as heat transfer and solute redistribution.
Thus, the macroscopic consequences of gravity on fluids are:
Each of these, which is directly proportional to the magnitude of gravity, can obviously be reduced in proportion to the reduction of gravity. Under low-gravity conditions, it is also possible that other effects that are suppressed on Earth can become significant and generate flows. Thus, fluid and thermal scientists have been motivated to investigate such unusual phenomena in low-gravity environments. In addition to scientific merit of such research, it has practical utility because many of the mission enabling and enhancing technologies involve fluid flows and heat and mass transfer, and their behavior and performance will be different from that in a terrestrial environment. Therefore, microgravity research is necessary to develop knowledge bases from which advanced technologies can be designed. There are a number of ways to obtain microgravity environments in which the research can be performed. A drop tower is a long vertical shaft in which experimental packages are dropped to achieve microgravity through freefall. Only a few seconds of microgravity conditions are obtained in this way. Reduced-gravity aircraft are flown in parabolic arcs to achieve periods of microgravity for about 20 to 30 seconds. Sounding rockets provide several minutes of microgravity conditions and it is a much steadier environment than in airplanes. A space shuttle (such as the U.S.'s Space Shuttle in the left-hand figure above) is a reusable launch vehicle that can maintain a consistent orbit and provide up to about 17 days of high-quality microgravity condition. Experiments are performed in a laboratory environment. A space station (such as the Russian orbital complex Mir in the figure above) is a facility that remains in low Earth orbit for decades and enables research to be conducted for long periods. Microgravity mechanics serves as a basis for more complicated microgravity sciences, which include analysis of microgravity impact on living systems (life sciences), biotechnology, crystal growth, combustion, fundumental physics, etc., as well as on technical processes and systems. With the International Space Station, which is in progress now, international cooperation will allow scientists to get a better look inside the 'microgravity world' during the 21st century. There are great opportunities for advancement in …".
Communicated by Hendrik Kuhlmann
ELGRA Biennial Meeting 2001
ELGRA
Biennial Meeting and General Assembly
Banyuls sur mer (F) - September 25 – 28, 2001
For more information, see:
Meetings
Venue:
Observatoire Océanologique, (Laboratoire Arago)
CNRS / Université P. et M. Curie, 66 650 Banyuls sur mer, France
Banyuls and the "Laboratoire Arago"
Banyuls sur mer is a small town of about 5000 inhabitants, located at the Western
Mediterranean Sea, in the most southern region of France, the Roussillon (Departement
Pyrénées-Orientales). During summertime, numerous tourists enjoy
the rocky shore, the sea and the Eastern Pyrenees mountains. Aristide Maillol,
the famous sculptor, was born and worked here. Banyuls can easily be reached
by car, train and plane, either travelling through France (via Perpignan, 40
km away) or coming from Spain (e.g. from Barcelona, 200 km away). The "Observatoire
Océanologique de Banyuls" (www.obs-banyuls.fr),
created in 1882, is commonly known as "Laboratoire Arago" (after the French-Catalonian
astronomer François Arago). It is one of the three main marine stations
of France with a permanent staff of more than 110 persons. The guiding institutions
are the "Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI" (UMPC) and the "Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS). Due to the diversity of the marine
and terrestrial environment, scientific research spans from biological oceanology
to cellular, developmental and molecular biology on selected marine models.
Every year, many guest scientists from all over the world and more than 800
students of 30 European universities visit the "Laboratoire Arago." The organisation
of symposia and congresses has a long tradition here and a new auditorium has
recently been inaugurated. A further attraction of the "Laboratoire Arago" is
the remarkable public aquarium, presenting the rich fauna of the Mediterranean
Sea. For these good reasons and particularly in view of an interesting scientific
program (in preparation), we would like to invite you to attend this forthcoming
biennial meeting of ELGRA.
Tentative Program
Tuesday, September 25: Registration / Welcome (from 18:00h onwards)
Wednesday, September 26: Registration /Scientific Sessions / Posters
/
General Assembly / Reception
Thursday, September 27: Scientific Sessions / Posters / Banquet
Friday, September 28: Scientific Sessions / Closure (late afternoon)
September is one of the most pleasant months of the year. The crowded tourist
season is over and the weather is usually nice and stable; the water temperature
is still fine for swimming in the sea and the vintage for producing the famous
"Banyuls" wine is going on.
Please mark the dates of this ELGRA meeting of Banyuls. Download
and return the enclosed Registration
Form by June 15. The final meeting announcement,
with the call for presentations and other informations, will be issued around
April 10. The deadline for submission of abstract is June 15, 2001. We may remind
you also our ELGRA web site www.elgra.org.
The local organizer H.-J. Marthy
Observatoire Océanologique,
66650 Banyuls sur mer, France
Fax : 0033 (0)468 88 73 98
E-mail: marthy@obs-banyuls.fr
Forthcoming Events
January 8 - 11, 2001
15th Annual AIAA Microgravity Science and Space Processing Symposium
Reno, NV Part of the AIAA 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Sponsored by the Microgravity and Space Processes Technical Committee
Contact: Henry Nahra
John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH 44135
Tel: (216) 433-5385, Fax: (216) 433-8050
E-mail: Henry.Nahra@grc.nasa.gov
AIAA URL: http://www.aiaa.org/
February 11- 15, 2001
STAIF 2001
Albuquerque, NM
Space Technology and Applications International Forum
Sponsored by: Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies (ISNPS)
Tel: (505) 277-0446, Fax: (505) 277-2814
E-mail: isnps@unm.edu
URL: http://www-chne.unm.edu/isnps/staif2001/
April 16 - 20, 2001
MRS Spring Meeting
San Francisco, CA
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
Contact: Member Services
506 Keystone Dr., Warrendale, PA 15086-7573
Tel: 724-779-3003, Fax: 724-779-8313
E-mail: info@mrs.org
URL: http://www.mrs.org/meetings/spring2001/
May 1 - 4, 2001
2nd Pan Pacific Basin
Workshop on Microgravity Sciences
Pasadena, CA
Sponsored by Association of Pacific Rim Universities, USA, National Society of Microgravity Science and Application, China, and Japan Society of Microgravity Application, Japan
Contact: Dr. Narayanan (Ram) Ramachandran, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35803
Tel: 256-544-8303, Fax 256-544-8891
E-mail: narayanan.ramachandran@space.hsv.usra.edu
URL: http://space.hsv.usra.edu/ppbws_2001
May 22 - 24, 2001
Microgravity Combustion Science Workshop
Cleveland, OH
Sponsored by: Office of Biological and Physical Research, Physical Sciences Research Division and The NASA Microgravity Combustion Science Discipline Working Group
Hosted by: The NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field and The National Center for Microgravity Research on Fluids and Combustion
Contact: Kurt Sacksteder, NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, M/S 500-115, Cleveland, OH 44135
Tel: (216) 433-2857, Fax: (216) 977-7065
E-mail: kurt.sacksteder@grc.nasa.gov
URL: http://www.ncmr.org/events/combustion2001/
July 8 - 13, 2001
Gravitation Effects on Living Systems
New London, CT
Gordon Research Conference to be held at Connecticut College
Contact: Ruth Anne Eatock, Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Orolaryngology, One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030-3498
Email: eatock@bcm.tmc.edu
URL: http://www.grc.uri.edu
July 8 - 13, 2001
Gravitational Effects in Physico-Chemical Systems
New London, NH
Gordon Research Conference to be held at Colby-Sawyer College
Contact: Paul H. Steen, Cornell University, Department of Chemical Engineering
346 Olin Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: phs7@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.grc.uri.edu
August 28 - 30, 2001
Space 2001
Albuquerque, NM
Sponsored by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL/VS
Attn: AIAA Conference
3550 Aberdeen Ave SE
Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776
Tel: 505/ 846-7877, Fax: 505/ 846-1338
E-mail: vanessa.aragon@kirtland.af.mil
October 1 - 5, 2001
52nd International Astronautical Congress
Toulouse, France
Sponsored by : International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
Conference Theme: Meeting the Needs of the New Millennium
50th Anniversary of the IAF
Contact Information:
Technical Program: IAF Secretariat, 3-5, rue Mario Nikis, 75015 Paris - France
Tel: 33 (0) 1 45 67 42 60, Fax: 33 (0) 1 42 73 21 20
E-mail: iaf@wanadoo.frIAF 2001 Toulouse Secretariat
c/o Toulouse Space Center
18 avenue Edouard Belin
31404 Toulouse CEDEX 4 - France
Tel: 33 (0)5 61 28 14 30, Fax: 33 (0)5 61 28 14 33
E-mail: sophie.delmas@cnes.fr
URL: http://ww.iaf2001.org
October 15-18, 2001
Conference on International Space Station Utilization
Kennedy Space Center, FL
Sponsored by: Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies
Contact: Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies
University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Rm. 239
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1392
Tel: (505) 277-0446. Fax: (505) 277-2814
E-mail: isnps@unm.edu
May 5-9, 2002
73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association
Montreal, Canada
info: www.asma.org
May 27-31, 2002
June 2-7, 2002XII CONFERENCE ON SPACE BIOLOGY AND AEROSPACE MEDICINE
Moscow, Russia
Information Contact person: Alla G. Vinokhodova at vinokhodova@imbp.ru.
Contact telephones: (7-095) 195-0223, (7-095) 195-0053, (7-095) 195-0103; fax: (7-095) 195-2253
e-mail: bionomy@imbp.ru
The deadline for receipt of abstracts submitted by mail, fax or e-mail is December 31, 2001
URL : http://www.imbp.ru/webpages/engl/Conference/2002/Biomed/inf01.html
8th European Symposium on Life Sciences Research in Space and 23rd Annual International Gravitational Physiology Meeting
Stockholm, Sweden
http:// www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/symposium
October 11-20, 2002
World Space Congress 2002
Houston, TX
Sponsored by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Committee On Space Research (COSPAR)
International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
National Academy Of Sciences (NAS)
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