21 Oct 2008: Session 1: Ares - A Project Making Progress | Luncheon: Mike Griffin, NASA Administrator | Session 2: Constellation: Enabling Research and Discovery | Session 3: Huntsville and the U.S. Space Program - An Historical Perspective
22 Oct 2008: Session 4: What's Ahead for the Space Program with a New Administration and Congress? | Session 5: Industry Perspective and the Future of Exploration

2008 Von Braun Memorial Symposium Session 3: Huntsville and the U.S. Space Program - An Historical Perspective

  • Moderator: Roger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum
  • “Rocket City Rising: Huntsville and the Early Space Race, 1940-1963,” Stephen Waring, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • “Rocket City: Signs, Symbols, and Icons,” Michael D. Wright, MSFC Historian
  • “Rocket City USA: MSFC in the Saturn Years – A Personal Memoir, Jesco von Puttkamer, NASA Headquarters

Stephen Waring, “Rocket City Rising: Huntsville & the Early Space Race, 1940-1963″

Michael D. Wright, “Rocket City: Signs, Symbols, and Icons”

Jesco von Puttkamer, “Rocket City USA: MSFC in the Saturn Years — A Personal Memoir”

Looking Ahead - Key Space Events

Jan 30-Feb 4 — AAS Guidance and Control Conference
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Breckenridge, Colorado

Feb 8-12 — AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Winter Meeting
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Savannah, Georgia

Feb 22-24 — Legislative Blitz 2009
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Washington, DC

Mar 10-12 — Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
Theme: Sustainable Space Exploration
Greenbelt, Maryland

May 26-29 — 12th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS)
Montreal, Canada

Jun 12-14 – 5th Student CanSat Competititon
Amarillo, Texas

Aug 9-13 — AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Abstract deadline:  March 9
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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