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[djellison]

Thanks to the efforts of Emily and Jen at TPS....I am now registered as Press for the '06 International Astronautical Congress in Valencia.

The 2nd announcement contains the most information about the line up for the week
http://www.iac2006.com/pdf/2nd_Announcement.pdf

However Monday AM is going to be a highlight. The heads of NASA, ESA, RSA, JAXA, CNSA ISRG and CSA will all be there.

If anyone spots a particular session they want to hear about - let me know as I'm trying to schedule my week as well in advance as I can!

Cheers
Doug

[djellison]

The Education and Outreach sessions are something I'm very interested in, and poster sessions sound like a good way of getting through a lot of subject matter in a short ammount of time.

For obvious reasosn - I want to cover a lot of Mars content - but anything I can dig up about Hayabusa is a must - and ditto Huygens. Also - anything about Cubesats or other small platforms I find fascinating (and I think Cubesats are under-spoken about )

Astronomy - I'm less likely to pay attention to - as I have very little idea what I'll be looking at or listening to

I know there's a lot of lurkers from the engineering field at UMSF (you know who you are...and I know who some of you are ) - if you're going to be attending and wouldn't mind a quick chat about what you're up to, then drop me an email ( doug@rlproject.com ) and we'll hook up and put the world to rights over some conference quality coffee.

Doug