Virgin Galactic will holds its 2Q2021 financial results telecon on August 5, 2021 at 2:00 pm Pacific Time (5:00 pm Eastern).  It will be audiocast on the company's website.

Gen. C.Q. Brown, Air Force Chief of Staff, will speak at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on August 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm ET.  His topic is the Air Force mission in an ever-changing national security environment. The event will take place in person at the Press Club and also will be livestreamed. …

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The 35th Small Satellite Conference, which usually takes place at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, is scheduled for August 7-12, 2021. The organizers decided in February 2021 that this will take place virtually again this year because of the ongoing COVID pandemic. More information is on the conference website.

Update, March 1:  AIAA just announced this forum will be held virtually instead of in-person in Denver because of the ongoing COVID pandemic.  The dates remain the same. Original Entry: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold its 2021 Propulsion & Energy Forum at the Sheraton Downtown Denver, Denver, CO, from August …

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Update:  This event now will take place virtually because of the ongoing pandemic.  The dates have been shortened to August 9-11 instead of August 7-12.  More information is on the event's website. Original Entry: The American Astronautical Society (AAS) has scheduled its 2021 Astrodynamics Conference to take place in-person in Big Sky, Montana from August …

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NASA will hold a pre-launch briefing on August 9, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET for the Northrop Grumman-16 (NG-16) cargo mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled for launch from Wallops Island, VA on August 10. Participants are: Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program Kirt Costello, chief scientist, International Space Station Program …

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The Foundation for the Future will hold a workshop from August 10-11, 2021 on "Workforce & Industrial Base." More information is on the event's website, which says: DATES Aug 10, 10:00 AM EDT – Aug 11, 4:00 PM EDT Online ABOUT THE EVENT How does an idea become a reality? It happens one bolt at …

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Government Executive will hold a webinar on August 10, 2021 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET on "Space Resilience: An Imperatiuve to Secure the Future." More information and registration instructions are on the event's website. Speakers are:  

(NASA TV begins 5:30 pm ET)

Gen. John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, AL on August 11, 2021 at 9:40 am ET. More information is on the event's website, which indicates virtual attendane is an option.  

NASA will hold a media briefing on August 11, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET to discuss a new finding from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. Audio of the briefing will air on NASA Live. Participants are: Dante Lauretta, study co-author and OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson Davide Farnocchia, study …

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If Northrop Grumman's NG-16 Cygnus cargo mission launches on time on August 10, it will arrive at the International Space Station on August 12, 2021 with capture by Canadarm2 at approximately 6:10 am ET and installation onto a docking port at about 8:00 am ET. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and capture begins at 4:30 …

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The Aerospace Corporation will hold its next Space Policy Show webinar on August 12, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET. The topic is "Diversity and Inclusion Across the Nation's FFRDCs." Aerospace Corporation itself is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). More information is on the event's website, which says: How are the nation’s FFRDC’s …

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The Committee on Building a Foundation for Assessing the Health and Vitality of NASA Science Mission Directorate's Research Communities, of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, will hold its fifth virtual meeting on August 12, 2021 from 2:00-5:00 pm ET.  Some sessions may be open and some may be closed. More information and …

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold its 2021 Spotlight Awards Gala virtually because of the pandemic.  It will take place on August 12, 2021, from 5:00-7:00 pm ET. More information is on the event's website. The 2020 Gala had to be cancelled because of the pandemic, so the awards for both …

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(livestreamed)

Boeing and NASA will provide an update on the status of Boeing's Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) on August 13, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET. Audio will be livestreamed on NASA Live. Participants are: Kathryn Lueders, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program John Vollmer, vice …

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The first meeting of the steering committee of the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032, of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, will take place virtually from August 16-17, 2021. More information, including the agenda, is on the committee's website. Open sessions are 1:15-5:00 pm ET on August …

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The 10th International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) will take place August 3-5, 2021, followed by three days of technical sessions on August 16-18. The entire event is virtual due to the ongoing pandemic. Information on the technical sessions is on the ISSRDC website, which says: Join us virtually on August 16-18 for …

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(open session 18th only)