Events of Interest: Week of June 6-10, 2011
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. For more information, see our calendar on the right menu or click the links below. This week it is the House that is in recess and the Senate that is in session.
Monday-Wednesday, June 6-8
- Space Shuttle An Engineering Milestone, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (June 6 is an evening reception only; the meeting is Tuesday-Wednesday)
Monday-Friday, June 6-10
- United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (continued from last week), Vienna, Austria
Tuesday, June 7
- Univ. of Mississippi’s Future of Commercial Space Law and Regulation, Jones Day 7th Floor Conference Center, 51 Louisiana Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm EDT
- NASA media briefing on Aquarius/SAC-D mission, 4:00 pm EDT (1:00 pm local time) at Vandenberg AFB, CA (watch at www.nasa.gov/ntv)
- Launch of Soyuz TMA-02M to the International Space Station, 4:15 pm EDT (June 8, 2:15 am local time) at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan (watch at www.nasa.gov/ntv)
Tuesday-Wedhesday, June 7-8
- National Research Council (NRC) Space Studies Board Committee on the Origin and Evolution of Life (COEL), Woods Hole, MA.
Wednesday, June 8
- NASA media event on science and education projects associated with the SOFIA airborne telescope, 12:30 pm EDT (9:30 am local time) at Edwards AFB, CA
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