UPDATED: Events of Interest: Week of Jan. 3-8, 2010

UPDATED: Events of Interest: Week of Jan. 3-8, 2010

UPDATE: This article is updated to note that the House and Senate both are scheduled to meet at noon on January 5 to begin the second session of the 111th Congress. No legislative business is currently scheduled, however.

The following events may be of interest in the coming week. See our calendar on the right menu for further details or click on the links below.

January 3-7, Washington, DC

  • American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road, N.W. Sessions of particular interest to the space policy community include:
    • January 4, NSF Town Hall Meeting, 12:45 pm-1:45 pm
    • January 5, James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall Meeting, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
    • January 5, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
    • January 6, NASA Astronaut John Grunsfeld (Hubble Repair Mission), 8:30 am-9:20 am
    • January 6, NASA Town Hall Meeting, 12:45 pm-1:45 pm

January 4-7, Orlando, FL

  • AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando World Center Marriott. The National Research Council’s Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space will hold a Town Hall meeting on January 6 from 9:00 am to noon in Grand Ballroom 13.

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