Events of Interest: Week of October 1-5, 2012

The following events may be of interest in the coming week.   Congress is in recess (except for pro forma sessions) until after the elections.

Monday-Friday, October 1-5

• International Astronautical Congress, Naples, Italy, including meetings of the
  • International Astronautical Federation
  • International Academy of Astronautics
  • International Institute of Space Law

Tuesday-Wednesday, October 2-3

• NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Planetary Science Subcommittee, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
  • For anyone who missed Orlando Figueroa's presentation of the results of the Mars Program Planning Group, he is on the PSS agenda to present the report again at 1:00 pm EDT.

Thursday, October 4

• NASA Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), Monrovia, CA

Thursday-Wednesday, October 4-10

• United Nations World Space Week, celebrating the beginning of the Space Age on October 4, 1957, the launch of the world's first satellite -- Sputnik -- by the Soviet Union