The deputy head of NASA, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), the head of the European Union's space program, the deputy director of the Chinese space program, a Chinese technaut and more. The Ilan Ramon conference will be held on January 30 and 31 at the Fisher Institute in collaboration The Ministry of Science and the Space Agency
A distinguished team of delegations from around the world opens this year's annual space conference. For the first time, a delegation from China is coming to Israel, which includes the Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Program, Wang Zhang-yao and the Chinese Technaut Jing Haifeng, who will present goals and directions in China's manned space program, Lori Garber, the Deputy Head of NASA, will open the conference by presenting the goals USA in Space, Jean-Jacques Durdin, Director General of the European Space Agency and Dr. Paul Weissenberg, Head of the European Union's Space Program, will expand on Europe's goals in space.
The Ilan Ramon conference is held every year as the main event in memory of the victims of the space shuttle Columbia and is held near the memorial of the late Ilan Ramon. This is a major event in the field of space in Israel, which receives great resonance and is a central meeting point for senior officials in the field of science and space from around the world. The conference will open with the blessing of President Shimon Peres.
A delegation of astronauts from NASA will arrive at the conference, led by the American astronaut T. J. Kramer, an engineer and experiment officer at the International Space Station on Expeditions 22 and 23, who stayed in space for 163 days. General (3 stars) Susan Helms, commander of the 14th Air Force, the most senior woman in the US Air Force, a former astronaut, who holds the world record for staying outside the space station - 8 hours and fifty six minutes. Norman Augustine, former president of Lockheed Martin. Augustine, will speak about new goals in the manned space program.
Dr. Jacob Cohen, a senior researcher at the NASA Ames Space Center, engaged in astrobiology research in space, will lecture on the latest innovations in the field in a joint session with Prof. Ehud Bacher, head of the Asher Institute for Space Research at the Technion, who will refer to space as a laboratory leading the The study of astrophysics.
Major Susan Helms, commander of the 14th Air Force, the US Air Force's strategic command, a former astronaut, who will address the role of space as a strategic element in global stability.
At the opening event of the conference, in the presence of the Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Ilan Ramon Ministry of Science scholarships will be awarded to outstanding researchers in the fields of science and space.
The second day of the conference will deal with the role of space as a promoter of technological education. During the day, Major General Yitzhak Ben-Israel, Chairman of the MoLMOP and Chairman of the Israel Space Agency, Prof. Haim Ashad, Head of the Space Directorate at the Ministry of Defense, Dr. Michael Neufeld, from the Aviation and Space Museum in the USA will speak. The day will be marked by a lecture by the first teacher astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was trained for the position as part of teacher training and has since flown several times into space.
At the same time as the conference, a comprehensive professional exhibition will be presented where the leaders of the military and civilian industry in Israel will present the latest innovations in their fields.
The Ilan Ramon conference, in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Israel Space Agency and the Ramon Foundation, will be held on January 30 and 31 at the Fisher Institute in Herzliya.
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So is she a major or a general?
"Major Susan Helms, commander of the 14th Air Force, the strategic command of the US Air Force, former astronaut" - well, when will we have women as commanders?