2010 Aerospace Conference

The 2010 Aerospace Conference celebrated another successful gathering in March at the Big Sky Resort in Big Sky, Montana. Scientists and engineers from twenty-three countries began networking the first night at a wine and cheese social, establishing a rapport among the attendees which was encouraged throughout the week not only during the sessions, but via dinners and various social events.

Among the almost five hundred papers from NASA, the Military, Universities and private sectors, eighty-five were from foreign countries. Each day, all day long throughout the week, attendees enjoyed 120 technical sessions in as many as nine parallel sessions. Topics included spacecraft and launch vehicle systems and technologies, space missions, systems and architectures, remote sensing, software and computing, management and costs.

The conference also offered excellent panels with discussions on government plans, policies, and education. Plenary talks included frontier topics on the Exploration of Space, the Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time, the Robotic Scientist, and the Search for Genghis Khan, to name a few. Not only were these venerable science and aerospace adventurers intellectually stimulating and engaging, but they were accessible to all attendees for intimate conversation during the Après sessions, an ice cream, coffee and tea social held after the last sessions of the evening.

To encourage family involvement in the sciences, the Aerospace Conference features a Junior Conference Track, where children of attendees may write and present papers. In 2010, the Junior Conference celebrated its sixteenth year with twenty-five junior authors representing every grade level from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

This outstanding conference is supported by contributors such as Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Aerospace Corporation, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Impact Technologies, Northrop Grumman, JAXA, ESA, and Southwest Research Institute to name just a few.

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