Accord with ESA Provides Backdrop for Conference

摘要

European Space Agency (ESA) Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain, along with the executive director of the Paris-based International Astronautical Federation and national space coordinators from European Union (EU) member states generated an unusually large footprint over a traditionally U.S.-centric annual event here at Israel's Fisher Institute for Strategic Air and Space Studies. Nearly 1,300 government, industry, military and academic representatives from around the world took part in the two-day in- ternational conference commemorating Israeli astronaut Han Ramon and members of NASA's ill-fated STS-107 Columbia mission.