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07-10-2014
New member of IAA and vice-chair of the SETI Permanent Committee
| Submitter: | Zsolt Paragi |
| Description: | The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA, http://iaaweb.org) was founded in 1960, and for the last 55 years has been bringing together the world's foremost space experts at the annual meeting of the International Astronautics Congress (IAC). In the early 1970's the IAA formally established a committee for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) known as the IAA SETI Permanent Committee (SETI PC). The Permanent Committee currently operates under the auspices of the IAA Commission on Space Physical Sciences, developing international SETI policy in areas such as the SETI post-detection protocols, and discussing good practice in related activities, including controversial topics such as METI (active SETI). This year, in Toronto, Mike Garrett was elected with 5 others as new IAA Corresponding Members of the Basic Sciences section - from Dwingeloo he joins Leonid Gurvits who was elected in 2012 - see http://www.astron.nl/dailyimage/main.php?date=20120928 A few days later, Mike was also elected to the position of vice-chair of the SETI PC. The image above shows his induction into the IAA at the members dinner with the presentation being made by the IAA president, Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, former chair of India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The dinner was attended by many space aficionados, including Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin. |
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