session 3

Title: History of Australian and Asia-Pacific Contribution to Astronautics
type: oral
Description: This Session will focus on the history of Australian and Oceania in space, including topics on space programs, technical contributions, political influences and effects, space science activities, space architecture, and social and cultural influences. Contributions must address events that occurred at least 25 years ago.
Date: 2025-10-03
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C2.5

IPC members

Co-Chair: Ms. Kerrie Dougherty, Australia;
Co-Chair: Dr. Otfrid G. Liepack, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Philippe Cosyn, Independent scholar, Belgium;
Rapporteur: Mr. Gurbir Singh, The British Interplanetary Society, United Kingdom;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	australia and the manned space flight network: from mercury to skylab	20		Ms. Kerrie Dougherty		Australia
2	10:35	Australian approaches to space: public opinion and policy in Australia's space history	20		Dr. Tristan Moss	University of New South Wales	Australia
3	10:55	Asia-Pacific astronauts and their impact on space activities in the region prior to the 2000s	20		Dr. Maximilien Berthet	University of Tokyo	Japan
4	11:15	THE SEARCH FOR THE APOLLO 11 SSTV TAPES	20		Mr. John Sarkissian	CSIRO	Australia
5	11:35	Creating a Law – The Historical, Political and Commercial Path to an Australian Space Law	20	confirmed	Dr. Joel Lisk	Flinders University	Australia
6	11:55	The Endeavour Space Telescope: an unsung hero of Australian space ambitions	20		Ms. Kerrie Dougherty		Australia
*		Aerospace awareness and the colonization of the Amazon region: presentation by Eng. Pedro E. Paulet at the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress in Lima 1925	15		Mr. David Villanueva	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos	Peru
*		Paths and Modes of Technological Innovation for Future Aerospace Development--Practice and Reflection based on China's Aerospace	15		Dr. Xuemei Ma	China Academy of Space System Science and Engineering	China