Human Spaceflight Committee

Committee Members  

Chair

SCIMEMI Sam

Vice-chair

• Manyapu Kavya K.

• Schlutz Juergen

Secretary

BATENBURG Peter

Members

ALLEYNE Camille

• Andersen Thomas A.E.

• Augelli Mauro

• Bach Marius

BANK Cristian

• Barde Sebastien C

BOYD Andrea

• Campan Jérôme

• DeLuna Alan T.

• Foley Kevin D.

• Fortunato Antonio

GATENS Robyn

• Gates Michele

GIRARD Guillaume

• Gonzalez Yvette Marie

• Hempsell Mark

JAIME ALBALAT Andrea

JOUMEL Pierre-Alexis

KARL Alex

King Dan

LOPEZ-ALEGRIA Michael

LOUSADA João

Morgan Eleanor

• Murakami Keiji

• Ouellet Alain

• Piras Annamaria

• Poliacek Matej

RAO Sapna

• Ritter Scott

ROBINSON Julie

• Ruttley Tara

• Sabath Dieter

• Sano Michiyo

• Schlegelmilch Barret

• Shaevich Sergey K.

• Sloan John

• Sorokin Igor V.

SONG Zhengyu

Sweet Randall E.

TURNAGE Andy

VAN TOOREN Joost

• Wei Chuanfeng

XIE Yongchun

• Yang Hong

ZIMMERMAN Jim

Friends

• Amekrane Rachid

BARTOE John-David

• Choi Gi-Hyuk

EWALD Reinhold

• Fortezza Raimondo

HAWES Michael

HUFENBACH Bernhard

MIRRA Carlo

• Ogo Hiroyuki

SUCHET Lionel

Experts

Pandya Shawna

Objective/scope of the committee

The Committee deals with the overarching aspects of human spaceflight, including governmental and commercial human spaceflight initiatives, design, research, development, utilisation, operations and management, as well as associated robotic and support technologies and activities. The Committee addresses past (Skylab, Mir, Shuttle…), present (ISS, Tjangong, Soyuz, MPCV, and commercial suborbital projects…), and future endeavours; and encompass both government and private sector initiatives.

The Human Spaceflight Committee cooperates with other IAF committees, the IAA, IISL, and the Association of Space Explorers (ASE). Special emphasis will be applied to the international character of human spaceflightand the fostering and enhancement of international cooperation.

Symposiums/sessions at the iac

The Committee organizes the Symposium on Human Spaceflight (HSF), encompassing 8 half-day sessions ranging from governmental to commercial orbital and suborbital HSF activities, HSF technologies, astronauts training, and HSF-robotic joint activities. The symposium features 4 joint sessions with other technical symposia, offering the audience the best insight into adjacent and related topics as well, and for several years has involved young graduates worldwide to join a virtual session in the frame of the Workforce Development/Young Professionals Programme Committee (WD/YPP). The HSF Symposium also co-organises since 2009 the only joint session of the IAF with the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) on the framework of international collaborative space activities.