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60 Years of the IAF 1951-2011

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IAF and AIAA to Host Global Space Exploration Conference
Media Invitation: Space Update Lectures Return to IAF Spring Meeting
Dr Christian Feichtinger to Become New IAF Executive Director
IAF flag en route to Tiangong 1
2011 Allan D. Emil Memorial Award
IAF 60th Anniversary Award Recognizes GPS
Global Space Actors to meet in Cape Town
IAF 60th Anniversary

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60 Years of the International Astronautical Federation

In our video, industry leaders, young professionals, agency heads and community members from around the world talk about the IAF...

On this day in space history

On 17 May 1835, J. Norman Lockyer was born, discoverer of the element helium in 1868. He was making visual spectroscopic studies of the Sun (helios) when he attributed unknown absorption lines to the new element, not discovered on Earth until 1891. Helium is the second simplest and most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen.