IAF GNF Session: Latin American Culture in Space

Day: Thursday 19 May 2022
Time: 15:20 – 16:20

As space applications products and services are intended to service society and the adoption thereof is influenced by culture, this GNF will explore how culture shapes and is being shaped by a space ecosystem.

Moderator

Bernard FOING

Space Renaissance International, President; ILEWG, Executive; LUNEX, CEO; Qosmosys, Chief Scientist

Netherlands

Speakers

Miguel AYALA

CEO and Founder, Aphelion Aerospace

United States

Nelson R. GUIM

Coordinator of the National Board for Education with Values; President of the Guayaquil Downtown Reactivation Committee

Ecuador

Katherinne HERRERA JORDAN

President & Co-Founder, Guatemalan Association of Space Sciences and Engineering (AGICE)

Guatemala

Anne W. JOHNSON

Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana

Mexico

Ericson Daniel LÓPEZ IZURIETA

Professor, Quito Astronomical Observatory; Director, National Observatory of Ecuador

Ecuador

Javier MEJUTO

Head of Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy Department, Space Sciences Faculty - UNAH, President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Honduras, Co-Chair of the IAU WG Astronomy in Culture

Honduras

Pilar ZAMORA ACEVEDO

Executive Director, Colombian Space Agency (AEC)

Colombia