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

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

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