MEDIA INVITED TO ATTEND AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE



October 26, 1998



Steve Nesbitt
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(281-483-5758)

<h4>Release: J98-50</h4> <h3>Media Invited to Attend American 
Astronautical Society Conference</h3> 

Congressman Nicholas Lampson (D-Texas) will deliver the keynote 
address Nov. 17 at this year&rsquo;s American Astronautical Society 
National Conference and Annual Meeting at South Shore Harbour Resort 
in League City. The theme of this year&rsquo;s conference is "Space 
Station and the International Human Exploration and Development of 
Space," and it will focus heavily on the upcoming assembly of the 
International Space Station and the recently completed joint U.S. 
Russian cooperative space flights.



The conference provides a forum for engineers, scientists and policy 
makers from industry, government and academia to discuss the human 
exploration and development of space.



Media with professional credentials are invited to attend any of the 
technical sessions of the conference which runs from Nov. 17-19. To 
reserve a space in advance, contact Carolyn Brown at 703-866-0020.



Lampson&rsquo;s address begins at 9 a.m. Also on Nov. 17, Wesley 
Huntress with the Carnegie Institute of Washington will deliver the 
second annual Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture. James Wetherbee, astronaut 
and deputy director of the NASA Johnson Space Center will chair a 
panel discussion "Pioneering Across Technical and Cultural Boundaries 
During Phase 1" at a luncheon following the morning program.



The AAS was established in 1954 as a professional, non-profit 
organization to promote knowledge of, support for and interest in 
space activities through technical publications, symposia, national 
conferences and education initiatives.

	
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