International Space Station

G. Haskell, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, Vice President, Administration and Programme Development, International Space University e-mail: Haskell@isu.isunet.edu M. Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: Rycroft@isu.isunet.edu The theme of the fourth annual symposium arranged by the International Space University (ISU) was "International Space Station: The Next Space Marketplace". The Symposium covered this topic from the uniqu- interdisciplinary, international and intercultural - perspectives of ISU. It focussed on significant issues related to policy, innovative management, commerce, regulation, education and outreach rather than concentrating on engineering and scientific issues. Although admirable progress has already been made in defining the utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS) in its early operational phases, what does the future hold? What important new applications will arise? What commercial opportunities may emerge? And how will the political, legal and financial hurdles be overcome, not to mention the technical challenges? The aim of the Symposium was to discuss such questions and draw out new ways of using the Space Station in the future. Among the 120 attendees were members of the fourth Master of Space Studies class, young professionals and postgraduate students who are developing the Symposium's theme in their Team Project. Their comprehensive overview of the subject is presented as an Annex here. Their final report on the Team Project will be completed at the end of July 1999, and published separately.

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This book addresses issues of ISS utilization and operations from all perspectives, especially the commercial viewpoint, as well as for scientific research and technological development, and education in the widest sense of the word. It will be of great interest to those working in industry, academia and government, particularly in public-private partnerships.

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Keynote Address ISS: From Political to Scientific and Economic Preeminence.- Brazilian Participation in the International Space Station, with an Emphasis on Microgravity Research.- BEOS A New Approach to Promote and Organize Industrial ISS Utilization.- Protein Crystallography Services on the International Space Station.- Commercial Protein Crystallisation Facility: Experiences from the STS 95 Mission.- The ISS, an Opportunity for Technology in Space.- ISS: Management of the Commercial Research and Development Process.- Entrepreneurial Initiatives to Use the ISS for Profit.- From Space Station to Space Tourism: The Role of ISS in Public Access to Space.- International Space Station Commercialization: Can Canada Blaze the Trail Forward?.- Transitioning to Commercial Exploitation of Space.- International Space Station Commercialization Study.- Searching for New Opportunities from the International Space Station, and Using Them in Eastern Africa.- International Space Station: New Uses in a Marketplace of Ideas.- ISS The First International Space Classroom: International Cooperation in Hands-on Space Education.- Art Module MICHELANGELO: A Possibility for Non-Scientific ISS Utilization.- Space Education and Space-Based Education: The Russian Experience.- Legal Environment for Exploitation of the International Space Station (ISS).- Promotion of Industrial ISS Utilization by the German Space Agency.- Commercial Management for the Space Station: Making the ISS More Accessible to All.- A United Nations Module on ISS: A Study.- Commercial Development of the International Space Station.- Enabling Better Science: A Commercial Communications Payload for the International Space Station.- Commercialization of Management Know-How Generated by the ISS Program.- An InitialStrategy for Commercial Industry Awareness of the International Space Station.- Market Potential for the International Space Station (ISS) Service Sector.- ISS: Overview of Where Station is at and a Concept for Commercial Utilization.- Report on the Concluding Panel.- The International Space Station: Expanding our Knowledge of Reactions to Microgravity and Methods to Compensate the Effects of Gravity in Relation to Certain Species of Birds.- Diagnostic Solution Assistant (DSA): Intelligent System Monitoring, Management, Analysis, and Administration.- Measurements of Raised Intra-Cranial Pressure, a Cause of Space Motion Sickness.- Recording Sprites, Blue Jets and ELVES from the ISS.- Gene Therapy as a Possible Counter-measure for Long Duration Space Flight.- Some Ideas for a Global ISU Educational Program Centered on the International Space Station.- Epilogue to the ISU Symposium on ISS: The Next Space Marketplace.- Utilization of the International Space Station: A User'S Overview Executive Summary.- Utilization of the International Space Station: A User's Overview.