SPACE POWER AND THE 30th ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION DAVID R. CRISWELL Lunar and Planetary Institute 3303 NASA Road 1 Houston, TX 77058 Approximately 900 people attended the Thirtieth Annual Congress of the International Astrcnautical Federation which was held in Munich, Germany, 17-22 September 1979 at the Deutsches Museum. The excellent Congress hosts were the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics with assistance of the Hermann Oberth Society, the Free State of Bavaria, the City of Munich and the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology. An exceptionally wide range of subjects was covered in the 49 scheduled sessions, current events seminars, business and committee meetings and major addresses. Topics included were satellite communications and ocean and earth observations, space law, reports on the space programs of the Soviets, Europe and the United States and the commercial company OTRAG, propulsion and advanced systems, atmospheric flight and fluid dynamics, scientific spacecraft and planetary exploration, bioastronautics, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, power systems for space, space relativity experiments, economics and humanities, space processing, large space structures, history of space flight, space power stations and orbital transfer vehicles and astrodynamics. A volume of proceedings entitled, Space Developments for the Future of Mankind, containing a selection of survey and general interest papers will be published by the IAF. Selections of other papers will be published in special issues of the Journal of the International Academy of Astronautics, Acta Astronautica. Congress sessions particularly relevant to the theme of space power for use on earth included (with preprint sequence numbers): Session 6: Scientific legal Round Table on “Large Systems in Space: Problems and Prospects” Session 12: Twenty-second International Space Law Colloquium I (79-SL38 and 79-SL01 through 09) Session 16: Power Systems for Space (79-161 through 169) Session 23: Symposium on Manned Operations in Space — Advanced Systems (79-115 through 123) Session 39: Satellite Power Stations for Earth (79-171 through 179) Session 42: Symposium on Manned Operations in Space — Large Space Structures (79-106 through 110, 112, and 113) Session 43: Astrodynamics II — Natural or Controlled Motion Around the Center of Mass (79-188, 192, 193, 194 and 195) Two meetings were held of the Working Group on Space Energy and Power which was chaired by Prof. Press Layton.
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