As we are progressing towards the end 2021, let’s summarize what we did and where we are for Space Renaissance International. It was a quite intense and fruitful year.
A first Key Performance Indicator is membership: we have grown more than 110% in membership since November 2020, but we need more registrations, and partnerships!
Since November 2020 to June 2021 we held 6 webinars in preparation of SRIC3, the 3rd SRI World Congress, with many panelists, top experts of space themes, e.g., among others: Patrick Collins, Sam Coniglio, Andreas Bergweiler, Al Globus, Rino Russo, Tommaso Sgobba, Jonathan Tate, Luigina Feretti, Stefano Antonetti, Joe Pelton, Michelle Hanlon, Rick Tumlinson, Bernard Foing, Thomas Matula, Shaun Moss, Jerry Stone, Susan Jewell, Dan Cottita, Bruce MacKenzie, Isaac Arthur, Howard Bloom, Bart Womack, Giorgia Pontetti, Enrico Feoli, Alessandro Sciaraffa, Emanuele Pensavalle, The Cometan, Giulio Prisco, Alberto Cavallo, Tsvi Bisk, Steven Wolfe, Paul Ziolo.
On 18-19 March 2021, SRI was main partner in organizing GALIX Inaugural congress to EuroMoonMars Earth Space Innovation EMMESI Leiden/Hybrid workshop. SRI will be partner in GALIX 2022/EMMESI workshop planned on 14-17 March 2022.
End of June we held the 3rd SRI World Congress “The Civilian Space Development”, 5 days of intense discussion, 70 papers presented, a final resolution and two theses documents discussed and voted. The Congress elected the new President, Prof. Bernard Foing, and the new Board of Directors, that will lead our association during next five years, towards 2025.
The Congress was a great success, with 10 keynote speakers and more than 1000 attendees over the 5 days. Among the keynote speakers we had: Jan Wörner, Rick Tumlinson, Michelle Hanlon, Bob Zubrin, Gary Barnhard, Susan Ip-Jewell.
After the Congress, we did not rest. Thanks to the great energy of Sabine Heinz, and our new president, we are holding webinar series, twice a month, where several guests give us a lecture on top topics. Among others Bob Zubrin, Einar Larsen, Brett Hoffstadt, Marie-Luise Heuser, Susan Jewell, and many others.Last, but not least, we participated to the IAC 2021 at Dubai, assuring a good presence of SRI along the whole Congress, presenting several papers and participating to several symposiums, workshops and special sessions.
All of the lectures, the SRI Congress days and the webinars can be seen on the Space Renaissance YouTube channel. When you visit, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel (it’s free).
And, of course, we commented, cheered and supported the great progress achieved by Space X, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic: reusable rockets, Crew Dragon, Starship prototypes tests; first civilian tourists on suborbital flights, first civilian tourists flown to orbit.
For the next year, besides the continuation of the Webinar Series, we are planning great things, such as a 3 days Space Renaissance festival in Berlin, the first half of June, a Space Art project, in partnership with the Mars Society, events with ILEWG EuroMoonMars and GALIX, participation to Paris IAC 2022 in September, and many other initiatives.
Space Renaissance Academy is working to our high level education programme, to train a good number of Space Renaissance Ambassadors. A very ambitious programme, of which we shall give first information soon.
The next appointment for the Webinar Series will be December 6th, with Seth Shostak “Will Aliens have music?”
And a special invitation will be the last event of 2021, December 20th: the Goodbye 2021! Special meeting with our president Prof. Bernard Foing! That will be a very special event, where we hope we can celebrate the achievement of our membership goal for 2021! The Zoom meeting will be open to all the SRI Members and invited friends – just registered or going to register during the meeting. During the meeting all the participants will have the possibility to make questions to the SRI President, the Founder and the Board of Directors, about the 2022 program: criticisms and proposals will be welcome.
We are asking each of the SRI members and supporters to assume this priority for the next month: to bring onboard many new members, to celebrate together during the Xmas Special event and exchange season greeting and wishes for a vibrant year 2022 for Space Renaissance International!
Reference links:
- https://www.sspi.org/events/the-galix-inaugural-congress-2021
- http://www.moongallery.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/EMMESI_Workshop_programme_v6.pdf
- https://2021.spacerenaissance.space/
- https://academy.spacerenaissance.space/space-renaissance-academy-webinar-series/
- https://spacerenaissance.space/space-renaissance-at-iac-2021-in-dubai/
- https://www.youtube.com/c/spacerenaissance
We need our many thousands followers to join the SRI Crew as members, and help us bringing SRI to its deserved place, in the galaxy of space advocacy! That will not cost too much to each member, yet it will allow us to better develop our programmes!
Keep on following and supporting the Space Renaissance!
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