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Tuesday 30 June 2009 at RAeS, London "Space Tourism: A New Industry in the Making". One-day conference. Organised by the RAeS Space Group. This multi-disciplinary conference aims to bring together those who will contribute to making space tourism a reality to discuss the successful development of affordable space travel. The conference will look at where the Space Tourism industry is today. It will consider the plans for the next few years; examine what is needed to realise affordable space travel; and address the industry’s hottest topics. This conference is essential for those who are looking for the latest news on recent developments in this emerging industry. It is a unique opportunity to hear from a panel of experts; to interact with the leaders and innovators from the space tourism industry; and to develop a wide range of professional relationships. An important and timely follow-up to the hugely popular space tourism conference held on 07 June 2006. Details: see full conference details here.. 

Wednesday 01 July 2009 at BIS, London  "Apollo 11 Anniversary". Organised by the British Interplanetary Society. Times: 18:30-20:30. Details: tel 020 7735 3160 email mail@bis-spaceflight.com web www.bis-spaceflight.com

Sunday 11 July 2009 at KSC, Florida  STS-127. NASA mission.  Endeavour (STS-127 / 2JA) sets sail on its 23rd mission with the Japanese Kibo Laboratory's Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section, the final permanent components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's contribution to the station program. During the 15-day mission, Endeavour's crew will perform five spacewalks and deliver six new batteries for the P6 truss, a spare drive unit for the Mobile Transporter and a spare boom assembly for the Ku-band antenna. Mark Polansky will be Endeavour's commander with Doug Hurley as pilot. Mission specialists will be Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Dave Wolf, Tim Kopra and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette. Kopra will become a station flight engineer replacing Koichi Wakata, who will return home with the STS-127 crew. It will be the 29th shuttle flight to the station. Vehicle: Endeavour. Launch time: 7:13 pm EDT, Monday 00:13 BST. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-127 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts127/

Thursday 16 July 2009 at RAeS, London  "Apollo 11: Forty Years On". Special evening event to celebrate 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. Organised by the RAeS Space Group. Refreshments 17:30, start 18:00. Usual basis: public open lecture, all visitors welcome, no admission fee, no tickets required. Details: A4 lecture flyer PDF here..

Thursday 06 August 2009 at KSC, Florida  STS-128. NASA mission. Atlantis (STS-128 / 17A) launches on its 31st flight, an 11-day mission carrying science and storage racks to the station. In the payload bay will be a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module holding science and storage racks. Three spacewalks are planned to remove and replace a materials processing experiment outside the European Space Agency's Columbus module and return an empty ammonia tank assembly. The mission includes the rotation of astronaut Nicole Stott for Tim Kopra, who will return to Earth with the shuttle crew. The remaining crew members have yet to be named. STS-128 marks the 30th shuttle flight dedicated to station assembly and outfitting. Vehicle: Atlantis. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-128 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts128/

?? September 2009  Launch of Soyuz TMA-16 to International Space Station. Soyuz 20. ISS Expedition 21.

Saturday 05 September 2009 at BIS, London  Annual General Meeting of the British Interplanetary Society. Times: 13:00. Details: tel 020 7735 3160 email mail@bis-spaceflight.com web www.bis-spaceflight.com

05-10 September 2009 at Guildford  British Science Festival. Organised by the British Science Association (formerly the BA). Venue: University of Surrey, Guildford. Details: web http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/BritishScienceFestival/

Wednesday 30 September 2009 at BIS, London  "Project Daedalus three decades on". One-day symposium. Organised by the British Interplanetary Society. Times: 09:30-16:30. Details: tel 020 7735 3160 email mail@bis-spaceflight.com web www.bis-spaceflight.com

04-10 October 2009  World Space Week. "The Largest Annual Public Space Event on Earth". Details: www.worldspaceweek.org

26-29 October 2009 at Manchester, UK  CEAS 2009 European Air and Space Conference. "New beginnings - the challenge for aerospace innovation". Confederation of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS). Venue: Manchester Central Convention Complex. Details: Call for Papers www.ceas2009.org also here http://62.173.95.6/pdfs/callforpapers.pdf  Contact: RAeS Conference & Events Department, tel 020 7670 4345, email conference@aerosociety.com  CEAS http://www.ceas.org/

?? October 2009  Return of Soyuz 18. Undocking will start ISS Expedition 21.

Thursday 12 November 2009 at KSC Florida  STS-129. NASA mission. Discovery's (STS-129 / ULF-3) 37th mission will focus on staging spare components outside the station. The 15-day flight includes at least three spacewalks. The payload bay will carry two large External Logistics Carriers holding two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly, a spare latching end effector for the station's robotic arm, a spare trailing umbilical system for the Mobile Transporter and a high-pressure gas tank. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirsk will return home aboard Discovery with its crew, which has yet to be named. STS-129 marks the 31st shuttle mission devoted to station assembly. Vehicle: Discovery. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-129 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts129/

?? November 2009  Return of Soyuz 19. Undocking will start ISS Expedition 22.

06 November 2009 at RAeS, London  Annual RAeS Aerospace and Aviation Careers Fair. Details: Rosalind Azouzi, Learning and Development Manager, tel 020 7670 4326, email rosalind.azouzi@aerosociety.com

?? December 2009  Launch of Soyuz TMA-17 to International Space Station. Soyuz 21. ISS Expedition 22.

Thursday 10 December 2009 at RAL, Didcot  5th Appleton Space Conference. One-day conference. Organised by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Details: web www.sstd.rl.ac.uk past 2008 conference http://www.sstd.rl.ac.uk/4thappleton_conference/

Thursday 10 December 2009 at KSC, Florida  STS-130. NASA mission. Endeavour (STS-130 / 20A) will close 2009 with its 24th mission. The STS-130 mission will deliver a third connecting module to the International Space Station and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics. Marine Col. George Zamka will command the shuttle Endeavour during STS-130, targeted for launch in December 2009. Air Force Col. Terry Virts, Jr., will serve as the pilot. Mission specialists are NASA astronauts Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Behnken, Nicholas Patrick, Kathryn Hire and Stephen Robinson. Virts will be making his first trip to space. Vehicle: Endeavour. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-130 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts130/

Tuesday 09 February 2010 at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire "Commercial Spaceflight - Virgin Galactic" by Will Whitehorn, President, Virgin Galactic. Organised by the RAeS Boscombe Down branch. Starts: 17:15. Details: web http://www.aerosociety.com/cmspage.asp?cmsitemid=Branches_BoscombeDown_Lectures

Thursday 11 February 2010 at KSC, Florida  STS-131. NASA mission. Atlantis (STS-131 / 19A) begins its 32nd mission as the first flight in 2010. The STS-131 mission will deliver research and science experiment equipment, a new sleeping area and supplies to the station in a logistics module carried in the shuttle's payload bay. Navy Capt. Alan Poindexter will command the shuttle Atlantis during STS-131, targeted for launch in February 2010. Air Force Lt. Col. James P. Dutton, Jr., will serve as the pilot. Mission specialists are NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio, Clayton Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki. Dutton, Metcalf-Lindenburger and Yamazaki will be making their first trip to space. Vehicle: Atlantis. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-131 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/

?? March 2010  Return of Soyuz 20. Undocking will start ISS Expedition 23.

?? April 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-18 to International Space Station. Soyuz 22.

Thursday 08 April 2010 at KSC Florida  STS-132. NASA mission. Discovery's (STS-132 / ULF-4) 38th mission will carry an integrated cargo carrier to deliver maintenance and assembly hardware, including spare parts for space station systems. In addition, the second in a series of new pressurized components for Russia, a Mini Research Module, will be permanently attached to the bottom port of the Zarya module. The Russian module also will carry U.S. pressurized cargo. The first Russian Mini Research Module to go to the station is scheduled to launch on a Russian rocket in the summer of 2009.
Additionally, at least three spacewalks are planned to stage spare components outside the station, including six spare batteries, a boom assembly for the Ku-band antenna and spares for the Canadian Dextre robotic arm extension. A radiator, airlock and European robotic arm for the Russian Multi-purpose Laboratory Module also are payloads on the flight. The laboratory module is scheduled for launch on a Russian rocket in 2011. The mission marks the 34th mission to the station. The STS-132 crew has yet to be named. Vehicle: Discovery. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-132 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts132/

?? May 2010  Return of Soyuz 21. Undocking will start ISS Expedition 24.

?? May 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-19 to International Space Station. Soyuz 23.

Monday 31 May 2010 at KSC, Florida  STS-133. NASA mission. Endeavour's (STS-133 / ULF-5) 25th mission will carry critical spare components that will be placed on the outside of the station. Those will include two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank, additional spare parts for Dextre and micrometeoroid debris shields. At least three spacewalks are planned to be carried out by the crew, which has yet to be named. The 15-day mission will be the 35th to the station. Vehicle: Endeavour. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-133 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/

19-25 July 2010 at Farnborough, Hampshire  Farnborough International Air Show 2010. Details: web www.farnborough.com

?? September 2010  Return of Soyuz 22. Undocking will start ISS Expedition 25.

?? September 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-20 to International Space Station. Soyuz 24.

?? November 2010  Return of Soyuz 23. Undocking will start ISS Expedition 26.

?? November 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-21 to International Space Station. Soyuz 25.

?? May 2011  Return of Soyuz 23.

16-22 July 2012 at Farnborough, Hampshire  Farnborough International Air Show 2012. Details: web www.farnborough.com

14-20 July 2014 at Farnborough, Hampshire  Farnborough International Air Show 2014. Details: web www.farnborough.com

18-24 July 2016 at Farnborough, Hampshire  Farnborough International Air Show 2016. Details: web www.farnborough.com