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Friday 14 November 2008 at KSC Florida  STS-126. NASA mission. Payload: Assembly flight ULF2 will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the ISS. Crew: Chris Ferguson will command STS-126, with Eric Boe serving as pilot. Mission specialists will be Steve Bowen, Shane Kimbrough, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Donald Pettit, Magnus and Chamitoff. Vehicle: Endeavour. Launch: 7:55 pm EST, Sat 15 Nov 00:55 GMT. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-126 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts126/

Wednesday 19 November 2008 at BIS, London  "Mars 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

  Thursday 20 November 2008 at Bristol   "Astrium Spaceplane, at the cross road of aeronautic and space". Speaker: Hugues Laporte-Weywada, Senior Vice President, Deputy Chief Technical Officer, EADS Astrium. An innovative project, addressing suborbital flights market for space tourism or for scientific missions, and merging the best of aeronautical and space technologies. Organised by the RAeS Bristol Branch. Venue: Concorde Room, BAWA Leisure Centre, Southmead Road, Filton. Tea 18:00, start 18:30. Details: A4 Poster PDF here.. Contact: Alessandra Badino email alessandra.badino@Airbus.com

Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 November 2008 at Southampton University, Southampton  "Your Future In Space". UKSEDS Annual Conference. Organised by UKSEDS. Details: Conference www.uk.seds.org/conference/ UKSEDS www.uk.seds.org

Tuesday 25 November 2008 at RNAS Yeovilton  "The New Space Age". Speaker: David Ashford, Director, Bristol Spaceplanes. Organised by the RAeS Yeovilton Branch. Venue: The Nuffield Sports Bar, RNAS Yeovilton. Start: 18:30. Contact: email chfsae@yeovilton.mod.uk

Thursday 12 March 2009 at Bristol  "Pre-cooled Jet Engines: Quick Cheap Access to Space and the Antipodes". Speaker: Alan Bond, Managing Director, Reaction Engines Ltd. Organised by the RAeS Bristol Branch. Venue: Room 1, BAWA Leisure Centre, Southmead Road, Filton. Tea 18:00, start 18:30. Contact: Alessandra.Badino@Airbus.com

Wednesday 25 March 2009  Launch of Soyuz TMA-14 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 19. Includes spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi (or Esther Dyson).

Wednesday 25 March 2009 at BIS, London  "Can Space Save the Planet?". 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

(Postponed from 14 October 2008, New date to be advised) KSC, Florida  STS-125. 125th space shuttle flight. NASA mission. Payload: Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4. Crew: Scott Altman will command STS-125, with Gregory C. Johnson serving as pilot. Mission specialists include veteran spacewalkers John Grunsfeld and Mike Massimino, and first-time space fliers Andrew Feustel, Michael Good and Megan McArthur. Vehicle: Atlantis. Launch: TBA.  Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-125 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts125/ Hubble Servicing Mission 4  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/  Hubble www.nasa.gov/hubble

Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 April 2009 at RAeS, London  RAeS Annual Conference and Exhibition. Details: www.aerosociety.com

Friday 15 May 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. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-127 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts127/

Monday 25 May 2009  Launch of Soyuz TMA-15 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 20.

Saturday 06 June 2009 at BIS, London  "Chinese/Soviet Symposium". One-day forum. 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

Thursday 30 July 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/

Thursday 01 October 2009  Launch of Soyuz TMA-16 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 21.

Thursday 15 October 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/

  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  Contact: RAeS Conference & Events Department, tel 020 7670 4345, email conference@aerosociety.com  CEAS http://www.ceas.org/

?? November 2009  Launch of Soyuz TMA-17 to International Space Station. 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

10 December 2009 at KSC Florida  STS-130. NASA mission. Endeavour (STS-130 / 20A) will close 2009 with its 24th mission to deliver the final connecting node, Node 3, and the Cupola, a robotic control station with six windows around its sides and another in the center that provides a 360-degree view around the station. At least three spacewalks are planned during the 11-day mission. The 32nd station assembly mission by a shuttle does not yet have a crew named. Vehicle: Endeavour. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-130 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts130/

11 February 2010 at KSC Florida  STS-131. NASA mission. Atlantis (STS-131 / 19A) begins its 32nd mission as the first flight in 2010, carrying a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science racks that will be transferred to laboratories of the station. The 11-day mission will include at least three spacewalks to attach a spare ammonia tank assembly outside the station and return a European experiment that has been outside the Columbus module. It will be the 33rd shuttle mission to the station. The crew has yet to be named. Vehicle: Atlantis. Details: web www.nasa.gov/shuttle STS-131 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/

?? March 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-18 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 23.

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  Launch of Soyuz TMA-19 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 24.

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

?? October 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-20 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 25.

?? November 2010  Launch of Soyuz TMA-21 to International Space Station. ISS Expedition 26.

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