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The International Astronautical Federation is the only professional
society in the field of aerospace engineering and Sciences which
brings together specialists of all countries interested in the
exploration and peaceful exploitation of space. At its annual
Congresses a large number of invited and/or carefully selected con
tributed papers are presented which cover a wide variety of topics
and are distributed over a number of sessions, each one being
organized by two leading scientists who later chair the session
itself. Each year the selection of specific topics to be dealt
with. is dictated either by significant new progress achieved in
some sectors or by new developments and trends which are liable to
influence substantially the objectives toward which space research
and/or application of space technology will be oriented in the
immediate future. A second rigorous screening, performed with the
help of the Session Chairmen and carried out according to the same
criteria identifies finally the papers which are published in the
Proceedings. The outcome of all this is reliable and authoritative
information as to the actual status and future trends of space
activities, both from the research point of view and from the point
of view of u ilization and/or application."
Space scientists and engineers belonging to the professional
societies associated with the International Astronautical
Federation gathered together in Vienna to hold the Federation's
23rd Congress. A selected number of papers and critical surveys
that were presented and debated at this Congress and which span the
widely diversified field of astonautics are collected in the
present Proceedings, together with a number of summaries of Round
Table Discussions andjor Forum Sessions. As its predecessors in the
series, Astronautical Research 1972 constitutes an indispensable
reference for several groups of people: those who are actively
engaged in astronautics; those who are interested in following and
assessing, year by year, the developments in astronautics, its
progress, its new directions in research; and those who are
concerned with its many applications. Space science and technology
are bound to play an increasing role in the immediate future, now
that greater effort is being devoted to the exploitation of their
relevance to other fields of human activity. Problems posed by the
scarcity of earth resources and by their inadequate management,
pollution problems, problems created by man's indiscriminate and
often irresponsible action in vital sectors of the biosphere can be
tackled and successfully alleviated, if not solved, by means of the
soft and hard advanced technology developed for space systems.
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