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Photo: www.esa.int<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Chief Strategy Officer at the\u00a0European Space Agency (ESA)<\/a>\u00a0addressed the young community of the space generation at the\u00a03-rd European Space Generation Workshop\u00a0<\/strong>(SGAC)<\/a>, which took place in Bucharest, on 9-10 March 2018. This is an advisory council to the UN for space and perfectly understandable these days, it is not an old men council, it is a young people council instead. He asserted his receptivity to the young people’s aspirations in this stage of space explorations, codenamed Space 4.0, which is a one of international participation, and young people have an essential role in defining the priorities and the targets to reach in the next decades. Among these young people, we were pleased to find a significant number of students of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, which also hosted the event. The Romanian Space Agency ROSA kindly sponsored the young Romanian participants with the fee. Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl accepted out invitation to speak to the academic community of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest. The date will be announced later.<\/p>\n

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Also on behalf of\u00a0ESA<\/a>, Christina Giannopapa, Head of the Political Affairs Office (second from the left in the photo below), Maria Gabriella Sarah and Caroline Thro were present.<\/p>\n

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The event opened with the speech of Dr. Marius Ioan Piso, President and CEO of the Romanian Space Agency \u2013 ROSA<\/a> (left) and Gabriela Melania Ciot, Secretary of State in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (second from the right).<\/p>\n

Dr. Marius Ioan Piso explained his vision on Romania’s space development, through growing of excellence centers in different areas. This growth follows a very accelerated dynamics for Romania in recent history, and that owes to Dr. Piso. There are huge steps made by Romania since the 90s, topping with the acceptance of our country in 2011 as the 19-th full member of ESA. We are proud that the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, other sister faculties and our Center of Research for Aeronautics and Space occupy a central role in the ROSA stategy.<\/p>\n

In my capacity of Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (right), I conveyed our message to the young generation of future space explorers. I mentioned that we are involved in a number of research projects of the European Space Agency through the Center of Research for Aeronautics and Space, but in the same time we \u201dsupply\u201d engineers and researchers qualified for the challenges of the frontier of knowledge. We were otherwise surprised in the most pleasant way that a lot of space industry representatives present at the event were our Alumni.<\/p>\n

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Photo: SGAC<\/p>\n

It does not seem an exaggeration to say that probably saving our planet from potential cosmic, environment or climate catastrophes depend on the power of this new generation, the space generation. Like aeronautics, the astronautics exert a phenomenal fascination and in the same time attracts people who are particularly courageous, full of character and admirable. You may be attracted to this field not only by challenging the limits of exploration, but also by joining a human community of outstanding quality. As an exponent of the elite of this community, Cosmonaut Dr. Eng. Dumitru Dorin Prunariu had a very applauded presentation. We take pride in the international appreciation of Dorin Prunariu, and Alumnus of Honour of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. About him I wrote once: \u201dWe are 6 billion people on this planet. Only the best 600 have been selected to be astronauts. You got 1 in ten million chances to be that perfect!\u201d Together with Dorin, I mentioned Hermann Oberth, as it seemed appropriate that the future space explorers, some for the first time in Romania, to hear that one of the space flight pioneers was Romanian.<\/p>\n

Another Romanian contribution belongs to the space lawyer Virgiliu Pop, ROSA researcher, responsabile of\u00a0ESERO<\/a>\u00a0program (photo). He co-founded SGAC in 2001 and author an important book in the field: \u201dWho Owns the Moon?\u201d published in 2008 at Spinger. The problem of the extraterrestrial mining will be a pregnant one in the next decades, especially under the legal perspective.<\/p>\n

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The event also enjoyed the presence of Patrick O\u2019Keeffe, NATO Legal Advisor at the COE CSW Center, and Dr. Bleddyn E. Bowen, lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester.<\/p>\n

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The panel dedicated to Space Exploration consisted of the following speakers (Photo from left to right):<\/p>\n