It came to the end of the first day of the International Conference on Space Research (GLEX-2021), organized by the Roskosmos State Corporation in conjunction with the International Astronautical Federation with the assistance of the Tourism Development Committee of St. Petersburg. This year, the conference takes place in the Tauride Palace of the city of St. Petersburg.
Traditionally for the Glex, this day was youth, a lot of students attended both Russia and from other countries attended the conference. Accordingly, the main theme of the first day was “international cooperation as the basis of the stability of space research”. This is exactly what is interested in and worries modern youth: how to build relationships between countries, how to negotiate the rules for working together in space, why not all the world institutions created for this work efficiently and what can you do with it?
In the number of speakers of the plenary session were astronette Di Pippo and Astronaut of the United Arab Emirates of Hazza Al-Mansuri, which flew to the International Space Station in 2019 on the transport piloted ship “Union MS-15”. Sergey Savelyev, who spent on behalf of the host Russian side, the Deputy General Director of the Roskosmos State Corporation on International Cooperation, said the most important words: “Cosmos must unite us, earthlings, and not disconnect.”
During the meeting, the speakers responded to the questions asked on the Internet, and it was seen that the audience worry the same problems – cosmic, but at the same time simple and understandable. Who and how should it be initiated and start working on cleaning space from cosmic garbage? Why does the cosmic leaders do not work to agree on the “rules of the game” in space? How to be those who still decided to link their lives with astronautics – what difficulties are they waiting for, with which it will have to face?
Six sections, named after the planets of the Solar System, held after the plenary session, deepened the raised problems. All participants in the conference appeared the opportunity to discuss the problems set, express their opinion, discuss it with the professionals of the space industry. Surprisingly Exko expressed general thoughts Romanian cosmonaut, participant of the Intercosmos program Dumitru Dorin Prunaryau: “Only a common desire for the study of space is not enough. There are still general, received by all rules and joint vision.”
It is clear that the questions set today cannot be resolved within the framework of the conference. Some of them simply do not have a response to date. But it was nice to see how young people are worried about the space future of our planet, how important these topics are for her.
The official part of the first day of the conference approached completion, and all the participants are waiting for another space discussion “on the fields” conference with astronauts and professionals of astronautics. It will take place on the evening of June 14, 2021 in the “Planetarium number 1”.