Rencontres scientifiques de Saint-Tropez

From November 21 to 23, experts and scientists will be on hand for conferences and round tables organized by Tropezian astrophysicists Patrick Michel and Sacha Brun, with the help of Alain Cirou, director of the magazine Ciel et espace.
Future space odysseys

Friday November 21, 6pm:
Conference: Astronaut Profession
By Jean-François Clervoy, a former European Space Agency astronaut, who has made a total of three flights in Earth orbit aboard the American space shuttles. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he is also the founder of Air Zero G, the only operator of weightless flights in Europe.



Saturday, November 22 :
11 a.m. - round table Return to the Moon
More than half a century after the Apollo missions that dominated the Cold War between the USA and the USSR, the Moon is once again a coveted destination. By the Americans, whose president, at the end of his first term in office, ordered NASA to land there by 2026 at the latest. By the Chinese, their new adversaries, whose first robotic missions to the Moon's surface are proof of the scale and quality of their program, which envisages a human landing before the end of the decade. India, Japan and other new countries are betting on manned flight to accelerate their presence in space. The Moon: why, how and with what resources? What is the place of states, private companies and Europe in this new episode of confrontation outside Earth.
Speakers:
Jean-François Clervoy, former ESA astronaut.
Alissa J. Haddaji, Harvard Professor of Space Law, UN Legal Affairs Group.
Xavier Pasco, Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), specialist in US space policy.

Moderator: Alain Cirou
Co-host: Patrick Michel


2:30 pm - Round table: "Mars, exploration of the Solar System and beyond".
Is humanity destined to leave Earth to colonize Mars, settle on other planets and satellites in the Solar System, or live in the huge space stations popularized by Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey"? Are we destined to become a multi-planetary species, as some believe? At a time when numerous scientific missions are exploring the worlds of the Solar System, revealing their variety, sterility and hostility; when on the blue planet the crises of biodiversity and climate are becoming more pressing by the day, what is the place and future of human activities in space? Science, exploration, military, commercial, space is multifaceted and, today, indispensable in our multi-connected societies. And more than ever, strategic.
Speakers:


Athena COUSTENIS, CNRS research director in planetology at LIRA, Observatoire de Paris Meudon.
Lionel Suchet, Deputy Director General, Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).
Xavier Pasco, Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), specialist in US space policy.

Moderator: Alain Cirou
Co-host: Sacha Brun

Sunday, November 23, 10:30 a.m.
Conference: "Space, the future of the future
By Lionel Suchet, Deputy Director General of the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).