The 2nd IAA Conference on Private Human Access to Space to be held in Arcachon, France is co-sponsored by the IISL. Abstracts of legal,regulatory and insurance topics are welcome and the deadline for these has been extended until 15 January 2011.

The Symposium aims at addressing all subjects related to the "Space Transportation of Passengers on a Commercial Basis". The overall goal is to identify and evaluate the key topics associated to Private Human Access to Space, mainly concerning Sub- Orbital Missions.

• The Symposium will deal with the major Technical features of the potential solutions, providing participants with a good understanding of the progress made by the entities already engaged in development and those on the verge of doing so,
• The Symposium will address Legal, Regulatory and Insurance aspects, on both certification and safety features of commercial human space flight: current limitations will be identified and future actions will be proposed,
• The Symposium will deal with the Financial aspects associated to the development of Private Human Access to Space, mainly in terms of overall evaluation of development and operational efforts, associated business plans and financing schemes,
• The Symposium will help identifying the motivations of the potential customers in order to consolidate the foreseen market and associated customers requirements linked to this new branch of Access to Space,
• The Symposium will deal with the constraints associated to human flights in the frame of commercial initiatives, mainly in the physiological aspects, the psychological ones and the associated ergonomics constraints,
• The Symposium will deal with ground infrastructures, future spaceports, space tourism bases together with associated services such as side activites and entertainement.

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