Astronaut John Young (left), the keynote speaker at the Thirty- Fifth Space
Congress, is presented with a model of the International Space Station by the
Congress' General Chairman Bruce Melnick. Young is the associate director responsible
for technical, operational and safety oversight of all NASA programs and activities
assigned to the Johnson Space Center. Melnick, a former astronaut, is currently vice
president of The Boeing Company and is responsible for the Payload Ground Operations
Contract at Kennedy Space Center. The Thirty-Fifth Space Congress, sponsored by the
Canaveral Council of Technical Societies, is being held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, from
April 28 to May 1 and is a gathering of the world's aerospace community to discuss
the status and future of space activities around the world.
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