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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Many of the International Space Year (ISY) activities were coordinated by the Space Agency Forum on International Space Year (SAFISY), an unprecedented global entity whose membership included 29 national space agencies and 10 affiliated international organizations, such as the United Nations and the International Council of Scientific Unions. The ISY also relied on a process that might be termed "management by inspiration", whereby SAFISY space agencies and regional ISY associations encouraged the development of hundreds of additional ISY activities by individual schools, museums, professional associations, and other public and private organizations around the world. The results of that process fill this yearbook.

(Extracted from the press release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Preface.

-1. The ISY Idea.

-2. Origins of the ISY.

-3. Space Agency Leadership.

-4. Public Activities.

-5. Global Data Policies and Programs.

-6. Mission to Planet Earth.

-7. International Cooperation in Space Science.

-8. Coming Together: ISY Conferences.

-9. Bringing Space into the Classroom.

-10. Communicating the Space Age to the Public.

-11. Celebrating the ISY.

-12. After the ISY: Continuing Activities.

-13. The ISY Legacy.

-Appendices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

OUR REVIEW

Subtitled as Yearbook of the International Space Year, this book compiles the activities that have taken place during the International Space Year (ISY), celebrated in 1992. Having been published as a special supplement of the series "Advances in the Astronautical Sciences" by the well-known American Astronautical Society, this work intends to divulge what was done during this period, and perhaps be an example of what could be done in the future in a hypothetical international space agency. The volume starts with the origins of this idea which gave birth to ISY and then describes all the programs, lectures and meetings held within the frame of this noteworthy initiative. Also about 150 pages of appendixes are included, with listings of the participant members in the ISY experimental space agency, active orbital ships during this time, etc. In actual fact, the book constitutes a good summary of everything that happened during this year. The members of astronomical and astronautical associations can ask for a 50% discount when purchasing this book.