During the Acta Astronautica Editorial Board held at the 61st IAC, Prague September 2010, Editor-in-Chief Rupert Gerzer announced that due to his steadily and steeply increasing work load at the DLR, he felt it best to turn the reins of Editor-in-Chief over to the very qualified and able (Rock) Jeng-Shing Chern who has served as Comission IV Editor since 2008. You can read Rock's editorial on ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576511001020
Acta Astronautica publishes original contributions in all fields of basic, engineering, life and social space sciences and of space technology related to:
(1) the peaceful scientific exploration of space,
(2) its exploitation for human welfare and progress and
(3) the conception, design, development and operation of space-borne and Earth-based systems.
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