A selection of events upcoming during the week of 21 April 2008, as posted in the Events section of the Space Info Archive...

• North America: 21 to 23 April, Albequerque, New Mexico, USA: The Lunar and Planetary Institute is hosting a workshop about the science that can be obtained from a Martian sample return mission and how to protect the samples once they are brought to Earth: "Ground Truth from Mars: Science Payoff from a Sample Return Mission."  [link]
• Europe: 23 April, London, UK: The British Interplanetary Society is looking ahead to the post-Shuttle era in its symposium, "Next Steps for Space Infrastructure." [link]
  
• North America: 23 April, Los Altos Hills, California, USA: As part of its regular non-technical Silicon Valley Lecture Series, the Foothill College astronomy department is hosting Dr. Jill Tarter of SETI to present "The Allen Telescope Array: The Newest Pitchfork for Exploring the Cosmic Haystack."  [link]
• Europe: 26 April, London, UK: The Society for Popular Astronomy is holding its quarterly meeting at the University of London. The guest speaker at the meeting is Prof. Ian Morison of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. [link]

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A selection of events upcoming during the week of 14 April 2008, as posted in the Events section of the Space Info Archive...

• North America: 14 April, Boulder, Colorado, USA: The Space Studies Board is hosting a lecture by former Voyager Program Director and JPL Center Director Ed Stone titled "Voyager's Journey to the Edge of Interstellar Space". I'm a Voyager fan -- let me know how it goes. [link]
• North America: 17 April, Houston, Texas, USA: Planetary scientist Jeff Taylor is giving a lecture, "To the Moon! Its Science, Mysteries, and Future Settlements" at the Lunar and Planetary Institute as part of their Cosmic Explorations speaker series. [link - note: PDF file]
  
• Europe: 13 to 18 April, Vienna, Austria: The European Geophysical Union is hosting its annual General Assembly. The motto of the conference: "Geosciences is responsibility." [link]

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• North America: 7 to 10 April, Colorado Springs, USA: Space Foundation is hosting the 24th annual National Space Symposium. [link]
  
• Europe: 8 April, London, UK: The Royal Astronomical Society is hosting a lecture by Dr. Francisco Diego of the University College, London titled "What the stars have done for us: from astrology to astrophysics." [link]

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