›1st. International Moon Day Brazil

The 1st. INTERNATIONAL MOON DAY BRAZIL will be held on July 19, 2022, as part of the worldwide celebration of the International Moon Day.

The Moon Village Association (MVA) proposed to the United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) to establish a worldwide day of celebration commemorating humanity’s first steps on the Moon by the Apollo-11 mission: “International Moon Day” (IMD), annually, on the 20th of July. This recommendation was officially adopted by the UN General assembly on December 9, 2021.

IMD 2022 will consist of global and local events occurring throughout the week of July 20, across cultural, scientific, technical, entrepreneurial, educational and contemporary divides, and will involve diverse stakeholders from the space industry including business, academia, government and civil society.

The Brazilian IMD program is:

Date/Time: July 19, 2022 / 2 pm - 5 pm BRT

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Platform: Zoom and MVA’s YouTube (https://youtu.be/Ili6kDmsryI)


Registration link: https://www.even3.com.br/ancpaleapidseb2022/


Program:

Moon Village Association and International Moon Day
Speaker: Suyan Cristina Malhadas – Brazilian National Coordinator of the Moon Village Association, Member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).

NASA’s Artemis Program
Speaker: Luis Eduardo Vergueiro Loures da Costa – Head of the Department of Aerospace Systems at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA).

The Brazilian Framework for the Artemis Accords
Speaker: Rodrigo Leonardi - Technologist and Coordinator of Satellites and Applications in the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB).

Garatéa Mission and cis-lunar economy
Speaker: Lucas Fonseca – Space Entrepreneur, CEO at Airvantis, Stratolit and Board of Garatéa Mission.

Host: Bianca Ramalho - Moon Village Association/ Catholic University of Santos

Moderator: Thaís Zandoná - Moon Village Association/ Catholic University of Santos

Debaters: Natalia Rosa Oliveira (Space Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association in Santos/ Catholic University of Santos)
Marina Lima (Brazilian Space Startups Alliance/ Catholic University of Santos)


Organisers:
Suyan Cristina Malhadas (National Coordinator - Moon Village Association/ Catholic University of Santos),
Marina Huidobro (President – Space Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association in Santos/ Catholic University of Santos),
Ian Grosner (Brazilian Space Agency/ Catholic University of Santos),
Natalia Rosa Oliveira (Space Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association in Santos/ Catholic University of Santos),
Thaís Zandoná (Moon Village Association/ Catholic University of Santos),
Marina Lima (Brazilian Space Startups Alliance/ Catholic University of Santos),
Bianca Ramalho (Moon Village Association/ Catholic University of Santos)