Commonwealth Astronautical Committee

From The Space Library

The Commonwealth Astronautical Committee was first assembled in Amsterdam at the 1958 International Astronautical Congress. Representatives from Britain, Canada and other countries gathered to discuss the possibility of the Commonwealth creating a competing space program. Effectively creating a third contestant in the space race. Canadians were represented at the first meeting by Arthur Maine, secretary of the Canadian Astronautical Society based in Downsview Ontario. Representing the British delegation was the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). Plans were made for the BIS to host the first Commonwealth Space Symposium the following year in London.