International Astronautical Federation
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The world's largest international space science organisation officially founded in 1951 at the Second International Astronautical Congress in London England.
Founding countries and their delegates included:
- Argentina: Teofilo Tabanera - Sociedad Argentina Interplanetaria (SAI)
- Austria: F. Hecht - Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung (OGfW)
- France: Alexandre Ananoff - Groupement Astronautique Francais (GAF)
- Germany:Gunter Loeser, Hermann Heinrich Koelle, F.K. Jungklaas and A. Pullenberg - Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung (GfW)
- Italy:G.P. Casiraghi, G. Partel - Associazzioni Italiana Razzi (AIR)
- Spain: Tomás Mur Vilaseca - Agrupacion Astronautica Española (AEA)
- Sweden: Ake Hjertstrand - Svenska Interplanetariska Sällskapet (SIS)
- Switzerland: J. Stemmer
- UK: Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Valentine Cleaver - British Interplanetary Society (BIS)
- USA: Andrew, G. Haley, Frederick C. Durant - American Rocket Society (ARS), E.V. Sawyer - Chicago Rocket Society, Detroit Rocket Society, Reaction Research Society.
Provisional Founding Chairman was Eugen Sänger of Austria. Guest of honour at IAC London 1951 was Hermann Oberth.
