This week a two days space meeting took place in Kiruna with the objective to develop Kiruna as a Space City. Around 50 persons from the space community and other disciplines all over Sweden gathered to brain storm around three head topics: Spaceport Sweden - focusing on space flights for tourists from Kiruna in a couple of years. Space Campus - focusing on all the space activities already going on in Kiruna since more than 50 years The Space City of Kiruna - focusing on how to make Kiruna even more involved in space activities The meeting included speeches, workshops and presentations of all ideas that came up during the brain storming. Two most inspiring speakers participated from far away connected by skype. It was Patricia Hynes from ISPCS in New Mexico and Michael Blum, future space traveler with Virgin Galactic and investor in space tourism, who was connected from California, US. Read what Leif Arndorf has written about the brain storming meeting on his web site about space tourism (in Swedish) For further enquiries and information on Spaceport Sweden please contact: Johanna Bergström-Roos Information Manager at Spaceport Sweden and Esrange Space Center (Swedish Space Corporation) Phone: +46 980 720 24 or +46 70 544 60 21 E-mail: johanna.bergstrom-roos@ssc.se

Asta Pellinen, IRF, presenting ideas of her group. Brain storming going on. Leif Arnndorf held an inspiring speech about space tourism.   Olle Norberg, SSC, sharing the thoughts of his group.