The social media teams at DLR and ESA are delighted to announce that the SocialSpace invitations – to invitees plus waitlistees –are being emailed in just a few minutes! Check your mail, and we hope that 60 of you can join us on 22 September in Cologne.

We received well over 350 applications from over a dozen countries for just 60 seats, making the selection process rather challenging.

All of us were delighted to see so many of our past social media participants applying again: we know you and how passionate you all are about space! However, we must be fair, and so we adopted a general rubric to try and give the newbees a chance. Thus, we had to make some tough choices on the final invitee list.

We suspect that some of you will be a bit disappointed (as we are – we love meeting you guys!). We know you’ll understand that it’s incumbent on DLR and ESA to make an effort to spread the seats around – and I can reassure you this doesn’t mean ‘our oldies’ won’t ever be invited back: we’ll look forward to seeing your applications for our future SocialSpace events.

And for all of us: it means our space family is getting bigger! 🙂

IMPORTANT: If you receive an invitation mail, it is vital that you confirm your acceptance by email to contactsocialspace@gmail.com no later than 12:00 CEST, 9 September, if you are able to attend.

If you can no longer attend, please let us know so we can allocate your seat to our waitlistees.

We look forward to meeting you all in Cologne!