57th International Astronautical Congress.

The article reports that more than 2,000 space scientists, engineers and other specialists gathered at the Mediterranean port city of Valencia, Spain, for the 57th International Astronautical Congress. Presentations at the annual event gave a global view of the state of space exploration efforts, updating the status of active and proposed missions and offering new analysis of the trillions of data bits streaming in from spacecraft positioned from just above the Earth's atmosphere.