Senior representatives and astronauts from the ISEB Agencies interact with sponsored university students during a panel session about human exploration of space organised in the International Student Zone during the IAC 2012 congress. From left: Chiaki Mukai, former JAXA Astronaut, Head of JAXA Center for Applied Space Medicine and Human Research (J-CASMHR); Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations and former ESA Astronaut; Jean-Marc Comtois, Chief of Astronauts, CSA; Leland D. Melvin, former NASA astronaut, Associate Administrator for Education; and Elisabeth Blaber, Phd Student from Australia.