Preface - Space conquest: man’s most audacious dream

This is the second issue of Annales Kinesiologiae reporting research presented at the International Meeting on Living the space – The space a Human Habitat, which took place in Naples on December 1–2, 2011. During the event, Space emerged as the target of men curiosity, creativity, intelligence and hard work, a place where to realize man’s most audacious dreams. The meeting organized by the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, the Second University of Naples, the University of Salerno, the University Federico II in Naples and the Italian Space Agency discussed the hot topics of this enterprise, which appears capable to solve man’s problems here on Earth.