This symposium will address space education and outreach in a very broad way. ‘Education’ should be seen here as developing the full human potential of the broader population, not just attracting young people into studying mathematics and science for the nation's technical and economic benefit. In the symposium program we shall also include considerations of outreach, public awareness and expectations, as well as workforce development and capacity building, all with the goal of producing recommendations for ways forward towards a sustainable space program. The manner in which we handle the promotion of space activities, and education and public outreach can do much to enhance the ‘sustainability’ of exploration and the long-term investments in space endeavors. Potential economic benefits from space commerce as well as benefits from space environmental studies are therefore important elements that also fit well within this symposium addressing the ‘Public Face of Space’.