The Symposium on Foreign Object Impact Damage to Composites washeld at the American Society for Testing and Materials Headquartersin Philadelphia, Pa., on 20 Sept. 1973. The symposium was sponsoredby ASTM Committee D30 on High Modulus Fibers and Their Components.L. B. Greszczuk, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co., served as thesymposium chairman.