[Fwd: Fw: latest SA'05 conference info, with detailed agenda]
FYI,
Mark Reiff
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Subject: latest SA'05 conference info, with detailed agenda
From: sas@xxxxxxxxxx
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:07:58 -0700
Latest Info on Our Upcoming Conference,
Space Access '05, April 28-30, Phoenix Arizona
Space Access '05 gets underway in less than a week - if you haven't
already made your travel arrangements, do it now! Rooms are still
available at our hotel, but cheap airfares are going away fast.
Quick notes:
- We've negotiated an extension on our $79 conference hotel room
rate, but it's only available if you call our hotel (Four Points by
Sheraton Phoenix Metrocenter, 602 997-5900, mention "space access")
between 8 am and 4 pm weekdays Mountain Standard Time (EDT-3) since
outside those hours calls automatically get switched to the Sheraton
national reservations center, which no longer has our rate listed.
- If you still have any difficulty booking a room at our rate for SA'05,
drop us a note at sa05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ASAP. Thanks!
- Preregistrations must arrive at our mailbox by Wednesday April 27th
at the latest.
- We will have use of a credit card machine this year, at the
conference only - a local science fiction convention organization is
loaning us the use of their account. As long as you don't have a
problem with a charge from "Leprecon Inc" showing up on your account,
you can register at-the-door for Space Access via credit card. We will
also (as always) accept personal checks or cash.
- The forecast for our dates is clear and sunny, highs around eighty,
overnight lows in the sixties. Bring sunblock if you plan to hang out
by the pool or walk around a lot during the day!
Semi-Final Conference Agenda
(Subject to change - if we've scheduled you at an impossible time,
contact us ASAP and we'll figure out a way to fix it.)
Thursday, April 28th
noonish, depending on how setup goes:
- Space Access '05 Hospitality opens, Suite 317 (just off the hotel lobby
elevators, two floors up)
- Registration opens, in the "library" (between the hotel lobby and the
Mesquite Room where our sessions will be)
(Note - that overworked A/V tech in t-shirt and jeans doing setup
Thursday is NOT the Executive Director; leave him alone to get his job
done. The Executive Director is the one who'll show up a bit later
dressed respectably; he'll be glad to chat.)
2 pm - brief welcome, Henry Vanderbilt, Executive Director of SAS
2:05 - Henry Spencer, "Sustainable Spaceflight Beyond LEO"
3:15 - Wes Kelly, Triton Systems
3:45 - break
4:15 - George Herbert, Venturer Aerospace, "Manned Capsules For Earth
Orbit and Beyond"
4:55 - Lt. Cole Doupe, AFRL, with DARPA/Air Force FALCON Small Launcher
and ARES Reusable Rocket Stage Demonstrator briefings
5:40 - Steve Harrington, Flometrics, with a pistonless pump demo
6 pm - break for dinner
8 pm - Registration closes
8 pm - Jordin Kare, on "Laser Launch: It's Steamship Time"
8:50 - Gerry Nordley, Tethers Unlimited
9:20 - Parker E C Bradley, Heron Aerospace, "Cannon Assisted Rocket
Launches: Opening A New Commercial Frontier"
9:50 - Henry Cate, "Bootstrapping LEO Tethers"
10:10 - Vincent Cate, "Regolith Return Tether"
10:30 - end of Thursday sessions
late - Hospitality closes
Friday, April 29th
8 am - Registration and Hospitality open
9 am - Tim Hughes, majority counsel to the House Science Committee,
on the intent behind various sections of the recent Space Launch
Amendments Act
9:40 - George Nield, Deputy Associate Administrator for Commercial
Space Transportation, FAA AST
10:20 - break
10:50 - Michelle Murray, FAA AST, on the mechanics of the rulemaking
process whereby new law becomes detailed regulations
11:30 - panel discussion - Various Regulatees discuss what they're
looking for from the current rulemaking process begun by the
recent Space Launch Amendments Act
12:20 - break for lunch
2 pm - Eric Anderson, Space Adventures
2:40 - XCOR Aerospace
3:30 - break
4 pm - Jim Muncy, PoliSpace
4:40 - Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets
5:10 - panel: Questions To Ask Before You Wire The Money: A Space
Startup Investor's Checklist. Fleming, Olson, Pistritto, ?
6 pm - break for dinner
8 pm - Registration closes
8 pm - Brooke Owens, X-Prize/X-Prize Cup
8:40 - David Hoerr, author of "The Rocket Company"
9:10 - Charles Pooley, Microlaunchers
9:40 - panel: "When Physics, Economics, and Reality Collide - The
Challenge of Cheap Orbital Access" - Jurist, Dinkin, Livingston
10:30 - end of Friday sessions
late - Hospitality closes
Saturday, April 30th
8 am - Registration and Hospitality open
9 am - John Powell, JP Aerospace
9:50 - Len Cormier, PanAero LLC, "Space Van 2009"
10:20 - break
10:50 - Chuck Lauer, Rocketplane LLC
11:30 - Rick Tumlinson, Space Frontier Foundation
12:00 - Dave Masten, Masten Space
12:20 - break for lunch
2 pm - Registration closes
2 pm - John Carmack, Phil Eaton, Russ Blink, Armadillo Aerospace
2:50 - Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Pioneer Rocketplane Inc
3:30 - break
4 pm - Dennis Wingo, Orbital Recovery
4:40 - David Anderman, Constellation Services
5:20 - Tom Taylor, Lunar Transportation Systems
6 pm - break for dinner
8 pm - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
8:40 - panel: Cheap Access Politcs: Where To Next? Vanderbilt,
Tumlinson, Case, Muncy, ?
9:30 - Wrapup session, with feedback from the floor.
10:30 - Space Access '05 sessions end
late - Hospitality closes - see you next time!
You'll notice we run a single program track throughout, so you don't
have to miss a thing. This does mean we need to make the schedule a bit
intensive. Intensive, but also relaxed and informal - dress is casual,
speeches are kept to a minimum, and we don't do formal banquets. All
meals are on-your-own, so you can get together with the people you want
to be talking to at one of the many good places to eat and drink, in the
hotel or within a few minutes walk. Plus of course, there's our world-
reknowned Space Access Hospitality suite, serving fine finger-food and a
variety of beverages (non-adult per agreement with the hotel, but you
can always bring something up from the hotel bar) open from 8 am till
the small hours of the morning for your relaxation and conversation.
Hotel:
Our hotel is the Four Points by Sheraton Metrocenter, 10220 N Metro
Parkway East, Phoenix Arizona 85051, 602 997-5900 for reservations,
mention "Space Access" for our $79 conference room rate ($109 for cabana
suite), rate good for up to three days before and after our conference
dates of April 28th - 30th. The Four Points is in Phoenix's
"Metrocenter" shopping complex, fourteen freeway miles from the Phoenix
airport (cab rates in Phoenix vary; it's $12 by blue "Super Shuttle"
airport van) with fifty bars and restaurants and two hundred stores
within walking distance. Rooms have a work desk, coffee maker, etc, and
the hotel has wireless internet, a heated olympic-sized pool, spa,
fitness center, and free parking. We're quite pleased to be bringing
you a newer hotel in a better location for the same rate as last year.
Directions: From the Phoenix airport, follow the signs for Interstate 10
West.
- Once on I-10 West, look for exit 143 to I-17 North in a few miles.
(I-10 and I-17 connect twice in Phoenix - don't worry, either way you
find I-17, take it north.)
- Once on I-17 North, take it to exit 207, Dunlap Road. Turn left at
the top of the ramp (west) onto Dunlap. (Ignore the Sheraton visible
just northeast of this intersection - it's the wrong one.)
- Stay right once on Dunlap; you'll be taking the first right (north) a
hundred yards or so up Dunlap, onto 29th Ave.
- The first road you'll hit will be the loop road around the
Metrocenter Mall, Metro Parkway. Turn right on Metro Parkway East, and
follow it about a half mile (1/3rd of the way around the loop) and the
Four Points Sheraton will be on your left.
Coming in from the west on I-10, take exit 143 to I-17 north then follow
the above directions from there.
Coming in from the north down I-17, take exit 208, Peoria Ave. Turn
right onto Peoria, take your second left onto 28th Drive, take your
second left onto Metro Parkway East, and the Four Points will be a
couple hundred yards down on your right.
Space Access '05 will once again be a mix of the usual suspects and some
interesting new additions, once again providing an intensive informal
snapshot of where this fast-moving new cheap space access industry has
gotten to as of spring 2005. Be there!
Space Access '05 registration once again holds steady at $100 in advance,
$120 at the door, $10 off for SAS members. $30 Student rate, no member
discount. Day rates available at the door only. One year's SAS
membership is $30, please include your email address for Updates.
Mail checks (sorry, no credit cards for preregistration) to:
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Space Access Society, 5515 N 7th St #5-348, Phoenix AZ 85014.
Name _____________________________ email _______________________________
Affiliation, if any (for badge) ________________________________________
Address ________________________________________________________________
SA'05 ______ SAS ($30) ______ Total Enclosed ______
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Mark Reiff <markreiff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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