Fw: Space Access '04 Hotel & Speakers update 4/11/04

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>Subject: Space Access '04 Hotel & Speakers update 4/11/04
>From: [email protected]
>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:26:44 -0700
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>                              Space Access Society
>                           Space Access '04 Conference
>                      April 22-24, 2004, in Phoenix Arizona
>
>Make your arrangements ASAP to attend Space Access Society's twelfth annual
>conference on the business, politics, and technology of radically cheaper
>space transportation, Space Access '04, Thursday afternoon April 22nd through
>Saturday night April 24th, 2004, at the Ramada Hotel in downtown Phoenix
>Arizona.  The conference is less than two weeks away, airfares will only cost
>more if you wait, and rooms at our hotel and in the immediate area are 
>getting
>hard to come by.
>
>  - Hotel
>
>Our hotel this year is the AAA "Three Diamond" rated Ramada Hotel Phoenix-
>Downtown, 401 N 1st st, free parking, four miles from the Phoenix airport,
>right in the heart of the downtown convention/sports/nightlife district.  Our
>conference hotel room rate is $79.00 per night single or double, plus tax,
>rate good for three days before and after the conference on a space-available
>basis, mention "space access" for the rate when you reserve your room. For
>reservations call (602) 258-3411.
>
>Latest Hotel Info, 4/9/04 - our conference hotel, the Ramada 
>Phoenix-Downtown,
>is sold out for Thursday April 22nd, with only a handful of rooms left Friday
>the 23rd, and good availability Saturday the 24th.  Unfortunately, downtown
>Phoenix in general is like that; there's a big do at the Convention Center
>winding up Friday.  Rooms within an easy walk of our conference are generally
>either expensive or unavailable Thursday - but there's always a way.
>
>We have a backup arrangement with a hotel a mile and a half north of the
>Ramada, the Wingate Inn, 2520 N Central, 602 716-9900, with a AAA rate of $98
>for Thursday.  The Wingate has a free airport shuttle (call from the airport)
>and free by-arrangement shuttle service within a five-mile radius, plus a 
>free
>continental breakfast.
>
>What we recommend is that you book what nights you can at the Ramada - our 
>$79
>rate is good through the conference - then call the Wingate (or another hotel
>of your choice, of course) for the remaining nights.  And don't forget to
>check back with the Ramada as the conference nears - cancellations happen and
>rooms do open up; you could end up not commuting after all.
>
>
>  - Agenda
>
>Our conference will once again be a cross-section of who's who in the 
>emerging
>low-cost launch industry, presenting an informal snapshot of where things are
>this spring of 2004.  The current speakers list:
>
>
>Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets
>  - Update From Oklahoma, or Propulsion On The Plains
>  - The Suborbital Institute
>
>John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace
>
>Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Pioneer Rocketplane
>
>Len Cormier, PanAero
>  - Space Van 2008
>
>Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
>
>FAA AST
>
>Jeff Greason of XCOR
>  - An Informal Workshop On The FAA AST License Process
>
>John Hare
>  - Minimum Requirements For Useful Airbreathing Propulsion
>    And A Possible Approach
>
>George William Herbert, Retro Aerospace
>  - You're Going To Burn It Anyway: Expendable Bulk Cargo Lift
>  - Orbital Space, Plain: Crewed Utility Vehicle
>
>Jim Muncy, PoliSpace
>  - HR 3752
>
>Leik Myrabo, Professor at RPI & CEO Lightcraft Technologies
>  - Beamed Energy Propulsion Survey
>  - Update On The Lightcraft Project
>
>Jerry Pournelle
>  - X Projects: How Government Can Help, Not Harm
>
>John Powell, JP Aerospace
>
>Brant Sponberg, Program Manager, NASA Office Of Exploration Systems
>  - Introduction To NASA's Centennial Challenges Program
>
>Barbara Thompson, Project Scientist, Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA GSFC
>  - Space Weather, Conditions And Forecasting
>
>Rick Tumlinson, Space Frontier Foundation
>
>Brian "Rocket Guy" Walker
>
>Henry Spencer
>  - Various Subjects Of His Choosing
>  - A Survey Of Potential Launch Sites
>
>Henry Vanderbilt, Space Access Society
>  - Industry News & Updates
>
>Laurie Wiggins, ToSpace
>
>Dennis Wingo, Orbital Recovery Corp
>
>XCOR Aerospace
>
>X-Prize
>
>and also panel discussions on, among other things:
>  - Commercial Reusable Launch Regulation
>  - Liability & Insurance Issues For Commercial Suborbital Operations
>  - Where Do We Go From Here?  Politics/Prizes/Moon-Mars Initiative
>
>Be here or miss out - a big part of our relaxed atmosphere and up-to-the-
>minute inside information is that we don't ask for formal papers.  Alas, this
>also means we don't do conference proceedings; the time and expense would be
>prohibitive.  So be here!
>
>Watch our web site, http://www.space-access.org, for updates on the 
>conference
>and the detailed agenda.
>
>Space Access '04 sessions are in the Ramada's 250-seat Arizona Ballroom.
>Sessions will run 2-10 pm Thursday April 22nd, then all day and evening 
>Friday
>the 23rd and Saturday the 24th, with breaks midmorning and midafternoon plus
>longer breaks for (on your own) lunch and dinner.
>
>Registration (in the Ramada lobby) and our reknowned Space Access Hospitality
>lounge (in the Marilyn Monroe Suite, 4th floor, across the pool courtyard 
>from
>the lobby) will be open by 8 am Friday and Saturday.  Hospitality stays open
>till late all nights.
>
>Space Access '04 registration is $100 in advance, $120 at the door, $10 off
>these rates for SAS members.  $30 Student rate.  Day rates at the door only.
>One year's SAS membership is $30, please include your email address for
>Updates.  Mail checks and registration form to:
>
>Space Access Society (SA'04), 4855 E Warner Rd #24-150, Phoenix AZ 85044.
>
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     Michael

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Michael Wallis           (408) 396-9037             [email protected]