Fwd: Space Access Update #109 2/15/05

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> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:31:13 -0800
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>                    Space Access Update #109  02/15/05 
>                  Copyright 2005 by Space Access Society 
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>         Space Access '05 Conference, April 28-30, Phoenix Arizona
> 
> We have our hotel nailed down.  It's the Four Points Sheraton,
> 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 two days before and after 
> our conference dates of April 28th through the 30th.  The Four Points is 
> next to Phoenix's Metrocenter shopping complex, fourteen miles from the 
> Phoenix airport, with fifty bars and restaurants and two hundred stores 
> within walking distance.  Rooms have a work desk, high-speed internet, 
> coffee maker, etc, and hotel has a heated olympic-sized pool, spa, and 
> 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. 
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> Our early list of confirmed presenters includes Armadillo Aerospace, 
> FAA AST, Jim Muncy/PoliSpace, Dr. Jerry Pournelle, Rocketplane LLC, 
> SpaceX (conditional on their having completed their current launch 
> campaign), Henry Spencer, Andrew Case/The Suborbital Institute, TGV 
> Rockets, and XCOR Aerospace.  We are still in the process of contacting 
> potential speakers; we expect by the time the conference rolls around 
> we'll once again have lined up more than two dozen highly relevant 
> presentations and panels over the course of our two-and-a-half day 
> event.  The conference gets underway 2 pm Thursday and runs through 
> Saturday night. 
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> This year's theme is "Still A Long Hard Road Ahead"; we plan a session 
> on the process of turning the new Commercial Space Transportation law 
> into practical regulations, and we're looking at a session on the new 
> spaceports coming onto the scene.  Along, of course, with the usual wide 
> variety of progress reports, technical backgrounders, viewpoints, and 
> new ideas from various players in this burgeoning field. 
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> 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! 
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> 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.
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> Mail checks (sorry, no credit cards) to: 
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    Michael

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Michael Wallis   KF6SPF       (408) 396-9037        [email protected]

Aristotle: 
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 established."