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> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:33:03 -0700
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>                  Final Info on Our Upcoming Conference, 
>              Space Access '05, April 28-30, Phoenix Arizona
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> This is our final mailing on the Space Access conference getting 
> underway this Thursday in Phoenix, with useful last-second info plus the 
> definitive conference agenda (subject only to on-site changes needed.)
> 
> Quick notes:
> 
>  - Speakers should be aware we do ask everyone to pay admission to the 
> conference.  Old hands know this, but we've been remiss in informing 
> newer arrivals this year - our apologies.  Any speakers caught off guard 
> by this belated announcement should feel free to ask Registration for 
> the pre-reg discount, as it's too late to pre-register without paying 
> most of the discount in overnight mail fees.
>  - Our $79 conference hotel room rate is still available for now, but
> the hotel tells us they're filling up fast and the rate may not be 
> available at the door.  The only way to get our rate is to call our 
> hotel direct (the 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. 
>  - We will have use of a credit card machine this year, at the 
> conference only.  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 around sixty, brief thunderstorms possible Friday.
> 
> 
> Final Conference Agenda
> 
> (Subject to change in emergency - speakers who hit a travel snag or 
> otherwise can't make your scheduled time, contact us ASAP at the hotel 
> direct via 602 432-5022 and we'll try to figure out a way to fix it.) 
> 
> Thursday, April 28th
> 
> Between noon and one, 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 - Rocket entrepreneurs discuss what they're 
>         looking for from various current FAA rulemaking processes.  
>         Chuck Lauer, Jeff Greason, John Powell, John Carmack, ?
> 12:20 - break for lunch 
>  2 pm - Eric Anderson, Space Adventures
>  2:40 - Jeff Greason, Dan Delong, Aleta Jackson, XCOR Aerospace
>  3:30 - break
>  4 pm - Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Pioneer Rocketplane Inc
>  4:40 - Charles Pooley, Microlaunchers
>  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 - Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets
>  9:40 - panel: "When Physics, Economics, and Reality Collide - The 
>         Challenge of Cheap Orbital Access" - John Jurist, Sam Dinkin, 
>         David 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 - Jim Muncy, T/Space, PoliSpace
>  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 - George Whitesides, National Space Society
>  9 pm - Pat Bahn, The Suborbital Institute
>  9:20 - panel: Cheap Access Politics: Where To Next? Henry Vanderbilt, 
>         Rick Tumlinson, George Whitesides, Jim Muncy, Pat Bahn, with
>         feedback from the floor.
> 10:30 - Space Access '05 sessions end
>  late - Hospitality closes - see you next time!
> 
> Hotel:
> 
> Our hotel is the Four Points by Sheraton Metrocenter, 10220 N Metro 
> Parkway East, Phoenix Arizona 85051.  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, approximately twice that via cab) with countless stores 
> and restaurants within walking distance.
> 
> Directions: 
> 
>  - From the Phoenix airport, head toward the west (24th St) end of the 
> airport then follow the signs to 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 to 
> your right as you pass through this intersection - it's the wrong one.)  
> 
>  - Stay to the right on Dunlap; you'll be turning right at the first 
> light, in a couple hundred yards. 
> 
>  - At the first light, turn right onto 29th Ave and head north. 
> 
>  -  three hundred yards up 29th, at the first light, turn right onto 
> Metro Parkway East.  You're now on the loop road around Metrocenter 
> Mall. 
> 
>  - Follow Metro Parkway East for roughly 3/4 mile, just short of halfway 
> around the loop.  The Four Points Sheraton will be on your left, at 
> 10220 N Metro Parkway East.  It's not a high-rise, so you probably won't 
> spot it till you're right in front of it.  There's a "Bennigan's" sign 
> on the right, just before the Sheraton entrance - if you pass Barnes & 
> Noble, you've gone too far.  Sheraton parking is free, and the lobby and 
> registration desk are right off the front driveway.  602 997-5900 is the 
> main hotel number if you need it. 
> 
> 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 a left at the light 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.

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