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2010 Agenda

Past is prologue: The future of the space industry from the perspective of the those who helped get it started

Chair:  Jeff Greason, CEO, XCOR Aerospace

Speakers:

  • Guruswami Ravichandran, Director of Graduate Aeronautics Lab, California Institute of Technology
  • Bill Campbell, Retired Chief Engineer, Aerojet
  • Rick Sturdevant, Deputy Director of History, U.S. Air Force Space Command
  • Fredrick Bachtel, Director Strategic Planning & Initiatives, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

 

Closing the credibility gap:  The role of suborbital testing as a pathfinder to orbital markets or as an end market in itself

Chair: Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC, video 1, video 2

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Establishing the commercial space market: Matching business strategy with funding sources

Chair: Lee Rand, Partner, Sun Mountain Capital

Speakers:

  • Grant Anderson, P.E., VP of Engineering, Co-founder, Paragon Space Development Corporation
  • Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Chairman, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
  • Tim Pickens, Commercial Space Advisor / Chief Propulsion Engineer, Dynetics
  • Robert Bigelow, Owner and Founder, Bigelow Aerospace, LLC

 

FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation

Chair:  Ken Davidian, FAA

Speakers:

  • Pat Hynes, Executive Director, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation
  • Sam Durrance, Professor, Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
  • Van Romero, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  • Jim Vanderploeg, Associate Professor of Aerospace Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
  • Farrukh Alvi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
  • Barbara Couture, President, New Mexico State University
  • Jay Kapat, Professor, FCAAP, Univeristy of Central Florida
  • Larry Ukeiley, Professor, FCAAP – Univeristy of Florida

 

The practical impact of ITAR and reform on commercial space

Chair:  Bob Dickman, Major General, USAF (Retired), and Executive Director, AIAA

Speakers:

  • Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC
  • Sven Grahn, Senior Advisor, Swedish Space Corporation and Senior Consultant for Spaceport Sweden
  • Franceska Schroeder, Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C., Washington, DC
  • Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

 

The path forward from DC-X/XA

Co-Chairs: Bill Gaubatz, President, SpaceAvailable and Jess Sponable, Technical Advisor Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Speakers:

  • Nino Polizzi, Vice President, Customer Integration Universal Space Network
  • David Masten, President and CEO, Masten Space Systems
  • Yoshifumi Inatani, JAXA to Yoshifumi Inatani, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
  • Neil Milburn, VP Program Management, Armadillo Aerospace, LLC
  • James Ball, Senior Manager, Flight Engineering, The Boeing Company
  • Fredrick Bachtel, Director Strategic Planning & Initiatives, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

 

Keynote Address- Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator

The Microgravity market

Chair:    Dennis Stone  Assistant Manager, Program Integration, Commercial Crew & Cargo Program, NASA Johnson Space Center

Speakers:

 

Crew transportation systems: The game changer in human spaceflight

Chair: Brett Alexander President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation

Speakers:

  • Keith Reiley, Program Manager, Commercial Crew Development, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
  • Kenneth Reightler, Vice President, NASA Program Integration, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
  • Robert Bigelow, Owner and Founder, Bigelow Aerospace, LLC
  • Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Chairman, Commercial Space Federation 
  • Ken Bowersox, Vice President of Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance, SpaceX

 

Space policy evolution: Changes portend larger commercial markets to service government needs and greater international cooperation

Chair: Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

Speakers:

  • Brendan Curry – Vice President, Space Foundation
  • Steve Traver,
  • Philip McAlister, Commercial Crew Development Program within the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA HQ

 

Creating the demand: Free and low cost flight opportunities for education and research in space

Chair: Charles Chafer, CEO, Space Services, Inc.

Speakers:

  • David Masten – President/CEO, Masten Space Systems
  • Doug Comstock, Director of the Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA
  • George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic
  • Brienna Henwood, Director of Space Training and Research, NASTAR
  • Mark Severance, International Space Station National Lab Education Project Manager 
  • Jerry Larson, Founder, President and CEO of UP Aerospace, Inc

 

Spaceports

Chair: Patti Grace Smith, Aerospace Consultant, Virgin Galactic

Speakers:

  • Karin Nilsdotter, Director, Spaceport Sweden
  • Rick Homans, Executive Director, New Mexico Spaceport Authority
  • Stu Witt, General Manager, Mojave Air and Space Port
  • Gloria Garcia-Cuadrado, Director, Barcelona Aeronautics & Space Association (BAIE)