ISDC 2008

The New Pace of Space

The 27th Annual ISDC - Washington DC - May 29-June 21

Schedule

 

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Thursday

May 29
   

Friday

May 30

 

 

Saturday

May 31

   

Sunday

June 1

                         
8:30 AM    

Kirby Ikin

Chairman,

NSS Board of Directors

         

 

     
                         
9:00 AM
   

Will Whitehorn

President,

Virgin Galactic

   

Nick Lampson

United States House of Representatives

   

NEOs: Defense, Exploration,

Opportunity

Dr. Robert Gold

Johns Hopkins University

Applied Physics Laboratory

Dr. Pascal Lee

Mars Institute

Lindley Johnson

NASA Johnson Space Center

   

SSP Business Case

Eric Baumgartner

Dean of Engineering,

Ohio Northern University

Harvey Willenburg

American Aerospace Advisors, Inc.

Kevin Reed

Market Manager, Welsom Space Consortium

Eric Hoffert

CEO, Versatility Energy

Darel Preble

Seth Potter

Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing


 

                         
10:00 AM
   

Elon Musk

Founder,

SpaceX

   

9:30 AM

Constellation Program

Doug Cooke

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator,

Exploration Systems

Julie A. Van Kleeck (Moderator)
Vice President, Space Programs, Aerojet

Charlie Precout

Vice President, ATK Launch Systems

James Chilton

Vice President and Program Manager,

Boeing Exploration Launch Systems

Laurence A. Price
Deputy Program Director, Crew Exploration Vehicle
Exploration Systems, Lockheed Martin

   

Space Tourism

Granger Whitelaw

CEO, Rocket Racing League

Andrew Nelson

COO, XCOR

 

   

SSP Next Steps

Lt Col Paul Damphousse, USMC

Chief of Advanced Concepts,

National Security Space Office

Dr. Feng Hsu

NASA

Joe Rauscher

NSS

 

Additional Plenary Session

To Be Announced

                         
11:00 AM
   

Government and

Entrepreneurial Space

Joseph Rouge

Director, National Security

Space Office

George Nield

Associate Administrator for

Commercial Space Transportation, FAA

Steve Kohler

President, Space Florida

Dennis Stone

NASA Johnson Space Center,

Commercial Space Development,

Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office

Lon Rains

Editor, Space News (moderator)

   

The Future of ISS

Mark Uhran
Assistant Associate Administrator,

International Space Station,

NASA

Carl Walz

Director, Advanced Capabilities Division, NASA ESMD

Robert T. Richards
Orbital Sciences Corporation

   

Space Tourism Panel

Eric Anderson

CEO, Space Adventures

Anousheh Ansari

First private female space explorer

Greg Olsen

Private Space Explorers

   

Mars Exploration

James Garvin

Chief Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

                         

12:00 PM Luncheon

   

George Nield

Associate Administrator for Commercial Space

Transportation, FAA

   

Exploration and Science

Pete Worden

Director,

NASA Ames Research Center

   

Anousheh Ansari
CEO and Co-founder of Prodea Systems,

Inc. and Spaceflight Participant

   

Lori Garver
Consultant, Avascent

Former NASA Assistant
Administrator, Policy & Plans

                         
2:00 PM
   

Space Solar Power

John Mankins

Space Power Association

Lt Col Paul Damphousse, USMC

Chief of Advanced Concepts

National Security Space Office

Charles Miller

President

Space Policy Consulting

   

Election 2008 Space Policy Panel

Miles O'Brien

CNN Correspondent (moderator)

Speakers To Be Announced

   

Google Lunar X Prize

Bob Richards

CEO, Odyssey Moon

Paul Carliner

Founder, Quantum3


 

     
                         
3:00 PM    

China Space

Taylor Dinerman

Wall Street Journal (moderator)

Dean Cheng

CNA Corp

Ryan Faith

CSIS

Chen Linhao (invited)

Chinese Embassy

 

   

Space Medicine Panel

Sponsored by Wyle Labs

Dr. Vernon McDonald, Chair

Director, Commercial Human

Space Flight, Wyle

Dr. Jeff Davis

Director, Space Life Sciences,

NASA JSC

Dr. Richard Jennings

Space Medicine Advisor,

Space Adventures

Director, Aerospace Medicine Program,

University of Texas Medical Branch

Dr. Jim Vanderploeg

Chief Medical Officer, Virgin Galactic

Aerospace Medicine Programm,

University of Texas Medical Branch

   

The Overview Effect

Frank White

Author of The Overview Effect
Keith Ferrell

Former Editor, Omni Magazine
David Beaver

Founder, World Space Center
Alex Howerton

American Aerospace Advisors Inc.
Jeff Krukin

Space Writer, Speaker and Consultant
Mike Simmons

President, Astronomers Without Borders

     
                         
4:00 PM    

Space Media

Dave Brody

Space.com

Mark Mayfield

Ad Astra Magazine

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

Warren Leary

New York Times

Jeff Foust

Futron Corporation

Moderator

   

New Directions of Exploration and

Impacts of Cooperation

Emanuel de Lipkowski

CNES Representative and Space Attache

Embassy of France

Neal Newman

International Program Specialist

NASA Office of External Relations

Frederic Nordlund

Director, Washington Office,

European Space Agency

Yoshinori Yoshimura

Director, Washington Office,

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency

Jaya Bajpayee

Moderator

    Whose Concern is Space Weather?
Barbara Thompson
Moderator
Dr. William Murtagh
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Dr. David Murr
U. S. Department of State
Dr. Raymond Williamson
GWU Space Policy Institute

     
                         
5:00 PM    

Spaceports

Stuart Witt

Manager

Mojave Airport

Jim Ball

KSC Spaceport Development Manager

Steve Landeene

Director

Spaceport America

Dr. Billie Reed

Executive Director

Virginia Commercial Spaceflight Authority

Alan Ladwig

Moderator

   

Low Cost Access to Space

Mark Sirangelo

Chairman and CEO, SpaceDev

Tim Pickens

CEO, Orion Propulsion

Gary Hudson

Founder and CEO, AirLaunch

Clay Mowry

President, Arianespace Inc.

   

Generation Y and Space

Loretta Whitesides

Moderator

Nick Skytland

NASA JSC, Strategic Partnerships

Rivers Lamb

NASA GSFC, Flight Dynamics Analysis

Andrew Hoppin

NASA Colab

Cassie Kloberdanz

Formerly NASA KSC, CU Boulder

     
                         

7:00 PM

Dinner

   

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist and Director

Hayden Planetarium

   

NSS Gala

Miles O'Brien

CNN

Master of Ceremonies

Burt Rutan

President, Scaled Composites

Honoree, Heinlein Award

Hugh Downs

Broadcaster

Chairman, NSS Board of Governors

Honoree

   

Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 Astronaut

NSS Governor

     
                         

Other

Afternoon

Sessions:

   

Space Business

Cliff McMurray, Chair

 

Marketing Space: Creating

Leadership Momentum in

the Space Economy

Robert Hopkins

NASA

Frank Morring, Jr.

Aviation Week & Space Technology

Henry Hertzfeld

The George Washington University

Rich Phillips

Phillips and Company, Moderator

 

Space Investment

Summit Update

Dr. Paul Eckert

 

Lunar Commerce Reality Check:

How To Be Taken Seriously

Dr. David Livingston

Host, The Space Show

 

Government Procurement

Dan Walt, Chair

 

What Small Space Businesses

Should Know When Selling

to the Federal Government

Charles Williams &

Michelle Brekke

NASA Johnson Space Center

Nancy Zeitlin &

Connie Wilcox

NASA Kennedy Space Center

Lynne Garrison &

David Brock

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Dr. Eleanor Chiogioji

NASA Office of Small Business Programs

 

Space Law

Doug Griffith, Esq., Chair

 

Accident Liability for the

Commercial Human

Spaceflight Industry

Doug Griffith, Esq.

Chair

 

Insurance for NewSpace

Kelly Alton

 

NTSB Investigations of

Commercial Human

Spaceflight Accidents

Bob Benzon

 

Intellectual Property and

ITAR for NewSpace

Kerry Scarlott, Esq.

 

Startups, Capitalizing, and

Legal Entity Issues in NewSpace

Michael Leventhal, Esq.

 

Lunar Track

David Dunlop, Chair

 

American Student Moon Orbiter

Dr. Yvonne Clearwater

NASA Ames Research Center

 

The Chandrayan I

Moon Mineralogy Mapper

Dr. Lawrence Taylor

University of Tenessee Knoxville

 

Lunar Dust: New Opportunities

and Problem Solutions

Speaker To Be Announced

 

Expanding the Capacities and

Extending the Foundations

of the ISS Partnership

John Strickland

National Space Society

Peter Kokh

Moon Society

Additional Panelists To Be Announced

 

10 Steps to the Moon:

Preview of a New Documentary

on Lunar Settlement

Chip Prosser

Celestial Mechanics

 

Futurists and Space

Amara Angelica

Chair

Speakers To Be Announced

   

International Programs

Jaya Bajpayee, Chair

Speakers To Be Announced

 

Space Weather

Barbara Thompson
Chair
Bryn Jones
Virgin Airlines and SolarMetrics
Dr. William Murtagh
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Vincent L. Pisacane
Author, "The Space Environment and Its
Effects on Space Systems"
Mike Stills
United Airlines
Ronald Turner
ANSER
Dr. Raymond Williamson
GWU Space Policy Institute

 

Space Business

Cliff McMurray, Chair

 

Managing Growth in a

Small Space Company

Jeff Greason

 

Synergies Between Earth and

Space Businesses

Dennis Wingo

CEO, SkyCorp, Inc.

 

A Vision for Space Investment

Thomas Olson

CEO, The Colony Fund

 

Government Procurement

Dan Walt, Chair

 

Government Acquisition:

How Better to Help or

At Least Not to Harm

William McNally

NASA Associate Administrator,

Procurement

Thoman Olson

CEO, The Colony Fund

Timothy Hughes

Chief Counsel,

SpaceX

Dan Walt

Moderator

 

Astrosociology

Dr. Sherry Bell, Chair

Speakers To Be Announced

 

Computer Systems:

Apollo & Orion

Steve Milhiser, Chair

 

Apollo vs. Constellation

Dennis Wingo

CEO, SkyCorp, Inc.

 

Avionics Processing Evolution:

Apollo to Constellation

Mike Aucoin

 


 

   

Near Earth Objects and

Planetary Defense

Tom Hill

Chair

Lindley Johnson

NASA Johnson Space Center

Dan Durda

Southwest Research Institute

NASA

 

Space Solar Power

Joe Rauscher, Chair

 

SSP: Global Energy

Shortage Option

Seth Potter

Chair

Robert Watts

Professor,
Mechanical Engineering

Tulane University

Author: "Engineering

Response to Global

Climate Change"

Martin Hoffert

Professor Emeritus

Physics

New York University

 

SSP Business Case:

Can We Close It and How?

Charles Miller

Space Frontier Foundation

Chair

Shubber Ali

Former Head,

KPMG Peat Manwick

Space Group

Geoffrey Styles

Managing Director,

GSW Strategy Group, LLC

Dallas Bienhoff

In-Space and Surface

Systems Manager,

Boeing Space Exploration

 

SSP Next Steps: Strategic,

Policy, and Technology Issues

Lt Col Paul Damphousse, USMC

National Security Space Office

Chair

Omar Mendoza

Air Force Research Lab

Ben Shelef

Spaceward Foundation

Dr. Roger Lenard

Heliosat Corporation

Seth Potter

Associate Technical Fellow,

Boeing

 

 

Space Medicine

Eleanor O'Rangers, Chair

 

What Your Mommy Didn't

Tell You: The good, the bad,

the ugly, and the uglier realities

of human space flight

James Logan, M.D., M.S.

Space Medicine Associates, LLC

 

Surviving a Bad Day in Space

Jonathan Clark, M.D., M.P.H.

National Space Biomedical

Research Institute

Baylor College of Medicine

 

Bad Medicine: Why "Take 2

aspirin and call me in the morning"

may not be universal advice where

space travel is concerned

Eleanor O'Rangers, Pharm.D.

Space Medicine Associates, LLC

 

To have or have not "The Right

Stuff": The risks and ethics of

undergoing unnecessary medical

treatment in order to qualify for

space flight

Petra Illig, M.D.

Space Medicine Associates, LLC

 

"But I wouldn't want my daughter

to go to the Moon with one":

The impact of multi-cultural issues

in outer space

Kira Bacal, M.D., Ph.D.

Mauri Ora Associates

 

Space Settlement

Anita Gale

Speakers To Be Announced

     

 


Please note:

Secondary Registration (additional cost) is required to attend Lunch and Dinner presentations.

All programming is subject to change without notice.

 

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM GRID (.pdf) including times and full speaker lists for panels and tracks.