Space Access '09 Conference info & detailed schedule

Space Access '09 Conference Information

April 2-4, Phoenix Arizona

Space Access '09 is just a week away - if you haven't already, book your
flights and rooms now. Airfares will only get more expensive if you wait. And
our reserved special-rate room block has opened up for general rental by any
tourist who comes along, and rooms are going fast - Friday night in particular
is getting tight. Call the Grace Inn at 800 843-6010 and ask for the "space
access conference rate" for our $99-per-day-all-inclusive discount room rate,
soon, if you want to be sure of a room right at the conference. Early April is
still winter sunshine tourist season in Phoenix, so affordable rooms and good
airfares can be hard to come by at the last second. So shake off the winter
cold and damp (and all the overblown talk of economic doom) and treat yourself
to a three-day look at the future under the warm Arizona sun.

Space Access '09, our upcoming annual conference on the technology, politics,
and business of radically cheaper access to space, featuring a cross-section
of leading players in the field, will once again be the place to hear the
latest on the fast-moving entrepreneurial new-space industry. Space Access
conferences are designed to let people who are serious about doing low-cost
space transportation themselves get together, trade information, make deals,
and learn useful things. No rubber-chicken banquets, just an intensive
single-track presentations schedule with relaxed on-your-own meal breaks in a
setting with plenty of comfortable places nearby to go off and talk.

The conference program is almost complete - we've got quite a few more
interesting speakers confirmed since our last update. Stay tuned for further
changes to the program, since one way we get the up-to-the-minute latest on
this new industry is to stay flexible right up to the last minute.

Speakers: If we have you scheduled before you're arriving or after you're
leaving, email us at and we'll fix it. We prefer
you bring your presentation on a laptop tested and ready to plug into our
projector and sound system (we'll have standard SVGA and headphone plugs) to
prevent program delays. If that's not possible, let us know well before your
talk and we'll try to set you up with a loaner machine you can load and test
your presentation on ahead of time. We'll also have a DVD player, a VHS VCR,
and on Thursday an overhead projector. Anyone needing that last on other days
should contact us and let us know ahead of time.

Space Access '09 Preliminary Program Schedule, 3/27/09

overall schedule:
- Thursday April 2nd, sessions 2 pm - ~10 pm
- Friday April 3rd, sessions 9 am - ~10 pm
- Saturday April 4th, sessions 9 am - 6 pm (Hospitality - till late)

Thursday April 2nd
1 pm - Registration and Hospitality open (we may have them open as
early as noon, depending on how setup goes, but no guarantees.)
1:50 Henry Vanderbilt says "Welcome" and shares a thought or two
2 pm Henry Spencer, "The Big Top Step: From 100 Km To LEO - Building To
Orbit From Suborbital Capabilities"
3:30 break
4 pm Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team/Ian Kluft
4:30 Unreasonable Rocket/Paul Breed
5:05 David Summers/Universal Transport Systems, "High Delta-V Rocket Aircraft"
5:25 SpeedUp/Bob Steinke
5:55 break for dinner
8 pm James Van Laak, FAA AST Deputy Associate Administrator for Commercial
Space Transportation
8:40 Space Studies Institute/Lee Valentine
8:50 Robin Snelson, Space Tourism Specialist with Rocketship Tours
9:00 Monroe King, N-Prize Contestant: Team Prometheus/Aeronautic
Enterprises Inc.
9:20 TBA
late - Hospitality closes

Friday April 3rd
8 am - Registration and Hospitality open
9 am James Dunstan, on Orbital Debris Law
9:20 Panel on Orbital Debris - James Dunstan, Jeff Foust, Dennis Wingo
9:50 Kevin Greene, "The SBA-Guaranteed Business Loan Process"
10:10 break
10:40 Flometrics/Carl Tedesco
11:15 Michelle Murray, FAA AST Experimental Permit Program Lead
11:55 TBA
break for lunch
2 pm XCOR Aerospace/Jeff Greason
2:50 Garvey Spacecraft/John Garvey
3:25 break
4 pm BonNova/Bob Noteboom
4:35 Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)/Joshua Nelson
4:45 TrueZer0/Scott Zeeb and Todd Squires
5:20 NASA Ames Human Tended Suborbital Science/Yvonne Cagle and Bruce Pittman
5:50 break for dinner
8 pm Panel, World Space Programs & Projects, Clark Lindsey, Dave Salt,
Henry Spencer
8:50 Iain Finer, N-Prize Contestant: Team Kiwi 2 Space
9:10 Ed Wright, Teachers in Space's Astronaut Teacher Course Design Workshop
9:20 Brian Miller, AFI Fellow, with the short film "Cosmonaut" and a few
words on attempting authentic space film
late - Hospitality closes

Saturday April 4th
8 am - Registration and Hospitality open
9 am Rocketplane Global/Chuck Lauer
9:35 Leik Myrabo, Lightcraft Technologies Inc and RPI, "International
Research Collaboration on Beamed Energy Propulsion"
10:25 break
10:55 Misuzu Onuki, "Current Status Of Japanese Space Venture Companies"
11:20 Armadillo Aerospace/John Carmack
12:10 Space Frontier Foundation
12:20 break for lunch
~12:40 - Registration closes
2 pm Orbital Outfitters & Space Divers/Rick Tumlinson
2:40 Masten Space/Dave Masten
3:20 break
3:50 Jim Muncy/PoliSpace, "Minding the Space Gap"
4:30 Copenhagen Suborbitals/Frank Smith
4:55 Charles Pooley, N-Prize Contestant: Microlaunchers
5:15 Wrapup Panel, with Various Luminaries telling us What It All Means
~6 pm that's all for this year
late - Hospitality closes - see you next time!

SA'09 takes place at the Best Western Grace Inn at 10831 South 51st St, a
comfortable resort-style hotel in Phoenix Arizona, ten miles from the Phoenix
Airport via free hotel shuttle, in a pleasant suburban neighborhood with
shopping and dining a short walk away, with free parking.

Our rates are the same as last year, both for SA'09 conference registration
($100 by check mailed in advance, $120 check cash or credit card at the door,
student rate $30 either way) and hotel rooms ($99 a night for 1 or 2 includes
all taxes plus full American hot buffet breakfast every morning).

For hotel room reservations, phone the Grace Inn at 800 843-6010. Ask for the
"space access conference rate" for our $99-inclusive discount room rate. (If
you're attending, this rate is good for three days before and after the
conference too, if you want to catch some extra Arizona springtime sun.)

For advance SA'09 conference registration, mail checks (sorry, credit cards
can only be accepted at the door) to

Space Access '09
5555 N 7th St #134-348
Phoenix AZ 85014.

Print, fill out, and mail along this form so we'll have all the info we need
to have your badge ready when you arrive. (Our last pickup run to our mailbox
before the conference will be Wednesday evening, 4/1/09.)

-------------------Space Access '09 Advance Registration----------------


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