Space Access Update #110 3/31/05

Space Access Update #110 03/31/05
Copyright 2005 by Space Access Society
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Latest Info on Our Upcoming Conference,
Space Access '05, April 28-30, Phoenix Arizona

Space Access '05 gets underway four weeks from today - if you haven't
already made your travel arrangements, do it soon! Cheap airfares won't
get easier to find if you wait, and our $79-rate hotel room block is
only reserved for us through April 6th, a week from today - after that
it'll be opened up for general sale.


Program:

Our program for this year's conference is shaping up - the list of
confirmed speakers now includes:

David Anderman, Constellation Services
Eric Anderson, Space Adventures
John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace
Len Cormier, PanAero LLC
FAA AST
George Herbert, Retro Aerospace
David Hoerr, author of "The Rocket Company"
Tim Hughes, majority counsel to the House Science Committee
Jordin Kare, on "Laser Launch: It's Steamship Time"
Chuck Lauer, Rocketplane LLC
Jim Muncy, PoliSpace
Gerry Nordley, Tethers Unlimited
Charles Pooley, Microlaunchers
Dr. Jerry Pournelle
John Powell, JP Aerospace
Bill Stine, Quest Aerospace
Henry Spencer, on "Sustainable Spaceflight Beyond LEO"
Andrew Case, The Suborbital Institute
Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets
Dennis Wingo, Orbital Recovery
XCOR Aerospace
X-Prize/X-Prize Cup

We expect that by the time the conference starts we'll have lined up
well over two dozen presentations and panels with a wide variety of
progress reports, technical backgrounders, viewpoints, and new ideas
from a cross-section of players in this burgeoning field.


Schedule:

Conference sessions run 2 pm - 10:30 pm Thursday, and 9 am - 10:30 pm
Friday and Saturday, with half-hour breaks midmorning and midafternoon,
hour-and-a-half lunch breaks, and two hour dinner breaks - an intensive
twenty-four hours of programming over our two-and-a-half days. (We run
a single program track throughout, so you don't have to miss a thing.)
Intensive, but also relaxed and informal - dress is casual, speeches are
kept to a minimum, and we don't do formal banquets. All meals are on-
your-own, so you can get together with the people you want to be talking
to at one of the many good places to eat and drink, in the hotel or
within a few minutes walk. Plus of course, there's our world-reknowned
Space Access Hospitality suite, serving fine finger-food and a variety
of beverages (non-adult per agreement with the hotel, but you can always
bring something up from the hotel bar) open from 8 am till the small
hours of the morning for your relaxation and conversation.
(Registration and Hospitality open noonish on Thursday.)


Hotel:

Our hotel is 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 three days before and after our conference dates of April
28th - 30th. 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) with fifty
bars and restaurants and two hundred stores within walking distance.
Rooms have a work desk, coffee maker, etc, and the hotel has wireless
internet, a heated olympic-sized pool, spa, 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.

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, please include your email address for Updates.

Mail checks (sorry, no credit cards) to:

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Space Access Society, 5515 N 7th St #5-348, Phoenix AZ 85014.


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