Space Access '05 Latest Conference Info 4/12/05

Latest Info on Our Upcoming Conference,
Space Access '05, April 28-30, Phoenix Arizona

Space Access '05 gets underway in just over two weeks - if you haven't
already made your travel arrangements, do it soon! Cheap airfares are
going away fast.

Quick notes:

- We've negotiated an extension on our $79 conference hotel room
rate, but it's only available if you call our hotel (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.
- If you still have any difficulty booking a room at our rate for SA'05,
drop us a note at ASAP. Thanks!
- Preregistrations must arrive at our mailbox by Wednesday April 27th
at the latest, but it'll make our badge crew's lives easier if you can
have them here by the previous Friday, April 22nd. Preregister and save!

Program:

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

David Anderman, Constellation Services
Eric Anderson, Space Adventures
Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets
Parker E C Bradley, Heron Aerospace
John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace
Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Pioneer Rocketplane Inc
Len Cormier, PanAero LLC
Andrew Case, The Suborbital Institute
Henry Cate
Vincent Cate
DARPA/Air Force FALCON Small Launcher and ARES Reusable Rocket Stage Briefing
FAA AST
Stephen Fleming, EGL Ventures
George Herbert, Venturer 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"
Wes Kelly, Triton Systems
Chuck Lauer, Rocketplane LLC
David Livingston, Sam Dinkin, John Jurist, Thomas Olson
Dave Masten, Masten Space
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"
Rick Tumlinson, Space Frontier Foundation
Dennis Wingo, Orbital Recovery
XCOR Aerospace
X-Prize/X-Prize Cup

We expect that by the time the conference starts we'll have scheduled
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. (Look for
a detailed schedule late next week.)


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.


Name _____________________________ email _______________________________


Affiliation, if any (for badge) ________________________________________


Address __________________________________________________ ______________


SA'05 ______ SAS ($30) ______ Total Enclosed ______

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Henry Vanderbilt wrote:

George Herbert, Venturer Aerospace

I thought George campaigned under the banner of Retro Aerospace.
Typo?

Jim Davis

Jim Davis wrote:

Henry Vanderbilt wrote:

George Herbert, Venturer Aerospace

I thought George campaigned under the banner of Retro Aerospace.
Typo?

Nope. grin

There's news in them there speaker listings.
In particular, see if you can spot which other well-known
new-space entrepreneur is operating under a subtle but
significant change of nom-de-organization now.

More after my taxes are done and the conference schedule
is pinned down coherently enough to send out...

Henry Vanderbilt
Space Access Society

Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
Jim Davis wrote:
Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
George Herbert, Venturer Aerospace
I thought George campaigned under the banner of Retro Aerospace.
Typo?

Nope. grin

There's news in them there speaker listings.

To clarify a bit;

Retro Aerospace has not been bought out or gone away.
I will continue to be at etc etc.
[go away, pesky domain speculators, it's not for sale]

Retro's spinning off a subsidiary, Venturer Aerospace.

I own Retro Aerospace, and it serves as the medium to
chase after a number of widely varied projects across
aerospace and defense that have interested me (either
due to their intellectual challenge or my personal
financial judgement). Venturer will end up with a
more diverse ownership and management.

Venturer Aerospace has one focused short term project,
fulfiling several identified short term markets.
The key word is "Focused".

Venturer has a rather aggressive longterm
corporate mission, which the corporate tagline
alludes to (along with making the short term
one sort of obvious):

Venturer Aerospace
Manned Spaceflight to Earth Orbit and Beyond

The longterm corporate mission defines business
areas we're interested in expanding into after
we successfully enter and fulfil the target
LEO markets.

Venturer's product and services will not be launch
services. We are purely a low cost manned capsule
business endeavour, who will procure launch on
the commercial market.

You can find the new business' homepage at:
http://www.venturerspace.com

At the moment you will learn less visiting that
than reading this posting; however, the logo is
much prettier in JPG than ascii art.


-george william herbert