Jacques van Oene
September 16th 04, 04:21 PM
Bill Steigerwald
September 16, 2004
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
301 286 5017
Maria Turney
USRA NIAC Meeting Contact
410 730 2656
Release 04-51
TIME TRAVEL WITH NASA
Travel 40 years into the future as NASA investigates revolutionary concepts
for space exploration
at the 6th annual NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) meeting in
Seattle, Wash., on October 19-20, 2004.
The meeting is free and it is open to the public. Those making the trip will
get a glimpse at future possibilities of space exploration, with
presentations on innovations like a sail driven by antimatter for deep-space
exploration, the use of tailored force fields to build massive structures in
space, and the use of biological molecules to create nano-scale robots.
Keynote speakers at the meeting include Dr. Paul Spudis of the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory, a noted moon expert and member of the
President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Policy; and
Dr. Robert Hoyt of Tethers Unlimited, a pioneer in momentum exchange
tethers. Spudis will talk about "The New Presidential Space Vision," and
Hoyt will discuss "Space Tethers: Lessons for developing 'revolutionary'
technologies."
The meeting will be held at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, 721 Pine Street,
Seattle, Wash. All are welcome, but those wishing to attend must send a
completed registration form to NIAC by October 8. Additionally, the meeting
hotel has set aside a special government-rate block of rooms for this
meeting. The rooms are available to anyone requesting them, first-come,
first served; reservations are due by September 18. People can register for
the meeting electronically by visiting:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/register/register.jsp
NIAC was created in 1998 to solicit revolutionary concepts that could
greatly advance NASA's missions from people and organizations outside NASA.
Funded studies push the limits of known science and technology, and thus are
not expected to be realized for at least a decade or more. NIAC's intention
is to discover ideas which may result in beneficial changes to NASA's
long-range plans. The Universities Space Research Organization (USRA) runs
NIAC for NASA.
More details about the upcoming NIAC Annual Meeting, including scheduled
presentations and hotel accommodations, are available at:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/fellows_mtg/oct04_mtg/agenda.pdf
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
September 16, 2004
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
301 286 5017
Maria Turney
USRA NIAC Meeting Contact
410 730 2656
Release 04-51
TIME TRAVEL WITH NASA
Travel 40 years into the future as NASA investigates revolutionary concepts
for space exploration
at the 6th annual NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) meeting in
Seattle, Wash., on October 19-20, 2004.
The meeting is free and it is open to the public. Those making the trip will
get a glimpse at future possibilities of space exploration, with
presentations on innovations like a sail driven by antimatter for deep-space
exploration, the use of tailored force fields to build massive structures in
space, and the use of biological molecules to create nano-scale robots.
Keynote speakers at the meeting include Dr. Paul Spudis of the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory, a noted moon expert and member of the
President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Policy; and
Dr. Robert Hoyt of Tethers Unlimited, a pioneer in momentum exchange
tethers. Spudis will talk about "The New Presidential Space Vision," and
Hoyt will discuss "Space Tethers: Lessons for developing 'revolutionary'
technologies."
The meeting will be held at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, 721 Pine Street,
Seattle, Wash. All are welcome, but those wishing to attend must send a
completed registration form to NIAC by October 8. Additionally, the meeting
hotel has set aside a special government-rate block of rooms for this
meeting. The rooms are available to anyone requesting them, first-come,
first served; reservations are due by September 18. People can register for
the meeting electronically by visiting:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/register/register.jsp
NIAC was created in 1998 to solicit revolutionary concepts that could
greatly advance NASA's missions from people and organizations outside NASA.
Funded studies push the limits of known science and technology, and thus are
not expected to be realized for at least a decade or more. NIAC's intention
is to discover ideas which may result in beneficial changes to NASA's
long-range plans. The Universities Space Research Organization (USRA) runs
NIAC for NASA.
More details about the upcoming NIAC Annual Meeting, including scheduled
presentations and hotel accommodations, are available at:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/fellows_mtg/oct04_mtg/agenda.pdf
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info