The Space
Frontier Foundation 's annual meeting NewSpace
2008 took place on July 17-19, 2008 in Washington,
D.C.
The conference format consisted primarily
of a series of panel sessions in which short presentations
were given by each panelist, followed by a discussion
among the panelists and moderator. The session would
conclude with a Q&A between the panel and audience.
I live-blogged many of the panels
and presentations. The content of these postings
consisted mostly of rough notes and occasional links
to relevant resources.
Below I provide a list of links to
these postings on the Space
Transport News blog . I also include some miscellaneous
other resources related to the meeting.
- Clark S. Lindsey
Morning
Session #1
Alex Downie - Minister of Space, Isle of Man
Panel: VSE: THe Beginning of the End or the
End of the Beginning?
Chair: Charles Miller
Brett Alexander - head of X PRIZE Foundation
Roger Lanius - historian at Air & Space
Museum
Paul Carliner - fomer Democratic staffer,
Mitchell and then Mikulski
Eric Sterner - former NASA associate deputy
staffer
Morning
Session #2
NewSpace Press Event Announcement of National
Summit of CATS
Morning
Session #3
Panel: The Elusive CATS (Cheap Access to
Space)
Charles Miller: Chair
George Whitesides (NSS, FAA/AST RLV Working
Group)
Charles Lauer (Rocketplane Global)
Bob Werb (SFF, investor in several space
firms)
Lt. Col. Peter Garretson (Future Concepts
& Transformation Division, AF)
Morning
Session #4
Panel: Exploring Space ITAR Reform
Chair: Mke Gold (Bigelow)
Franceska Shroeder (Fish & Richardson)
Edward M. Morris (Office of Space Com.,
Dept. of Commerce)
Dennis Burnett (EADS-NA)
James Muncy (Polispace)
Afternoon
Session #1
Panel: State Policy Tools for Space Commercialization
Chair: James Dunstan (Garvey Schubert Barer)
Marshall Heard (Florida Aviation and Aerospace
Alliance)
Berin Szoka (Progress and Freedom Foundation)
John Gedmark (Personal Spaceflight Fed.)
Afternoon
Session #2
Panel: Federal Policy Tools for Space Commercialization
Chair: Berin Szoka (Progress and Freedom
Foundation)
Brett Alexander (X PRIZE Foundation)
Jim Muncy (Polispace) George Neld (FAA/AST)
Edward M. Morris (Office of Space Com.,
Dept. of Commerce)
Afternoon
Session #3 - presentations by
Panel: Human Spaceflight and American Education
Chair: Ed Wright
Alan Ladwig (WBB Consulting, ran NASA's
original Teacher-in-Space program)
Tim Bailey (Space Generation Board)
Afternoon
Session #4
Jim Dunstan: Positive and negative trends
in NewSpace
Morning
Session #1
Rich Pournelle : NewSpace Business Day Opening
Remarks
Morning
Session #2
Dennis Stone: Commercial Orbital Transportation
Servies (COTS)
Morning
Session #3
Panel: Planning for the Transition Team:
NewSpace Growing Up
Chair: Esther Dyson (EDventure)
Rich Pournelle (XCOR) Jeff Feige (Orbital
Outfitters)
Bob Richards (Odyssey Moon)
Chuck Lauer (Rocketplane Global)
Morning
Session #4
Panel: A NewSpace Exit Strategy
Chair: Guillermo Sohnlein (Space Angels
Network)
Shubber Ali (George Group Consulting)
Richard Humphrey (New York Angels) Marco
Rubin (Venture Capitalist)
Andy Nelson (XCOR Aerospace)
Luncheon
talk : Alan Stern spoke about the lack of progress
in space development. Discussed potential of NewSpace
innovations. "Killer app is suborbital".
Afternoon
Session #1
Panel: The Nuts and Bolts of Growning Your
Business in Space
Chair: Rosanna Sattler (Posternak)
Kerry Scarlott (Postnerak)
Jeff Feige (Orbital Outfitters)
Reagan Walker (Consortium Technologies)
Michael Mealling (Masten Space)
Afternoon
Session #2
Panel: NASA Enabling Newspace, NewSpace Enabling
a Vision
Chair: Ken Davidian (NASA)
John Gedmark (Personal Spaceflight Fed)
Doug Comstock (NASA)
Michael Beavin (Office of Space Commercialization,
NOAA, which is in Dept. of Commercie)
John Sloan (FAA)
Afternoon
Session #3 - presentations by
Panel: COTS, An Inconvenient Truth?
Chair: Dennis Stone (NASA)
Jeff Bingham (NASA)
Brett Alexander (X PRIZE, Personal Spaceflight
Fed.)
Mike Gold (Bigelow Aerospace)
Afternoon
Session #4
Panel: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks
William (Bill) Reeves (Session Chair)
Director, Program Integration, United Space
Alliance
Gerald E. Miller Director, Independent
Research and Development, United Space Alliance
Rich Pournelle Director of Business Development,
XCOR
Greg A. Ray Chief Engineer, Space Shuttle
Program, Boeing
Andrew Petro NASA Centennial Challenges,
Program Executive for Innovation Incubator
Afternoon
Session #5
Jeff Feige (Orbital Outfitters): Closing
Remarks
Morning
Session #1
Eric Anderson (Space Adventures): Opening
Remarks
Panel: Space Based Solar Power & Policy
Chair: Charles Miller President, Space
Policy Consulting, Inc.
John Mankins Chief Operating Officer,
Managed Energy Technology
LLC LtCol. Paul Damphousse U.S. Marine
Corps, National Security Space Office Chief
of Advanced Concepts
Col. Michael "Coyote" Smith Former Chief,
U.S. Air Force, National Security Space Office;
Future Concepts, Dream Works
Geoffrey Styles Managing Director, GSW
Strategy Group, LLC
Morning
Session #2
Panel: Get Rich or Go Extinct: The Asteroid
Business Case
Chair: LtCol. Peter Garretson Future Concepts
& Transformation Division, U.S. Air Force
Brad Blair ISRU consultant
John Mankins Chief Operating Officer,
Managed Energy Technology LLC
Jim Dunstan Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer
Brent Barbee Planetary Defense Scientist
Morning
Session #3
Panel: Predicting the Future of NewSpace
Chair: Charles Lauer Co-founder and Vice
President of Business Development for Rocketplane
Global
Rick Tumlinson Co-Founder, Space Frontier
Foundation, Orbital Outfitters
James Muncy Co-Founder, Space Frontier
Foundation, President, PoliSpace
Roger Launius Senior Curator, Division
of Space History, National Air and Space Museum,
Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Edward Hudgins Executive Director,
The Atlas Society
LtCol. Paul Damphousse U.S. Marine Corps,
National Security Space Office Chief of Advanced
Concepts
Charles Chafer - Space Services Inc., Celestis
Afternoon
Session #1
Panel: The Overview Effect and New Overview
Institute
Chair: Alex Howerton Business Development
Consultant, American Aerospace Advisors Inc.
Jeff Krukin NewSpace Business Development
David Beaver founder, World Space Center
and Mindspace Multimedia, Inc.
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides ISU-USA President,
International Space University
Missed the final afternoon panel and summaries.
