FYI,

: 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 space.access@...
: 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.

S: pace 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 Street, 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.)

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Mark Reiff