Conference Schedule for Friday May 24

ISDC 2013 Programming Schedule for Friday, May 24

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Friday, May 24

8:30 am - 9:45 am
U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (Bio), "State of Space Address" Representative Rohrabacher is the U.S. Representative for California's 48th Congressional District. Rep. Rohrabacher is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee and has also served as a member of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee since he first entered Congress in 1989, presiding eight years as Chairman.
Plenary	Aventine Ballroom

10 am - 10:50 am
Asteroid Track: Panel Discussion: Asteroids Mining Prospects
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources
David Gump, CEO, Deep Space Industries
Moderator: Dr. Martin Elvis, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Living in Space Track	Room: Athenia B (2nd Floor)
Welcome to Living in Space Track Dr. Bob Krone and Dr. Sherry Bell, Kepler Space Institute. Track Chairs.
Space Philosophy Dr. Bob Krone, Provost, Kepler Space Institute
Employees in Space - Protecting their Health Dr. Bill Tarver, M.D., Medical Director, Clinical Services Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center
Lunar Track	Room: Mykonos (2nd Floor)
Welcome & Overview on Lunar Economic Development Al Anzaldua, Moon Society, Lunar Track Co-Chair
Cislunar Economic Development Foundations Ken Murphy, President, the Moon Society
Mars Track	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
Exploring Mars: 100 Years of Discovery Rod Pyle, TV Documentary Producer, Author/Writer, Educator
Cubesats to Mars Gary Stephenson
NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement (and Development) Track	Room: Portofino
Roadmap Rollout - Media Press Conference / with panel:
Mark Hopkins, Chairman of the NSS Executive Committee
Bruce Pittman, Senior Vice President and Senior Operating Officer, NSS
Stan Rosen, Vice Chairman, NSS Board of Directors
Howard Bloom, Author, Member: NSS Board of Directors
Jeff Liss, Member: NSS Board of Directors
John Strickland, Member: NSS Board of Directors, Track Chair
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
(Remote Presentation) Space Solar Power Cost and Financing Gordon Woodcock, Boeing Retired; Former President of the L5 Society; Former Chairman of the NSS Executive Committee
Space Solar Power and Energy, Environmental, Economic Challenges Darel Preble, President, Space Solar Power Institute
Space Business and Policy	Room: Rhodes (2nd floor)
Prize Model 2.0: The Business Plan Competition as an Incubator of Space Entrepreneurship Panel
Moderator: Thomas Andrew Olson, Founding Partner, Exodus Consulting Group.
Aaron Kemmer, CEO, Made in Space, Inc.
Bruce Pittman, Senior Vice President and Senior Operating Officer, NSS
Rick Sanford, President, SpaceGroundAmalgam, LLC. Partner, Hudson Fairfax Group

10:50 am - 11 am
Break

11 am - 11:50 am
Asteroid Track: A Miner's Approach to Asteroids Mining
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Mark Sonter, Director, Mining and Processing, Deep Space Industries
Living in Space Track	Room: Athenia B (2nd Floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Lunar Resources for Immediate Revenue Generation Charles Radley, VP Projects and Programs, Leeward Space Foundation
Lunar Track	Room: Mykonos (2nd Floor)
Planet Moon Project-Update David Schrunk, President, Quality of Laws Institute. Author
Space Suit Design Development Paul Graham, Project Director, OpenLuna Foundation, Inc.
Mars Track	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Concrete Construction on Mars Brandon Larson, Mars Society. Independent Researcher
NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement (and Development) Track	Room: Portofino
Legal Issues of and Barriers to Roadmap Milestones Jeff Liss, NSS Board of Directors
Applications of Space Technology on and for Earth Stan Rosen, Vice Chairman, NSS Board of Directors
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
Regulatory Framework for Space Solar Power Deliana Ernst, Consultant, Rose Line BV
Space Mirrors for Ground Photovoltaic (PV) Lewis Fraas, President, JX Crystals, Inc.
Space Business and Policy	Room: Rhodes (2nd floor)
In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Roundtable
Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources
David Gump, CEO, Deep Space Industries Inc.
Jim Keravala, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Shackleton Energy Company Inc.

12:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Howard Bloom Author and Scientific Thinker. NSS Board of Governors. NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Presentation "Gardening the Solar System, Greening the Galaxy"
Lunch	Pavilion Ballroom

2 pm - 4 pm
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Design Contest Winners Poster Session
Student Poster Session	Foyer II

2 pm - 2:50 pm
Asteroid Track: Applied Astronomy - the Need for a New Discipline for Near-Earth Asteroid Resource Extraction
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Dr. Martin Elvis, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Emerging Space Applications Track	Room: Milo (2nd Floor)
Introduction to Emerging Space Applications Stan Rosen, Vice Chairman of the Board, NSS Board of Directors. Emerging Space Applications Track Chair
Explaining High Capacity Satellites Ric VanderMuelen, Vice President, ViaSat, Inc.
Living in Space Track	Room: Athenia B (2nd Floor)
Moon Arts Group � Project Dean Professor Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art, School of Art, former Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University
An Artists Home in Space: An Introduction to Kalpana One Bryan Versteeg, Science Conceptual Artist
The Antecedent Estate of Aether Revisited Declan J. O'Donnell, Sr., Esq., Lawyer, President, Declan Joseph O'Donnell, P.C.
Lunar Track	Room: Mykonos (2nd Floor)
(Remote Presentation) Putting 'Telepresence' on the Moon Dr. Dan Lester, University of Texas at Austin
Lunar Telepresence as Part of Cislunar and Solar System Infrastructure Al Anzaldua, NSS Tucson L5 Space Society, Moon Society
Mars Track	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
Humans to Mars Summit Recap Gary Stephenson
Atlantis Mars Rover Ramesh Nidrabingi, Student, MARSE Team
NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement (and Development) Track	Room: Portofino
How does a Jig Factory Build a Space Colony? John Strickland, NSS Board of Directors, NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Track Chair
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
Space Solar Power Sandwich Module Testing Paul Jaffe, Electronics Engineer, Researcher, and Integration and Testing Section Head, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Conceptual Design on the Sandwich Solar Power Satellite Nobuyuki Kaya, Dean, Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Japan
Space Business and Policy	Room: Rhodes (2nd floor)
The Deep Space Industries Approach to Sustainable Space Resource Development David Gump, CEO, Deep Space Industries

2:50 pm - 3 pm
Break

3 pm - 3:50 pm
Asteroid Track: The Arkyd-100
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources
Breakthrough Science and Advanced Space Technology Concepts Track	Room: Athenia (2nd Floor)
EDDE: A Revolutionary Spacecraft to make Living in Space Affordable and Safe
Jerome Pearson, President, Star Technology and Research, Inc.
Joe Carroll, Tether Applications, Inc.
Eugene Levin, Star Technology and Research, Inc.
Emerging Space Applications Track	Room: Milos (2nd Floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Satellite Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Urbanization for Drought, Flood, and Wildfire Applications in U.S. and across the World S.V. Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Track	Room: Mykonos (2nd Floor)
Google Lunar X-Prize Update and Future Prospects Alexandra Hall, Senior Director, Google Lunar X Prize (GXLP)
Mars Track	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
New Materials for Space Radiation Shielding Stephen Voller, CEO Cella Energy Ltd.
One Way to Mars Bruce Mackenzie (Remote), Founder, Mars Foundation. NSS Chapter Committee, former NSS Board of Directors
NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement (and Development) Track	Room: Portofino
The Economic and Technical Realities of Reusable Launch Systems Bruce Pittman, Senior Vice President / Senior Operating Officer, NSS
Paths to Space Settlement Al Globus, NSS Board of Directors
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Attitude and Orbital Dynamics of Space Solar Power Ian McNally, PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow, UK
Space Business and Policy	Room: Rhodes (2nd floor)
Golden Spike and the Next Wave of Human Lunar Exploration Doug Griffith, Co-founder and General Counsel of Golden Spike Company

3:50 pm - 4 pm
Break

4 pm - 4:50 pm
Asteroid Track:
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Lunar Swingby to Increase Accessibility of NEOs Dr. Chris Cassell, Co-Founder, Deep Space Industries
The Nearest of the Near-Earth Asteroids Stephen J. Kortenkamp, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute. Instructor, Lunar and Planetary Lab, Univ. of Arizona. Author.
Breakthrough Science and Advanced Space Technology Concepts Track	Room: Athenia (2nd Floor)
Speaker To be Announced
Emerging Space Applications Track	Room: Milo (2nd Floor)
Space Weather Dr. Gerald K.F. Rabl, Professor, Manhattan College, NY
The Evolution of Commercial Markets for Space Resources Brad Blair, General Partner, NewSpace Analytics LLC
Lunar Track	Room: Mykonos (2nd Floor)
Recent Activities of the International Space Society in India Mitual Dikshit, President, International Space Society
India's Lunar and Interplanetary Missions Suresh Naik
Mars Track	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
Fabrication Strategies and Their Simulation at the Mars Analog Hab John Wilkes, Professor of Sociology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement (and Development) Track	Room: Portofino
An Architecture for Survival Derek Webber, Director, SpacePort Associates
Design Competition Scenarios: An Ambitious Future Space Roadmap Anita Gale, Member: NSS Board of Directors
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
(Remote Presentation) Spacefaring logistics to enable SSP Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute LLC
Propulsion Laser ETO, In-Orbit Transportation Keith Henson, Founder, L5 Society
Space Business and Policy	Room: Rhodes (2nd floor)
A Business Plan For Asteroid Mining Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources

4:50 pm - 5 pm
Break

5 pm - 5:50 pm
Lunar Track	Room: Mykonos (2nd Floor)
Space Suit Design Development Paul Graham, Project Director, OpenLuna Foundation, Inc.
A Proposed International Lunar Geophysical Year and Decade 2017 thru 2027 Dave Dunlop, Chair of NSS International Committee
Space-Based Solar Power Track (This talk starts at 4:55 pm)	Room: Palatine
Emerging Commercial Markets for Space Minerals and Energy Brad Blair, General Partner, NewSpace Analytics LLC

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Cocktail Reception at Pool Deck

6:30 pm - 9 pm
Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam Former President of India.
Dinner/Gala	Pavilion Ballroom
Dr. Kalam will receive the NSS' prestigious von Braun award. Dr. Kalam's talk is on "Space Solar Power is the Key to a Liveable Planet Earth." NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Grand Prize Presentation .

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