Conference Schedule for Saturday, May 25

ISDC 2013 Programming Schedule for Saturday, May 25

While we strive to have this page up to date, please consult onsite volunteers and signage for last minute changes.

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Saturday, May 25

8:30 am - 9:45 am
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mae Jemison. NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut and Director of the "100 Year Starship" Project
Plenary	Aventine Ballroom

10 am - 10:50 am
Mars Track: To Mars in Alpine Style
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Tom and Tina Sjogren, Founders of Explorersweb Inc
Asteroid Track	Room: Portofino
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
The New Kid on the Asteroid Block Al Globus, Senior Research Engineer, San Jose State University
Emerging Space Applications Track	Room: Milos (2nd Floor)
Server Sky - Connecting the Poor, Harvesting Space Debris Keith Lofstrom, Server Sky, http://server-sky.com
Economic Evaluation of the Robotic Asteroid Prospector Architecture Brad Blair, General Partner, NewSpace Analytics LLC
Living in Space Track	Room: Athenia (2nd Floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Astrosettlements Dr. Thomas Matula, President, Astrosettlements Kevin Greene, Vice President, Astrosettlements
How The Cratersville Vision inspired An Upcoming Architectural Contest Dr. John Wilkes, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
SPS-ALPHA John C. Mankins, President, Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC
Space Business and Policy	Room: Mykonos (2nd floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
The First Space Manufactured Product Richard Godwin, President, CEO and Director, Zero Gravity Solutions Inc.
Transhumanism and Space Exploration	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
Title TBA David Brin, Scientist, Scientist, Futurist, Science Fiction Author
Innovations of Life Expansion: Seizing the Biotech Moment and Making it Last-Indefinitely! Dr. Natasha Vita-More, Chairman of Humanity+. Advocate of Human Enhancement and Radical Life Extension

10:50 am - 11 am
Break

11 am - 11:50 am
Mars Track: Mars in Our Time
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Robert Zubrin, Founder and President, Mars Society
Asteroid Track	Room: Portofino
Mining Asteroid Materials for Manufacturing in LEO and for Valuable Minerals
Michael Buet, Star Technology and Research, Inc
Jerome Pearson, President, Star Technology and Research, Inc.
Narayanan Komerath, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Excavating Asteroid Regolith Michael Zwach, Director, DSI NeoSquad
An Asteroid Deflection System
Navdeep Sharma, Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University
Dhara Rakshak
Emerging Space Applications Track	Room: Milos (2nd Floor)
Manufacturing in Space: If You Build It, Will They Come Paul Wieland, Engineer, Author of "Crossing the Threshold: Advancing Into Space to Benefit Earth."
Living in Space Track	Room: Athenia (2nd Floor)
Near-Term Wheel Station Concept John Cserep, Engineer
Closing Comments Including Space Philosophy Dr. Bob Krone and Dr. Sherry Bell, Kepler Space Institute
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
(Remote Presentation) Update of Solar High/Boeing Study Hubert Davis, Retired Consultant
In-space Infrastructure for Space Solar Power John Strickland, NSS at-Large Director, Region 3
Space Business and Policy	Room: Mykonos (2nd floor)
A Propellant Depot Foundation for the Solar System Economy Jim Keravala, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Shackleton Energy Company Inc.
Transhumanism and Space Exploration (This session starts at 10:50 am)	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
Innovations of Life Expansion: seizing the biotech moment and making it last-indefinitely! Dr. Natasha Vita-More, Chairman of Humanity+. Advocate of Human Enhancement and Radical Life Extension
Panel Discussion
David Brin, Scientist, Futurist, Science Fiction Author
David Orban, Entrepreneur, Visionary, Co-Founders of the Open Government Working Group
Vernor Vinge, Science Fiction Author

12:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Dr. Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 Astronaut, Author, and Founder, ShareSpace Foundation; NSS Board of Governors. Book purchase of Dr. Aldrin's new book "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" and signing will take place after lunch for the Saturday lunch attendees.
Lunch	Pavilion Ballroom

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Special Talk	Aventine Ballroom
SpaceUp Kickoff Presentation by Chris Radcliff
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Special Presentation by Art Dula, Founder and CEO, Excalibur Almaz

2 pm - 2:50 pm
Track: TBD
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
Speaker TBD
Emerging Space Applications Track	Room: Milos (2nd Floor)
America's Rocket Renaissance Douglas Messier, Managing Editor, Parabolicarc.com
Concluding Panel: Implications of the Use of Space for the Improvement of Life on Earth?
Dr. Stan Rosen, Vice Chairman of the Board, NSS Board of Directors. Professor of Acquisition Management, Defense Acquisition University
Dr. S.V. Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Keith Lofstrom, Server Sky, http://server-sky.com
Paul Wieland, Engineer, Author of "Crossing the Threshold: Advancing Into Space to Benefit Earth."
Dr. Gerald K.F. Rabl, Professor, Manhattan College, NY
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
Five-Nation WPT Demo with Moderated Floor Discussion Don Flournoy, Professor of Telecommunications, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University
Space Business and Policy	Room: Mykonos (2nd floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
Crowdfunding For Space Businesses: Potential Revcenues, Platforms and Resources Needed Moderator: Jay Wittner, Board of Directors, National Space Society
Transhumanism and Space Exploration	Room: Delphi (2nd Floor)
What Can Maori Culture Teach to a Future Starfaring Civilization? The careful design of appropriate memetic components can maximize the fitness of cultural units in long term isolation David Orban, Entrepreneur, Visionary, Co-Founders of the Open Government Working Group
Gardening Space: Retooling Mind, Rewiring Reality Howard Bloom, Author and Scientific Thinker. NSS Board of Governors. Former Publicist in the 1970/80s for Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx

2:50 pm - 3 pm
Break

3 pm - 3:50 pm
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
(Remote Presentation) A Brief Report of R&D Activities in Japan from 2001 to 2012 and beyond Yoshiaki Ohkami, Keio University, Japan
(Remote Presentation) Alternative Strategies for Space Solar Power Royce Jones, President, Exploration Partners LLC.
Space Business and Policy	Room: Mykonos (2nd floor)
Commercial Utilization of the ISS National Laboratory Brian Harris, Director, Program and Marketplace Development, CASIS

3:50 pm - 4 pm
Break

4 pm - 4:50 pm
TBD Track:
Featured Session	Aventine Ballroom
TBD Speaker TBD
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
Solar System Properties/Resources Seth D. Potter, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lugar Center for Renewable Energy at IUPUI
Space Business and Policy	Room: Mykonos (2nd floor)
NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation Team TBD
The Cost of Risk-Aversion: How an Obsession With Safety Hobbles Progress in Human Spaceflight Rand Simberg, President, Interglbal Media LLC

4:50 pm - 5 pm
Break

5 pm - 5:50 pm
Space-Based Solar Power Track	Room: Palatine
Settlement and Space Solar Power Peter Curreri, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Suspending Disbelief - Unbundling Space Power Systems to foster applications of Space-to-Space Power Beaming Gary Barnhard, Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc.

6 pm - 7 pm
Cocktail Reception at Asteria Terrace

7 pm - 10 pm
FREE Mars Movies NIght	Aventine Ballroom
FREE Mars Movies Night - Saturday 7:30 pm (3 hrs) at Aventine Ballroom. Hosted by Gerry Williams, publisher of MarsMoveieGuide.com "A Trip to Mars" (1910) Mars Cartoons "Postcards From the Future" (2007) "Mars" (2010)

7 pm - 9 pm
Dr. Maria Zuber Principal Investigator, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission. E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at MIT.
Dinner	Pavilion Ballroom
The NASA GRAIL Team will receive the 2013 NSS Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category. Saturday night's dinner banquet will Honor the Women of Space. Before Dr. Zuber's keynote talk, we will pay tribute to Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. NSS Awards Presentations

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