Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:46:43 -0800
Space Access Society Space Access '03 Conference April 24-26, 2003, in Scottsdale Arizona
Book your flights and rooms now, while you can still get good airfare discounts and while our special-rate room block lasts - it's currently reserved for us only through April 4th, after which the hotel can rent the rooms first-come first-serve. It's four weeks till Space Access Society's eleventh annual conference on the business, politics, and technology of radically cheaper access to space, Space Access '03, Thursday evening April 24th through Saturday night April 26th, 2003, at the Old Town Hotel & Conference Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Our conference will once again be a cross-section of who's who in the emerging low-cost launch industry, presenting an informal snapshot of where things are this spring of 2003. Be there or miss out - part of our relaxed atmosphere and up-to-the-second inside information is that we don't ask for formal papers and we don't do proceedings.
Confirmed presentations:
Dave Salt on Small RLVs And On-Orbit Assembly
Ed Wright, X-Rocket LLC
Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
Henry Spencer on Orbits and Approaches
Jeff Greason on Reusable Rocket Design Considerations & Tradeoffs
John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace
John M Jurist PhD, CRM Inc, on Biomedical Aspects Of Commercial Suborbital Flight
Jordin Kare on Laser Launch Developments
Len Cormier on "Bear Cub" & Other Projects
Mitch Clapp, Pioneer Rocketplane
Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets
Pat Kelley, Vela Technology, on Low Wing-Loading Launch Assist
Peter Diamandis, X-Prize
Triton Systems
XCOR Aerospace on EZ-Rocket & Xerus Spaceplane Developments
Panel Discussions:
Low Cost Launch Markets & Finance: Daylight Or Headlight?
Reusable Launch Regulatory Considerations: FAA AST & Other Factors
Orbital Space Plane: Opportunity Or Business As Usual?
Cheap Launch Politics: Survey Of Recent Events & The Usual Brawl
and possibly a special panel on the loss of Columbia.
We're still talking to a number of interesting possible speakers; we expect we'll end up rounding out things with a half-dozen or so more presentations. Look for a detailed schedule a week or two out. (Speakers with specific scheduling requirements, please contact us.)
Our hotel this year is the Old Town Hotel & Conference Center in Scottsdale Arizona, fifteen minutes from the Phoenix airport by cab or "Super Shuttle" van, 7353 E Indian School Road, in the heart of downtown Scottsdale's restaurant and upscale shopping district. This comfortable resort hotel has modem jacks and coffeemakers in every room, and a free full American breakfast daily for registered hotel guests. Our conference rate is $74.00 per night, single or double, plus tax, mention "space access" for the rate when you reserve your room. For reservations call (800) 695-6995 or (480) 994-9203. (Our Space Access room block is not guaranteed past April 4th - book your rooms now!)
Space Access '03 hospitality and registration will open after 6 pm Thursday, April 24th, 2003. Thursday evening sessions will begin 7:30 pm in the main ballroom. Sessions will run 9 am to 10 pm Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th, with breaks midmorning and midafternoon plus longer (on your own) lunch and dinner breaks. (Over forty restaurants within 1/4 mile.) Conference Registration (in the lower ballroom lobby) and our reknowned Space Access Hospitality lounge (suite 406) will be open 8 am Friday and Saturday. Hospitality stays open till late all nights.
Space Access '03 registration is $100 in advance, $120 at the door, $10 off for SAS members. Day rates and $30 Student rate at the door only. One year's SAS membership is $30, please include your email address for Updates. Mail checks (sorry, no credit cards) to:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Access Society, 4855 E Warner Rd #24-150, Phoenix AZ 85044.
Name ________________________________ email _________________________________
Affiliation, if any (for badge) _____________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________________________________
SA'03 ($10 off for SAS members) ______ SAS ($30) ______ Total Enclosed ______
Michael
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Wallis (408) 396-9037 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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