----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- > Subject: latest info on Space Access '05 conference > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:58:26 -0700 > > Latest Info on Our Upcoming Conference, > Space Access '05, April 28-30, Phoenix Arizona > > Space Access '05 gets underway in just over two weeks - if you haven't > already made your travel arrangements, do it soon! Cheap airfares are > going away fast. > > Quick notes: > > - We've negotiated an extension on our $79 conference hotel room > rate, but it's only available if you call our hotel (Four Points by > Sheraton Phoenix Metrocenter, 602 997-5900, mention "space access") > between 8 am and 4 pm weekdays Mountain Standard Time (EDT-3) since > outside those hours calls automatically get switched to the Sheraton > national reservations center, which no longer has our rate listed. > - If you still have any difficulty booking a room at our rate for SA'05, > drop us a note at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASAP. Thanks! > - Preregistrations must arrive at our mailbox by Wednesday April 27th > at the latest, but it'll make our badge crew's lives easier if you can > have them here by the previous Friday, April 22nd. Preregister and save! > > Program: > > Our program for this year's conference is shaping up - the list of > confirmed presenters and panelists now includes: > > David Anderman, Constellation Services > Eric Anderson, Space Adventures > Pat Bahn, TGV Rockets > Parker E C Bradley, Heron Aerospace > John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace > Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Pioneer Rocketplane Inc > Len Cormier, PanAero LLC > Andrew Case, The Suborbital Institute > Henry Cate > Vincent Cate > DARPA/Air Force FALCON Small Launcher and ARES Reusable Rocket Stage Briefing > FAA AST > Stephen Fleming, EGL Ventures > George Herbert, Venturer Aerospace > David Hoerr, author of "The Rocket Company" > Tim Hughes, majority counsel to the House Science Committee > Jordin Kare, on "Laser Launch: It's Steamship Time" > Wes Kelly, Triton Systems > Chuck Lauer, Rocketplane LLC > David Livingston, Sam Dinkin, John Jurist, Thomas Olson > Dave Masten, Masten Space > Jim Muncy, PoliSpace > Gerry Nordley, Tethers Unlimited > Charles Pooley, Microlaunchers > Dr. Jerry Pournelle > John Powell, JP Aerospace > Bill Stine, Quest Aerospace > Henry Spencer, on "Sustainable Spaceflight Beyond LEO" > Rick Tumlinson, Space Frontier Foundation > Dennis Wingo, Orbital Recovery > XCOR Aerospace > X-Prize/X-Prize Cup > > We expect that by the time the conference starts we'll have scheduled > well over two dozen presentations and panels with a wide variety of > progress reports, technical backgrounders, viewpoints, and new ideas > from a cross-section of players in this burgeoning field. (Look for > a detailed schedule late next week.) > > > Schedule: > > Conference sessions run 2 pm - 10:30 pm Thursday, and 9 am - 10:30 pm > Friday and Saturday, with half-hour breaks midmorning and midafternoon, > hour-and-a-half lunch breaks, and two hour dinner breaks - an intensive > twenty-four hours of programming over our two-and-a-half days. (We run > a single program track throughout, so you don't have to miss a thing.) > Intensive, but also relaxed and informal - dress is casual, speeches are > kept to a minimum, and we don't do formal banquets. All meals are on- > your-own, so you can get together with the people you want to be talking > to at one of the many good places to eat and drink, in the hotel or > within a few minutes walk. Plus of course, there's our world-reknowned > Space Access Hospitality suite, serving fine finger-food and a variety > of beverages (non-adult per agreement with the hotel, but you can always > bring something up from the hotel bar) open from 8 am till the small > hours of the morning for your relaxation and conversation. > (Registration and Hospitality open noonish on Thursday.) > > > Hotel: > > Our hotel is the Four Points Sheraton, 10220 N Metro Parkway East, > Phoenix Arizona 85051, 602 997-5900 for reservations, mention "Space > Access" for our $79 conference room rate ($109 for cabana suite), rate > good for up to three days before and after our conference dates of April > 28th - 30th. The Four Points is in Phoenix's "Metrocenter" shopping > complex, fourteen freeway miles from the Phoenix airport (cab rates in > Phoenix vary; it's $12 by blue "Super Shuttle" airport van) with fifty > bars and restaurants and two hundred stores within walking distance. > Rooms have a work desk, coffee maker, etc, and the hotel has wireless > internet, a heated olympic-sized pool, spa, fitness center, and free > parking. We're quite pleased to be bringing you a newer hotel in a > better location for the same rate as last year. > > Space Access '05 will once again be a mix of the usual suspects and some > interesting new additions, once again providing an intensive informal > snapshot of where this fast-moving new cheap space access industry has > gotten to as of spring 2005. Be there! > > Space Access '05 registration once again holds steady at $100 in advance, > $120 at the door, $10 off for SAS members. $30 Student rate, no member > discount. Day rates available 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, 5515 N 7th St #5-348, Phoenix AZ 85014. > > > Name _____________________________ email _______________________________ > > > Affiliation, if any (for badge) ________________________________________ > > > Address ________________________________________________________________ > > > SA'05 ______ SAS ($30) ______ Total Enclosed ______ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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