Federal Aviation Administration AST Commercial Space Transportation Conference
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Thursday February 9, 2006 --> Friday February 10, 2006 |
This year’s theme, Missions and Markets, sums up the agency’s commitment to its two objectives: - Ensure protection of the public, property, and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States during a commercial launch or re-entry activity.
- Encourage, facilitate, and promote U.S. commercial space transportation.
Each year this conference brings together aviation and space leaders and policy makers from state and federal governments, associations, academia, and aerospace industry to: - Share insights
- Celebrate accomplishments
- Access the current state of the art
- Identify industry-wide short- and long-term trends
- Discuss developments in the industry
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Prospace March Storm
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Sunday February 26, 2006 --> Wednesday March 1, 2006 |
Each March, a remarkable group of American citizens, each with a deep and abiding interest in our national space enterprise, gathers in Washington, DC. Their task? To participate in the ProSpace March Storm and present to our elected leaders the Citizen's Space Agenda, a document that each year lays out a clear and concise blueprint for opening the space frontier to the possibilities that await us there.
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Contact - Cultures of the Imagination
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Friday March 17, 2006 --> Sunday March 19, 2006 |
One team constructs a solar system, a world and its ecology, an alien life form and its culture, basing each step on the previous one and utilizing the principles of science as a guide to imagination. The other team designs a future human colony, planetary or spacefaring, "creating and evolving" its culture as an exercise in cultural structure, dynamics and adaptation."
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National Space Symposium
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Monday April 3, 2006 --> Thursday April 6, 2006 |
Annual event of the Space Foundation This concerns government, civilian, and university space endeavors.
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Center for Technology Commercialization - Thought Leader Forum - Space Billionaires: Educating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
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Tuesday April 4, 2006 |
"Spend the day with some of the most creative thinkers from industry, academe, government, and private space entrepreneurship as we consider the enormous opportunities and exciting careers that are rapidly growing out of the emerging private space industry. The day’s speakers, roundtable discussions, and interactive sessions are designed to provoke discussion and debate around critical issues in this important industry and its role in Southern California and at USC."
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Yuri's Night
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April 12, 2006 |
"Celebrate April 12th—the world party for space! On this day 45 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space."
This is an interplanetary holiday
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Space Access '06 Conference
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Thursday April 20, 2006 --> Saturday April 22, 2006 |
"Space Access '06 is our upcoming annual conference on the technology, politics, and business of radically cheaper space transportation, featuring a cross-section of leading players in the field." Confirmed speakers so far: - Reda Anderson
- Armadillo Aerospace
- Alexander Bruccoleri
- A.C. Charania, SpaceWorks Engineering Inc
- Len Cormier/PanAero
- FAA AST
- Frontier Astronautics
- Jeff Hamilton, Freida Lowery, MSFC Business Development
- Steve Harrington/Flometrics
- George Herbert/Venturer Aerospace
- Mike Kelly/Personal Spaceflight Federation
- Michael Laine/LiftPort Group
- Masten Space Systems
- Mojave Spaceport
- Jim Muncy/Polispace
- New Mexico Spaceport
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International Space Development Conference
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Thursday May 4, 2006 --> Sunday May 7, 2006 |
Jointly Held by the National Space Society and the Planetary Society Featured Speakers - Buzz Aldrin - Apollo astronaut
- Shana Dale - Deputy Administrator, NASA
- Burt Rutan - Designer, X Prize winning SpaceShipOne
- Bill Nye - The original 'Science Guy'
- Elon Musk - President, Space Exploration Technologies
- Peter Diamandis - Founder and Chairman, X PRIZE Foundation
- Rusty Schweickart - Apollo astronaut
- Dennis Tito - The first space tourist
- Gregory Olsen - 3rd private citizen to visit ISS
- Charles Elachi - Director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Author, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
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Space Day
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Friday May 05, 2006 |
"School groups have been enjoying Space Day for years. Now, it's your turn to share the fun with your family and friends. Enjoy hands-on activities, meet astronauts and authors, learn about space through theatrical performances, visit with Museum curators, scientists and others who have contributed to the Space Age."
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Rockets for Schools
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Friday May 12, 2006 --> Saturday May 13, 2006 |
The goal of Rockets for Schools is to: - Make science exciting
- To stimulate the academic interest in science, math and technology in Students in grades 4 through 12
- To aid and encourage students and the public in future aerospace pursuits
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NewSpace 2006
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Wednesday July 19, 2006 --> Sunday July 23, 2006 |
The Space Frontier Foundation Annual Conference
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Elevator 2010's Annual Space Elevator Games
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July-August, 2006 |
"Our goal is to infect the engineering and science community with our passion for building the Space Elevator, thus making them ambassadors to our cause. As the fruits of their efforts take to the air every year, we will have demonstrated the feasibility and sheer simplicity of the Space Elevator concept, and will have brought it closer to reality."
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Mars Society Conference
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Thursday August 3, 2006 --> Sunday August 6, 2006 |
"Highlights of the conference will include the latest results from the Spirit, Opportunity, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions now exploring the Red planet, as well as reports from the seventh field season of the Devon Island Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station, and the fifth season of the Mars Desert Research Station."
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20th Annual Conference on Small Satellites
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Monday August 14, 2006 --> Thursday August 17, 2006 |
"From launch vehicles to attitude control sensors, advances have been made that now enable a host of missions we had never imagined 20 years ago. Even with these advances, our industry still faces challenges every day."
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AIAA Space 2006 Conference
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Tuesday September 19, 2006 --> Thursday September 21, 2006 |
"Increasing awareness of both the achievement of space activities to this point, as well as the promise they hold for a more secure, comfortable life on a global scale, is one of the main objectives of this conference."
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World Space Week
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Wednesday October 4, 2006 --> Tuesday October 10,2006 |
"The Largest Annual Public Space Event on Earth" "Celebrated in some 50 Nations every October 4-10"
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International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight
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Tuesday October 17, 2006 --> Wednesday October 18, 2006 |
Here is a series of talks presented to enhance your knowledge of personal spaceflight. I summise that this event will be well worth attending.
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X-Prize Cup
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Thursday October 19, 2006 --> Sunday October 22, 2006 |
"Welcome to the official website for the X PRIZE Cup, Earth's great space exposition. This year's Cup features three spectacular competitions with over $2.5 million in prize purses, multiple high-powered sounding rocket launches, the unveiling of the Rocket Racing League's development X-Racer, multiple static engine test firings live on the field, fly-overs by the T-38 astronaut trainer, and a variety of other rocket surprises in the air and on the ground."
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California Space Authority - Transforming Space Conference
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Thursday November 30, 2006 --> Friday December 1, 2006 |
"The California space enterprise community - industry, government and academia - continues to lead the United States as the nation transforms space in the civil, national security, and commercial sectors. This transformation is taking place in all three sectors in order to meet the nation's changing requirements to explore outer space, ensure access to space, transport space tourists, enhance launch and satellite responsiveness, and educate the future aerospace workforce."
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Space Foundation Presents Upcoming Space Symposia
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Space Technology and Applications International Forum 2007
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Sunday February 11, 2007 --> Thursday February 15, 2007 |
"This annual meeting seeks to promote the exchange of information among technologists, academicians, industrialists, and program managers on technical and programmatic issues related to inexpensive access to space and space commercialization, exploration, and the potential for performing scientific research and developing new technologies."
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Space Exploration 2007
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Sunday March 25, 2007 --> Wednesday March 28, 2007 |
"scientists, engineers, business people, teachers and students from many different disciplines and nationalities will gather in Albuquerque, New Mexico to exchange ideas and collaborate on the development of technology in the area of space exploration."
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International Space Development Conference
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Thursday May 24, 2007 --> Monday May 28, 2007 |
"From Old Frontiers to New" "Texas was once the frontier for the expansion of Western civilization; Cities such as Dallas and Fort Worth were established and prospered. In 2007, North Texas will be the place to focus on the cultural and technological frontier of tomorrow -- space."
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