Space Access 2009

Update I - 4 April 2009
Here's the final Agenda with links to each presentation.


Janine and I started this blog with a focus of homeschooling. Over the years we've touched many other topics, some related to homeschooling, some not. Close to homeschooling, we've written about education, family issues and so on. But much farther afield we've written about politics, space, and other random news interesting to us. One of the things that surprised me greatly was how our blog became extension of our memory.

Long time readers know that each Spring I head to Arizona to attend Space Access 2009. This year I'll again fly with my father. One of my brothers will join us in Phoenix. The other brother is staying home. (His wife is due with their fourth son mid April.)

Space Access looks very interesting this year. Here are some of the speakers:

Armadillo Aerospace/John Carmack
BonNova/Bob Noteboom
James Dunstan, on Orbital Debris Law
FAA AST/Ken Davidian & Others
Flometrics/Carl Tedesco
Jeff Foust of The Space Review and spacetoday.net
Kevin Greene, "The SBA-Guaranteed Business Loan Process"
George Herbert/Retro Aerospace
Clark Lindsey of spacetransportnews.com
Masten Space/Dave Masten
Leik Myrabo, of RPI and LTI, with a beam-propulsion progress report
Misuzu Onuki, "Current Status Of Japanese Space Venture Companies"
PoliSpace/Jim Muncy
Charles Pooley/Microlaunchers (and other N-Prize contestants)
Rocketplane Global/Chuck Lauer
Dave Salt, on European initiatives
Robin Snelson, Space Tourism Specialist with Rocketship Tours
Space Studies Institute/Lee Valentine
SpeedUp/Bob Steinke
Stratofox/Ian Kluft
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)/Joshua Nelson
David Summers/Universal Transport Systems, "High Delta-V Rocket Aircraft"
Henry Spencer, "The Big Top Step: From 100 Km To LEO - Building To Orbit From Suborbital Capabilities"
TrueZer0/Scott Zeeb and Todd Squires
Unreasonable Rocket/Paul Breed
XCOR Aerospace

If you are interested in space and have any chance of being in Phoenix from the 2nd to the 4th of April, check out Space Access 2009.


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