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NewSpace 2008 AgendaConference Chair: William J. Watson – [email protected]

. Wednesday, July 16th, 20086:00 pmto 8:30 pm

SEDS-ISU Dinner (Ticketed Event)Introduction to ISU-DC Network• Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides – ISU-USA President, International Space UniversityFeatured Dinner Speaker• Bob Richards – CEO, Odyssey Moon, Lmt.

6:30 pmto 8:30 pm

George Washington University Teachers In Space Event

7:00 pmto 11:00 pm

Networking Dinner & Drinks at the DoubleTree SkyDome Lounge (on your own)

. Thursday, July 17th, 2008NewSpace Policy

8:00 amto 9:00 am

Networking & Registration

9:00 amto 9:10 am

NewSpace Policy Day Opening RemarksJames Muncy – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President, PoliSpace

9:10 amto 9:30 am

Keynote Address: Island of Man & the Future of NewSpace...Alex Downie – Minister of Space, Island of Man Government

9:30 amto 10:25 am

VSE: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?Concerning the present Vision for Space Exploration, what should the next U.S. Presidentdo? An exploratory discussion of the possibilities and more likely outcomes over the nextadministration.Charles Miller (Session Chair) – President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc.Bretton Alexander – Executive Director, X Prize FoundationRoger Launius – Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and SpaceMuseum, Smithsonian InstitutionPaul Carliner – President, Carliner Strategies LLCEric Sterner – former NASA Associate Deputy Administrator, former Staff Director, HouseSubcommittee on Space & Aeronautics

10:25 amto 10:50 am

NewSpace Press EventAnnouncement of National Summit on CATS

10:50 amto 11:45 am

The Elusive CATS (Cheap Access to Space)Past government & private ventures have been unable to field drastically cheaper and/ormore responsive access to space systems. How are present initiatives different and can theU.S. Government use market friendly policies to close "the gap".Charles Miller (Session Chair) – President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc.George Whitesides – Senior Advisor, Virgin Galactic; Executive Director, National SpaceSocietyCharles Lauer – Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for RocketplaneGlobal

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Bob Werb – Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Space Frontier FoundationLtCol. Peter Garretson – Future Concepts & Transformation Division, U.S. Air Force

11:45 amto 12:45 pm

Exploring Space ITAR ReformThe International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which govern transfers of spacetechnologies to foreign persons, have been widely criticized as counter-productive. The lastyear has seen a flurry of studies suggesting that, by controlling too much too tightly, theITAR is unintentionally driving innovation in space technologies overseas and thusundermining American leadership in space rather than protecting it.What is the right balance between openness and control? How can we limit the proliferationof truly sensitive technologies while ensuring that America regains its leadership ininnovation? Which technologies should be controlled by the ITAR? How could the ITAR bemade to work better, especially for entrepreneurial companies?James Muncy (Session Chair) – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President,PoliSpaceMike Gold – Corporate Counsel, Bigelow AerospaceFranceska O. Schroeder – Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C.Edward M. Morris – Director, Office of Space Commercialization, U.S. Department ofCommerceDennis Burnett – Director, Export Control Division, EADS North America

12:45 pmto 2:00 pm

Lunch: Sponsored by BoeingSpace Investment Summit Update - Bringing New Investors to NewSpace:Paul Eckert – The Boeing CompanyFeatured Speaker:Dr. George Nield – Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, FAA

2:00 pmto 3:00 pm

State Policy Tools for Space CommercializationWhat are States doing now to attract NewSpace business & what potential lies in additionalspace policy tools?Jim Dunstan (Session Chair) – Partner, Garvey Schubert BarerMarshall L. Heard – Chairman, Florida Aviation and Aerospace Alliance; Consultant,Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space CoastJohn Gedmark – Executive Director, Personal Spaceflight Federation; co-Founder/BoardMember, Roosevelt InstitutionJack Kennedy – Founding Director at V-PRIZE Foundation, Inc.; former State Senator,Virginia General Assembly

3:00 pmto 4:00 pm

Federal Policy Tools for Space CommercializationOther than ITAR reform (discussed earlier) and better partnership with NASA (discussedFriday), what legal and regulatory changes can be made at the Federal level to support andencourage space commercialization? Topics will include tax incentives, government use ofprizes, the future of AST regulation, U.S. policies on commercial communications andremote sensing satellites, liability issues, orbital debris and structural changes inside theU.S. Government.Berin Szoka (Session Chair) – Progress & Freedom Foundation Visiting FellowDr. George Nield – Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, FAAEdward M. Morris – Director, Office of Space Commercialization, U.S. Department ofCommerceBretton Alexander – Executive Director, X Prize Foundation

4:00 pmto 4:15 pm

Networking Break

4:15 pmto 5:15 pm

Human Spaceflight and American EducationStudy math and science, and you can become an astronaut. That's been the dream for 50years. Can we make it real?Edward Wright (Session Chair) – Program Manager, Teachers in SpaceAlan Ladwig – WBB Consulting, Board of Directors of the Challenger CenterTim Bailey – Space Generation Council

5:15 pmto 5:30 pm

Featured Speaker: VPRIZE & Government's Hand in NewSpaceJim Dunstan – Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer

5:30 pmto 7:00 pm

Reception


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7:00 pmto 9:30 pm

Space Frontier Foundation Advocates Dinner (for active status Advocates)

7:00 pmto 11:00 pm

Informal Dinner & Drinks at the DoubleTree SkyDome Lounge (on your own)

. Friday, July 18th, 2008NewSpace Business

8:00 amto 9:00 am


9:00 amto 9:10 am

NewSpace Business Day Opening RemarksRich Pournelle – Director of Business Development, XCOR

9:10 amto 9:30 am

Keynote Address: Discussion on NASA motivations for COTS & the program's futureDennis Stone – NASA - COTS

9:30 amto 10:30 am

Planning for the Transition Team: NewSpace Growing UpThe passion and skill sets that are necessary to brave the challenges of starting aNewSpace Company are not always the best attributes for an executive once the companymatures. How to know when it is time to replace some of your team members & ease thissometimes financially and emotionally painful transition.Esther Dyson (Session Chair) – EDventure HoldingsJeff Feige – CEO, Orbital OutfittersRich Pournelle – Director of Business Development, XCOR

10:30 amto 10:45 am

Networking Break

10:45 amto 11:45 am

A NewSpace Exit StrategyDoes Northrop Grumman's recent acquisition of Scaled Composites hint at things to come?Do other established aerospace companies have hidden ambitions? At what point may aNewSpace company want to be taken over? Is this evolution preventable? or shouldcompanies try to go it alone and ultimately go public? What are the factors to consider?What about a strategic investor?Guillermo Söhnlein (Session Chair) – Managing Director, Space Angels Network;Founder and Chairman, International Association of Space EntrepreneursShubber Ali – Engagement Director, Fast Innovation & Growth, George Group ConsultingRichard Humphrey – New York AngelsMarco Rubin – Managing Partner, Exoventure AssociatesAndrew Nelson – Chief Operating Officer and VP Business Development, XCORAerospace

11:45 amto 1:00 pm

Lunch: Pioneering the NewSpace Business FrontierFeatured Speaker: Alan Stern – Science Mission Director; former NASA AssociateAdministrator, NASA Science Directorate, Odyssey Moon Limited

1:00 pmto 2:00 pm

The Nuts and Bolts of Growing Your Business in SpaceThis panel will provide an overview of key legal considerations that go into developing avibrant NewSpace business while maximizing future enterprise value. Topics of discussionwill include: choice of entity, documenting shareholder relationships, fund raising, intellectualproperty protection and utilization, use of employees and independent contractors, riskmitigation, and navigating regulatory controls.Rosanna Sattler (Session Chair) – Partner, Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLPKerry Scarlott – Partner, Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLPJeff Feige – CEO, Orbital OutfittersReagan Walker – Co-Founder & CEO, ConsortiumTechnologies, LLC andConsortiumNeutron Systems, Inc.

2:00 pmto 3:00 pm

NASA Enabling NewSpace, NewSpace Enabling A VisionHow can NewSpace companies profit from NASA exploration? How can the potentialingenuity and efficiency NewSpace companies offer be fostered & utilized by government?Should NASA help promote private investment in exploration-enabling capabilities, such asISRU and fuel depots? What can be done now to eliminate government duplication ofcapabilities offered by entrepreneurial ventures? Discussion of NASA's expected RFIconcerning commercial lunar communications and navigation systems, understandingNASA motivations, and better methods of NASA-NewSpace communication.


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Ken Davidian (Session Chair) – NASA HeadquartersJohn Gedmark – Executive Director, Personal Spaceflight Federation; co-Founder/BoardMember, Roosevelt InstitutionDoug Comstock – NASA HeadquartersMichael Beavin – Senior Program Analyst, NOAA Office of Space Commercialization

3:00 pmto 3:15 pm

Networking Break

3:15 pmto 4:15 pm

COTS, An Inconvenient Truth?What potential does the COTS model hold for the future of space transportation? WhileNASA presently seems to emphasize the cargo transportation capability of this program,how serious are the competitors about human transportation? Would the government andentrepreneurial firms benefit from additional commercial transportation contracts for bothdemonstrations and services?Dennis Stone (Session Chair) – NASA - COTSJeff M. Bingham – Director of Commerce, Science and Transportation, U.S. SenateBrett Alexander – Executive Director, X Prize Foundation; President, Personal SpaceflightFederationTim Hughes – Vice President & Chief Counsel, SpaceXMike Gold – Corporate Counsel, Bigelow Aerospace

4:15 pmto 5:15 pm

Teaching New Dogs Old TricksWhat technologies exist inside NASA & its contractors that may help the buddingNewSpace industry reach their ambitious price points and avoid the legacy costs that haunttheir older, bigger brethren? From the NewSpace Co. perspective, where to draw the linebetween building in-house and ordering-in?William (Bill) Reeves (Session Chair) – Director, Program Integration, United SpaceAllianceGerald E. Miller – Director, Independent Research and Development, United SpaceAllianceRich Pournelle – Director of Business Development, XCORGreg A. Ray – Chief Engineer, Space Shuttle Program, BoeingAndrew Petro – NASA Centennial Challenges, Program Executive for Innovation Incubator

5:15 pmto 5:45 pm

Featured Speaker:Jeff Feige – CEO, Orbital Outfitters

5:45 pmto 6:30 pm

Pre-Movie Food & Networking Reception - Sponsored by Free Radical Productions

6:30 pmto 7:30 pm

"Orphans of Apollo: The Battle of The Mir & the New Space Revolution" PreviewScreening EventThe Documentary film "Orphans of Apollo: The Battle of the Mir & the New SpaceRevolution," features the extraordinary true story of a small group of entrepreneurs wholeased the Russian Mir Space Station. These pioneering efforts launched the New SpaceRevolution. This is the remarkable untold story of the greatest secret in the new space race.The international creative and production team on Orphans of Apollo includes a two timeEmmy Award winning technical and creative team member.Roger Launius – Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and SpaceMuseum, Smithsonian InstitutionMichael Potter – Executive Producer, Free Radical Productions

7:30 pmto 8:30 pm

"Orphans of Apollo" Character DiscussionA discussion between the film's main characters.Roger Launius (Session Chair) – Chair, Division of Space History, National Air and SpaceMuseum, Smithsonian InstitutionMichael Potter – Executive Producer, Free Radical ProductionsRick Tumlinson – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, Orbital OutfittersJames Muncy – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President, PoliSpace

8:30 pmto 10:30 pm

Networking Dinner & Drinks at the DoubleTree SkyDome Lounge (on your own)

10:30 pmto 2:00 am

Hospitality Suite


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. Saturday, July 19th, 2008NewSpace Vision

8:30 amto 9:00 am


9:00 amto 9:10 am

NewSpace Vision Day Opening RemarksRick Tumlinson – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, Orbital Outfitters

9:10 amto 9:30 am

Keynote AddressEric Anderson – Co-Founder & CEO, Space Adventures

9:30 amto 10:30 am

Space Based Solar Power & PolicyWith Pressure for energy independence growing, how might SBSP play a role? What canbe done now and who are the potential players?Charles Miller (Session Chair) – President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc.John Mankins – Chief Operating Officer, Managed Energy Technology LLCLtCol. Paul Damphousse – U.S. Marine Corps, National Security Space Office Chief ofAdvanced ConceptsCol. Michael "Coyote" Smith – Former Chief, U.S. Air Force, National Security SpaceOffice; Future Concepts, Dream WorksGeoffrey Styles – Managing Director, GSW Strategy Group, LLC

10:30 amto 10:45 am

Networking Break

10:45 amto 11:45 am

Get Rich or Go Extinct: The Asteroid Business CaseAsteroids challenge us to defend ourselfs from planetary catastrophy while offering us themineral resources to underwrite an unlimited expansion into the space frontier. Will weaccept this challenge?Brad Blair (Session Chair) – ISRU consultantJohn Mankins – Chief Operating Officer, Managed Energy Technology LLCJim Dunstan – Partner, Garvey Schubert BarerBrent Barbee – Planetary Defense ScientistLtCol. Peter Garretson – Future Concepts & Transformation Division, U.S. Air Force

11:45 amto 12:45 pm

Predicting the Future of NewSpaceThis session will explore the possibilities for the next wave of NewSpace activities andbusiness opportunities in the next 10 to 20 years. The current crop of NewSpace venturesand activities that have been developing for the last few years will bear fruit in the next fiveyears or so. Panelists will share their views and describe their personal visions of theSecond Wave of NewSpace that will build on these successes and expand our businessand cultural reach as a spacefaring civilization.Charles Lauer (Session Chair) – Co-founder and Vice President of Business Developmentfor Rocketplane GlobalRick Tumlinson – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, Orbital OutfittersJames Muncy – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President, PoliSpaceRoger Launius – Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and SpaceMuseum, Smithsonian InstitutionDr. Edward Hudgins – Executive Director, The Atlas SocietyMisuzu Onuki – Director, Space Frontier Foundation BoardLtCol. Paul Damphousse – U.S. Marine Corps, National Security Space Office Chief ofAdvanced Concepts

12:45 pmto 2:00 pm

LunchFeatured Speaker: Geoffrey T. Sheerin – CEO, PlanetSpace

2:00 pmto 3:00 pm

The Overview Effect and New Overview InstituteThe Overview Effect is the experience the astronauts have described when seeing thereality of the Earth in space. The Overview Group is currently creating The OverviewInstitute as a permanent organization in the space community to validate, research andcommunicate the Overview Effect to the world. This panel will quickly review the majormilestones we have passed, as well as our Declaration of Vision and Principles released inMay of this year. The majority of the hour will be devoted to brainstorming with the audiencea list of social institutions and organizations that we should be networking with to extend ourprogram into the larger society. We will be asking for suggestions about organizations and


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leaders in these fields, particularly those for whom you can provide contact information. Weurge all those who would like to see The Overview Effect and The NewSpace movementand industry communicated to a wider audience to attend this important meeting.Jeff Krukin (Session Chair) – NewSpace Business DevelopmentDavid Beaver – founder, World Space Center and Mindspace Multimedia, Inc.Frank White – author, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human EvolutionAlex Howerton – Business Development Consultant, American Aerospace Advisors Inc.

The Overview Institute website is www.overviewinstitute.org.

3:00 pmto 3:15 pm

NewSpace Announcement: Scope 101John Wright – Executive Director, Teach Kids About Science

3:15 pmto 4:15 pm

Bridging the "Generation Gap"A Gen Y vs. Baby Boomers Debate On the Future of Human Spaceflight; with the objectiveof finding a mutual understanding and pushing toward the future together. Moderated byGen X's Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides.Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides (Session Chair) – ISU-USA President, International SpaceUniversityCharles Miller – President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc.James Pura – Intern, SpaceX; President, SEDS USCD; Editor, NewSpace NewsDavid S. Schuman – Attorney-Advisor, Code 140, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterKeith Cowing – NASA WatchEmilie Drobnes – Education and Public Outreach Lead, Solar Dynamics Observatory,NASA/GSFCRich Leshner – NASA

4:15 pmto 4:30 pm

Featured Speaker: NewSpace for a New GenerationWilliam Watson – Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation

4:30 pmto 6:00 pm

Networking Reception Sponsored by Posternak

6:00 pmto 9:30pm

Arthur C. Clarke Tribute Banquet - black-tie affair (separate registration)• Opening Remarks: Rick Tumlinson – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation• Clarke Tribute Presentation: Dave Brody – Executive Producer, Imaginova• Apogee Books Tribute Statement: Robert Godwin – Apogee Books• Clarke's Historical Contribution - Visionary of Satellite Telecommunications: RogerLaunius – Chair, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, SmithsonianInstitution• Clarke's Contribution to SEDS, ISU, and SG: Bob Richards – CEO, Odyssey Moon,Lmt.• Foundation Awards: Rick Tumlinson – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation• Space VidVision Competition Presentation: Elaine Bloom – SpaceContest.org• Conclusion: Rick Tumlinson – Co-Founder, Space Frontier Foundation

8:00 pmto 2:00 am

Hospitality Suite

. Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Trip to Wallops Island, Virginia

NewSpace 2008 Conference Hotel:Doubletree Hotel, Crystal City, Virginia

The Doubletree Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia is situated on the west side of the Potomac, across from the capital. The views fromthe hotel make you feel as if you can reach out and touch the monuments.

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Limited rooms still available (Single Rate $149.00, Double Rate $149.00, Triple Rate $169.00, Quad Rate $189.00)The conference hotel room block / promotional prices expire on July 7.

Note: The promotional $149 per/night room block for Saturday, July 19th is full, but additional rooms at this rate will bemade available as of 07/05/08. Please book at this time.

Update: Limited rooms available at promotional rate until Thursday, July 10Doubletree Hotel info:

300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia, United States 22202-2891 Tel: +1-703-416-4100 Fax: +1-703-416-4126Doubletree Hotel, Crystal City web site

The Doubletree Hotel in the Crystal City business corridor, minutes from Ronald Reagan National Airport, is located just acrossthe Potomac from Washington D.C. Our full service hotel is within blocks of the Pentagon, Crystal Drive office park, the CrystalUnderground Shopping Center, and Fashion Centre Mall at Pentagon City. We're convenient to all major government centers andD.C. area attractions like the Smithsonian, the White House, The Capitol, the Washington Monument, and Arlington NationalCemetery.

The hotel features spacious rooms and suites with a long list of amenities, including high-speed internet access. The hotel offers acomplete array of audiovisual, communications and business support services, including a Business Center. Work out in thewell-equipped fitness room or take a dip in the indoor, heated pool on top of the hotel. The Café Restaurant serves breakfast,lunch and dinner, or try Café Express for a light meal to go. The Skydome Lounge is the Washington D.C. area's only revolvingrooftop lounge, featuring excellent views of the Capital and the Potomac, as well as happy hour buffets, dancing andentertainment. For a truly memorable dining experience, Windows Over Washington Restaurant offers elegant presentations ofmodern American cuisine and spectacular views on Friday and Saturday evenings only. Reservations are suggested.

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. Gaary Barnhard, Barnhard Associates, LLC

• Gary Barnhard is the owner and president of BarnhardAssociates, LLC, a systems engineering consulting firm andInternet Service Provider (Xisp.net) based in Cabin John,Maryland. He is a robotic space systems engineer whoseprofessional work includes a wide range of robotic, spaceand computer systems engineering projects.

. Boeing

• Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and thelargest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and militaryaircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs andmanufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems,missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advancedinformation and communication systems. As a major serviceprovider to NASA, Boeing supports the Space Shuttle,International Space Station and the Ares I crew launchvehicle. The company also provides numerous military andcommercial airline support services. http://www.boeing.com

. Free Radical Productions

• The Documentary film "Orphans of Apollo: The Battle of theMir & the New Space Revolution," features the extraordinarytrue story of a small group of entrepreneurs who leased theRussian Mir Space Station. These pioneering effortslaunched the New Space Revolution. This is the remarkableuntold story of the greatest secret in the new space race.

This dramatic tale chronicles the adventure of the boldestbusiness plan the Earth has ever seen. MirCorp's spacestation was an outpost that was intended to be the firstphase of a trillion dollar business that would have includedmining of asteroids. MirCorp was the ultimate start-upcompany, no other business on Earth even comes close.

. National Space Society

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• The National Space Society (NSS) is an independent,educational, grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated tothe creation of a spacefaring civilization. Founded as theNational Space Institute (1974) and L5 Society (1975),which merged to form NSS in 1987, NSS is widelyacknowledged as the preeminent citizen's voice on space.NSS counts thousands of members and over 50 chapters inthe United States and around the world.

. PoliSpace

• PoliSpace is an independent space policy consultancywhich helps space entrepreneurs and intrepreneurssucceed at the nexus of space business, technology, andpublic affairs.

. Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP

• Founded in 1980, Posternak distinguishes itself by providingsophisticated and practical legal counsel to the rapidlyemerging NewSpace Industry. We work with visionaries,entrepreneurs, commercial enterprises and public/privatestakeholders in addressing and resolving complex issuesconfronting NewSpace, from corporate and contract law,financing and intellectual property protection and utilization,to cutting edge challenges of space property law, U.S.exports controls compliance (including ITAR), insurance law,and rapidly evolving government regulatory programs.

. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

• SEDS is the world's largest international student run prospace organization. Established in the 1980s by PeterDiamandis, SEDS promotes student involvement in spaceexploration through technical projects, student organizedspace conferences, networking events, and leadershipopportunities. SEDS alumni hold many leadership positionsacross the space industry.

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. SpaceIsle.com

• SpaceIsle.com, the international finance center dedicated tospace, is located on the Isle of Man.

. United Space Alliance


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• United Space Alliance is a world leader in space operationswith experience in virtually all aspects of the field.Headquartered in Houston and employing 10,000 people,USA applies its unrivaled capabilities to NASA’s SpaceShuttle, International Space Station and Constellationprograms as well as to commercial and international spaceindustry customers.




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. American Aerospace Advisors, Inc.

• American Aerospace Advisors is a team of experiencedmanagement, market development and technicalprofessionals dedicated to helping our clients accelerategrowth. We work with clients to develop core capabilities,identify strategic markets, develop competitive advantage,and efficiently capture key opportunities. AmericanAerospace skillfully provides essential insight and expertiseto help growing companies reach the future first.

. Apogee Books

• Apogee Books, an imprint of C. G. Publishing Inc.,Burlington Ontario, is well known as THE Space BookCompany. The Apogee Space Book Series has over 115titles including the award winning NASA Mission Reports,Space Biographies, Space Histories, Space Science, &Pocket Space Guides. Many of our titles include DVDs orCD-ROMs. Apogee Books also publishes a select numberof Historically Important Classic Science Fiction titles.

Apogee Books guest authors signing books at the booth:Frank Sietzen Jr. - New Moon Rising, The Astronaut andThe FiremanJames A. Dewar - To The End Of The Solar System: Storyof the Nuclear RocketLonnie Jones Schorer - Kids To SpaceFrederick Ordway III - The Rocket Team

. Boeing

• Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and thelargest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and militaryaircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs andmanufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems,missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advancedinformation and communication systems. As a major serviceprovider to NASA, Boeing supports the Space Shuttle,International Space Station and the Ares I crew launchvehicle. The company also provides numerous military andcommercial airline support services. http://www.boeing.com

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. FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation

• AST’s mission is to ensure protection of the public, property,and the national security and foreign policy interests of theUnited States during commercial launch or reentry activities,and to encourage, facilitate, and promote U.S. commercialspace transportation.

AST's vision is to be recognized as the world's foremostauthority on commercial space transportation.

. Imaginova

• The Imaginova Network of media properties, includingLiveScience.com, Space.com, Aviation.com,Newsarama.com and Space News (SpaceNews.com),delivers engaging and entertaining editorial and multimediacontent to a robust community of curious and well-informedusers. Imaginova's original content is syndicated to majoronline portals and licensed by educational publishers andinstitutions. Imaginova is also the premie source ofinnovative consumer and educational products available atOrionTelescopes.com, LiveScienceStore.com, andStarryNightStore.com. Founded in 1999, Imaginova Corp. isprivately held and based in New York City, with offices andnews bureaus in Virginia, California, Toronto and Paris. Formore information, please visit www.Imaginova.com.

. International Space University (ISU)

• International Space University provides graduate-leveltraining to the future leaders of the global space communityat its Central Campus in Strasbourg, France, and atlocations around the world. In its two-month SummerSession and one-year Masters program, ISU offers studentsa unique Core Curriculum covering all disciplines related tospace programs and enterprises – space science, spaceengineering, systems engineering, space policy and law,business and management, and space and society.

. Mark Maxwell

• Illustrator and space artist Mark Maxwell's depictions ofspace hardware and distant places have been exhibited andpublished all over the surface of the Earth, and occasionallyin orbit around it.

His clients include several NASA centers, Private spacecompanies and organizations such as LunaCorp, t/Space,CMU Robotics Institute, DARPA, Orbital Recovery Corp, inaddition to works for The Space Frontier Foundation,National Space Society and Space Studies Institute andnumerous space and science fiction publications, as well asadvertising, film and television.

View his work on the web.

. The Moon Society


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• The Moon Society is an international nonprofit 501(c)3educational and scientific organization formed to further thecreation of communities on the Moon involving large-scaleindustrialization and private enterprise.

. National Space Society

• The National Space Society (NSS) is an independent,educational, grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated tothe creation of a spacefaring civilization. Founded as theNational Space Institute (1974) and L5 Society (1975),which merged to form NSS in 1987, NSS is widelyacknowledged as the preeminent citizen's voice on space.NSS counts thousands of members and over 50 chapters inthe United States and around the world.

. Phil Mills NewSpace Models

• Phil Mills builds scale models to order of Spacecraft andLaunch Vehicles. Each model is individually scratch built toorder in Saudi Arabia where Phil lives and works. Allmaterials for the models are brought in to Saudi from the UKas modelling materials are not available in the Kingdom. Toproduce the models Phil draws his own plans gatheringinformation from the internet. The models are made torepresent how the actual vehicles do or will appear in space.If new information appears or a configuration changes in thecourse of vehicle development, later models will representthis. As a consequence models built at a certain time will beunique representations done at that time. Each modelcomes with a display stand. Pictured at right: a Phil Millsmodel of the Bigelow Aerospace Genesis 1.

. Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP

• Founded in 1980, Posternak distinguishes itself by providingsophisticated and practical legal counsel to the rapidlyemerging NewSpace Industry. We work with visionaries,entrepreneurs, commercial enterprises and public/privatestakeholders in addressing and resolving complex issuesconfronting NewSpace, from corporate and contract law,financing and intellectual property protection and utilization,to cutting edge challenges of space property law, U.S.exports controls compliance (including ITAR), insurance law,and rapidly evolving government regulatory programs.

. ProSpace


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• ProSpace is a nonprofit citizens advocacy group with themission "to open the space frontier for ALL people as rapidlyas possible." We believe that only by taking direct andpersonal responsibility, as citizens of this great country, willour personal visions come to life. We believe that one daysoon - if we get involved now - we all will have theopportunity to live, work and play in space. The members ofProSpace are private citizens from all walks of life and fromall across the United States, each with a deep and abidinginterest in America's national space enterprise. Each Marchwe come to Washington at our own expense to speakdirectly to the leaders of our nation. We do so because ofstrong beliefs about the direction of our country's efforts inspace - in the past, present and future.

. Scope 101

• Scope 101 is a telescope education event which will takeplace this Fall in three cities: Los Angeles, Santa Barbaraand San Diego. High school students from around SouthernCalifornia will learn how telescopes work, how to aim atelescope, and then teach younger children how to operatea telescope. Scope 101 is a project of the Space FrontierFoundation and managed by long-time space educationveteran and SEDS alum John Wright.

. Space Frontier Foundation CafePress Shop / Peter Thorpe Design

• You can help to support an open space frontier bypurchasing Space Frontier Foundation logo and graphicimage shirts, sweaters, hats, tote bags, mugs, coasters,calendars, notebooks, prints, clocks, tiles, buttons, magnets,children's clothing, pet items and more. Space FrontierFoundation products at CafePress.

Foundation Creative Director Peter Thorpe will presentseveral of his Rocket paintings for sale. 25% of theproceeds go to support the Foundation. Peter ThorpeRocket Paintings.

. Space Consulting Network

• The Space Consulting Network is a new website whose goalis to build a global online directory of space experts byspecialization and geographic location. The website aims tobe a portal for creating a "one-stop" site and forum to findpartners for future projects, to find expertise for researchand academic program activities, or for employers andcompanies looking for people on their project teams.

The website is open to everyone who would like to advertisetheir specialization – not just consultants but everyone whohas the desire to share their knowledge for profit ornon-profit purposes. The success of the website depends onthe community it builds. To join, go towww.spaceconsulting.net.


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. Space Teddy Bear Collection

• Space Teddy Bears Collection by ZspaceThe Teddy Bears, which awaken our childhood memories,have been loved as a symbol of peace, happiness, andtenderness all over the world. The Teddy Bears havealready had a history of space activities including Japaneseastronaut’s blue Teddy Bear on STS-95 in 1998. Now SpaceTeddy Bears have come to NewSpace! Space Teddy Bearscan play a big role to encourage space activities for childrenas space ambassadors. The Space Teddy Bears Projecthas started educational “Missions” for children.http://www.spaceteddybear.com

. Stardance

• Stardance – "Wherever humans go we bring our arts, and inzero-gravity we will create amazing new forms of art neverbefore seen, as our imaginations are set free byweightlessness."

Inspired by Spider and Jeanne Robinson’s popular series ofnovels, "Jeanne Robinson's Stardance Experience" is a filmthat combines artistic and humanistic themes with thebackdrop of science and space exploration–exemplifying thegrandeur, intrigue and promise of space, while exploring thegrace of dance unhindered by gravity, and the expansionand growth of mankind as we reach for the stars.

The film (slated to be produced for IMAX and other largeformat theaters for initial release) also serves thefilmmaker's goal to re-ignite humanity's fire to return tospace–to reach and inspire everyday people andcommunicate the majesty, beauty, mystery andtranscendence that await us all, while showing an attainableand realistic vision of mankind's future in space. Only fromthat perspective can we hope to create futures thatexemplify the best in humanity: our propensity to dream,dance, and evolve.

. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

• SEDS is the world's largest international student run prospace organization. Established in the 1980s by PeterDiamandis, SEDS promotes student involvement in spaceexploration through technical projects, student organizedspace conferences, networking events, and leadershipopportunities. SEDS alumni hold many leadership positionsacross the space industry.

. Teachers in Space

• Teachers in Space – Imagine thousands of astronautteachers, in schools all across the country, sharing theirspaceflight knowledge and experiences with millions ofstudents. Private companies are now developing a newgeneration of reusable space vehicles, which willdramatically improve safety and reduce the cost of humanspaceflight. The Teachers in Space program is working with


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new spaceflight companies to make sure that teachers areamong those who have a chance to go. As a new age ofopportunity unfolds, who better than teachers to lead theway?

. United Space Alliance

• United Space Alliance is a world leader in space operationswith experience in virtually all aspects of the field.Headquartered in Houston and employing 10,000 people,USA applies its unrivaled capabilities to NASA’s SpaceShuttle, International Space Station and Constellationprograms as well as to commercial and international spaceindustry customers.

. Virginia Space Flight Academy

• Virginia Space Flight Academy offers weeklong residentialsummer camps for students ages eleven to fifteen years old.Space Flight Adventure Camp brings campers from acrossthe nation to Wallops Island, Virginia to spend a weekexploring space sciences at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.Partnering with NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Navy, SpaceFlight Adventure Camp provides access to a behind thescenes look at the United States rocketry program. Inaddition to a NASA backstage pass, campers collaborate ontwo major projects, rocketry and robotics. Campers buildand launch several types of model rockets, and work inteams of two or three to build and program small robotsusing Lego© Mindstorms© NXT systems. By weeks end,campers have gained first hand experience of a wide rangeof aerospace careers in an atmosphere designed to fuelenthusiasm.

“Capturing the imagination of today's youth is the first stepin providing the scientists, technicians and engineers oftomorrow.” – Robert Marshall, Executive Director, VirginiaSpace Flight Academy.

. Zero Gravity Corporation

• Zero Gravity Corporation is a privately held spaceentertainment company whose mission is to make theexcitement and adventure of space accessible to the public.ZERO-G is based in Las Vegas and Florida and is the firstand only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightlessflight to the general public. The experience offered byZero-G is the only commercial opportunity on Earth forindividuals to experience true "weightlessness" withoutgoing to space. This is the identical weightless flightexperience used by NASA to train its astronauts and usedby Ron Howard and Tom Hanks to film Apollo-13. TheZero-G Experience consists of a brief training session forpassengers followed by a 90-minute flight aboard G-Force-One, during which parabolic maneuvers are performed. Thecontrolled ascent and descent of the plane allows Flyers toexperience Martian gravity (1/3-gravity), Lunar gravity(1/6-gravity), and zero gravity. The Zero-G Experience


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provides its Flyers with twice the amount of weightless timeachieved in a typical sub-orbital flight into space. ZERO-Goperates under the highest safety standards as set by theFAA (Part-121) with its partner Amerijet International of Ft.Lauderdale Florida. Aircraft operations take place under thesame regulations set for large commercial passengerairliners.

G-Force-One regularly flies from both Signature Air Terminalat McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and theShuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center inCentral Florida.




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. Shubber Ali

• Mr. Ali has 12 years of experience in the Aerospace and High Tech markets. He has been a foundingmember of numerous technology and internet startups, including SnowSports Interactive, LocalVision(digital media advertising), bne1.com (a consumer privacy software company), and Inferscape (apredictive modeling company using the latest in artificial intelligence software). He is currently alsoPresident of the American Society of Sydney.

Previously, Mr. Ali was Manager of KPMG Space Consulting in Washington, D.C., and worked on thestrategic planning and financing of numerous commercial and defence satellite ventures, andtechnology commercialisation projects for the Federal government (ISS and Sandia Labs) anduniversity laboratories. He was the Group Manager of Risk Operations Strategy for Capital One, one ofthe leading credit card issuers in the United States. He was a Director of a publicly tradedtelecommunications firm, and has served on the Board of Directors of the California Space Authority,the Space Frontier Foundation, and the International Business Association of the Greater Los AngelesWorld Trade Centre Association.

. Eric Anderson

• Born in 1974 in Denver, Colo., Mr. Eric Anderson, a leading astropreneur (as coined by Wiredmagazine), is currently the president and CEO of Space Adventures, Ltd. He is an outspoken advocateof commercial space transportation, private space exploration, and space tourism. Involved since itsinception, he co-founded Space Adventures in 1997 with several former astronauts and leadingvisionaries from the aerospace, adventure travel, and entertainment industries.

Mr. Anderson's vision is to open the space frontier to everyone. It is his hope that through thedevelopment of the sub-orbital spaceflight program he helped engineer and the latest mission to takeprivate explorers to the International Space Station, Space-Adventures 1, the company can benefit notonly private individuals interested in space travel, but also the international space program as a whole.He shares in the belief that space exploration is vital to human progress and by opening the spacefrontier to private men and women from around the world, we can greatly enhance technologicaldevelopment and cultural understanding.

Previously, Mr. Anderson was the executive vice president and co-founder of Starport.com, anastronaut-endorsed space education and entertainment web site (Starport.com was sold toSPACE.com in June 2000). Mr. Anderson also worked as a business development lead for AnalyticalGraphics, a $30 million aerospace software firm. In addition, he held a research position with NASA.

Mr. Anderson has authored several technical papers and articles, on topics ranging from space tourismto infrared astronomy, from launch vehicle analysis to advanced space propulsion, from space sensordesign to business and economic evaluations of various space-related ventures. He is also a guestspeaker and lecturer on various topics in the aviation and aerospace industry. Mr. Anderson graduatedmagna cum laude from the University of Virginia, with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering,and was selected by USA Today as one of the nation's Top 40 graduating seniors.

. Brent Barbee

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• Mr. Brent William Barbee, M.S.E. is an Aerospace Engineer with Emergent Space Technologies, Inc.,headquartered in Greenbelt, MD. Mr. Barbee specialized in spacecraft dynamics, celestial mechanics,and spacecraft mission design at The University of Texas at Austin, and his Master's Thesis provideddetailed plans for systems to deflect hazardous Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) (asteroids and comets).

Mr. Barbee participated by invitation in the NASA NEO Workshop in Vail, CO in 2006 that supported thecreation of the report delivered to Congress by NASA regarding available options for deflectinghazardous NEOs. Mr. Barbee has also been an invited speaker on the topic of protecting Earth fromNEOs at the 2007 Planetary Defense Conference, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and atthe 2007 Aerospace Technology Working Group meeting.

Mr. Barbee is currently supporting the TRL 6 hardware-in-the-loop testing of the Inter-spacecraftRanging and Alarm System (IRAS) for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission at the NASAGSFC Formation Flying Testbed (FFTB). He also previously performed key work in the FFTB leading toa successful GSFC TRL4 demonstration of precision formation flying, contributed to the design,development, and testing of a hardware Path Emulator for Radio Frequency Signals (PERFS), wrotethe crosslink environment simulation software to drive the PERFS, and developed methods foracquiring truth metrology during a series of Relative Navigation Sensor (RNS) tests in support ofServicing Mission 4 (SM4) to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Additionally, Mr. Barbee hasdeveloped safe proximity operations techniques for an AFRL nanosatellite program, developedinnovative passively safe and fuel-efficient rendezvous techniques and trajectories for a CommercialOrbital Transportation Services (COTS) team, assisted in the development and analysis of opticalnavigation techniques for Lunar missions, and performed exotic trajectory design utilizing Lunar gravityassists. Prior to joining Emergent, Mr. Barbee worked on distributed computing for data processing atThe University of Texas at Austin's Applied Research Laboratories and worked on high-fideli simulationand modeling for the International Space Station (ISS) and visiting vehicles at NASA JSC.

In addition to his duties at Emergent, Mr. Barbee teaches the graduate Astrodynamics class in theAerospace Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mr. Barbee's areas of expertise and research interests include deflecting hazardous asteroids andcomets, spacecraft mission design, spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations, spacecrafttrajectory design, spacecraft formation flying, and spacecraft simulation and modeling.

. David Beaver

• David Beaver studied nuclear engineering and physics at The University of Virginia and the psychologyand sociology of perception and the philosophy of science at The University of Richmond. In addition toMindspace Multimedia Inc. David also founded The World Space Center, a not- for-profit working groupthat produced the First Overview Effect Conference, held in Arlington Virginia, on July 18th 2007.

David holds three U.S. and International patents for the invention of The Magic Stage, a virtual realitytheater technology. He has written and lectured on the cognitive science of the perception of mediaimages and its relationship to design, perception, art, film, virtual reality and other fields in seminars atsix major graduate schools, including recent ones at the Duke University Center for CognitiveNeuroscience. He has written three yet-to-be published books on the cognitive science of stage magicand a fourth, Applied Magic, is in process. Today David writes, researches, lectures, designs andconsults on his Projection Theory of Media Images and its many applications.

. Michael Beavin

• Michael Beavin joined the Office of Space Commercialization at NOAA in May 2006 as a SeniorProgram Analyst. Mike came to the Office of Space Commercialization from the Satellite IndustryAssociation (SIA) where he was the Director of Government Affairs and focused on the association’slegislative and policy issues within Congress and the Administration. Before working at SIA, Mikeworked for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) where he was the Director ofGovernment Relations and Public Policy.

Mike also served on the majority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science,Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. In this position he was responsible for overseeing thecommittee’s authorization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration fiscal year budget andthe FAA Research, Engineering, and Development budget.

. Jeff M. Bingham

• Jeff M. Bingham is Senior Adviser on Space and Aeronautics, Republican Staff Committee onCommerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate.

. Brad R. Blair


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• Brad is currently a consultant in the areas of mining technology, space resources and spacecommercialization. Recent consulting customers have included Raytheon, NASA, DigitalSpace andSysRAND Corporation. He holds degrees in geology, mining engineering and mineral economics, andhas 5 years of professional experience in mining engineering and mineral exploration. He haspublished over 25 papers on topics related to engineering and economic aspects of planetary in-situresource utilization (ISRU) since 1992. During the summer of 1999, Brad was a visiting professional atthe NASA/JSC Exploration Office, where he learned and practiced cost estimation in support of thecombo lander human Mars design reference mission.

From 2002-2005, he and a small team at CSM conducted full-time research for NASA on topics relatedto ISRU. Studies have included – Systems engineering for mining propellants on the Moon and Mars;Lunar polar data analysis; Planetary excavator design and prototype development; NASA technologyroadmapping; And, ISRU system design, costing and economic/commercial modeling.

. Elaine Bloom

• Elaine Bloom is the PR Director for SpaceContest.Org, which is running the 2008 SpaceVidVisionContest along with the Space Frontier Foundation. She is a freelance PR writer, book editor andprofessional organizer based in Maplewood, NJ. Her strong publishing background includes yearsworking for New York book publishers and in the special-interest newspaper field. An avid sciencefiction fan and Worldcon attendee, Elaine's interest in space extends back to her childhood dream ofbeing the first astronaut to go to Mars.

. Dave Brody

• Dave Brody is Executive Producer and Director of Media for IMAGINOVA Corporation, whose divisionsinclude LiveScience.com, Space.com, Aviation.com, Orion Telescopes, SPACE NEWS and Starry Nightsoftware. Brody produces, writes and directs original video and multimedia for the IMAGINOVA brands.Dave also works the other side of the camera: He's proselytized and “pronounce-ticated” about spaceon NBC's Today Show; CNBC's Business Nation and Morning Call show; Fox News television, BBCWorldwide News; and – almost inexplicably – on SIRIUS' satellite radio's Howard Stern Show Brodywrites for LiveScience.com, SPACE.com, SPACE NEWS and Ad Astra magazine. He conducts publicastronomy presentations using Starry Night software and Orion Telescopes. Prior to IMAGINOVA,Brody was Supervising Producer Original Programs for USA Networks/SCI FI Channel where heco-created and produced science, technology and entertainment series and specials; most particularly192 episodes of the weekly half-hour INSIDE SPACE program. Dave is Space Frontier FoundationAdvisor and Advocate. He still harbors the old dream of retiring to a variable gravity condo made ofnon-terrestrial material at a LaGrange Libration point.

. Keith Cowing

• Keith Cowing is trained as a biologist (M.A. and B.A. degrees) and has a multidisciplinar backgroundwith experience and expertise that ranges from space shuttle and space station payload integration andbiomedical peer review to freelance writing and website authoring. Keith is editor and webmaster of thesomewhat notorious NASA Watch, an online publication devoted to the free and uncensored exchangeof information on space policy and NASA operations. This website is read regularly within NASA,Congress, and the global space community. Keith is also editor of SpaceRef. com an online spacenews and reference resource and OnOrbit.com a new, space-oriented social website Keith donated histime to serve as an organizer and later, a the proceedings co-editor, for the NASA Administrator'sSymposium "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea, and the Stars" which was held at the NavalPostgraduate School in September 2004. Keith was co-chair with Leroy Chiao of a successor to thisevent, "Risk and Exploration: Eart As A Classroom", which was held at Louisiana State University inOctober 2007. Keith has been involved with the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) since the mid 1990's.Keith and his SpaceRef business partner Marc Boucher donated an experimental greenhouse whichthey constructed on Devon Island in the Summer of 2002. Keith returned to Devon Island for anothermonth in 2003. Keith visited Devon Island again in July in 2007 as part of a Mars Institute/ ChallengerCenter education and outreach activity. Keith is a Fellow (National) of The Explorers Club and was amember of a flag expedition to Devon Island (also in 2007). He is also an advisor to the Students forthe Exploration and Settlement of Space (SEDS) and is a member of the Board of Directors of theChallenger Center for Space Science Education.

. Ken Davidian

• Ken Davidian currently works for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) and theInnovative Partnerships Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Within ESMD, Mr. Davidian is charged with leading ESMD's space commercial development strategyefforts for the benefit of the Vision for Space Exploration, the Global Exploration Strategy, and NASA.

Mr. Davidian is also the program manager of Centennial Challenges, NASA's prize program modeledon past and ongoing prize competitions. Centennial Challenges was established to stimulatetechnology developments from private industry, universities, and individual innovators that support ofthe Vision for Space Exploration and ongoing NASA programs.


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Prior to his current position, Mr. Davidian served as Director of Operations for the X PRIZE Foundation.Responsibilities in this position included managing the registration process, team information andrelations, and many aspects of flight attempt validation, judging, and event coordination.

In addition to his prize-related work experience, Mr. Davidian has worked for Paragon SpaceDevelopment Corp. as Program Manager and also as Director of Operations consulting to Cargo LifterDevelopment.

Finally, Mr. Davidian spent the first 18 years of his career working for NASA Glenn Research Center inthe area of analytical and experimental research on the performance of liquid rocket engines. For athree-year period, NASA Glenn loaned Mr. Davidian to work at the International Space University asthe Assistant Director of Operations for the 1997-1999 Summer Session Programs.

. Alexander Frank Downie

• Alexander Frank Downie, FIMarEST MCMI FFB MLC

Personal details – Born 1945, Douglas son of Frank Downie and Emily (nee McCune); m Margaret(nee Addison).

Education and qualifications – Tynwald Street and Demesne Road Primary Schools, Ballakermeen,Douglas High School.

Career – Marine seagoing engineer, Manchester, P & O, British India, Trident Tankers, Isle of ManSteam Packet Co; selfemployed, Heating Maintenance Business.

Local Authorities, Public Bodies, charities etc. – Elected Douglas Borough Council 1987-91 (StGeorge’s Ward), Chairman Entertainments and Publicity Committee, Transport Committee, CommercialLettings Committee. Member Isle of Man Coastguard Rescue Service and recipient of the coastguardmedal; Member Arms and Armour Society, Vintage Motorcycle Club and Italian Motorcycle Owners’Club; President Manx Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Member CharteredManagement Institute (MCMI). Member Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology(IMarEST). Fellow of the Faculty of Builders (FFB).

Parliamentary Career – MHK (Douglas West)(Ind) 1991-2005; elected Member of the LegislativeCouncil 2005-date. Government posts: Minister Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 1999-2002, MinisterDepartment of Trade and Industry 2002-06, Member Department of Tourism, Leisure and Transport1991-93, Manx Heritage Foundation 1992-96, Department of Local Government and the Environment,Treasury 2006-date. Chairman Planning Committee 1993-96, Chairman Estates and PropertiesDivision; Trustee and Vice Chairman Manx National Heritage (Manx Museum and National Trust);Chairman Isle of Man Postal Authority 1997-99; Member of the Treasury – Financial Services,Responsibility for the Development of the Space Industry and E-Commerce 1999-date. Responsibilitiesof Government Departments. Member Court of Salford University, Chairman Isle of Man Films Ltd,Director Douglas Development Partnership.

Committees of Tynwald: Declaration of Members’ Interests, Freedom of Information Legislation1993-95, Petition for Redress of Grievance 1995, Select Committee on the Affairs of Braddan ParishCommissioners 2007-date, Emoluments of Certain Public Servants 2008-date.

Keys’ Committees: Civil Jurisdiction and Judgements Bill 1992-93, Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 1994,Standing Orders of the Keys 2002-05, Select Committee on Voluntary Euthanasia 2004-05.

Council of Ministers’ Committees: Social Issues Committee 1992-99, Economic DevelopmentCommittee 1999-date, Silverdale Car Park Sub-Committee 1999, Manx National EconomicDevelopment Council 1998-date, E-Commerce Committee, Ombudsman Sub-Committee.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association – Attended CPA Regional Conference Guernsey 1992and Gibraltar 1993, study visit to Westminster 1992, Gibraltar 1993, Commonwealth Seminar, PapuaNew Guinea 1995, United Kingdom/Jersey 2000, United Kingdom 2003, Falkland Islands 2004.

Interests – Antique firearms/weaponry, Napoleon, TT Races, classic Italian and vintage motorcycles,travel.

. Emilie Drobnes

• Emilie Drobnes is the Education and Public Outreach Lead (EPO) for the Solar Dynamics Observatory(SDO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. As EPO lead for SDO, Emilie has developed andimplemented a variety of programs nationwide aimed at changing people's perceptions and attitudestowards science. Examples include the NASA Family Science Night program that strives to change theway students and their families participate in science, the Did You Know campaign that aims to takescience to the public through unexpected locations, and AstroZone and Exploration Station that providethe opportunity for scientists to interact with the general public in various cities around the country andmake an impact wherever professional meetings are held.

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(SPD), Association for Astronomy Education (AAE), American Geophysical Union (AGU) and theNational Science Teacher's Association (NSTA). As a member of the SPD, Emilie spearheaded theeffort to establish an EPO committee for the division for which she chair. She is an ex-officio member ofthe AAS Astronomy Education Board and is helping coordinate efforts between the AAS ,SPD, andAGU to implement new programs for local educators and families. Emilie is also Vice-President of theAAE and helps organize sessions at NSTA conferences dedicated to sharing K-12 astronomy activitiesthat exemplify quality and pedagogical best practices.

Emilie received her undergraduate degree in International Studies in 1999 from the University of NorthCarolina - Chapel Hill and received her Masters Degree in Contemporary European Politics in 2000from the University of Paris III - La Sorbonne. Emilie was one of 50 students chosen yearly worldwideto participate in the Euromasters program.

. Paul Eckert, Ph.D.

• Dr. Paul Eckert holds the position of International & Commercial Strategist within the Space Explorationdivision of The Boeing Company. In this role, Dr. Eckert develops strategies to strengthen globalbusiness relationships and explore new commercial markets. He serves as Coordinator of theinternational Space Investment Summit Coalition, which presents events linking investors andentrepreneurs in order to encourage investment in entrepreneurial innovation. Within the U.S. Chamberof Commerce, Dr. Eckert chairs the Emerging Markets Working Group of the Space Enterprise Council.He also chairs the Entrepreneurship and Investment Technical Committee of the InternationalAstronautical Federation and acts as commercial coordinator for the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group.Having joined The Boeing Company in 2003, Dr. Eckert's prior roles have involved space explorationplanning, infrastructure design, Earth observation, space science, government relations, andcommunications. Previously, within the U.S. Department of Commerce, he helped promote the growthof the commercial space industry, as part of the Office of Space Commercialization. Earlier, in theNASA Office of Legislative Affairs, Dr. Eckert coordinated liaison with the U.S. Congress involvingspace and aeronautics research, information technology, systems engineering, and technology transferto industry. Prior to this, he served as science and technology advisor to U.S. Senator John Breaux, akey member of the Senate Commerce Committee, with jurisdiction over NASA. Dr. Eckert holds abachelor's degree with high honors from Harvard University and a doctoral degree from Michigan StateUniversity.

. Jeff Feige

• Jeff Feige is currently CEO of Orbital Outfitters, a company which was started to provide safe,affordable, and stylish space and pressure suits for the first wave of normal people intent upon enteringspace. Prior to his work with Orbital Outfitters he worked as a strategy and policy consultant atPolispace, a political consulting firm dedicated to helping space entrepreneurs and intrapreneurssucceed at the nexus of space business, technology, and public affairs. Before joining PoliSpace, Feigewas the Assistant to the Executive Director of the Aerospace States Association (ASA), an organizationrepresenting the U.S. States on matters relating to Aerospace policy. Prior to that, he worked as apolicy analyst for the National Coalition for Spaceport States (NCSS), an organization founded toadvance the interests of those states which operate or were intent upon one day operating spaceports.In the past he has managed both the Return to the Moon conference and the Newspace conference forthe Space Frontier Foundation and was also a board member of that organization. He holds a BS fromDrexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and is an avid SCUBA diver, sailor, and private pilot.

. LtCol. Peter Garretson

• Peter Garretson is a futurist, space advocate, and transformational strategist. A former ServiceAcademy Research Associate to Los Alamos and Service Chief's Intern at DARPA, he is currentlyserving as the Chief of Future Science and Technology Exploration for Headquarters Air Force.

Peter has been an influential champion in the arenas of Space Development, Human SystemsIntegration/Augmentation, and Energy Transformation; his agenda setting is reflected in the topicselections by a number of academic institutions and think tanks in the national security community. Heis a published author on such future concepts as Planetary Defense, Space Solar Power, Just-in-Time-Logistics, and Space Grand Strategy.

An often requested speaker, he is the author of numerous white papers, on topics as diverse asInvestment Strategies in High Risk/High Return Technologies, Human Factors/Human SystemsIntegration, Wargame Design, Augmented/Mixed Reality/Virtual Environments and Gaming Technology,Nurturing our National Tech Base, and Lunar Development.

Peter holds leadership positions in the Space Frontier Foundation, Space Development SteeringCommittee, National Space Society, and Lifeboat Foundation; actively participates on the DoD HumanFactors Engineering Technical Advisory Group, AIAA Space Colonization and Space Resourcescommittees, ATWG, and is a recent honorary member of SIGMA, a think tank of science fiction authors.

He recently won the NSS Space Pioneer award for his work leading the National Security SpaceOffice's innovative report on Space-Based Solar Power. He is a Command Pilot with over 2,500 hours,and a second degree black belt in Aikido.


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. Robert Godwin

• Robert was born in England in 1958. Educated at St Oswald’s College in Shropshire he studiedmathematics and physics.

In 1975 Robert attended a Led Zeppelin concert appearance in London which began a life-longobsession with the band and their music. That same year he briefly worked as a member of the roadcrew for the rock band Scorpions.

He moved to Canada in 1978 and took over the operational management of a chain of eleven Englishpubs. In 1981 he would establish the most popular night club in Canada, The Orient Express. In 1982Robert co-produced an outdoor concert in Canada which attracted over 20,000 people. Later that yearRobert was asked to fill a vacancy at Toronto's George Brown College which he did under contract for ayear-teaching management.

In 1983 he moved into music management. Robert helped some of the artists who played at his club toget worldwide recording contracts. Moving from management into production, Robert assisted in therecording of several popular albums and worked at Musicland Studios in Munich Germany, Metalworksin Toronto, as well as Sunset Sound and United Western in Los Angeles. In 1984 Robert turned hislove of Led Zeppelin into the first of a long string of books about the band. He quickly established areputation as one of the world's leading experts on the subject. He followed this success with books onother artists which interested him, including the archetypal British space-rock group Hawkwind. This ledto a continuing friendship and business relationship with Hawkwind and their science-fiction guru,world-famous author, Michael Moorcock.

In 1987 Robert opened his own record label, Griffin Music, which by 1992 would be voted bestindependent label in America by several major US newspapers. Over the next few years Robert wouldrelease many classic rock acts' back-catalogs through Griffin, notably, the BBC In Concert series,Anderson - Bruford - Wakeman and Howe, Olivia Newton-John, Hawkwind, Nazareth, David Bowie,and many other household names.

By 1995 Robert sold his interest in Griffin Music and briefly dabbled in the merchandising businesswhere he acquired a coveted license from Lucasfilm to manufacture Star Wars memorabilia. Later thatyear he incorporated his private publishing company, Collector's Guide Publishing, and went intofull-time publishing. Building on the success of his Led Zeppelin books Robert began to sign up authorsand subsequently published and edited dozens of books on many aspects of pop culture includingmusic, collectibles and movies. These books have won accolades from around the world and have soldin at least 80 countries.

In 1998 Robert was invited by his brother, Richard, to attend a celebration in honor of the crew ofApollo 7. During that event Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin asked Robert to publish a book to honor hisfellow astronauts and to commemorate man's first voyage to the moon. Working with advice from hisfriend, noted space-author, Andrew Chaikin he launched a space book imprint.

In partnership with his brother, Robert has subsequently worked with almost every surviving Apolloastronaut on his acclaimed book series "The NASA Mission Reports". Contributors to Robert's spaceseries include Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Tom Hanks, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, David Brin, Ron Howard,Senator Harrison Schmitt, Eugene Cernan, Wally Schirra, Dave Scott, Walt Cunningham, Dr MarcGarneau, Eileen Collins, Bonnie Dunbar and many more astronauts and space scientists. Robertcreated the first ever Virtual-Reality digital panoramas from the Apollo lunar photography and hisacclaimed film Apollo 11 - Moonwalk was the first time that the mission of Apollo 11 was shown frommultiple camera angles simultaneously.

Robert has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs in Canada, the USA and England asan expert on, not only music, but also space exploration. His books have been discussed on CNN, theCBC, the BBC and CBS 60 Minutes.

Today, CG Publishing, through its imprint Apogee Books, is the world's number one publisher of Spacebooks; creating an average of one new space book a month. CG Publishing has garnered contracts todocument aspects of space history from both NASA and the Russian space corporation Energia.Robert works regularly with many of the world's leading space advocacy groups including The NationalSpace Society, The Space Frontier Foundation, The Mars Society, The X Prize Foundation, The BritishInterplanetary Society, The Planetary Society, Space Day and many more. Through revenuesgenerated from the sale of their books Robert and Richard have donated funds to an asteroid impactresearch project called The Watch, which led to Apogee Books sponsoring a U.S. Senate round-tableon the subject of catastrophic impacts. The round-table raised political awareness on the subject andassisted in more long-term funding for asteroid research.

In 2008 Robert continues to work closely with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration andspends his time editing and writing. Never far from his love for music, he occasionally writes for musicmagazines while CG Publishing continues to publish award winning music books, including a newrevised edition of Robert's Led Zeppelin - The Press Reports. In November of 2007 the IAU WorkingGroup for Planetary System Nomenclature honored Robert and his brother Richard by naming a mainbelt asteroid "4252 Godwin". Robert is currently writing a book on the crossover between popularculture and space exploration. Robert is an advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation. He lives inCanada with his wife and two children.

. Marshall L. Heard


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• Mr. Heard joined the Florida Aerospace Alliance in 1999 after a 34-year career with the BoeingCompany. Mr. Heard served as both Vice Chairman of the Alliance and Executive Director prior tobecoming Chairman.

While with Boeing, Heard divided his efforts between engineering, marketing/business development,and project management. As a Vice President he directed the Tandem Rotors Programs (CH-46 andCH-47), the Comanche Program (RAH-66), and served as the Deputy Program manager of the V-22Joint Program Office. He was also Vice President of marketing/business development for Boeing'spassenger, cargo, and tanker military aircraft programs and was Boeing Aerospace's senior executivein the Washington, D.C. office.

Mr. Heard has served on numerous Cabinet level panels and commissions (including the DefenseScience Board and the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee). He has been afrequent witness before both the U.S. Congress and foreign legislative bodies on the subjects ofstrategic deterrence, battlefield mobility, and the role of technology in national defense policy. Inaddition to his role with the Florida Aviation Aerospace Alliance he also serves on the boards ofEnterprise Florida, Inc., the Florida Aerospace Technician Advisory Council, the National AerospaceTechnical Advisory Committee and the Florida Defense Alliance. He has a keen interest in promotingscience, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and serves on the Florida Coalition for theImprovement of Math and Science (CIMS) and is an Executive Committee member of the AerospaceResources Center (ARC), the state's first BANNER center. Mr. Heard has an active aerospace relatedconsulting practice specializing in business development and the integration of large scale systems.

A 1960 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Heard also holds advanced degrees in engineeringand business management from the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in residence at MIT in 1975 and 1976.

Heard is married to Annette Snow McAllister of Salt Lake City. They reside on Merritt Island, Florida.

. Alex Howerton

• Alex Howerton is a Business Development Consultant with American Aerospace Advisors Inc. Alex hasbeen researching the commercial space industry for over 16 years. He started publishing "SpaceAvailable: The Space Investors’ Report" in 1992, and was its publisher, editor and principal author until1995, when it was acquired by Countdown Magazine. He has written two books on space development."Free Space: Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space" (Loompanics, 1995) is an assessment of thethen current private space initiatives. "Project Avalon" (Space Available Press, 1998) is a science fictionnovel exploring the ramifications of private space development and the potential consequences tosociety of not moving swiftly enough to create a spacefaring civilization. He was formerly a BusinessDevelopment Manager of Space Training at NASTAR Center.

. Richard Humphrey

• Richard Humphrey is serial entrepreneurial and investor with extensive experience in product design,outsourcing, and business development. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 2003 Inc 500 list asCEO of one of the fastest growing private companies in America for growing his company by over1,300%. In 2004, OC Business Journal recognized him for his “Excellence in Entrepreneurism” and OCMetro profiled him as a “Young Business Star”. In 2005, Business Week featured him in its “Small Biz”issue on managing growing pains. In 2004 he was honored as a finalist for Ernst & Young'sEntrepreneur of the Year Award.

Richard is an active member of the New York Angels, the leading angel investment consortium in theNew York region, and Space Angels Network, LLC, a national network of seed- and early-stageinvestors focused on aerospace-related ventures. He is currently invested is several early stagecompanies poised to shake-up their respective industries.

Richard is Education Chairman for the New York Entrepreneurs Organization (EO)-a peer-to-peermembership organization designed to help business owners achieve greater business and personalsuccess through dynamic peer-to-peer learning and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. In this boardposition, Richard organizes difficult to access speakers and venues to bring valuable and relevantlearning experiences to the EO members whose companies collectively represent more than $1.2B insales.

After nearly a decade of Real Estate endeavors that occurred prior to the recent boom and later bust,Richard founded Design Lofts, LLC, which builds, owns and manages small creative offices and designspace the recognizes creative environments leads to better thinking, team hires and company culture.Going forward Design Lofts now focus' on building green.

Richard founded Drinkworks! in 1999. The company designed and produced high-end, consumerdriven, drink and food related products that helped retailers achieve significant growth in revenues,profits and customer satisfaction, replacing a commodity product with a premium one. Drinkworksexperienced rapid growth from its outset by partnering with Fortune 100 companies such as WaltDisney Company, Coca Cola, and Busch Entertainment Corporation. After gaining significant marketshare, Richard exited the growing company in 2007 after completing a successful “mutual win” sale toformer competitor Whirley Industries.


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Richard is the former President of the Newport Jaycees, the premier leadership training organization foryoung people which offers leadership training through community service. While President in 1997, thechapter grew by more than 200% and participated in numerous community projects and fund raisersand continues to thrive today.

Born in Kansas City, MO, Richard has an M.B.A. in Finance and International business from theUniversity of Missouri Bloch School of Business. After 13 years in Newport Beach, California, he nowresides in New York City with his wife Michelle and son Harrison.

. Jack Kennedy

• Jack was the primary political and legal organizer for the Virginia Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Actpassed by the Virginia General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Tim Kaine in the spring of2007. The first of its kind in the nation, the new law is designed to boost the utilization of the FAA/ASTlicensed commercial Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport [MARS] by mitigating insurance costs. Thelegislation enjoyed the active support of the Personal Spaceflight Federation, the Space FrontierFoundation, and the National Space Society among others.

In 2008, Jack successfully organized passage of a favorable 'ZeroG, ZeroTax' regime in Virginia statelaw for commercial space launch firms to locate in Virginia and utilize launch facilities at theMid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.

In addition, Jack is a founding director of the V-PRIZE Foundation, Inc. with the goal of challlengingmembers of the commercial space industry to compete to become the first in history to create aexo-atmospheric vehicle capable of launching from Virginia and land in Europe in an hour or so.

. Jeff Krukin

• Jeff Krukin's space career began with boyhood evenings in the back yard gazing at the Moon, and ledto IBM Systems Engineer, Chairman of ProSpace, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation,and most recently a NewSpace Business Development practice. Jeff has fought the front-line battles toopen the space frontier.

Jeff combined his passions for technology and space as an IBM Systems Engineer at NASA's JohnsonSpace Center. During a 23-year Information Technology career that also included Attachmate Corp.and independent consulting, he specialized in strategic business and technology planning andimplementation, along with technical sales, marketing, and communication. Jeff left the IT field in 2004to create a different space career.

From January 2005 through December 2007, Jeff was Executive Director of the Space FrontierFoundation, the most prominent commercial space (NewSpace) advocacy organization. Overlappingthis period, beginning in 2004 and continuing today, he has engaged in various space consultingprojects. The largest of these was the North Carolina Aerospace Economy Project that he initiated in2004, and he was awarded two grants to educate political, business, and economic developmentleaders about the emerging NewSpace industry and its potential contributions to the state's economicdevelopment. He was the lead author of The Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina: A PreliminaryAssessment of Current Performance and Future Prospects, and a key contributor to North Carolina'sStrategic Plan for Workforce Development in the Aviation and Aerospace Industries.

Jeff is frequent conference speaker across the United States and Europe, and in Canada, Australia,Singapore and Hong Kong. He has been interviewed by newspapers, magazines, radio, and televisionfrom Los Angeles to Houston to West Palm Beach, as well as in Europe and Asia.

He is also a writer, with his first space article published in 1981. His articles and Op-Ed's haveappeared on numerous websites and in publications such as Space News, the Houston Chronicle,Raleigh's The News & Observer, Ad Astra, the Houston Business Journal, and the Journal for SpaceDevelopment. His first book essays were published in Spring 2005 in “Tackling Tomorrow Today:Moving Along, Far Ahead,” part of a book series written for high school students.

Jeff is an award-winning leader, having received the ProSpace Activist of the Year award in 1998,Attachmate Corp. North America Systems Engineer of the Year award in 1999, and others. NASA andthe U.S. Dept. of Commerce's Office of Space Commercialization have requested his participation intheir strategic planning efforts.

He is the creator of The Human-Space Connection® concept, serves on the Steering Committee of theInternational Association of Space Entrepreneurs, is a Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, andlaunched his NewSpace Business Development practice in January 2008.

His belief in the importance of space for global peace and prosperity is the foundation of his work. Withhis broad space experience and Master's Degree in Studies of the Future, Jeff brings a unique andinsightful perspective on human activity in space and what it means for humanity.

His website is www.jeffkrukin.com.

. Alan Ladwig


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• Alan Ladwig is currently serving as the Manager of Space Systems for Whitney, Bradley and Brown,Inc. (WBB Consulting). In this capacity he is responsible for developing a new business unit dedicatedto technical and consulting services for the civil and commercial space sectors.

Prior to joining WBB Alan was the Manager of NASA and Civil Space Programs for the IntegratedSystems Sector at Northrop Grumman where he directed marketing and sales activities in pursuit ofcontracts for NASA human space flight programs.

Ladwig served as the Chief Operating Officer for the ZERO Gravity Corporation and was the Assistantto the Chairman and Vice President for Washington Operations of Space.com.

Alan served at NASA Headquarters both as a political appointee and as a civil servant. From 1993 to1999 he was an appointee of the Clinton-Gore Administration serving as the Associate Administratorfor Policy and Plans. As a civil servant from 1981 to 1989 he managed a variety of programs includingthe Space Flight Participant Program (Teacher in Space and Journalist in Space programs), and theShuttle Student Involvement Program. He also served on the Administrator's Long Range PlanningTask Force the produced the report Leadership and America's Future in Space (The Ride Report).

NASA awarded Ladwig the Distinguished Service Medal, the Exceptional Achievement Medal, and twoExceptional Service Medals. He is a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society and serves on theBoard of Directors of the Challenger Learning Center for Space Sciences and of Women in Aerospace.

Ladwig served in the U.S. Army, 558th USA Artillery Group, in Athens, Greece. He earned a M.S. inHigher Education Administration and a B.S. in speech at Southern Illinois University.

. Charles J. Lauer

• Mr. Lauer is a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He is aco-founder and Vice President of Business Development for Rocketplane Global, Inc. He is also asuccessful real estate planning consultant and developer, and the President of Peregrine Properties,Ltd. in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Lauer has been responsible for negotiating, obtaining regulatoryapprovals and arranging financing for over $350 million in numerous successful real estatedevelopment projects. He has been researching and developing potential business opportunities inspace since 1991, and has published many general interest articles and technical papers oncommercial space development. Mr. Lauer has been a consultant to Boeing, NASA and several spacestart-ups on commercial space projects. He is now actively involved in the planning and development ofseveral new spaceport projects around the world; and is an Advocate and a member of the Board ofAdvisors of the Space Frontier Foundation.

. Roger D. Launius

• Roger D. Launius is senior curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution'sNational Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where he was division chair 2003-2007. Between1990 and 2002 he served as chief historian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Agraduate of Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, he received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge, in 1982. He has written or edited more than twenty books on aerospace history, includingRobots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel (Johns Hopkins University Press,2008); Societal Impact of Spaceflight (NASA SP-2007-4801, 2007); Critical Issues in the History ofSpaceflight (NASA SP-2006-4702, 2006); Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (SmithsonianBooks, 2003), which received the AIAA's history manuscript prize; Reconsidering a Century of Flight(University of North Carolina Press, 2003); To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. LaunchVehicles (University Press of Kentucky, 2002); Imagining Space: Achievements, Possibilities,Projections, 1950-2050 (Chronicle Books, 2001); Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the SovietSatellite (Harwood Academic, 2000); Innovation and the Development of Flight (Texas A&M UniversityPress, 1999); Frontiers of Space Exploration (Greenwood Press, 1998, rev. ed. 2004); Spaceflight andthe Myth of Presidential Leadership (University of Illinois Press, 1997); and NASA: A History of the U.S.Civil Space Program (Krieger Publishing Co., 1994, rev. ed. 2001).

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academyof Astronautics, and the American Astronautical Society. He also served as a consultant to theColumbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003 and presented the prestigious Harmon MemorialLecture on the history of national security space policy at the United States Air Force Academy in 2006.He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues, and hasbeen a guest commentator on National Public Radio and all the major television network newsprograms.

. John C. Mankins


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• John C. Mankins is the President of ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions LLC, a research anddevelopment management consulting start-up that solves tough innovation challenges for government,industry and not-for-profit clients. He is internationally recognized as a successful leader in spacesystems and technology innovation, as a highly effective manager of large-scale technology R&Dprograms, and as an accomplished communicator.

Mr. Mankins has 27 years of experience and knowledge involving NASA, the aerospace industry,academia and the international space community-as well with other U.S. Agencies, including theDepartment of Defense, (such as DDR&E, DARPA, NRO, NSSO), the National Science Foundation,and others. ARTEMIS Innovation provides consulting services to a range of clients, including theDepartment of Energy (for DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy office, both the SolarEnergy Technology Program and the Wind Program), the Office of Naval Research, the AppliedPhysics Laboratory, and a range of other organizations.

Mr. Mankins is well known as an innovator in R&D management, and was one of the creators of thewidely used “technology readiness level” (TRL) scale for technology assessment. Mr. Mankins is anacknowledged subject matter expert in these fields. He has been consulted on both R&D managementand space issues by the General Accounting Office, the Office of the Chief Technologist of the U.S.Navy, the U.S. National Security Space Architect, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI), and others.

He is also one of the foremost authorities on the subject of space solar power (SSP). Mr. Mankins ledNASA's SSP “Fresh Look Study” in the mid-1990s, managed the SSP Exploratory Research &Technology (SERT) Program, and is the creator of several important SSP systems concepts, includingthe SunTower, the Solar Clipper, and others. He serves as the President of the Sunsat Energy Council(also known as the “Space Power Association”), a non-profit international group founded in 1978 by Dr.Peter Glaser, that promotes the potential of SSP for future application on Earth and in space. Mr.Mankins has authored numerous papers and articles on the topic of SSP and has testified before theU.S. Congress on the topic on several occasions.

Mr. Mankins holds undergraduate (Harvey Mudd College; B.S., 1978) and graduate (UCLA; M.S.,1983) degrees in PHYSICS and earned an MBA in Public Policy Analysis (The Drucker School atClaremont Graduate University; MBA, 1986). He is a member of the International Academy ofAstronautics (IAA), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Sigma Xi Research Society.

Mr. Mankins has received numerous awards and honors during his career, including the prestigiousNASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal (of which he was the first recipient). He has beenrecognized in “Who's Who” on various occasions and was named by SpaceNews as one of the “100People Who Made A Difference In Space” (during 1989-2004)-a distinction he shared with NASAAdministrators O'Keefe (former) and Griffin (current), as well as with former Congressman RobertWalker, innovator Burt Rutan, and others. He is a skilled communicator, including political,programmatic, technical and lay audiences, and has authored or co-authored more than 75 publishedpapers, reports and other technical documents.

. Charles Miller

• Mr. Miller became Constellation Services' 1st employee in September 1998, and since then has leadthe development of the company from small startup to major player in the quest to provide on-orbitservices. Under his direction, CSI became a subcontractor under NASA's 2nd Generation ReusableLaunch Vehicle and Alternate Access to Station (AAS) "Phase 0" Concept Study programs, and thenbeat out at least seven other bidders to win one of the four NASA prime contracts under the AASPhase 1 program. During this time, CSI worked with an established aerospace major hardware systemsupplier and AAS subcontractors to take CSI's design from concept through system design and intopreliminary design. Mr. Miller has not only assembled and led the CSI executive team that achievedthese accomplishments, but also has been responsible for raising over $1 million in private investmentin CSI's business.

Prior to CSI, Mr. Miller managed his own management consulting firm that provided services to smallbusinesses and community organizations. Mr. Miller's services included general strategic planning;employee recruitment and retention, training, and retention; business management and controlprocedures; team building; conflict management strategies; and government affairs.

Mr. Miller was the founding Chairman and President of ProSpace, where he served from 1996 to 1999.Known also as "The Citizens' Space Lobby," ProSpace is one of the most effective space policy groupsworking on Capitol Hill. Under Mr. Miller's leadership, ProSpace was instrumental in the passage of vitalspace-related legislative initiatives, including the Commercial Space Act of 1998, funding for NASA'sX-33, Future-X and Space Solar Power programs, and the U.S. Air Force RLV TechnologyDevelopment program. Mr. Miller has also served as Administrator and a director of the National SpaceSociety, Vice President for Development and a director of the Space Frontier Foundation, andVice-President for the California Space Development Council.

Because of the depth of his knowledge of space policy issues and his numerous contacts in Congressand NASA, the leading firms in the commercial space industry often seek Mr. Miller's advice. Inaddition, he has received several awards for his work in the field, including the "Vision in Action" awardfrom the Space Frontier Foundation, the "Space Pioneer" award from the National Space Society, andthe "Exceptional Leadership" award from the California Space Development Council.


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Mr. Miller studied engineering at the California Institute of Technology and has a BS in BusinessAdministration (Finance) from the California State University of Chico.

. Gerald E. Miller

• For 22 years, Gerald Miller conducted Extravehicular Activities (EVAs) at NASA's Johnson SpaceCenter, starting with early Shuttle missions, through joint Russian activities in the Shuttle/MIR Program,to International Space Station (ISS) Assembly. During this time, he trained over 50 crews for EVAs,logged the most missions as an EVA Flight Controller in the U.S., was the first American to staff afront-room console in the Russian Mission Control Center, and is the only person in the world who hasled a team to conduct a three-person space walk.

In April 2005, he accepted his current position as the Director of Independent Research andDevelopment (IRAD) at United Space Alliance, (USA). In this position, Mr. Miller is responsible forcompany-wide oversight, management and control of IRAD activities and budget targeted for thedevelopment of strategic space operations technologies.

Mr. Miller holds a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois. He also speaks Russian fluently.

. Edward M. Morris

• Edward M. Morris was appointed Director, Office of Space Commercialization (OSC), National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce in January, 2006. The Officeof Space Commercialization (OSC) is responsible for implementing national space policies andpromoting the capabilities of the U.S. commercial space industry. It acts as an industry liaison within theExecutive Branch to ensure the U.S. Government maximizes its use of commercially available spacegoods and services, avoids legal and regulatory impediments, and does not compete with the U.S.space industry. OSC also supports the Deputy Secretary of Commerce in his role as a member of theNational Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee and hosts theNational Space-Based PNT Coordination Office (NCO). He is also the U.S. Government representativeand co-chair of the U.S.-European Union Global Positioning System (GPS)-Galileo Working Group onTrade and Civil Applications. The working group is responsible for addressing non-discrimination andother trade related issues concerning civil satellite-based navigation and timing services and theiraugmentations. The objective of the working group is to ensure equal access to GPS and Galileocapabilities by worldwide government and industry users.

Prior to his appointment with NOAA, Ed worked with Orbital Sciences Corporation from 1991 to 2006.His most recent position was Senior Director of the Washington, D.C. Operations, responsible fordevelopment and implementation of White House, federal agency, and legislative actions and policiesrelated to military, civil and commercial space matters, as well as, missile defense and tactical weaponsprograms. He received the Outstanding Management Award in 2001 for outstanding achievement ofkey company business development goals. In 1997, he was assigned as Director of BusinessDevelopment for the Launch Systems Group, primarily responsible for technical and marketing roles formissile defense, international, and classified program new business initiatives. Other Orbitalassignments included project management and systems engineering of National Aeronautics andSpace Administration (NASA) and commercial launch services valued at $100M.

Ed served in the U.S. Air Force from 1982 to 1991 in Space Acquisition, Launch Operations, and HQUSAF staff positions. He transferred in 1991 to the U.S. Air Force Reserve and continues to be activein his Reserve duties where he has served in a variety of staff and personnel assignments attaining therank of Colonel. His military honors include the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air ForceCommendation Medal, and Air Force Achievement Medal and is a graduate of Air War College, AirCommand and Staff College, and Squadron Officer's School where he completed as a distinguishedgraduate.

Ed has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Rutgers University and a Master's in BusinessAdministration from Pepperdine University.

Ed and his wife, Geary, live in Falls Church, Virginia.

. James Muncy

• James A. M. Muncy founded PoliSpace, an independent space policy consultancy, in early 2000 to helpspace entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs succeed at the nexus of business, public affairs, andtechnology. His clients have included several companies in the emerging private human space flightindustry, firms offering commercial services to NASA spaceflight programs, and government managersof Air Force military space projects.

In 2004 and 2005 Muncy led two successful industry lobbying efforts: winning enactment of theCommercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (P.L 108-492), and securing an amendment tothe Iran Nonproliferation Act to allow NASA to buy commercial space goods and services with Russiancontent.

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Representatives. From 1997 through early 2000 he served on the Professional Staff of the HouseScience Committee's Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee. In addition to being Chairman DanaRohrabacher's staff designee, Muncy held the lead responsibility for issues and programs such asreusable launch vehicles, human space flight commercialization, military space technology, exportcontrol reform, range modernization, and future NASA programs. Prior to this, Muncy spent over twoyears on Rep. Rohrabacher's personal staff as his Legislative Assistant for Space.

Before joining congressional staff in late 1994, Muncy spent nine years as a space policy andmarketing consultant for various clients including NASA, NOAA, several private firms, and the not-for-profit space community, while also securing a graduate degree. In the mid-1980's he worked for twoand a half years as a policy assistant in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policyunder President Reagan, where he served as the White House's Staff Liaison to the NationalCommission on Space. Muncy began his career in space policy in 1981 as a staff advisor in the Officeof Congressman Newt Gingrich, where he helped Mr. Gingrich co-found the Congressional SpaceCaucus and develop visionary space policy legislation and initiatives.

A long-time leader in the space advocacy community, Muncy co-founded the Space FrontierFoundation in 1988 and served as its Chairman of the Board for six years. Earlier he had served on theBoard of Directors of both the National Space Society and the L5 Society. He is a frequent speaker andwriter on space policy issues.

Muncy holds an MS in Space Studies from the Center for Aerospace Sciences at the University ofNorth Dakota and a BA from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar.

. Andrew Nelson

• Nelson leads the all business related functions of XCOR. He joined XCOR from Morgan Stanley, andwas previously with Lehman Brothers, where he served as a banker to technology entrepreneurs andothers, advising on capital structure, investments, strategic relationships and market dynamics. Untiljoining XCOR, he was also an active angel investor. Prior to Wall Street and graduate studies at MIT,Nelson was based in Paris and London where he led the International Aviation Team of Booz Allen &Hamilton. His duties included full profit and loss responsibility, business development and projectexecution on space and aviation related assignments for clients such as Inmarsat, Honeywell,Aerospatiale, Lockheed Martin, the European Space Agency, the European Commission and severalnational governments (e.g., Australia and United Kingdom). While at Booz, Nelson led the first full wideranging technical, architectual and business case analysis for the implementation of the Galileo systemwhich served as the basis for a European wide decision to move forward with the project. His team alsoproduced the first European-wide multi-modal radionavigation plan that was accepted by 18 Europeancountries and served as the requirements baseline for Galileo and other systems. Prior to Booz Allen,Nelson was an engineer for the MITRE Corporation where he led avionics development oversightprograms and participated in international standardization efforts at ICAO and NATO, ensuringinternational and civil-military interoperability for en route and landing system avionics including ILS,MLS and GPS.

His first professional position was at Cape Canaveral for a NASA and USAF contractor where heassisted in the development of range safety systems used in the Range Control Center, implementedand certified the Launch Pad Lightning Warning System, and was a critical team member in theintegration of inertial sensors and GPS for precise missile tracking applications on board ship basedplatforms. Nelson also helped to develop one of the world's first differential GPS (DPGS) systems whilean undergraduate research intern at his alma mater. Nelson has published widely on space andaviation related issues, and was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for GPS World Magazine.He received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and BSEE from Ohio Universitywhere he was a research intern at the famed Avionics Engineering Center.

. Dr. George C. Nield

• Dr. George C. Nield serves as the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at theFAA. He has over 30 years of aerospace experience with the Air Force, at NASA, and in privateindustry. Dr. Nield came to the FAA from the Orbital Sciences Corporation, where he served as SeniorScientist for the Advanced Programs Group. His previous assignments include working as anAstronautical Engineer at the Space and Missile Systems Organization, a Flight Test Engineer at theAir Force Flight Test Center, and an Assistant Professor and Research Director at the USAF Academy.He was the Manager of the Flight Integration Office for the Space Shuttle Program at the NASAJohnson Space Center, and later worked on both the Shuttle/Mir Program and the International SpaceStation Program. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, he holds an M.S. and Ph.D. inAeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and an MBA from George WashingtonUniversity. He is also a Flight Test Engineering graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School. Dr. Nield is aregistered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics andAstronautics.

. Misuzu Onuki


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• Ms. Misuzu Onuki has been an innovator in the development of space tourism and spacecommercialization research for over 15 years, and she has created space cultural projects such asFashion in Space and Weddings in Space.

She worked for the Space Systems Division of Shimizu Corporation, one of the largest generalconstruction companies in Japan, and participated in some of the earliest studies of commercial spacetravel in Japan and other countries for NAL (now JAXA). She founded the Japan Women's SpaceForum in 2001. She was an associate researcher of Japan Women's University from 2003 to 2007, anda part time senior specialist for space education with JAXA from 2004 to 2006.

Ms. Onuki has been an independent aerospace business consultant since 2003. Her space relatedresearch themes are space tourism, space commercialization, space architecture, space education,space psychology space casual wear, space food, and so on. She is the CEO of Zspace LLC, and hasbeen doing professional space business development and consulting work in these fields.

She has several professional affiliations including serving as a Board member of SpaceweekInternational Association (SIA). She has joined the Space Frontier Foundation as Advocate & AsiaLiaison in 2005 and was elected to the SFF Board of Directors in 2007.

She loves scuba diving and travel. Certification: Color Coordinator

. Franceska O. Schroeder

• Practice areasRegulatory and Government AffairsGovernment Contracts

Technology areasAerospaceSatellite CommunicationsLaunch Vehicles and ServicesDefense and Security Systems

EducationTufts University B.A. magna cum laude 1985The American University Washington College of Law J.D. 1991Executive Editor, American University Journal of International Law and Policy

Professional experienceFranceska O. Schroeder is a Principal in the Washington, D.C. office of Fish & Richardson P.C. She isa member of the firm's Regulatory and Government Affairs Group. Her practice emphasizes regulatory,administrative, commercial and government contracts, risk management, insurance, legislative, andpolicy matters in the areas of space, defense, security and satellite communications. Ms. Schroeder'sclients include space and defense contractors, satellite manufacturers and operators, launch servicesproviders, systems engineering firms, and investors in satellite communications and otherhigh-technology projects. She also is Legal Counsel to the American Astronautical Society and hasserved as a Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the Legal Subcommittee of the UnitedNations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

. David S. Schuman

• Mr. Schuman has been an Attorney-Advisor at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland, since 1990, where his clients have included the James Webb Space Telescope and HubbleSpace Telescope Projects. He has served as Deputy Chief Counsel, Executive Officer to NASA's Chiefof Staff, at NASA Headquarters, and as a Brookings Institution Congressional Fellow for Senator BobGraham of Florida, where he worked on legislation to allow spaceports to issue tax-free bonds to raiserevenue for infrastructure development. Practice areas include partnering with outside entities, realproperty, FOIA, and litigation. Mr. Schuman is a former Special Assistant United States Attorney and isa recipient of NASA's Exceptional Service Medal. Prior to NASA, he served as a judicial clerk for theMaine Supreme Judicial Court. He is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law where heserved as Casenotes Editor for the Maine Law Review, and Haverford College. In 2004, Mr. Schumanparticipated in a successful summit of Mt. McKinley in Alaska with a team led by NASA's former ChiefScientist and astronaut, John Grunsfeld.

. Geoffrey T. Sheerin

• Mr. Sheerin is a graduate of the Fanshawe College School of Industrial Design located in London,Ontario, Canada.

As CEO of PlanetSpace since its inception in 2005, Mr. Sheerin is responsible for the implementation ofglobal fast freight including passenger space travel and other international markets.

Mr. Sheerin is currently responsible for Cargo Express Services & Suborbital Space Adventure lines ofbusiness within PlanetSpace. He led the effort to develop and build a full scale mockup of the FDL-7vehicle.


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As CEO of PlanetSpace it is Mr. Sheerin's responsibility to validate that the vision and goals of theboard of directors is communicated and implemented throughout the Program. One of his primaryresponsibilities is to exploit the synergies between the commercial space marketplace and theimplementation of global fast freight including passenger space travel to leverage the investments ineach marketplace.

. Col. Michael “Coyote” V. Smith

• Colonel (Select) Michael V. Smith is the Chief of the Future Concepts Branch, known as “DreamWorks,” of the National Security Space Office. Dream Works develops advanced theories and conceptsand advises national-level decision makers across the space community on how emergingtechnologies, transformational-architecture-level capabilities, and future operational concepts can beapplied toward current and evolving space capabilities to meet national security needs into the future.He also serves as a Visiting Military Fellow at National Defense University where he is co-authoring atwo-volume set on spacepower theory.

The lieutenant colonel was born in North Conway, New Hampshire. He entered the Air Force in 1986through the Saint Michael's College Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He has servedin various space and missile positions and as an instructor at the USAF Weapons School-SpaceDivision. Most recently he was Commander of the 321st Missile Squadron at F.E. Warren Air ForceBase in Cheyenne Wyoming, where his unit was recognized as the “Best ICBM Squadron in Air ForceSpace Command.”

During Operation ALLIED FORCE he served in the Combined Forces Air Component Commander'sStrategy Cell and on the Guidance, Apportionment, and Targeting Team. During Operation ENDURINGFREEDOM, he served at USCENTCOM Headquarters as a strategist on the Combatant Commander'sstaff and in the Space and Information Operations Element. He later served as the chief air and spacepower strategist in the Pentagon's Strategic Planning Council during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

. Andrew J. Petro

• Andrew Petro is the Program Executive for the Innovation Incubator in the Innovative PartnershipProgram Office at NASA Headquarters. His responsibilities include the Centennial Challenges programand several other government-private enterprise partnership activities. He joined NASA at the JohnsonSpace Center in 1985 in the Advanced Programs Office, developing concepts for human launchsystems, space stations, lunar transportation, lunar bases and Mars exploration. He led numerousdesign projects for spacecraft concepts and worked with Russian engineers to adapt the Soyuzspacecraft for use with the International Space Station. As a systems engineer and project manager inthe NASA Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory he led superconducting magnet and cryocoolertechnology projects and other efforts supporting development and demonstration of a magneto-plasmarocket engine. Most recently he was the Ares Launch Vehicle Integration Manager for the MissionOperations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center.

. Rich Pournelle

• Rich Pournelle is currently Director of Business Development for XCOR. Rich began his career as staffassistant to congressman Bill Thomas and in this role developed the THOMAS legislative informationsystem for the Library of Congress. Most recently, he was co-founder of WarrantyNow and helped thecompany raise more than $18 million in equity before its acquisition by CNET. Mr. Pournelle has acommunications degree from UCLA.

. James Pura

• James has severed as Editor of the Space Frontier Foundation's monthly newsletter, NewSpace News,since November of 2007. He is currently a senior Mechanical/Aerospace student at University ofCalifornia, San Diego. He also is President of the UCSD chapter of Students for the Exploration andDevelopment of Space (SEDS), a member of AIAA and the National Space Society.

. Greg A. Ray


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• Mr. Greg Ray has a degree in Aerospace Engineering and began his career with Rockwell Internationalat their Los Angeles Division in 1971. He became a Boeing employee in 1996 when Boeing acquiredRockwell's Aerospace and Defense business unit. His program experience includes the B-1 Bomberdevelopment and flight test program, the Sea Launch development program, and the Space Shuttledevelopment and operations program.

Mr. Ray has held numerous management positions on the Boeing Shuttle program. These include;Chief Project Engineer for System Integration, Program Director for System Integration, Chief Engineerfor Orbiter and Orbiter Program Director. He has received the Sliver Knight of Management award fromthe National Management Association and NASA's most distinguished service award, the PublicService Medal.

. Billl Reeves

• Bill Reeves serves as associate program manager for program integration at United Space Alliance. Inthis position he is responsible for Space Shuttle cargo and systems integrations and InternationalSpace Station Program Office integration. He also directs configuration and verification managementand technical information systems management. Reeves previously served as deputy programmanager for program integration, becoming APM in September of 2005.

Prior to working in program integration, Reeves served as deputy associate program manager for theorbiter element. Reeves joined USA in March 2001.

Before joining the USA team, Reeves served in various roles during 34 years with NASA. His positionsincluded work as a NASA Flight Director, Manager of the Space Station Assembly Office, Manager ofSpace Shuttle/Space Station Integration, Branch Chief of the Engineering Products Office, and MissionManager in the Earth Resources Aircraft Program.

Throughout his distinguished career, Reeves has been honored with numerous awards including theNASA Superior Performance Award, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, NASA OutstandingPerformance Award, Russian Space Medal, NASA Superior Accomplishment Award, and specialrecognition and letter of appreciation from the NASA manager of the Space Station Program.

Reeves received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Oklahoma University, anda master’s degree in business administration from the University of Houston Clear Lake in Texas.

He holds an aviation safety command course certificate from the Naval Post Graduate School.

Reeves is married to the former Virginia Ann Michel, and currently resides in Friendswood, Texas.

. Marco Rubin

• Marco has invested in over 35 early-stage technology companies throughout his career and has heldleadership roles with funds recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine's Annual VC100 list in 2002, 2003,2005, 2006 and 2007. Prior to Exo, he was founder of Monumental Venture Partners, LLC (MVP)making investments in security, information technology, telecommunications, software and medicaldevices sectors. MVP produced acquisitions of portfolio companies to Dolby Labs and Level 3Communications. Before MVP, Marco launched New Ventures, MCI's venture capital unit until thecompany's acquisition in 1998. Prior to venture capital, Marco served Fortune 500 and Federal clientswhile with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. He began his career as an engineer at Johnson Space Centerand holds an MBA from George Washington University and a BSEE from the University of New Mexico.

. Guillermo Söhnlein

• Guillermo Söhnlein – Managing Director, Space Angels Network

Guillermo Söhnlein has spent almost ten years in leadership roles with various technology startups inthe Washington D.C. area as well as Silicon Valley. His recent East Coast ventures include an onlineservice helping commuters to share rides, a mobile games distribution platform, and a Web-basedcommunication suite for small and mid-sized businesses. Previously, he was co-founder of a SanFrancisco-based speech recognition application development firm that was acquired in 2001.

Guillermo is the Founder and Chairman of the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, anonline community focused on promoting global entrepreneurship in space ventures. He served onactive duty in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate and currently serves on variousAdvisory Boards and teaches entrepreneurship.

Guillermo earned an A.B. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from theUniversity of California Hastings College of the Law.

. Dennis Stone


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• Dennis Stone is Assistant Manager for Commercial Space Development in NASA's Commercial Crew& Cargo Program at the Johnson Space Center. This Program manages NASA's Commercial OrbitalTransportation Services (COTS) initiative. During both COTS competitions, he chaired the BusinessCommittee. He also negotiated the Program's agreements with unfunded commercial spacetransportation partners. He leads efforts to support this emerging industry as a whole.

Prior to his COTS assignment, Dennis spent 20 years in NASA's Space Station Program in a variety ofpositions, including Chief System Engineer of the Assured Crew Return Vehicle, Manager of AvionicsIntegration, and Cochair of the ISS Commercialization Working Group. Prior to NASA, he worked forMcDonnell Douglas, Ford Aerospace, and Rockwell. Throughout his career, he has encouraged effortsto build the commercial space industry.

Dennis serves as volunteer President of the World Space Week Association which coordinatesUN-declared World Space Week, celebrated each October 4-10 in over 50 nations.

He has bachelor degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii. He is anAssociate Fellow of the AIAA and Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation.

. Geoffrey Styles

• Geoffrey Styles is Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, LLC, an energy and environmentalstrategy consulting firm. Since 2002 he has served as a consultant and advisor, helping organizationsand executives address systems-level policy. His 27 years of industry experience include 22 years atTexaco Inc., which culminated in a senior position on Texaco's leadership team for strategydevelopment. This role encompassed the global oil refining, marketing, transportation and alternativeenergy businesses, along with global issues such as climate change and sustainable development.Previously he held senior positions in alliance management, planning, supply & distribution, and riskmanagement. He also served on NASA's Senior Management Oversight Committee for Space SolarPower. He holds an M.B.A from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeleyand a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from U.C. Davis. His weblog on the energy industry appears on theHerold.com website and http://energyoutlook.blogspot.com/. It has been featured on the Wall StreetJournal's energy blog. He can be contacted at [email protected].

. Berin Szoka

• Berin Szoka is a Visiting Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF). He has been anAdvocate of the Space Frontier Foundation since 2005, when he worked with Rick Tumlinson, JimDunstan and others to launch the Institute for Space Law & Policy. He is continuing that program todayat PFF.

Before joining PFF in May 2008, Szoka was an Associate in the Communications Practice Group atLatham and Watkins LLP, where he advised clients on advising clients on regulations affecting thesatellite, telecommunications and Internet industries. He previously practiced at Lawler MetzgerMilkman & Keeney, LLC, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington, and clerked for theHon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Szoka received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and his juris doctor from theUniversity of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Submissions Editor of the Virginia Journal ofLaw and Technology.

. Rick Tumlinson

• Named by Space News as one of the world's top "Visionaries" and one of the hundred most influentialpeople in the space movement, Rick is a Texan and was a protégé of Gerard K. O'Neill at the SpaceStudies Institute, founder of the Space Frontier Foundation (whose first $50 came from the Heinleins),a founding trustee of the X Prize and a lead witness 6 times at House and Senate hearings on thefuture of NASA, the U.S. space program and space tourism.

Rick helped create or find funding for many NewSpace firms and projects and ran the $25 millionFoundation for the International Non-governmental Development of Space (FINDS). He co-foundedLunaCorp, which produced the first commercial to be shot in space, signed up Dennis Tito as the firstcommercial space flight participant and led the team which leased the Russian Mir space station for ayear (the world's first commercial space facility.)

He helped kick-start the Lunar Prospector project which discovered water on the Moon, was a memberof the Air Force's DC-X single stage rocket team, produced the first paid political announcement forspace, was the Sci Fi channel's founding space expert, and did the core media used to fund theInternational Space University, the X-33 and other projects. Rick was one of only 20 outsiders invitedby the White House to witness President Bush's announcement of his space exploration initiative toreturn to the Moon and go to Mars.

Rick has been quoted around the world, from China's People's Daily to the front page of the New YorkTimes, and appears often on news shows from CNN to the BBC. His book, "Return to the Moon" wasrecently published and he was a part of NASA's prestigious Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, helpinglay out the framework for the first human outpost on the Moon. He recently co-founded the Institute for


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Space Law and Policy in Washington and has two Major NewSpace projects underway: OrbitalOutfitters, a fully funded space suit leasing firm whose motto is “Have Spacesuit - Will Travel.” andSpaceDiver, whose goal is to bring humans back from space without spacecraft a la Starship Troopers.

. William Watson

• William Watson is presently Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF). He endeavorsto create new business relationships for the Foundation and to communicate their vision. He is alsoserving as Chair of their annual NewSpace conference. This year the conference takes place inWashington DC, from July 17-19. Will chaired NewSpace 2007 in D.C. and was part of the SFF'smanagement team during NewSpace 2006 in Vegas.

Before the Foundation, Will worked for the Tauri Group as an analyst on the Space Foundation's TheSpace Report and on spaceport related business development. Mr. Watson's professional involvementwith the NewSpace industry started with his graduate placement at the Transformational SpaceCorporation, LLC (t/Space) during the Summer of 2005.

Will received his Master's in Space Management from the International Space University (ISU) inStrasbourg, France. The year long MSM graduate program focused on aerospace business, marketingand law. Prior to ISU, Mr. Watson received a BA in Russian Literature & History from Rutgers Universityin New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has studied in Moscow at Lomonosov University and as part of theInstitute for Biomedical Problems' Summer space program.

. Bob Werb

• Bob Werb was an active partner in Rivercrest Realty Investors from 1976 until 2001. Rivercrest RealtyInvestors is a privately held, real estate firm that owns and manages a portfolio of garden apartments,shopping centers and office buildings with properties in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, NorthCarolina and Florida. Since 2001 he has assumed a more passive role in Rivercrest Realty Investorsand has been spending more time working on a variety of projects including the Space FrontierFoundation. Bob is one of the three founders of the Space Frontier Foundation.

. Frank White

• Frank White is the author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, firstpublished in 1987 and re-issued in 1998. A member of the Harvard College Class of 1966, Frankgraduated magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Oxford University on aRhodes Scholarship, earning an MPhil in 1969. He is the author or co-author of five additional books onspace exploration and the future, including The SETI Factor, Decision: Earth, Think About Space andMarch of the Millennia (both with Isaac Asimov), and The Ice Chronicles (with Paul Mayewski).

He also contributed chapters on The Overview Effect to two recently published books on spaceexploration, Return to the Moon and Beyond Earth. Frank has spoken at numerous conferences. In1988, he delivered the keynote address at the International Space Development Conference in Denver.In 1989, he spoke at George Washington University to mark the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moonlanding. In 2006, the Space Tourism Society awarded Frank a “Certificate of Special Recognition.” Healso delivered the keynote address at the first Overview Effect Conference in 2007.

. Loretta Hildago Whitesides

• Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides is on the Board of Directors for the Space Generation Advisory Council.Space Gen is a non-profit dedicated to training and developing the next generation of space leaders.She is also the President of the International Space University USA Alumni Association. Loretta andher husband George are the Co-Creators of Yuri's Night, the World Space Party, which earned wideacclaim this year for the very successful event at NASA Ames. She is an FAA certified in-flight crewmember for Zero-Gravity Corporation and has over 30 flights. Loretta traveled 2 miles down to thebottom of the ocean in the Russian Mir Submersibles for James Cameron's 3D IMAX documentary,"Aliens of the Deep." Whitesides is a Virgin Galactic Founder and she and her new husband Georgehave bought tickets to be the 1st couple to celebrate their honeymoon in space.

. Edward Wright

• Edward Wright is Teachers in Space project manager, chairman of the United States Rocket Academy,and a long-time Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation.

. John Wright


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• John Wright is the founder and executive director of Teach Kids About Science, a new organizationdedicated to creating inspirational and sustainable science education events and programs for kids ofall ages.

John began his space career at the age of 16 while interning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory inPasadena, California. At JPL, John worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission toSaturn, and the Pluto Fast Flyby Mission. In the summer of 1992, John worked at NASA Headquarterson a Space Shuttle mission called Space Lab Japan.

John has 20 years of science education and space event management experience which began in1988 when he helped plan the 1989 SEDS International Conference held at Caltech. During his time inSEDS, John founded two SEDS chapters and was elected to the SEDS-USA National Executive Boardfor four terms.

When John was 17 years old, he became the youngest chairman of a SEDS conference. TheCalSEDS'91 student space conference was held at Caltech and hosted speakers including formerAstronaut Deke Slayton, ISU founder Todd Hawley, and member of Ronald Reagan's NationalCommission on Space, Dr. David Webb.

In 2001 John joined the founding Yuri's Night headquarters team and is still active in Yuri's Night LosAngeles. In 2002, John joined George Whitesides, currently the Executive Director of the NationalSpace Society, in co-managing Permission to Dream, a telescope education project of the SpaceFrontier Foundation.

John holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Occidental College. When he's notplanning Scope 101, you can find John studying for the CPA exam. For more information about TeachKids About Science's first exciting event, visit www.Scope101.org.




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