ASCEND 2021–Week 2 (AIAA), Nov 15-17, 2021, Las Vegas, DC, and virtual

Update, October 5, 2021:  The event’s website says:

2021 ASCEND Features

• Kari Byron is returning as emcee! The Mythbusters and Crash Test World host will join us in person in Las Vegas, 15-17 November.

• Just back from her suborbital space mission, Sirisha Bandla, Vice President of Government Affairs for Virgin Galactic, will join us in person in Las Vegas to share her first-hand account of space travel as a citizen astronaut aboard her company’s first fully crewed spaceflight #Unity22 this summer.

• For a day, ASCEND goes to Washington, D.C. The East Coast Satellite Event on 15 November will feature an in-person panel of national policymakers discussing policy for growing commercial space opportunities, as well as a live feed from the ASCEND Las Vegas stage. Speakers include: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), U.S. House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee; Mike Gold, Redwire Space; Tom Hammond, U.S. House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee; Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Tim Dominick, Chair, AIAA Public Policy Committee.

• The 24th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference will be held 15-17 November (in person) in Las Vegas as part of the 2021 ASCEND experience.

• Caesars Forum in Las Vegas is the center of the 2021 ASCEND universe for in-person sessions, 15-17 November.

• All ASCEND content will be streamed during 8-10 and 15-17 November, and available on demand online during and after the event for attendees.

Update, September 10, 2021:  The AIAA website now describes this meeting as taking place “live” on November 15-17 in Las Vegas, “live” in Washington DC on November 15, and “online everywhere” November 8-10 and November 15-17.

Original Entry: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold its second ASCEND conference from November 15-17, 2021 as a hybrid event — in Las Vegas, Nevada and virtually.

ASCEND means “Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery.”

AIAA’s 24th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference will take place as part of ASCEND 2021.

More information is on the events’ website.