SPACE NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY: R&D FOR EVOLVING SPACE MISSIONS (USRA/SPI), Mar 21, 2024, DC, 1:00-5:30 pm ET (livestreamed)

Update, March 4:  A follow-up email received today says the event will take place from 1:00-5:30 pm ET on March 21, 2024 and will be livestreamed. A registration link still is not provided, but the main USRA website is http://www.usra.edu.

Symposium speakers include: 

• FRANKLIN CHANG-DIAZ, Founder Ad Astra Rocket Company
• PRASUN DESAI, Deputy Associate Administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• THOMAS LOCKHART, Director, J-8, U.S. Space Command, Department of Defense U.S. Space Command, Department of Defense
• ANTHONY CALOMINO, Space Nuclear Technology Portfolio Manager, NASA
• ROGER MYERS, National Academy of Engineering
• CHRISTINA BACK, Vice President, Nuclear Technologies and Materials, General Atomics
  Electromagnetic Systems
• JUSTIN KASPER, Chief of Technology, BWXT Advanced Technologies, LLC
• HARLAN BOWERS, President, X Energy, LLC

• TABITHA DODSON, Program Manager, DRACO, DARPA, Department of Defense

• DOUG BURNS, Space Nuclear Propulsion Project, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• LINDSEY HOLMES, Vice President, Advanced Projects, AMA, Inc.
• ALEX GILBERT, Director, Space & Planetary Regulation, Zeno Power
• JEFF WAKSMAN, Program Manager, Project Pele, Department of Defense
• JEFFREY KING, Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

Original Entry: The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute (SPI) will hold a symposium on March 21, 2024 at the Holiday Inn Washington DC National Mall, 550 C St., SW, Washington, DC.

The topic is: “Space Nuclear Technology: Research and Development for Evolving Space Missions.”

The emailed Save the Date notice, received February 14, does not include the time or a registration link.  We will update this entry with additional information when it is available.