What's Happening In Space Policy October 13-17, 2014
Here is our list of space policy-related events for the week of October 13-17, 2014 and any insight we can offer about them. Congress is in recess until November 12.
During the Week
The event likely to attract the most attention this week is the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). The speaker line-up is an intriguing array of “traditional space” and “new space” luminaries, although the description of Bill Gerstenmaier’s talk may say it best: “Never before have the titles of ‘old space’ and ‘new space’ been as trivial as they are today.”
Just to illustrate the breadth of speakers (sorry we can’t list everyone — the program is here), in addition to Gerstenmaier (NASA’s Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations), speakers include Clay Mowry (Arianespace), George Sowers (United Launch Alliance), George Whitesides (Virgin Galactic), Stuart Will (Mojave Air and Space Port), Barry Matsumori (SpaceX), Brett Alexander (Blue Origin), Doug Loverro (DOD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Space Policy), John Shannon (Boeing), Mark Sirangelo (Sierra Nevada Space Systems), Doug Young (Northrop Grumman) and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
Most unfortunately, if you can’t be there in person, you’re out of luck. The conference’s media contact says none of the sessions will be webcast live, though “a few of the keynotes” may be posted online in a month or two.
That and other events we know about as of this afternoon (Sunday) are listed below.
Tuesday, October 14
- NASA Media Telecon on Initial Findings from MAVEN, virtual (listen on NASA’s NewsRadio website), 2:00 pm ET
Wednesday, October 15
- ISS Spacewalk (2 NASA astronauts), begins approximately 8:10 am ET (NASA TV coverage begins at 7:00 am ET)
Wednesday-Thursday, October 15-16
- International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS), Las Cruces, NM
- National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB), NRC Beckman Center, Irvine, CA
Wednesday-Friday, October 15-17
- Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment Workshop, Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD
Friday-Tuesday, October 17-21
- Science Writers 2014, Columbus, OH
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