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Thursday, July 19th Commercial-Military Spaceplane Day

09:00 – 09:05 Welcoming Remarks

Jeff Krukin - Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation

Jeff Krukin's direct involvement in space began in 1979 with a summer job at NASA Headquarters. He
returned to NASA Headquarters in 1981, with a six-month graduate internship in the International
Affairs Division. He was in the auditorium when the space shuttle Columbia was first launched on
April 12th.

Returning to Houston determined to participate in the space program, Jeff became an IBM Systems
Engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His emotional commitment to NASA died a slow and
painful death, and Jeff searched for a different way to support human space activity.

Invited to become a Space Frontier Foundation Advocate in 1990, Jeff spent several years conducting research for various
projects, writing a monthly column on space issues entitled "Think About It" that appeared in the Journal for Space
Development and other space newsletters. He has also been published online and in Ad Astra, Space News, the Houston
Chronicle and the Houston Business Journal, and Chelsea House published his first book essays in Spring 2005.
Jeff received the 1998 ProSpace Activist of the Year Award. In 1999 he became Vice President of March Storm. Jeff
became Chairman in 2002 and served until 2004. Since January 2005, Jeff has been Executive Director of the Space
Frontier Foundation.

09:05 – 09:15 Opening Remarks

Charles Miller  – President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc.

Charles Miller is the President of Space Policy Consulting, Inc., a small business that provides
consulting services to the space industry.

Mr. Miller is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Services International, Inc.
CSI was founded in 1998, and is an entrepreneurial orbital spaceflight services company that is focused
on commercial opportunities in Earth orbit. CSI is developing the LEO ExpressSM Space Cargo System,
an innovative, patented method for re-supplying space stations that uses over 99% existing technology.
The LEO ExpressSM space cargo system completed a NASA system design review in July 2003.

Prior to CSI, 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 was one of the most effective space policy groups working on
Capitol Hill. Under Mr. Miller's leadership, ProSpace was instrumental in the passage of vital space-related legislative
initiatives, including the Commercial Space Act of 1998, funding for NASA's X-33, Future-X and Space Solar Power
programs, and the U.S. Air Force RLV Technology Development program.

Mr. Miller has received several awards for his work in the field, including the "Vision in Action" award from the Space
Frontier Foundation, the "Space Pioneer" award from the National Space Society, and the "Exceptional Leadership" award
from the California Space Development Council.

09:15 – 09:45 Keynote Address

Introduction: Bruce Thieman – AFRL, Functional Capability Lead

Keynote: Gary Payton - Deputy Under Secretary for Space, USAF
 Bruce Thieman is the Air Force Research Laboratory Functional Capability
Lead for the Operationally Responsive Spacelift Capability Area. The
Responsive Spacelift team is developing the technologies leading to a flight
test bed for a reusable booster first stage space launch vehicle. The ground
demonstration efforts for reusable access to space technologies have been released for bid for award in September and
completion by 2011.

Mr Thieman started a 31-year military and civilian career in the Air Force at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, as a Senior
Electronic Intelligence Analyst with the 544th Intelligence Exploitation Squadron. In the subsequent years, he served as a
Strategic Electronic Warfare Analyst and Nuclear Weapons Effects Specialist at Strategic Air Command, a Command,
Control and Communications Analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff/J6, the Air War College and Air Command and Staff
College Space Curriculum lead instructor, and then Chief of Simulation and Wargaming for Theater Operations at ACSC.
He has also served as the Chief Engineer of the Defense Dissemination Program Office, the Director of Space Industry
Studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Chief of the National Systems Integration Division and then lead
for the US Space Master Plan at US Space Command, ending his military career of 26 years with the Air Force Research
Laboratory as the Deputy Director for the Space Vehicles Research and then Director of Operations and Support and
Corporate Information Officer (CIO) retiring as a Colonel.

In September 2002, Mr Thieman returned to the Air Force as the Program Manager, Enterprise Business System Program
Office at Wright Patterson AFB working business processes transformation for AF Science and Technology. He
subsequently led the technology transfer effort for AFRL. In 2005, Mr Thieman took the lead at the Air Vehicles
Directorate at Wright Patterson for technology development supporting AF Space Commands affordable and responsive
spacelift initiatives. Mr Thieman is a graduate of the Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, Air War
College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Mr Thieman attended the University of Idaho and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force ROTC
program in 1976. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Radar, Communications and Electronic
Warfare from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1977 and a Masters in International Security Affairs from National
Defense University in 1994.

Gary E. Payton is the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs, Washington, D.C.
He provides guidance, direction and oversight for the formulation, review and execution of military
space programs. This includes oversight of all space and space-related acquisition plans, strategies and
assessments for research, development, test, evaluation and space-related industrial base issues.

Mr. Payton earned his Bachelor of Science degree in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force
Academy and his Master of Science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue
University. As an Air Force officer, he served as a pilot, instructor pilot, spacecraft operations director
and space technology manager. In 1985, he flew as a payload specialist on board the Space Shuttle Discovery in the first
military flight of the space shuttle program. He was instrumental in the initiation and management of the Midcourse Sensor
Experiment, the Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile, Delta-183, Talon Shield, Clementine and the DC-X launch
vehicle technology project.

Mr. Payton has also served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Transportation Technology where he
initiated, planned and led the Reusable Launch Vehicle technology demonstration program, which included the X-33, X-34,
X-37 and DC-XA flight test projects.

09:45 – 10:45 U.S. Government's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Access Plans &
Programs

Panelists:
Joseph D. Rouge (Chair) - Associate Director, National Security Space Organization
Robert Hickman – Principal Scientist for Next Generation Launch Systems, Aerospace Corp.
Lt. Col. James Nugent – Deputy Division Chief, AFSC/A5 (Requirements)
Jeff Sponable – AFRL, FAST Program
Bruce Thieman – AFRL, Functional Capability Lead
 Joseph D. Rouge is the Associate Director, National Security Space Office, Pentagon, Washington
DC. He is responsible for leading a multi-agency, selectively staffed unit tasked by the Under
Secretary of the Air Force/Director, National Reconnaissance Office to create Unity of Effort across
all of National Security Space. He was previously the Chief of the Integration Division prior to his
June 2004 retirement and transition to SES status.

Mr. Rouge graduated from the University of Southern California Reserve Officer Training Corps in
1973with a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, completed a Master’s Degree in
Aerospace Engineering in 1974, came on active duty in September 1974, graduated from Squadron
Officers School and Armed Force Staff College in residence, and is a distinguished graduate of the
Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Rouge is a Joint Specialty Officer.

Mr. Rouge started his career in the Advanced Ballistic Reentry Systems Program Office at the then Space and Missile
Systems Organization where he developed radar and infrared terminal sensor systems for Air Force, Navy, and Army
ballistic missiles reentry vehicles. He managed over $10M yearly in advanced research and development programs. Mr.
Rouge spent a tour at the Strategic Air Command Headquarters where he was space surveillance requirements officer and
worked extensively with both optical infrared and visible light sensor systems and radar systems both ground-based and
space-borne. Mr. Rouge returned to Los Angeles where he was the Chief, Systems Engineering Division, Boost
Surveillance and Tracking System Program Office and later become the Assistant Program Director and Director for
Systems Engineering and Program Integration, Air Force Strategic Defense Initiative Programs, Space Division, Los
Angeles Air Force Base.

Mr. Rouge is married to the former Beverly Kay Roach of El Paso, Texas. They have four children: Carlton, Bradley,
Juliette, and Nicholas.

Robert Hickman is Director of the Advanced Spacelift and Force Application Directorate. He joined
Aerospace in 1987 and has pioneered the development of system engineering tools to support the
development of launch systems as well as analysis of integrated architecture systems. During the past four
years, he has been the technical lead for Air Force advanced launch vehicle development and currently
serves as the engineering lead for the Operationally Responsive Spacelift Analysis of Alternatives. He has
an M.S. in Architecture and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is a
member of the AIAA RLV program committee.

Jess Sponable is currently at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Vehicles Directorate in Dayton
Ohio. He is the program manger for AFRL’s Fully Reusable Access to Space Technology (FAST)
program, and also supports the DARPA Falcon Program as Chief Engineer. He graduated from the
Air Force Academy in 1978 and holds advanced degrees in Astronautical Engineering and Systems
Management. He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College. During his military
career he held many diverse jobs ranging from supporting Atlas launch operations at Vandenberg AFB
to project management jobs in the Global Positioning System and the National Aero-Space Plane
programs. In 1981 he was selected as an Air Force Manned Spaceflight Engineer and trained as a
Space Shuttle payload specialist prior to the Challenger accident.

During the 1990’s he served as the Program Manager of the Delta Clipper-Experimental (DC-X) program and as the NASA
Deputy for Flight Test and Operations on the DC-XA and X-33 programs. Between 1994 and 1998 he managed the Air
Force’s Military Spaceplane Technology Program which oversaw a range of programs, including the X-40A flight test
vehicle, an upper stage flight experiment, low cost expendable launch technology, solar thermal orbit transfer vehicle
technology and numerous studies advocating the need for responsive space access and operations. After leaving the Air
Force in 1998 Jess spent three years as Vice President of Flight Operations at Universal Space Lines, and also supported the
affiliated Universal Space Network venture. There he worked for Pete Conrad, the Apollo 12 and Skylab commander, to
help build the venture firm’s business and finance base. He has served on numerous national space transportation studies
and panels.

Bruce Thieman (bio displayed above)

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Industry Discussion on Near-term ORS Access Approach

 Panelists:
Bruce Thieman (Chair) – Functional Capability Lead , AFRL
Debra Facktor Lepore – President, Airlaunch LLC
Dennis Poulos – MilSpace Programs Business Area Lead , Northrop Grumman Corp.
Lawrence H. Williams – VP for International and Government Affairs, SpaceX
Andrew Crocker – Director, Huntsville Operations, Andrews Space, Inc.

Discussion Questions:
• What should the United States invest in for ORS spacelift?
• What size payload should the initial systems be?
• What is the size of investment in the different approaches?
• What are the commercial applications?

Bruce Thieman (bio displayed above)

Debra Facktor Lepore is President for AirLaunch LLC. AirLaunch is developing the low cost,
responsive QuickReachTM launch vehicle under the DARPA / U.S. Air Force Falcon small launch
vehicle program. Prior to joining AirLaunch LLC, Ms. Lepore was Vice President of Business
Development and Strategic Planning for Kistler Aerospace Corporation. Ms. Lepore was a key
player in the Kistler organization since July 1997, previously serving as Director of Marketing and
Manager of Payload Systems. Ms. Lepore previously served as Chief of Moscow Operations for
ANSER’s Center for International Aerospace Cooperation in Moscow, Russia, and as project leader
and senior engineer at ANSER in Arlington, Virginia. Lepore was also the Lead Engineer for the
Technical Panel of the Congressionally-mandated Space Launch Modernization Plan; participated
in the Advanced Launch System (ALS) program; and contributed to the ten-year Space Launch
Technology Plan in response to a White House National Space Policy Directive and the Vice
President’s “Final Report to the President on the U.S. Space Program.” She is the former chairperson of the American
Astronautical Society Washington DC section.

Dennis Poulos is the Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Sector MilSpace

Programs Business Area Lead. He is a retired Navy Fight Pilot and has over 30 years
of experience in military aviation and space operations. Mr Poulos graduated from
the Naval Academy with a BS in Physics and the Naval Postgraduate School with an MSEE in a Space Systems
Engineering. Mr Poulos was a Space Defense Operations Center Commander in the Cheyenne Mountain Operations
Complex as part of the US Space Command. After retiring from the Navy, he served as a technical advisor to the Air Force
Space Command Directorate of Requirements for the Military Spaceplane program. He has been with Northrop Grumman
since 2003 where he has been the Hybrid Launch Vehicle (HLV), Force Application and Launch from CONus (FALCON),
and now Fully Reusable Access to Space Technology (FAST) Program Manager. Lawrence has helped found numerous
technology start-up ventures, successfully built organizations and completed private equity financings.

Lawrence Williams currently serves as the Vice President for International and
Government Affairs for Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), which is
developing a family of new, low-cost satellite launch vehicles. Since he has been at SpaceX, Lawrence has assisted the
company’s efforts in greatly expanding its revenue base, specifically leading the effort of diversifying its customer base
into NASA and the international market. Prior to SpaceX, Lawrence served as Senior Vice President for Business
Development for the satellite communications company ICO Global Communications, a global communications company
that is using satellite and terrestrial networks to deploy third-generation (3G) wireless services. Prior to ICO, Lawrence
was a founding team member in charge of securing market access for Craig McCaw and Bill Gates’ “Internet in the Sky”
system, Teledesic. His government experience includes having served as a special assistant to the administrator of the U.S.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a member of the Presidential transition team for the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and a legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Ray Thornton on the House
Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Bruce Thieman, bio displayed previously

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch

 Keynote Speaker: Edward M. Morris - Director, Office of Space Commercialization, U. S.
Department of Commerce

Edward M. Morris was appointed the Director of the Office of Space Commercialization for the
U.S. Department of Commerce in January 2006. The Office is responsible for implementing
national space policies and promoting the capabilities of the U.S. commercial space industry. It
acts as an industry liaison within the Executive Branch to ensure the U.S. Government maximizes
its use of commercially available space goods and services, avoids legal and regulatory
impediments, and does not compete with the U.S. space industry. The Office also supports the
Deputy Secretary of Commerce in his role as a member of the National Space-Based Positioning,
Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee and hosts the National Coordination Office
(NCO) for Space-Based PNT. Mr. Morris is the U.S. Government co-chair of the GPS-Galileo
Working Group on Trade and Civil Applications, which is responsible for addressing non-
discrimination and other trade related issues concerning civil satellite-based navigation and
timing services and their augmentations. Prior to his appointment with NOAA, Mr. Morris worked with Orbital Sciences
Corporation from 1991 to 2006. His most recent position was Senior Director of the Washington, D.C. Operations,
responsible for development and implementation of White House, federal agency, and legislative actions and policies
related to military, civil, and commercial space matters, as well as missile defense and tactical weapons programs. He
received the Outstanding Management Award in 2001 for achieving key company business development goals.

13:30 – 15:00 Totally Reusable Spaceplanes: Military Uses & Commercial Markets for Strategic
Dual-Use Technology

Panelists:  
Charles Miller (Chair) – President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc. 
Lt. Col. Paul Damphousse – U.S. Marine Corps, SUSTAIN Program 
Kevin F. Kelly – Vice President, Van Scoyoc Associates and Washington Counsel to 
Rocketplane Kistler 
Michael S. Kelly – Chairman, FAA‐AST's COMSTAC RLV Working Group; Vice President of 
Technology, APFC 
Rand Simberg – President, Interglobal Spacelines 
Col. Michael “Coyote” V. Smith – Space‐Based Solar Power Architecture Study, National 
Security Space Office

Discussion Questions:
• What are the national security applications & benefits of reusable spaceplanes, beyond first-
generation ORS access?
• Would a reusable spaceplane address China’s ASAT capability?
• Are spaceplanes a stabilizing deterrent to a space Pearl Harbor in an era of ASATs and
asymmetric warfare?
• What are the new commercial markets that would be created or expanded by a reusable
spaceplane? How significant are they?
• What can the government do now to encourage commercial investment in spaceplanes?

Charles Miller (bio displayed above)

Lt. Col. Paul Damphousse currently serves as Chief Engineer for the
Communications Functional Integration Office of the National Security Space
Office (NSSO). Prior to his joining the NSSO he was assigned to Marine
Aircraft Group (Reinforced) 16 as a CH-53E pilot and deployed to Iraq from Aug 2004 to Mar 2005 and from Feb 2006 to
Feb 2007. During his latest deployment, as the Operations Officer for the largest aircraft group in the Marine Corps, he
was responsible for the daily planning and execution of combat operations for all of the Marine aircraft in Iraq.
Lt. Col. Damphousse is a CH-53E pilot with over 2300 flight hours, several hundred of which are in combat. He is an
active proponent of the Marine Corps’ Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) concept and continues to
pursue selection as a NASA astronaut. He holds a Masters degree in Astronautical Engineering from the Naval
Postgraduate School and is a Marine Corps Space Operations Officer.

Kevin F. Kelly serves as Vice President at Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc. (VSA) and is the Chief
Operating Officer of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Van Scoyoc Kelly PLLC. Kelly came to VSA
after a dozen years of Capitol Hill experience in various senior positions in the House and Senate. At
VSA, Kelly specializes in budget, appropriations and legislative issues for a range of high technology
and Fortune 500 companies, institutions of higher education, governmental entities and national trade
associations. Kelly's practice includes efforts to obtain annual funding for a range of programs and
projects, as well as providing executive branch liaison on policy and budgetary matters. In addition,
Kelly offers corporations and non-profit entities strategic advice and counsel on the capture and
expansion of technology-based government contracts. Finally, Kelly's practice includes assisting universities and colleges
in the development of creative solutions to secure additional research funds from a range of federal agencies and programs.

In his prior government service, Kelly served for eight years with the Senate Appropriations Committee. Six of those years
included service as the Chief Clerk and Majority Staff Director for the Veterans Administration, Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Subcommittee, the committee's second largest subcommittee, with a $90 billion
portfolio in 25 federal cabinet departments and agencies. Serving in this role, Kelly was the principal advisor and counsel to
the subcommittee chair and members on all major budget and policy issues affecting the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Departments of Housing and Urban
Development and Veterans' Affairs. The other two years of Appropriations Committee service involved his role as
appropriations counsel and legislative assistant for Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. In this capacity, Kelly managed
Senator Mikulski's appropriations initiatives for 12 of the committee's 13 subcommittees, including Transportation,
Defense, Commerce-State-Justice, Treasury-Postal Service and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

Most recently, Kelly served in the Senate leadership as Chief Counsel and Floor Assistant to the Secretary of the
Democratic Conference, Senator Mikulski. In this role, Kelly served as a senior advisor to the Senate Democratic
leadership on broad policy matters, including budget and appropriations strategy, regulatory reform, and welfare reform.

Earlier in his career, Kelly served as a professional staff member on the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee,
where he served as a subcommittee counsel on maritime commerce, water resources, marine pollution and regulation, and
the Coast Guard. He also handled various transportation issues related to the Oceanography Subcommittee Chair's
assignment on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Kelly holds a juris doctorate from the Georgetown University
Law Center, and a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Borromeo College of Ohio. He is a member of the
District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations (ABA).

Michael S. Kelly is a 26-year veteran of the aerospace industry, across the spectrum of land-based
strategic missiles, missile defense, and government and commercial space launch.

Beginning in 1980 at TRW Ballistic Missiles Division, Mr. Kelly acquired an extensive background in
system engineering and deployment of large missile systems in the Peacekeeper and Small ICBM
programs before he began applying his experience to the commercial space launch field. In that field, he
is best known as the inventor of the TRW family of low-cost, modular, solid propellant launch vehicles;
the co-founder and Director of Engineering for the TRW Space Launch Services Organization; the Founder, Chairman, and
CEO of Kelly Space & Technology, Inc., a pioneering company in the reusable launch and space applications fields; the
inventor of the tow-launch technique for space vehicles, demonstrated in an award-winning series of manned flights at
NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center; and the Chairman of the Reusable Launch Vehicles Working Group of COMSTAC.

Rand Simberg holds dual Bachelor's degrees in engineering science and applied mathematics from
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Masters degree in Technical Management from West
Coast University in Los Angeles, California.

He has over two decades of experience in project management and systems engineering in the
aerospace and information technology industries. He was a supervisor of systems engineering, and a
project manager for advanced space programs at Rockwell International, in Downey, California for
several years, where he was responsible for developing requirements from the functional level down
to the subsystems, managing others engaged in such activities, developing software to support
analyses, and managing government-funded trade studies for new launch systems and space
platforms. He also supported numerous proposal and marketing activities, preparing reports and briefings, managing
several winning proposals.

Since leaving Rockwell in 1993, he has been an entrepreneur and independent consultant in the information technology and
commercial space industries, including lobbying and the development of federal policy position papers, some of which
have resulted in legislation. In addition, over the past several years, he has acquired extensive experience in web site design
and hosting, including the development of CGI scripts in Perl, Unix/Linux system and network administration, and network
security, including virtual private networks (VPN). Most recently, he has developed and refined requirements for a state-of-
the-art secure Internet virtual private network project, which is ongoing.

He is familiar with several programming languages, and OS's, with excellent written and oral communications skills. In
addition to publishing several policy papers and opinion pieces, he has been the editor of a book on lobbying for space-
related causes.

Colonel (Select) Michael V. Smith is the Chief of the Future Concepts

Branch, known as “Dream Works,” of the National Security Space Office.
Dream Works develops advanced theories and concepts and advises national-
level decision makers across the space community on how emerging technologies, transformational-architecture-level
capabilities, and future operational concepts can be applied 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 a two-volume set on spacepower theory.

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

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

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:50 The Politics & Future of OSR Access

Panelists:
Colin Clark (Chair) – Military Affairs Correspondent, Space.com
Adrienne Ramsay (tentative) – Majority Professional Staff House Armed Services Committee
Josh Hartman – Minority Clerk, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense
James A. M. Muncy – President, PoliSpace

Discussion Questions:
• ORS means different things to different players. What does it mean to Congress?
• What are the politics impacting on national investments in ORS?
• Why does Congress think we need ORS?
• How has the Chinese ASAT demonstration changed things?
• What are the congressional positions on hot topics?
• Can the ORS community support ORS, while avoiding the controversial
issues?

James A. M. Muncy founded PoliSpace, an independent space policy consultancy, in early

2000 to help space entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs succeed at the nexus of business, public
affairs, and technology. His clients have included several companies in the emerging private human space flight industry
and firms offering commercial services to NASA spaceflight programs.

Immediately prior to establishing PoliSpace, Muncy spent over five years working for the U.S. House of Representatives.
From 1997 through early 2000 he served on the Professional Staff of the House Science Committee’s Space and
Aeronautics Subcommittee. In addition to being Chairman Dana Rohrabacher’s staff designee, Muncy held the lead
responsibility for issues and programs such as reusable launch vehicles, human space flight commercialization, military
space technology, export control reform, range modernization, and future NASA programs. In the mid-1980’s he worked
for two and a half years as a policy assistant in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President
Reagan, where he served as the White House’s Staff Liaison to the National Commission on Space.

A long-time leader in the space advocacy community, Muncy co-founded the Space Frontier Foundation in 1988 and
served as its Chairman of the Board for six years. Earlier he had served on the Board of Directors of both the National
Space Society and the L5 Society. Muncy holds an MS in Space Studies from the Center for Aerospace Sciences at the
University of North Dakota and a BA from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar.

16:50 – 17:00 Closing Remarks

17:00 – 18:00 Reception

Sponsored by VPrize and Garvey Schubert Barer

18:00 Space Frontier Foundation Advocates Dinner (For active status Advocates only)
Friday, July 20th Business Opportunities & Regulations

09:00 – 09:05 Opening Remarks

Rich Pournelle – Director of Business Development, XCOR Aerospace

09:05 – 10:00 The Next Great Space Business - Annual Business Plan Competition

The Space Frontier Foundation is hosting its annual business plan competition. Last year we had over
20 companies apply. We're inviting SEC-accredited investors and their representatives to judge the
business plans based on a one-page summary and a 5-8 minute pitch. Presenting companies are all
early stage companies with technologies or products that advance the goals of an enduring human
presence in space.

Judges Include:
Mohanjit Jolly – Partner, Draper Fisher Jurveston
Andrew Nelson – Angel Investor, Boston Harbor Angels
Guillermo Söhnlein – Managing Director, Space Angels Network
Lee Valentine – Angel Investor
Dr. Burton Lee – Partner, Innovarium Ventures
Shubber Ali – Entrepreneur

Mohanjit Jolly is a Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading Venture Capital firm in Silicon
Valley. Mohanjit has spent the last ten years working with and investing in technology startups. Most
recently, Mohanjit was a Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage
venture capital firm. While at Garage, Mohanjit worked with over 30 companies, including LeftHand
Networks, PureSight (BCGI), Jibe Networks (CTRX), Media Publisher, Xora, Razz, Kaboodle and
SimplyHired. Prior to joining Garage, Mohanjit was part of the strategic planning group at Mattel
where he helped launch the Mattel/Intel joint venture, Intel Play. He also spent several years in both
engineering and business development roles with Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of high-
resolution reconnaissance systems for both military and commercial use. While earning his M.B.A
from the Anderson School at UCLA, Mohanjit helped launch ViaSpace, a technology incubator in
Southern California in conjunction with Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mohanjit earned a B.S. and M.S. in
Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, with a specialization in electric propulsion systems.

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

Guillermo is the Founder and Chairman of the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, a
membership trade association focused on promoting global entrepreneurship in the space industry, as
well as Great Wall Angels, a network of angel investor groups in China. He served on active duty in the United States
Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate and currently serves on various Advisory Boards and teaches entrepreneurship.

Guillermo earned an A.B. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of
California Hastings College of the Law.
 Dr. Lee Valentine is the Executive Vice President of the Space Studies institute. He is a director of
Space Studies Institute, ProSpace America and Orbital Outfitters. He is an angel investor in SEEGRID
Corp, XCOR Aerospace, Orbital Outfitters and Constellation Services International.

Burton H. Lee, Ph.D. MBA, is Managing Partner of Innovarium Ventures, as well as an accredited
angel investor and serial entrepreneur. Innovarium Ventures, located in Washington DC, provides senior
strategic, financial and technical advisory services to technology startup companies, engineering design
and architecture, and emerging technology trends. He recently served as Chairman of the highly
successful Space Venture Finance Symposium.

Dr. Lee’s professional experience spans 15 years in strategy consulting, high tech industry, government
and venture-backed startups working in corporate development and strategy, business development, and space systems
research. His management and technical experience includes senior positions with leading organizations such as GE Global
Research, Hewlett Packard, Daimler-Chrysler AG and NASA in the United States, Europe and Japan. His business and
technical expertise spans commercial space, aviation, nanotech, alternative energy, clean tech, robotics and related global
innovation sectors. Burton’s space background includes an early tenure as Manager of the Stanford Small Satellite
Program, working at NASA Kennedy Space Center as a Shuttle Thermal Protection Systems research engineer, advising
NASA Ames on new venture development and spinouts, and serving as co-founder and COO of Orbital Recovery Systems,
a commercial reentry capsule services provider.

Today, Dr. Lee sits on the MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Advisory Committee, and is a member of the FAA AST
Comstac Working Group on Launch Operations and Support. Burton recently served as Technical Consultant to the New
Mexico Spaceport Authority. In 2006, Lee was appointed a Senior Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National
Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.

Burton holds a PhD in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from Stanford (2002), an MBA in finance and
entrepreneurship from Cornell (2004) and an AB in Physics from Brown University. He also attended the International
Space University and is a graduate of the inaugural class held at MIT in 1988.

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

Previously, Mr. Ali was Manager of KPMG Space Consulting in Washington, DC., and worked on the strategic planning
and financing of numerous commercial and defence satellite ventures, and technology commercialisation projects for the
Federal government (ISS and Sandia Labs) and university laboratories. He was the Group Manager of Risk Operations
Strategy for Capital One, one of the leading credit card issuers in the United States. He was a Director of a publicly traded
telecommunications 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 Angeles World Trade Centre Association.

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 – 12:00 Financing the Next Steps: Future NewSpace Economy

Is NewSpace an industry yet? Are new companies seen as part of an industry to invest in, just like
biotech, green energy or software? What can NewSpace do to put its best foot forward? Are there other
industry parallels?

Panelists:
Esther Dyson (Chair) - Author Release 0.9; Chair, Flight School
Mohanjit Jolly – Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
 Bryan Lilley - Former Logistics Manager for X Prize Cup, Founder & Manager of the World
Space Expo
Jim Asker, Managing Editor, Aviation Week
Andrew Nelson, Member, Boston Harbor Angels

Esther Dyson has a habit of being early: She left home (for college) at 16; she covered Federal Express
as a Wall Street analyst from 1977 to 1980; she started following the computer industry in Eastern Europe
in 1989; she first wrote about the impact of the Internet on intellectual property (for Wired magazine) in
1994. She met Walter Isaacson (and Jim Fallows) in the early 70s, Vern Raburn in 1982, and Ed
Iacobucci and Charles Simonyi a few years later.

Now she is turning at least some of her attention air-and space-wards. She is an investor in Constellation
Services, Icon Aircraft, Space Adventures, XCOR Aerospace, and Zero-G Corporation, and is a patron of
the Personal Spaceflight Federation. She has flown weightless on Zero-G twice, and will do so a third
time right after Flight School. A couple of months ago she went to Russia and Kazakhstan with Space Adventures to watch
the Charles Simonyi launch.

For 25 years Dyson led PC Forum, the computer industry's leading annual conference for executives. She sold her company
EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004, and started Flight School as a spinoff of PC Forum in 2005. Dyson left
CNET at the end of 2006 and retrieved the name EDventure, under which she now does business. CNET declined to
continue PC Forum, but Dyson took Flight School with her and now runs it independently.

Aside from that, Dyson is an active investor and sits on a few too many boards, including one public company (WPP
Group) and a host of IT start-ups around the world - Yandex (Russia), Meetup, Eventful, 23andMe, Midentity (UK),
Newspaperdirect and others. She has invested in start-ups sold to Symantec, Google, Microsoft and
Yahoo!, among others. She also sits on the boards of the Sunlight Foundation and the Santa Fe Institute,
among other nonprofits.

Mohanjit Jolly (bio displayed above)

James Asker - Managing Editor, Aviation Week

Andrew Nelson is an active private investor in technology companies, including XCOR

Aerospace, using his own personal resources, which brings him to Flight School. He is looking
for other aerospace investments, but he sets a high hurdle: "a company whose founders (and I)
understand the niche they are attacking, are not encumbered by too much cash or one
charismatic leader, have a significant IP portfolio that is unique and useful, and are aggressively
focused on getting a highly profitable product or service to market in 2.5 years or less, They
need to truly understand their value proposition or attractiveness to a buyer, and I should be able
to confirm this through my own due diligence." In high tech generally, he is an investor in
RPOST, Inc., a registered e-mail company; Cambridge Endoscopic, medical devices; and
Myomo, therapeutic medical robotics.

For Morgan Stanley, Nelson advises individuals, families, their companies and foundations on investments and complex
corporate, estate and financial needs; that is, the intersection of financial returns, tax considerations, estate planning,
personal timing and personal goals, including philanthropy. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2005, he played a similar
role at Lehman Brothers for five years.
Before Wall Street, Nelson spent approximately 15 years in the aerospace, aviation and space field, first as an engineer at
Mitre Corporation, where he led teams designing and implementing avionics systems in military and civil aircraft, and
participated in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and U.S.-based regulatory and standards committees.
Following that, he worked as a senior management and strategy consultant. at Booz Allen & Hamilton for nine years. He
led the international aviation and space team from offices in London and Paris and covered commercial and government
clients in the space and aviation fields in Europe, Asia, the former Soviet republics and Latin America. Nelson also spent
three years working at Cape Canaveral and four years as an undergraduate engineering student intern on NASA Ames
sponsored projects developing one of the first differential GPS suites from 1981 to 1985.

Nelson has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University, studied at the London School of Economics and has an
MBA with a dual focus on Finance and Entrepreneurship from MIT's Sloan School of Management. In 2003 he founded the
MIT CFO Summit, the premier annual forum for U.S. corporate finance executives, and is Fundraising Chairman for the
Alumni Fellows of the Emerging Leaders Program of Boston, a highly selective civic leadership development program.
Nelson also enjoys racing sail boats, from small dinghies to former America's Cup winners, and can be found regularly on
the water with the 12-metre racing fleet around New England.

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Keynote Speaker: Thomas Boone Pickens, III – President and CEO, SpaceHab, Inc.

Thomas Boone Pickens, III, became President and Chief Executive Officer of SpaceHab in January
2007. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Tactic Advisors, Inc., a company specializing in
corporate turnarounds on behalf of investors that have aggregated to over $20 billion in value. He is
President of T.B. Pickens & Co. Mr. Pickens has founded and served as Chairman and CEO for many
companies during the startup, growth, and turnaround phases of a company's lifecycle, with an
emphasis in value creation. Since 1983, Mr. Pickens has been the Founder and President of Beta
Computer Systems; Chairman and CEO of Catalyst Energy Corporation; Chairman, United Thermal
Corporation; President, Golden Bear Corporation; President, Slate Creek Corporation; Chairman,
Century Power Corporation; President, Vidalia Hydroelectric Corporation; President, U.S. Utilities,
Inc.; and a number of other prominent positions.

13:30 – 14:30 Surviving a Bad Day in Space: Risk Management Architecture

A personal spaceflight company will be exposed to the risk of a catastrophic and highly public disaster that could mark the
onset of troubles ranging from the short-term (business interruption, loss of equipment and crew, acute regulatory scrutiny)
to the long-term (defending lawsuits and restoring consumer confidence). Whether the company emerges from the process
stronger or as a forgotten footnote in the early history of commercial human spaceflight will be determined largely by the
risk management plan laid by the company before the accident. This discussion will delve into the various components of
sound risk management architecture for entrants into the personal spaceflight industry, including safety-oriented “best
practices,” legal standards of care, liability-shifting tools, public relations and insurance.

Panelists:
Doug Griffith (Chair) – Air Disaster Litigation Attorney
Bretton Alexander – Executive Director, Space Prizes and Wirefly X PRIZE Cup
Kelly Alton – Aerospace Insurance Broker
Bob Benzon – NTSB Investigator in Charge
Doug Griffith is an aviation and spaceflight attorney with an extensive background in catastrophic air
crash litigation. A combat-experienced Marine Corps aviator, Mr. Griffith is a frequent lecturer under
the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety program, and in the past year has spoken on legal risk
management architectures for the personal spaceflight industry at Space Access, the Aerospace Medical
Association’s annual conference, the International Space Development Conference (at which he chaired
the Spaceflight Law & Insurance Track), and on “The Space Show.”
Mr. Griffith received his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas
at Austin before joining the Marine Corps and accruing more than 2,600 hours in attack helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
A Naval Postgraduate School-trained safety officer and accident investigator, Mr. Griffith has taught as an adjunct
professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Loyola Law School, and is on the Board of Directors of Angel
Flight West.

Bretton Alexander is Senior Advisor to Transformational Space Corporation. Brett joined t/Space in
January 2005 following five years as the Senior Policy Analyst for space issues in the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy where he served both Presidents Bush and Clinton. While at
the White House, Brett played a central role in development of President Bush's Vision for Space
Exploration. Brett also led a review of national space policies with the National Security Council staff
resulting in new Presidential policies on space transportation, GPS, and remote sensing.
Prior to the White House, Brett held positions in the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space
Transportation, the Aerospace Corporation, and ANSER Corporation. In the mid-1990s, Brett spent more than a year in
Moscow, Russia, facilitating space cooperation.

Brett holds Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, Virginia.

Kelly Alton operates with an expertise arising from a substantial background in the aviation world.
He is third generation Air Force, graduating from the United States Air Force Academy and gaining
extensive leadership skills while serving for 16 years as a Major in the United States Air Force. He
started out as a maintenance officer working on the McDonald-Douglas F-15 Eagle and then
transitioned into flying the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. In the military Kelly held the
positions of Chief of Current Operations, Chief of Standardization and Evaluation, and Chief of
Scheduling. In addition, Kelly flew both corporate and Boeing 737s for Southwest Airlines.

Kelly has written some very unique risks. He wrote the insurance for the X PRIZE Foundation’s Wirefly X PRIZE Cup
held in Las Cruces NM in 2006. This included aerospace liability insurance for the launch and in-flight operations of
Armadillo Aerospace which was the first ever flight under an FAA/ AST Experimental Permit. He currently handles the
insurance for Zero Gravity Corporation, America’s first and only parabolic flight operations where passengers can
experience “weightless flight.” In addition to the above risks, he also specializes in aviation and aerospace product liability
placements.

Bob Benzon began his aviation career in the United States Air Force flying EC-47s over the Republic of
Vietnam. He later transitioned into KC-135 Stratotankers for two further stateside assignments. During
his military service he was awarded two Air Medals, three Air Force Commendation Medals, the Air
Force Outstanding Unit Award with V device, and the Republic of Viet Nam Cross of Gallantry.

Upon leaving active military duty in 1984, he joined the National Transportation Safety Board in its
Chicago Field Office. There, he investigated 64 fatal general aviation accidents and numerous air carrier
incidents. He transferred to NTSB Headquarters in Washington, DC, in 1987 and to this date, has been the Investigator in
Charge of 29 major aircraft accident investigations within the United States and has been the U.S. Accredited
Representative on numerous major overseas accident investigations.

Among his assignments as Investigator in Charge or U.S. Accredited Representative include the loss of Pan Am 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, the crashes of McDonnell Douglas DC-8s in Ohio and Florida, DC-9s in Michigan, Colorado, and
Texas, DC-10s in New Jersey and Hong Kong, two Boeing 727s in Michigan, Boeing 737s in India, Afghanistan, England,
Illinois and California, Boeing 747s in Holland and England, and an Airbus A340 in Canada. He was also Investigator in
Charge of the loss of an Airbus A300 in New York City, the second worse aircraft accident in U.S. history.

He led the team of NTSB investigators at the World Trade Center site following the September 11 terrorist attacks and also
was the lead NTSB investigator assisting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigation into the loss of
space shuttle STS-107/Columbia.

And last, Mr. Benzon was the recipient of the Safety Board's highest annual honor, the Chairman's Award, for 2006.

14:30 – 15:30 Personal Spaceflight Regulations: Moving Forward

As the NewSpace industry develops over the next 10 years, how might government regulations encourage or
impede commercial growth?

Panelists:
Patricia G. Smith (Chair) – Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation,
FAA
Reda Anderson – Rocketplane #1 Spaceflight Customer
Dr. Jonathan B. Clark – Survivability Team Leader, Orbital Outfitters
Alex Tai – COO, Virgin Galactic and Chairman, Personal Spaceflight Federation
 Patricia G. Smith serves as Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation within the
Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), heading the office responsible
for overseeing and regulating the U.S. commercial space transportation industry.

, Ms. Smith has worked hard to foster an environment where safety always comes first and innovation
can flourish. During her service at the FAA, key milestones have been achieved that include the Mojave
Air and Spaceport becoming the first inland Commercial Spaceport licensed by the agency, and the
launch of the X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne, a launch licensed by the FAA. Ms. Smith has also
overseen the development of rules for human space flight mandated by the Commercial Space Launch
Amendments Act of 2004.

In addition to her principle responsibilities, Ms. Smith worked on several major initiatives on behalf of the agency among
them as executive committee team member for the FCC Spectrum Auctions Implementation Team that produced the very
first and largest auction of US assets in history. Ms. Smith, along with her team members, received Vice President Gore’s
Hammer Award.

Ms. Smith received her B.A. degree from Tuskegee University and did graduate work at Auburn University, George
Washington University, and Harvard University School of Business. In 1996, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni
Award from Tuskegee University.

Reda Anderson: On April 10, 1912, The Titanic left Southampton, England on
its maiden voyage, bound for New York City. At 11:40pm April 14, 1912, the
Titanic hit an ice berg and disappeared from the oceans surface at 2:20am April
15, 1912, taking with it over 1,500 souls. A little less than 100 years later, Reda
Anderson, dove in a Russian submersible 12,500 feet to the bottom of the ocean,
to see for herself what remains of the disintegrating Titanic. She is one of less
than 100 paying passengers and less than 12 women who have ever done so.
Flying from Los Angeles to St. Johns, Newfoundland, Reda along with Melody,
her 11-year-old granddaughter, boarded the largest ocean going research vessel
in the world, the Keldysh, The Keldysh is the mother ship to MIR1 and MIR
2,two of five submersibles in the world capable of making such a dive. A mere six feet wide on the inside and holding a
pilot and two passengers, Reda says, “It was a bit cramped in there.” But, even so, she says the MIR submersible was
roomier than in the Rocketplane XP, a modified Lear 24 jet, will be when she flies into space as Rocketplane-Kistler's first
paying customer. In the 1960s she purposefully immersed herself into an active anti-Vietnam riot in San Francisco and a
tidal wave at the beach just to see what these experiences would be like. Reda has traveled to the seven continents and 47
countries preferring to rough it on her travels such as fishing for piranha in the Piranha River in Brazil and leading four-
wheel-drive trips both domestically to the Mojave Desert and internationally to remote Mongolia and Peru. More recently,
in South Africa she survived an incursion with a boulder following aborted takeoff in a small aircraft. Reda has
undergraduate and master's degrees in business, and an additional forty-plus university classes of various subjects. She is a
real estate investor in residential rental properties in Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Dr. Jonathan B. Clark is the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) Space Medicine
Liaison at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a member of the Spacecraft Survival Integrated
Investigation Team at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) and on the Constellation Program EVA
Systems Standing Review Board. Dr. Clark serves on the Board of Directors of Xtreme Space, Inc., is
Team Leader for Safety and Survivability for Orbital Outfitters Inc., and medical advisor for Space
Diver and Excaliber Almaz LLC.

Dr. Clark worked as a Space Shuttle Crew Surgeon on six shuttle missions and was Chief of the Medical Operations
Branch and an FAA Senior Aviation Medical Examiner at the NASA JSC Flight Medicine Clinic. Dr. Clark served 26
years on active duty with the U.S. Navy and qualified as a Naval Flight Officer, Naval Flight Surgeon and Navy Diver and
U.S. Army parachutist and Special Forces Military Freefall parachutist. Prior to joining NASA in 1997, he was Head of the
Spatial Orientation Systems Department at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola, FL, Head of
the Aeromedical Department at the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One in Yuma, AZ, and Head of the
Neurology Division and Hyperbaric Medicine at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute.
Alex Tai performs a number of roles within the new Spaceflight industry. In addition to his role as Chief Operating Officer
for Virgin Galactic (VG) he is Chairman of the Personal Spaceflight Federation (PSF) and an officer of The Spaceship
Company LLC (TSC). Trained as a pilot in the UK Royal Air Force he went on to fly executive jets and holds a number of
World records for flights with the US adventurer Steve Fossett, including around the world east and west about in class. He
embarked on special projects for Sir Richard Branson. Alex has been working on the Galactic project from conception,
standing next to Paul Allen and Burt Rutan in mission control at the first X Prize flight. He will pilot the first commercial
flight of SS2.

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:45 NewSpace for a New President?

2008 will see a U.S. Presidential election just five weeks after NASA’s 50th anniversary. Can any
space issues break through the background noise of the campaign? What “space status quo” will a new
occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania inherit on January 20, 2009? Will the “Vision” still be relevant? Will a
new President grant a reprieve to the Shuttle’s death sentence? In a world of threats to military space
assets, global environmental concerns, and Virgin Galactic, will anyone care about NASA’s human
spaceflight? Will NewSpace see new opportunities for policy innovation and political support?
Answering this and other questions will be a panel of people who have worked in space policy
positions for the last four U.S. Presidents.

Panelists:
James A. M. Muncy (chair) – President, PoliSpace
Lori Garver – Senior Advisor for Space, Avascent Group
Alan Ladwig – Manager of Space Systems Consultancy, Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc.
Courtney Stadd – Foundat and President, Capitol Alliance Solutions

James A. M. Muncy (bio displayed above)

Lori Garver serves as a Senior Advisor for Space at the Avascent Group, a strategic consulting
firm, based in Washington, D.C. Lori Garver has been a full-time consultant since January 2003.
Ms. Garver served as Vice President of DFI Corporate Services (the predecessor organization to
the Avascent Group) from 2001 to 2003.

Until January 2001 Ms. Garver was the Associate Administrator for Policy and Plans at the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Prior to this appointment, Ms. Garver
served as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Office of Policy and Plans. Before joining NASA, Ms.
Garver was the Executive Director of the National Space Society, a space advocacy organization.

She is a recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and the NASA Distinguished
Service Medal as well as the National Space Society’s Space Pioneer Award. Ms. Garver received
an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Colorado College in 2000. Ms. Garver received her Masters
degree in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from the George Washington University in 1989, and her Bachelors
degree in Political Science and Economics from Colorado College in 1983.
Alan Ladwig is currently serving at Whitney, Bradley and Brown, Inc. (WBB) as the Manager of Space Systems
Consultancy. In this capacity he is responsible for developing a new business unit dedicated to 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 Integrated Systems Sector at Northrop Grumman where he directed marketing and sales activities in
pursuit of contracts for NASA human space flight programs.

Ladwig served as the Chief Operating Officer for the ZERO Gravity Corporation, a space tourism and entertainment
company offering commercial parabolic flights to the public on a Boeing 727 aircraft. He was also the Assistant to the
Chairman and Vice President for Washington Operations of Space.com, a multimedia company headquartered in New York
City dedicated to space-related content. Alan served at NASA Headquarters both as a political appointee and as a civil
servant. From 1993 to 1999 he was an appointee of the Clinton-Gore Administration serving as the Associate
Administrator for Policy and Plans. NASA awarded Ladwig the Distinguished Service Medal, the Exceptional
Achievement Medal, and two Exceptional Service Medals. He is a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society.

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

Courtney Stadd is founder and President of Capitol Alliance Solutions, LLC, a Washington,
DC, area-based management consulting services firm established in 1993 with a broad range of
public and public sector clients in aerospace and high technology.

For the past 30 years, Mr. Stadd's career path has been a mix of senior government leadership
and corporate executive jobs. In the government, he held senior policy and program management
positions at the US Department of Commerce, the US Department of Transportation, the White
House and NASA. In the commercial sector, he is associated with a range of pathfinder industry
sectors including space transportation, GPS, high resolution satellite remote sensing, commercial
inflatable space modules (Bigelow Aerospace), and integrated satellite/terrestrial 4G
communications networks (TerreStar Networks).

16:45 – 18:00 Beyond COTS: Future Commercial Opportunities and the Vision for Space
Exploration

Due to ongoing COTS efforts and the potential of space tourism, much of the attention in potential
commercial opportunities is focused on orbital and suborbital space transportation efforts. But there are
other opportunities, both near- and far-term, that may develop in support of NASA’s Global
Exploration Strategy and future Lunar Architecture. Although NASA has been explicitly directed to
“encourage commercial space capabilities,” the specific roles of commercial development efforts in the
Vision are as yet undefined. This discussion will focus on potential supply and demand opportunities
from both the private and NASA perspectives, effective actions that the latter can take to benefit the
former, and a frank exchange of views from multiple perspectives.

Panelists:
Neil Woodward (Chair) – Director, Directorate Integration Office (ESMD)
Dallas Bienhoff – Manager of In-Space & Surface Systems, The Boeing Company
Ken Davidian – Centennial Challenges Program, NASA ESMD
James E. Dunstan – Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer
Jeff Greason – President, XCOR
Neil Woodward graduated from MIT in June 1984, with a degree in Physics. He attended graduate school at the University
of Texas at Austin, working in the Center for Relativity and then the Fusion Research Center. He received his Master’s
degree in 1988 and joined the US Navy, reporting to Aviation Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida. He was
commissioned in January 1989, and earned his wings as a Naval Flight Officer in March 1990. In 1995, he was selected to
attend the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and graduated with distinction in
July 1996. Woodward was assigned to the Strike Aircraft Test Squadron when he was selected for the astronaut program.

Selected by NASA in June 1998, he reported for training in August 1998. Astronaut Candidate Training included
orientation briefings and tours, numerous scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in Shuttle and International
Space Station systems, physiological training and ground school to prepare for T-38 flight training, as well as learning
water and wilderness survival techniques. Woodward is currently on detached duty to NASA HQ as the Deputy Director
for Constellation Systems in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate.
Woodward has logged over 1,700 flight hours in more than 25 different aircraft and has 265 arrested landings. Woodward
has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Distinguished Graduate from US Naval Test Pilot School;
Empire Test Pilot School Award for Best Developmental Test Thesis by the USNTPS; two Navy Commendation Medals;
two Navy Achievement Medals; and the Texas Business Hall of Fame fellowship in 2000.

Dallas Bienhoff is the Boeing Manager for In-Space and Surface Systems for the NASA
Vision for Space Exploration. He is responsible for developing concepts and capturing
contracts related to fixed orbital infrastructure systems (e.g., in-space propellant depots,
orbiting assembly nodes, communications & navigation networks) and lunar surface
systems (e.g., habitats, rovers, mining and processing equipment). Dallas is also
responsible for identifying and creating commercial space opportunities in the Earth-
Moon system.

Mr. Bienhoff has 33 years of experience in human space systems and space exploration activities; 25 of which have been in
advance programs organizations where he led numerous contract and IRAD space transportation and exploration
architecture studies.

During his career, Dallas has worked for Boeing, Rockwell, The Aerospace Corporation, Rocketdyne and Martin Marietta
on the following key programs: Vision for Space Exploration, Space Launch Initiative, ISS Propulsion Module, Crew
Return Vehicle, X-33 Single Stage to Orbit, International Space Station Russian Integration, Vandenberg Air Force Base
Space Shuttle Facilities, Space Shuttle Main Engine Development, and Titan III.

He earned a MS Engineering at California State University Northridge in1985 and a BS Mechanical Engineering at Florida
Institute of Technology in 1974.

Ken Davidian currently works for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) and the
Innovative Partnerships Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Within ESMD,
Mr. Davidian is charged with leading ESMD’s space commercial development strategy efforts 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 modeled
on past and ongoing prize competitions. Centennial Challenges was established to stimulate technology
developments from private industry, universities, and individual innovators that support of the Vision
for Space Exploration and ongoing NASA programs. Prior to his current position, Mr. Davidian served
as Director of Operations for the X PRIZE Foundation.

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

James E. Dunstan is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Garvey Schubert Barer, where for
nearly 25 years he has concentrated on issues of high technology, communications, and space law.
Jim represents a significant number of burgeoning outer space companies: he drafted and negotiated
the first commercial lease for the Russian Mir space station on behalf of MirCorp. He has drafted and helped negotiate
contracts with several potential commercial space passengers. Jim was a founding board member of LunaCorp and assisted
in negotiating with the Russian Space Agency and NASA to shoot the first television commercial onboard the International
Space Station (ISS). He helped arrange for the first pitch of the 2002 baseball World Series to be conducted onboard ISS.
Mr. Dunstan has also been involved in export issues (ITAR) related to experimental hardware launched on Russian rockets.
Jim is a member of the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Aerospace Advisory Committee,
and an active member of the Space Frontier Foundation’s Teachers In Space project.

Jeff Greason has more than 15 years experience managing innovative technical project teams
at XCOR Aerospace, Rotary Rocket and Intel Corporation. As president and a co-founder of
XCOR, he leads the engineering team that has developed six different long-life, highly-
reusable liquid-fueled rocket engines, the low-cost liquid propellant piston pump, and the
manned reusable rocket aircraft – the EZ-Rocket.

Mr. Greason is the co-inventor of XCOR’s Nonburnite technology, which combines

aerospace fabrication practices with materials common in the semiconductor industry. Mr.
Greason fabricated the first exploratory materials coupons in 2002 and is still directly supervising the coupon development
work taking place at XCOR. He is intimately familiar with every aspect of the materials development to date.
Greason was cited by Time magazine in 2001 as one of the “Inventors of the Year” for his team’s work on the EZ-Rocket.
He holds 18 U.S. patents. He graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

18:00 – 19:00 Reception

19:00 Dinner

Sponsored by

Space Investment Summit (SIS) Announcement

Paul Eckert, Ph.D. – Coordinator, Space Investment Summit Coalition; International &
Commercial Strategist, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company

Keynote Speaker:

Roger D. Launius, Ph.D. – Chair, Division of Space History, National Air and
Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

10:00 pm Hospitality Suite

Sponsored by Orbital Outfitters

Saturday, July 21th Opening the Space Frontier

09:00 – 09:15 Opening Remarks

Lon Rains – Editor, Space News

Lon Rains has been the editor of Space News since 1993 and is responsible for all the news and
editorial coverage in the weekly newspaper, the spacenews.com Web site and the Washington
Aerospace Briefing newsletter. He joined the original staff of Space News in October 1989, as the
Advanced Technology and Soviet Space Program reporter and was promoted to Senior Editor in 1991.

Mr. Rains came to Space News from the Journal newspapers, a chain of dailies serving the Washington,
D.C. suburbs. He has written for The Washington Post, The Baltimore Evening Sun and Discover
magazine. He has also appeared on a number of national television programs, including CNN Prime News, ABC World
News Tonight, NBC Nightly New and C-Span's Washington Journal as an expert on various space topics.

Mr. Rains has worked as a journalist since 1982 and has won reporting awards for editorial writing, spot news and public
service journalism. He is the 2003 recipient of the National Space Club-Huntsville’s Media Award. He is a member of the
Board of Advisors of International Space University. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in
government and politics

09:15 – 09:45 Keynote Address

Alex Tai - COO, Virgin Galactic and Chairman, Personal Spacelight Federation
(bio displayed above)

09:45 – 10:45 Commercial Orbital Transport – Cheap Access is Still The Key

With so much attention focused on Sub-orbital space flight, the real goal of reaching orbital space is
often overlooked. How much harder is it to get to orbit? Who is building the real spacecraft that will
open orbital space? How do we leverage today’s private space industry into an orbital economy? Can
today’s problematic government space transportation system be turned into something useful? Can
Space Shuttle be replaced by a fleet of varied commercial space vehicles?

Panelists:
Michael Belfiore (Chair) – Author, Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders,
Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space
George French – CEO, RocketPlane Kistler
Gary C. Hudson – CEO, AirLaunch, LLC
Dennis A. Stone – Assistant Manager for Commercial Space Development, NASA’s
 Commercial Crew and Cargo Program
Lee Valentine – EVP, Space Studies Institute

Michael Belfiore began his career writing about the new space age in 2004, when he covered the
launch of the first privately built spaceship for the New York Post. Since then he has written about
the private spaceflight industry for Reuters, Wired.com, and other outlets, including Popular
Science, for which he has written numerous feature articles.

His book Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly
Privatizing Space (Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2007) is the first book to chronicle the birth
of the commercial space age. He became a full-time writer in 1995, first working as a freelance
technical writer for the software industry, and then moving into the business world as a public
relations writer for large corporations, still with a focus on technology.

He has also written scores of biographical encyclopedia entries on astronauts, business people,
politicians, and other news makers for half a dozen reference publications from The Gale Group. His book Life Aboard a
Space Station, published by Lucent Books in 2004, describes the experience of living and working in space for young
readers. He lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife, fellow writer Wendy Kagan, and their daughter Amelie.

George French is currently chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rocketplane and both
subsidiaries, Rocketplane Kistler and Rocketplane Global. Mr. French served as both President
and Chairman of the Board of Rocketplane Global, as well as President of Space Explorers, Inc.
Mr. French serves on the board of several aerospace-related organizations including Spaceflight
Association of America, Inc., Lunar Research Institute, Inc. and Space Week International. Mr.
French has also received a number of awards, including the 2000 NASA AMES Research
Astrobiology Team Group Achievement Award, National Space Society, 1997 Entrepreneur of
the Year award, and 1995 Aerospace State Association Achievement Award. Mr. French
attended the University of Arizona from 1963 to 1967.

Gary Hudson is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AirLaunch LLC. He formed the company
specifically to address the needs of the DARPA/Air Force Falcon program to develop a small launch
vehicle. He also co-founded Transformational Space (“t/space”) to revolutionize entrepreneurial space
exploration activities.

Mr. Hudson has worked in the field of commercial space for over 25 years with an emphasis on the development of
innovative low-cost systems. His experience includes both management and engineering in high-tech, entrepreneurial
settings. He is the designer of the Phoenix Vertical Take Off & Landing / Single- Stage-to-Orbit (VTOL/SSTO) family of
launch vehicles and has participated in many launch vehicle projects including support for both General Dynamics and
Boeing Aerospace corporation during the Strategic Defense Initiative Program (SDIO).. In 1994 Mr. Hudson co-founded
HMX, Inc. which designs and develops innovative aerospace propulsion systems. In 1995 HMX developed a
monopropellant rocket engine propulsion system, including engines, tankage and support systems, for Kistler Aerospace
Corporation of Kirkland, WA. Mr. Hudson had previously been co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of
Pacific American Launch Systems, Inc.; designed the Percheron 055 experimental launch vehicle; and spent ten years as a
consulting Systems Designer on low cost commercial space systems.

Mr. Hudson attended the University of Minnesota.. In January 1994 he received the Laurel Award from Aviation Week &
Space Technology "for the vision, drive and competence that have pushed [single-stage-to-orbit and reusable launch
vehicles] to the front of the U.S. launcher agenda."
Dennis Stone has worked at NASA Johnson Space Center from 1985 to the present. He has served in system engineering
and program management positions of increasing complexity, all supporting the Space Station Program. He has also served
as Chief System Engineer of the Assured Crew Return Vehicle and has led several commercialization initiatives. Stone has
served as Avionics Integration Manager, International Space Station Program Office. He is currently Assistant Manager for
the Commercial Space Development, Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office.

Prior to his employment at NASA, Stone was a contractor with NASA from 1979 to 1985. He designed software and digital
electronic space systems with McDonnell Douglas and Ford Aerospace as well as developed Supported Shuttle/payload
integration with Rockwell International. In addition to his work with NASA, he is the cofounder of the World Space Week
Association, where he was elected Volunteer President in 1981. Stone earned a B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Electrical
Engineering, both from the University of Hawaii.

Lee Valentine (bio displayed previously)

11:00 – 12:00 New Moon Race – Will NewSpace Get There First?

The broad space community clearly supports the core goals of the Vision for Space Exploration, but
debate continues concerning specific technical and programmatic choices as defined in NASA’s
Exploration Systems Architecture. Most important to discuss and address are serious concerns about
the program’s overall affordability and sustainability, echoing many of the past problems raised about
the original Space Exploration Initiative and the Space Station program. How can American
government and industry work together to establish an expanding and evolving sustainable economy
on the Moon?

Panelists:
Charles J. Lauer (Chair) – Vice President of Business Development, RocketPlane Kistler
Steve Durst – Founder, International Lunar Observatory Association
Hideki Kanayama – Director of Aerospace Policy and Industry, CSP Japan, Inc.
John N. Kohut – Senior Program Manager, Commercial Space Exploration, Raytheon
Dr. Paul Spudis – Planetary Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
and Commission Member, President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond

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

Steve Durst is Editor and Publisher at Space Age Publishing Company, since 1976, and operates its Hawai‘i
(1988) and California offices. Space Age publishes Lunar Enterprise Daily and Space Calendar weekly,
supports pioneering ventures such as the International Lunar Observatory and the Stanford on the Moon and
Ad Astra Kansas initiatives, and pursues a business plan consistent with establishing a third office on the
Moon. Steve's commitment to the lunar imperative and to see people on the Moon within the decade reflects
his understanding of humanity's greatest advance, and of the quickest way to great wealth, and
to the Stars.

Hideki Kanayama received a BA in Commerce from Keio University in 1984 and MBA in
Marketing from University of Colorado, Boulder in 1988. After graduation, Kanayama joined
Shimizu Corporation in 1989 and conducted extensive research of US space activities and provided preliminary decision of
the strategic investment of $1M to US firm. He later joined CSP Japan, an aerospace consulting firm, in 1996 and
conducted and managed more than 80 research and analysis projects for Japanese government agencies and aerospace
companies, as well as foreign and international aerospace firms. He currently serves as a director for aerospace policy and
industry

John Kohut is the Senior Program Manager for Advanced Space and Missile Defense Applications
within the Raytheon Missile Systems company responsible for developing system concepts and
architectures for space exploration, national security space applications, and commercial space
exploitation. He has held this position since September 2004.

Mr. Kohut joined the United States Navy in 1977 and served as an F-14 Naval Flight Officer
operationally deployed on various aircraft carriers. He is a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School
and the United States Naval Test Pilot School. He served as an acquisition professional in a variety of
fighter aircraft and weapons programs, including the F-22 and the Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) programs. His
final assignment in the Navy was as program manager of the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS)
program, an international cooperative development program for command and control. Mr. Kohut has a Bachelors of
Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and a Masters of Science in Computer Science
(1988) from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Dr. Paul Spudis is a Planetary Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and
Commission Member, President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond.

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Keynote Speaker: Eric Anderson – CEO, Space Adventures

Eric Anderson, a leading astropreneur, is currently the president and CEO of Space Adventures,
Ltd. He is an outspoken advocate of commercial space transportation, private space exploration,
and space tourism. Involved since its inception, he co-founded Space Adventures in 1997 with
several former astronauts and leading visionaries 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 the
development of the sub-orbital spaceflight program he helped engineer and the latest mission to
take private explorers to the International Space Station, Space-Adventures 1, the company can
benefit not only 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 space frontier to private men and women from around the world, we can greatly enhance technological
development and cultural understanding.

Previously, Mr. Anderson was the executive vice president and co-founder of Starport.com, an astronaut-endorsed space
education and entertainment web site (Starport.com was sold to SPACE.com in June 2000). Mr. Anderson also worked as a
business development lead for Analytical Graphics, 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 tourism to infrared
astronomy, from launch vehicle analysis to advanced space propulsion, from space sensor design to business and economic
evaluations of various space-related ventures. He is also a guest speaker and lecturer on various topics in the aviation and
aerospace industry. Mr. Anderson graduated magna 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.

13:30 – 14:15 LoST & SPACE – Two (Space)ships Passing In the Night?

Although the U.S. refused to sign the Law of the Sea Treaty (LoST) in 1982, it has generally accepted
all of the Treaty's provisions—except for the command-economy controls and taxation on deep seabed
mining, which strongly resembled the Moon Treaty and shared the same "common heritage of
mankind" principle. The U.S. finally signed LoST in 1994 after revisions to these provisions. Although
the treaty has been stalled in the Senate ever since, the Bush Administration has recently pushed for
ratification citing national security concerns.

This panel will discuss the consequences of accepting the "common heritage of mankind" principle and
the revised resource appropriation provisions for the future use of space resources.

Panelists:
James Dunstan, Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer
David Gump, President, Transformational Space Corporation (t/Space)
Ronald Kohl, R. J. Kohl & Associates, Space Frontier Foundation Space Settlement Project
Manager
Mark Siminoff, Attorney Advisor, Office of Legal Advisor

James Dunstan (bio displayed above)

David Gump is President and Co-Founder of the Transformational Space Corporation.

In 1989, David co-founded LunaCorp, an entrepreneurial space company dedicated to commercial

exploration and development on the Moon. While at LunaCorp, David arranged the filming of the first
television commercial on the International Space Station. The advertisement, for electronics retailer
RadioShack, showed the Space Station's crew receiving Father's Day gifts from their daughters. David
also arranged for the crew to throw the ceremonial First Pitch for the 2002 World Series, on behalf of
Fox Sports and Major League Baseball. LunaCorp also set up the sponsorships that provided Lance
Bass of *NSYNC with all of his initial funding for his effort to visit the space station.

As co-founder of Pasha Publications in 1978, David created several newsletters such as Space Business News, Military
Space and SDI Monitor. David also authored Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA, a book published in 1990 by Praeger
Publishers.

David holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Master's degree in
journalism from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois.

Ronald J. Kohl, founder and President of R. J. Kohl & Associates, has over 25 years experience with software and systems
architecture, engineering, and development. His background includes work for IBM, Loral, Lockheed Martin and Titan
Systems, encompassing a wide array of NASA Space Shuttle and Space Station Freedom projects. He holds Bachelors and
Masters degrees in Mathematics, and is a frequent invited speaker/panelist for software and systems architecture and
engineering events. A member of AIAA, EIA/GEIA, INCOSE, and IEEE, he is a member of the author team for the IEEE
1471 Standard "Recommended Practices for Architectural Description".

14:15 – 15:15 Space-Based Solar Power Development in Today’s Political Environment

Space-Based Solar Power has been proposed as an environmentally friendly solution to meet our
growing demands for energy. However, support for exploring the development of this technology has
waxed and waned. During this session, we are providing a forum for public input to the National
Security Space Office Study on Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). We will discuss such topics as how
do we create a sustainable SBSP program, what are the next reasonable and viable steps in SBSP
development, and what technologies are ready to advance to the demonstration stage.

Panelists:
Margo Deckard (Chair) – Space Solar Power Project Manager, Space Frontier Foundation
Shubber Ali – Entrepreneur
John Mankins – President, ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions, LLC; President,
Space Power Association
Col. Michael V. “Coyote” Smith – Space-Based Solar Power Architecture Study, National
Security Space Office
Dr. Paul Werbos – Program Director, National Science Foundation
Margo Deckard is CEO and owner of Space Policy Consulting, Inc, and the manager of the Space Frontier Foundation's
Space Solar Power Project. In 2000, she was the principal investigator for a NASA-funded study that reintroduced SSP to
the environmental community, and gathered input from this community on its perceived costs and benefits of this
technology.

Ms. Deckard began her career as a field ecologist studying the dung beetle and armadillo. She managed a large-scale two-
year study of blue-green algal toxins in raw and finished drinking water. She has served on the Board of Directors of
several organizations, including the Space Frontier Foundation and the Sunsat Energy Council. Ms. Deckard has a B.S. in
Genetic Engineering from Purdue University, a M.S. in Systems Engineering from Wright State University (WSU), and is
currently a Ph.D. candidate at WSU in complex mixed-initiative systems.

Shubber Ali (bio displayed above)

John C. Mankins is the President of ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions LLC, a research and
development management consulting start-up. He is internationally recognized as a successful leader in
space systems and technology innovation.

Mr. Mankins has 27 years of experience and knowledge involving NASA, the aerospace industry,
academia and the international space community. He is also one of the foremost authorities on the
subject of space solar power (SSP). Mr. Mankins led NASA’s SSP “Fresh Look Study”, managed the
SSP Exploratory Research & Technology Program, and is the creator of several important SSP systems concepts, including
the SunTower and the Solar Clipper. He serves as President of the Sunsat Energy Council, a non-profit international group
that promotes the potential of SSP for future application on Earth and in space.

In his most recent position at NASA, Mr. Mankins managed Exploration Systems Research and Technology within the
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, a key element of the U.S. Vision for Space Exploration.
During 2004, he was responsible for planning, organizing and leading the implementation of two of the largest technology
acquisitions in NASA’s history. At NASA, Mr. Mankins’ 25-year career ranged from flight projects and mission
operations, to systems-level innovation and advanced technology R&D.

Mr. Mankins holds undergraduate (Harvey Mudd College) and graduate (UCLA) degrees in physics and earned an MBA in
Public Policy Analysis (The Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University).

Lt. Col. Michael “Coyote” Smith, Colonel (Select) Michael V. Smith is the Chief of the Future Concepts Branch, known
as “Dream Works,” of the National Security Space Office. Dream Works develops advanced theories and concepts and
advises national-level decision makers across the space community on how emerging technologies, transformational-
architecture-level capabilities, and future operational concepts can be applied 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 a two-volume set on spacepower theory.

The lieutenant colonel was born in North Conway, New Hampshire. He entered the Air Force in 1986 through the Saint
Michael's College Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He has served in various space and missile positions
and as an instructor at the USAF Weapons School-Space Division. Most recently he was Commander of the 321st Missile
Squadron at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne Wyoming, where his unit was recognized as the “Best ICBM
Squadron in Air Force Space Command.”
During Operation ALLIED FORCE he served in the Combined Forces Air Component Commander's Strategy Cell and on
the Guidance, Apportionment, and Targeting Team. During Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, he served at
USCENTCOM Headquarters as a strategist on the Combatant Commander's staff and in the Space and Information
Operations Element. He later served as the chief air and space power strategist in the Pentagon's Strategic Planning Council
during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

Dr. Paul Werbos has core responsibility for the Adaptive and Intelligent Systems (AIS) area within the
Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) Program of ECS, and for the new area of Quantum,
Molecular and High-Performance Modeling and Simulation for Devices and Systems. He is the ECS
representative for the CLEANER initiative, for biocomplexity (MUSES), and for Collaborative Research
in Computational NeuroScience. He is one of the two ECS representatives for cyberinfrastructure. He has
special interest in efforts to exploit higher levels of true computational intelligence in these areas, and in
efforts which can seriously increase the probability that we achieve global sustainability. In 1994, he
initiated an SBIR topic on fuel cell and electric cars which he coordinated for several years. He was part
of the group which proposed and led NSF's earlier initiative in Learning and Intelligent Systems, and
assisted the follow-on in Information Technology Research. He has at times handled the ECS areas in
electric power and wireless communications when there were gaps in those areas.

Dr. Werbos is an elected member of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society, which he represents on the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee. (See
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/energy_strategy.ppt.) He also serves on the AdCom of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and
the Governing Board of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). He was one of the three original two-year
Presidents of INNS. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has won its Neural Network Pioneer Award, for the discovery of the
“backpropagation algorithm” and other basic neural network learning designs. He also serves on the Planning Committee of
the ACUNU Millennium Project (see www.stateofthefuture.org), whose annual report on the future tends to lead global
lists of respected reports on the long-term future. In 2002, he and John Mankins of NASA initiated and ran the NASA-NSF-
EPRI initiative on enabling technologies for space solar power (search on “JIETSSP” at www.nsf.gov). In 2003, he
participated on the interagency working group for the Climate Change Technology Program. At the 2005 Space
Development Conference in Arlington, he was invited to present a new strategy for sustainable exploration and
development of space, drawing in part on previous work funded by NSF.

In addition to his core interests at NSF, Dr. Werbos has interest in larger questions relating to consciousness, the
foundations of physics, and human potential; see his personal web page, www.werbos.com for details.

15:15 – 16:15 Born After Apollo

Is the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) inspirational to a generation that cannot remember the
exhilarating achievements of the Space Race? More importantly, is NASA’s implementation of the
VSE encouraging students and young professionals to pursue a career in aerospace? Do NewSpace
entrepreneurial ventures have more influence on a youth accustomed to the internet revolution? How
can government space programs change to satisfy a new era of leadership? What is the post-Apollo
generation’s view of a future in space, and what changes will these young leaders make in government
and industry?

Panelists:
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides (Chair) – Founder, Yuri’s Night & SpaceGen
William Pomerantz – Director, X Prize Foundation
Melissa Preble – Business Development, The Boeing Company
John Gedmark – Executive Director, Personal Spaceflight Federation
Eddie M. Van Pelt – Managing Partner, Desert Sky Holdings, LLC; Co-founder, 62 Mile Club
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides is on the Board of Directors for the Space Generation Advisory
Council. Space Gen is a non-profit dedicated to training the next generation of space leaders. She is
President of the International Space University USA Alumni Association. Loretta and her husband
George are the Co-Creators of Yuri's Night, the World Space Party, which earned acclaim this year
for a very successful event at NASA Ames. She is an FAA certified in-flight crew member for
Zero-Gravity Corporation and has over 30 flights. Loretta traveled 2 miles down to the bottom 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; she and her husband have bought tickets to be the 1st couple to
celebrate their honeymoon in space.

William Pomerantz holds a B.A. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University, and a
Masters of Science in Space Studies from the International Space University. In addition to his work on
the X PRIZE Foundation's space prizes, Pomerantz serves as a coach for the Zero Gravity Corporation,
joining passengers in weightlessness on parabolic flights. He is a graduate of the NASA Academy at
Goddard Space Flight Center and has formerly worked at Harvard University, Brown University and the
Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy. Pomerantz is a co-founder of SpaceAlumni.com, an online
news and networking tool for young space professionals around the world, and served as Chief Editor for two years. He is
currently Vice President of the ISU-USA Alumni Association. From 2006 through early 2007, Pomerantz served on a
National Research Council Federal Advisory Committee producing a report on "Meeting the Workforce Needs for the
National Vision for Space Exploration."

John Gedmark is Founding Executive Director of the Personal Spaceflight Federation. He

previously served as the Director of Operations for the X PRIZE Cup, where he managed an
array of activities, including the first ever flights of a vehicle under an experimental permit by
Armadillo Aerospace. Before that, John spent time as an engineer at TRW, Ball Aerospace, and
Aerojet. John has a BS from Purdue University and a MS from Stanford University, both in
Aerospace Engineering, and while at Purdue he received the Herbert F. Rogers Scholarship,
awarded each year to the most distinguished graduating senior of the Purdue School of
Aeronautics and Astronautics. John is co-founder and a board member of the Roosevelt
Institution, a public policy think tank for students, which has chapters on more than 80 university
campuses nationwide.

Eddie Van Pelt has professional experience includes government finance, corporate finance, real
estate management, business development and publishing. Before creating Desert Sky Holdings, Eddie was Vice President
of JRK Asset Management in Los Angeles where he managed over $200 million in real estate assets. Eddie studied
Business Management at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio and earned his MBA from Case Western Reserve University.
With great attention to detail and a talent for cultivating and managing professional relationships, he works systematically
to have the initiatives he undertakes succeed creatively, financially and interpersonally.

16:15 – 17:30 Closing Remarks

William Watson, Associate Director Space Frontier Foundation, NewSpace 2007 Conference
Chair

William Watson is presently Associate Director of the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) and
serving as Chair of their annual NewSpace conference. This year the conference takes place in
Washington DC, from July 18-21st. Will was part of the SFF's management team during
NewSpace 2006 in Vegas and organized their X-Prize Cup closing event. He is also the Editor of
NewSpace News, the Foundation's monthly newsletter and premier NewSpace portal, listing the
top entrepreneurial space stories and links to over seventy NewSpace companies.

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

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

17:30 – 18:30 Reception

 Sponsored by Space Services, Inc.

18:30 Annual Space Frontier Foundation Banquet

Introductions: Rick Tumlinson – Founder, Space Frontier Foundation 
MC: Richard Godwin – President, Apogee Books 
Featured Speaker: Michael S. Kelly – Chairman, FAA‐AST's COMSTAC RLV Working 
Group; Vice President of Technology, APFC 
 
 

Rick Tumlinson has testified 6 times as a lead witness in Congressional hearings on space policy,
and was one of only 20 invitees of the White House for President Bush's announcement of the
Moon/Mars project. He created the core media for the Air Force’s DC-X team, the International
Space University, the X-33 and other projects. He edited, "Return to the Moon," was part of NASA's
Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, co-founded the Institute for Space Law and Policy and has two
major new space projects underway: Orbital Outfitters, a space suit leasing firm, and Project:
SpaceDiver, whose goal is to bring humans back from space without spacecraft. Named one of the
world's top "Visionaries" and one of the most influential people in space, Rick was a founder of the
Space Frontier Foundation, led the team which leased the Russian Mir space station for a year,
signed up Dennis Tito to fly in space (which started the commercial space travel revolution) was a founding trustee of the
X-Prize, the $25 million FINDS endowment, and LunaCorp – which produced the first commercial to be shot in space.

Rich Godwin is President of Apogee Books.

Michael S. Kelly (bio displayed above)