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<h1 align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Preliminary Space Access 2019 Conference Agenda</b></span></h1>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Updated 1/30/19</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>(We're rolling</b> - this list represents <strong>over two-thirds</strong> of the final SA2019 three-day program. Stay tuned for additional details and a few more excellent program additions in the coming weeks.)</span></p>

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<h2><strong>Confirmed speakers/presentations so far</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>James Benford</b>
    on <b>Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3" target="_blank">Breakthrough Starshot</a>/Peter Klupar</b>
    on <b>Plans for a Near-Term Interstellar Probe</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://csdc.space/our-goals/" target="_blank">Cislunar Space Development Company</a>/Dallas Bienhoff</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="http://www.cubecab.com/" target="_blank">CubeCab</a></b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://exosaero.com/" target="_blank">EXOS Aerospace</a>/John Quinn</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://fireflyspace.com/" target="_blank">Firefly Aerospace</a></b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="http://www.flometrics.com/" target="_blank">Flometrics</a>/Steve Harrington</b>
    on <b>Progress Report: Pistonless Pumps For High-Performance Rocket Propulsion Systems</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Gerald D Nordley</b>
    on <b>Mass Beam Propulsion, An Overview</b> including <b>Jordin Kare's Sailbeam Concept</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Jeff Greason</b> of <b>Electric Sky</b>
    will discuss <b>Some Advanced Power Transmission &amp; Space Propulsion Concepts</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://www.masten.aero/" target="_blank">Masten Space Systems</a>/Dave Masten</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://momentus.space/development/" target="_blank">Momentus Space</a></b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Jim Muncy/Polispace</b> will discuss <b>Prospective FAA Launch/Reentry Rules Changes</b> and <b>The Washington Space Scene</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="https://www.rocketlabusa.com/" target="_blank">Rocket Lab</a>/Amanda Stiles, Senior Mission Manager</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>John Schilling</b> will discuss <b>Earth Orbit, Cislunar &amp; Mars Practical Payload Capabilities Of Current &amp; Near-Term Launchers</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Rand Simberg</b> will discuss <b>A Co-Orbital Transportation Infrastructure Concept</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="http://ssi.org/" target="_blank">Space Studies Institute</a></b> <b>Hosted Session</b>
    covering SSI's focus area of <b>How To Get Things Done Once There</b>, technology and business aspects of habitats, power generation, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="http://www.spaceil.com/" target="_blank">SpaceIL</a></b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Henry Spencer</b>
    will discuss <b>Transitioning From Standalone Spaceships To Space Transport Networks</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Henry Spencer</b> &amp; <b>Henry Vanderbilt</b>
    will discuss <b>Some Likely Characteristics Of Usefully Faster Near-Term Inner Solar-System Space Transports.</b>
    Thermal rockets aren't practically capable of high enough velocities
    to minimize cosmic-ray and other slow-transit problems.
    A look at some near-term approaches that may be usefully
    faster - and why they may not look at all like you might expect.
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Jess Sponable</b> 
    will discuss <b>Project History &amp; Management Lessons From
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X" target="_blank">DC-X</a>,
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-40" target="_blank">X-40</a>, and
    <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-05-24" target="_blank">XS-1</a></b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="http://www.tethers.com/Capabilities.pdf" target="_blank">Tethers Unlimited</a></b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b><a href="http://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Unreasonable Rocket</a></b>/<b>Paul Breed</b>
    on <b>Development Of A Low-Cost Modular Launcher</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Pete Worden, Breakthrough Prize Foundation Chairman</b>,
    on <b>What We Might Do With A StarShot Capability</b>
    </span></li>
</ul>
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<h2><strong>Panel Discussions</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Extremely High-Velocity Propulsion Concepts: A Survey.
    Jim Benford, Gerry Nordley, Henry Spencer</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>How To Save Civilization and Make a Little Money, or, This Is All Jerry Pournelle's Fault.</b>
    Recalling Jerry's significant part in the forty-year evolution from "Commercial rockets?
    Security, get this loon out of my office" to "Commercial rockets?  How much do you want?"
    Aspects of the story as seen by some who were there.
    <b>Larry Niven, Gary Hudson, Jim Muncy, Jess Sponable, Henry Vanderbilt</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Space Startup Party Fouls</b> -
    Common Startup Errors &amp; How To Avoid Them, as seen by Rocket People.
    There are a thousand books that will tell you what Venture Capital people look for.
    Rocket people, not so much.
    <b>Paul Breed, Ben Brockert, Henry Spencer, Henry Vanderbilt</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>NewSpace Meets Milspace</b> -
    Both are evolving fast, with overlaps (both business and operational) likely growing with time.
    Some discussion of what the shared spaces may look like.
    <b>Bill Bruner, Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Jess Sponable</b>
    </span></li>
</ul>

<p style="font-size: 10pt;">
We also plan <b>Subject Concentrations</b> this year on</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>SmallSat Launch Startups</b>
    </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
    <b>Commercial Lunar Cargo Companies</b>'
    </span></li>
</ul>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participants for both currently being recruited - if you haven't yet heard from us, talk to us at <a href="mailto:sa2019program@erps.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sa2019program@erps.org</a>
(or if that doesn't work, email hvanderbilt@mindspring.com)
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We're also interested in <b>Student Space Project Presentations</b> - we're reserving a number of short (5-10 minute) timeslots in the <b>main program track</b> for student/amateur presentations on interesting (not necessarily directly access-related) space projects.
Contact us as above.
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