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+<h1 style="font-size: x-large; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" align="CENTER"><b>Space Access 2019 Preliminary Conference Schedule</b></h1>
+<p style="font-size: 14pt;" align="CENTER">at the Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley 4/18-4/20</p>
+<p style="font-size: 14pt;" align="CENTER">Updated 3/10/19</p>
+<hr />
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A handful of presentations are still pending. Preliminary presentations sequence and program-segment assignments are set, but specific presentation start-times &amp; durations are still TBD. Presenters who see their talks occurring before they'll arrive, after they leave, or otherwise at seriously inconvenient times should <a href="mailto:space.access@mindspring.com">contact us</a> ASAP.</span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Wednesday evening 4/17/19</strong> - Preregistrants badge pickup? Exhibitor advance setup? A preconference place to meet and hang out? Stay tuned, details RSN.</span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="#Thursday">Thursday 4/18/19 - The Entrepreneurial Revolution In Smallsat Launch</a></span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="#Friday">Friday 4/19/19 - Reusable Rocket Transport Networks in Earth-Moon Space</a></span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="#Saturday">Saturday 4/20/19 - Getting There Faster: Advanced High Energy Propulsion</a></span></p>
+<hr />
+<h2 id="Thursday"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><b>Thursday 4/18/19 - The Entrepreneurial Revolution In Smallsat Launch</b></strong></span></h2>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~7am Exhibits (in Fremont Ballroom) available for exhibitor setup</span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~8am Hospitality (in Fremont Ballroom), Exhibits, and Registration (in Ballroom foyer) open</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>9am - SA2019 Program underway</strong> in Main Ballroom (across foyer from Fremont)</span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Henry Vanderbilt, SA2019 Program Chair</strong> with a few words on <strong>Why We're Here</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer"><strong>Henry Spencer</strong></a> will give his traditional conference-opener in-depth backgrounder, on <strong>Transitions: From Expendable Spaceships To Space Transport Networks, From Rocket Motors To Fast High-Energy Drives</strong>. Not quite sure why rockets take months getting to Mars, nor why we don't just bolt in electric-plasma thrusters instead and speed things up? An in-depth intro to the issues for the intelligent rocket amateur.</span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://arc-engines.com/"><strong>Additive Rocket Corporation</strong></a> on <strong>High Impulse, Ultra-Low Cost Additively Manufactured Rocket Engines</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Midmorning Break</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.rocketlabusa.com/">Rocket Lab</a>/Amanda Stiles, Senior Mission Manager</strong> on <strong>The Electron Launcher &amp; Multi-Burn Kick Stage</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.flometrics.com/">Flometrics</a>/Steve Harrington</strong> on <strong>Progress Report: Pistonless Pumps For High-Performance Rocket Propulsion Systems</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Kim Holder/<a href="https://www.moonwards.com/">Moonwards.Com</a></strong> on <strong>A Virtual Lunar Town as Educational &amp; Communications Tool</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Grant Bonin, former CTO, Deep Space Industries</strong> on <strong>Asteroid Mining Lessons From the Private Sector: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~12:15pm - Break for Lunch</strong> (on your own)</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>2pm - Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://exosaero.com/">EXOS Aerospace</a>/John Quinn</strong> with <strong>An Update On the SARGE Vehicle</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://psas.pdx.edu/"><strong>Portland State Aerospace Society</strong></a> reports on several <strong>student space projects</strong>, including <strong>a brief discussion of their CubeSat mission</strong> and <strong>updates from their liquid propulsion team</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.cubecab.com/">CubeCab</a> Nanosat Launch</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://vector-launch.com/">Vector</a>/Gregory Orndorff</strong> on <strong>An Update on Vector’s Dedicated Low-Cost Launch Vehicles</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Midafternoon Break</strong></span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Jim Muncy/Polispace</strong> will discuss <strong>Prospective FAA Launch/Reentry Rules Changes</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/launcherspace/">Launcher</a>/Max Haot</strong> on <strong>LOX-Cooled 3D-Printed Engine for High-Performance Smallsat Launcher</strong></span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>NewSpace Meets Milspace - </strong>Both are evolving fast, with overlaps (both business and operational) likely growing with time. Some discussion of what the shared spaces - and business opportunities - may look like. <strong>Bill Bruner, Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Jess Sponable</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~6pm - Break for Dinner</strong> (on your own)</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>8pm - Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Space Startup Party Fouls - </strong>Common Startup Errors &amp; How To Avoid Them, as seen by Rocket People. There are a thousand books and articles that will tell you what Venture Capital people look for. Rocket people, not so much. <strong>Paul Breed, Ben Brockert, Henry Spencer, Henry Vanderbilt</strong>, and likely also some on-point contributions from our distinguished audience.</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Chuck Lauer</strong> on <strong>The Michigan Space Initiative: A Multi-Site Spaceport Licensing Plan For Launching To Polar Orbit Over Lake Huron and Lake Superior</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.relativityspace.com/"><strong>Relativity</strong></a> on <strong>3D Printing Rocket Vehicles</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/"><strong>Unreasonable Rocket</strong></a>/<strong>Paul Breed</strong> on <strong>Development Of A Low-Cost Modular Launcher</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~10pm - End of Thursday programming</strong></span></p>
+<hr />
+<h2 id="Friday" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Friday 4/19/19 - Reusable Rocket Transport Networks in Earth-Moon Space</strong></span></h2>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">8am Hospitality, Exhibits, and Registration open</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>9am - SA2019 Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.spaceil.com/"><strong>SpaceIL</strong></a> on <strong>Their In-Progress Commercial Lunar Lander Mission</strong> possibly via Skype, mission progress permitting</span></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/ames/partnerships/spaceportal"><strong>NASA Ames Space Portal</strong></a>/<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/about/people/rasky.html"><strong>Dan Rasky</strong></a></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="http://www.altius-space.com/">Altius Space Machines</a>/Jon Goff</strong></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Midmorning Break</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://csdc.space/our-goals/">Cislunar Space Development Company</a>/Dallas Bienhoff</strong> on <strong>Elements Of A Cislunar Transport Net: Space Tugs, Moon Shuttles and Propellant Depots</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/princeton.edu/tigersat/home">Princeton Orbital Initiative</a>/Andrew Redd</strong> on <strong>TigerSat: A Student-Built 3U Cubesat With High-Impulse Plasma Thruster</strong></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Propellant Depots Panel: Sourcing, Transporting, Storing, and Transferring Propellant for Reusable In-Space Transports - Dallas Bienhoff, Job Goff, TBA</strong></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~12:15pm - Break for Lunch</strong> (on your own)</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>2pm - Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Jeff Greason</strong> on <strong>Electric Sky: A Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission System Enabling Orbital Launch Vehicles, With Terrestrial Commercial Applications</strong></span></li>
+<li><a href="https://fireflyspace.com/"><strong>Firefly Aerospace</strong></a> on <strong>The Alpha Launch Vehicle</strong>, plus <strong>Highlights of OTV and CLPS</strong></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.tethers.com/Capabilities.pdf">Tethers Unlimited</a></strong> on <strong>Transformative Technologies for Space, Sea, Earth &amp; Air</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.orbitbeyond.com/"><strong>Orbit Beyond</strong></a> - <strong>Lunar Spacecraft &amp; Landers</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Midafternoon Break</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.masten.aero/">Masten Space Systems</a>/Dave Masten</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Rand Simberg</strong> will discuss <strong>A Co-Orbital Transportation Infrastructure Concept</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://momentus.space/development/">Momentus Space</a>/Joel Sercel, CTO</strong> on <strong>Water-Plasma Propelled In-Space Transportation Services</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~6pm - Break for Dinner</strong> (on your own)</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>8pm - Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="http://ssi.org/">Space Studies Institute</a> Past, Present, and Future</strong>, with <strong>Dr. Lee Valentine/Chairman</strong> on <strong>SSI's History, Gary C Hudson/President</strong> on <strong>SSI's Future</strong>, and <strong>Robin Snelson/Executive Director</strong> on <strong><a href="http://ssi.org/looking-ahead-to-2019-2/">SSI's Conference in Seattle Next Summer</a>. </strong>Our colleagues at SSI focus on <strong>How To Get Things Done in Space </strong>once there - the technology and business aspects of habitats, power generation, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.</span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>How To Save Civilization And Make A Little Money</strong>, or, <strong>This Is All Jerry's Fault. </strong>Recalling Jerry Pournelle's significant role 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. <strong>Larry Niven, Gary Hudson, Jim Muncy, Jess Sponable, Henry Vanderbilt</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>John Schilling </strong>will discuss <strong>Earth Orbit, Cislunar &amp; Mars Practical Payload Capabilities Of Current &amp; Near-Term Launchers</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~10pm - End of Friday programming</strong></span><strong> </strong></p>
+<hr />
+<h2 id="Saturday"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Saturday 4/20/19 - Getting There Faster: Advanced High Energy Propulsion</strong></span></h2>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">8am Hospitality, Exhibits, and Registration open</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>9am - SA2019 Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26omzzKjHAxMrx_fTdzoniGMsYdtUMiu"><strong>John R Bucknell</strong></a> on <strong>A High Performance Air-Breathing Rocket Propulsion System with Nuclear and Chemical Variants</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Jess Sponable</strong> will discuss <strong>Project History &amp; Management Lessons From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X">DC-X</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-40">X-40</a>, and <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-05-24">XS-1</a></strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Midmorning Break</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Jeff Greason</strong> will discuss <strong>A New Class Of Drive Using The Dynamic Pressure (Q) Of Passage Through The Interplanetary Or Interstellar Plasma To Expel Reaction Mass At High Velocity</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Kevin Parkin, <a href="https://parkinresearch.com/">Parkin Research</a></strong>, on <strong>Beam-Heated Propulsion Progress &amp; Prospects</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.positrondynamics.com/">Positron Dynamics</a>/Ryan Weed</strong> on <strong>Positron Based Propulsion</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~12:15pm - Break for Lunch</strong> (on your own)</span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>2pm - Program resumes</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>James Benford</strong> on <strong>Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._David_Nordley"><strong>Gerald D Nordley</strong></a> on <strong>Mass Beam Propulsion, An Overview</strong> including <strong>Jordin Kare's Sailbeam Concept</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3">Breakthrough Starshot</a>/Peter Klupar </strong>on <strong>Plans for a Near-Term Interstellar Probe</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Midafternoon Break</strong></span></p>
+<ul>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Extremely High-Velocity Propulsion Concepts: A Survey. Jim Benford, Gerry Nordley, Henry Spencer.</strong> Mars in weeks, or the stars in our lifetime: Ways we might make these things real.</span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Jim Muncy/Polispace</strong> will discuss <strong>The Washington Space Scene</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Pete Worden, Breakthrough Prize Foundation Chairman</strong>, on <strong>What We Might Do With A StarShot Capability</strong></span></li>
+<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Henry Vanderbilt, SA2019 Program Chair</strong> with <strong>A Few Closing Thoughts</strong></span></li>
+</ul>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>~6pm - End of formal conference programming - Saturday Night Networking begins. Marriott Bar, Hospitality, and possibly some privately-hosted parties open till late.</strong></span></p>
+<hr />
+<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Sunday 4/21/19</b></span></h2>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Hospitality Open 8 - 11 am</b> for continental breakfast and coffee and one last chance to talk with your fellow conference-goers before you head home.</span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Exhibits</b> open 8 - 11 am for exhibitor teardown</span></p>
+<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>SA2019 over - see you next time...</b></span></p>
+<p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p>
+<hr />
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