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Space Frontier Conference 10: In Search of 2001
Los Angeles, California October 18-21, 2001
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Public Space Transportation and Travel,
Space Colony Design and a Return to the Moon...
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In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a scientist took a Pan Am flight to a Hilton space station on his way to a colony on the Moon. In the real life 2001, there has been only one commercial flight to a space station, and there are no colonies on the Moon. These ideas have, however, moved out of the realm of science fiction and into business plans that are being circulated to venture capitalists. Space Frontier Conference 10 will bring scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs working on real life space odysseys to Los Angeles this October to share their progress with the public.
The Space Frontier Foundation, an organization of people dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible, goes "In Search of 2001" Thursday, October 18 through Sunday, October 21 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel near the L.A. International Airport. It's an opportunity to meet and talk with the people making things happen in space, hear their latest papers and progress reports, and sit in as they discuss and debate their different approaches.
Space Frontier Conference 10 presentations and workshops will cover not only developments toward private space travel and tourism, but timely issues such as getting solar energy from space. Space solar sails, nearby asteroid tracking, space education, space colonies, a return to the Moon, women in space and Mars are among the other topics. There will also be exhibits, receptions, an art show and parties-a chance to hang with the people opening the space frontier and see what they're like after hours. Pod doors are always open on this space odyssey.
 Hotel Information:
Sheraton Gateway Hotel
6101 West Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Ph: 310-642-1111, Fax: 310-645-1414
The Sheraton Gateway Hotel
at Los Angeles Airport is the
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