Tony DeTora – Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation
www.spacefrontierfoundation.org

This year the Alternative Space program is taking off! From Burt Rutan's two stage rocket-ship to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com's Blue Origins spacecraft and Elon Musk of PayPal's Space X, we are seeing the breakout of a whole new generation of space enterprises! This session begins a "Who's Who" of what we in the Foundation call the "Alt.Space" companies. It's show and tell time! The top Alt.Space transportation services teams explain their goals, plans and progress.

Host – Henry Vanderbilt – Space Access Society

Celestis/Team Encounter

CSI – Constellation Services International - Charles E. Miller (CEO), David W. Anderman (COO)
www.constellationservices.com
Constellation Services is developing a standardized cargo container methodology for space payloads, and is pursuing plans to market communication and other satellite repair for a fee.

JP Aerospace

The showcase continues, highlighting the top "Alt.Space" companies.

Host – Bob Davis – Davis & Molina Consulting Group

International Association of Space Entrepreneurs
www.spaceentrepreneurs.org
An announcement event is planned for October 30 in Washington, DC. They will be a 501C6 Chamber of Commerce type of organization.

Orbital Recovery – Dennis Wingo

Pioneer RocketPlane – Chuck Lauer
www.rocketplane.com/
Currently Pioneer is working on a suborbital craft called the Rocketplane XP, based on a Lear fuselage. They will be based at the Oklahoma Space Port. They have an engine from Orbit Tech in Wisconsin, that has a patented new technology. After Rocketplane XP, a more ambitious craft Pathfinder will be built.

Space Dev – Jim Benson
www.spacedev.com
Space Dev is building the booster engine for Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites Spaceship One.

A moderated panel of entrepreneurs and venture specialists discuss the vision that drew them into the space business and the perils and possibilities of the Alt.Space industry.

Moderator – Rick Citron – Citron & Deutsch

Walt Anderson – Gold & Appel

Mark Bunger – Forrester Research

Bob Davis – Davis & Molina

Jim Schultz – ReedSmith

The showcase of new companies wraps up the round up of the top "Alt.Space" companies.

Host – Henry Vanderbilt

Armadillo Aerospace – John Carmack
www.armadilloaerospace.com

Space Islands – Gene Myers
www.spaceislandgroup.com
www.spaceislandgroup.com/sony.html
Gene has developed an innovative adaptation of the Shuttle architecture for placing large habitable structures into LEO and beyond. The design uses booster and tank components, plus an adaptation of the Delta Clipper structure as a crewed reentry vehicle. His company Space Islands, is proposing developments based on this concept.

Trans Orbital – Dennis Laury
www.transorbital.net
Lunar orbit is scheduled for July 2004, with a camera providing resolution to 1 meter. TransOrbital, Inc. is working on three commercial lunar missions: TrailBlazer - the first commercial lunar mission, Electra - the first commercial lunar lander, and Electra II - a lander with rovers.

XCOR Aerospace
www.xcor.com
XCOR Aerospace is a California corporation located in Mojave, California. The company is in the business of developing and producing safe, reliable, maintainable and reusable rocket engines and rocket powered vehicles.

Panel on the Regulatory Issues/Opportunities Facing the Alt.Space Community.

Host – Joe Gillin

FAA – Jay Garvin
www.ast.faa.gov

Armadillo Aerospace – John Carmack
www.armadilloaerospace.com
John relayed his experience dealing with regulatory agencies.

XCOR Aerospace – Randall Craig
www.xcor.com
How will commercial launches be regulated? AST type certification? AVR experimental aircraft waivers? The issue is key to the future.

Poli-Space – Jim Muncy

Speaker – Richard Searfoss
www.astronautspeaker.com
www.xcor.com/searfoss.html
Shuttle commander and fighter pilot Richard Searfoss shared his experiences of flying the Shuttle and watching the Earth from space. He hopes we can all share the experience of getting to space. He has retired from NASA and is now on the board of XCOR Aerospace.

Let’s get this party started! The time has come for space hotels and honey moons. Climb aboard for orbital surfing and zero gravity travel. We are entering the era of public space travel for pleasure and adventure. Who will give you that taste of space you have wanted all your life? How much will it cost? And when can you sign up?

Host – Dr. David Livingston – The Space Show
www.thespaceshow.com
Note: Dr. Livingston seeks sponsors for The Space Show

Difinity – Jan Naftulin
www.difinity.com
Need more media with the daily message about what is going on with space. Difinity is a space burial company that will place human DNA into space.

Space Adventures
www.spaceadventures.com
Markets suborbital flights and zero-G flights. $98K for a suborbital flight.

MirCorp – Walt Anderson (Jeff Manber is owner)
www.mir-corp.com
Markets Soyuz flights ($15 million ballpark), proposed Mini-Mir. Will build an electrodynamic tether to demonstrate new station reboost technique, if funding can be obtained.

Zero G – Peter Diamandis
www.nogravity.com
Has obtained type certification for 727 as a zero G platform. Based out of Orland, Las Vegas, and similar locations. Have booked 100 flights at 25 people per flight. Cost is $4 or $5k per seat.

High Lift Systems / Institute for Scientific Research - Michael Lane
www.isr.us
www.isr.us/SEHome.asp?m=1
A Space Elevator concept is proposed. New material technologies are being developed and spun off as interim revenue generators.

To Space Inc. – Laurie Wiggins
www.tospacecompany.com
This company markets the carrying of items on suborbital and orbital space flights.

HARC – Greg Allison / Tim Pickens
www.harcspace.com
www.orionpropulsion.com
This company has developed the Liberator rocket vehicle as an X-Prize contender. Rollout is in one month. The engine is developed entirely in-house. Launch will take place from a barge in the Gulf of Mexico, which streamlines regulatory clearance. Tim is also the propulsion engineer for Burt Rutan's Spaceship One.

Speaker – Dana Rohrabacher
www.space.com/peopleinterviews/rohrabacher_profile_000519.html
Congressman Rohrabacher would concentrate efforts on space propulsion. He hopes the space future will include lots of small companies doing innovative projects.

For years there has been a myth that returning to the Moon, developing asteroids and sending humans to Mars are incompatible goals. Are they? Or can a synergy be found that let's us do them all? What is the private sector's role on the Far Frontier? This panel will feature one speaker each on these three destinations, joined by two others for a moderated discussion.

Mars Institute, Mars Society – Pascal Lee
www.marsinstitute.info/
The Haughton Mars Project is building a Mars analog base in the arctic. Recently powered rovers have been deployed.

University of Southern California – Prof. Madhu Thangavelu
http://mmp.planetary.org/artis/thanm/thanm70.htm
www.calearth.org
A Lunar Rehabilitation Center and Retirement Complex has been designed. The Eden Project and Hesperia are two terrestrial constructions exploring space architectural design.

Space Islands – Gene Myers
www.spaceislandgroup.com

Money, glory, politics, prestige, military dominance, survival of the species or just a better cheeseburger? The world's top science fiction authors lay out the case for the Frontier.

Host – Warren James – Hour 25
www.hour25online.com
Warren became interested in space from reading the Willy Ley, Chesley Bonestell books, in particular The Exploration of Mars. One painting showed a ship landed on Mars out on a Martian plain. One evening his dad took him to the desert in the Western US, and he envisioned Mars as a real place, similar to that. He was hooked from then on. Space is important for preventing WW4 (WW3 is already upon us). Space can raise the standard of living. We need to move industry off the planet.

David Gerrold
www.gerrold.com
Space is important to species identity and sociological transformation. He became fascinated during the space race. He became interested in space from reading Heinlein at age 9, and also Murray Leinster.

Larry Niven
www.larryniven.org/
Space is important for creating new wealth, saving the Earth, and for our basic life quest. Where is life out there? Larry became interested in space from reading Heinlein and Del Rey. He was attracted to the sheer adventure of it.

Rick Sternbach
www.ricksternbach.com
Attended space colony conferences beginning with Princeton in 1977. He is now waiting to see, now that such dreams of colonies have not been realized. He became interested in space from IGY and all the books, models and TV that came from that. Then Sputnik, Vanguard, nuclear ocean liners, all between 1956 and 1958 made the future exciting. One day at school a television was brought to the room and the class watched Alan Shepard get launched into space.

Tom R. McDonough
www.tomspace.com/author.htm
His dad worked at White Sands. He grew up with rockets. He attended JPL and became an astrophysicist. He was inspired by the writings of Verne and Wells, as well as science fiction movies and comics, the Bonestell books, Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke. Space is important for human survival and the spinoffs that occur in all fields.

Michael Cassutt
hometown.aol.com/cass54/michaelcassuttindex.html
www.scifi.com/sfw/issue308/cassutt.html
Michael grew up reading SF: Leinster, Heinlein and Clarke. He was also inspired by science fiction film and television. He attended University of Arizona in 1972, first taking astronomy, then changing to become a writer.

How do we fix NASA? Niven: fire people for nonperformance. Munoz: personalize the astronauts and engineers once again. Gerrold: get the team spirit and goal back.

Rick Tumlinson, Founder, Space Frontier Foundation
www.spacefrontierfoundation.org

John King – President, JLS Consulting. Nationally recognized business coach, seminar leader and executive trainer.
Foundationers came together for planning actions in the coming year with John King, corporate coach and best selling author, driving the discussion.

Strong national advocates of private commercial space ventures presented a new political action committee for the first time.