The First Annual Lunar Development Conference
Return to the Moon I
South Shore Harbour Resort, League City, Texas July 15 - 16, 1999
Preliminary Agenda
Honorary Co-Chairs:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman, U.S. House Space subcommittee
Rep. Dick Lampson, D-Texas, member, U.S. House Space subcommittee
Thursday, July 15
7:30 a.m. Continental breakfast in the Prefunction Area
8:00 Welcome and Introductions
Pat Dasch, Executive Director, National Space Society /intros:
8:10 John Young, Associate Director, Johnson Space Center
8:20 Welcome - (via video)
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman, U.S. House Space subcommittee
Rep. Dick Lampson, D-Texas, member, U.S. House Space subcommittee
8:30 Rick Tumlinson, President of the Space Frontier Foundation and
Executive Director of FINDS
8:40 Dan Tam, Asst. to the NASA Administrator for Commercialization
9:10 "Return to the Moon - The Role of Government and the Private Sector on the Lunar Frontier"
Panel - Moderator - James Muncy
Dr. Alan Binder, Principal Investigator, Lunar Prospector Mission
Jim Benson - CEO - SpaceDev
Dr. Wendell Mendell
Rick Tumlinson
10:20 Energizer Break
10:30 Europe and the Moon
European Space Policy
G. Naja
10:50 Lunar Base Development: Requirements and Issues
Dr. Peter Eckart, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
11:10 Lessons Learned From Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin
11:30 Legal/Regulatory Issues
Who Owns the Moon?
Jim Dunstan
11:50 Lunar Land Grants
Allen Wasser
12:10 Legal/Regulatory Issues - Discussion/Group
12:40 Luncheon
Doug Cooke, Manager/Advanced Development and Exploration Office/JSC
2:00 Customers/Users/Tenants
Lunar Astronomy - A New Look
Dr. Yoji Kondo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (in discussions with Wendell Mendell)
2:20 LunaCorp and Tele-Exploration as Entertainment
David Gump, President, LunaCorp
2:40 A Movie on the Moon
Bob Weiss
Paul Beigle Bryant
3:00 Helium 3 - A business plan
Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D., former Apollo 17 Astronaut
3:20 Astronaut Training Base for Mars and Beyond
TBD
3:40 Customers Discussion - Group
4:00 Transportation:
Nuclear Tug Concepts
Roger Lennard
4:20 The Feasibility of Routine Commuter Flights to the Moon Using NTR
Propulsion with Lunox Afterburners
Dr. Stanley Borowski, NASA Glenn Research Center
4:40 Transportation Discussion - Group
5:00 Workshops
Lunar Industries Association
7:00 Farewell Party for Lunar Prospector - Champagne Reception
Reception Sponsored by FINDS
Update and Plans - Dr. Alan Binder
9:00 Lunar Underground Unofficial Meeting
Friday, July 16
8 a.m. Breakfast Sponsored by Applied Space Resources
Denise Norris, CEO and President
9:00 Greetings and Intro - PD
9:10 Workshop Reports - TBD
9:30 Housing:
Lunar Flash Photography and Lava Tubes as Habitats
Tom Billings
9:50 Architecture for Developing an Economically Viable International, Large Scale Lunar Colony
Dr. James Wertz, President, Microcosm
10:10 GEODE - Commercial Space Production Facility
Mark L. Holderman
10:30 Housing Discussion - Group
11:00 Lunar Robotics
Red Whittaker
11:20 Randall Severy, The Artemis Society
11:40 Bigelow Aerospace - Lunar Cruiseships and Hotels
Greg Bennett
12:00 Luncheon - Dr. Wendell Mendell
1:30 Energy
The Topaz Solution, Dr. Jamie Floyd, Space Development Corporation
1:50 Lunar Power System: the Key to Future Development
David G. Schrunk, MD
2:10 Energy Discussion - Group
2:40 Declaration Draft Approval/Final Discussion and Adjourn
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