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Return to the Moon V

Return to the Moon V Preliminary Agenda
Speakers and Session times subject to change.
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Friday July 16, 2004
8:00 am Registration Opens
8:30 am Conference Manager’s Report – Manny Pimenta
9:00 am Founder's Welcome – Rick Tumlinson
9:30 am Keynote Address – Dr. Paul Spudis, Commission on Moon Mars & Beyond
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Session 1: Enabling Technologies for Mission Success, Session Manager: Bob Richards
Dr. Satoru Nakazawa – SELENE Mission
11:20 am Jim Benson – Low Cost Private Sector Lunar Lander
11:40 am Ron Creel – Applying Apollo Lunar Rover Experiences to Future Rovers
12:00 pm Bob Richards – LIDAR Technology for Lunar Exploration & Development
12:20 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Session 2: Frederick Peters – Managing a Superproject: Lessons Learned from the US Manned Space Program
1:50 pm Prof. Barrett Caldwell – Requirements for Earth Based Mission Control of Lunar Ops
2:10 pm Karen Shea – Life Support
2:30 pm Bob Lancaster – Lunar Security and Police Operations
2:50 pm Prof. Haym Benaroya – Structural Design of a Lunar Base
3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm Session 3: MMB: Policy – Establishing a Foothold: Government and Business Roles, Session Manager: George Whitesides
George Whitesides – Congressional Attitudes Toward MMB
3:50 pm Courtney Stadd – Entrepreneurs to the Moon; Reality or Farce?
4:10 pm Guenter Wendt
4:30 pm Jeff Bingham – The Space Station: Lessons & Opportunities for Commercial Space
4:50 pm Dr. Yoji Kondo – Return to the Moon: This Time We Stay!
5:30 pm End of Friday’s Sessions

Saturday July 17, 2004 – Main Room
8:00 am Main Room – The Cool Side of the Moon – Public Awareness / Public Excitement / Public Interest – Registration Opens
8:30 am Keynote Address – Wendell Mendell - The Moon as a Stepping Stone to Mars
9:30 am Session 4: Space and the Imagination, Session Manager: Tony DeTora
Tony DeTora – The Man in the Moon Wants You to Buy This Car
9:50 am David Gump – Lunacorp; Radio Shack and Advertising
10:10 am Steve Durst – From Hawaii to the Moon: A Lunar Analog Enterprise
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Session 5: Public Awareness – We All Want to Go, Session Manager: Jeff Krukin
Brent Bowen/ Mary Fink – NASA’s Education Pipeline Initiative
11:20 am Gene Meyers – Outreach to Children
11:40 am Jonathan Kemp – Aloha Moon, Mars and Beyond
12:00 pm Jeff Krukin – The Human-Space Connection
12:20 pm Lunch
1:45 pm John Young
2:30 pm Session 6: The Journey: Come Sail Away, Session Manager: David Anderman
Jonathan Goff – Cis-Lunar Transport
2:50 pm David Hoerr – Low Cost Lunar Ops from a Two-Stage to Orbit Vehicle
3:10 pm Allen Crider – Low Cost Landable Lunar Base
3:30 pm David Anderman – CSI: Project Constellation
3:50 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm Frank Sietzin – New Moon Rising
5:05 pm End of Saturday’s Sessions
7:00 pm Reception
8:00 pm Banquet
8:15 pm Elaine Walker – sings space songs
9:00 pm Banquet Speaker: Andrew Chaikin "A Man on the Moon"

Saturday July 17, 2004 – Breakout Sessions
8:00 am Breakout Room A – The Cool Side of the Moon – Public Awareness / Public Excitement / Public Interest – Registration Opens
8:30 am See Main Room Schedule
9:30 am Session 4A: Lunar Activities: Why We Want To Go, Session Manager: Robert Strong
Robert Strong – Lunar Lighthouse II
9:50 am Forrest Bishop – Micro-Scale Light Sails
10:10 am Prof. Barrett Caldwell – The Captain’s Log: Real Time Mission Control
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Session 5A, Session Manager: Robert Strong
Robert Strong – Lunar Lifter
11:20 am Joshua Neubert
11:40 am Forrest Bishop – XY Active Cells
12:00 pm George Herbert – Lunar Millennium Project
12:20 pm Lunch
1:45 pm See Main Room Schedule
2:30 pm Session 6A, Session Manager: Dr. Tom Matula
Michael Mealling – The Artemis Project: Engineering a Lunar Industry
2:50 pm Dr. Tom Matula – Marketing the New Vision to the Public
3:50 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm See Main Room Schedule
7:00 pm See Main Room Schedule

Sunday July 18, 2004
8:00 am Registration Opens
9:00 am Keynote Address: Dr. George Mueller – Kistler Aerospace Corporation
9:30 am Dennis Wingo – Spotlight: Moon Rush
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:45 am Session 7: Sustaining a New Society
Eric Dahlstrom – Interplanetary Economy
11:05 am Dr. David Livingston – Space Development Economics
11:25 am Mike Ryan – Sustaining Quality of Life
11:45 am Town Hall Meeting: Reaching the Moon
12:30 pm Closing Remarks
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