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Alt.Space was the Space Frontier Foundation's

twelfth annual conference.

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Wow!! SFC 12 rocked!! From Congressman

Dana Rohrabacher's call for a space

propulsion initiative and Shuttle Commander

Richard Searfoss' prediction of an impending

space tourism boom, to all the latest news

from space entrepreneurs and policy makers,

it was a historic conference.

Got a dot com? Building your own rocketship? Jeff Bezosof Amazon.com, Elon Musk of PayPal, and John Carmack

of id Software (creator, Quake and Doom) are. Attendees

of Alt.Space found out what's happening in the new space

race and learned about the exciting projects now

underway by the hot new space entrepreneurs and

aerospace heroes like Burt Rutan, Dennis Tito and Buzz

Aldrin.

Access to space is moving from the monopoly of

governments and large corporations to the realm of

entrepreneurs and small businesses.

This year the Space Frontier Foundation's grand annual

Conference was back and better than ever, celebrating the

dream of opening the space frontier. From astronauts to

astronomers, politicians to pundits, engineers to

entrepreneurs, this was THE space event of the year. Attendees enjoyed art shows, exhibits, debates,workshops, banquets and speakers who have the inside track on space.

Richard Searfoss, retired Airforce Colonel and former Space Shuttle Commander, addressed the 12th annual

Space Frontier Foundation Conference on Saturday, October 11th. Also speaking at the Conference on

Saturday was the Honorable Dana Rorhabacher, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space and Science.

Both had important things to say about the future of commercial space. Check our Synopsispage for details on

their and other speakers comments.

Click below to see photos from Space Frontier Conference XII, Alt.Space.

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Space Frontier Conference XII was held at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Los Angeles, California on

October 10 - 12, 2003.For more info on the Sheraton Four Points, check out their web site at:

http://www.fourpointslax.com/frames_la.html

The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization dedicated to the human settlement of space in our lifetime.

Our goals include protecting the Earth's fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each

generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Our purpose is to unleash the power

of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System. We are transforming space

from a government-owned program into a dynamic and inclusive frontier open to all people.

For more information call 800-78-SPACE (800-787-7223)

or send us your comments

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Alt.Space Synopsis

Compiled by Fred Becker

Friday October 10, 2003

9:00-9:45 Opening Remarks and Keynote

Tony DeTora Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation

www.spacefrontierfoundation.org

9:45-10:45 Session 1 Alternative Space Companies/A Showcase

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

10:45-11:00 Break


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.

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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.

12:00-2:15 Space Enterprise Panel Lunch

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 lunarmission, 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.


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4:30-5:30 Permission to Fly

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

6:00-9:00 Advocate Dinner/ Meeting

Saturday October 11, 2003

9:00-9:45 Opening Remarks and Keynote

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.

9:45-12:30 Session 1 - The Alternative Space Experience

Lets 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 onwith 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


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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.

12:30-2:00 Luncheon

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.

2:00-3:45 Session 2 "Destinations The Moon, Mars and Asteroids"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 beendesigned. The Eden Project and Hesperia are two terrestrial

constructions exploring space architectural design.

Space Islands Gene Myers

www.spaceislandgroup.com


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3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-5:30 Session 3 Why Space?

Money, glory, politics, prestige, mil itary 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.comWarren 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.

7:00-10:00 Space Frontier Banquet


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Space Frontier Awards

Sunday October 12, 2003

9:30-10:00 Keynote

Rick Tumlinson, Founder, Space Frontier Foundation

www.spacefrontierfoundation.org

10:00-11:45 Power Session

John KingPresident, 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.

12:00-1:00 Space Pac

Strong national advocates of private commercial space ventures

presented a new political action committee for the first time.






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SFC 2003 photos courtesy James George, Richard Godwin, Brook E. Mantia and Elaine Walker.


Authors Vanna Bonta and Larry Niven. Alt.Space Conference Chair James George.

L to R: Foundation Communications Director John

Hanks, Foundation Founder Rick Tumlinson,

Foundation 2003 Board Chairman Bob Noteboom.

2003 - 2004 Space Frontier Foundation Board, L to

R: Erin Medlicott, Elaine Walker, Bob Hillhouse,

Natalie Vollrath, David Livingston, Manny Pimenta, Al

Differ.

Pascal Lee speaking at Alt.Space. L to R: David Livingston, Manny Pimenta, James

Busby, Elaine Walker, Mark Hopkins.

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Walt Anderson speaking at Alt.Space. L to R: Steven Durst of Lunar Enterprise, Kevin

Greene, Thomas A. Olson, Richard Haase, John

Powell of JP Aerospace.

Attendee and Laurie Wiggins of To Space at

Alt.Space.

Pascal Lee at Alt.Space.







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Foundation Board Members and Officers meeting at

Alt.Space.

Foundation Board Member Al Differ and Foundation

Advocate Thomas A. Olson at Alt.Space.

L to R: Jay Gavin of the FAA, Joe Gillin, John

Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace, Randall Claque of

XCOR Aerospace, Jim Muncy of PoliSpace.

L to R: Bob Davis, Rich Pournelle of XCOR, ?, Walt

Anderson. Jason Andrews of Andrews Space is at

the podium.

Henry Vanderbilt speaking at Alt.Space. Rich Godwin and the winner of the Foundation's

2003 Vision of the Future Award, Tim McElyea.


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Elaine Walker speaking at Alt.Space. Gene Meyers of Space Islands speaking at

Alt.Space.

Foundation Executive Director Tony DeTora is

defrocked of his trademark ponytail.

Foundation Executive Director Tony DeTora is

defrocked of his trademark ponytail.







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Former Shuttle Commander Richard Searfoss and

Brook E. Mantia at Alt.Space.

An impromptu gathering of Attendees around a

laptop.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher surrounded by Alt.Space

attendees.

Laurie Wiggins and Friends at Alt.Space.

Rick Tumlinson presents the Service to the Frontier

award to Erin Medlicott.

Elaine Walker presents the Vision to Reality award to

Pascal Lee, Director of the NASA Haughton-Mars

Project.


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L to R: Steve Durst, John Dimitru, Ben Muniz, Fred

Becker.

The Friday Luncheon at Alt.Space.

L to R: Madhu Thangavelu, Brook E. Mantia, Steve

Durst.

Greg Allison and Steven Jones at Alt .Space.







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