Space Venturing

PROGRAM SPONSORS

PROGRAM

For decades, the development of technology for use in space has been the domain of large governments: however, recent advancements in materials, data processing and regulatory changes have made private space venturing possible. SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen, made history last year as the first manned, private spaceship. Now SpaceX, funded by PayPal Co-Founder Elon Musk, is launching the first fully private rocket carrying commercial payloads into orbit. Soon Virgin Galactic will offer tourist flights into suborbit, and Bigelow Aerospace will send its inflatable hotel up in 2006.

With the leaders of the technology industry turning their attentions, imaginations and dollars towards the heavens, what's next? Come to Caltech and meet the premier space venturers who represent the vanguard of the emerging businesses of space transport, research and commercialization.

Some of the topics to be covered include:

• Space Tourism and its impact on high-end recreation including hyperspeed transoceanic travel and the possible cottage industries that will emerge to support the new business
• Who Gives The Nod? The complex governmental and inter-governmental issues presented by private launch and overflight activities
• Opportunities in Launch Vehicle Technology being driven by the advent of space tourism and lower-cost satellites
• Remote Sensing - finally, affordable, high-quality sensors that can be flown in space
• Space-based Entertainment - development of space-derived and -based content
• Nanosatellites - your own communications or observation portal in orbit?

PRESENTERS

Alexandra Barnett
Executive Director
Chabot Space and Science Center (Northern California)
and former Host of the BBC Science Hour

Jeff Johnson
Head of Space Projects
for Paul Allen's Vulcan, including
American Mojave Aerospace, developers
of the history-making SpaceShip One and
other key space ventures

Gwynne Shotwell
Co-founder
SpaceX, who are launching the Falcon
rocket into orbit this spring from Vandenberg
Air Force Base - and the Bigelow Genesis
module next year

Art Dula
widely considered to be the world's leading
expert on space law and guru of the Russian,
Chinese and Japanese commercial space programs

MODERATOR

Alexandra Barnett
Executive Director
Chabot Space and Science Center (Northern California)
and former Host of the BBC Science Hour

PRODUCER

David Knight
CEO
Terbine Incorporated

SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS MEETING FROM

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP PricewaterhouseCoopers is the world's leading professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of 155,000 people in 150 countries, the firm helps clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance.

LOCATION AND TIME
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

Registration, Networking and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall

Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall

Cost
$40.00 per person ($10 for full-time students with student ID's; free to Caltech students and faculty)

Registrations are taken by fax, email and on-line up to 2:00 p.m. the day prior to the event. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required for this event. There are no refunds for no-shows.

FOR INFORMATION
Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Industrial Relations Center 1-90
383 S. Hill Avenue
Pasadena, California 91106
626 395-3916 Fax: 626 795-7174
entfor@caltech.edu
http://www.entforum.caltech.edu

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