Space industrialization and settlement of the high frontier will be the theme of a threshold conference to be held at month’s end.
Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference will bring together futurists, space scientists and entrepreneurs, a venue that explores enabling capabilities, such as: Affordable space transportation, extraterrestrial prospecting, lunar and manufacturing processes for asteroids, robotics and tele-operations, closed environment life support systems, space solar power and energy, as well as off-planet property rights.
The Silicon Valley meeting takes place from Oct. 29-31with presentations at the Sheraton Sunnyvale Hotel and the NASA Ames Research Center.
The conference organizer – the Space Studies Institute (SSI) of Mojave, California – is an organization pledged to help plan humanity’s future on the high frontier.
“This conference is the only one solely concerned with the science and engineering of humanity’s expansion into the solar system,” said SSI Executive Vice President Lee Valentine. “Its most important function is to bring together the engineers, entrepreneurs and researchers who do the real work.”
“With the prospect of low cost space transportation in the near future, now is the time to reinvigorate research and collaboration on the critical path technologies needed for space industrialization and settlement.”
The gathering is a revival of a seminal series of conferences held in Princeton, New Jersey through 2001, led by the late Princeton physics professor Gerard K. O’Neill, author of The High Frontier, a pioneering book on space settlements.
For more information and to register, please visit the SSI website at:
http://ssi.org/2010-conference-space-manufacturing-14/2010-register/
Take a look at the exciting and thought-provoking agenda at:
http://ssi.org/2010-conference-space-manufacturing-14/sm14-agenda/
By LD/CSE