This session is an opportunity for conference attendees to provide input and discussion of the future direction of the NASA incentive prize program, Centennial Challenges. With a new round of prizes on the horizon and in anticipation of further growth in the scope and range of future prize competitions, NASA Centennial Challenges is developing a new long term strategy that will guide the prize development process. How can prizes best be used by NASA to harness the power of open innovation, mass participation and public engagement?

• Matt Everingham
  Exploration Uplink, NASA Ames

This event is FREE to all Advocates of the Space Frontier Foundation. Although light refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served, we recommend that Advocates eat dinner beforehand. SFF Advocates only, please. Non-Advocates will not be permitted to attend.

• James Pura
  Project Manager, Space Frontier Foundation
• Bob Werb
  Founder, Space Frontier Foundation

Introduction to the NewSpace 2010 Conference: Where does the NewSpace industry currently stand and where is it likely to go in the future?

• James A. Muncy
  Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President, PoliSpace

Suborbital spaceflight has long been a stepping stone for groups looking to launch into orbit. However, it has become a popular destination for many space startups due to its huge potential in markets such as tourism and low-gravity research. With the world on the verge of a space revolution, suborbital space has proven to be a major step in privatizing space.

• Alan Stern (moderator)
  Associate Vice President-R&D, SWRI
• A.C. Charania
  President, SpaceWorks Commerical
• Douglas Maclise
  NASA - CRuSR
• Dave Masten
  President and CEO, Masten Aerospace
• Lee Valentine
  Space Studies Institute

Attorneys and interested attendees will exchange ideas about what things newspace-inclined practitioners can be doing, as a group, to ensure that a system is in place for the optimized delivery of legal services to members of the commercial human spaceflight industry. **Note that this session is separate from the main programming track.**

• Doug Griffith
  Aviation Lawyer

For decades, orbital spaceflight has been restricted to only the wealthiest governments pace programs. What can be done to support commercial companies and what are commercial companies doing to open up Earth orbit for commercial applications.

• Philip Mcalister
  NASA Headquarters
• James A. Muncy
  Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President, PoliSpace
• Mark Sirangelo
  Sierra Nevada Corp.
• Dennis Stone
  NASA Commercial Crew and Cargo

What is necessary to create a successful space company? Tim Pickens, founder of Orion Propulsion, will discuss what skillsets and strategies are important, how to formulate a business plan, and how to forge your way in a largely developed industry.

• Tim Pickens
  Dynetics, Inc.

What will commercial space look like 15-20 years from now? Let's take a look at some realistic possibilities for 2025-2030, and then draw some conclusions that illuminate the world of 2010-2011.

• Alan Stern
  Associate Vice President-R&D, SWRI

Will we see the world's first trillionaire this century? The space frontier is opening for entrepreneurs and space related business plans closing more and more often. Knowing the international environment, who to work with, and how to develop these businesses in this emerging industry will be invaluable in the months and years to come.

• Dr. Burton Lee (moderator)
  Managing Partner, Innovarium Ventures
• Diane Dimeff
  Director - eSpace
• Esther Dyson
  EDventure Holdings
• Dr. Bob Richards
  CEO Odyssey Moon

When NewSpace companies get started, they have all the best intentions and very often a solid business plan. But what happens when all doesn't go according to plan? Presented here are a few case studies and lessons learned from the NewSpace start-up trenches.

• Guillermo Sohnlein (moderator)
  Managing Director, Space Angels Network
• Jason Andrews
  Andrews Space
• Jeff Greason
  XCOR Aerospace
• Debra Lepore
  President, DFL Space LLC
• Tim Pickens
  Dynetics, Inc.

What goes into managing a service-based space company? What additional challenges exist and how can they be handled?

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - International Space University Dinner is open to SEDS, ISU, and Singularity University students and alumni only. Current space industry leaders engage in an inspirational and motivational discussion giving their perspectives on how to be a leader in tomorrow's space industry. A presentation on the National Space Society's Space Ambassador Program will also be given.

• Gary Barnhard
  National Space Society
• Will Pomerantz
  X Prize Foundation
• Dr. Bob Richards
  CEO Odyssey Moon

Of all the space groups and organizations the Space Frontier Foundation was the first to step up and strongly defend and help define the new NASA policy. Some have said NewSpace has won. This could not be further from the truth. After 30 years of trying we have simply been granted the chance to enter the field. Now the real contest begins. How can we in the Frontier movement create a new partnership with our friends in government to create a permanent industrial infrastructure in space that will allow us all to go everywhere and stay anywhere?

• Rick Tumlinson
  Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation, Orbital Outfitters

An overview of the new NASA Budget and the New Office of the Chief Technologist and its role in technology development and commercial space.

• Doug Comstock
  NASA Innovative Partnership Program

Overview of new NASA multi-Center Commercial Space Team and the activities that are taking place within it.

• Charles Miller
  NASA Commercial Space

Panel discussion between NASA representatives and industry leaders concerning barriers and obstacles to Low Cost, Reliable Access to Space (LCRATS)

• James A. Muncy (moderator)
  Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation, President, PoliSpace
• Michael Beavin
  Senior Program Analyst, Office of Space Commercialization, Deptartment of Commerce
• Doug Comstock
  NASA Innovative Partnership Program
• Gary Hudson
  HMX Inc.
• Michael Mealling
  VP Business Development, Masten Space Systems
• Charles Miller
  NASA Commercial Space
• Michelle Murray
  FAA, Office of Commercial Space Transportation
• Tim Pickens
  Dynetics, Inc.

With sights set on the Moon, Mars, and beyond, the government and private sectors are working together to overcome some of the greatest technological challenges ever faced by mankind. From old ideas like propellant depots and on-orbit assembly, to radical new concepts such as power-beaming, the next generation of space exploration and settlement will require enormous breakthroughs in technology.

• Gary Martin (moderator)
  Director of New Ventures & Communications NASA Ames
• Dallas Bienhoff
  Manager for In-Space and Surface Systems, Boeing
• Ron Clark
  CEO, Space Orbital Systems
• Doug Comstock
  NASA Innovative Partnership Program
• Dr. Dan Rasky
  Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
• Dennis Wingo
  Founder, Skycorp, Inc., CTO, Orbital Recovery Corporation

From the perspective of an investment firm, what does the NewSpace industry look like? by Joshua Rafaelli, with introduction from Space Investment Summit Leader Paul Eckert.

• Paul Eckert
  Boeing BDS - Space Exploration
• Joshua Raffaelli
  Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson

Asteroids contain staggering riches and seemingly endless sources of minerals, propellants, water and oxygen that could fuel deep space commerce, enable settlement, and help make Earth both far wealthier and far greener. Unfortunately, near Earth space is becoming more dangerous due to the threat from orbital debris, which wreak havoc on operational satellites and threaten to make some orbits inaccessible.

• Berin Szoka (moderator)
  Senior Fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation
• Joe Carroll
  Tether Applications, Inc
• A.C. Charania
  President, SpaceWorks Commerical
• Bob Werb
  Founder, Space Frontier Foundation
• Dennis Wingo
  Founder, Skycorp, Inc., CTO, Orbital Recovery Corporation

What are the challenges facing human spaceflight? What can be done to adapt humans to long-term spaceflight and what additional support and infrastructure can be provided with near-term technology?

• Dr. Jim Logan
  Space Medicine Associates

What are the challenges for the suborbital spaceflight industry today and how does suborbital spaceflight fit into the commercial space industry? What role do Virgin Galactic and other companies play now and how should this evolve?

• Enrico Palermo
  Project Engineering Manager, Virgin Galactic

Join the Space Frontier Foundation in honoring the winners of the NewSpace Awards at the NewSpace 2010 Awards Gala. This star-studded event will feature steely-eyed rocket men, futuristic thinkers, and space enthusiasts from all over the world. The NewSpace Awards aim to recognize outstanding achievements toward advancing NewSpace and opening the space frontier. The awards are voted on by the Space Frontier Foundation Board and presented at the annual NewSpace Conference Gala. Please note that black-tie attire is recommended.

• Art Dula
  Heinlein Prize
• Benjamin Higginbotham
  Space Vidcast
• Duncan Jones
  Director, Moon
• Dave Masten
  President and CEO, Masten Aerospace

Why should we go to space? What should be our priorities and destinations? How should we get there?

• John Olson, Ph.D.
  Director for the Directorate Integration Office

What does it take to close a business case on the moon? What technologies are necessary in order to sufficiently reduce the cost and how can we leverage current technologies in order to reach that level with the least development time and cost? A panel of lunar science experts will discuss the status and future of these technologies.

• Rick Tumlinson (moderator)
  Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation, Orbital Outfitters
• Ed McCullough
  Principle Scientist, Boeing
• Wendell Mendell, Ph.D.
  NASA Planetary Scientist
• Bruce Pittman
  Flight Projects Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
• Dr. Bob Richards
  CEO Odyssey Moon
• Dennis Wingo
  Founder, Skycorp, Inc., CTO, Orbital Recovery Corporation

Recently, a number of governments have taken a serious interest in Space Solar Power as a way to alleviate the world's energy crisis. This panel will investigate what technologies are necessary to utilize SSP on a commercial scale and if this is feasible in the long term.

• Amaresh Kollipara (moderator)
  Co-founder & Managing Partner, Earth2Orbit LLC
• Joe Carroll
  Tether Applications, Inc
• Taylor Dinerman
  Writer and syndicated weekly columnist
• Dr. Feng Hsu
  Senior Vice President, Space Energy
• Thomas Olson
  Exodus Consulting Group

LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing laser power beaming systems to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. Their first project was to win the NASA-sponsored Power Beaming Challenge, which they did by winning the Level 1 prize of $900,000 in 2009. This is the story of how it all started, and where it's headed.

• Tom Nugent
  Founder, LaserMotive

Up until recently, propulsion systems have been either high thrust or high efficiency, but recent technologies and methods, such as VASMIR, fission-based propulsion, and laser based propulsion look promising. Are these systems capable of delivering payloads to new destinations in the near future?

• Bruce Pittman (moderator)
  Flight Projects Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
• Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz
  President and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company
• Steve Howe, Ph.D.
  Director of The Center for Space Nuclear Research (CSNR)
• Leik Myrabo, Ph.D.
  Research Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Vince Teofilo, Ph.D.
  Lockheed Martin

When humans go to mars, what would be the best use of resources and what should be done to support science, exploration, and development? What technologies and infrastructure will be necessary?

• Dr. Chris McKay
  Planetary Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

What does the future hold for the space industry? What role should NASA play and how should commercial companies (new and old) fit into this plan? What destinations and business cases should be the focus of efforts? This panel of experts and visionaries will seek to answer these questions.

• Dr. Chris McKay
  Planetary Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
• Rick Tumlinson
  Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation, Orbital Outfitters