The Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, Colorado
Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference
December 18 - 20, 2017
SCHEDULE DETAILS
Details for each session – including invited and contributed talks, and plenary panels – can be found below. For parallel sessions, the room (Ballroom A or B) is indicated in the session title and denoted by color.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18
7:00am – 8:00am Complimentary Hot Breakfast Buffet – sponsored by Mojave Spaceport
8:00am – 9:30am Opening Session I (Chair: Steven Collicott) Ballroom A&B
8:00am – 8:15am Alan Stern (SwRI/CSF)
8:15am – 8:30am Dan Dumbacher (AIAA)
8:30am – 9:00am Thomas Zurbuchen (NASA HQ / SMD)
“Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conference: Expanding Opportunities for SMD Research”
9:00am – 9:30am Jeff Ashby (Blue Origin)
“New Shepard Suborbital Spaceflight”
9:30am – 10:00am Morning Break – sponsored by Blue Origin
10:00am – 11:30am Opening Session II (Chair: Dan Dumbacher) Ballroom A&B
10:00am – 10:30am Jane Poynter (World View Enterprises)
10:30am – 11:00am George Whitesides (Virgin Galactic)
11:00am – 11:30am Dan Hicks (Spaceport America)
“Spaceport America Role in Space Exploration”
11:30am – 1:00pm LUNCH BREAK
1:00pm – 2:15pm Invited Talks (Chair: Alan Stern) Ballroom A&B
1:00pm – 1:30pm Eric Stallmer (Commercial Spaceflight Federation)
1:30pm – 2:00pm Tim Lachenmeier (Near Space Corporation)
“Near Space – Frontier Gateway”
2:00pm – 2:15pm Jane Kinney (Commercial Spaceflight Federation)
2:15pm – 2:30pm Poster Lightning Round (Chair: Cindy Conrad) Ballroom A&B
1-minute overviews by poster authors to introduce their posters for the evening poster sessions
See Author Index for a complete poster listing
2:30pm – 3:00pm Afternoon Break – sponsored by World View Enterprises
3:00pm – 4:00pm Invited Talks (Chair: Dan Durda) Ballroom A
3:00pm – 3:30pm Greg Johnson (CASIS)
“ISS National Laboratory: Progress and Opportunities”
3:30pm – 4:00pm Michael Schmidt, Ph.D. (Sovaris Aerospace)
“Spaceflight First Responder Certification: Enhancing the Culture of Safety & Medical Support”
3:00pm – 4:00pm PANEL: “Experiences with Next-Gen Space Startups” Ballroom B
Chair: Jane Poynter
Panelists: Bob Richards; Dylan Taylor; George Whitesides
4:00pm – 5:00pm PANEL: “Human Tended Research Flights” Ballroom B
Chair: Marsh Cuttino, M.D.
Panelists: Sirisha Bandla; Dan Durda; Michelle Peters; Erika Wagner; Charlie Walker
5:00pm – 6:00pm PANEL: “Human Factors in Suborbital Spaceflight” Ballroom B
Speaker: Paul DiZio (talk abstract)
Chair: Janna Kaplan
Panelists: Heather Wright Beatty; Michael Gallagher; Alexander Panic; Mark Shelhamer
6:00pm – 7:00pm Poster Session Ballroom C&D
See Author Index for a complete poster listing
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19
7:00am – 8:00am Complimentary Hot Breakfast Buffet
8:00am – 9:30am Invited Talks (Chair: Eric Stallmer) Ballroom A&B
8:00am – 8:30am George Nield (FAA)
“A 21st Century Licensing Process”
8:30am – 9:00am Steve Jurczyk (NASA HQ / STMD)
“NASA Space Technology Driving Exploration and Innovation”
9:00am – 9:30am Steven Collicott (CSF SARG)
“Objectives of the Suborbital Applications Research Group (SARG)”
9:30am – 10:00am Morning Break – sponsored by Near Space Corporation
10:00am – 10:30am Invited Talks (Chair: Jane Poynter) Ballroom A
10:00am – 10:30am Melchor Antuñano (FAA)
“Aerospace Medicine Implications of Advanced Medical Technologies”
10:00am – 11:00am SESSION: Blue Origin Ballroom B
10:30am – 11:45am Commercial Applications / Markets / Policy (Chair: Jane Kinney) Ballroom A
10:30am – 10:45am Melissa Force (Spaceport America)
“Integration of Suborbital Launches in the National Airspace”
10:45am – 11:00am Misuzu Onuki (Space Access Corporation)
“NewSpace Trends Bring High Potential for Creating Suborbital Markets in Japan”
11:00am – 11:15am Laurence Young (MIT)
“Research Opportunities at the Transnational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH)”
11:15am – 11:30am M. Brian Barnett (Solstar Space Company)
“Flight Demonstration of Solstar’s Commercial Internet Payload and Service”
11:30am – 11:45pm Melissa Force (Spaceport America)
“Spaceport Insurance for a Catastrophic Launch Failure”
11:00am – 12:00pm FOP Workshop Ballroom B
11:00am – 12:00pm Ron Young (NASA Flight Opportunities Program)
12:00pm – 1:30pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30pm – 2:30pm PANEL: World View Enterprises Ballroom A
Chair: Alan Stern
Panelists: Andrew Antonio; Bob Grimm; Jane Poynter
1:30pm – 2:30pm PANEL: “Next-Gen Suborbital Research Inspiring Next-Gen STEM Researchers” Ballroom B
Chair: Laura Forczyk
Panelists: Rachael Manzer; Kristy Mar; Bobby Russell
2:30pm – 3:00pm Invited Talks (Chair: Amir Caspi) Ballroom A
2:30pm – 3:00pm Charles Mallini (WB-57 Program Office, NASA JSC)
“WB-57F High Altitude Research Aircraft and Capabilities”
2:30pm – 3:00pm Invited Talks (Chair: Tommy Sanford) Ballroom B
2:30pm – 3:00pm Bob Richards (Moon Express)
3:00pm – 3:30pm Afternoon Break – sponsored by Virgin Galactic
3:30pm – 4:00pm Invited Talks (Chair: Addie Dove) Ballroom A
3:30pm – 4:00pm Grant Anderson (Paragon Space Development Corp.)
“How Will Suborbital Spaceflight Achieve Profitable Turnaround?”
3:30pm – 4:30pm PANEL: “Spacecraft Risk and Safety Concerns” Ballroom B
Chair: Marsh Cuttino, M.D.
Panelists: Jeff Ashby; Melchor Antuñano, M.D., M.S.; Jim Vanderplough, M.D.
4:00pm – 5:30pm Solar Physics / Planetary Science / Astrophysics (Chair: Addie Dove) Ballroom A
4:00pm – 4:15pm Amir Caspi (Southwest Research Institute)
4:15pm – 4:30pm Chris Groppi (Arizona State University)
“GUSTO: Gal/Xgal U/LDB Spectroscopic-Stratospheric TeraHertz Observatory”
4:30pm – 4:45pm Craig DeForest (Southwest Research Institute)
“The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP): First flight and current status”
4:45pm – 5:00pm Charles Hibbitts (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
“StratoSpeX: A Balloon-Borne SpeX in the Upper Stratosphere”
5:00pm – 5:15pm Don Hassler (Southwest Research Institute)
5:15pm – 5:30pm Kirby Runyon (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
“Emplacement of Crater Ejecta on Low-Gravity Worlds”
4:30pm – 6:00pm Microgravity Sciences / Plans for Human-Tended Experiments (Chair: Dan Durda) Ballroom B
4:30pm – 4:45pm Adam Diedrich (Near Space Corporation)
“High Altitude Shuttle System (HASS): Low-Vibration Microgravity Environment”
4:45pm – 5:00pm Colleen Boggs (Telespazio VEGA Deutschland)
5:00pm – 5:15pm George Pantalos (University of Louisville)
“Glovebox for Suborbital and Parabolic Flight Research”
5:15pm – 5:30pm Robert Ferl (University of Florida)
5:30pm – 5:45pm Torin Clark (University of Colorado, Aerospace Engineering Dept.)
“Reduced Ocular Torsion and Tilt Perception in Hypo-Gravity”
5:45pm – 6:00pm Michelle Peters (Zero Gravity Corporation); Kevin M. Crosby (Carthage College);
Marsh Cuttino (Orbital Medicine); Laura Wilson-Jones (JPL)
“Observation and Manipulation: Human-Tended Research on G-FORCE ONE”
5:30pm – 5:45pm Poster Lightning Round (Chair: Constantine Tsang) Ballroom A
1-minute overviews by poster authors to introduce their posters for the evening poster sessions
See Author Index for a complete poster listing
6:00pm – 7:00pm Poster Session Ballroom C&D
See Author Index for a complete poster listing
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20
7:00am – 8:00am Complimentary Hot Breakfast Buffet
8:00am – 9:30am Human Factors / Life Sciences (Chairs: Mark Shelhamer, Marsh Cuttino) Ballroom A
8:00am – 8:15am Michael Gallagher (Association of Spaceflight Professionals, Inc.)
8:15am – 8:30am Marsh Cuttino (Orbital Medicine, Inc)
“NASCAR to NASA: Event Medicine for Suborbital Spaceflight Operations”
8:30am – 8:45am George Pantalos (University of Louisville)
“Surgical Capabilities Development for Reduced Gravity”
8:45am – 9:00am Annie Strange (Red Rocks Community College)
“To Grow or Not to Grow: Plant It Mars”
9:00am – 9:15am Ryan Kobrick (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
“Work Envelope Evaluation of Final Frontier Design IVA Spacesuits using Motion and Video Capture”
9:15am – 9:30am Derek Gowanlock (National Research Laboratory, Ontario, Canada)
“Microgravity Evaluation of the Final Frontier Design IVA Spacesuit ...”
8:00am – 9:00am Invited Talks (Chair: Sirisha Bandla) Ballroom B
8:00am – 8:30am Anna-Lisa Paul
“Exploration Biology on the Edge of Space”
8:30am – 8:45am John Quinn (Exos Aerospace)
“Exos update: SARGE Rocket build - Virtual tour”
8:45am – 9:00am Todd Lindner (JAA Cecil Field)
“Spaceport Infrastructure to Support the Sub-Orbital Industry”
9:00am – 11:00am Technology and Technology Testing (Chair: Constantine Tsang) Ballroom B
9:00am – 9:15am Maria-Vittoria Carminati (Caminati Law PLLC) – moved from Commercial/Markets/Policy
“Congress Grants Federal Jurisdiction and Imposes SFP Cross-Waivers. Now What? A Legislative Update”
9:15am – 9:30am Christian Prather (Red Rocks Community College)
“Design and production of a low cost thermal cycler”
9:30am – 9:45am Russell Dewey (Near Space Corporation)
“High Altitude Shuttle System (HASS): Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle (SRLV) Surrogate”
9:45am – 10:00am H. Todd Smith (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
“JHU APL Commercial Launch Program: Finally getting off the ground”
10:00am – 10:15am Adam Escobar (Space Lab Technologies LLC)
“The Next Step for High Data Rate Communications for Sounding Rockets and Balloons”
10:15am – 10:30am Brien Posey (Association of Spaceflight Professionals Inc.)
10:30am – 10:45am Daniel Shen (Space Technologies at Cal / University of California, Berkeley)
“Testing the Viability of Directed-Energy Interstellar Exploration”
9:30am – 11:15am Education and Public Outreach (Chair: Bobby Russell) Ballroom A
9:30am – 9:45am Susan Ip-Jewell (Mars Academy USA, LLC)
“A 21st Century "S.T.E.A.M.E.D" Academy ...”
9:45am – 10:00am Barbra Sobhani (Red Rocks Community College)
“Promoting Community College Opportunities in Undergraduate Research in the Space Sciences”
10:00am – 10:15am Brian Shmaefsky (Lone Star College - Kingwood)
“Bridging the Gap: Promoting Commercial Space Flight Research in School STEM Education & Outreach”
10:15am – 10:30am Brian Gulliver (Kimley-Horn) and Carie Lemack (DreamUp)
“Students Teaching Students – How One Suborbital Payload Impacted an Entire School”
10:30am – 10:45am Bobby Russell (Quest for Stars)
“A year in the life of a commercial space student payload – Launch, Land and Repeat”
10:45am – 11:00am Shawn Case (National Space Society) – presented by Amir Caspi (Southwest Research Institute)
“Enterprise In Space: Education for Everyone”
11:00am – 11:15am Elizabeth Wallace (Giraffe ‘n’ Ant Productions)
“STEAM It Up! Citizen Neuroscience in Suborbital Flight”
11:00am – 11:30am COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH PROVIDED – sponsored by Raven Aerostar
11:30am – 12:30pm Atmospheric, Aerodynamic, and Aeronomical Sciences (Chair: Todd Smith) Ballroom A
11:30am – 11:45am Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute)
“The Unique Advantages of Suborbital Atmospheric, Astrophysical, and Planetary Science at Twilight”
11:45am – 12:00pm Adam Escobar (Space Lab Technologies LLC)
“Investigating Reentry Plasmas using Sounding Rockets”
12:00pm – 12:15pm Eliot Young (Southwest Research Institute)
“Listening for Bolides: Balloon-Borne Detection of Infrasound Waves”
12:15pm – 12:30pm Jason Reimuller (Integrated Spaceflight Services LLC)
“Project PoSSUM: Citizen Science Aeronomy and Bioastronautics”
11:30pm – 12:30pm PANEL: “Science in Microgravity: Exploring the Transition to Space” Ballroom B
Chair: Anna-Lisa Paul
Panelists: Adrienne Dove; Peter Lee; Mark Shelhamer
12:30pm – 1:00pm NASA Flight Opportunities Program (Chair: Anna-Lisa Paul) Ballroom A&B
1:00pm – 1:30pm Invited Talks (Chair: Alan Stern) Ballroom A&B
1:00pm – 1:30pm Dylan Taylor (Space Angels)
“The future promise of suborbital science for research, education, and commerce: trends and opportunities”
1:30pm – 1:40pm Closing Remarks, Alan Stern (Chair: Laurence Young) Ballroom A&B
1:30pm – 1:40pm Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute)
1:40pm – 3:00pm CLOSING RECEPTION – sponsored by CU Smead Aerospace Department and Aerospace Ventures
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