2009 Retrospective
(a HobbySpace/RLVNews special report by Clark Lindsey)
- Dec 7: Public roll-out of SpaceShipTwo, Mojave, CA.
- Nov 18-19: NASA Centennial Challenges' Astronaut Glove Challenge, US Astronaut Hall of Fame, Kennedy Space Center, FL.
- Nov 12-15: SEDS SpaceVision 2009 Conference, Tucson, AZ.
- Oct 28-29: FAA AST COMSTAC Mtgs (Day 1-WG meetings, Day 2-Full Committee), Washington, DC.
- Oct 26-29: 3rd DoD/NASA Commercial & Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange (CRASTE), Dayton, OH. (This event is ITAR-restricted.)
- Oct 21-22: 2009 Int’l Symposium for Personal & Commercial Spaceflight, Las Cruces, NM.
- Oct 17-18: NASA/CSEWI Regolith Excavation Centennial Challenges Event, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
- Oct 12-16: 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Daejeon, South Korea.
- Sep 30: Space Investment Summit #7, Boston, MA.
- Sep 23: Congressional Black Caucus Space Entrepreneurship Panel (not the real name, but I'll post it when I get it), Washington, DC.
- Sep 14-17: AIAA SPACE 2009 Conference & Exposition, Pasadena, CA.
- TBD: NASA/Spaceward Foundation Power Beaming Centennial Challenges Event, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, CA.
- Aug 19-20: National Research Council NASA's Suborbital Research Capabilities meeting, Boulder, CO.
- Aug 18: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Suborbital Applications Research Group meeting, Boulder, CO.
- Aug 14: Tether Strength Competition (a NASA Centennial Challenges competition) in conjunction with the Space Elevator Conference, Redmond, WA.
- Aug 13: AIA Panel Event: "What’s next for the International Space Station?", Washington, DC.
- Aug 10–13: 23rd AIAA/USU Annual Conference on Small Satellites, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
- Aug 2-5: 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Denver, CO.
- July 28: The Marshall Institute's A Day Without Space: Economic Security Ramifications, Washington, DC.
- July 27: AIAA Space: Stimulating Economic Growth Today and Tomorrow, Washington, DC.
- July 17-20: Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace 2009 Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
- July 6-9: 3rd European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS), Versailles, France.
- June 30: Royal Aeronautical Society's Space Tourism: The Vision Becomes Reality Conference, No.4 Hamilton Place, London, UK.
- June 18: AIAA Innovations in Orbit: An Exploration of Commercial Crew and Cargo Transportation, Washington, DC.
- June 16: Marshall Institute's Innovation in Aerospace panel, Washington, DC.
- June 15-21: 2009 Paris Air Show, Le Bourget Airfield, Paris, France.
- June 4: Space Foundation's Space Business Forum, New York, NY.
- May 28-31: Nat'l Space Society (NSS) Int'l Space Development Conference (ISDC), Orlando, FL.
- May 27: Space Investment Summit #6, Orlando, FL.
- May 20-21: FAA AST COMSTAC Mtgs (Day 1-RLVWG, Day 2-Full), Washington, DC.
- May 13: "One Giant Leap: Space Exploration and the New Pioneers" panel discussion at the Boston Museum of Science, Boston, MA.
- May 3: PSF's 2nd Emerging Commercial Suborbital Science Workshop, Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles, CA.
- Apr 29: Entrepreneurial Space and Export Control: Red Tape in the Final Frontier, Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
- Apr 22: Investing in Aerospace Entrepreneurship, MIT Enterprise Forum, New York, NY.
- Apr 2-4: Space Access Society Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
- March 30-April 2: Space Foundation's 25th National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO.
- March 17-18: AIAA Congressional Visits Day, Washington, D.C.
- March 13: Half-Day Symposium on The Space Economy, GMU, Phillips & Co., USCC, Washington, DC.
- Feb 24-26: NSSO/AFSFC Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) Technology Forum, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX.
- Feb 22-24: Space Exploration Alliance's Legislative Blitz, Washington, D.C.
- Feb 5-6: FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA.
- Feb 4: FAA AST Experimental Permit Workshop, FAA HQ (?), Washington, DC.
- Jan 8: AIAA Commercial Space Group Cape Canaveral Commercial Space Tour with Space Florida, Cape Canaveral, FL.
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2009 (starts here, continues upward)