SIEPR Policy Forum on Space Entrepreneurship

Friday, February 1, 2013

• 9:00am - 10:15am PST

  Session I: Betting on American Industry

  Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator
  (Click for bio) Why a private space market?

• 10:15am - 11:00am PST

  Session II: How Safe is Safe Enough?

  George Nield, FAA Associate Administrator  

  (Click for bio)

  Regulation and policy

• 11:00am - 12:00pm PST

  Session III: Space Tourism and the Current Market for Space

  Virgin Galactic - Will Pomerantz

  XCOR Aerospace - Andrew Nelson

  Building the market for space

  Discussant(s):

  Steve Jurvetson

• 12:45pm - 1:20pm PST

  Lunch Keynote: The Hard Missions We Need

  Bill Nye - CEO Planetary Society (& the Science Guy)  
  (Click for bio)

  Science and inspiration

  Part One

  Part Two

  Part Three

  Part Four

  Part Five

• 1:20pm - 2:15pm PST

  Session IV: Prizes and Space Innovation

  Alexandra Hall - Google Lunar X Prize (bio)

  Petra Moser - Stanford Economics (bio)

  Using prizes to push technology

• 2:25pm - 3:45pm PST

  Session V: A Growing Private Space Industry

  Boeing - Russ McMurry

  Sierra Nevada - Craig Gravelle

  SpaceX - John Muratore

  United Launch Alliance - Mike Holguin

  ​Low cost, safe, human space travel

  Discussant(s):

  Roger Noll

• 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST

  Session VI: Protecting the Planet

  Ed Lu, Former NASA Astronaut, Stanford PhD, CEO and Chair of the B612 Foundation, (bio)

  Ed Lu, Explaining the B612 Foundation

  Comparing asteroids with other risks

  Risks of "Big" asteroids and deflecting them from Earth

  Mapping the Near-Earth Asteroids - a satellite near Venus

  The B612 Plan - infrared mapping