41st Space Congress at Radison Resort at the Port in Cape Canaveral

Space News from the Space Coast: "April 25, 2004

Space plan spices up yearly event

BY CHRIS KRIDLER
FLORIDA TODAY

CAPE CANAVERAL -- The future is a sparkling universe for the speakers at Space Congress this year.

President Bush's plan to develop moon and Mars missions, along with such news as China's first human space flight and the shuttles' push to fly again, gave the annual conference a keen sense of purpose.
'The vision people, they definitely told us, 'Oh great, we want to get the message out,' ' said NASA's Jack Fox, program chair for the congress and chief of the Strategic Technology Formulation Office at Kennedy Space Center"