Looking for information about Lunar Settlements and a couple of conferences coming up in 2007 might be of interest.

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Space Exploration 2007 - March 25-28, 2007 The Second International Conference and Exposition on Science, Engineering, and Habitation in Space,and the Second Biennial Space Elevator Workshop http://www.sesinstitute.org/

26th International Space Development Conference - May 24-28, 2007 http://isdc.nss.org/2007/index.html

Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements - 3-8 June 2007 http://lunarbase.rutgers.edu/index.php

Space Nuclear Conference 2007 (SNC '07)
Embedded Topical Meeting at the 2007 ANS Annual Meeting June 24-28, 2007 . Boston, MA http://www3.inspi.ufl.edu/space07/index.html
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I am sure there are more but was my first look ahead.
Let me know if there are more space conferences in your location and will pass along.
- LRK -

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://www.sesinstitute.org/

Space Exploration 2007 - March 25-28, 2007 The Second International Conference and Exposition on Science, Engineering, and Habitation in Space,and the Second Biennial Space Elevator Workshop Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Conference topics to include:

Planetary exploration, bases, habitation, space station. Engineering and construction in space and on the Moon and Mars. Space access, space transportation. Space elevator technologies and advanced concepts.

Entrepreneurial ventures in space/for space. space power, space resource development. NEO's. Space Commerce, law, education

Special events/activities to include:

Keynote talks/planning sessions/panel discussions on above topics. Student Robotics Competition - an annual event in conjunction with the ASCE Earth and Space Conference Robotics Competition (held on even years). Banquet and Awards.

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http://isdc.nss.org/2007/index.html
26th ANNUAL ISDC
26th International Space Development Conference - 2007 "From Old Frontiers to New"
Dallas, Texas
May 24-28, 2007

The frontier that was the Texas of yesterday has been transformed by determination and hard work into the 8th largest economy in the world and a leader in tomorrow's technologies. In 2007, North Texas will be the place to focus on the cultural and technological frontier of tomorrow --SPACE. The frontier spirit of taking harsh territory and wresting enormous value from it is the foundation of the National Space Society's 26th annual International Space Development Conference. Travel to the Dallas to meet the frontiersmen of tomorrow, the people who will be supplying the knowledge, the machines, and the manpower to turn the frontier of space into a place of new wealth for humanity.

The Nation al Space Society of North Texas is proud to host this conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Addison. The hotel is within walking distance of Restaurant Row and Addison Circle, featuring hundreds of restaurants, bars, cafes and other diversions. There'll be little time for that with all the conference proceedings and exhibits.

The three main program tracks are:

1. Space Transportation: To, Through, From 2. The Moon & Cislunar Space: Developing the Infrastructure 3. Mars & Beyond: Expanding our Reach

Also featured will be medicine, educator tracks, a Children's Program, and best of all, exhibits of space hardware and mock-ups.

Be sure to catch all of the excitement Memorial Day Weekend 2007 in Dallas at the ISDC!

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http://lunarbase.rutgers.edu/index.php
Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements
3-8 June 2007
New Brunswick, NJ

http://lunarbase.rutgers.edu/aims_and_scope.php
PROSPECTUS

We are organizing for a Symposium that will bring together the leaders in the disciplines that are supporting the Return to the Moon, to stay, as part of the vision of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Our interest is to invite pioneering minds in Engineering and Science, Business and Finance, Policy and the Social Sciences, to present current thinking on the Return to the Moon. As important, gaps in capabilities will be discussed and addressed.

This weeklong Symposium will result in new teaming efforts in support of the Return to the Moon. The Symposium will be in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at the main campus of Rutgers University, 3-8 June in 2007.

This Symposium is intended to be single-track, focusing on:

* the technical issues,
* the bio-issues,
* the economical/financial issues,
* the political issues, and
* the social issues

that underpin our manned, permanent return to the Moon, on the way to Mars and the Solar System. We, however, do not rule out multi-track presentations, but in principle believe that attendees would prefer to be able to participate in all the deliberations.

We believe that by the Symposium date, the community's plans and ideas will begin to be crystallized, the international participation level will be better known, and the leaders in many of these areas will be ready to make their ideas more specific.

To broaden the community, professional sponsorship will be solicited from premier societies, beginning with the International Academy of Astronautics.
In addition, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics will be contacted.

Financial support is to be sought from private and public sources, to make the Symposium most effective, and to help support attendance by experts from nations without travel support.

Distinguished plenary speakers will be sought from the key focus areas of the Symposium. We will involve students at all levels in such a workshop.

Please contact Haym Benaroya for additional information or to be placed on a mailing list.

http://lunarbase.rutgers.edu/important_dates.php
31 October 2006: email benaroya@rci.rutgers.edu intent/interest in presenting or just attending Symposium

1 December 2006: submit abstract of presentation to benaroya@rci.rutgers.edu

Full Papers are not required. Some authors will be invited to prepare a full paper for potential publication in the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering.

28 February 2007: Register online for Symposium. Hotel information will be made available.

http://lunarbase.rutgers.edu/subscribe_email_list.php
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http://www3.inspi.ufl.edu/space07/index.html
Space Nuclear Conference 2007 (SNC '07)
Embedded Topical Meeting at the 2007 ANS Annual Meeting June 24-28, 2007 . Boston, MA

About the Meeting

Space Nuclear Conference 2007 (SNC '07) will be the second topical meeting organized by the Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology (ANST) technical group. NASA funding has been established to develop capabilities for unmanned and manned missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Strategies implementing nuclear based power and propulsion technology, as well as radiation shielding protection, will be an integral part of successful missions of these types.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together and provide a communications network and forum for information exchange for the wide cross section of research and management personnel from government, industry, academia, and the national laboratory system that are involved in the initiative. To this end, the meeting will address topics ranging from overviews of current programs and plans to detailed issues related to space travel such as nuclear-based power and propulsion systems designs, materials, testing, safety, space environmental effects and nuclear power system radiation shielding for humans and electronic components, and human factor strategies for the safe and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants.

This conference will have full-length technical papers, which will be peer reviewed and published on a CDROM, available at the meeting. At least one author is required to attend the conference and present his or her paper.

Abstracts Due: December 1, 2006.


Lynne Schreiber, Conference Administrator
Tel: 352-392-9722
Fax: 352-392-8656
Email: space@ans.org
Web: www.ans.org/goto/space07
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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