Space Access '00 Conference, Last-Minute Info
- Hotel Rooms
If you have a room booked at the Holiday Inn Old Town Scottsdale and
you're arriving late and it's not confirmed for late arrival, call
them at 800 695-6995 and confirm it - the hotel has been telling
people it's full for our dates for the last day or so, and we don't
want you to end up with your room released to someone else.
If you left booking a room till the last second, don't despair - there
are nine other hotels within a half-mile. (It's also worth calling
our hotel anyway, you never know when a cancellation will come in.)
We called a number of these nearby hotels today to see if they have
rooms and to check rates - no guarantees on these rates, they're just
what they quoted us today. List follows:
Rodeway Inn - 7110 E Indian School Rd, 480 946-3456, $59, .3 miles
away.
Econolodge, 6935 E 5th Ave, 480 994-9461, $59, .6 miles away.
AmeriSuites, 7300 E 3rd Ave, 480 423-9944, $89 corporate rate, .2
miles away.
Hampton Inn, 4415 N Civic Center, 480 941-9400, $89, .4 miles away.
Hilton, 7324 E Indian School Rd, 480 481-0400, $129, .1 mile away.
Summerfield Suites, 4245 N Civic Center, 480-946-7700, $139 2-bedroom
suites, .1 mile away.
Do remember to check the afternoon you arrive for last-second released
rooms at our hotel - you might end up saving yourself some walking.
- Getting There
Our hotel, the Holiday Inn Old Town, is at 7353 E Indian School Rd in
Scottsdale, on the southwest corner of Indian School and Civic Center.
To get there from the Phoenix airport, take the blue "Super Shuttle"
van, or a cab (prices vary, check the cab door), or if you're driving,
look for signs to Rt 202 East out of the airport - take 202 about 6-7
miles east to Rt 101 North. Take Rt 101 North about 3-4 miles north
to the Indian School Rd exit. Turn left under the freeway onto Indian
School Rd westbound, for roughly two miles, across Hayden, across
Miller, and just after Miller take a left at the light onto Civic
Center and then an immediate right into the Holiday Inn parking lot.
If you get to Scottsdale Rd, you've gone past Civic Center.
- Paying For Conference Registration
We have to receive pre-registration checks ($100 rate) at 4855 E
Warner Rd #24-150, Phoenix AZ 85044 by Wednesday 4/26/00 to guarantee
they'll be processed in time. The at-the-door rate is $120, day rates
$20/$60/$60 Thu/Fri/Sat (Student rate $30, $5/$20/$20 day, at-the-door
only) and, alas, we are not set up to handle credit cards. We will
gladly accept personal checks, or there's a cash machine in the hotel
lobby just upstairs from our registration table. We apologize for any
inconvenience.
- Weather
Current forecasts for our weekend are for (very) dry and sunny,
afternoon highs in the nineties, night lows around seventy, and
sunburn index high - bring summer clothes, and if you plan daytime
walks of more than a few minutes, a hat and long loose sleeves or
sunblock could save you some sunburn - ten minutes can get a good burn
started under the noonday sun when it's this clear.
- Our Schedule
Space Access 2000 Conference Schedule
4/24/00 - Subject To Change, But This Is Pretty Solid
Thursday, 4/27/00
6 pm - Hospitality opens in Suite 405
- Registration opens in Conference Foyer, below hotel lobby
8 pm - Henry Spencer - Intro to Space and Ongoing Controversies
9 pm - Dave Salt - The Year in European Space
late - Hospitality closes - go get some sleep!
Friday, 4/28/00
9 am - Henry Vanderbilt - Welcome, and Situation Report
9:05 - Bob Feconda, OSC - X-34 Report, OSC STAS Conclusions
9:50 - Mitchell Burnside Clapp - Pioneer Rocketplane
10:35 - break
11:05 - Jeff Greason, XCOR Aerospace (possible hardware demo)
11:50 - NASA Future-X - Current and Potential Future "Pathfinder"
Projects
12:35 - Lunch break, on-your-own
2 pm - Mike Wade, Space Access LLC
2:45 - Gary Hudson, Rotary Rocket Company
3:30 - break
4:00 - Panel: What Should The Government Do? Andrews, Cormier,
Greason, Miller, Vanderbilt (moderator)
4:50 - Dana/Jason Andrews, Andrews Space & Technology
5:35 - Michael Wallis, Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
6:05 - Dinner break, on-your-own
8 pm - Charles Miller, CSI - Market Economics of On-Orbit Satellite
Servicing
8:45 - Mitchell Burnside Clapp - Optimizing Trajectories For Lower-
Isp Launch Vehicles
late - Elaine Walker Mullen's space stylings, in Hospitality
later - Hospitality closes
Saturday, 4/29/00
9 am - Panel: The Current RLV Investment Climate - Now What? Clapp,
Fleming, Hudson, Kyger, Pistritto, Vanderbilt (moderator)
9:50 - Jordin Kare - Laser Launch: A Near-Term Approach
10:35 - XCOR Aerospace, possible hardware demo
10:40 - break
11:10 - Jim Ransom, Ransom Systems Engineering - Lean Development:
Doing Better Faster Cheaper Right
11:55 - Bill Gaubatz, USL
12:40 - Lunch break, on-your-own
2 pm - Tim Kyger, Universal Space Network
2:40 - Leik Myrabo, RPI - Laser Launch, Laser Lightsail, MHD
Slipstream Accelerator
3:30 - break
4:00 - Len Cormier, MMI - Millenium Express TSTO, XVan 2001 X-Prize
Entry
4:45 - Mark Blair, Australian Space Research Institute, AUSROC
5:25 - Bob Ray, TGV Rockets
6:05 - Dinner break, on-your-own
8 pm - Kelly Space & Technology
8:45 - Wrapup Panel - The Usual Suspects
9:30 - Ask The Executive Director
late - Elaine Walker Mullen's space stylings, in Hospitality
much, much later - Hospitality closes, Space Access 2000 ends - See
You Next Year!
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