ISDC 2005 Speakers
The following people have agreed to speak at this year's ISDC:
Government Space | Private Space | Visionary Space | Benefits of Space Exploration
Government Space:
- The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta
- Secretary, Department of Transportation
- Rear Adm. Craig E. Steidle, USN (Ret.)
- NASA's Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems
- Dr. James Garvin
- NASA Chief Scientist
- Dr. Adena Williams Loston
- Chief Education Officer, NASA
- The Hon. Robert S. Walker
- Chairman, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates
- Dr. Steven Squyres
- Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rovers
- Dr. Robert Mitchell
- Program Manager, Cassini
- Frederic Nordlund
- Head of Washington Office, European Space Agency
- Yevgeny K. Zvedre
- Senior Counselor, Space & Technology, Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United States of America
- Mengxin Sun
- First Secretary (Science and Technology), Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the USA
- Kiwao Shibukawa
- Director, Washington DC Office, JAXA
- Dr. Paul Spudis
- Senior Scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory; President's Commission on the Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy
- Dr. John Logsdon
- Director, Space Policy Institute, and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
- Patricia Grace Smith
- Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, FAA
- Brant Sponberg
- Program Manager, Centennial Challenges, NASA
- Lindley Johnson
- Program Manager, Near Earth Observation Program, NASA
- Graham Gibbs
- Counsellor, Space Affairs, Canadian Embassy
- James D. Burke
- Senior Member, Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; former Ranger project manager
- Gerald Holzmann
- Principal Computing Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Private Space:
- Burt Rutan
- President of Scaled Composites and designer of SpaceShipOne
- Will Whitehorn
- President, Virgin Galactic
- Elon Musk
- President, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
- Jim Maser
- President and General Manager, Sea Launch Company LLC
- Lon Levin
- Vice President, Corporate and International Planning, Mobile Satellite Ventures
- Jim Benson
- Chairman and CEO, SpaceDev
- Dr. Peter Diamandis
- Founder and Chairman, X PRIZE Foundation; Chairman and CEO, Zero Gravity Corporation
- David Gump
- CEO, Transformational Space LLC
- Eric Anderson
- CEO, Space Adventures
- Armand Musey
- President, Near Earth LLC
- Stephen Attenborough
- Vice President of Astronaut Relations, Virgin Galactic
- Dr. Brad Edwards
- President/Founder Carbon Designs, Inc.
- Rich Pournelle
- Director of Investor Relations, XCOR Aerospace
- Alan Ladwig
- Manager of Washington Operations, Space Systems Business Development, Northrop Grumman
- Pat Bahn
- CEO, TGV Rockets, Inc.
- David Anderman
- Chief Operating Officer, Constellation Services International
- Chuck Lauer
- Co-founder and Director of Business Development, Rocketplane Ltd.
- Bob Richards
- Director of the Space and Atmospheric Division, Optech
Visionary Space:
- Hugh Downs
- Chairman, Board of Directors, NSS
- Rusty Schweickart
- Apollo 9 astronaut; Chairman, B612 Foundation
- Gen. Robert Dickman, USAF (Ret.)
- Executive Director, AIAA
- Dr. R. Paul Butler
- Staff Scientist, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Dr. Robert Zubrin
- President, The Mars Society
- Dr. Bruce Betts
- Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
- Dr. William Gutsch, Jr.
- President and CEO, Challenger Center for Space Science Education
- Mark Jannot
- Editor-in-Chief, Popular Science Magazine
- James Zimmerman
- President, International Astronautical Federation
- Lon Rains
- Editor, Space News
- Dr. Leik Myrabo
- Professor of Engineering Physics, RPI; CEO, Lightcraft Technologies
- Esther Dyson
- Editor, Release 1.0; Former Chairman of the ICANN Board
- Brig. Gen. Simon "Pete" Worden (USAF, Ret.)
- Former Director of Transformation at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base
- Rick Tumlinson
- Co-founder, Space Frontier Foundation
- Dr. Roger Launius
- Chair, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum
- Tom Rogers
- Chairman, The Sophron Foundation
- Steve Durst
- President, Space Age Publications
- Inge Heyer
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Dr. Brian Marsden
- Director, Minor Planets Center, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- William Burrows
- Professor, New York University; Author, This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
- Dr. Patricia J. Arnold
- Vice President, Education & Workforce Development, Space Foundation
- Anthony Duignan-Cabrera
- Editor, SPACE.com and Ad Astra magazine
- Dr. Mike Duke
- Director, Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space, Colorado School of Mines
- Robert Strong
- Director, SMART Center, West Liberty State College, West Virginia
- Joshua Neubert
- President, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) USA
- Ben Shelef
- Founder, The Spaceward Foundation
- Scott Mize
- President, Foresight Institute
- Derek Webber
- Leading authority on space tourism; Director, Spaceport Associates
- Keith Cowing
- Co-author, New Moon Rising
- Frank Sietzen
- Co-author, New Moon Rising
Benefits of Space Exploration:
- Becky Cross
- Founder, The IGNITE Foundation, Inc.
- Scott A. Dulchavsky, M.D. Ph.D.
- Roy D. McClure Chair of Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Janis T. Eells, Ph.D.
- Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Peter Freer
- Chief Executive Officer, Unique Logic + Technology, Inc.
- Ms. Petra K. Harvey
- 12th Grade Student, SHARP Program, Maury High School Norfolk, VA
- Adam M. Kissiah, Jr.
- Aerospace Technologist/Launch Instrumentation Systems Engineer (Retired), NASA
- Alissa Kuseske
- Fifth Grade Educator, Crossroads Elementary Science, a NASA Explorer School
- Saralyn Mark, M.D.
- Senior Medical Advisor, NASA & Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health
- Ronald C. Merrell, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Professor of Surgery; Director, Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC)
- Andrew A. Monjan, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Chief, Neurobiology of Aging Branch, National Institute on Aging
- Benjamin J. Neumann
- Deputy Director, Exploration Systems Research & Technology Development, NASA
- Joseph A. Resnick, Ph.D.,
- Chief of Science and Technology, NxGenBodyArmorUSA Corporation
- Dr. Howard Ross
- Deputy Chief Scientist, NASA
- Dr. Frank Schowengerdt
- Manager, Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA
- Kimberly Moody Urquhart
- President, The Sarah Moody Foundation
- Mrs. Joyce L. Bach-Bowen and Brody Bowen
Check back regularly as additional speakers are added!