From: dean3500@digital.net (Michael Deane)
Subject: space conference
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 21:56:38 -0500
For Immediate Release Human Settlement, Commercial Business Key To Future of Space CONFERENCE STRESSES FREE ENTERPRISE AS NEW SPACE AGENDA Los Angeles- Aug. 19, 1996 - The Space Frontier Foundation announced today an event presenting radical changes ahead in the development of space. The Foundation will bring together businessmen, scientists, members of Congress, astronauts and futurists at its fifth annual conference, to be held in Hollywood, CA. Scheduled for Oct. 19 - Oct. 20 at the Roosevelt Hotel, conference themes include how America can achieve cheap access to space and how innovative businesses such as space tourism can help establish the first commercial hub for private citizens to live and work there. Conference sessions include: progress of the first commercial companies in space, how asteroids may be a viable natural resource, and how to turn NASA's International Space Station into the heart of a commercial center on the frontier. Attending the conference will be such luminaries as: Gemini/Apollo/Skylab astronaut Pete Conrad, head of Universal Space Lines; Congressman George Brown (D-Colton), Ranking Minority Member of the the House of Representatives' Science Committee; and Dr. Robert Zubrin, a leading advocate for the exploration and settlement of Mars. "The conference is designed to help change America's thinking that space development is limited to government projects," said Rick N. Tumlinson, president of the Space Frontier Foundation. "We believe that the American public is ready to visit, live and work in space, and that cheap access to space driven by free enterprise will be the ticket that opens the frontier." The conference fees are: $55 till Sept. 5, $70 till Oct. 4, $90 thereafter, with a one-day rate of $50. Student rates are available. For more information on the conference, visit the Space Frontier Foundation World-Wide-Web Site at http://www.space-frontier.org, send email to OpenFrontier@delphi.com, or call 1-800-78SPACE. The Space Frontier Foundation is a grass-roots national space policy and media organization made up of space and political professionals, scientists, entrepreneurs and citizens of all types. The Foundation calls for a new space agenda that puts the people first, stresses free enterprise and individual achievement over a single government program, works to save the Earth's environment and sets out a path for the human settlement of space. For More Information Contact: Ben Muniz Stephanie Graves Conference Chair Public Relations 805/581-2420 310/822-4669