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2006 Agenda

Next Generation Exploration Conference
A gathering of emerging global space leaders to design the future of space exploration

August 16-18, 2006
NASA Ames Research Center

"I know that humans will colonize the solar system and one day go beyond."
Mike Griffin, NASA Administrator

Preliminary Agenda

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 (OPTIONAL)
  12:00-1:00 pm Badging for Ames Center Tour/Advanced Registration (Main Gate Badging Office)
  12:30-3:30 pm First tour group
  1:00-4:00 pm Second tour group
  6:30 pm Informal Gathering for Dinner
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
  8:00-9:00 am Registration
Location: Building 3

Attendees must register for the conference
  8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast
  9:00 am-12:00 pm Plenary 1: Welcome and Background

Location: Ballroom

  • 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
  • 9:15 - 10:00 Overview of Vision and NASA activities
    • Jeff Volosin, NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
  • 10:00 - 10:45 Overview of Strategy and Architecture
    • Piero Messina, European Space Agency
  • 10:45 - 11:30 Background of Space History to Space Future
    • Jim Dator, University of Hawaii
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Overview of the Conference
  12:15-1:30 pm Lunch speaker: Jack Boyd - "An Introduction to Ames Research Center"
  1:30-3:30 pm Breakout 1: Global Exploration Themes and Meta-Objectives

  • Introduction of team members
  • Teams will become familiarized with online collaboration technology for the conference
  • Teams will review the interim product from the NASA Synthesis Team (output from April Workshop and RFI)
  3:30-4:00 pm Tea/Coffee
  4:00-6:00 pm Breakout 2: Global Exploration Themes and Meta-Objectives (continued)

  • Teams to comment on completeness of Themes and Meta-Objectives
  7:00 pm Dinner
Thursday, August 17, 2006
  7:30-8:30 am Continental Breakfast
  8:00-9:00 am Science Presentations within the Working Groups

  • Mars science and exploration
    • Dave Beaty, NASA JPL
  • Mars settlement and society
    • Chris McKay, NASA Ames
  • Asteroids
    • John Lewis, University of Arizona
  • Cis-Lunar
    • Bryan Laubscher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Earth 3.0-- how planetary engineering, social structures, increased resources, etc. benefit life on Earth
    • James Dator, University of Hawaii
  • Virtual Exploration and Virtual Worlds
    • Claudia L'Amoreaux, Linden Lab
  9:00-10:00 am Working Group Session 1: Themes and Objectives for 'Beyond'

  • Working groups will identify themes and objectives for exploration beyond the Moon.
  10:00-10:30 am Tea/Coffee
  10:30 am-12:00 pm Working Group Session 2: Themes and Objectives for 'Beyond' (continued)
  12:00-1:00 pm Lunch - "Navigating the Politics of Science & Exploration"

  • Matt Lacey, NASA KSC
  1:00-3:30 pm Working Group Session 3: Themes and Objectives for 'Beyond' (continued)
  3:30-4:00 pm Tea/Coffee
  4:00-6:00 pm Working Group 4: Themes and Objectives for 'Beyond' (continued)
  7:00 pm Dinner
Friday, August 18, 2006
  10:00 – 11:00 10 minute presentation by each group (one slide on high level lunar discussions,
rest on themes, objectives, issues/enablers, actions for each group). Please note
that this is a guideline. If this does not adequately capture the discussions and
work your team has performed, please choose a different structure which works
for you!
DELIVERABLE: PPT
  11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable discussion. Each presenter will sit up front, and there will be on
hour of question/answer time.
  12:00 – 1:00 Lunch. Speaker: Pete Worden
  1:00 – 2:30 Breakout into your working groups. We will spend the last working group session
focusing on the “word document” or the “Final Product” in the drupal tool. This is
essentially capturing the content in words (or spreadsheets) of your deliberations.
A report team will take this product and put it in the final proceedings document.
DELIVERABLE: “Final Product”

There are two new working groups for this session: (1) NGEC declaration and (2)
NGEC response to ESMD on the Lunar portion of the Global Exploration Strategy.
If you can please find one, or two, representatives from your working group to go
to this session, that would help to interpret the deliberations of your group to
synthesize the content into palatable, relevent documents. The working group at
this point will organize a work plan for the next two weeks to get to this document
  2:30 – 3:00 Final Words; wrap-up. We will meet back in the plenary for last words and
comments.
  3:00 – 3:30 Free
  3:30 – 5:30 Cooper Winery tour. Please bring your car to the parking lot of Building 3 and we
will have a ride share over to the winery. We will print out maps and details.
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