“Developing the 21st Century Space Infrastructure”
Los Angeles Chapter meeting on May 15
In the fall of 2009 the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee (also known as the Augustine Commission for its Chairman and former CEO of Lockheed Martin Norm Augustine) released its findings. In the five years since, much progress has been made in achieving the recommendations of the committee and other broader space objectives. Cargo is being delivered to the International Space Station by commercial companies with the capability to deliver crew to be realized as soon as 2017, freeing NASA once again set to its sights on pushing to new frontiers; a competitive market for access to space appears to be developing and new entrants are forming to service a variety of payloads from small to large; and the national security space enterprise is developing new capabilities to ensure continued U.S. dominance in and through space.
But much more needs to be done to fully achieve the goal of “a space program worthy of a great nation” as described in the committee’s final report.
While serving as the Chief of Advanced Concepts in the Pentagon’s National Security Space Office, Paul E. Damphousse was selected to serve as the NASA Fellow for Florida Senator and former Chair of the Senate Space Subcommittee Bill Nelson from 2009-2010.
Please join us in Los Angeles on Friday, May 15, 2015, 7:30am – 9:00am PDT (networking at 7:00am), when Paul, now Principal and Founder, General Astronautics, will discuss the activities of that period and since, and will discuss the opportunities for infrastructure development for the civil, commercial, and national security space programs of the 21st century.
The meeting is free for A&D Forum members and $40 for non-members ($30 Early Bird until May 8). For more information and to register to attend the meeting in person or for free via the web, go to https://adflamay15.eventbrite.com.
Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.
The Los Angeles chapter of The Aerospace & Defense Forum was founded by Frontier Associates and the 62 Mile Club, and is sponsored by Moss Adams, IFS, Sheppard Mullin, CohnReznick, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell, and UK Trade & Investment.
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