Space Business

References, and other, from the "Where is the Space Program Going?" panel, "a hopeful look at the future of the space program", at BayCon 1998, Monday, May 25, 1998. Panelists included Gerald David Nordley, Michael Wallis, and others.

The general opinion was that commercial space ventures will become real in the next five years...

Topics mentioned at the panel:

• Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
  --speaker Michael Wallis, peroxide propulsion
• The X Prize
• Rotary Rocket Company
  --Wallis mentioned
• VentureStar
  --Lockheed Martin, X-33 VentureStar
• Space Access Society
  --Space Access '98 Conference, Wallis attended
• Aviation Week Online (AW&ST)
  --The most common phrase at these things: "I read it in 'Aviation Week'."
• National Space Society:Ask an Astronaut:Buzz Aldrin
  --Wallis mentioned, info, space tourism, Encounter with Tiber
• SHIMIZU Corp
  --Japanese construction company doing space planning--lunar hotel folk
  
• Shimizu Corp Lunar and Orbital Construction
  --Comments about Shimizu
• Fortean Slips: Lunar Honeymoon
  --Rather strange little article, mentioning Shimizu...
• Obayashi Corporation--Annual Report
  --Check under "The Future" - Mars Base
  --One of the Japanese construction companies

Other interesting stuff that surfaced during search:

• SPACE 98: Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space
  --ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Conference
  --ASCE site doesn't seem to have current proceedings--but does list I-IV...
• Homesteading the High Frontiers
  --Marshall Space Flight Center:Space Science Headlines:
  --Report on contributions to SPACE 98 from MSFC.
• UoSAT--Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd Home Page
  --[EX-CCSU folk:] Gosh, they're still out here....they had a peroxide conf
• Permanent Project
  --Projects to Employ Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in the Near Term
  --Interesting stuff
• The Amateur Rocketry Library Links
  --Bunch of links on tech
• SpaceViews, the online publication of space exploration
• Launchspace: The web site of the space industry
  
• Space Business
  --"your central point for business information on the space indsutry"
• Pioneer Rocketplane
  --Dr. Robert Zubrin's project
• Spacecast 2020
  --Space Lift, Black Horse project
• Space Future
  --More tourism and hotel design. Interesting stuff.
• Space Tourism Initiative Information
• Dr. Robert Forward Home Page
  --[For MikeB] Forward comes up in this search