Conferences
- X Prize Cup
- Date: TBA
- Location: Holloman Air Force Base
- Website: http://www.xpcup.com
- Info: (323) 957-0729
- Discounts: Volunteer Opportunities Available = free admission
- Canadian Space Summit
- Date: TBA
- Location: Calgary, AB
- Website: http://www.css.ca
- FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference
- Date: February 5, 2008 - February 6, 2008
- Location: Arlington, VA (Doubletree Hotel Crystal City)
- Website: http://www.faa.gov/news/conferences_events/commercial_space/11/
- Info: edward.v.wright@gmail.com
- IEEE Aerospace Conference
- Date: March 1, 2008 - March 8, 2008
- Location: Big Sky, MT
- Website: http://www.aeroconf.org
- Info: david.f.woerner@jpl.nasa.gov
- Discounts: $500 student rate (doesn't look like they are too willing to give significant discounts)
- 46th AAS Goddard Memorial Symposium
- Date: March 4, 2008 - March 6, 2008
- Location: Greenbelt, MD (Greenbelt Marriott Hotel)
- Website: http://www.astronautical.org
- Info: 703-866-0020
- Discounts: student $40
- Pro Space's March Storm
- Date: March 9, 2008 - March 12, 2008
- Location: Washington DC
- Website: http://www.prospace.org
- Info: fjohnson@arachnerd.com
- Discounts: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22682146744
- Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Date: March 10, 2008 - March 14, 2008
- Location: League City, TX
- Website: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007
- Info: webmaster@lpi.usra.edu
- Discounts: $80 student through Feb 15 (contact mclinkor@mit.edu if interested and will check for discounts)
- Space Access '07
- Date: March 27, 2008 - March 29, 2008
- Location: Phoenix, AZ (Best Western Grace Inn)
- Website: http://www.space-access.org
- Info: space.access@space-access.org
- Discounts: $100 advance (contact mclinkor@mit.edu if intereste and will check for discounts)
- Space Foundation's 24th National Space Symposium
- Date: April 7, 2008 - April 10, 2008
- Location: Colorado Springs, CO (Broadmoor Hotel)
- Website: http://www.nationalspacesymposium.org
- Info: (719) 576-8000
- Discounts: (contact mclinkor@mit.edu if interested and will check for discounts)
- Yuri's Night World Space Party
- Date: April 12, 2008
- Location: Your Hometown! Register your party today!
- Website: http://www.yurisnight.net
- Info: loretta@yurisnight.net
- Discounts: no charge for attendance
- NSS International Space Development Conference
- Date: May 29, 2008 - June 1, 2008
- Location: Washington DC (Capital Hilton)
- Website: http://isdc.nss.org/2008/
- Info: (202) 429-1600
- Discounts: SEDS rate of $30; also, volunteer opportunities available. If interested, please contact mclinkor@mit.edu
- Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace Conference (Former Return to the Moon Conference)
- Date: July 17, 2008 - July 19, 2008
- Location: Crystal City, VA (Doubletree Hotel)
- Website: http://www.space-frontier.org/Events/NewSpace2008/
- Info: joegillin@verizon.net
- Discounts: free discounts for volunteers
- Utah State Small Satellite Conference
- Date: August 11, 2008 - August 14, 2008
- Location: Logan, UT (Utah State University)
- Website: http://www.smallsat.org
- Info: (435) 797-4656
- Discounts: $125 students (contact mclinkor@mit.edu if interested and will check for discounts)
- Mars Society Conference
- Date: August 14, 2008 - August 17, 2008
- Location: Boulder, CO (University of CO, Boulder)
- Website: http://www.marssociety.com/portal/c/Conventions/2008
- Info: patt@marssociety.org
- Discounts: $40 registration for students, free for volunteers to be determined on case-by-case basis
- AIAA/AAS Aerodynamics Specialists Conference
- Date: August 18, 2008 - August 21, 2008
- Location: Honolulu, HI
- Website: http://www.space-flight.org/AAS_meetings/2008_astro/2008%20astro.html
- Info: aaron.trask@gmail.com
- SEDS National Conference SpaceVision 2008
- Date: November 14, 2008 - November 16, 2007
- Location: College Station, TX (Texas A&M University)
- Website: http://spacevision.seds.org
- Info: btyoung@gmail.com
Please email Ryan McLinko at
mclinkor@mit.edu if you or anyone from your chapter is interested in attending (or already planning on attending) any of these events. By communicating and cooperating in our travel plans we can pool resources, save money, and represent SEDS as a cohesive group.
