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LEAG Annual Meeting
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AGENDA |
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 | |
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Registration Southwest Grand Ballroom Foyer |
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Welcome Reception Southwest Grand Ballroom Foyer |
Monday, October 1, 2007 |
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Plenary: Community Updates |
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8:00 a.m. | Welcome and Logistics |
8:10 a.m. | Exploration Partnership Strategy Briefing |
8:50 a.m. | Exploration Science Mission Directorate Briefing |
9:30 a.m. | Science Mission Directorate |
10:10 a.m. | Exploration: The International Space Station (ISS) - Today's Outpost |
10:50 a.m. | Exploration Systems Mission Directorate |
11:30 a.m. | Questions and Discussion |
12:00 noon | LUNCH |
Workshop and Working Group Briefings |
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1:30 p.m. | Constellation Office Briefing |
2:15 p.m. | Recommendations from the Workshop on Science Associated with the Lunar Exploration Architecture, Tempe, Arizona, 2/27–3/2, 2007 |
2:40 p.m. | Outpost Science and Exploration and Exploration Working Group (OSEWG) |
3:05 p.m. | Field Exploration and Astronaut Training Activities and Goals |
3:30 p.m. | 2007 Lunar Dust Workshop (NASA Ames) Outbrief |
3:50 p.m. | Research Enabled by the Lunar Environment |
4:10 p.m. | From the Moon to Mars: The Things We Most Need to Learn at the Moon to Support the Subsequent Human Exploration of Mars |
4:40 p.m. | Questions and Discussion |
5:10 p.m. | Overview of the Meeting and Meeting Product |
5:15 p.m. | ADJOURN |
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | |
International Partnerships |
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8:00 a.m. | Introduction |
8:05 a.m. | Update from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) |
8:35 a.m. | Italy's Plans for Moon Exploration |
9:35 a.m. | Chandrayaan Mission Objectives and future lunar programs |
10:35 a.m. | UK Lunar Exploration: Current Activities and Future Possibilities |
11:05 a.m. | Japan's Lunar Exploration Strategy and it's Role in |
11:35 a.m. | Panel Discussion |
12:30 p.m. | LUNCH, Southwest Grand Ballroom A/B |
In Situ Resource Utilization and Outpost Sustainment Demonstrations |
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1:30 p.m. | Panel and Discussion Introduction |
1:45 p.m. | NASA In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) |
2:15 p.m. | CSA Concepts and Plans for Sustained Lunar Exploration and Surface Operations |
2:45 p.m. | SELENE Mission Status and ISRU Related Activity in Japan |
3:15 p.m. | ISRU and Potential Mass and Cost Impacts on Sustained Lunar Exploration |
3:45 p.m. | ISRU Development Roadmap — AIAA Perspective |
4:15 p.m. | Lunar Robotic Missions |
4:45 p.m. | Panel Discussion Begins |
5:30 p.m. | ADJOURN |
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | |
The Role of Robotic Missions |
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8:00 a.m. | Basic Themes and Issues |
8:10 a.m. | Lunar Precursor Robotics Program |
8:30 a.m. | Scientific Contributions of Lunar Robotic Precursor Missions |
8:50 a.m. | The Role of the States in Space Exploration: PISCES |
9:10 a.m. | Small Spacecraft in Support of the Lunar Exploration Program |
9:30 a.m. | Lunar Exploration Science Campaign: A commercial-leveraged lunar mission program |
9:45 a.m. | Discussion |
Commerce: Incremental Steps from Earth to Lunar Enterprise |
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Introduction |
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10:30 a.m. | Incremental Steps from Earth to Lunar Commerce: How to Do It, and How to Pay for It, One Step at a Time |
Incremental Infrastructure Development |
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10:50 a.m. | Commercial Transportation and Lunar Surface Mining |
11:10 a.m. | LEO Propellant Depot: A Commercial Opportunity |
11:30 a.m. | Robotic Technologies for Lunar Exploration |
11:50 a.m. | 1 GWe "Oil Well" on the Moon |
12:10 p.m. | The New Race to the Moon — Building Bridges for Lunar Commerce |
12:30 p.m. | Q&A |
1:00 p.m. | LUNCH, Southwest Grand Ballroom A/B |
Incremental Application Development |
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2:30 p.m. | Making the Moon Accessible to Everyone |
2:50 p.m. | Meteorite Collection on the Lunar Surface |
3:10 p.m. | International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) 2007 |
3:30 p.m. | Q&A |
4:00 p.m. | BREAK |
Commerce: Incremental Steps from Earth to Lunar Enterprise (continued) |
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Government Facilitation |
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4:20 p.m. | ESMD Commercial Development Policy (ECDP) Ken Davidian NASA Headquarters |
4:40 p.m. | Q&A |
General Commercial Panel |
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4:50 p.m. | Q&A and Moderator Summary |
5:30 p.m. | ADJOURN |
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Poster Session I and Reception Southwest Grand Ballroom D/E |
Thursday, October 4, 2007 | |
Sample Return and Lunar Exploration |
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8:00 a.m. | Exploring the Moon with Samples. Scientific and Exploration Importance of Sample Return and Buying Down Risk and Cost of Sample Return Missions |
8:30 a.m. | Curation |
9:30 a.m. | Future of Lunar Sample Returns |
10:00 a.m. | Lunar Samples Management Issues |
10:30 a.m. | Automated Subsurface Sample Acquisition |
11:00 a.m. | Workshop on Architecture Issues Associated with Sampling |
12:00 noon | LUNCH, Southwest Grand Ballroom A/B |
The Role of Technology in Field Exploration and Astronaut Training |
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1:30 p.m. | Interviews with Apollo Lunar Surface Astronauts in Support of EVA Systems Design |
2:00 p.m. | Geologic Training of Apollo Crews |
2:30 p.m. | Ascan Geology Training |
3:00 p.m. | Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition: An Astrobiology (ASTEP) funded testing program |
3:30 p.m. | Mobile Habitats and their Implications for Lunar Science |
4:00 p.m. | Collaborative Human-Robot Science |
4:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
5:30 p.m. | ADJOURN |
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Poster Session II and Reception Southwest Grand Ballroom D/E |
Friday, October 5, 2007 | |
Site Selection and the Lunar Outpost |
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8:30 a.m. | Lunar Outpost Site Selection |
8:50 a.m. | Site Selection and Commercial Opportunities |
9:10 a.m. | From the Moon to Mars: Implications for Lunar Outpost Selection and the Nature of the Activity to be Carried Out There |
9:30 a.m. | Lunar Outpost Site Selection: A Review of the Past 20 Years |
9:50 a.m. | Lunar Site Selection Process Definition in LAT-2 |
10:10 a.m. | Lunar Site Selection Criteria for In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) |
10:30 a.m. | Science Constraints on Outpost Site Selection and an Example |
11:10 a.m. | Synopsis of Presentations |
11:20 a.m. | Panel Discussion |
12:00 noon | LUNCH |
Report from Moderators and General Discussion |
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1:30 p.m. | International Partnerships |
1:50 p.m. | Incremental Steps from Earth to Lunar Commerce: |
2:10 p.m. | ISRU Session Findings |
2:30 p.m. | Robotic Missions Summary |
2:50 p.m. | Sample Return and Lunar Exploration |
3:10 p.m. | Field Exploration and Astronaut Training Activities and Goals |
3:30 p.m. | Site Selection |
3:50 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
4:30 p.m. | ADJOURN |