Space-Shot.com events

Previous events:

Prescott, Prescott Air Fair, September 30, 2006
Birmingham, Wings & Wheels 2006, September 23 - 24, 2006
Los Angeles, World Science Fiction Convention, August 23 - 27, 2006
Oshkosh, EAA Air Venture, July 24 - 30, 2006
Sioux Falls, Power on the Prairie Airshow, July 22 - 23, 2006
Las Vegas, NewSpace, July 19 - 22, 2006
Milwaukee, TCF Bank Air Expo on Milwaukee's Lake Front, July 15 - 16, 2006
Duluth, Monaco Air Duluth Airshow, July 7 - 9, 2006
Los Angeles, International Space Development Conference, 2006
Paper: http://www.transterrestrial.com/ttmpics/Space%20Development%20from%20Games.pdf
Presentation: http://www.transterrestrial.com/ttmpics/Space%20Development%20from%20Games%20Presentation.pdf
Phoenix, Space Access, 2006
Austin, Yuri's Night, 2006
LA Space Frontier Foundation, 2005

SpaceShot, Inc. will be competing in the NewSpace business plan competition in Las Vegas in July.

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Seems you're affiliated with the Orbital Commerce Project. They recently swung by Georgia Tech for two days with their trailer, and were handing out some flyers from SpaceShot. Obviously, as an AE major, I'm more than a little interested in the concept of publicly available flight training programs. What can you tell me about them?

OCP's offering is for FAA certification as crew or a pilot. Go to http://www.orbitalcp.com and click on training courses. The pilot course would be a series of four suborbital flights with an anticipated retail price of $300,000 altogether. The last flight would be a science mission where the pilot is flying a new crew member and is the leader of the mission. There is a separate crew training program where members of the pubic can be FAA certified crew to be mission specialists.

We are a sponsor of their tour. I am glad you enjoyed their offering and are interested. The person talking in their half-hour two-screen video show is Jeff Greason, CEO of XCOR which has built the EZ-Rocket and is building the X-Racer and has received FAA approval to test suborbital rockets. The simulation in the OCP van simulates two XCOR rocket engines on the back of a Bearcat.

Actually, they used the X-Racer model and didn't seem to have any sort of propulsion other than the rockets. Might have updated things recently. It's good to see that the spaceflight community is starting to get some serious publicitiy.

The OCP simulator is not based on a Velocity which can haul 1100 pounds--a "minivan" in George Tyson, owner of Orbital CP's words. It's appropriate for the X-Racing League because it needs room for camera equipment, etc. etc. The Black Sky training experience will be tailored for coolness for pilot and crew. It will have more the feel of a fighter jet.

Las Cruces, X Prize Cup and Symposium, October 17 - 21, 2006

10/18: Dinkin at Symposium on Wednesday, 2:30. RpK at Symposium.

10/20-21: OrbitalCP simulator courtesy of SpaceShot. Sign up and get a free Space-Shot.com entry.

Participate in an RpK focus group about what you want to see in the cabin to receive another Space-Shot.com entry.

SpaceShot XCup: For $0.25 shoot a basket and get one Space-Shot.com entry if you miss and two if you make it, limit 6.

Jacksonville, NAS Jacksonville air show, October 27 - 29, 2006. OCP spaceflight simulator courtesy of Space-Shot.com.

Toronto, Ontario, November 17-19: Canadian Student Space Summit. Get a free Space-Shot.com entry with your registration.

Dallas, Texas, May 24-28, ISDC 2007: Get a free Space-Shot.com entry with your registration.