Commemorating the 50 year anniversary of Founder Gerard K. O’Neill’s legendary question to a physics class at Princeton about the best place for an advancing technological civilization, The Space Studies Institute presented SSI 50: The Space Settlement Enterprise at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.
The 10 sessions of that event ran the gamut from Habitat Design and Bioneering to Economics and Construction Techniques. On this page, researchers will find the direct links to each of the presentation videos and links to the original release posts where further information and impressions from the release moments may be found.
As you watch these recordings, and any professional conference recording, please consider that it is best to approach the watching in the same way that you take on a university online class. Set the time, and watch for the points. The professor may start meandering, some other student might ask a tangential question that gets things out of focus (a camera may go out of focus) but you know that something in that 2 hours may be on the test. And, more importantly, something that you see – that it seems no one else in the audience had spotted – may turn out to be the unique core of your post doc work or professional trade career.
There are 11 videos, 12 hours and 46 minutes of produced content, in the SSI 50 collection. Take the time for them. Make the time for getting the most out of them, For Yourself.
Panel 1: Space Habitat Design
September 9th, 2019
Host and Moderator:
Dallas Bienhoff of Cislunar Development Corporation
Panelists:
Bruce Pittman of OffWorld Inc.
Robert Richards of Northrop Grumman
Professor Fred Scharmen of Morgan State University
Suzanna Bianco of Space Cooperative and Space Decentral
Al Globus of the National Space Society
John Blincow of Gateway Foundation
Anthony Longman of Skyframe Research.
Original Post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-videos/
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Part 2 (Q&A):
Lunch Talk: NASA NIAC EPI MEGA Drive Update
September 9th, 2019
Speaker:
Professor Heidi Fearn of California State University at Fullerton
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-professor-heidi-fearn-mach-effect-drives-update/
Lunch Talk: A Medical Astronaut’s view of The Possibilities
September 9th, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Yvonne Cagle, M.D., Ph.D., USAF Colonel (Retired)
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-yvonne-cagle-possibilities/
Panel 2: Space Construction Techniques
September 9th, 2019
Host and Moderator:
Joe Carroll, President of Tether Applications, Inc.
Speakers:
Robert Hoyt, President of Tethers Unlimited
Al Globus, NASA Ames Contractor and coauthor of The High Frontier An Easier Way
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-space-construction/
Panel 3: Extraterrestrial Resources
September 9th, 2019
Host and Moderator:
Professor George Sowers of the Colorado School of Mines
Speakers:
Chris Lewicki of ConSensys Space
Dennis Wingo of SkyCorp
Dr. Philip Metzger of the University of Central Florida
Rob Meyerson of Delalune Space
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-extraterrestrial-resources/
Day Two Opener: A View from Kennedy Space Center
September 10th, 2019
Speaker:
Dr. Justin Karl, NASA Engineering Directorate Commercial Crew Program
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-view-from-kennedy/
Panel 4: Space Access: Transport and Logistics Panel
September 10th, 2019
Host and Moderator:
Henry Vanderbilt of the Space Access Society
Speakers:
Jon Schilling, Analyst, The Aerospace Corporation
Dallas Bienhoff, Founder, Cislunar Development Corporation
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-spaceaccess-transport-logistics/
Lunch Talk: An Astronaut’s Experience, Mindfulness from Weightlessness
September 10th, 2019
Speaker:
Dr. Yi Soyeon, First South Korean Cosmonaut/Astronaut
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-astronaut-yi-soyeon/
Panel 5: Bioneering
September 10th, 2019
Host, Moderator and Speaker:
Dr. Jim Logan, cofounder of the Space Enterprise Institute and former NASA Flight Surgeon on Gene Kranz’s Mission Control Team
Speakers:
Dr. John Charles, Scientist in Residence, Space Center Houston
Morgan Irons, Founder of Deep Space Ecology, LLC
Joe Carroll, President of Tether Applications Inc.
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-bioneering/
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Panel 6: Reevaluating SSPS and Considering Other Revenue Potentials
September 10th, 2019
Host and Moderator:
Edward Wright, SSI 50 Conference Chair
Speakers:
Dr. John Mankins, Founder, Artemis Innovation
Eva-Jane Lark, Vice President. BMO Nesbitt Burns
Dr. Philip Metzger, Planetary Scientist of the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida
Original post: https://ssi.org/ssi-50-ssps-and-other-revenue/
The staff and volunteers of The Space Studies Institute wish to express our sincerest thanks to all of our SSI 50 Session Leaders, Presenters and Participants and to the entire staff of the Museum of Flight in Seattle and the catering team of McCormick & Schmick’s. Special Thanks to Conference Chair Ed Wright and to all of the Space Studies Institute Senior Associates whose personal contributions make projects like this possible. We hope that watching these videos will spur new ideas and new real, tangible results in your career. Thank you.
