Transition to Commercial Lunar Operations Workshop
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Venue: Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid
In order to stimulate commercial participation in our return to the lunar surface, our understanding of the initial commercial on-ramp of logistics support needs to be broadened and expanded. This workshop will begin the examination of how this could be done.
In this one-day workshop, we will work to articulate the coordinated steps across stakeholders that will enable the transition a longer/sustained human presence on the lunar surface, with particular emphasis on how commercial operations be stimulated from improving knowledge of supply and demand and through the development of robust commercial on-ramps. Pre-workshop materials and questions will be distributed so that progress can be made during the one-day workshop without devoting a large amount of time to overview talks. This information will be collated by the Workshop Steering Committee and sent out to participants prior to the workshop.
Pre-workshop questionnaires will be distributed to registered participants.
WHY? Learning from history, a successful transition to commercial space operations requires construction of hardware, agreements and operations with the future in mind.
WHO? While the workshop is predominantly aimed at enabling commercial stakeholders, participation is essential from all domestic and international partners.
WHAT? A step-by-step approach to facilitate commercially-led efforts on the lunar surface aimed at a future of predominantly commercial customers and providers at the Moon. Such activities have been proven though successful commercial cargo and crew missions to the International Space Station, and through the development of commercial space stations that will operate in low-Earth orbit.
HOW? Through facilitated dialog rather than presentations, with specific outcomes and required actions identified by workshop close.
This workshop will bound the issue by jointly defining the criteria needed to enable sustainable human presence while facilitating commercial interest. While lunar surface infrastructure development is underway, defining the type of bases and services of interest (McMurdo-type science, industry/technology park and laboratory, and/or tourist destination), and the criteria for where that base and infrastructure should be placed is of primary importance.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Location: Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid
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Dimi Apostolopoulos
Protoinnovations
Jason Arcido
Luke Barbano
Dean Bergman
Director of Business Development
Honeybee Robotics
Jacob Bleacher
Chief Exploration Scientist of Advanced Exploration Systems
Bobby Braun
Space Exploration Sector Head
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Kent Bress
Deputy Associate Administrator (acting)
Office of International and Interagency Relations, NASA
Shawn Britton
NASA Liaison
DARPA
Quintin Bullock
President
Community College of Allegheny County
Ben Bussey, PhD.
Chief Scientist
Intuitive Machines
Honorable Matt Cartwright
Congressman
U.S. House of Representatives
A.C. Charania
Chief Technologist
NASA
LSII E&C Systems Integration Lead
Ahsan Choudhuri
Associate Vice President for Aerospace Center and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Timothy Cichan
Space Exploration Architect
Lockheed Martin
Tim Cole
Subha Comandur
Project Manager for CADRE
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Prasun Desai
Associate Administrator (Acting) of the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
NASA
Chris Dreyer
Colorado School of Mines
Raewyn Duvall
Carnegie Mellon University
Walt Engelund
Dep. Assoc. Admin. for Programs
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Bob Esser
Shawn Fernando
Remote Operations Manager
Woodside Energy
Pat Forrester
Director ofCross-Directorate Technical Integration
NASA SOMD
Jim Free
Associate Administrator
NASA
Peter Frye
Space Applications Manager
Westinghouse
Carol Galica
Lead, LSII Strategy & Planning
Andrew Gerger
Kurt Gonter
LSII CC Systems Integration Lead (Extreme Environments, Dust Mitigation, Simulants)
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
EE Science Advisor
Michael Hamilton
Auburn University
Daoru Han
Missouri S&T
Craig Hardgrove
Principal Investigator of LunaH-Map; Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration
Dan Hendrickson
Vice President of Business Development
Astrobotic
LSII ISRU Systems Integration Lead
Elizabeth Hyde
USGS
Stephen Izon
Evan Jensen
Vice President of Strategic R&D
ICON Technology Inc.
Heather Jones
Carnegie Mellon University
Zoë Karabinus
Program Director
Keystone Space Collaborative
Justine Kasznica
Keystone Space Collaborative & Babst Calland LLP
Brandon Kirkland
Chief Engineer of Mason, a Redwire tool suite
Redwire
Toyotaka Kozuki
Chief Technology Officer
GITAI
Honorable Summer Lee
Congresswoman
U.S. House of Representatives
Joseph Marlin
Deputy Chief Engineer
Firefly
Trent Martin
Vice President of Space Systems
Intuitive Machines
Becky Masterson
System Integration (SI) University Challenges
Candice Matthews Brackeen
General Partner
Lightship Capital; Director of Programming at Hillman and NewMe
Ryan McCormick
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nujoud Merancy
Deputy Associate Administrator, Strategy and Architecture Office
NASA ESDMD
Rich Miller
Michelle Munk
Acting Chief Architect
NASA SMD
Michael “Orbit” Nayak
DARPA
DM Focus Area Lead
Masami Onoda
Director of JAXA Washington, D.C. Office
JAXA
Nick Paine
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Board Member
Apptronik
Zachary Pirtle
Senior Policy Analyst
NASA
Michael Provenzano
Jackie Quinn
PRIME Project Manager
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Cathleen Richards
Interim Executive Director
Moonshot Museum
Erica Rodgers
Director of Advanced Programs
NASA Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy
Dr. Phil Root
Director, Strategic Technology Office
DARPA
Melissa Roth
Mehak Sarang
Payloads Manager
ispace-US
Greg Schmidt
Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)
Jason Schuler
Principal Investigator,
NASA Kennedy Space Center
Pablo Sobron
Impossible Sensing
Justin Starr
Endowed Professor of Advanced Technologies
Community College of Allegheny County
LSII CC Systems Integration Lead (Extreme Access, Robotics, Autonomy )
John Thornton
Chief Executive Officer
Astrobotic
Harri Vanhala
Program Manager, Lunar Surface Technology Research (LuSTR)
NASA
Dr. Kurt "Spuds" Vogel
Associate Administrator
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Jin Wang
The Ohio State University
Niki Werkheiser
Director for Technology Maturation in the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
Arthur Witulski
Research Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
Alhassan Yasin