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“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planet-wide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multi-planet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”  – David Grinspoon

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Friday, December 11
 

7:00pm CST

Welcome and Keynote: Space Architecture for Semi-Permanent Lunar Habitats, A Compulsory Step to a Moon Base
Friday December 11, 2020 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Zoom
How can a semi-permanent Lunar base accelerate space tourism while advancing scientific research? The long-established idea of working on a permanent lunar base as a milestone in space travel is part of the future of space mission sequencing logic. However, the pace the space travel technology and readiness developments in the past decades has pushed the whole timeline back . A sort of a missing...
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Speakers
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Antoine Faddoul

Director, TonySky Designs Group
Antoine Faddoul is a designer, artist, futurist, and storyteller. He is an advocate of revolutionizing space travel through integrated space architecture, innovative space economy, and contemplated future technology. His multidisciplinary approach combines elements of architecture, astronomy, science... Read More →
Friday December 11, 2020 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Zoom

8:00pm CST

Gateway to Space Awards, Annual Meeting, and Virtual Reception
Friday December 11, 2020 8:00pm - 9:30pm CST
Zoom
8:00 PM - Gateway to Space Awards

Awards will be given to the original founders of St. Louis Space Frontier and Venture Cafe'.

8:40 PM – Annual Meeting

8:50 PM - Virtual Reception (bring your own snacks!)
Speakers
avatar for Michael Mackowski

Michael Mackowski

Founder, St. Louis Space Frontier
Mike is receiving a Gateway to Space award.

Michael J. Mackowski is a retired spacecraft engineer whose career spanned 45 years. He has worked on such programs as Landsat 8, the Fermi and Swift gamma ray observatories, the Iridium communications satellite constellation, several other NASA science satellites, and the Space Shuttle... Read More →
avatar for Erv Baumann

Erv Baumann

Founder, St Louis Space Frontier
Erv Baumann will be receiving a Gateway to Space award.

Erv Baumann
St. Louis Space Frontier Co-Founder
Lead Systems Engineer
The Boeing Company

BioSketch

Education and Career
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering – 1975
Master of Systems Engineering – 2015

45 Years in Engineering… alm... Read More →
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Tyler Mathews

Executive Director, Venture Café | St. Louis
Venture Cafe' and Tyler Mathews is a Gateway to Space awardee.

Tyler Mathews is the Executive Director of Venture Café St. Louis a nonprofit connecting entrepreneurs, through a free workspace, an incubator for educators, and weekly gathering that host more than 24,000 people a year. Tyler is a strategist and cultural producer with a focus of... Read More →
6 14 82 Letter pdf
Birth of SLSF May 25 1982 pdf
Oct 1982 UN Space Conf STL pdf
1984 Conference pdf
Oct 82 UN Space Conf pdf
SLSF Notes from the 1980s docx
Friday December 11, 2020 8:00pm - 9:30pm CST
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Saturday, December 12
 

10:00am CST

Welcome and Keynote - Medicine on the Moon, Mars and Beyond: Lessons from Human Health Challenges in Spaceflight for Space - and Earth
Saturday December 12, 2020 10:00am - 11:15am CST
Zoom
In this talk, Dr. Shawna Pandya will discuss the health challenges of human spaceflight, our next frontiers - and how these lessons can be used to address everyday medical challenges on Earth.
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Shawna Pandya

Dr. Shawna Pandya

scientist-astronaut candidate, Project PoSSUM
Dr. Shawna Pandya is a scientist-astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, physician, aquanaut, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver, pilot-in-training, VP Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies and Fellow of the Explorers’ Club. She is also Director of the I... Read More →
Saturday December 12, 2020 10:00am - 11:15am CST
Zoom

11:20am CST

2D Materials and the Space Elevator
Saturday December 12, 2020 11:20am - 12:20pm CST
Zoom
Adrian Nixon presents the latest thinking:
  • The space elevator materials requirements
  • The role two dimensional (2D) materials can play making the space elevator possible
  • The state of the art of industrial manufacturing of graphene
Speakers
avatar for Adrian Nixon

Adrian Nixon

Editor, Nixene Publishing
About Adrian by Adrian

I am fascinated and consumed by the world of graphene and 2D materials. I author the monthly Nixene Journal report focusing on new technologies and commercial activity in this fast-moving field of advanced materials. My goal is to help translate all this activity into plain English... Read More →

St Louis Flyer1 pdf
Saturday December 12, 2020 11:20am - 12:20pm CST
Zoom

11:20am CST

Dealing with the Brown Matter: Going from Excrement to Entrée
Saturday December 12, 2020 11:20am - 12:20pm CST
Zoom
 Often the details of dealing with human waste, and turning it into food and clean water are ignored. Most space research to date has either focused on waste recycling in microgravity to extract water, and expel the rest, or focused on the food growth side, in hydroponic gardens and photobioreactors. These disparate ends ignore the details in the middle, i.e. what turns urine, feces, food...
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Speakers
avatar for Bryce L. Meyer

Bryce L. Meyer

Board Member - Treasurer, National Space Society - St. Louis Space Frontier
Bryce L. Meyer, has degrees in engineering and biology, experience working on real farms, and many technical publications on space agriculture and ECLSS. He also has written and illustrated children's books on STEM topics, including space settlement, and is very active in space advocacy... Read More →
Saturday December 12, 2020 11:20am - 12:20pm CST
Zoom

12:25pm CST

GALIX: A MULTINATIONAL COALITION TO ADVANCE AND DIVERSIFY SPACE INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION FOR ALL HUMANKIND
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:25pm - 1:25pm CST
Zoom
The future will present many challenges for humankind that the Global Alliance for International Collaboration in Space (GALIX) hopes to address (in partnership with space professionals worldwide) by both enabling more effective exchange of information among key space professionals and expanding international collaborative ventures. These key space challenges include:Promoting peaceful uses of...
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Speakers
avatar for Jim Crisafulli

Jim Crisafulli

Global Alliance for International Collaboration in Space (GALIX)
A native of Los Angeles, Jim Crisafulli pursued joint undergraduate studies in Physics and Zoology at Harvey Mudd College and Pomona College in Claremont, California. Following a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps as a secondary school physics teacher in Fiji, he returned to... Read More →
Updated GALIX Vision Statement (Nov29) pdf
Updated GALIX Overview (Nov29) pdf
Gateway to Space GALIX PPT Presentation pdf
GALIX PPT Presentation pdf
GALIX PPT Presentation pdf
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:25pm - 1:25pm CST
Zoom

12:25pm CST

The Lost Missions of Gemini
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:25pm - 1:25pm CST
Zoom
In addition to the NASA missions that perfected the technologies required for the Apollo lunar program, the Gemini spacecraft was considered for many other missions. Some of these involved a few upgrades, while others proposed highly modified variants of the basic Gemini capsule and adaptor. Most of these proposals never got past the study phase, but a few got to the mock-up stage or even the...
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Speakers
avatar for Michael Mackowski

Michael Mackowski

Founder, St. Louis Space Frontier
Mike is receiving a Gateway to Space award.

Michael J. Mackowski is a retired spacecraft engineer whose career spanned 45 years. He has worked on such programs as Landsat 8, the Fermi and Swift gamma ray observatories, the Iridium communications satellite constellation, several other NASA science satellites, and the Space Shuttle... Read More →
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:25pm - 1:25pm CST
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