Space Access Day 2

Hello!

Here's my very abbreviated summery of this morning.

Mark Street, XCOR Aerospace
Goal- Bring down cost of space travel
Works mostly with engines.
Recent Project, Lynx a rocket to go into space. Under construction right now.

Frank Zegler, United Launch Alliance
Been around for fifty years.

Panel: World Space Programs & Prospects - Jeff Foust, Clark Lindsey, Doug Messier, Dave Salt
European Launch systems and services, current orbital- Ariane, Soyuz, Verga
Talked about foreign space flight programs

In the afternoon I went to visit my cousin Jessica. She's married and has two really cute little girls, Auburn age two, and Ruby age eight months.

They lives in Gilbert which is about twenty minutes away. Right now there is a temple under construction in Gilbert less then five minutes away from her house. She took me over there to see it.

We all went out to dinner. (Grandpa, Uncle Derek, Dad, Jessica and her family.) After dinner we were sitting around about to leave and Auburn wandered over to a empty booth and started playing. Some older ladies noticed her and started waving. Auburn waved back and was pretty cute smiling at them.

A few minutes later their waiter came over and said that the ladies wanted to by Auburn a ice cream! Jessica and Auburn went over to say thank you and Auburn came back and enjoyed a ice cream. (Lesson learned, when you are a adorable two year old, play it up at restaurants!)

Here's a brief summery of the evening talks.

Phil Chapman- Revive Human Space Program (That’s basically his message)

Panel Newspace Lessons Learned
“If you’re going to set yourself a regulatory time bomb, think carefully about the length of the fuse.” (I'm not exactly sure on how to describe the context but it was pretty funny.)

Document everything! Take pictures so you can go back and analysis when things go wrong. (a.k.a. your rocket it now scattered all over the landscape)

Armadillo Aerospace, Ben Brockert - showed s video of the stuff they’ve been doing, had some neat pictures of things going boom.

Well, that's day two!
Only one day left!
Madelyn