Watch Imagine '09 Live

Keith's note: I just got this from the organizers of the AAS event Imagine '09 behing held 2-3 December. Portions of the event will be webcast live here. Agenda and other event details can be found here.


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An interesting conference-I guess its meant to be sort of a TED conference with more space (but not necessarily NASA) cheerleaders.

The topics yesterday were not so much spaceflight as they were how to get some public interest in space.

Bob Rogers somewhat set the tone I think. He gave a particularly good talk in which he said he was immediately dismissed from Constellation when he dared to ask what Constellation's goal was, and no one in program management could provide an answer. One of the program science people there said that once Mars evaporated from the Constellation mission statement, the entire program lost direction. Rogers told some of the top NASA management who attended yesterday that they needed to be guided by the business and marketing case; but the people he was talking to are the ones who have been responsible for avoiding just this for many years.

Though pretty well organized, the conference is a bit hard to follow since the agenda is somewhat nondescript.

Most topics today seem to be about NewSpace and not real spaceflight.

Unfortunately not a lot of attendance. A few folks talking to the choir. About 85 attending yesterday at any one time; somewhat fewer here today. And only about 10 watching on-line.

I have no where to post this some I am gonna do it here.What the hell is the problem with the LROC imagery? Its like 1 every month or 2 months now. Ive written several people at ARZST. not to mention those at JPL and NASA nothing.. Come on guys what is the problem here.. we get more data from several year old rovers than you guys.. Not to mention the steady stream of data from cassini. over 100 gbs per day and we get one RAW nac a month? I hate to nag but DAMN.

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