Yet Another Stealth Space Policy Meeting
Keith’s note: If you search for “Space Entrepreneurship Conference USC Marshall” you get this link but if you go there, it says “404 – Page Not Found”. If you go to the events page at USC Marshall there is no mention of this event. Greg Autry, who was fired by the Trump NASA Transition Team, has taught at USC Marshall. Yet another example of choir practice in an echo chamber by the usual suspects out of reach of the people who actually pay for the all the shiny space things. This whole National Space Council thing lacks transparency and simply rubber stamps things done behind the scenes, out of sight of the rest of us. And NASA is complicit in the way that these things are being done.
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It appears that it is linked to the Moon Village Association Workshop which has a shout-out to Lockheed as one of the sponsors. Both had some big names from ESA/NASA attending based on the tweeting about it. But after attending similar workshops/conferences over the last 30 years it looks like they are still basically discussing the same old ideas and not realizing that the emerging space economy needs to focus on Earth to build demand first and not just be focused on becoming new space contractors for NASA/ESA.
Good morning…
As it happens, I have the privilege to have been elected to serve as VP of the Moon Village Association MVA last summer. This year, the MVA is now holding it’s second International Moon Village Workshop & Symposium. The MVA meeting (Sunday and Monday) has been held in tandem with two others: the NSS Space Settlement Summit No. 3 (Friday and Saturday) and the space business event at USC (Sunday) — partially for reasons of economics (i.e., sharing some expenses) and partially because attendees could attend more than one.
The meeting was advertised for months on the MVA website and through
various social media, at various events starting last spring at the NSS
ISDC in LA, this fall at IAC in Bremen, etc. The meeting was open to
everyone who wished to attend — and folks who wished to present. We
have been live-streaming everything — with the link available on the
MVA website (moonvillageassociation.org). The program — including planned attendees — is also available at the website (probably with some typos — I was the chair of the program committee!).
I’ve organized and attended many space meetings over the past 38 years; this is not a typical meeting and the topics being discussed are not limited to the topics normally included. If you would like to see the report from the first such meeting, held last year at ISU’s permanent campus in France, you can find it at the MVA website (scroll down to the bottom left) on the home page. There is also a lot of other information about the MVA, its goals and its activities during the past year. The report from this year’s event will be completed (if all goes well) shortly after the first of the year, and made available for anyone.
Best regards from LA…
OK So why is Scott Pace giving off the record commentary to a select few? Why did USC pull mention of the meeting from their website? I can’t find any mention of the “Space Entrepreneurship Conference” at USC Marshall that Greg Autry was talking about at the Moon Village website. Nor does there seem to be *any* agenda on the website for the meeting. If you hide things, don’t tell people about them, and make some sessions off-the-record, don’t be surprised when people complain. FWIW I never mentioned “Moon Village” in my post. If this off-the-record event by Scott Pace did not happen at your event then I am not certain why you are even commenting in the first place. Just sayin’
I just wanted you / your readers to know more about the MV event; the other two meetings were co-located, but independently organized and implemented.
I never mentioned you or your organization in the first place.
Thomas Matula mentioned the MVA meeting in the first comment to your piece; that was the only reason I thought I should provide some info about it…
So the meetings are actually independent of each other? Because it appeared from the various twitter feeds they were overlapping somehow and Scott Pace appeared to be speaking at more than one. That is the basis of the my confusion about how the SCCSI fitted in.
BTW I do recall Greg Autry discussing the planned SCCSI at the ISDC session I presented at and I also saw the discussions of the MVA, but didn’t see them as being related at that time. It sounds like that was the correct impression.
Tom,
Definitely co-located: with some coordinated logistics (e.g., who gets which meeting room on a given day) and some shared goals (e.g., we all believe in the power of space development for expanding human activity in space). However, definitely independently organized, etc. etc.
All the best…
John, Thanks! Sorry for the confusion.