Interactive ISDC Sunday Description/$50 per ticket; 10% off for NSS members

From 1 pm – 6 pm, NSS is hosting Interactive ISDC Sunday June 27, an exclusive event that brings participants into contract with leading space experts in an interactive format.  These discussions are not suitable for a general audience – they are challenging and stimulating. They are not short, summarized, or condensed. But we think you will find the day exciting!

Part I: Perspectives on the Artemis Accords, brings together both global and US perspectives on the rapidly expanding Artemis Accords. Featured speakers include:

• Moderator: Michelle Hanlon, NSS President, and Co-Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law
• Dr. Andrea Harrington, Interim Dean of Space Education at Air University, and former Chair of the Department of Spacepower at Air Command and Staff College.
• Memme Onwudiwe, Harvard Law, on “Africa and the Artemis Accords”
• Gabriel Swiney, the head space lawyer at the US Department of State

Part II: A Debate – Is Space Settlement a Good idea? Pits long time space settlement advocate Mark Hopkins against Daniel Deudeny, an advocate of the view that space settlement is an existential threat to humanity.

• Moderator: Anita Gale, NSS CEO
• For the Affirmative, Mark Hopkins, NSS CEO Emeritus, and former Rand Economist.
• For the Negative, Daniel Deudney, professor of political science at John’s Hopkins University and author of DARK SKIES.

Part III:  The military aspects of DARK SKIES: Do they make sense?  NSS has assembled a leading panel of former and active-duty military panelists to discuss this interesting topic.

• Moderator: Karlton Johnson, Chairman, NSS BOG, and Colonel, USAF, retired.
• Stan Rosen: Professor of Program Management at the Defense Acquisition University.
• Major Jeremy Grunert:Officer in the Air Force JAG Corps and Assistant Professor of Law at the US Air Force Academy
• Peter Garretson, Lt. Col., USAF, and advocate for space solar power
• Dale Skran, NSS COO, former Bell Labs

Part IV: The civilian aspects of DARK SKIES: Does the political science make sense?  An examination of the thinking underlying the political aspects of DARK SKIES.

• Moderator: Michelle Hanlon, NSS President
• Claudena Skran, Professor of Government at Lawrence University, 1983 Rhodes Scholar.
• Al Globus, retired NASA Ames contractor, co-author of THE HIGH FRONTIER: AN EASIER WAY and editor of the NSS Space Settlement Journal
• Jeff Greason, Chief Technologist at Electric Sky and Chairman of the Board for the Tau Zero Foundation, and member of the Augustine Commission
• Greg Autry, NSS VP of Space Development and Clinical Professor of Space Leadership, Policy, at Business at Arizona State University
• Rebecca Lipe: a former Air Force accident investigator, currently her legal practice focuses on NTSB accident response and aviation and space law