On Tuesday and Wednesday New Mexico State University will host the second International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight (ISPS) in Las Cruces. The local newspaper, the Sun-News, offers a preview of the event, with conference organizers trying to drum up interest in the event from the local community. “There are going to be some amazing people at the symposium and you can meet and hear their ideas about the challenges and opportunities for commercial space flight,” said ISPS co-chairperson Patricia Hynes.
The conference agenda is online and, from the looks of it, the event does offer a broad perspective of the emerging space tourism industry. Some of the panels do look overloaded, though: one panel, “Panel With The Entrepreneurs”, features nine panelists in a session lasting less than 90 minutes. (“There will be a limited amount of time for questions from the audience,” the agenda advises, perhaps unnecessarily.) the second day features a number of astronaut panels, including one titled simply “Ask the Astronauts Your Questions”, with six astronauts scheduled to participate.
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