CONFERENCE ON SPACE TO BE HELD CALIFORNIA INNOVATION WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED.Byline: Daily News The California Space Authority's ``Transforming Space: California Innovation, Infrastructure and Intellectual Capital'' conference will highlight California's accomplishments in civil, defense and commercial spaceflight as well as space-related education. Civil space accomplishments will be showcased by the three NASA centers located in California - the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. , NASA Ames Research Center NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. This research center is most commonly called NASA Ames. and NASA Dryden Flight Center. Together, the centers contribute more than $4 billion to the state's economy each year and employ more than 7,000 people in high-tech, high-wage jobs. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will be featured as one of the speakers at the conference. In addition, center directors Dr. Charles Elachi of JPL, Scott Hubbard of Ames and Kevin Petersen of Dryden will be present, along with astronaut Edwin ``Buzz'' Aldrin. Defense space accomplishments will be showcased upon the state's seven military bases with significant space assets, including Los Angeles Air Force Base's Space and Missile Systems Center Based out of Los Angeles Air Force Base in California, the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is a part of Air Force Space Command of the United States Air Force. Its mission is to conduct research and development of U.S. military outer space and missile systems. , Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. and Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . The Space and Missile Systems Center procures all of the Air Force's space hardware, processing annually $9 billion worth of contracts providing more than 40,000 jobs in both government and industry. General Lance Lord, commander of Air Force Space Command, will provide one of the luncheon keynote addresses. Other commanders present at the conference will include Col. Jack Weinstein of Vandenberg, Capt. Mack Insch of the Naval Satellite Operations Center and Lt. Gen. Michael Hamel of Los Angeles Air Force Base Los Angeles Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). . Commercial space accomplishments will be showcased by the recent success of companies such as Scaled Composites in Mojave and Space Dev in San Diego, which together won the Ansari X Prize The Ansari X PRIZE was a space competition in which the X PRIZE Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. . It is estimated that commercial space companies contribute more than $83 billion to the state's economy and provide about 250,000 jobs. California Business, Housing and Transportation Agency Secretary Sunne Wright McPeak, Scaled test pilot Brian Binnie, Dr. Peter Diamandis of the X Prize Foundation and entrepreneur Elon Musk of Space Exploration Technologies will be featured. Space-related education will be showcased by the contributions of nonprofit organizations such as the Chabot Science Center in Oakland, the Aerospace Institute in Los Angeles, and colleges and universities. Highlighted will be the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Riverside's Bourns School of Engineering and the CubeSat Program, which includes students from Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University This article is about the university in San Luis Obispo, California. For Cal Poly Pomona, see California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. California Polytechnic State University, commonly called Cal Poly , San Luis Obispo, who have designed, built and launched payloads into orbit. Co-chaired by U.S. Reps. Ken Calvert and Jane Harman, the conference will be held at the Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday and Friday. For additional information or to register, go to:www.californiaspaceauthority.org/html/spotbeam-conf-2005/index.html. |
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