NIAC Innovative Advanced Concepts Symp, Hampton, VA

14-Nov-2012 through 15-Nov-2012

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program will hold its fall symposium from November 14-15, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hampton, VA.  

The keynote speeches and other presenters will be broadcast on Ustream at http://www.livestream.com/niac2012.  The keynotes are:

• Nov. 14, 10:45 am ET, Prof. Penny Boston, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Nov. 15, 8:100 am ET, Mason Peck, NASA Chief Technologist

The complete agenda is on NIAC's website. 

Further details are in the NASA press release, which is reproduced below.

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-212

NASA HOLDS INNOVATIVE ADVANCED CONCEPTS SYMPOSIUM NOV. 14-15

WASHINGTON -- The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program's
2012 Fall Symposium will be held Nov. 14-15, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza
Hotel in Hampton, Va. NIAC examines early stage concepts that may
lead to advanced and innovative space technologies critical for NASA
to enable missions in the next 10 to 100 years.

Panel topics during the free public symposium include propulsion and
power, space debris removal, near-Earth object mitigation, humans in
space and on the surface of planets, robotics and space probes, and
imaging and communications.

Experts in aeronautics and advanced technologies will give keynote
presentations and discuss the latest news about NIAC's progress and
plans. Poster sessions will showcase the ongoing projects of current
NIAC fellows.

Keynote speakers include NASA's chief technologist, Mason Peck, and
professor Penny Boston of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology in Socorro. Boston will discuss "What's a nice girl like
you doing in a place like this? Looking for life in all the wrong
places, from caves to Mars and beyond" at 10:45 a.m. EST Wednesday,
Nov. 14. Peck will discuss "Technology and the Future" at 8 a.m.,
Thursday, Nov. 15. For those unable to attend, keynote speakers and
other presenters at the symposium can be seen on LiveStream at:

http://www.livestream.com/niac2012

To view the complete conference agenda and for free registration,
visit:

http://tinyurl.com/bb87x35

Journalists registering to attend the symposium should list their news
organization under "affiliation." Reporters seeking interviews with
NASA or other symposium participants should contact Kathy Barnstorff
at kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov or 757-864-9886.
NIAC is part of NASA's Space Technology Program, which is innovating,
developing, testing, and flying technology for use in NASA's future
missions and the greater aerospace community.

For more information about the NIAC program and NASA's Space
Technology Program, visit:

http://go.usa.gov/YArh


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