Any day now, either later this week or early next week, the Augustine committee is set to release its final report. Around that time a couple members of the committee will be making public appearances inside and outside the Beltway, hopefully providing a little more background and detail about their work now that the report is complete.
- On Tuesday the 20th Lester Lyles will be speaking at a joint luncheon of the Washington Space Business Roundtable and Women in Aerospace about the report, at the University Club on 16th Street in DC.
- On Wednesday the 21st Jeff Greason will be speaking at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, NM. NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver is scheduled to speak at the conference the next day.
- Greason will also be speaking on Thursday, October 29th at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) meeting in Washington. Unlikely the other two meetings, which have registration fees, this is free and open to the public.
Greason and Lyles have already been speaking about the committee’s work, Lyles at a forum at GWU’s Space Policy Institute and Greason at the Space Investment Summit 7 in Boston at the end of September. Depending on the timing of the final report’s release, they may be free to talk in additional detail about the report’s findings at these later events.
[Disclosure: I had a cameo role in organizing the WSBR-WIA luncheon with Lyles by suggesting that the two organizations work together to plan a joint event rather than do separate events.]
Road Trips are good
Robert G. Oler