Summit Schedule

7:30 a.m.

Registration Opens

8:30 a.m.

Welcome to UND

President Andrew Armacost, University of North Dakota

8:40 a.m.

Space Vision in North Dakota

Randy Richards, Field Representative, Northeast/Policy Adviser for Senator Cramer

9 a.m.

Keynote Speaker Presentation

Michael O'Donnell, Deputy Associate Administrator, Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

9:30 a.m.

Speaker Presentation

Lt. Col. Michael Woodhouse, Warfighter Integration Officer, Space Development Agency

9:50 a.m.

Speaker Presentation

Ahsen Abbasi, Director of Ground Systems Development, Iridium

10:10 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m.

Speaker Presentation

Keith Freeman, Director of Mission Operations (MO), Lockheed Martin

10:50 a.m.

Speaker Presentation

Jerome Patterson, Chief Architect/ORSA - Programs, Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems

11:10 a.m.

Speaker Presentation

Lt. Col. Michael Stobie, Commander, 10th Space Warning Squadron, Cavalier Space Force Station, ND

11:30 a.m.

UND Panel

• Ryan Adams, Associate Dean of National Security

• Ronald Fevig, Associate Professor, Space Studies

Chaired by Mark Askelson, Associate Vice President for Research-National Security, University of North Dakota

12 p.m.

General SoS Lunch

12 p.m.

(UND Students Only) Pizza with Paul Lockhart

Paul Lockhart, Retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA Astronaut, a Veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

1 p.m.

Speaker Presentation

Sara Sabry, Astronaut, Engineer, CEO & Founder at Deep Space Initiative

1:20 p.m.

Keynote Speaker Presentation

Paul Lockhart, Retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA Astronaut, a Veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

2 p.m.

BLUE ORIGIN: Building a Road to Space for the Benefit of Earth

Steven Smith, Director of Flight Systems, Blue Origin

2:30 p.m.

Pearl Young Video Presentation

Caitlin Milera, Director, ND Space Grant Consortium and ND NASA EPSCoR, Research Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota Aerospace

2:45 p.m.

Break

3 p.m.

Parabolic Research in Martian, Lunar, and Microgravity

Kevin Sproge, CEO, Zero-G

3:30 p.m.

NASA Gateway Lunar Station

Nanette Valentour, System Engineer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

3:50 p.m.

Human Spaceflight Research

Pablo De Leon, Department Chair, Professor, Space Studies, University of North Dakota

4 p.m.

Space Research Under Water

Keith Crisman, Assistant Professor, Space Studies, University of North Dakota

4:10 p.m.

UND Astronomy

Sherry Fieber-Beyer, Associate Professor, Space Studies, University of North Dakota

4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

5 p.m.

Evening Networking Social

Sponsored by UND Research & Economic Development