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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: Elon Musk Coming to Mars Society Convention Elon Musk To Speak At 2007 Mars Society Convention by Alex Kirk last modified 2007-03-29 13:40 Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, will speak at the 2007 Mars Society Convention, to be held at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, August 30-Sept 2, 2007. The Mars Society is proud to announce that Elon Musk will be speaking at the 10th International Mars Society Convention, which will be held at UCLA, Los Angeles, August 30-Sept 2, 2007. Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, an entrepreneurial rocket development company that just made history by reaching an altitude of 200 miles with its privately developed Falcon 1 launch vehicle. Much larger Falcon 5 and Falcon 9 vehicles are reportedly under development that will allow SpaceX to radically reduce the cost of reaching space with both medium and large payloads. SpaceX is also developing a man-rated capsule to enable low-cost human transportation to space. Musk is also the Chairman of the Board of Tesla Motors, which just revealed its revolutionary high-speed electric car. In his talk, Elon Musk will lay out his vision and his plans for opening the space frontier. Come hear a real space cowboy! A biography of Elon Musk can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Elon Musk's plenary talk will be presented on the morning of Friday August 31. It will be one of dozens of talks that will be given at the conference by leaders of both human and robotic space exploration efforts from around the world. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.marssociety.org. Those wishing to speak should send abstracts of no more than 300 words to msabstracts@aol.com. Deadline is May 31, 2007. Poster's Comment: I heard about this guy on the BBC yesterday. Brilliant billionaire who is now putting his money into space exploration. Since the gummint has decided to piss away all our money on tanks and floating targets and missiles and failed wars, we have to rely on private sector guys like this if our kids are going to have their villas on Mars.
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