This Symposium is dedicated to interplanetary economics and how society can benefit from resources from outer space and the planets. Specialists from the US, UK, Belgium and the Netherlands will discuss examples from space-based solar energy and asteroid mining, to commercial exploration of the Moon and Mars and the use of the Google Lunar X prize to catalyze the commercial usage of the Moon. The symposium is being organized by the Dutch chapter of the Planetary Society , Space Horizon and VU University Amsterdam and takes place in room WN-KC-159 of the VU University Amsterdam on friday April 3 2009.
The detailed programme is as follows:
- 12:00 Registration
- 13:00 Opening
- 13:15 Professor J.S. Lewis, Mining the Sky
- 14:00 Dr. S. Thatchkova, Economic Benefits of Moon and Mars Exploration
- 14:45 Break
- 15:15 Dr. P. Sage, Energy from Space
- 16:00 E. Laan & A. Wielders, Commercial Moon
- 16:45 Forum discussion
- 17:30 Closure / complementary drinks
Registration for this not-to-miss event is by e-mail to: secretariaat@ruimtevaart-nvr.nl
Sponsors of Space 2.0: Interplanetary Economics: resources from space are NIVR , TNO and Cosine .
