10:00

NOAA Perspectives

• Mary Kicza, NOAA Assistant Administrator for National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service

10: 30

Reflections on Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century

• Conrad Lautenbacher, former NOAA Administrator

11:00

Hill Perspectives

• Richard Obermann, House Science and Technology Committee

• Ken Monroe, House Science and Technology Committee

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30

Department of Transportation Perspectives

• George Nield, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration

2:30

Panel Discussion on Space in the Eyes of the Public

• Howard McCurdy, American University

• Kathy Sawyer, Journalist and Author

• George T. Whitesides, National Space Society

4:00

International Perspectives

• Joan Johnson-Freese, U.S. Naval War College

• Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas, Austin

9:00 a.m.

Committee Discussion