NSS Space Settlement Summit to Be Held at Kennedy Space Center

The Exclusive Newspace Gathering Takes Place November 8 and 9, 2024

The National Space Society’s Space Settlement Summit 2024 will be held November 8-9, 2024, at the Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is a unique event, offering intimate access to some of the leading figures in space settlement and development. Participants will join NSS leadership and a dynamic group of leaders from the space industry, government, military, and academia.

This year’s summit focuses on this question: How do we prevent or control cislunar conflict within the rapidly expanding wave of human spaceflight?

The summit will be highly interactive with all participants actively engaged in workshops, discussions, and presentations on policies that will encourage the rapid development of technologies and capabilities required to get thousands of people living and working together, peacefully, in space.

Featured speakers at Space Settlement Summit 2024 will include:

  • Robert Long, President and CEO, Space Florida
  • Chris Ferguson, retired NASA and Boeing astronaut and Principal at The Perinski Group
  • Namrata Goswami, Independent Scholar on International Relations
  • Roseanne Healy, Managing Director of Enterprise Corporation Pty Ltd
  • Col. James T. Horne, III, Space Systems Command, Patrick Space Force Base
    Dale Skran, COO and SVP of the National Space Society
  • Peter Garretson, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council
  • John C. Mankins, Space Solar Power, National Space Society
  • Dr. Phil Metzger, University of Central Florida and Florida Space Institute
  • Dr. Pascal Lee, Planetary Scientist, Mars Institute and SETI Institute
  • Frank White, author of The Overview Effect
  • …and others TBD

Please register now or contact [email protected] for more information. Media passes available for accredited outlets.

Please go to SpaceSettlementSummit.NSS.org for more information.

Image at top from last year’s Space Settlement Summit.

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