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www.robobusiness2006.com June 20-21, 2006 Sheraton Station Square Pittsburgh, PA The International Business Development Event for the Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems Industry Five Comprehensive Tracks • Business Development and Partnership • Technology and Standards • Applications and Products • Investment Opportunities • Markets and Industries - Security and Defense Robotics - Intelligent Transportation and Field Robotics - Healthcare Robotics - Consumer Robotics Founding Sponsor: Premier Sponsors: Sponsors: Association Academic Co-sponsors: Co-sponsor: Media Sponsors: Produced by: Premier Media Sponsor: Photos courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University, Openware Robotics, ActivMedia/Mobile Robots and Frontline Robotics.
LEAVING THE CRADLE A B C Colorful Entrepreneurs Fund Commercial Manned Spaceflight D E by Edward Driscoll, Jr. In 1911, Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky famously wrote, “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” NASA’s early space program culminating in the 1969 landing on the moon was something of a false start — much was accomplished, and then essentially abandoned for budgetary reasons. The Space Shuttle today seems both a limited and dated technology, and NASA’s current resources leave little room for expansion. But if Burt Rutan, Paul Allen, and Richard Branson have their way, private industry will be taking its own first baby steps in helping mankind leave the cradle. Rutan is the veteran aviation designer who won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004, which called for a reusable manned spacecraft to fly to the edge of space (100 kilometers/62 miles) twice within two weeks. His SpaceShipOne design fulfilled those requirements by flying on September 29th and October 4th of 2004, with a pilot and approximately 400 pounds of weight to simulate the weight of two crewmen. Paul Allen of Microsoft personally funded Rutan’s Scaled Composites (www.scaled. com) — the company that built SpaceShipOne and owns the technology behind it. The flamboyant Branson created Virgin Galactic (www.virgingalac tic.com) to put that technology to Refer to the photos above: PHOTO A. SpaceShipOne in feather mode prepares for re-entry from space. Video capture courtesy of Vulcan Productions/Discovery Channel . PHOTO B. SpaceShipOne is shown gliding back to base during flight 15P in an air-to-air photograph. Photo courtesy of Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network. PHOTO C. SpaceShipOne sits on the ramp on its landing gear. PHOTO D. Shown just before touchdown at 90 mph, SpaceShipOne returns to the runway. PHOTO E. SpaceShipOne lands in front of a crowd of 27,500 people after its first flight to space. Photo courtesy of Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network. March 2006 67
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