Session 5: Space Entrepreneurs 19 November 2008, Pasadena California http://www.astronautical.org/conference/conference-2008

1. Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards, Founder & CEO A Commercial Lunar Enterprise Preparing for Moon 2.0

2. Ansari X PRIZE - 2004 The winning of the $10M Ansari X PRIZE by SpaceShipOne changed the public mindset toward space and inspired the Personal Spaceflight Revolution.

3. Ansari X PRIZE - 2004 It was the second biggest news story of 2004 and the most successful AOL webcast ever.

5. The $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE was announced on September 13th, 2007.

6. “ MOON 2.0” represents the second era of lunar exploration. Inspiring innovative business models for lunar enterprise

7. Odyssey Moon Enters the Race December 6 th , 2007 Odyssey Moon was unveiled on Dec 6 th , 2007 as the first official contender for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE

8. More GLXP Teams were announced on Feb 21 st during a media event at Google HQ in Mountain View, California.

13. Industrial Partner: Optech

17. Education & Public Outreach “ The Moon is a stepping stone into the solar system, for governments and for the private sector. Odyssey Moon's leap forward to this stepping stone could presage a new day of commercial ventures beyond Earth.” - Dr. Louis Friedman, Executive Director THE PLANETARY SOCIETY Carl Sagan

21. Worldwide Media Attention

26. - NASA LADEE Lunar Orbiter is based on the NASA Ames Common Spacecraft Bus - OMV will adapt the CSB into a lunar lander to deliver payloads to the lunar surface Hover Test Vehicle NASA Ames

27. Was this purely a design coincidence, or was it actually intended to resemble Darth Vader? - Flickr blog post

28. Was this purely a design coincidence, or was it actually intended to resemble Darth Vader? - Flickr blog post

29. Was this purely a design coincidence, or was it actually intended to resemble Darth Vader? - Flickr blog post

31. M-1: NASA SALMON Commercial Mission of Opportunity Principle Investigator Budget

33. Project “McMoon” The greatest techno-archaeology project of the space-age began quietly during the summer of 2008 in an abandoned McDonald’s at the NASA Ames Research Center. Objective : recover never seen before Lunar Orbiter imagery at it’s highest resolution (< 1 meter).

34. Project “McMoon” 48,000 pounds of the original Lunar Orbiter tapes were loaned from JPL.

35. Project “McMoon” Students participated in the unpacking and cataloguing of over 1,700 tapes. Over 40 years old, the tapes contain the most detailed images of the lunar surface images ever taken.

36. Project “McMoon” Students also participated in the restoration of the AMPEX tape machines rescued from a garage by the LOIRP team.

37. Project “McMoon” Like a scene from the movie “Contact”, the LOIRP team discovered how to read and interpret the 40+ year old audio and image data. www.moonviews.com

38. Project “McMoon” www.moonviews.com The iconic “Earthrise” image taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966 was released in fully restored high resolution format by the LOIRP Team on Nov 13 th , 2008.

39. Project “McMoon” Features of ~1mile are now visible in this image of the Earth taken from the Moon. Imagine what we will be able to resolve on the lunar surface. www.moonviews.com

40. Analog Sites for Customers

41. Nothing Beats Reality

42. Nothing Beats Teambuilding

43. Hazard Avoidance & Precision Landing Technology Demos 8’x12’ 1/50 th Scaled Terrain Model 3-D point cloud + draped image Safe Sight identification and tracking through a hardware in the loop demonstration utilizing a scaled terrain model.

45. Flight Schedule The lander flight schedule for the forecast period FY08-FY15 is illustrated in the chart. In each case the lander system has a development period of c. 3 years from initial mission scoping to rocket launch.

46. M-1: A Space Odyssey

47. www.odysseymoon.com