Join us at the International Space Development Conference this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan.

That old final frontier, the one that begins just

a hundred miles or so above your head, was the unifying passion that brought about

1,200 people to the Sheridan Gateway Conference Center in Southern California.

Good morning and welcome to the 25th annual International Space Development Conference.

My name is George Whitesides.

I'm the Executive Director of the National Space Society and it is a tremendous pleasure

to welcome you all to Los Angeles for this historic

event. We have got an amazing four days in store for us all and it is such a pleasure to have

dear friends, new friends,

old friends, new potential acquaintances here all gathered in one place.

If we are as a species to change the path of how humanity explores and settle space,

these are the people in this room who will do it. You are the people who will do it.

That was the beginning of four packed days of seminars, presentations, panel discussions, and keynote addresses at the just completed ISDC.

It was an absolute who's who of the space community where you were as likely to run into an Apollo

astronaut like Buzz Aldrin or Rusty Schweichert as a JPL principal

investigator, a Virgin Galactic Space Tourism Executive, or an artist specializing in works relying on an interplanetary theme.

We can just barely bring you 1% of what was heard in the many meeting rooms.

We'll forego Emily Lockwala's Q&A segment this week so that we can squeeze in a bit more coverage.

You'll still hear Bruce and me with an ISDC edition of What's Up at the end of our half hour. Speaking of Bruce Betts, our boy was one of the three co-chairs of this year's conference.

That fact in itself may say something important about the growing community of space enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and explorers.

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