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session 1

Title: Space Resources Fundamentals & Asteroid Mining
Date: 2012-05-22
Time: 15:30
Room: Renoir

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Nadeem Ghafoor, Avalon Space, Canada;
Chairman: Mr. Jerry Sanders, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center, United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Jim Keravala, OffWorld, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Introduction: Key Questions Facing Space Resources Today	15	confirmed	Mr. Gerald Sanders	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center	United States
2		Multi-Stakeholder Gaming and Simulation Environment for a Future Resource Economy in Space	15	confirmed	Mr. Paul Grogan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
3		Recalibrating the ‘Common Heritage of Mankind’ principle to contemporary developments: A case of Lunar and Asteroid Mining	15	withdrawn	Mr. Nishith Mishra	National Law University,Delhi	India
4		Lunar Mining – Debating the perspective of Commercial Enterprise and Developing Nations	15	withdrawn	Mr. Hardeep Singh	National Law University	India
5		Near-Earth asteroid resource accessibility and future capture mission opportunities	15	confirmed	Dr. Joan Pau Sanchez Cuartielles	Advanced Space Concept Laboratory, University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom
6		ASTREA: a Mars lagrangian point base to serve asteroids belt cycling missions	15	confirmed	Prof. Michèle Lavagna	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
7		Returning an Entire Near-Earth Asteroid in Support of Human Exploration Beyond Low-Earth Orbit	15	confirmed	Dr. John Brophy	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology	United States
8		RESOLVE: Lunar Polar Ice/Volatile Characterization for Science, Exploration, and Commercialization	15	confirmed	Mr. William Larson	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center	United States
9		feasibility demonstration of oxygen production on the moon by means of carbothermal reduction with methane process in solid-gas phase	15	confirmed	Mr. Emanuele Monchieri	Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio	Italy
10		Space Mining: Potential Canadian Industrial Interest in ISRU	15	confirmed	Mr. Dale Boucher	Norcat	Canada
11		Mining Lunar Resources - The Shackleton Energy Case	15		Mr. Jim Keravala	Shackleton Energy Company	United States
12		A Comparative Assessment of the Marius Hills and Mare Tranquillitatis Lunar Pits for Proximity Mining Operations	15	withdrawn	Mr. Samuel Ximenes	Exploration Architecture Corp (XARC)	United States
13		Extraction of Strategic Raw Materials and Helium 3 from the Moon and From the Asteroids for Clean Fusion Energy	15	confirmed	Mr. Samaksh Behl	University of Petroleum and Energy Studies	India