Returned from my travels
Catching up on blogging after preparing for and traveling to the Space Frontier Foundation conference.

I flew out a day early, on Wednesday, to make the pilgrimage up to Mojave, a hotbed of entrepreneurial space activity. On Thursday, visited with the folks at XCOR and took the airport van tour.

Back to LA for the conference. There appeared to be a sense of renewed optimism based on the progress of the start-up companies, some of whom are competing for the X-Prize. One highlight was a luncheon address by House Space Subcommittee Chairman Dana Rohrabacher, sponsor of the Commercial Space Act of 2003. The biggest surprise announcement of the conference was of a new X-Prize entry.