Sessions
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Mothers San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 10:00 AM ADT - 11:00 AM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Hugo Nominee - Looper San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 8:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT | 2 hours
- Film / Video
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Hugo Nominee - The Hunger Games San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 10:00 PM ADT - 12:30 AM ADT | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Film / Video
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Houston: We Are Go for Exploration! San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Capturing the imagination of future explorers, this presentation takes the audience on a journey through spaceflight history, highlighting the past...
- Presentation
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Life on the International Space Station San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Have you ever wanted to know the yuckiest thing about living in low-earth orbit? How about the most amazing? The things astronauts miss the most w...
- Presentation
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Curiosity: Results from the Mars Science Laboratory San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Dr. Paul Niles, member of the science team for the Mars Science Laboratory, will talk about the Curiosity rover on Mars, including a description of...
- Presentation
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Engineer Your NASA Career San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- NASA engineer Heather Paul shares her experiences working at NASA, including a picture slideshow of some things that may change your perspective on...
- Presentation
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Living the Dream at NASA: A Woman’s Perspective San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Cady Coleman is a NASA astronaut who has flown 3 missions, including a 6-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Heather Paul is a NAS...
- Discussion Panels
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration:Friend or Foe? Near-Earth Asteroid Exploration and Planetary Defense San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- NASA recently announced its Grand Challenge to protect Earth from hazardous objects and is currently tracking more than 10,000 near-Earth asteroids...
- Discussion Panels
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: The NASA Dawn Mission to 4 Vesta: A Geologist’s Dream Come True San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- A long, long time ago in a state far, far away, a young geochemistry graduate student began his research career studying a clan of igneous meteorit...
- Presentation
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: The View from Inside the Helmet – Life as a Space Suit Test Subject San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 7:30 PM ADT - 8:30 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Long before astronauts take hardware into space, dedicated scientists and engineers are enlisted to test space hardware and discover bugs that may ...
- Presentation
12:00 AM
12:00 AM
- Midnight Horror Readings San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 12:00 AM ADT - 1:00 AM ADT | 1 hour
- Reading (group)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Hunting Meteorites at the Bottom of the World San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Did you know that the United States sends teams of hardy volunteers to Antarctica every austral summer to collect meteorites from the polar plateau...
- Presentation
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration:Ready - Set - GO! How to prepare for 6 months in Low-Earth Orbit – or to Infinity and Beyond – right here on Mother Earth! San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Even here on Terra Firma, we can find good environments to rehearse our journeys off-planet. Join astronaut Cady Coleman as she discusses the know...
- Presentation
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Human Exploration of the Solar System: The Moon as a Stepping Stone to Mars San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- The Mars Design Reference Mission (MDRM) lays out possible approaches for human missions to Mars. In conjunction with previous studies, the MDRM i...
- Presentation
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: When Science, Space Exploration, and Speculative Fiction Collide San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Come hear astronaut Cady Coleman and a distinguished panel of speculative fiction authors and editors give their perspectives on the interplay of s...
- Discussion Panels
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Is the Sky Falling? An Update on the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Impact Event San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- On February 15, 2013, the planetary science community eagerly awaited the close flyby of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14, which passed inside Earth’s...
- Presentation
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: How Did We Really Do Apollo - A Brief, Selective History San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- The Apollo Program is one of the highest technical achievements of this or any era, but much of what the program accomplished is shrouded behind me...
- Presentation
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: What’s up? Research and Technology on the International Space Station San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Ever wonder what we’re up to on the International Space Station? Come learn about the scientific research we’re doing with our International partn...
- Presentation
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- NASA Space Science and Exploration: Pictures of Disaster: When Image Analysis has been the Last, Best Hope of Human Spaceflight San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- This presentation looks as a selection of imagery and analysis of events that were (or might have become) disasters. Analysts have answered quest...
- Presentation
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- The Rise of Self-Publishing San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 8:45 AM ADT - 9:45 AM ADT | 1 hour
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Best Dramatic Presentation Winners San Antonio Convention Center - 103A
- 12:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 4 hours
- Film / Video