Thursday 29 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)

1:00 PM

Diner causerie d'ouverture - Vision 30-30: passer de l'idée à la réalité, présenté par Jean-François Samray

1 hour, 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Friday 30 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)

10:00 AM

Mothers

1 hour, 10:00 AM ADT - 11:00 AM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Discussion Panels

8:00 PM

Hugo Nominee - Looper

2 hours, 8:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Film / Video

10:00 PM

Hugo Nominee - The Hunger Games

2 hours 30 minutes, 10:00 PM ADT - 12:30 AM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Film / Video

Saturday 31 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)

12:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Houston: We Are Go for Exploration!

1 hour, 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Heather Paul (Participant)

Capturing the imagination of future explorers, this presentation takes the audience on a journey through spaceflight history, highlighting the past...

1:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Life on the International Space Station

1 hour, 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Cady Coleman (Participant)

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...

2:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Curiosity: Results from the Mars Science Laboratory

1 hour, 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Paul Niles (Participant)

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...

3:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Engineer Your NASA Career

1 hour, 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Heather Paul (Moderator)

NASA engineer Heather Paul shares her experiences working at NASA, including a picture slideshow of some things that may change your perspective on...

4:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Living the Dream at NASA: A Woman’s Perspective

1 hour, 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Discussion Panels

Tracy Thumm (Participant)

Cady Coleman (Participant)

Heather Paul (Participant)

Alexis Latner (Moderator)

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...

5:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration:Friend or Foe? Near-Earth Asteroid Exploration and Planetary Defense

1 hour, 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Discussion Panels

Arlan Andrews (Moderator)

Mr Lego YO Jr, Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor (Participant)

William Ledbetter (Participant)

NASA recently announced its Grand Challenge to protect Earth from hazardous objects and is currently tracking more than 10,000 near-Earth asteroids...

6:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: The NASA Dawn Mission to 4 Vesta: A Geologist’s Dream Come True

1 hour, 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

David Mittlefehldt (Participant)

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...

7:30 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: The View from Inside the Helmet – Life as a Space Suit Test Subject

1 hour, 7:30 PM ADT - 8:30 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Dean Eppler (Participant)

Long before astronauts take hardware into space, dedicated scientists and engineers are enlisted to test space hardware and discover bugs that may ...

Sunday 1 September, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)

12:00 AM

Midnight Horror Readings

1 hour, 12:00 AM ADT - 1:00 AM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Reading (group)

Jools Haché, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)

12:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Hunting Meteorites at the Bottom of the World

1 hour, 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

David Mittlefehldt (Participant)

Did you know that the United States sends teams of hardy volunteers to Antarctica every austral summer to collect meteorites from the polar plateau...

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!

1 hour, 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Cady Coleman (Participant)

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...

2:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Human Exploration of the Solar System: The Moon as a Stepping Stone to Mars

1 hour, 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Wendell Mendell (Participant)

The Mars Design Reference Mission (MDRM) lays out possible approaches for human missions to Mars. In conjunction with previous studies, the MDRM i...

3:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: When Science, Space Exploration, and Speculative Fiction Collide

1 hour, 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Discussion Panels

John Chu (Participant)

Ann VanderMeer (Participant)

Marco Palmieri (Participant)

Cady Coleman (Participant)

Stanley Schmidt (Moderator)

Come hear astronaut Cady Coleman and a distinguished panel of speculative fiction authors and editors give their perspectives on the interplay of s...

4:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Is the Sky Falling? An Update on the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Impact Event

1 hour, 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Mr Lego YO Jr, Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor (Participant)

On February 15, 2013, the planetary science community eagerly awaited the close flyby of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14, which passed inside Earth’s...

5:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: How Did We Really Do Apollo - A Brief, Selective History

1 hour, 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Dean Eppler (Participant)

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...

6:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: What’s up? Research and Technology on the International Space Station

1 hour, 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Tracy Thumm (Participant)

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...

7:00 PM

NASA Space Science and Exploration: Pictures of Disaster: When Image Analysis has been the Last, Best Hope of Human Spaceflight

1 hour, 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Presentation

Ed Oshel (Participant)

This presentation looks as a selection of imagery and analysis of events that were (or might have become) disasters. Analysts have answered quest...

Monday 2 September, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)

8:45 AM

The Rise of Self-Publishing

1 hour, 8:45 AM ADT - 9:45 AM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

12:00 PM

Best Dramatic Presentation Winners

4 hours, 12:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Film / Video

San Antonio Convention Center - 103A

Sessions

Thursday 29 August, 2013

Friday 30 August, 2013

Saturday 31 August, 2013

Sunday 1 September, 2013

Monday 2 September, 2013