First Joint Meeting of the
Space Resources Roundtable and the
Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium

Colorado School of Mines • Golden, Colorado USA

June 8-10, 2010

The Space Resources Roundtable, Inc. (SRR) and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) in collaboration with the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), will convene their first joint meeting on June 8-10, 2010 at Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, CO.

The Space Resources Roundtable brings together space professionals, natural resources industry personnel, and entrepreneurs interested in developing the resources of space, including the Moon, Mars, asteroids, comets, and other bodies of this solar system. The goal of the Space Resources Roundtable is to advance prospects for the commercial development of space resources through information exchange among government, commercial, and academic organizations.

The purpose of the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium is to promote a closer relationship between the space and mining sectors. The intent is to allow mining experts to network with space scientists and engineers, to share knowledge, and to foster collaboration.

The recent shift in NASA's strategy for space exploration presents unique implications to both near and longterm plans for the search and utilization of space resources. This first joint meeting of the SRR and PTMSS will provide a forum for discussion on the potential opportunities available for space resources research and technology development in this new environment.

The SRR and the PTMSS solicit presentations about:

• Orbital or landed measurements of the Moon, Mars, and/or asteroids and comets to identify and characterize potential resources
• Resource utilization experiments
• Resource processing technologies
• Experiment results that could lead to manufacturing with space resources
• Commercial details of space resources on Earth and in Space
• Space power systems
• Materials transportation systems – in space and on the surface
• Space transportation systems utilizing space resources
• Market demand and utilization scenarios for space resources and their products
• The relationship between government-funded exploration and private ventures in identifying and using space resources, and how to develop public-private partnerships
• Property rights in space
• Or any other serious study of space resources-related

The meeting will be organized to accommodate both the discussion of technical reports and subgroup analyses of specific topics of particular interest. The white papers we produce from these analyses provide decision makers with technically sound recommendations for incorporating space resources into new exploration programs.

To showcase the progress achieved to date in the space resources field, there will be a half-day session on ISRU technology demonstrations. Excavators, drilling mechanisms, rovers, chemical extraction plants, and other hardware designed for space-resource applications will be exhibited and operated.