Dr. Geroge Nield is the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation for the FAA. This is his keynote presentation at 1:00pm UTC on Thursday, May 28th 2009 at ISDC.


  1. RocketFan says:
    June 2, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Hi Spacevidcasters!

    While I do appreciate you extensive coverage of the ISDC I have to confess, that I could not watch this speech for more than about 7 minutes. I just could not bear Dr. Nield READING! his speech any longer…
    And there I was thinking that it could only get better after the extremely boring introducer :D

    Best Regards,
    RocketFan

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    • Benjamin Higginbotham says:
      June 3, 2009 at 3:24 am

      HA! Well, some were better than others, and each one serves a different person. Hopefully you have found at least one speech that you like from ISDC!

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      • RocketFan says:
        June 3, 2009 at 11:22 am

        Hi Ben!

        Well, as I have commented over at the next video, I think Jeff Greason’s Keynote was very good! Will Whitehorn’s speech was also enjoyable but not as good. There was just (as usual with virgin) a little bit too much “oh we are sooo green and good” marketing talk ;)

        Chris Lewicki’s Review of the Phoenix mission was very insightful, I actually did learn a few new things, that I didn’t know before (although I’ve read pretty much every update about the Phoenix during it’s lifetime).

        Unfortunately I have a lot of work at the moment, so I will need some time to take a look at all the others, but there are definitely a few more that I want to see!

        Once again, thanks for the great coverage!

        best regards from Austria,
        marcus

        PS: one little thing: is there any possibility to record the video streams BEFORE the chat overlay gets added? Don’t get me wrong, the chat is great while watching you live! But, if you are watching a recorded speech/keynote by somebody else, without direct interaction from the people in the chat, most of the messages seem to be completely unrelated to the current speech and can be really distracting.
        But I think this is only a minor problem, so if there is no way of doing it, I can live with it ;)

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