Space Education & Strategic Applications Conference (SESA)

1. Keynote Panel: Commemorating 50 years of International Collaboration of Humans in Space 1975-2025



1a. Arnauld Nicogossian

1b. Charles Doarn

0900

1. Walt Conrad
2. Sandeepa Bhat B.: Commercial Use of Near-Earth Asteroid Resources: Legal Issues and the Way Forward
3. Adithya Variath: Evolutionary Patterns of Earth System Laws and Outer Space Governance: Future of Space Law and Policy in the Third/Fourth World
4. Kelly Soverns: The Future of Space Hegemony: Commercial Power and Policy Gaps
5. Nasty-Marian Vladoiu: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SPACE LAW − EMERGENT AUTONOMOUS DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
6. Annie Beckman: Space Policy for Digital Equity

1. Kristi Drexler
2. Terry Trevino: Remote Sensing of Ocean Health and Nanoplastics via Hyperspectral Detection
3. Jane Ielmini: Orbit on the Edge: Redesigning Space for a Sustainable Future.
4. Discussion: Kelly Reiss and Daniela Mesina: The Center for Research in Earth & Environmental Sustainability and Technology (CREST): A Proposal for Promoting Student-Faculty Research in Sustainability

1. Gary Deel
2. Mark Kelso: Space Law and Policy Update for 2025
3. Andreaa Mosila: Safeguarding the Cosmos: The Role of Space Security in the 21st Century and Preserving Missions Like HST
4. James Barney: Teaching Space Studies in an Age of Conflict and Profit: Reframing Space Studies as Liberal Arts Discipline

1. Fouad Louik: The tracking of celestial objects by Moroccan and Andalusian polymath scholars laid the foundation for Copernicus' heliocentric model
2. Wendy Severino: NASA commission in the global space planetary sustainability; International relationship United States Apollo affordable budget initiative.
3. Kailly Nocera: Experimental Testing on the Effect of Emitter Radius of Curvature on Electrospray Ion Emission
4. Katelyn Milliman: Exploring Nonstandard Stars in Open Cluster Environments
5. Brittany Sweezer: Enceladus an Archean Earth
6. Keston Denhalter: The Gravity Rig Trials: Cardiorespiratory Response and Performance in Gravity Environments
7. Aedanaya Diamond: Plant-Based Diets in Analog Missions: A Qualitative Look at Crew Experience and Sustainability

1. Kristen Miller
2. Maria Harney: Cross-Cultural Dynamics and Leadership Synergies: A Comparative Study of Russian and U.S. Approaches to Astronautic Missions and Civilian Space Settlements
3. Victoria DeFazio: A Call for Analog Mission Standardization
4. Jeff Thompson:

1. Michael Zeilnhofer
2. Justin Park: Dwarf-Moons: A New Celestial Nomenclature
3. Bahram Kalhor: the characteristics of dark matter explained through Quantum Redshift
4. Kailly Nocera: An Analysis of Exoplanets WASP-33b, WASP-3b, CoRoT-8b, and HATP-32b Using the Transit Method
5. Christopher Myers: Religion and the Question of Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe

1. Carl Starr
2. Jennifer Cannon: Commercial-Government Defense Space Partnership: A Policy Perspective
3. James Rooney: Golden Dome: Star Wars Redux or Ready for Primetime
4. Kimbra Fishel: The 2025 Israel-Iran War: Implications for Space Security and the Golden Dome
5. Najiba Rafizade: Governing Health, Crime, and Social Policy in Space: Legal and Neurocriminological Challenges for Human Rights in Extra-Terrestrial Environments

1. Melissa West
2. Steve Sims
3. Jason Cushard
4. Melanie Crowson
5. Keston Denhalter
6. Salina Pena
7. James Berg
8. Ryan Nelson
9. Nick Foley

1. Charles Doarn: The Evolution of the Human Space Program
2. Alessandro Bartoloni: Space Radiobiology : Sinergies between Astroparticle and Medical Physics
3. Jacob Haqq-Misra and George Profitiliotis: Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Governance and Freedom in Space

1. Carl Starr
2. MO TASRIF KHAN: SEATO 2.0 DOCTRINAL FRAMEWORK & CASE STUDIES: SSIC & CIE
3. Zachary Walker: Exploring the Feasibility of Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Vehicles through Theoretical Analysis
4. Ivan Gulmesoff: Commercial & Military Space (Part 2). From Orbit to Ocean- Harnessing U.S. Space Capabilities in Support of U.S. Naval Power

1. Michael Zeilnhofer: The Morphological and Morphometric Analysis of Impact Craters in the Polar Regions on Vesta
2. Eoin Dove: The Exoplanet Research Suite: An Exoplanet Software Planning and Research Tool
3. Jason Cushard: Virtual Exoplanet Research Program at American Public University
4. Yuki Nishimura: Operational Testing of Drone Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance in Simulated Martian Environments
5. Rocky Dezelle: New horizons for Space Telescopes, and Satellites aboard new launch vehicles
6. Jason Kassay: Paradox of Enceladus’ Craters at the Poles: Northern Scars vs. Southern Erasure

1. Kristen Miller
2. Atila/Griffin: SAM at Biosphere2
3. Dario Schor: Bridging the Delay: ECHO as a Tool for Studying Interplanetary Communication Challenges
4. Alimsha K Ameer; Swarnahiya Ganguly: Helios Lunar: An Analogue habitat for future crewed missions

1. PTF
2. Terrance Threadwell: The Human Explorer and Settler: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Ethics and Meaning of Space Expansion
3. Najiba Rafizade; Prof. Dr. Gökçe Cerev and Prof. Dr. Doğa Başar Sarıipek: Telemedicine and Healthcare Access for Space Miners: Building Social Policy in Outer Space
4. Francisco Del Canto Viterale: The Rise of Space Hubs: The case of Grand Forks, ND
5. Dr raj Badhan, Susan Jewell: Digital Twin Astronaut: A Personalized Platform for Predictive Space Physiology

1. Jamaal Blake: Earth-to-Moon: Polar Region Monitoring as a Blueprint for Lunar Base Development
2. Ritwika Maiti: The Sustainable Space Elevator: A Chemistry-Driven Leap Toward Greener Orbit Access
3. Isabelle Mierau: Earth, Space, and Us: Building a Thriving, Interconnected Space Economy

1. Ed Albin: Enhancing Astronomical Capabilities: Skynet Integration at APUS
2. Lauren Albin: Understanding Joy, Wonder, and Awe in Informal Astronomy Experiences
3. Francisco Del Canto Viterale: Transforming Space Graduate Education for a New and Better Generation of Space Professionals
4. Gaston Dana: Agents of Exploration: AI-Powered Tools for Space Education, Storytelling, and Mission Data Discovery
5. Lisa Shepherd: Accessible Astronomy: Empowering Student Research with Archival Telescope Data

1. Bert Chapman: U.S. Government Oversight Literature on the Hubble Space Telescope