SpaceUp Houston Wants You!
Explore the Solar System One Participant at a Time at the 2^nd Annual SpaceUp Houston Unconference

Houston, TX – January 11, 2012 – SpaceUp Houston (http://spaceuphouston.org) will begin selling tickets today for the second annual SpaceUp Houston Unconference on February 25^th and 26^th, 2012 hosted at The Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) near Johnson Space Center. Tickets for adults are $25 and students 8-18 and are free with adult registration. Breakfast, lunch, soft drinks, and snacks are included for attendees for both days.

Saturday evening, February 25^th, there will be a private reception ($10 per person) followed by the Explore the Solar System Panel where aerospace experts discuss manned and unmanned missions and plans for the future.    There is limited seating available for this exclusive evening presentation and people may attend for $10 if they are not unconference participants.  Find out all the details and purchase tickets online at http://spaceuphouston.org before they sell out.

About the Unconference

The SpaceUp Houston 2012 Unconference will feature spontaneous sessions created by attendees.  An unconference is also known as a user-generated conference or BarCamp.  Participants will decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event.  Learn more about the unconference format at http://spaceuphouston.org/spaceup-2012-unconference/.  Space unconferences have been held in cities across the United States including San Diego, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC to promote discussions on cutting edge technologies, space outreach, and the future of the space industry in the United States.

SpaceUp Houston is made possible because of generous sponsors including The Boeing Company, Thinkgeek, and HGK Asset Management.   Our supporting partners include NASA, Lunar & Planetary Institute, Schipul, and Yuri’s Night.  There are still a limited number of sponsorship opportunities available with sponsor package information available on SpaceUp Houston’s website.

In addition to the unconference sessions, there will be a variety of great activities over the 2-day weekend conference such as T minus 5 Talks (Ignite style presentations), a space show-and-tell, Industry experts leading discussions on innovations in the commercial aerospace companies, giveaways and great surprises throughout the weekend.

Attendees from previous SpaceUp Houston events have traveled from all over the country with ages ranging from seven to seventy years old. SpaceUp Houston’s mission is to nurture new and radical concepts, develop partnerships, and is meant for you to create a future worth living in.  Last year’s Unconference gave birth to Spacepoints, on online gaming platform serving as a mechanism to promote space related outreach and engagement beyond the space community.

Last year’s attendees had this to say about the unconference:

“Energizing event with inspiring people.”
“These are the people changing the future!”

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SpaceUp Houston, founded in 2010, brings the Houston-Clear Lake community together in sharing and discussing the possibilities for space exploration covering NASA programs, hobbyist projects, start-up companies, research, and the arts. SpaceUp events are designed as catalysts for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics development.  The official SpaceUp Houston Twitter stream can be found at http://twitter.com/spaceuphou.  For more information visit the SpaceUp Houston website at http://spaceuphouston.org.  Questions can be directed via email to SpaceUp Houston at press@spaceuphouston.org.

SpaceUp Houston has partnered with Yuri’s Night and has 501(c)(3) status.