There is no registration fee. However, the workshop venue has limited space, so pre-registration is mandatory for every attendant (whether presenting an abstract or not). When the maximum number of attendees will have been reached, additional registrations will be placed on a waiting list. Please let us know if you have registered and then decide not to attend. Additionally, non-US citizens will need to register at least 8 weeks before the workshop, i.e., by August 1st, 2018 at the latest, in order for badges to be processed in time for the workshop. NASA civil servant and contractor employees are also expected to register in the NASA Conference Tracking System (NCTS) to attend the workshop, even for non-cost, local attendance. Visit https://ncts.nasa.gov to complete this process. The NCTS number for the NASA Goddard Workshop on Artificial Intelligence is 34572-18.

Elon Musk's SpaceX program plans to break another important barrier in private space flight Tuesday with the re-launch of a previously-used Block 5 booster just three months after its initial flight. In conjunction with the re-launch, SpaceX announced plans to shorten re-launch times for the Block 5 booster to less than 24 hours by 2019, which would further solidify SpaceX's dominance of the private space flight market? Private space flight companies have been involved in a technological arms race for years on a number of different fronts. One of the most important fronts is the development of an inexpensive reusable rocket booster system that can be used to launch satelites and manned craft into space.