UPDATE, October 22: VP Pence tweeted today that he will be speaking at 10:00 am ET. Watch the entire event at Washington Post Live.

UPDATE, October 3: The event has been rescheduled for October 23, 9:00-11:30 am ET still at 1301 K Street, NW. Doors open at 8:00 am ET. Will be webcast. The list of speakers is slightly different, but Vice President Pence and NASA Administrator Bridenstine will be there.

Current speaker lineup (as of October 3):

Vice President Mike Pence (speaking about the Space Force)

Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator

Chris Ferguson, Director of the Starliner Crew and Mission Systems, Boeing

Victor Glover, NASA Astronaut

Leland Melvin, Former NASA Astronaut

Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society

Ellen Stofan, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

Nicole Stott, Former NASA Astronaut

Heidi Hammel, Executive Vice President, Associations of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

UPDATE, September 11: The event has been postponed because of Hurricane Florence. A new date will be announced later.

UPDATE, September 4: The Washington Post announced today that Vice President Mike Pence will join the event, engaging in a one-on-one interview with the Post’s national political reporter Robert Costa about the Administration’s proposal to establish a Space Force as a sixth military branch. The entire event will be livestreamed. The end time has been extended by 30 minutes from 11:00 to 11:30 am ET.

The updated list of other speakers is:

Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator

Scott Pace, Executive Secretary, National Space Council

Chris Ferguson, Director of the Starliner Crew and Mission Systems, Boeing

Victor Glover, NASA Astronaut

Leland Melvin, Former NASA Astronaut

Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society

Britney Schmidt, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech

Ellen Stofan, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

Nicole Stott, Former NASA Astronaut

George Whitesides, CEO of Virgin Galactic

ORIGINAL ENTRY: The Washington Post, in partnership with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), will hold a panel discussion on September 14, 2018 from 9:00-11:00 am ET at The Washington Post Live Center, 1301 K Street, N.W., Washington, DC on “Transformers: Space.” The event will be webcast.

The announcement states: