Name: Packing Them In: Implications of Close Quarters Living and Working Spaces in MiLSF
Start: 2026-06-26T14:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-26T15:00:00-0400

Packing Them In: Implications of Close Quarters Living and Working Spaces in MiLSF

Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event)

Do any examples of MilSF reflect the reality of the hip-to-hip spaces in realistic spacecraft? How does it affect the story when space battleships and private staterooms aren’t a thing?

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Casey Moores

Author

Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air refueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles. He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →

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Fred Hughes

Author

The International Bestselling Amazon Author of seven books of 'The Prince of Britannia' series. I'm currently working on my new series, 'The First Solar War.'

Having served 20 years in the US Navy, most of it on submarines, I developed a great appreciation for the written word... Read More →

David Hensley

Author

David Hensley is an East Coast Hepaw born and raised in southwest Colorado. The town of Dolores, to be specific. He’s been to a lot of places and done a lot of things since then, including cowboying in the Utah desert, twenty years as an Aviation Structural Mechanic for the United... Read More →

Michael Gants

Secretary, Author, LibertyCon™

Michael Gants is a science fiction and fantasy author and retired Navy submariner. He currently works as an inspector at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. His other jobs have included nuclear mechanic, anti-terrorism trainer, small craft boarding specialist, programmer, journalist, and aquarium... Read More →

Becky McCauley Rench

LibertyCon 38 STEM Guest of Honor, STEM

Rebecca (Becky) McCauley Rench is the Astrobiology Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. She leads the Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR)), which supports large, interdisciplinary astrobiology research teams, and the Planetary... Read More →

Andy Presby

STEM

Andy Presby is a NASA engineer and retired US Navy submarine officer. He consults on future technology for Joelle Presby and other science fiction authors. He has degrees in spacecraft systems engineering and astronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Friday June 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Meeting Room 5 (Main Event) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37403

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Casey Moores

Fred Hughes

David Hensley

Michael Gants

Becky McCauley Rench

Andy Presby

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