The
San Diego Space Society was founded in 2008 with the purpose of raising
awareness and educating the general public to the benefits of human
exploration of space and San Diego's role in space development, as well
as to the idea of creating a spacefaring civilization within our
lifetimes.
SD Space meets monthly at the Serra Mesa Branch Library and participates in space-related events around San Diego Country and Southern California. The general public is welcome to attend any meeting listed on this site.
Location: Serra Mesa Branch Library (map)
9005 Aero Dr, San Diego, CA
Join us for the July general meeting of the San Diego Space Society. This month we’re featuring Gerry Williams from The Mars Society - San Diego, who will present “Invasion From Earth: The Robotic Exploration of Mars.”
Mars is becoming a busy place for exploration these days with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter achieving Martian orbit last year and the Mars Phoenix Lander dropping in on the north polar region on the surface of the red planet. Mars Society members will look at all the different robotic craft and their missions, as well as the next several planned missions by all the spacefaring nations of Earth.
The talk will also include an update on the efforts at JPL to free the Spirit rover, which is currently stuck in deep sand.
Everyone is welcome. Email events@sdspace.org if you have any questions.
Posted by Brent Bernasconi in News on July 12, 2009
The San Diego Air & Space Museum has joined with five other local museums on a oral history project to record the rich aerospace history of San Diego, the “Air Capital of the West.” Volunteers will interview and preserve the stories of the men and women who contributed to San Diego’s aerospace history.
Nearly 500 interviews have been completed by the six institutions. These interviews along with photographs and other memorabilia will be used to create a traveling exhibit to be displayed in local libraries, schools, airports, and universities. The interviews will also be available through SDASM’s new online library catalog AEROCat.
As part of this project, SDASM’s Library and Archives interviewed the former Director of the Kennedy Space Center, Lee Scherer. You can see a picture of Lee in front of the Apollo 9 capsule here.
To read the full press release on the oral history project, click here.
Join hundreds of Mars experts and enthusiasts to hear the latest news and research from Mars, and advance the cause of human space exploration.
Speakers include Mars scientists from the Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory, and other NASA missions, plus artists, historians, engineers, and more.
In addition to performing repairs on the hab, ATVs and other equipment, the crew is also active with the spill-containment site construction, the garbage incinerator setup and testing, space suit repairs, gun safety training, bear training and setting up and testing our scientific equipment.
The Mars Society operates FMARS in order to “develop key knowledge needed to prepare for human Mars exploration, and to inspire the public by making real the vision of human exploration of Mars.”
The FMARS 2009 research projects on Devon Island include the aerial and ground geological surveys along with Seismic and Time-domain Electromagnetic Surveys that will be conducted on mineralized structures found around the Haughton Meteor crater wall. This will be coupled with field testing various GPS instruments, cameras, MIT Mission Planner software and the Omega Envoy prototype lunar rover. Other activities include testing Class IV Laser Therapy.
The previous crew, sent in Summer 2007, stayed for an extended four-month mission. The current crew of seven will stay for the month of July, then present their findings to the 12th International Mars Society Convention at the University of Maryland.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Astronomy on July 6, 2009
As a wise man once said, “Space… is big.” To get some sense of how completely mind-bogglingly massive space really is, here is a helpful YouTube video:
Join us for the July general meeting of the San Diego Space Society. This month we’re featuring Gerry Williams from The Mars Society - San Diego, who will present “Invasion From Earth: The Robotic Exploration of Mars.”
