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Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar, Projects on December 10, 2008
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Get together with other SD Space members to work on space-related projects. Last month we built a PVC frame for our banner, measured the SD Space display for an LED light bar, and did some prep work for the new generation of scale Mars rovers. What should we work on this time?
Space is limited, so please RSVP to events@sdspace.org if you’re interested.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar on December 5, 2008
11:00 am to 4:15 pm
Reach for the Stars at the Sally Ride Science Festival at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus.
The Mars Society – San Diego will participate with an interactive display table, a simulated Mars surface excursion suit, the San Diego Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Sojourner Rover replicas. TMS-SD members will also present at several of the workshops.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar on December 3, 2008
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
The next general meeting of the San Diego Space Society will be held at the Serra Mesa Branch Library. (map) Note the new meeting location and topic.
Gerry Williams will present “A Wake for the Mars Phoenix Lander,” and then we’d like to brainstorm about the coming year’s activities.
2008 was a great year for SD Space; we went from liftoff to orbit amazingly fast, and now we have a group capable of going even farther in 2009. Please bring your suggestions, project ideas, gripes, and event calendars to this meeting. We will quickly go over the past year’s accomplishments, then dive right into plans for next year.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar on November 1, 2008
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Join the San Diego Air & Space Museum as they celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 8 with a forum and gala. Special guests include: Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.
Apollo 8 was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. An important prelude to actually landing on the Moon was testing the flight trajectory and operations for getting there and back. Apollo 8 did this and achieved many other firsts including the first manned mission launched on the Saturn V, first manned launch from NASA’s new Moonport, first pictures taken by humans of the Earth from deep space, and first live TV coverage of the lunar surface.
For ticket prices and more information, please visit www.sandiegoairandspace.org.
(photo courtesy Gerry Williams)
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