Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar, Moon Society on July 30, 2009
Sun, Sep 13, 2009
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Location:
Serra Mesa Branch Library (map)
9005 Aero Dr, San Diego, CA
Join us for the September general meeting of the San Diego Space Society. Dr. David Schrunk of the San Diego Moon Society will give a lecture on the Planet Moon Project, which portrays a vision to transform the Moon into an inhabited sister planet of the Earth in the 21st century.
Dr. Schrunk is lead author of “The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement” (2007), which has been praised as “a handbook describing what must be done to return to the Moon, build permanent bases, and use them as a springboard for economic development”.
Everyone is welcome to attend this presentation. Email events@sdspace.org if you have any questions.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar, Junior Explorers on July 26, 2009
Sun, Aug 2, 2009
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location:
Morley Field (map)
Texas St and J St, San Diego, CA
We’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing with a picnic lunch and some rocket launches. Bring your own lunch and blanket; we’ll provide a launch pad and help you turn soda bottles and paper tubes into awesome water and air rockets.
We’ll choose a picnic spot at the north end of Morley Field. Park in the lot near Texas and J St and look for the SD Space tent canopy. Email events@sdspace.org if you have any questions, or if you have empty 2-liter soda bottles to donate to the event.
Hope to see you there!
Posted by Brent Bernasconi in Calendar on July 13, 2009
July 20, 2009 to July 21, 2009
Location:
Petco Park (map)
100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA
Location:
San Diego Air & Space Museum (map)
2001 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA
NASA astronaut and California native Dr. Tracy Caldwell will be honored at the San Diego Padres baseball game on July 20. Caldwell will throw out the first pitch as the Padres host the Florida Marlins on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. This year the Padres also celebrate 40 years as a Major League Baseball franchise. Fans will have the chance to meet Caldwell during an autograph session immediately following the first pitch.
On July 21, Caldwell will talk about her life as an astronaut, answer audience questions and sign autographs at the San Diego Air & Space Museum from 9 a.m. to noon. This event is open to the public.
Caldwell was born in Arcadia, CA and received a B.S. in Chemistry from California State University at Fullerton and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Davis. Selected by NASA to become an astronaut in 1998, she served as a Mission Specialist during STS-118 in Aug. 2007 and is currently assigned to spend six months on the International Space Station (ISS) as a Flight Engineer and member of the Expedition 23 crew. For Dr. Caldwell’s full bio, click here.
Caldwell joins a team of astronauts who are returning to their home regions as part of NASA’s Hometown Heroes 2009 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ISS in orbit and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Mars Society, Moon Society, News on July 13, 2009
I love it when good projects come together. Google Lunar X Prize team Omega Envoy has been demonstrating their latest Moon rover prototype at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS), operated by the Mars Society.
The initial demonstration was to remotely control the rover from Omega Envoy Headquarters in Orlando, Fl., take images of the crew hab, and stream the coverage live from mission control as well as the video from the rover feed. This was just the first of many more demonstrations the team plans to complete before the expedition concludes at the end of July.
So if you’re following along on your NewSpace Bingo card, mark off the “private Moon mission”, “human Mars mission”, and “Earth analog” squares. Thanks for playing!
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.
