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.
Posted by Brent Bernasconi in Calendar on August 24, 2009
Sun,Sep20,2009
2:00 pm
Location: Heritage Park Regional Library
14361 Yale Avenue, Irvine, CA
Back by popular demand, the Orange County Space Society member John Sisson will be giving an updated version of his program which focuses on how Walt Disney helped to ignite the flame of imagination and to show how the idea of going into space, to the Moon, and even to Mars, were not things of a far off future, but something that could be accomplished in our lifetimes. It is visionaries such as Disney that we could use again today to do what he did 50 and 60 years ago. John will have video and lots of display materials that should be very entertaining and enlightening. It should be a great program to bring everyone in the family to.
For More information and to RSVP click here or call (949) 936-4040.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar, Projects on August 12, 2009
Sun,Aug30,2009
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location:
Gerry Williams’ Studio 106 (map) 2323 Broadway, San Diego, CA
Get together with other SD Space members to work on space-related projects.
This month, Dr. Philip Blanco from Project Astro will be presenting the Mars Society with a new Lynxmotion rover to add to their growing fleet of Mars rovers.
We had a great time at this year’s air- and water-rocket launch picnic at Morley Field. I’ve posted a video recap of the event, featuring Eric Hall’s awesome air launcher and our somewhat-less-impressive water rocket launcher. Be sure to click on the HD button to get the most out of the video, our first taken with the new Flip Ultra HD camera we’ll be taking to all events:
Even though our year-old water launcher gave us some great moments (as seen below), the video makes it pretty plain who should be building our launchers from now on. Erik, you’re on the hook. :)
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar on August 4, 2009
Sun,Aug9,2009
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Location: Serra Mesa Branch Library (map)
9005 Aero Dr, San Diego, CA
Join us for the August general meeting of the San Diego Space Society. Chris Radcliff, Gerry Williams, Dave Dressler, and Jesse Clark will review their trip to the NewSpace 2009 conference, held in July at NASA Ames Research Center.
Everyone is welcome to attend this presentation. Email events@sdspace.org if you have any questions.
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.
Back by popular demand, the Orange County Space Society member John Sisson will be giving an updated version of his program which focuses on how Walt Disney helped to ignite the flame of imagination and to show how the idea of going into space, to the Moon, and even to Mars, were not things of a far off future, but something that could be accomplished in our lifetimes. It is visionaries such as Disney that we could use again today to do what he did 50 and 60 years ago. John will have video and lots of display materials that should be very entertaining and enlightening. It should be a great program to bring everyone in the family to.
Get together with other SD Space members to work on space-related projects.
We had a great time at this year’s air- and water-rocket 
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.
