Posted by Jesse Clark in News on December 31, 2010
There were so many exciting space news stories for 2010. Here is the Top 10 chosen by members of the San Diego Space Society!
10. Tons of Water Likely at the Lunar Poles (more)
9. NASA Discovers New Life: Arsenic Bacteria With DNA Completely Alien To What We Know (more)
8. Secret X-37B Robot Space Plane Lands in California (more)
7. SOHO spots 2,000th comet (more)
6. Halfway to Pluto, New Horizons Wakes Up in ‘Exotic Territory’ (more)
5. 500th ‘extrasolar’ planet discovered (more)
4. Opportunity Rover Reaches Halfway Point of Long Trek to Mars Crater (more)
3. Bigelow Aerospace Soars with Private Space Station Deals (more)
2. SpaceShipTwo Free Flight (more)
and the #1 top 10 space news story is …
… 1. SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft Successfully Re-Enters (more)
What’s likely to happen in 2011? Leave us your predictions in the comments.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Chapter Updates on December 28, 2010
At the December general meeting on December 12th, members of the San Diego Space Society voted in the new officers and directors for the 2011 calendar year. The board of directors now consists of:
Jesse Clark, President
Scott Olson, Treasurer
Kelley Clark, Secretary
Adrian Clausell, Director
Erik Hall, Director
Saura Naderi, Director
Greg Wagner, Director
Dave Dressler, Director
Derek Nye, Director
Congratulations! Please join us in welcoming the new board, plus thanking the directors who served in 2010.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Events on December 28, 2010
July 28, 2011 to July 30, 2011
The Space Frontier Foundation’s annual NewSpace Conference attracts a unique mix of revolutionary space entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, engineers, regulators, and space policy leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges of opening the space frontier to human settlement. Conference sessions highlight the latest discussions on NASA-private sector cooperation, the business of NewSpace, and frontier enabling technologies of tomorrow.
Check here for more details!
Update: SD Space members will be traveling to the NewSpace Conference at NASA Ames and we’ll sponsor a SpaceUp and Space Travelers Emporium vendor table. We hope to see you there!
Posted by Jesse Clark in Chapter Updates on December 25, 2010
…from all of us at the San Diego Space Society.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Chapter Updates on December 9, 2010
December 8th was an historic day for SpaceX, the Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule in it’s COTS 1 demo flight. Online articles, videos, blogs and tweets filled the news yesterday like very few days in space history. And by all accounts, the entire mission was 100% successful. This is great achievement for the start of commercial space flight. And it was very exciting to see it turn out so well.
Here are a couple of excellent articles if you missed the big day itself:
NASA Space Flight
Space Frontier Foundation
Universe Today
Space.com
NPR
The San Diego Space Society would like to join the chorus in congratulating Elon and the entire SpaceX team on a job very well done! We look forward to more SpaceX successes and the exciting space exploration future opening for all.
