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 Gerry Williams in Calendar, Chapter Updates on January 13, 2010
Mars opposition on Earth, Earth in inferior conjunction on Mars. Opposition is where the Earth is directly between Mars and the Sun.
Apparent brightness of Mars reaches -1.27 mag in constellation Cancer.
Distance from Earth: 0.6640 AU / 99,423,000 kilometers / 61,778,000 miles
Mars rises at 5:02pm PST
Unfortunately for viewing, Mars will be very close to the full moon this evening.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Chapter Updates on January 7, 2010
It’s that time again, time to meet the candidates for the San Diego Space Society Board of Directors. Elections have been moved up to January this year, to align the SD Space planning year with the calendar year. You can cast your ballot at the program meeting on Sunday, January 10th or file an absentee ballot before Friday, January 15th. (See details below.)
Posted by Jeff Berkwits in Calendar, Chapter Updates on December 3, 2009
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
The Ritual Tavern (map)
4095 30th St., San Diego, CA 92104
Breathable atmosphere? Check. SD Space t-shirts? Check. Beer? Check. Good Conversation? Well, we need your help with that last one. Join members of SD Space and fellow space enthusiasts/advocates at The Ritual Tavern for a night of relaxed fun talking about space exploration news, our future in space, and anything else that comes to mind.
Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time; there will be another one in a few weeks—location and date to be announced here. No need to RSVP, either; just stop on by and look for the space geeks table. SD Space members will be wearing their t-shirts for easy identification. See you there!
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar, Chapter Updates on April 2, 2009
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
UPDATE: We realized that the library will be closed for the Easter holiday. Elections will be held at the Yuri’s Night party on Saturday, April 11th.
If you can’t attend Yuri’s Night and you’d like to vote in the elections, please email elections@sdspace.org before April 11th to request a ballot.
Posted by Gerry Williams in Chapter Updates on March 27, 2009
The Mars Society-San Diego and San Diego Space Society member Maria Catalina is on her way to the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station in Utah where she’ll take over as MDRS Crew #80 commander on Sunday for two weeks:
http://desert.marssociety.org/mdrs/fs08/crew80/
I’ll be running MDRS Mission Support from San Diego during a portion of this mission.
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