Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Chapter Updates on March 25, 2012
Sat, Apr 28, 2012
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location:
Space Travelers Emporium (map)
1947 30th St. San Diego, CA 92102
We will be discussing SD Space, continuing Emporium as a Destination development, the summer Space Art Show and other fundraising efforts along with progress work on our space programs and activities.
SD Space members and the public are welcome to attend. Please email events@sdspace.org if you’d like to attend.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Chapter Updates, Events on March 25, 2012
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location:
Space Travelers Emporium (map)
1947 30th St. San Diego, CA 92102
SD Space officers meet to discuss the day-to-day operations of the organization.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Chapter Updates, News on March 1, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 1, 2012
Contact:
Jesse Clark
San Diego Space Society
(619) 512-3592
info@sdspace.com
The San Diego Space Society is proud to announce the addition the addition of Nate McIntyre as the new Social Media Manager. Nate will be focusing on keeping SD Space and the Space Travelers Emporium active in social media circles discussing current space topics and promoting important SD Space and Emporium activities and events.
Nate is a San Diego State alum with a BA in Political Science and a former Marine Corps reservist. Space exploration and new technologies have always been and area of interest for him, going back to when he launched model rockets and watched sci-fi with his family as a child. Nate is currently employed at a law firm in the downtown area and is in the process of applying to grad school. His ultimate goal is to begin a career on the business and policy side of space exploration.
Nate brings a high degree of interest and enthusiasm for space and wants to share that with members and supports near and far. Look for more activity with our current social media connections and well as new ones in the near future.
SD Space Twitter
SD Space Facebook
SD Space Google+
Emporium Google+
About the SD Space
The San Diego Space Society (“SD Space”) 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 is headquartered at the Space Travelers Emporium, a storefront and workshop in the South Park neighborhood.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Chapter Updates, Events on February 29, 2012
Sun, Mar 11, 2012
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location:
Space Travelers Emporium (map)
1947 30th St. San Diego, CA 92102
The San Diego Space Society is excited to announce our March Program Meeting. We will host a Space Town Hall conversation with guest speakers Mat Kaplan, host of Planetary Radio, and Bill Nye, Executive Director of the Planetary Society and discuss NASA’s 2013 budget proposal and the resulting implications to planetary science.
The priorities reflected in this budget would take us down the wrong path,” said Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society. “Science is the part of NASA that’s actually conducting interesting and scientifically important missions. Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.”
Background
NASA’s planetary science efforts would suffer a 20 percent cut next year, with the president allocating just $1.2 billion for unmanned missions to Mars and other solar system bodies. Meanwhile, funding for human exploration and commercial spaceflight would rise nearly 6 percent, to $3.93 billion, and space technology would get a 22 percent bump, to $699 million.
Astronomical observatories and robotic solar system explorers, including the James Webb Space Telescope — successor to the Hubble telescope — and a mission to return samples from an asteroid are funded in the proposed budget.
The budget retains funding for the development of a new heavy-lift rocket and crew capsule for human space exploration.
Read more about the Planetary Society response to the proposed 2013 budget. Then do more of your own research on the implications for reduced space science funding. Come prepared to share and debate.
Decide after the program whether or not you will take action in support of planetary space exploration. Maybe we should advocate astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s call for doubling NASA’s budget.
Come Early
The event starts at 1pm with food and beer/wine. Come early to mix and mingle, talk with others about this and other current space topics. At 2pm, we begin our formal Space Town Hall program with Mat Kaplan and Bill Nye, live via Skype webcast. After the formal program, stay around and continue your conversations about NASA, the Planetary Society, Space Exploration or whatever else you want to talk about.
Space is limited, so please email events@sdspace.org to RSVP. No registration fee is required for this event, although donations to cover expenses will be accepted.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Chapter Updates, Events on February 25, 2012
Tue, Mar 6, 2012
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
South Park Abbey (map)
1946 Fern St., San Diego, CA 92102
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 South Park Abbey 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 next month. 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!
