Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Events on December 29, 2011
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location:
Space Travelers Emporium (map)
1947 30th St. San Diego, CA 92102
We will be discussing the SD Space spring activities, including the SpaceUp San Diego, Emporium expansion, SD Space nominations and the start of our new space programs and activities.
The Board meeting will be preceded with a Strategic Communications meeting starting
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, Events on December 29, 2011
February 4, 2012 11:00 am to February 5, 2012 2:00 pm
Location:
Ansir Innovation Center (map)
Back for a third year in San Diego, SpaceUp is a space unconference, where participants decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event. Everyone who attends SpaceUp is encouraged to give a talk, moderate a panel, or start a discussion. Sessions are proposed and scheduled on the day they’re given, which means the usual “hallway conversations” turn into full-fledged topics.
SpaceUp San Diego 2010 was the first SpaceUp ever, and it was awesome again in 2011. It’s coming back to San Diego on February 4-5, 2012. The Ansir Innovation Center will be a great venue, but it only holds a limited number. Register today to make sure you have a spot.
You will be amazed at what comes out of SpaceUp. Based on past SpaceUps, we expect to see businesses started, problems solved, projects kicked off, plans hatched, and amazing friendships born.
Learn more about SpaceUp San Diego at the website, or follow them on Twitter or Facebook to get updates on SpaceUp plans and details.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Events on December 7, 2011
Wed, Dec 14, 2011
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location:
Abundant Sugar (map)
618A Moulton Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90031
The LA Space Salon is a new and unique social event designed to be a reliable outlet within the space community for people to engage with one another, contribute their ideas, pose questions, hear from industry leaders, and coalesce efforts towards a cultural permeation of the values we share about space exploration.
This month, the featured guest is Doug Jones, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at XCOR Aerospace. Known as the Rocket Whisperer, Doug Jones will be guiding the Salon’s quest to gain insight into the current state of advanced space technology and the future of things to come. Doug will speculate on the viability of using possible technological advancements such as space tethers, beamed power, gun launches, and electromagnetic sails as a means to realize humanity’s continued reach into the cosmos.
Doug is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at XCOR Aerospace. He handles test design and analysis of test results for the company’s liquid rocket engine development and facilitates the development and operation of rocket engine test apparatus. Before joining XCOR, Doug was responsible for sizing the fluid injector elements in Rotary Rocket Company’s (RRC) rocket engine design. Prior to RRC, Doug designed, built, and tested a 400 lb thrust nitrous oxide/propane engine, it’s test facility, and a 300,000 cubic foot balloon system for Vela Technology. Doug also flew multiple times as flight test engineer in the X-Racer rocket powered aircraft!
The speaker is followed by LA Space Salon’s open forum. All attendees are encouraged to participate in this months discussion. Come with your thoughts prepared and ready to share!
Please register here
Email events@sdspace.org if you’d like to join SD Space members planning to attend.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Events on December 4, 2011
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
Space Travelers Emporium (map)
1947 30th St, San Diego, CA
Join us for our second annual SD Space Members Night at the Space Travelers Emporium.
If you’re a member, a friend of SD Space, or just interested in joining the space exploration community, come see what we’ve been up to. Enjoy cake and light refreshments while chatting with other SD Space members. Win a telescope (provided by OPT) or other fun prizes in our raffle!
We’ll be joined by John Spencer – Space Architect, Author and Founder/President of STS – speaking on the Space Experience Economy.
“For decades the American aerospace industry has benefited from the synergistic relationship between three space experience mediums. They are: (1) real space exploration/development, (2) Earth based tours of NASA Centers/space museums/space attractions and (3) the media via space themed movies, TV, games and virtual worlds. Together they represent the growing Space Experience Economy. Famous spokespeople such as Walt Disney, Walter Cronkite, Carl Sagan and Sir Richard Branson have also kept the public informed and excited about the potentials and wonders of space exploration.
Major non-space industries including hospitality, cruise lines, extreme sports/racing, mega real estate developers, adventure travel, yachting and advertising are seeing the space experience as an exciting and futuristic theme to promote their brands to the international market place and build stock value. We will explore how SEE can be leveraged to grow and diversify our vital aerospace industry and attract young talent to the field.”
SD Space president Jesse Clark will also present an overview of our achievements over the past year. Rick Nichols, SD Space member and leader of the local Space Tourism Society chapter, will give a brief introduction to local chapter plans.
John Spencer has been pioneering the field of space architecture since the late 1970s. He received design awards from NASA for early work on the “Freedom Space Station” and was involved in the start-up of SpaceHab. He has an extensive background in spaceport planning and design and designed the interiors for an underwater hab/lab still in operation and a science base built in Antarctica. In 1982 he started pioneering the space tourism industry, basing it on the cruise line industry, and since the mid 1990s he has been designing his original concept for an orbital super yacht called “Destiny.” He is the author with Karen L. Rugg of the first book on space tourism published in the United States called Space Tourism – Do You Want to Go? He founded the Space Tourism Society in 1995. He has been quoted and appeared in over 100 TV and radio shows, newspaper and magazines articles on space tourism. He coined the term Space Experience Economy (SEE) in 2005.
To RSVP for the event, email events@sdspace.org with the names of the guests attending.
Posted by Jesse Clark in Calendar, Events on November 26, 2011
Fri, Dec 16, 2011
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
S-Cafe, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (map)
1 Space Park
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
The AIAA LA section presents an evening dinner with keynote Trina L. Ray – Cassini Titan Orbiter Science Team Co-Chair and Technical Group Supervisor, Science Planning Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The twin Voyager spacecraft flew by Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 went on to flyby Uranus and Neptune. They are considered one of the most successful NASA missions of all time. They discovered rings, moons, active volcanos, giant storms, and high-speed jet streams. They showed us just how amazing and diverse the universe is – even in our own back yard. They used the relatively new concept of gravity-propelled space travel to accomplish this “grand tour” and they are the farthest man-made objects in the solar system. Right now, they are still sending back data from the edge of the very edge of our solar system as they become the first spacecraft leaving it. Rediscover the amazing breadth of these missions and find out what they are currently up to.
Please register here.
Email events@sdspace.org if you’d like to join SD Space members planning to attend.
