Posted by Jesse Clark in News, Newsletter, Space News on March 19, 2012
The San Diego Space Society is looking for the most awesome newsletter editor in Southern California!
Do you
• have a passion for Space Exploration?
• enjoy interviewing and writing about local and regional space activities?
• want to have media access to one of a kind space events?
Then this might be of interest to YOU!
Please send an email and resume here.
For other ways to volunteer, check out our wishlist Give to SD Space.
Posted by Jesse Clark in News on March 19, 2012
Guest post by Elizabeth Baker
March 16. 2012
On March 11, along with about 30 people, I spent a sunny Sunday afternoon at the San Diego Space Travelers Emporium, attending a Town Hall-style meeting via Skype with Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” now the Executive Director of The Planetary Society. The event featured good food and interesting conversation, with topics ranging from NASA’s budget, the future of commercial space exploration, Thorium, other countries’ space programs and their impact on once what was once the exclusive “club” of USA and Russia, asteroids hurtling toward earth, space trash, and how to reengage the pioneer spirit of America for the new challenge of planetary exploration and why should we care/go/do anyway?
Fascinating stuff. Really.
Gracious, animated and dispensing with an anticipated opening statement, Bill jumped right in, taking questions from the group, and it became apparent straight away that space could not have a better advocate, ambassador, Pied Piper or cattle-prod! He’s obviously passionate about topic, realistic about the challenges facing the industry and open minded as only a confident visionary can be. He’s definitely a man with a plan.
When the call ended, the conversation continued and I, as probably the least knowledgeable person in the room, marveled at the collaborative tone and complex topics being discussed by multi-generational attendees. Young people were eagerly sharing their ideas and more seasoned space-fans obviously delighted by the commonality of interest, enthusiastically communicated their thoughts and experiences without even a whisper of stereotypical educational/experience/maturity bias. I truly felt as if I was watching the baton being passed in the shutter-speed instant where neither has let go.
It was surprisingly a very moving experience. In this little shop in a neighborhood in San Diego, really, really smart people with the common bond of all things “space” came together just to talk about it. I remember where I was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon (Wildwood, NJ, sunburned and Noxzema’d up, thank you very much); there were a few people who could talk from first-hand experience about John Glenn; and everyone was talking about Mars! Thinking about our little emporium “dot” on the map, connecting to other little dots on the global map…l was humbled by the human constellation that had materialized before my eyes in the sunlight and reminded of a line from Macbeth:
“Screw up your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail.”
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 News on February 10, 2012
Everyone that attended SpaceUp San Diego on February 4th & 5th knows what a great event it was. An opportunity to catch up with old friends or to make new ones, a chance to share a new idea or enterprise for space exploration and travel, to create something new and bold in the exciting area of participatory space.
But for someone new to SpaceUp, what is it all about? David Maass, a writer for City Beat, a guest participant in the latest SpaceUp San Diego, gives us his take on the current state of Space and the phenomenon of SpaceUp.
Rather than a formal agenda, the unconference format is designed to inspire innovation and improvisation through an open-ended schedule. Participants who wanted to engage in a certain discussion would slap a sticky note to a public grid and hope it would generate enough interest. The system worked, with outside-the-stratosphere ideas dominating discussion, as if going to the moon were as normal as deciding where to go for lunch. There were general-interest discussions on what kind of music could be made for space, or in space, as well as more technical talks on the future of “space trucking.” There were also presentations from some of the world’s top aerospace innovators, including the team behind the Xcor Lynx suborbital vehicle. – Dave Maass
Read the rest of the story and see some of Davids photos at “What was up at SpaceUp San Diego“
Posted by Jesse Clark in News on January 28, 2012
The San Diego Space Society is looking … looking for someone like… you!
Do you
• have a passion for Space Exploration?
• enjoy posting to social entities like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, & Google+?
Then this might be of interest to YOU!
NOTE: This role has been filled.
For other ways to volunteer, check out our wishlist Give to SD Space.
