Minutes of March Meeting
Oklahoma Space Alliance met at 3:30 p.m. on March
15, 2008 at the McMurray’s residence. Heidi Koszoru, Russ Davoren, Syd Henderson, and
Claire McMurray attended, and Clifford McMurray occasionally dropped in.
Syd still needs to put meetings of the Oklahoma City
Astronomy Club in the newsletter.
Russ joined OSA for one year.
Clifford McMurray is chair of the business track
for the 2008 International Space Development Conference. There will be a Space Venture
Finance Symposium the day before the conference.
Yuri’s Night: The chair of the Challenger Space
Center of Oklahoma City is in intensive care, so we can’t meet there. We will
do a party at a restaurant. Magi Whitaker suggested Denny’s, possibly the one
on I240 in
We should invite David Miller and Cathryn Stine, Magi and her family, and the folks at the Omniplex.
Can we arrange a small donation to the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club’s
astronomical observatory dedication at the Cheddar Ranch on May 31. Send a donation of $200? We’ll buy a concrete pad for setting a telescope on. It will cost
$100 – 150 and we can put our name on it. Glen Kilgour is the contact person.Tim has paid for the space calendars. We now have
about $800 left.
Upcoming events for the Oklahoma City Astronomy
Club:
Saturday, May 29: Messier
April 5 and 26, Dark Sky Parties.
May 4: Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower.
Syd needs to put meteor
showers in Outreach calendar.
We’ll make Yuri’s night our regular meeting. This
means Update must go out a week
earlier than usual.
What is the actual name of the Oklahoma City Rocket Club. [
Claire and Clifford are going to the World Science
Fiction Convention in
--Minutes submitted by OSA Secretary Syd Henderson