June 2009 Oklahoma Space Alliance UPDATE
Oklahoma Space Alliance will meet at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 20 at Claire and Clifford McMurray’s house. Prospective members are also welcome. Their house is at 2715 Aspen Circle in Norman. Following the working part of the meeting, Kip will grill the hotdogs Tom left here last week. If anyone wants to bring hamburger meat, we can grill that too. We already have buns for both, as well as corn balls & chips. Claire will provide brownies. Please bring a side dish to share, if you haven’t left anything here.
Syd & Tom: Please see agenda item 5d about display items to bring.
To get to the meeting either: (1) Take the Lindsey Street east exit from I-35, turn right at Berry, and proceed to Imhoff Road. Turn right at Imhoff, first right at Poplar Lane, first left at Aspen Lane, and first right at Aspen Circle, or (2) Take the Highway 9 east off I-35, turn left at Imhoff Road, left at Poplar, left at Aspen Lane, and right at Aspen Circle.
We will be working on the display commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The display will be in the reading room of the Norman Public Library. (The room between the regular stacks and the children's section. Our display space is 44 feet long and about 81 inches high, although we'll only be using the top part of it. We also have two display cases. We have a lot of articles from Space News on 50 years in space for a time line
Agenda, beginning at 2 pm if at all possible:
1. (5 min) Introductions (if necessary)
2. (2 min) Read and approve agenda
3. (8 min) Read and approve minutes and reports of activities including SoonerCon
4. (5 min) Read and discuss mail
5. Old Business
a. (2 min) Progress of Space Week Project for Second Life
b. (2 min) Progress of Start Up Kit for Chapters in Second Life
c. (2 min) Progress of 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing project at OU library
d. (until 5:50 pm) Work on 40 Years Since Apollo 11 project at Norman Public Library
Claire: bring good print of NASA & other financial information
Syd: bring info to display on missing important events
Tom: bring large-size copies of Space News articles
6. (5 min) New Business
7. (5 min) Create New Agenda & set time & place for next meeting
8. Pot luck supper. See menu above.
National Space Society News:
ISDC 2010
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National Space Society’s
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2010 – Four Decades After Apollo:
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· Latest Updates from the Many Roads to Space:
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· Everything You Wanted to Know About Space
· Special Symposium on Space Solar Power
· Building a Moon Base, Step-by Step
· What Can We Do on Mars – and When and How
· Tours of Argonne National Laboratory & Fermilab
· Boat Tour of Chicago’s Historical Architecture
· In one place at one time, meet the astronauts, scientists, entrepreneurs, administrators, politicians, and activists who make the future happen
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Space News
NASA managers cancelled the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch to ISS for the second time Wednesday morning. The attempt to fuel after a storm passed was stopped when once again a leak was found associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside Endeavour's external fuel tank. The next window for Endeavour’s launch will be in July.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are bound for the moon after a flawless liftoff June 18th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has separated from the Centaur upper stage and LCROSS spacecraft. LRO is on its way to the Moon and should reach it Tuesday. There it will gather crucial data on the lunar environment that will help astronauts prepare for long-duration lunar expeditions. The instruments will develop a high-resolution 3-D map of the lunar surface, examine hydrogen, ice & frost distribution, and examine the radiation environment. This will help choose future landing sites
LCROSS, on the other hand, will guide an empty upper stage on a collision course with a permanently shaded crater in an effort to kick up evidence of water at the moon's poles. LCROSS itself will also impact the lunar surface during its course of study.
The Planetary Society LIFE experiment: [from PS web site]
In 2009, the Russian space agency will launch a sample return mission nicknamed "Phobos-Grunt" to the Martian moon Phobos. According to plans, the spacecraft will land on Phobos, collect dirt and rocks from its surface, and then head back home. As it swoops by Earth in 2012, the spacecraft will release a capsule containing all the samples gathered on Phobos, to land on Earth.
Attached to the capsule for the entire 34 months of the journey will be The Planetary Society's LIFE experiment: a small, flat cylinder containing a collection of microbes carefully selected to represent all three domains of life (bacteria, eukaryota, and archaea) and sealed before launch. In its flight, the cylinder will be, in effect, a simulated space rock, subject to the same extreme conditions as a Martian meteoroid traveling to Earth. Carefully packed and sealed with multiple seals, the LIFE samples will spend a full 34 months in space, before returning to Earth. Here it will be opened and its contents examined by waiting scientists.
Contact Information:
Oklahoma Space Alliance NSS is a chapter of the National Space Society. Contact NSS at 1155 15th Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005, space.nss.org. Tel: (202) 429-1600 -- FAX: (202) 530-0659, E-mail: [email protected] Direct questions about membership matters to: [email protected] . Many of us are also members of The Mars Society (see below). Both organizations are interested in promoting settlements off Earth.
Our chapter website is http://osa.nss.org/index.html. Webmaster is Syd Henderson. So far, one can join our chapter without joining NSS. To receive emails of our chapter newsletters for free, contact the editors (see below).
Oklahoma Space Alliance Officers, 2009 (Area Code 405)
Tom Koszoru, President 366-1797 (H)
Claire McMurray, Vice-President/Update Editor 329-4326 (H-no msg) 863-6173 (C-msgs OK)
Syd Henderson, Secretary & Outreach Editor 321-4027 (H)
Tim Scott, Treasurer 740-7549 (H)
OSA E-mail Addresses and Web Site:
claire.mcmurray at sbcglobal.net or at nss.org (Claire McMurray; can forward to Cliff)
T_Koszoru at cox.net (Heidi and Tom Koszoru)
sydh at ou.edu (Syd Henderson)
ctscott at mac.com (Tim Scott)
lensman13 at aol.com (Steve Galpin)
dmcraig at earthlink.net (Nancy and David Craig).
E-mail for OSA should be sent to [email protected]. Members who wish their e-mail addresses printed in Outreach or Update, and people wishing space-related materials e-mailed to them should contact Syd.
Other Contact Information
NASA: www.nasa.gov. Huge info source. Assorted phone numbers are also in there somewhere.
The Mars Society , Box 273, Indian Hills CO 80454. Old website doesn’t work: use http://www.marssociety.org/portal. Interested in human settlement on Mars: active projects.
The Planetary Society, http://www.planetary.org/home/. Phone from US & Canada: 1-800-9WORLDS (1-800-996-7537). Outside the US & Canada, phone 1-626-793-5100. Interested in exploring the solar system & beyond, mostly robotic. Nice magazine.
Science Museum Oklahoma (formerly Omniplex), 2100 NE 52nd St, Oklahoma City, OK 73111. Museum information: 405-602-6664 (old 800# doesn’t answer) Their new web site is http://www.sciencemuseumok.org/default.htm, but one must click on “Agree” or “Disagree” to enter the site
Oklahoma Space Industrial Development Authority (OSIDA), 401 Sooner Drive/PO Box 689, Burns Flat, OK 73624, 580-562-3500. Web site www.state.ok.us/~okspaceport.
Tulsa Air and Space Museum, 7130 E. Apache, Tulsa, OK 74115, Phone (918)834-9900.
Web Site is www.tulsaairandspacemuseum.com.
Congress of the United States: 202/224-3121 (switchboard). Senate: www.senate.gov/
House of Representatives: www.house.gov. You can email most from those main web sites.
Write to any U. S. Senator or Representative at [name]/ Washington DC, 20510 (Senate) or 20515 [House].
President of the United States: www.whitehouse.gov. Click on “Contact Us” for email.
Postal mail: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500
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