Minutes of September 14 Oklahoma Space Alliance Meeting
Oklahoma Space Alliance met September 14, 2024, at the Cyber Hall and Gaming Lounge at Norman Computers in Norman, Oklahoma. Attending were Adam Hemphill, Ian Clark, Kip and Claire McMurray, John Northcutt, Kevin Sampson, Tim Scott, and Syd Henderson OSA President Adam Hemphill presided over the meeting Adam presented an update containing links to material covered in the meeting and this is online at https://osa.nss.org/Update2409.pdf so I’ll cover the details that aren’t covered there.
The Cyber Hall address is 914 West Main, and we will be using that as the meeting address so people know which door to go to. Ian is a new attendee and we got his contact information.
We had a discussion on radar detection of possible UFOs which appear to experience g-forces not survivable by humans.
Red spirit lightning going into the extreme upper atmosphere. Pictures were shown on the cover of the September Update.
Starliner returned crewless. The thrusters, that were of such concern that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are staying on the ISS, were not actually part of the return capsule, separated from the capsule and burned up on reentry. [Meanwhile, Suni Williams has taken command of the ISS.)
We may need to establish a common standard for spacesuits so all types will be compatible with interfaces. (The space suits Wilmore and Williams wore are incompatible with SpaceX Dragon Capsule.)
The ISS has LIDAR for active docking support.
We watched a video of spacewalks on the Polaris Dawn mission. These were the first spacewalks on a private mission, but the astronauts did not completely leave the spacecraft but held on to a ladder that projected out. The suits they were testing are not capable of operating separately from spacecraft so are not Moon capable. [I think SpaceX is working onBo suits that are.] The two astronauts who spacewalked did not do so at the same time. We watched a video of the launch ofN Polaris Dawn. Astronaut Sarah Gillis and earth-bound musicians participated in a concert of music from Star Wars. Participants included singers and musicians for Haiti, Sweden, Brazil, Uganda, the United States, Venezuela, and more.
Boeing is currently valued at $96.60 billion in marketing capitalization, which is comparable with companies such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
The crawler that carries rockets to the launch pad gets six feet per gallon.
Boeing now has a much younger workforce because they are not paying competitive salaries, especially for Seattle.
Chang’e 5 landed 43.1°N 51.8° W on the Moon but still found water-rich material.
Syd is going to check on Heavens Above to see if they give viewing information for the ACS3 Solar Sail satellite. NASA has an app so you can track it.
We now have $775.38 in the checking account and $267 in cash for a total of $1042.38.
Tim will not be at the October meeting. Syd will give the financial information.
--Minutes By OSA Secretary Syd Henderson
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