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HAL5 Highlights for 2013

January 2013

HAL5 monthly program on "HAL5 Membership and Strategic Planning Meeting." This is your society, help us to help you and our community.

February 2013

HAL5 monthly program to be announced. We may have it at an earlier date to partner with the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop.

March 2013

HAL5 monthly program on "Lesser Known History of Huntsville's Technological Evolution" with Dr. Raymond C. Watson, jr of R. C. Watson & Associates.

April 2013

HAL5 monthly program on "Fire, Sunshield, and Ice - Making of the Sunshield for the James Webb Space Telescope" with Greg Laue, Aerospace Products Director, ManTech International Corporation

May 2013

HAL5 monthly program on "Interstellar Medium" with Dr. Wes Colley (bio), Senior Research Scientist, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis, University of Alabama Huntsville. ISDC 2013 San Diego, CA. Will HAL5 receive another AWESOME award from NSS?

June 2013

Special join program with Von Braun Astronomical Society (VBAS) on Summer Solstice, Friday. June 21, 2013, at VBAS Observatory in the Monte Sano state park. Dr. Martin C. Weisskopf, Chief Scientist for X-Ray Astronomy and Chandra Project Scientist at NASA MSFCA will be talking to us on Chandra X-ray Observatory. A short planetary show and viewing through VBAS' 16 and 21-inch telescopes if weather permitting. You are invited to bring your own telescope. Direction to the observatory can be found here.

July 2013

No HAL5 program due to July 4th Holiday. Have a great Fourth of July! HAL5 Annual Summer Putluck Cookout (Sunday. July 20, 2 pm till 6 pm). Look for invite in your email in June.

August 2013

HAL5 monthly program to be announced. HAL5 annual election of officers.

September 2013

HAL5 monthly program to be announced. HAL5 End of Summer Picnic (open to current HAL5 Members and their guests)

October 2013

HAL5 monthly program to be announced. Von Braun Astronomical Society (VBAS) Astronomy Day. HAL5 will be there!

November 2013

HAL5 monthly program to be announced.

December 2013

Todd May, NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Program Manager will give us a status of the SLS as we approach end of 2013. Annual HAL5 Christmas Party.

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Ad Astra per Ardua --- “ To the Stars by Our Own Hands” is the motto of HAL5.
“Ad Astra” is the motto of the National Space Society, which is Latin for “To the Stars”

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