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February 28, 2005
Congratulations to Japan's Space Agency!
Japan returned to space with last Saturday's launch of the H-IIA, some 15 months after a previous launch had failed. This one seems to have been a complete success, putting communications satellite MTSAT-1R in orbit.
The success seems to have increased chances for a major boost in Japan's Space Agency funding, and, according to this space.com report, new plans may include a lunar base and reusable shuttle.
Posted by apsmith at 04:45 PM
February 21, 2005
Atlanta Chapter meeting on Mars Homestead
Bruce Mackenzie sends this note:
The Mars Homestead project will be presented at the NSS Atlanta
chapter, Wednesday. This project is to design & build a settlement on
Mars using local building materials.
For info on the NSS Atlanta chapter:
Contact Bill, 770-473-7617
analytech_1981@analytech.net analytech_1981@yahoo.com
http://www.nsschapters.org/a/nsschapterlist.html#nss023
Info on the Mars Homestead base design project:
Info@MarsHome.org http://marshome.org/
Date/Time: Wednesday 23 February 2005, 1900h to 2000h
Location: Georgia Tech campus, Student Center Commons (350 Ferst Drive),
Piedmont Room
Directions and maps: see http://www.visits.gatech.edu/directions/ ,
http://gtalumni.org/campusmap/bldngmodel.php?id=114&navview=0 , and
http://www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/facmap/
Posted by apsmith at 11:30 PM | Comments (1)
February 09, 2005
New Florida Chapter
NSS member and activist Jason Rhian has just organized a new chapter, named 'He-3', in the Tampa area - congratulations Jason, and welcome!
With the Cape Canaveral chapter on the east side, that makes two Florida chapters now!
Posted by apsmith at 10:32 PM | Comments (1)
February 03, 2005
Larry Evans in Ad Astra on Space.com
Congratulations to Larry Evans of the Orange County Space Society (NSS chapter in Irvine, CA)! His article "The NSS Attends the Hollywood Premier of 'Aliens of the Deep'" is in today's online "Ad Astra" available on space.com:
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_aliens_050203.html
and right now is featured on the space.com front page!
For those of you who haven't seen the new online Ad Astra site with space.com, it looks great! There's news on the NSS main site about what all this means:
http://www.nss.org/news/releases/pr20050203.html
Others interested in writing for Ad Astra (online and print) should contact Rich Godwin at richard [AT] cgpublishing.com.
Chapters may also be interested in the new slate of officers for the society, elected by the board this past week - see the list here:
http://www.nss.org/about/bod.html
Exciting things are happening, and I'm personally excited to be working with all of you! Stay tuned...
Arthur Smith
NSS VP for Chapters
Posted by apsmith at 05:21 PM