Call to order – 20:26 Michael, Julie, Dave W, Gerry, (David Robb visiting) President’s Report – Julie had books from original Mariner TV Images – NASA made raw image data available – Eng Final Reports from various Mariner missions – Writing a postscript
FAA To Offer $5 Million Prize
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requesting funding in the 2012 budget to offer a $5 million prize to encourage the development of projects designed to provide low-cost space transportation. “I’m a big proponent of the value of prizes
KLM To Offer Suborbital Flights Using XCOR Lynx
KLM Announces Suborbital Flight Relationship with Space Experience Curaçao Using XCOR’s Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft November 17, 2010, Mojave, CA: Today KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced to the Netherlands press that they were embarking upon a new relationship with Space Experience
Xombie Gets PopSci Award
Masten Space Systems has been chosen as one of the 10 “Best of What’s New” Innovations by Popular Science magazine. “Vertical takeoff/vertical landing (VTVL) spacecraft made an important advance in May, when a demonstration spacecraft called Xombie, built by the
SpaceShipTwo Free Flight
Alan Boyle writes: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was set loose for its first gliding flight today, about 45,000 feet above California’s Mojave Desert — and landed to a chorus of cheers minutes later. That’s one small step for gliders,
Space Manufacturing 14 Conference @ Ames
Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement will be held at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA, October 30 and 31, 2010. Attendance will be limited to 200 participants. (Non-US Citizens, please allow 30 days for approvals
Space Experience Curaçao Announces Wet Lease of XCOR’s Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft
Space Experience Curaçao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. jointly announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the wet lease of a production version of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft, pending United States government approvals to station the
NASA seeks secrets of commercial moon landers
Swallowing its pride, NASA says it wants to learn from future commercial missions to the moon – and it is willing to pay up to $30 million for the privilege. The space agency wants to take advantage of the flurry
Stronger Than Dirt
ANOTHER LUNAR DAWN, and the powdery dust on the moon’s surface begins to stir. Without a breath of wind, the finest motes swirl across the ancient landscape as electrostatically charged dust grains repel one another. Larger grains join the dance
Go For Launch
Ever wonder what it takes to launch a shuttle? I found this on the Air & Space Magazine web site: Go For Launch! In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and