ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
Attending: Gerald N, Ed S, Stallen L, Julie P, Stu C and Michael W Call to order: The meeting was called to order by Vice President Julie P. at 20:15 on Dec. 15th, 2009.
Playa Vista, Calif. (November 13, 2009) – A team of scientists from NASA announced today that significant amounts of water ice have been found at the Moon’s South Pole. This landmark finding, achieved through analysis of the material blasted from
From left to right: George Nield (FAA); Charlie Bolden (NASA); Doug Comstock(NASA); David Masten (Masten Space Systems); Phil Eaton (Armadillo Aerospace); Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX 4th); Peter Diamandis (X PRIZE); Mitch Waldman (Northrop Grumman) NASA’s Centennial Challenges program awarded $1.65
WASHINGTON – NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again. NASA’s Centennial Challenges program will give a $1 million
The team of Paul and Paul Bread completed a peroxide powered flight of their Level 1 vehicle, the Blue Ball, Saturday afternoon, but ran out of propellent before completing the full 90 seconds of flight time. The resulting hard landing
Falcon 9 First Stage Headed to Cape Canaveral for Vehicle Integration McGregor, Texas – October 21, 2009 – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully conducted two static firings of the first stage, nine engine cluster for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
Mojave, California – October 30, 2009 – Masten Space Systems successfully qualified for first place in Level Two of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Wednesday. Flying a brand new vehicle named XA-0.1E (nicknamed Xoie), Masten demonstrated their ability to
Attending: Dan S, Stallen L, Gerald N, Ed S, Dave W, Julie P, and Michael W Call to order: The meeting was called to order by President Dave W. at 20:20 on Oct. 20th, 2009
I have been able to recover an old copy of the 2002 E.R.P.S. budget. Budget_2002.pdf Each project had proposed a budget and as they spent funds the amounts were taken off the budget to show what remained. I did some