This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Barbara Bush Library (6817 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379) or join us online using Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533.
The meeting will be on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:10 PM – Latest in Space Weather – Patricia Vlach
2:20 PM – Planets in the Night Sky – Brooklynn Levi
2:30 PM – Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – Featured Topic: Europa Clipper – Daniel Roy
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
(as soon as we can get there)
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the library
Featured Presentation: Clipper at Europa
Daniel M. Roy, Christean Knapp,
Launched on October 14, 2024, the Europa Clipper spacecraft will use gravity assists from Mars on March 1, 2025, earth in 2026 and will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. This talk will summarize the mission, offer a refresher of Kepler’s laws before discussing gravity assist, the challenging environment of the Jupiter system and a few of Europa Clipper major instruments.
About our Featured Speaker: Daniel M. Roy
After an international engineering career in biomed, aerospace and software businesses, Dan is now happily retired in League City TX where he leads monthly STEM parties (microscopy and astronomy) for the park services and volunteers for the Foundation for International Space Education (FISE) United Space School (USS) program which brings 50 most brilliant kids from 25 countries to Houston for an intensive workshop about the space program. Dan is also the education and outreach coordinator for the Houston Astronomical Society (HAS) and (of course) a member of NSS and a fan of its North Houston chapter. He enjoys indulging his ignorance in a wide range of scientific subjects as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He also enjoys cooking, biking, nature walking, kayaking and doing whatever is on wife Rebe’s “honey do” list.
About the Meeting
Meetings are open to all age groups and interest levels. Come explore with us the potential that developing and exploring space has to better life here on earth and to open up new frontiers creating new perspectives that can help enrich the human experience.
The Vision of NSS is people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.
The Mission of NSS is to promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity. Accordingly, we support steps toward this goal, including human spaceflight, commercial space development, space exploration, space applications, space resource utilization, robotic precursors, defense against asteroids, relevant science, and space settlement oriented education.
Website: http://NorthHoustonSpace.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NssNorthHoustonSpaceSociety/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nss-north-houston-space-society/
About Us
NSS North Houston Space Society is a chapter of the National Space Society (NSS) and is governed by the chapter bylaws. Our vision is “People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.” If you share this vision, please join us. (If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to our chapter president Nathan Price by email at Nathan.Price@gmail.com or phone 832-620-6385.
We are working to achieve this vision through our monthly meetings where we seek to educate the community about the potential of space, the current activities going on to achieve the promise of space, and to inspire people of all ages. Our meetings are usually the second Saturday of each month at 2 PM at the Barbara Bush Library.
NSS North Houston Space Society had its first meeting in January 2018 at the home of Nathan Price who serves as the chapter president. The chapter has had meetings every month since then except one.
In 2018, our chapter was recognized as the “Outstanding New Chapter USA 2018”.
Over the months our meeting attendance has fluctuated, but generally it has grown.
Starting with our May 2019 meeting, we moved to the Barbara Bush Library which has given us a room with the capacity for 70 people.
We have had engineers, scientists, space lawyers, space investors, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and others speak at our meetings discussing all aspects of space.
Our group includes people from a wide variety of fields including engineers, programmers, scientists, writers, and people in all sorts of fields. It is a friendly, welcoming group. And we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.