Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting.
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, September 14, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:10 PM – Latest in Space Weather – Patricia Vlach
2:20 PM – Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – The Rise of the Rocket… and the Origins of the Space Race – Chris Kapp
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
About our Featured Speaker: Chris Kapp
Chris got the space bug early in life with his father working for the US Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB. Chris studied aeronautical engineering at RWTH Aachen (Germany) and NIT Trondheim (Norway) where he finished with a master’s of science (Dipl.-Ing.) degree.
His career focused on Oil & Gas, Energy turbomachinery applications working for companies such as Siemens and Rolls-Royce. Recently, Chris worked as a professor of engineering at Lone Star College.
He has collaborated with the American Petroleum Institute, Dept. of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency on the technology, efficiency, and environmental performance of turbomachinery.
Chris is married and lives in Houston, TX. The youngest of three sons attended the NASA Hunch program in Cy-Woods High School, and went on to study physics and astronomy at Texas A&M. He is working for the aerospace industry in Colorado Springs, continuing the family aerospace tradition.
Learn more about Chris at https://space.nss.org/christean-kapp-nss-space-ambassador/
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/
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