Join us at Barbara Bush Library Saturday, October 5, 2019 – 2PM. Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. Come learn about Space Architecture, the NASA High School Aerospace Scholar’s program, and what it is like to experience weightlessness. Hear about the latest news in space and discuss with other interested people. Featured Speaker:…
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Summary of September 7, 2019 Meeting Featured Speaker: Carl Carruthers, Jr. – Chief Scientist, Nanoracks LLC
The meeting started with chapter president, Nathan Price giving an overview of NSS and some recent space events. What is our future? If we were to come back in 100 years, 500 years, or even a thousand years, how far would we have gone. Would our future be only limited to the earth? Or would…
Next Meeting, Saturday, September 7, 2019 – 2PM – Barbara Bush Library – Featured Speaker: Carl Carruthers, Jr. – Chief Scientist, Nanoracks LLC
Join us at Barbara Bush Library Saturday, September 7, 2019 – 2PM. (Note that our meeting times have change.) Our featured speaker is Carl Carruthers, Jr., Chief Scientist at NanoRacks LLC. Dr. Carruthers is the Chief Scientist for the commercial space services provider NanoRacks. In this multifaceted role, he works directly with client researchers to…
Summary of August 3, 2019 Meeting
August 3, 2019 was one of our most well-attended meetings yet. Nathan gave an overview of the NSS and a recap of some of the space events since the last meeting. Then our featured speaker Anima Sabale journey of exploring her dream of becoming an astronaut. (Read a summary of Anima’s presentation here.) We closed…
Summary August 3, 2019 Monthly Meeting – Anima Sabale
August 3, 2019 was one of our most well-attended meetings yet. Nathan gave an overview of the NSS and a recap of some of the space events since the last meeting (read more here). Then our featured speaker Anima Sabale shared her journey of exploring her dream of becoming an astronaut. We closed the meeting…
Upcoming Launches and Big Events and Space Events Around Houston (August 2019)
(Launch information is from https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/) LAUNCH: August 5, 2019 – Proton • Blagovest No. 14L- A Russian government Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage will launch the Blagovest No. 14L communications satellite to cover Russian territory and provide high-speed Internet, television and radio broadcast, and voice and video conferencing services for Russian domestic and…
Next Meeting, Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 3PM – Barbara Bush Library – Featured Speaker: Anima Sabale
Join us on Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 3PM at the Barbara Bush Library for our next NSS North Houston Space Society meeting. Our featured speaker will be Anima Sabale. Anima Patil-Sabale is based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center where she manages the Orion Spacecraft Simulations Lab. She has worked on NASA’s Kepler Mission and…
Summary of July 6, 2019 NSS North Houston Space Society Monthly Meeting
First off, I want to thank Greg Stanley and Dough Hall for putting together such a good June meeting. Their presentations and more information about the meeting are available on our website: SpaceX StarLink, Skylon/SABRE, and more at the June 1, 2019 – NSS North Houston Space Society Meeting We covered some recent space events:…
Next Meeting: July 6, 2019 – 3PM – Barbara Bush Library – Overview of 2019 International Space Development Conference (ISDC)
Every year the National Space Society (NSS) hosts the International Space Development Conference (ISDC). This conference brings together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, students, artists and space enthusiasts for several days of engaging discussions, presentations, tours and social events that all focus on the events that are leading rapidly to permanent settlements in space. This year, it…
SpaceX StarLink, Skylon/SABRE, and more at the June 1, 2019 – NSS North Houston Space Society Meeting
All of humanity’s futures can be categorized into two buckets: 1) We stay on Earth Forever. Everything we know or will ever know happens here on this one small mote in the universe.2) We learn to expand life, civilization and everything beyond Earth. We learn to live everywhere. And while there are no signs of…