2018-April- Yuri Gagarin, Skylon, Space Exploration Jeopardy

We had a fantastic April 2018 meeting of the NSS North Houston Space Society.  We started out with a mixer activity.  Each person was handed a set of 12 cards all describing a space first.  The attendees had to exchange their cards with others to get a complete set.  The entire set was posted for…

2018-March-Humans to Mars and the ZERO-G Experience

The March NSS North Houston Space Society meeting covered the Humans to Mars conference, several members shared their ZERO-G Experience® (two from this past weekend, and one from the first flight in 2004.  There was much discussion before and after the presentation about the Falcon Heavy Launch, Sabre Rocket engines, the idea of shooting a…

2018-February – Space Tourism

We had a great February meeting where we had a number of new people attend.  The focus was on Space Tourism – Private citizens paying to go to space. The Economist predicts that 2018 will be a transformational year for Space Tourism.  There are seven people that have paid to travel to the International Space…

2018-January Meeting – Looking back at 2017 and Looking forward to 2018

The NSS North Houston Space Society had our first meeting January 6, 2018 night.  Sixteen people attended. We started out with a mixer activity.  Each participant was handed a stack of cards containing one of the 12 moonwalkers.  Each person had to trade with others until they got a complete set. We reviewed a presentation about 2017…