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The NSS North Houston event will be held on the usual second Saturday:
Touching the Edge of Space with Clint Thomsen @ Barbara Bush Library on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2PM
Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting to learn about touching the edge of space, seeing the edge of the atmosphere using high altitude balloons.
This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Barbara Bush Library (6817 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379) or join us online (details to be published in early February)
The meeting will be on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:05 PM – Touching the Edge of Space: A teacher’s quest to connect students with the wonders of space through high-altitude ballooning with Clint Tomsen
3:00 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:40 PM – Socializing
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryHelp Spread the Word
We believe that the future of space exploration is a topic worth sharing. You can assist in spreading the word by:
Forwarding this email to friends and family.
Indicating your attendance on Facebook and sharing it on your feed: Facebook Event Link.
Indicating your attendance on LinkedIn and inviting your connections: LinkedIn Event Link.
Indicating your attendance on Meetup: Meetup Event Link.
Printing out the flyer and sharing it with friends, or posting it on bulletin boards: Flyer Link.
We look forward to your active participation and engagement in promoting the event. Together, we can inspire a shared passion for the future of space exploration.
Also, a few of us will be meeting a PJ’s Coffee down the street after the meeting to hang out, talk about future meetings, public outreach opportunities, projects, tours, trips, etc. Hope you can join us for that.
Best regards,
Nathan Price
President
North Houston Space Society
nathan.price@NorthHoustonSpace.org832-620-6385 (prefer text)
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The NSS North Houston event will be held today, the second Saturday:
Touching the Edge of Space with Clint Thomsen @ Barbara Bush Library on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2PM
Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting to learn about touching the edge of space, seeing the edge of the atmosphere using high altitude balloons.
This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Barbara Bush Library (6817 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379) or join us online (details to be published in early February)
The meeting will be on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:05 PM – Touching the Edge of Space: A teacher’s quest to connect students with the wonders of space through high-altitude ballooning with Clint Tomsen
3:00 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:40 PM – Socializing
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryHelp Spread the Word
We believe that the future of space exploration is a topic worth sharing. You can assist in spreading the word by:
Forwarding this email to friends and family.
Indicating your attendance on Facebook and sharing it on your feed: Facebook Event Link.
Indicating your attendance on LinkedIn and inviting your connections: LinkedIn Event Link.
Indicating your attendance on Meetup: Meetup Event Link.
Printing out the flyer and sharing it with friends, or posting it on bulletin boards: Flyer Link.
We look forward to your active participation and engagement in promoting the event. Together, we can inspire a shared passion for the future of space exploration.
Also, a few of us will be meeting a PJ’s Coffee down the street after the meeting to hang out, talk about future meetings, public outreach opportunities, projects, tours, trips, etc. Hope you can join us for that.
Best regards,
Nathan Price
President
North Houston Space Society
nathan.price@NorthHoustonSpace.org832-620-6385 (prefer text)
Attendance via Zoom is free. No camera or microphone are needed or expected.
Cellphones will work.
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Follow up on NSS Houston presentation ....
This was a ** very ** interesting talk, with plenty of slides and short videos to explain the student activities.
Over the course of several years, the presenter and a number of adult assistants provided opportunities for a number of students from a school district in Utah to build and fly scientific balloons to heights as great as 115,000 feet. The balloons were designed to burst so that no debris was scattered about. A parachute was used to deliver the electronics package safely to Earth.
After the balloon STEM presentation, Dr Greg Stanley gave his usual thorough report on space related events of the past month.
I am happy to try to answer any questions that forum members might have.
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This coming Saturday NSS North Houston will be holding their monthly hybrid meeting ....
Logins via Zoom are welcome.
Nova Spotlight Award Winners @ Barbara Bush Library on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2PM
Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. This will be a special meeting to celebrate the winners of the Nova Spotlight Award Winners from the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH).This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Barbara Bush Library (6817 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379) or join us online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533
The meeting will be on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:15 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – Nova Spotlight Award Winners from the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH)
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryAbout 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-no … e-society/
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Today: Saturday NSS North Houston will be holding their monthly hybrid meeting ....
Logins via Zoom are welcome.
Nova Spotlight Award Winners @ Barbara Bush Library on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2PM
Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. This will be a special meeting to celebrate the winners of the Nova Spotlight Award Winners from the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH).This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Barbara Bush Library (6817 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379) or join us online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533
The meeting will be on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:15 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – Nova Spotlight Award Winners from the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH)
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryAbout 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-no … e-society/
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This was an outstanding meeting, and they are always of good to excellent quality.
Dr. Greg Stanley gave a lengthy and detailed dive into the American lunar lander, during his monthly Space News segment.
The second half of the meeting was given over to five teams of young people who had participated in a recent Houston area Science Fair. The presenters appeared to all be of college age, and the presentations were all well done. A couple were ** really ** well done!
I have reported the artificial leaf presentation elsewhere.
The lead off presentation was about software development for a web site that is available online now for visitors.
The aspect of the presentation that I found most interesting was the modeling of nuclear fusion reactions.
The two models were for Hydrogen / Deuterium and for Boron 11 and Hydrogen.
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Working from memory ... one presentation was on the use of ion flow to lift an "aircraft" on Earth in an ordinary atmosphere.
I was astonished to learn that mere ions can lift a small "aircraft" using only a 6 volt battery as power. In fact, the student reported lifting a total of 10 pounds, which included the weight of the frame and a payload. The efficiency was only 1.8% which (I presume) is probably a lot less than even a helicopter or drone, but the fact that the method worked at all was amazing (to me for sure).
There was an interesting experiment with growing plants in simulated Mars soil and simulated Lunar soil, leavened with commercially available manure.
A surprising result (from my perspective) was that plants did better in the Lunar soil.
One detail that was ** not ** included in the Mars test was perchlorates, so I think we have to assume those were "removed" from the simulated Mars soil.
I am hoping the recording of the meeting will be made available on YouTube, but that depends upon the chapter President having the time to attend to that.
Dr. Stanley's presentations are all uploaded to LinkedIn.
Here is a link that worked for me on 2024/03/09: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gregstan … 61792-eP1t
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Next meeting is April 13th...
Next Meeting @ Barbara Bush Library on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2PM
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 via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533
The meeting will be on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:15 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – Featured Speaker
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryAbout 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-no … e-society/FEATURED
Because there is (currently) no featured speaker, I have introduced the idea given to us by our Alaskan Correspondent, to harvest material from Apophis by injecting water (or other suitable liquid) into the rubble pile, allowing it to freeze, and pulling the entire collection out with gentle force.
The idea has received unexpected support from GW Johnson.
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Here's an update on the next NSS meeting next Saturday:
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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 via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533
The meeting will be on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:15 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – “Making Life Multi-planetary” – Nathan Price will give a summary of Elon’s update from 4/4/24
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryWin a Book about the Beginning of SpaceX or a Model of StarShip
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Here's an update on the next NSS meeting next Saturday:
logo
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 via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533
The meeting will be on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:15 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
3:00 PM – “Making Life Multi-planetary” – Nathan Price will give a summary of Elon’s update from 4/4/24
4:00 PM – End of Meeting at the Library
5:00 PM – Informal get together at PJ’s Coffee near the libraryWin a Book about the Beginning of SpaceX or a Model of StarShip
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The Houston meeting ended at 20:51 UTF ... plenty of time to set up for OldFart1939's meeting featuring Jim Bell.
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