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Apollo 17 – The Last Breakfast
Registration – Apollo 17 – The Last Breakfast Sacramento L5 YouTube site View and Download “The Last Breakfast” Flyer
November 20, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 11/12/22 – Visits: 10,110 (+474)
SacL5 Web Site Traffic Report 374 visits last 30 days 10,110 since incept (+434)
November 12, 2022
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SacL5 Meeting 10/8/22
Agenda Website: https://sacramentol5society.nss.org Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space Society Where: Virtual presence only, via Zoom When: Saturday, October 8, 2022, 5:00-7:30 PM Pacific Daylight
October 9, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 10/8/22 – Visits: 9676
SacL5 Web Site Traffic Report 375 visits last 30 days 9676 since incept (+398)
October 8, 2022
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NSS Resources for Chapters – Autumn 2022
Link for current NSS Chapter Newsletter Quarterly Check out the NSS Chapters Resources Page for Attachments and Updates between Newsletters Greetings from Ed, Perri, and
September 21, 2022
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SacL5 Meeting 9/11/22
Agenda: Website: https://sacramentol5society.nss.org Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space SocietyWhere: Virtual presence only, via ZoomWhen: Saturday, August 13th, 2022, 5:00-7:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time(Note: Pacific
September 11, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 9/5/22 – Visits: 9280
SacL5 Web Site Traffic Report 393 visits last 30 days 9278 since incept (+2098)
September 5, 2022
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SacL5 Meeting 7/9/22
Agenda: 5:00-5:10 Begin regular meeting: Margin for everyone to arrive/greeting of new members. 5:10-6:00 Updates/general chapter business: President’s & Treasurer’s report. (Joe Bland, Ed Kulis)
July 10, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 7/9/22 – Visits: 7180
SacL5 Web Site Traffic Report 693 visits last 30 days (+60) 7180 since incept (+597)
July 9, 2022
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June 11, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 6/11/22
SacL5 Web Site Traffic Report 6/11/22 721 visits last 30 days (+353) 7710 since incept (+1413)
June 11, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 5/14/22
Website Traffic Apr 14 to May 14, 2022 670 visits last 30 days (+252) 7085 6297 since incept (+788)
May 14, 2022
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Ad Astra
Previous Universes, Black Hole Corpses, Conscious Understanding – Penrose & Peterson
Dr. Peterson recently traveled to the UK for a series of lectures at Oxford and Cambridge. This conversation was recorded during that period with Sir
April 28, 2022
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Ad Astra
Eerie Implications of Hawking Points –“Corpses of Black Holes from Before the Big Bang”
Black Holes Will Start to Glow in the Night Sky As described by the Penrose Institute, our universe is expanding and as it cools over the
April 28, 2022
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Apollo 16 Breakfast Splashdown April 23, 2022 Video Available!
Hi, folks,First, thank you to all the hardy folks who got up early and watched the live presentation! It was a doozy!Second, I spent the
April 24, 2022
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Apollo 20: Mission to Tycho – Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
Apollo 20 was to liftoff from Kennedy Space Center on July 24, 1974 to the most adventurous site visited yet by Apollo astronauts; the rim
April 23, 2022
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Missions we Lost When Apollo was Cancelled
Long before Apollo landed on the Moon, NASA leadership was looking at some lofty plans for Apollo hardware after the Moon. Want to know more
April 23, 2022
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SacL5 Meeting 4/9/22
Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space SocietyWhere: Virtual presence only, via ZoomWhen: Saturday, April 9th, 2022, 5:00-7:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time(Note: Pacific Daylight Time started
April 9, 2022
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Ad Astra
Green Stars mean Intelligent Life
The cosmos is littered with blue and red stars… but curiously no green ones. Why? Is this a fundamental constraint or merely an unlikely outcome?
April 9, 2022
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Ad Astra
Faster-Than-Light Leads To Time Paradoxes
Is faster-than-light (FTL) travel possible? In most discussions of this, we get hung up on the physics of particular ideas, such as wormholes or warp
April 9, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 4/8/22
Website Traffic Mar 9, 2022 to Apr 8, 2022 418 visits last 30 days (-73) 6297 since incept (+399)
April 8, 2022
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SacL5 Meetings and Directions
The Sacramento L5 Society meets Each Month on the Second Saturday. Come Join Us! To join monthly Zoom meetings email: Joe Bland To join the Sacramento
April 2, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 3/12/22
Website Traffic Feb 10, 2022 to Mar 12, 2022 491 visits last 30 days 5898 since incept
March 12, 2022
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The Archaeology Of The Space Age
We’ve been space now 55 years. Time to think about preserving history. Check out Lisa’s work. Senior author of The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
February 21, 2022
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SacL5 Website Traffic Report 2/12/22
Website Traffic Jan 13, 22 to Feb 12, 22 391 visits last 30 days 5,478 since incept
February 12, 2022
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James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) led
February 12, 2022
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NASA – Flying Cars
Advanced Air Mobility Mission Overview NASA’s vision for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission is to help emerging aviation markets to safely develop an air transportation
November 23, 2021
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SacL5 Meeting 11/13/21
Notes Breakfast on the Moon Apollo 17 49th Anniversary planned for 12/11/21 Christine Noemi will coordinate Chapter Report to NSS Due soon Ed working with
November 19, 2021
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Alyssa Carson, Space Advocate
From Wikipedia, Alyssa Carson In 2014, Carson was the first person to complete the “NASA Passport Program” visiting each of NASA’s fourteen visitor centers across nine states.
November 14, 2021
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What is a Lagrange Point?
What are they? Our Sacramento L5 Society is named for the Lagrange Point EML5. Just like the illustration above for the Sun Earth Lagrange Points
November 14, 2021
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NSS Resources List for Chapters
NSS Chapters Resources List: National Space Society Main Website: https://space.nss.org NSS Statement of Philosophy: https://space.nss.org/nss-statement-of-philosophy/ Members Only link to Inside NSS: https://inside.nss.org/ Social Media Request
November 4, 2021
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Apollo 15 Video Breakfast on the Moon
Apollo 15 celebration “Breakfast on the Moon” #5 https://youtu.be/zQyxB0A5hE0 On Saturday morning, August 7, NSS Chaptersʼ Assembly and NSS Chapter Sacramento L5 Society hosted the
August 10, 2021
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Maana Electric Desert Tests of Moon Solar Panels
SUNLIGHT HAS A COUPLE OF ADVANTAGES OVER YOUR TRADITIONAL GAS AND COAL. IT’S cheap, it’s powerful, and there’s a lot of it. But there’s a
August 4, 2021
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The Spaceport by Roger Arnold and Donald Kingsbury
Part 1: An Alternate Means of Delivering Payload to Orbit Part 2: Building Energy Cheap Space Transportation – Suitably used, an orbiting spaceport could far
July 28, 2021
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Apollo 15 Breakfast on the Moon Aug 7, 2021
Breakfast on the Moon #5 Webinar Is a Go for Launch August 7, 2021 National Space Society When: Saturday, August 7, 2021, 7:00-8:30 AM PDT
July 18, 2021
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Goodnight Moonbase Kickstarter
Goodnight Moon Base Let’s bring bedtime *to* the moon every night. Our future on the moon becomes real through compelling scenes and rhymes. Click here
July 17, 2021
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Support JP Aerospace – Kids Space Program
We’d like to help JP for his work with the Kids PongSat space program and for his providing our meeting place for our L-5 Society
July 17, 2021
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SacL5 Zoom Meeting 10-Jul-21
Meets 2nd Saturday 5pm Pacific Time each month. Email Joseph Bland for Zoom Details. Topics: Sierra Space JP Aerospace, StarLink 42,000 Satellites in Equatorial Orbit
July 11, 2021
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SpaceX Starlink Mission 5/9/21
On Sunday, May 9 at 2:42 a.m. EDT, Falcon 9 launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force
May 12, 2021
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Apollo 14 Breakfast On the Moon Video
This is the fourth “Breakfast On The Moon” Apollo mission virtual celebration sponsored by the National Space Society Chapters’ Assembly and the Sacramento L5 Society
February 8, 2021
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Apollo 14 Breakfast on the Moon FEB 6
Please mark your calendars! On Saturday morning, February 6th, NSS Chaptersʼ Assembly and the Sacramento L5 Society NSS chapter will host the fourth in their
January 31, 2021
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The Space Trade Update Blog (SL5S Supporter)
JP Aerospace launches next PongSat in May 2021 with the SL5 Space Laser Project For more info click here
January 16, 2021
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Space X – ISS Docking Simulator
SPACEX – ISS Docking Simulator https://iss-sim.spacex.comThis simulator will familiarize you with the controls of the actual interface used by NASA Astronauts to manually pilot the SpaceX Dragon 2 vehicle to
December 24, 2020
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NSS India World Space Week In Progress!
The link of webinar for YouTube Live is: See List Of Events OrganizersAkhil – https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhil-raj-kumar-kalapala/Krishna – https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishna-bhavana-sivaraju-514a68bb?trk=hp-identity-photo
October 3, 2020
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How To Blog to the SacL5 Site
The SacramentoL5Society uses Word Press and the editor plugin called Elementor. Elementor provides the tools to buld a website that is very simple to update
August 29, 2020
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The Power of Space Debris
Since the beginning of spaceflight, over 9,000 satellites have been launched into orbit. Along with every satellite, there is around 100,000 tonnes of space debris,
August 20, 2020
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Space Review Publication by Hariharan Karthikeyan
What you should learn from Comet NEOWISE by Hariharan Karthikeyan Monday, July 27, 2020 Comments (5) Checkout this publication by Hariharan. He attended his
August 9, 2020
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Pongsat – Help Students Experiment in Space
Student experiments flown to the edge of space by balloons! Click image to visit Pongsat to learn and donate A PongSat is an experiment that
August 9, 2020
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Space X – The Dragon Returns
Space X – The Dragon Returns CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule cruised into its home port on Friday evening (Aug. 7), secured to one of
August 8, 2020
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Breakfast’s on the Moon – Mission Plan
We celebrate our Breakfast’s on the Moon on or around the 50th Anniversaries of the original Apollo Missions. So look for announcements about the upcoming
August 8, 2020
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Video Tutorial: Posting a Linked PDF
This blog entry contains a links and a video for a demonstration of adding linked PDF content to the sacramentol5society.nss.org website. The techniques in the
June 13, 2020
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Introduction to Blog Posting
This PDF document contains the things you need to know to post to the SacramentoL5Society website. Use it as a reference to the basic elements
June 13, 2020
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SacL5’s work praised again in NSS Ad Astra!
We here at the Sacramento L5 Society are pleased to be mentioned again in the National Space Society magazine “Ad Astra.” Joe Bland our president
June 2, 2020
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JP Aerospace Dark Sky Station – The Look, The Work
The Virtual Office Marty: Look, Andy, at least come to the meeting wearing VR clothing. I know you like medieval times. Pretend it’s second life, and
May 31, 2020
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Hubble Telescope Builder – Bill Johnston
Hubble Telescope 30th anniversary interview with Bill Johnston Air Force Captain William “Bill” Johnston worked for over 30 years for Lockheed and Lockheed/Martin, and towards
April 25, 2020
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Captain Lovell’s personal story of Apollo 13 explosion
Click here to watch on YouTube or below to watch here.
April 20, 2020
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NASA Apollo 13 The Rest of the Story
NASA’s Live Stream About What Happened on Apollo 13 Click here or below for the video
April 20, 2020
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Apollo 13 What Happened? NASA Live Stream
All are invited to view the APOLLO 13 presentation: What Happened and Why? by Owen Brown, Scientific Systems Company, Inc. This can be viewed on
April 16, 2020
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Breakfast on the Moon #3
Breakfast On The Moon principally celebrates the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo manned missions to the Moon. Breakfast On The Moon #3 is the third
April 12, 2020
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Breakfast on the Moon with Apollo 13 Commander
On Saturday morning, April 11th, from 7:00-9:00 AM PDT (2:00-4:00 PM UTC), the National Space Society (NSS) Chapters’ Assembly and the Sacramento L5 Society NSS
April 6, 2020
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