Meeting Notes
Home Page: SacramentoL5Society.org
SacL5 Officers: Joe Bland President, Jan Rosten VP, Ed Kulis Secretary/Website Admin (click name to email)
Mission – Why We Exist
- Help enthusiasts find ways to contribute.
- Provide sources of enabling training to facilitate engineering prototyping.
- Establish a clearinghouse for the ongoing objective analysis of proposed space development technologies.
Open Items
- Paul: Verify access to bank account
- Joe: Present bank account statement and current balance
- Jan: Get Access to bank account
- Joe: Move some funds to an interest bearing account
- Ed: Publish Chapter Resource Fall edition
- Ed: Suggestion to create Business Cards and Flyers for hand out when SacL5 members attend relevant events – Ed an Gregory will work up some prototypes
Minutes
- Greetings – Attendees!
- Kris, Eric, Ed, Jan Joe, Michael
- Updates and General Chapter Business
- President’s and Treasurer’s Report(Joe Bland)
- About $10,000 in bank account.
- Joe recently filled out Benevity donation continuation form.
- Benevity donation 9/24/24: $653.33
- Joe will coordinate with Paul Turner to verify that Paul can access account.
- Joe will coordinate with Jan Rosten to add for access to bank account.
- Update on SacL5 Website Report(Ed Kulis)
- See Home Page for recent posts
- Format on this Meeting Minutes page was complemented
- Link for Previous Meetings an Website reports
- NSS Chapters Assembly Notes (Jan Roston)
- No Chapter Assembly since previous meeting
- Next CA meeting scheduled for 10/14
- NSS Chapter Committee (Joe Bland)
- Last work: Committee rules were adopted one of which is that that NSS requires chapters to submit email lists. SacL5 is a legacy chapter so it only need submit lists for new members and not members who joined before the rule was adopted.
- NOTE: NSS Chapters Committee(CC) vs NSS Chapters Assembly(CA)
- The NSS Chapters Committee is the formal NSS governing body for NSS Chapters. The CC establishes rules regarding recognition of a group as a NSS Chapter and how NSS receives and acts on input from NSS Chapters. A loose analogy is that NSS Chapters are “franchised” by NSS and must conform to standards and practices set by the CA.
- The NSS Chapters Assembly is a association of interested representatives from different NSS Chapters. The CA proposes changes and suggests novelty and improvements to the CC and the NSS. They also vet any CA rule changes that might impede Chapters recruitment, visibility, activities and access to key NSS contacts.
- The NSS Chapters Committee is the formal NSS governing body for NSS Chapters. The CC establishes rules regarding recognition of a group as a NSS Chapter and how NSS receives and acts on input from NSS Chapters. A loose analogy is that NSS Chapters are “franchised” by NSS and must conform to standards and practices set by the CA.
- CA Chapters Resource Subcommittee(Ed Kulis)
- Recent NSS Resources for Chapters Page
- Chapter Resource Links are also published in NSS Downlink.
- Ed and Perri still need to prepare the Fall edition
- Ed received some feed back suggestions on the newsletter and he will follow up with Perri
- President’s and Treasurer’s Report(Joe Bland)
- High School Grants
- No further contact with Xavier High School regarding the plan for XHS to accept the grant and start the project in November 2024
- High School STEM Contest
- High School STEM Contest Page
- Need feed back from Paul turner regarding status of commitment by Sacramento School of Science and Engineering to determine their activity in anticipation of the next JP Aerospace MiniCube balloon flight.
- JP Aerospace
- Note: JP resurrected old multi terrain vehicles which allowed the team to recover the balloons downrange after flights.
- Note: Area 42 becoming a balloon airport is looking ever more promising.
- General Discussion
- NASA’s Lunar Recycle Challenge
- The LunaRecycle Challenge is a $3 million, two track, two-phase competition focused on the design and development of recycling solutions that can reduce solid waste and improve the sustainability of longer-term lunar missions.
- NASA’s Centennial Challenges
- The goal of NASA’s Centennial Challenges is to stimulate innovation in basic and applied research, technology development, and prototype demonstration that have the potential for application to the performance of the space and aeronautical activities of the administration.
- Who own’s the moons precious water?
- Many are landing and looking to claim water. Space treaties say no nation can own space resources. Who can claim the water?
- SpaceX Space Launch Stats
- SpaceX looking to launch 50 times per year
- NASA’s Lunar Recycle Challenge
- Open Items
- Paul: Verify access to bank account
- Joe: Present bank account statement and current balance
- Jan: Get Access to bank account
- Joe: Move some funds to an interest bearing account
- Ed: Publish Chapter Resource Fall edition
- Ed: Suggestion to create Business Cards and Flyers for hand out when SacL5 members attend relevant events – Ed an Gregory will work up some prototypes
Meeting Details for each Months Meeting
Website: https://sacramentol5society.nss.org
Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space Society
Where: Virtual presence only, via Zoom
When: Second Saturday, each month
Pre-Zoom notes:
•These meetings are recorded.
•Folks will be asked to briefly share their video, and phone callers asked to identify themselves.
•We use the “waiting room” format. If I keep you waiting, call me and bawl me out! 916-429-6252
Join Zoom meeting:
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbdpRGEmNm
Meeting ID: 868 9868 4719
Passcode: Ask Joe Bland email
Chapter Library
- Tours
- NSS Headquarters at the Cape offers tours of Kennedy Space Center
- Paul Turner Books
- See Paul Turner’s Publications at Cle Curbo on Spotify and Space Trade Update
- Quest for Sylvane to buy: Amazon.com Services LLC. To learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFK3R5JK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4GW4RK0NG26WJWD29GYA
- In the Garden of Mistress Bloom – Awarding winning SciFi Stories
- A debut collection of short sci-fi fiction that explores time and space with mischievous humor.
- JP Aerospace
- Tours
- NSS Headquarters at the Cape offers tours of Kennedy Space Center
- Breakfast on the Moon Series
- SacL5 YouTube Breakfast on the Moon Series
- The YouTube channel contains the series of video conferences that SacL5 organized from 2019 through 2023 to celebrate each of the Apollo Lunar Landing Missions.
- Websites – Cool Links
- Dark Sky Festival
- Meet the artist that shot a bouquet of flowers 30,000 meters into space | CNN
- A Japanese Artist Launches Plants Into Space (nytimes.com)
- Homepage | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes – James Webb Space Telescope
- Andry Astronaut You Tube
- NASA Cube Sats
- Dream Chaser
- Books
- Rebecca Doyle is the Author of Our Moon
- Rebecca is a journalist covering the cosmos, with a focus on astronomy, space exploration, and history.
- The late Robert Compton, our SacL5 founder. published a Physics text book like no other.
- Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
- This is a text book like no other. It follows the mental processes of the lonely Creator, defining matter to enhance the experience of existence and then creating time to distinguish matter as it moves. The logic continues in this way to build the intuition and demonstrate the mathematics required in the first few years of college physics courses.
- Some of you may remember that thrill. as you learned the calculus of derivatives providing the symbols that could move the static structures of algebra through the pictures in your mind. Compton’s book continues this thrilling awe that mathematics creates as its symbols correspond mostly to the universe with enough accuracy to create houses and steeples and medicine and instruments to travel beyond the clouds and deep into atoms.
- Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
- A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars” by Les Johnson – Realistic discussions of crewed starship designs / timeframes for a feasible trip to Proxima Centuri in a reasonable amount of time
- “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell – A SciFi novel about the first contact and a a trip to meet singing aliens living near Proxima Centuri. The meeting does not go well.
- The Alice Network – Women Spies in World War 1
- Fly Girls – How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
- Goodnight Moon Base – What if every bedtime was a powerful inspiration for your child’s future?
- Rebecca Doyle is the Author of Our Moon
- Media
- Moonfall – Leave your physics back at home but if you like a series of mostly predictable travails to reflect dim light on your popcorn then go for it.
- Start Trek: Strange New Worlds – “Quality of Mercy” – Last episode of Season 1. Rich characters, deep references, thoughtful reflection on what qualities are mercy
- The Orville: New Horizons – Comedy but good
- Star Trek: Discovery – No universe too big to save and of course, need to save all multi-verses through all time…
- Severance – Hmm…, might that enthusiasm for work, plaques, and quarterly pizza parties really be for someone else?
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