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)
- Update on SacL5 website (Ed Kulis)
- Update on NSS Chapters’ Assembly (CA), Chapter’s Committee, and Ed’s CA subcommittee. (Jan Roston, Joe Bland, Ed Kulis)
- Update on JP Aerospace. (Paul Turner, Jan Roston)
- Update on Apollo 16 Breakfast On The Moon celebration (Joe Bland)
- Update on Eric’s steam engine (Eric James)
- Update on Tom Tolan (Joe Bland)
- Update on “Watts On The Moon, Phase 2” NASA application (Joe Bland)
- Update on Joe’s provisional patent applications (Joe Bland)
- Update on SacL5/JP Aerospace “prize”(Ed Kulis, Paul Turner)
- 6:00-6:45 Discussions
- Discussion on SacL5 physical meeting startup date
- Other
- 6:45 Begin SacL5 Writers Group meeting (Paul Turner)
- 7:30 Adjourn SacL5 Writers Group meeting.
Notes:
- JP Balloon Flight
- Mission a success.
- Reached 105,000 feet.
- Tested Arduino logic controller
- Tested piston valve for future control of 300′ wide Ascender wings
- Flies cards with names to the edge of space
- JP Links
- Breakfast on the Moon 16 on NSS Website
- Websites discussed
- Books Discussed
- 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?
- Media Discussed
- 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?
