From kirk.kittell at gmail.com Sun Aug 5 11:42:15 2007 From: kirk.kittell at gmail.com (Kirk Kittell) Date: Sun Aug 5 11:42:23 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] SEDS International Conference: 250+ students registered Message-ID: <46B61A07.2070605@gmail.com> The deadline to submit an abstract for the SEDS International Conference (SEDSIC) is coming up on 10 August. SEDSIC is hosted by the Vellore Institute of Technology chapter of SEDS in India from 22-23 September. URL: http://earth.seds.org/sedsic Contact: Pranav Aggarwal, sedsic@gmail.com The topics for Nakshatra -- the paper/poster presentations, http://earth.seds.org/sedsic/aboutvit.html -- are: 1. Materials used in space re-entry vehicle 2. Clearance of space debris 3. Use of space technology/energy for human welfare 4. Protection of communication systems from solar flares 5. Extra-galactic astronomy 6. Planetary sciences There is also a competition to design a series of conceptual lunar rovers. The prize is a half-tuition scholarship to International Space University (worth approximately $10,000); see http://earth.seds.org/sedsic/moonrover.html.html As of this writing, 258 students have registered for SEDSIC. If you are in the area -- an Indian student or a student visiting India for the IAC -- come and meet your colleagues. Many are attending both, so we are coordinating a ride from Vellore to Hyderabad. Take care, -Kirk -- ________________________________ Kirk Kittell kirk.kittell@gmail.com Mobile: +1 703-475-9212 From kirk.kittell at gmail.com Tue Aug 7 07:05:05 2007 From: kirk.kittell at gmail.com (Kirk Kittell) Date: Tue Aug 7 07:05:14 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] Q&A blog with space industry veterans Message-ID: <1355ea10708070705h60c18bb3q1d0a85272cf6aeb1@mail.gmail.com> The American Astronautical Society (AAS) is running a blog called "Voice of Experience" for students. You can ask questions to professionals about how life is in the industry and how they got there. Each guest will make a short post about some of their experiences, then the comments section is open for Q&A for two weeks. If you're looking for advice, jobs, or direction through the university maze to your goals, please use this as a resource. URL: http://blogs.seds.org/voiceofexperience RSS: http://blogs.seds.org/voiceofexperience/feed/entries/atom RSS (comments): http://blogs.seds.org/voiceofexperience/feed/comments/atom Contact: kirk.kittell@gmail.com The current guest is Michael Zedd, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He'll be there for two more weeks, starting yesterday. Coming next: Mark Craig, VP of Space and Ocean Systems at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and former Associate Director at NASA Johnson Space Center. Also, if you would like to interview a professional to create a database of wisdom learned, I recommend the following program from SEDS-USA called "They Were There" -- http://seds.org/they_were_there.php. Perhaps you can engage some of the VoE guests for an interview later. Take care, -Kirk -- _________________________ Kirk Kittell +1 703-475-9212 (mobile) kirk.kittell@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pipermail/seds-announce/attachments/20070807/049d3540/attachment-0001.html From jediarizona at yahoo.com Tue Aug 7 20:25:21 2007 From: jediarizona at yahoo.com (Joshua Nelson) Date: Tue Aug 7 20:33:15 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] SEDS Space Art Contest Message-ID: <964690.50483.qm@web51804.mail.re2.yahoo.com> All, Please spread word to your chapters and any students you know about the SEDS Space Art Contest. Press release below. Josh - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Subject: SEDS ?Got Vision? Space Art Contest Now Accepting Submissions Wednesday August 1st 2007 The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) today formally announced the opening of submissions for a nation-wide all-student space art contest. This competition which is open to current students in high school or college, challenges students to depict their vision of humanity?s short term future in space. These two dimensional pieces of art should fall into one of three categories: ? Space Exploration Systems ? Art pieces in this category should depict a spacecraft (manned or unmanned), a space station, or space launch system in the near future. ? Life in the Final Frontier ? This category challenges space artists to depict what life in space will be like. What will a supermarket on an Asteroid colony look like? Where will kids on the first Mars colony play? What will sports in the Zero Gravity of space look like? ? First Contact - We all know in our hearts that first contact with alien life will happen someday. For this category, depict how and where first contact will happen. Will it be through the camera of an unmanned probe? Or an Astronaut stumbling into a lava tube biosphere? Will the life be green algae on a rock or little gray men? There will be several large prizes for the winners of each category, as well as a Grand Prize for the overall best submitted artwork. Finalists will be offered display opportunities at the Space Vision 2007 conference at MIT in November Submissions will be accepted on the contest website, http://art.seds.org starting August 1st and ending October 1st 2007. The artwork will be judged by leaders from both governmental and private space industries. For further information on the competition (including rules, prizes, and general information) all parties should visit the competition website: http://art.seds.org Private companies and governmental space entities donations are still needed to make this competition a success. Entities interested in sponsoring this competition or a prize for a sub-category of art (such as a prize for a Space Exploration Systems artwork containing that company?s spacecraft in use) should contact the project director immediately. All questions, comments, and suggestions about this Space Art Competition should be directed to: Joshua V. Nelson Director of National Projects, SEDS-USA (203) 610-3378 jediarizona@yahoo.com Mailing Address: Box 174 Space Sciences Building The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 Note: All submissions must be made via the contest website. No submissions will be accepted via the above mailing address. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 From mclinkor at MIT.EDU Thu Aug 9 05:56:28 2007 From: mclinkor at MIT.EDU (Ryan McLinko) Date: Thu Aug 9 05:57:33 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] Spacevision 2007 Conference this November 9-12 at MIT Message-ID: <46BB0EFC.5090706@mit.edu> November is fast approaching and with that comes the next SpaceVision conference this November 9-12 at MIT. We have a great speaker list, including Anousheh Ansari, Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk, Stuart Witt, and Pete Worden. Please visit http://spacevision.seds.org/speakers.php for the full list or see the lineup at http://spacevision.seds.org/schedule.php. The conference will also feature a career fair and the unveiling of the winners of the SEDS-USA Art Contest. In order to avoid high prices, please book flights and hotel rooms early. Also, register early so that we know you're coming at http://spacevision.seds.org/registration.php. The official conference hotel is the Cambridge Marriott and we are keeping a list of inexpensive hotels that we have found at http://spacevision.seds.org/hotel.php. For more information, a full speaker list, and registration, please visit http://spacevision.seds.org. If you have any questions, feel free to email me or call me at 704-609-7416. -- - Ryan McLinko Director, 2007 SEDS National Conference Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Class of 2009 === EOF === From mclinkor at MIT.EDU Sat Aug 18 20:14:27 2007 From: mclinkor at MIT.EDU (Ryan McLinko) Date: Sat Aug 18 20:15:50 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] X PRIZE Cup Message-ID: <46C7B593.7030804@mit.edu> The 2007 X PRIZE Cup will be this October 26-28 at Holloman Air Force Base. The event will be host to the Lunar Lander Challenge, the premier of the Mark-1 X-Racer, rocket launches, ground displays, any many other exciting things. Furthermore, SEDS will have a booth at the cup in the middle of the exhibit/organizations displays. That said, attending the Cup would be a great opportunity for anyone and we are attempting to get as strong a SEDS presence at the Cup as possible. For more information, see http://space.xprize.org/x-prize-cup/. If you are interested and/or planning on attending, then please let me know and we will try to coordinate efforts to make travel and lodging as cheap and easy as possible. -- - Ryan McLinko SEDS-USA Vice Chair, Webmaster Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Class of 2009 === EOF === From Kobrick at Colorado.edu Mon Aug 20 22:43:47 2007 From: Kobrick at Colorado.edu (Ryan L.Kobrick) Date: Wed Aug 22 17:24:45 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] Four-Month Arctic Simulated Mars Mission A Success! Message-ID: <2A1F63E5-3AF4-4528-BA03-1736DF073A8D@Colorado.edu> Greetings from the Arctic! That will be the last time that I will be able to say that for awhile! Please find attached the final press release, while the F-XI LDM crew is still at FMARS. Our simulation has come to an end but the work will continue on for years to come. We conducted 88 EVAs on the mission, which I had the pleasure of being part of 46 of them. Please forward this message as appropriate and I would be happy to answer any questions. I will be stopping in Toronto on the way to the Mars Society conference in Los Angeles. I will post more images on my webpage post mission but if you want a special sneak peak of 360 panoramas (you will need quicktime) from some of our working sites here is a link on my webspace: https://webfiles.colorado.edu/kobrick/ExMars/FMARS2007/360/ Recent news just hit MSNBC where I did a mini interview via email: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/20/325220.aspx Space! Ryan -- Ryan L. Kobrick, BScE, MSS '03, MS Human Factors Researcher / Crew Engineer Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station Crew 11 Long Duration Mission (F-XI LDM) This message was sent from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada My WWW: http://www.RyInSpace.com -- Four-Month Arctic Simulated Mars Mission A Success! Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - The Mars Society's four-month simulated Mars exploration mission in the Canadian High Arctic, the first of its kind, finished successfully today, achieving a significant milestone along the path to the manned exploration of space. In recognition of this occasion, the crew will have a teleconference tomorrow with astronaut Clay Anderson, currently on board the International Space Station. The seven researchers from across North America will then fly directly from the Arctic to the 10th International Mars Society Convention at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, to present their preliminary results and share their experiences. Commander Melissa Battler and two of her crewmates will also meet with Dr. Gary Goodyear, Canadian Member of Parliament and Chair of the Canadian Space Caucus. The long-duration simulated Mars mission on Devon Island, Nunavut, operated smoothly for four months, quadrupling the previous record for an active Mars mission simulation. The Canadian-American crew of the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) conducted a comprehensive program of geological and microbiological field exploration in the island?s Mars-like polar desert, 900 miles from the North Pole, all the while operating under many of the same constraints that human explorers would face on Mars. By doing so, they have learned from direct experience many lessons that will be of critical value when human explorers actually set foot on the red planet. This expedition was unique in that the crewmembers were able to maintain a rigorous simulation for an unprecedented period of time, collecting invaluable human factors data. Seven human factors experiments were completed, including comprehensive sleep and exercise studies. The crew also operated on the Martian 'sol', which is 39 minutes longer than the 24 hour Earth day, for over a month, to see if there were any negative effects on crew psychophysiology or mission operations. "The work that this crew has done will contribute to studies of Mars and to studies of the response of permafrost on Earth to global warming," said the mission?s remote science principal investigator Chris McKay, of NASA Ames. "Their pioneering simulation of crew operations on Mars time is by far the best work on this topic ever done. It sets the standard for future Mars mission simulations such as the proposed European Space Agency 500 day mission." Despite the tight quarters and tough living conditions, the crew coped remarkably well, and completed a wide range of field research safely and efficiently. In particular, they gathered data on microbial life in soil, snow and lakes, characterizing the changes as the Arctic season shifts from spring into summer. They also compared geological features seen on Mars, such as polygonal patterns and "weeping cliffs," with similar features found on Devon Island, in order to better understand conditions on the red planet. FMARS is located on the rim of 39 million year old Haughton Impact Crater. This location is particularly well-suited for the science conducted because a lake filled this crater shortly after impact, thus creating a suitable environment for life to flourish. Similar processes might have occurred on Mars, in similar polar desert environments, thus making Haughton Crater an ideal analogue for Mars. The crew has conducted six Mars Remote Education ("Mars Ed") events with five summer camp groups across Canada and with the International Space School at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Daily reports and photos (http://www.fmars2007.org/) sent back by the crew are posted on the Mars Society website. A complete report on the historic mission will be presented by the crew in person at the 10th International Mars Society Convention, which will be held August 30- Sept 2, 2007 at UCLA, Los Angeles. Registration for the convention is now open . For further information about the Mars Society, visit our website at www.marssociety.org . Your donations are welcome. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pipermail/seds-announce/attachments/20070821/44fdaaa9/attachment-0001.html From kirk.kittell at gmail.com Wed Aug 22 20:38:03 2007 From: kirk.kittell at gmail.com (Kirk Kittell) Date: Wed Aug 22 20:38:19 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] PongSat launch payloads available for September Message-ID: <46CD011B.2020000@gmail.com> Hey hey hey. JP Aerospace, http://www.jpaerospace.com, has PongSat payload spaces available for its upcoming launch in September. What is a PongSat? You guessed it: a payload that fits in a ping pong ball, then is taken to near space via airship or sounding rocket (it's an airship in September). Web: http://www.jpaerospace.com/pongsat/ Blog: http://blogs.seds.org/pongsat/ RSS feed: http://blogs.seds.org/pongsat/feed/entries/atom Contact: J.P., bob@jpaerospace.com (a.k.a. "Bob" since he is confusingly not the namesake of JP Aerospace, but just a guy named JP) From jpaerospace.com: "JP Aerospace is a volunteer-based organization achieving cheap access to space by just doing it." If you're interested in flying a small payload, send "Bob" an email -- but act fast. -Kirk -- ________________________________ Kirk Kittell kirk.kittell@gmail.com Mobile: +1 703-475-9212 From mclinkor at MIT.EDU Sun Aug 26 21:10:37 2007 From: mclinkor at MIT.EDU (Ryan McLinko) Date: Sun Aug 26 21:12:32 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] New Student Research Fair at SpaceVision 2007 Message-ID: <46D24EBD.7040807@mit.edu> I am pleased to announce the newest addition to SpaceVision 2007: the Student Research Fair. The fair will be held on Sunday morning (November 11th) concurrently with the SEDS-USA Art Contest final presentation. Here, students who have been doing interesting research over the past year can show off their work at a booth in poster session format during that morning from 9-noon to other students, members of industry, speakers, and any other participants at the conference. If you are a student and have been doing some interesting research lately, then now is the time to show it off. If interested in presenting, then please visit http://spacevision.seds.org/student_research.php for more information and to register for a table. The deadline for registering for a table is October 1st. As always, visit http://spacevision.seds.org/ for more information about the conference in general or feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions -- - Ryan McLinko Director, 2007 SEDS National Conference Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Class of 2009 === EOF === From pradeep at seds.org Mon Aug 27 22:52:43 2007 From: pradeep at seds.org (Pradeep Nair) Date: Mon Aug 27 23:31:09 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] World Space Week Celebrations - October 4 - 10 Message-ID: <49501.59.184.134.10.1188280363.squirrel@seds.org> October 4-10 will be the greatest opportunity of our lifetime to promote space to the public and inspire children. It will be World Space Week 2007, the 50th anniversary of the Space Age. Please organize an event, no matter how small, for October 4-10. The media will be seeking out people to interview on this occasion. By listing your event at www.worldspaceweek.org, the media may cover your event or contact you. Please participate and invite others to join you. See our web site for event ideas. Thank you for your support for World Space Week. Dennis Stone Volunteer President World Space Week Association dstone@spaceweek.org www.worldspaceweek.org -- The essence of scientific research is independent thinking, hard work and not costly and sophisticated equipment. If a research worker is not inspired from within, no amount of money spent can bring success - C V Raman From jdthlr at mta.ca Thu Aug 30 23:33:56 2007 From: jdthlr at mta.ca (John Thaler) Date: Fri Aug 31 06:26:26 2007 Subject: [Seds-announce] Canadian Space Summit 2007 - Calgary Nov 17-18 Message-ID: <1188542036.46d7b654ef1ff@webmail.mta.ca> Hello Space Enthusiasts, It is my pleasure to announce the upcoming Canadian Space Summit 2007 which will be held in Calgary, AB on November 17th and 18th, 2007. This exciting annual event brings together space organizations and space enthusiasts from across Canada for a weekend of speakers, entertainment and workshops that promote communication and collaboration between groups and allow individuals and groups to present their work to the wider Canadian space community. Please find attached the official announcement of this event. More information can be found at www.css.ca/summit2007. I hope you'll be able to join us at CSS 2007! Sincerely, John Thaler Chair, Organizing Committee Canadian Space Summit 2007 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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