The meeting will take place Saturday July 11 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm at the Houston Saengerbund in the Heights at 1703 Heights Blvd.
Two member organizations of the Alliance, The Houston Chapter of The Mars Society and the North Houston Space Society have teamed up to create this event.
Please note the new location and start time.
Also, we will have North Houston Space Society elections for officers and board members following the meeting.
More about our guest speaker:
Anima Patil-Sabale is an Aerospace Engineer, Software Engineer and Systems Engineer, currently working in EVA Operations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) as an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) Telemetry Displays Development Lead, Artemis Flight Controller and Instructor. Previously she was a Private Astronaut Mission Integrator working on private astronaut missions to the International Space Station. She has been Project Lead for Lunar Gateway Mission Control Center Systems and Orion Spacecraft Simulations Lab Manager before that. She’s also worked on NASA’s xEMU spacesuit as a Spacesuit Engineer. Prior to this she has worked on NASA’s Kepler Mission and in NASA’s Intelligence Systems Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.
Anima has a Master’s in Aerospace Engineering, Master’s in Space Studies – Human Factors, Master’s in Computer Applications and a BS in Physics. She’s currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering.
While Anima has aspired to be an astronaut since she was a little girl and has been consistently working towards this goal, she is also a Bioastronautics Researcher and Scientist-Astronaut Candidate for commercial spaceflight research projects. She has been participating in upper-atmospheric and bioastronautics research. She has flown more than fifty parabolas in a spacesuit aboard a Falcon 20 aircraft while participating in the testing of the spacesuit in zero-G. She has also flown a high-altitude mission in a Mooney aircraft to study noctilucent clouds.
She has been in a 6-inch head-down tilt position for a NASA Simulated Microgravity Fluid Loading study.
She has spun in a centrifuge and experienced up to 6-G’s as she contributed to a Federal Aviation Administration study.
Anima has been a Commander for NASA’s HERA VII in 2015, an analog mission to an asteroid.
She has also been a Commander for a Martian Analog Mission at the Mars Desert Research Station. She has also been a First Tier Support Engineer for the Hi-SEAS Analog and Simulation missions since 2014. She has been participating in and contributing towards the research required for long-duration space missions.
She is a certified scuba diver, and a student pilot (105 hours logged.
She has also completed the following trainings: Land and Sea Survival, Spacecraft Emergency Egress, Hypoxia Awareness and Mitigation, Spacesuit Operations, High-G Analog, and Mitigation Method in addition to several others.
Anima loves working with the younger generation the most, to provide them with the guidance she missed out on growing up. She is an Assistant Scout Master and a STEM-NOVA mentor for the BoyScouts of America. She is a NASA Girls Mentor and a NASA Speakers Bureau member. She’s also been a First Lego Robotics team coach. Everyone of her trips to India includes a schedule for talks as she gets flooded with invitations. She has even delivered TEDx talks for the Christ University in Bangalore and Government College of Engineering Karad, Maharashtra. Sharing her story with the young and old alike is her passion and her way of giving back as she pursues her motto to Inspire, Guide and Motivate.
It’s humbling for Anima to have her work recognized and appreciated. She has received the NASA Group Achievement Award for her work on the Axiom 3 mission, Jacobs Test Lab Operations Improvement award, Indo-Canadian Arts & Culture Initiative’s Woman Hero 2021 award, the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of Influence 2017 award and is a “Forty Woman Over Forty To Watch Out For” honoree. Rocket-women.com, Silicon Valley Business Journal, TriValley Journal are just a few of the several publications that have published a feature on Anima’s journey to share her story to inspire and motivate young and old, alike. Here is the rocket-women.com feature: https://rocket-women.com/2016/05/meet-a-rocket-woman-anima-patil-sabale-nasa/
She’s also a choreographer, dancer, singer, poet, artist, and a model. But above all she is a mom to her two handsome boys.
About Us
NSS North Houston Space Society is a chapter of the National Space Society (NSS) and is governed by the chapter bylaws. Our vision 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.” If you share this vision, please join us. (If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to our chapter president Nathan Price by email at Nathan.Price@gmail.com or phone 832-620-6385.
We are working to achieve this vision through our monthly meetings where we seek to educate the community about the potential of space, the current activities going on to achieve the promise of space, and to inspire people of all ages. Our meetings are usually the second Saturday of each month at 1 PM at Houston Saengerbund in the Heights at 1703 Heights Blvd.
NSS North Houston Space Society had its first meeting in January 2018 at the home of Nathan Price who serves as the chapter president. The chapter has had meetings every month since then except one.
In 2018, our chapter was recognized as the “Outstanding New Chapter USA 2018”.
Over the months our meeting attendance has fluctuated, but generally it has grown.
Starting with our May 2019 meeting, we moved to the Barbara Bush Library which has given us a room with the capacity for 70 people.
We have had engineers, scientists, space lawyers, space investors, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and others speak at our meetings discussing all aspects of space.
Our group includes people from a wide variety of fields including engineers, programmers, scientists, writers, and people in all sorts of fields. It is a friendly, welcoming group. And we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.