Saturday, December 11, 2021 – Monthly Meeting

Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. Connect with others who are excited about exploring the cosmos, learning how to use the resources of space to improve human life, and who want to go and spread humanity to the rest of the universe.

This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Spring Creek Barbeque (21746 Tomball Pkwy, Houston, TX 77070) or join us online Via ZOOM:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533

The meeting will be on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 2PM (US Central Time).

For those that come in person, food is not provided nor is a purchase required. However, feel free to purchase food and eat during the meeting (or before or after). Also, we highly recommend that you only attend if you are vaccinated. Masks are encouraged but not required.

Agenda:

2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:10 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:40 PM – James Webb Telescope – Doug Hall
3:15 PM – Q&A
3:30 PM – Officer and Board Elections
3:45 PM – Socializing
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

November 6, 2021 – Going Interstellar – Summary

Glad you were able to join us for the November 6th North Houston Space society meeting. We had quite a turn out both in person and online.

The zoom meeting was recorded.

Agenda:

2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:10 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:30 PM – Going Interstellar – What I Learned at the 7th Interstellar Symposium – Nathan Price
3:30 PM – Q&A
3:45 PM -Share your personal space experiences since the last meeting. Rocket Launches, Other Meetings, Research, etc.
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

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Hope you can join us for our next meeting. Checkout http://NorthHoustonSpace.org for details

Saturday, November 6, 2021 – Monthly Meeting – Going Interstellar

Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. Connect with others who are excited about exploring the cosmos, learning how to use the resources of space to improve human life, and who want to go and spread humanity to the rest of the universe.

This is our first hybrid meeting. Come in person at Spring Creek Barbeque (21746 Tomball Pkwy, Houston, TX 77070) or join us online Via ZOOM:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533

The meeting will be on Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 2PM (US Central Time).

For those that come in person, food is not provided nor is a purchase required. However, feel free to purchase food and eat during the meeting (or before or after). Also, we highly recommend that you only attend if you are vaccinated. Masks are encouraged but not required.

Agenda:

2:00 PM – Opening Remarks
2:10 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:30 PM – Going Interstellar – What I Learned at the 7th Interstellar Symposium – Nathan Price
3:30 PM – Q&A
3:45 PM -Share your personal space experiences since the last meeting. Rocket Launches, Other Meetings, Research, etc.
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

Summary: Saturday, October 2, 2021 – Monthly Meeting – Featured Speaker: Ellena Hyeji Joo – Into the Unknown: Human Exploration in the True Space Age

Saturday, October 2, 2021 – Monthly Meeting – Featured Speaker: Ellena Hyeji Joo – Into the Unknown: Human Exploration in the True Space Age

Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. Connect with others who are excited about exploring the cosmos, learning how to use the resources of space to improve human life, and who want to go and spread humanity to the rest of the universe.

This is our first hybrid meeting. Come in person at Spring Creek Barbeque (21746 Tomball Pkwy, Houston, TX 77070) or join us online Via ZOOM:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533

The meeting will be on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2PM (US Central Time).

For those that come in person, food is not provided nor is a purchase required. However, feel free to purchase food and eat during the meeting (or before or after). Also, we highly recommend that you only attend if you are vaccinated. Masks are encouraged but not required.

Agenda:

2:00 PM – Opening Remarks – Nathan Price
2:10 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:30 PM – Into the Unknown: Human Exploration in the True Space Age – Ellena Hyeji Joo
3:30 PM – Q&A
3:45 PM -Share your personal space experiences since the last meeting. Rocket Launches, Other Meetings, Research, etc.
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

Human Exploration in the True Space Age

Author Ellena Hyeji Joo will discuss what we all speculate about when it comes to space: Aliens. What are aliens? Where are the aliens? And who are the aliens? Our hunt for alien life in space is bigger than human life—space is human species’ greatest unknown, the final “frontier.” However, are we asking the right questions as we rush to this hunt? Into the Unknown: Human Exploration in the True Space Age illuminates the urgent need to widen our perspectives and grow an awareness of humankind’s space exploration. Ellena encourages anyone curious about space to engage with it as a thought-platform to exercise our humanity and, in particular, our abilities to empathize, imagine, and hope. In her talk, she will discuss human exploration in space and its intersection with international politics, human curiosity, and prejudice.

About The Speaker: Ellena Hyeji Joo

Ellena Hyeji Joo came to the US from Vietnam by herself at the age of fourteen. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service in international politics with a concentration in foreign policy from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She’s the founder of Femme Reads, an international feminism and activism centered book club with members across the globe. Having grown up in four different countries and fluent in five languages, Ellena is passionate about answering bigger, deeper questions whose answers may be key to protecting our future and values on Earth, and evolving our humanity to stay focused on what really matters. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her brother, family, and friends.

About the Meeting

Meetings are open to all age groups and interest levels. Come explore with us the potential that developing and exploring space has to better life here on earth and to open up new frontiers creating new perspectives that can help enrich the human experience.

The Vision of NSS 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.

The Mission of NSS is to promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity. Accordingly, we support steps toward this goal, including human spaceflight, commercial space development, space exploration, space applications, space resource utilization, robotic precursors, defense against asteroids, relevant science, and space settlement oriented education.

Website:  http://NorthHoustonSpace.org
MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/Future-North-Houston-National-Space-Society-Chapter/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NssNorthHoustonSpaceSociety/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nss-north-houston-space-society/

Summary of September 4, 2021 – Monthly Meeting – Featured Speaker: Dr. Amelia Greig – Ablative Arc Mining for In-Situ Resource Utilization

Upcoming Events

Inspiration4

 September 21-23, 2021 – NASA INNOVATIVE ADVANCED CONCEPTS (NIAC) – 2021 Symposium – Online – Free streaming – https://www.nasa.gov/content/niac-symposium

Rice Space Institute

  • Friday September 17, 2021: Professor Patricia Reiff, Rice University” -Space@Rice: a personal history of space research at Rice”
  • Thursday October 21, 2021: Professor Kris Lehnhardt, MD Baylor College of Medicine “Please state the nature of the medical emergency: preparing for medicine on Mars”
  • Thursday November 11: Stephen Altemus, CEO Intuitive Machines – “How to Land on the Moon in 30 Months for Less than $100M“

September 24-27, 2021 – 7th Interstellar Symposium – Hybrid – Tucson, AZ and Online – https://Irg.space

Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 2-4PM (Hybrid) – Featured Speaker: Ellena Hyeji Joo – “Into the Unknown” -Human Exploration in the True Space Age http://NorthHoustonSpace.org

October 16, 2021 – Observe the Moon – https://moon.nasa.gov/observe-the-moon-night/

October 4 – 10: World Space Week – https://www.worldspaceweek.org/

Saturday, September 4, 2021 – Monthly Meeting – 2 PM US Central – ONLINE – Featured Speaker: Dr. Amelia Greig – Ablative Arc Mining for In-Situ Resource Utilization

Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. Connect with others who are excited about exploring the cosmos, learning how to use the resources of space to improve human life, and who want to go and spread humanity to the rest of the universe.

The meeting will be on Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 2PM (CDT) ONLINE Via ZOOM:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533

Agenda:

2:00 PM – Opening Remarks – Nathan Price
2:10 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:30 PM – Ablative Arc Mining for In-Situ Resource Utilization – Dr. Amelia Greig – UTEP Aerospace Center
3:30 PM – Q&A
3:45 PM -Share your personal space experiences since the last meeting. Rocket Launches, Other Meetings, Research, etc.
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

Ablative Arc Mining for In-Situ Resource Utilization

As space exploration expands to include human expeditions to the surfaces of other solar system bodies, sustainable in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) infrastructures to harvest local resources for water, building materials, and propellants must be developed. Water is the most critical component in the near-term and is therefore the focus of many studies. However, being able to mine other resources with the same system will become critical in the future. A good mining system should therefore encompass extraction and collection of water in parallel with as many other local materials as possible. Ablating surface material using electric arcs creates free ionized particles that can be sorted by mass into material groups and transported to a relevant collector by electromagnetic fields. Collectors specific to each material type are used in parallel to enable maximum collection efficiencies and storage conditions for retention. The ionizing ablation arc, electromagnetic transport and sorting, and collector modules are housed within a mobile surface crawler, potentially leading to diverse, efficient, and wide-coverage in-situ resource utilization for human space exploration.

About Dr. Amelia Greig

Dr. Amelia Greig is an assistant professor in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas in El Paso (UTEP), where she leads the Aerospace Center’s electric propulsion and small satellite programs. More recently, her work has expanded to include applying electric propulsion and plasma techniques to improve lunar mining technologies. In 2021, Dr. Greig was named a Phase I NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fellow
for her innovative work into ablative arc mining for in-situ resource utilization.


Originally from Tasmania, Australia, Dr. Greig completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Physics at the University of Adelaide and completed her Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at The Australian National University. She also spent a year as a postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the applied plasma physics group. Prior to joining UTEP, Dr. Greig was an assistant professor in Aerospace Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and faculty advisor for the Cal Poly Cube Sat Lab where the CubeSat standard was first developed.


Outside of work Dr. Greig is a competitive Scottish Highland dancer that has competed at events around the World and performed in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. She also plays and umpires field hockey, has recently started learning Kung Fu San Soo, and enjoys exploring America’s National and State Parks on her motorbike.

About the Meeting

Meetings are open to all age groups and interest levels. Come explore with us the potential that developing and exploring space has to better life here on earth and to open up new frontiers creating new perspectives that can help enrich the human experience.

The Vision of NSS 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.

The Mission of NSS is to promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity. Accordingly, we support steps toward this goal, including human spaceflight, commercial space development, space exploration, space applications, space resource utilization, robotic precursors, defense against asteroids, relevant science, and space settlement oriented education.

Website:  http://NorthHoustonSpace.org
MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/Future-North-Houston-National-Space-Society-Chapter/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/NssNorthHoustonSpaceSociety/

Saturday, August 7, 2021 – Monthly Meeting – 2 PM US Central – ONLINE – Featured Speaker: Gitika Gorthi – Ignited Thinkers

Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society (http://NorthHoustonSpace.org) meeting. Connect with others who are excited about exploring the cosmos, learning how to use the resources of space to improve human life, and who want to go and spread humanity to the rest of the universe.

The meeting will be on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 2PM (CDT) ONLINE Via ZOOM:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85216600533

Agenda:
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks – Nathan Price
2:10 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:30 PM – Gitika Gorthi – IgnitedThinkers.org
3:30 PM – Q&A
3:45 PM -Share your personal space experiences since the last meeting. Rocket Launches, Other Meetings, Research, etc.
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

Gitika Gorthi – Ignited Thinkers

Gitika will talk about her journey founding IgnitedThinkers, aerospace medicine research she conducted, future outlook on IgnitedThinkers and possible career paths people can choose that have an interest in space other than being an astronaut.


Gitika Gorthi is a rising senior attending Chantilly High School in Northern Virginia and is the Founder/CEO of IgnitedThinkers (www.ignitedthinkers.org). Gitika founded IgnitedThinkers in 8th-grade to spread space education to all and breaking industry stereotypes to make the space ecosystem more diverse and accessible. Gitika is an aspiring astronaut and aerospace physician. She does aerospace medicine research with the Baylor College of Medicine and Brown University, a NASA Ames Center 2021 GeneLab intern, and a rocketry enthusiast working towards her high-powered rocket license.

About the Meeting

Meetings are open to all age groups and interest levels. Come explore with us the potential that developing and exploring space has to better life here on earth and to open up new frontiers creating new perspectives that can help enrich the human experience.

The Vision of NSS 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.

The Mission of NSS is to promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity. Accordingly, we support steps toward this goal, including human spaceflight, commercial space development, space exploration, space applications, space resource utilization, robotic precursors, defense against asteroids, relevant science, and space settlement oriented education.

Website:  http://NorthHoustonSpace.org
MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/Future-North-Houston-National-Space-Society-Chapter/
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/NssNorthHoustonSpaceSociety/