Category Archives: Events

Galaxy Forum USA 2015 – Santa Clara, CA, July 3rd

June 18, 2015 TopSpacer

Here’s an announcement of a Galaxy Forum event sponsored by Space Age Publishing:

Galaxy Forum USA 2015
Friday, July 3, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Embassy Suites Santa Clara, CA
The Consulate Room
Launch 4th of July Weekend

Welcome
Opening remarks by Steve Durst
Space Age Publishing Company /
International Lunar Observatory Association
Hawai’i & California

Apollo@50
Apollo at 50 years and a Multi World Species

Juno@Jupiter
Steven M. Levin, Ph.D., Juno Project Scientist
NASA – JPL

NewHorizons@Pluto
New Horizons Encounters Pluto July 14
PI Alan Stern Recorded Presentation from
Galaxy Forum New York City

SpaceAge/SPC@40
Space Age Publishing Company — 40 Years and Beyond

RSVP news@spaceagepub.com or 650-324-3705
info@iloa.org or 808-885-3474

Education, Events, Space participation

Moon Day 2015 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas

June 11, 2015 TopSpacer

If you are in the Dallas area on July 18th, check out the Moon Day event at the Frontiers of Flight Museum.:

Moon Day is an annual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)-focused, space-themed public event sponsored by the Frontiers of Flight Museum and the National Space Society of North Texas. The event brings together space exploration-oriented groups, organizations and institutions in North Texas to share their activities and inspire new generations to embrace a scientific and technological future.

Activities, classes and exhibits will include:

Talk LIVE to the Expedition 43 Crew on the International Space Station:
Students will have an opportunity to submit questions that will be answered live by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). LEARN MORE ABOUT NASA EXPEDITION 43 CREW. The successful completion of the live communication with the ISS is subject to operational considerations.
Attend ISS and Lunar Sample Disk Certification teacher workshops (CE credit for DISD teachers)
See the LEGO ISS scale model
Meet space traveler Anousheh Ansari and hear about her personal experiences aboard the International Space Station:
On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer. She also earned a place in history as the fourth private explorer to visit space and the first space traveler of Iranian descent. She blasted off for an eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station with the Expedition 14 crew of the Soyuz TMA-9, which included NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin. This was the accomplishment of a lifelong dream for her. LEARN MORE ABOUT ANOUSHEH.
Build and launch model rockets ($25 materials fee)
Create your own space art ($20 materials fee)
Explore THREE inflatable planetariums
Check out the Sun’s surface with a SAFE solar telescope
Choose and attend one or more of the classes in the Moon Academy for kids and the Lunar Universityfor adults (CE credit for DISD teachers)
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts Merit Badges and Moon Day patch: Sky, Night Owl, Home Scientist, Astronomy, and Space Exploration plus more STEM-related patches

Activism, Events

SpaceUp Kickstarter falling short of goal to support 5 US Space Unconferences

June 4, 2015 TopSpacer

The SpaceUP Foundation‘s crowdfunding effort to raise $5500 to support five space unconferences in the US is only about halfway to its goal with just two days left: Sci-Five: 5 New SpaceUps for 2015 by SpaceUp Foundation — Kickstarter.

I’m surprised. I thought they would way exceed this goal. Still time to help them out.

Events, Exoplanets

William Borucki, leader of Kepler exoplanet finder, wins $1M Shaw Prize

June 4, 2015 TopSpacer

After leading a multi-decade struggle to get the Kepler Observatory funded, built, launched into space, and successfully finding exoplanets, it’s good to see William Borucki receiving well-deserved recognition and reward:

From Space News:

What’s cooler than discovering thousands of exoplanets?

Winning a prestigious $1 million astronomy prize for discovering thousands exoplanets.

Cooler, still, considering that the prize winner, Kepler Science Principal Investigator William Borucki, was in NASA’s dog house two years before his planet-hunting telescope finally launched in 2009.

Borucki won the $1 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy on Monday (June 2) for his work discovering extrasolar planets and studying solar interiors. Dubbed the “Asian Nobel,” the $1 million prize is funded by Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist Run Run Shaw, who also awards prizes in the life sciences and mathematics.

Kepler, a life-long labor of love for the 76-year-old Borucki, has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets since launching in March 2009.

Events, Space Arts

The World Science Festival and the NASA Orbit Pavilion

May 31, 2015 TopSpacer

The World Science Festival is underway this weekend in New York City:

The Ultimate Science Street Fair

From deep space to the brain‘s inner recesses, World Science Festival 2015 turns Washington Square Park into an outdoor lab celebrating the fascinating science that shapes our lives. It’s a full day of hands-on activities, interactive experiments, installations, and demonstrations. Meet scientists and astronauts, and enjoy live performances. Run through our Mars rover obstacle course, and learn how scientists search for life on other planets. Suit up and train like an astronaut while suspended in the air. Be a robot—or drive one. Build and launch rockets. And wire up your brain to use its electric signals to fly a helicopter or tune into a friend’s brain. It’s a day of science your family will never forget.

Here is an article about the NASA Orbit Pavilion at the Festival: NASA art exhibit surrounds you with the sounds of space – Mashable