{"id":5924,"date":"2014-01-05T16:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2014-01-05T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:08:43","slug":"a-dark-sky-space-meetup-in-arizona-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Dark Sky Space Meetup&#8221; in Arizona in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/space-access.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Access Society meeting<\/a>, my favorite conference,\u00a0was unfortunately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-access.org\/updates\/sau134.html\" target=\"_blank\">canceled<\/a> for 2014.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>For those who want to experience space in Arizona this spring regardless, David Luther of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/exospace.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exodus Aerospace<\/a> is suggesting an outdoor star party meetup to the north of Phoenix:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/exospace.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/04\/first-contact-dark-sky-space-meetup\/\" target=\"_d\">First Contact Dark Sky Space Meetup &#8211; Exodus Aerospace<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Our Space Access 2014 conference in April was cancelled this year.\u00a0 Can we offer a special substitute event to the public in it&#8217;s place?\u00a0 A few real rocket guy will still be around so why don&#8217;t we do a dark sky meetup for stars of rocketry, astronomy, and maybe Hollywood?\u00a0 We could use ideas and conversation!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Space Access Society meeting, my favorite conference,\u00a0was unfortunately canceled for 2014. For those who want to experience space in Arizona this spring regardless, David Luther of\u00a0Exodus Aerospace is suggesting an outdoor star party meetup to the north of Phoenix:\u00a0First Contact Dark Sky Space Meetup &#8211; Exodus Aerospace Our Space Access 2014 conference in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A &#8220;Dark Sky Space Meetup&#8221; in Arizona in April<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1xy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5296,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5296","url_meta":{"origin":5924,"position":0},"title":"A NASA Meetup for space enthusiasts","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a report on a NASA Social event in Pasadena, California :\u00a0Inside a NASA Meetup, Where Science Fans Become Space Ambassadors - Underwire\/Wired.com The NASA Socials are the brainchild of JPL News and Social Media Manager Veronica McGregor, who started the program in January of 2009 (in those days, they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3076,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3076","url_meta":{"origin":5924,"position":1},"title":"Exodus Aerospace update","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"David Luther gives an update on activities of the Exodus Aerospace team: CHANGING GEARS - Exodus Aerospace","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Rockets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Rockets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12326,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12326","url_meta":{"origin":5924,"position":2},"title":"Space Access&#8217;16 Conference &#8211; Phoenix, AZ, April 7-9, 2016","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the\u00a0Space Access '16 Conference\u00a0in Phoenix, April 7-9. 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