Chapter & Outpost Events
Page launched March 12,
2009
Updated February 24, 2010
Updated February 24, 2010
Foreword
This page was suggested by
Don Jacques, then president of Moon
Society Phoenix at the 3rd Town Meeting, held March 11, 2009.
While there has always been space in Moon Miners' Manifesto, in the
Moon Society Journal centerfold section for chapters to announce future
meetings and report on recent activities, this does not constitute
"timely" information and reporting.
This page is devoted precisely to that need: "timely information and reporting."
But we hope that through this page chapters and outposts will be inspired to a higher level of more productive activity and outreach by the ease of seeing what other chapters and outposts are planning and doing.
This page is devoted precisely to that need: "timely information and reporting."
But we hope that through this page chapters and outposts will be inspired to a higher level of more productive activity and outreach by the ease of seeing what other chapters and outposts are planning and doing.
| US Chapters US |
| US Outposts US |
| International Chapters & Outposts |
| NSS Partner Chapters |
US Chapters
AZ - Moon
Society Phoenix - Craig Porter
AZ - Moon Society Tucson - Avery Davis
MO - Moon Society St. Louis - Bob Perry
TN - Moon Society Nashville Outpost - Chuck Schlemm
The next meeting for the Houston Chapter of the Moon Society, on Monday, march 15th, will be at the Freeman Library in Clear Lake City (16616 Diana Lane) in the first floor meeting room, beginning at 7 p.m. Our plan is to make this a joint meeting with the local NSS chapter.
For those of you who missed the last meeting in January, Marianne Dyson and Murray Clark of the local NSS chapter came and floated a proposal that we consider merging the two local chapters to form a collaborating NSS chapter. There are a number of attractive possibilities for such a merger; NSS has a large local mailing list, a treasury, and a steady income from a portion of membership dues paid to the national organization while the Moon Society has a nucleus of active members and a regular meeting history. I believe that this proposed merger would be very beneficial to both organizations, and I encourage our Moon Society members to consider adding a membership in NSS (which would be a prerequisite to serving the organization as an officer or director).
Whatever your desired level of participation, though, I encourage you to come to the meeting. See you there! --------Eric H. Bowen
http://www.moonsociety.org/chapters/houston/
WI - College of the Menominee Nation - Green Bay - Dan Hawk
The December meeting was election day. - from Craig Porter
I'm again President of the Chapter. Don declined to run again and nobody else
wanted the Job. Rest of the officers were returned for the next year.
We had six present and five absent so we had a Quorum. Mike was there and he e-mail me a Treasurer's report to include in the minutes,
Projects in work include:1) Don's Habitat Project and
2) Craig has a project for a Display wall for our posters and pictures.
3) Craig is also working on more "eye candy" for the kids.
CopperCon30 - September 4 - 6, 2010 in Mesa
- I have volunteered for the three disaster panels, and talked Don about helping on oneof them.
- Patti agreed to email the Cons that she has contacted for out reach tables.
- Don has agreed to send me a rough engineering drawing of his habitat.
Next Meeting is the third Saturday of January (the 23rd ) at 3:PM at the Denny's at
US60 and Rural Road.
Craig Porter
AZ - Moon Society Tucson - Avery Davis
MO - Moon Society St. Louis - Bob Perry
Wednesday, Jan 20th Meeting:
We had a fair turnout: Bob Perry, Jim Merriman, Dabne Tolson, Rufus
Anderson, Tom Kullman, Burt Sharpe, Mark Rode, Karl Strassman. We
watched a DVD documentary from 1987, a tour of the Planets hosted by
Isaac Asimov and set to the music of Holst's "The Planets". Rufus
brought his laptop and projector and screen and Bob a set of powered
speakers. The computer graphics were good, considering that it was
produced about ten years after the Voyager missions, c. three years
before Hubble was operational. The majority of our discussions were
triggered by the documentary. One topic was why the inner planets are
rocky and the outer planets are mostly hydrogen with considerable
amounts of ice.
Dabne volunteered to do a presentation next month on an ion drive to keep the International Space Station in orbit rather than letting it fall to Earth when it is decommissioned in 2016 - which is unlikely but that's as far as the current funding and treaties go. Some of us adjourned to Uncle Bill's Pancake House. – Bob Perry
February 12 - online report on Moon Madness 2010 event, with photos
Dabne volunteered to do a presentation next month on an ion drive to keep the International Space Station in orbit rather than letting it fall to Earth when it is decommissioned in 2016 - which is unlikely but that's as far as the current funding and treaties go. Some of us adjourned to Uncle Bill's Pancake House. – Bob Perry
February 12 - online report on Moon Madness 2010 event, with photos
TN - Moon Society Nashville Outpost - Chuck Schlemm
We had a combined MS Outpost and Middle Tennessee Space Society NSS chapter meeting 7/24/09. To the Moon, Chuck SchlemmTX - Moon Society Houston - Eric Bowen
The next meeting for the Houston Chapter of the Moon Society, on Monday, march 15th, will be at the Freeman Library in Clear Lake City (16616 Diana Lane) in the first floor meeting room, beginning at 7 p.m. Our plan is to make this a joint meeting with the local NSS chapter.
For those of you who missed the last meeting in January, Marianne Dyson and Murray Clark of the local NSS chapter came and floated a proposal that we consider merging the two local chapters to form a collaborating NSS chapter. There are a number of attractive possibilities for such a merger; NSS has a large local mailing list, a treasury, and a steady income from a portion of membership dues paid to the national organization while the Moon Society has a nucleus of active members and a regular meeting history. I believe that this proposed merger would be very beneficial to both organizations, and I encourage our Moon Society members to consider adding a membership in NSS (which would be a prerequisite to serving the organization as an officer or director).
Whatever your desired level of participation, though, I encourage you to come to the meeting. See you there! --------Eric H. Bowen
http://www.moonsociety.org/chapters/houston/
WI - College of the Menominee Nation - Green Bay - Dan Hawk
No report this month.WI - Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost - Lunar Reclamation Society - See additional listing below
There are now four current members of the Moon Society in the Milwaukee area, including Peter Kokh, Dennis Groves, Lee McConaghy, and Kriss Coleman. We could organize a separate Moon Socieety chapter, but it seems to make more sense meeting and working in conjunction with the local NSS chapter, The Lunar Reclamation Society, which already enjoys Moon Society partnership status.
We are working to prepare Moon Society and LRS exhibits for ISDC 2010 in Chicago this coming Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-31. 2010
US Outposts
CA - San Diego - David Schrunk
- meeting every even number month for lunch and discussion. Member Phil
Harris has just published his 2nd recent book on space development. Toward Human Emergence
(2010) is about the future of humanity and concludes that our species
can only achieve its full potential in outer space. There will be a
review and more information in the February MMM #232.
CA - Los Angeles - Chip Proser
CA - Bay Area Moon Society (San Francisco Bay South) - Henry Cate
MD-DC-VA - Washington-Baltimore - Fred Hills
TX - Dallas - Fort Worth - North Texas - Scotty Gammenthaler & Ken Murphy
TX - Longview/Kilgore - James A. Rogers
DC-MD-VA - this metro area has the largest concentration of active Moon Society members in the US. Board director Fred Hills is trying to arrange a chapter-founding meeting.
WI - Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost - Peter Kokh
CA - Los Angeles - Chip Proser
CA - Bay Area Moon Society (San Francisco Bay South) - Henry Cate
MD-DC-VA - Washington-Baltimore - Fred Hills
TX - Dallas - Fort Worth - North Texas - Scotty Gammenthaler & Ken Murphy
TX - Longview/Kilgore - James A. Rogers
DC-MD-VA - this metro area has the largest concentration of active Moon Society members in the US. Board director Fred Hills is trying to arrange a chapter-founding meeting.
WI - Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost - Peter Kokh
Planned Activities: For ISDC 1998 in Milwaukee, we built several exhibits as part of a "Lunar Homestead Show." A Table top model of a modular lunar homestead, a model of a "periscopic" picture window, and the original set of "gravity bricks." Looking forward to ISDC 2010 in Chicago,
we hope to produce a number of new exhibits showcasing possible
features of lunar frontier life. We had a long list of possibilities
going into ISDC 1998, and we have not determined which of these we will
tackle for the upcoming event in Chicago.
International Chapters & Outposts
Australia - Melbourne - Victoria Space Alliance* - Shaun Moss
Canada - Calgary - Calgary Space Workers - Michael Bakk
Canada - Montreal - Laurel Ladd
India
* Officially affiliated with NSSA (National Space Society Australia) but open to members of all affiliations, and thus partnering with the Moon Society
Current Activities: Developing a new social medium for space enthusiasts only - moon-mars.com; the Apollo Moon Party on the weekend of July 18-19, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the first manned Moon Landing and Moonwalk.
Proposed Online Chapter for members in Australia and New Zealand
Current Activities: Developing a new social medium for space enthusiasts only - moon-mars.com; the Apollo Moon Party on the weekend of July 18-19, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the first manned Moon Landing and Moonwalk.
Proposed Online Chapter for members in Australia and New Zealand
Canada - Calgary - Calgary Space Workers - Michael Bakk
Current Activities: working on a "mobile modular" lunar analog base to be deployed in the Drumheller, Alberta area.
Canada - Montreal - Laurel Ladd
India
SEDS-VIT - Avinash Siravuru Organized the recent SINC 09 [Seds INdia Conference] and 1st annual lunar rover design competition SEDS-VIT will serve as the Moon Society chapter at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IndiaSweden/Europe - Niklas Jarvstrat
LARS - India - A project spearheaded by Pradeep Mohandas (Mumbai) to host a number of educational events leading up to the esatablishment of an Indian Lunar Analog Research Station - http://groups.google.co.in/group/lars-india/
The moon-mine (lunar analog research) project now underway in central Sweden - We celebrated the 40th
anniversary of the first lunar landing by a kick-off party for the
moon-mine. Films from the lunar landing on big screen, footprints in
regolith (well let's call it regolith simulant), start of the pumping,
cutting the ribbon, balloons, invited speakers, and much more. Coffee was available.
NSS Partner Chapters
CA - San Diego Space Society - David Dressler
MN- Minnesota Space Frontier Society (Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro) - Craig Borchard
OR - Oregon L5 Society (Portland Metro) - Bryce Walden
WI - Lunar Reclamation Society (Milwaukee Metro) - Peter Kokh
MN- Minnesota Space Frontier Society (Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro) - Craig Borchard
Current Activities: Maintains Moon Society Blog site
OR - Oregon L5 Society (Portland Metro) - Bryce Walden
WI - Lunar Reclamation Society (Milwaukee Metro) - Peter Kokh
