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mwallis | 25 Nov 1997 19:51

Meeting - 25 Nov 97


Hi folks ...

The next meeting of the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society will be
held this Tuesday evening at the NEW LOCATION starting at 8:00pm.

Items for meeting #123 (25 Nov 97):

	Silicon Table/Presentation
       Rocket Ranch Status
       Black Adder II for CATS Prize?
       A/D Box Update 
       Peroxide Still Update
       Rainy Season Test Schedule

Upcoming test dates:  Dec 13/14th

The NEW address is:

       Rount Table Pizza
       El Camino & Grant Road
       Mountain View, CA

This Round Table Pizza is in the plaza on the SE corner of El Camino Real 
and Hwy237/Grant Road. The location is in the concourse behind the Burger
King. THE PLAZA IS UNDERGOING RECONSTRUTION, so there is no clearly visible
sign at this point. If you stand near the Burger King with your back to 
El Camino, the Round Table is at about 10 o'clock, in the corner of the 
plaza.
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Randall M. Clague | 26 Nov 1997 09:07

NASA Ames Astrobiology Lecture/Panel (notes)

NASA Ames sponsored a public panel discussion last night, entitled "Life
on Earth and Beyond: Discoveries and their Implications."  It was pretty
good.  I didn't see anyone I recognized, so I thought I'd pass along my
notes.  Comments most welcome.

-R

Notes from NASA Ames panel discussion 11/17/97

Moderator:	Andy Fraknoi, astronomer, ASP
Panelists:	Chris Chyba, planetary scientist, Univ AZ
           Steven Dick, science historian, U.S. Naval Obs
           Ernan McMullin, philosopher/priest, Notre Dame
           Jill Tarter, astronomer, SETI Institute

Logistics: El Camino Real is weird.  S of San Antonio Rd, one side of
the street is the 4600 block, the other side is in the 2000s.  Both even
numbers (I was looking for 4219).  Increasing in different directions.
I thought that kind of numbering was restricted to military bases.

NASA Ames is hosting a symposium this week to summarize all the work
they've been funding in what they call astrobiology, and NASA HQ calls
its Origins program.  This gave them the opportunity to hold a public
panel discussion, and they took it.  Turns out astrobiology and Origins
are two different things.  One part of the scientific community is doing
SETI, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, and another is searching
for extraterrestrial life (SETL?)  Quite the distinction.  Life includes
fossils, ba cteria, etc.  Much more mainstream science, just expanding
on the extremophiles we've been finding.  SETI is still regarded as
somewhat out there.  Both are multidisciplinary, and Ames has been doing
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Randall M. Clague | 26 Nov 1997 09:13

Inventory list

Hey folks,

At the meeting tonight I brought in an inventory form, and Michael made
some improvements to it.  I've attached it; can anyone who knows where
things are fill in their locations and send the form back to me?  And of
course there will be a hundred things I left off - anyone who has any
ideas, please tell me.  Feedback, flames, and frivolity all accepted
here.  ;-)

-R
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JayNemeth | 27 Nov 1997 06:25
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Re: NASA Ames Astrobiology Lecture/Panel (notes)

Boy, Thank You, rclague for a great synopsis of the lecture. I felt like I
was there. Your time in sharing that with us is greatly appreciated !

Jay Nemeth
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rclague | 30 Nov 1997 16:42

Inventory list


Resending because my mailer declined to decode the MIME attachment it
itself sent.  If I couldn't read the MS Word doc, probably some others
couldn't either.

-R

Hey folks,

At the meeting tonight I brought in an inventory form, and Michael made
some improvements to it.  I've attached it; can anyone who knows where
things are fill in their locations and send the form back to me?  And of
course there will be a hundred things I left off - anyone who has any
ideas, please tell me.  Feedback, flames, and frivolity all accepted
here.  ;-)

-R

                   ERPS Inventory
                      11/25/97

Engines
   Monoprop
       Input pipes            |__________________________________________
       Catalyst Pack          |__________________________________________
           Screens            |__________________________________________
           Catalyst           |__________________________________________

Tanks
   Black Adder H2O2 tank      |__________________________________________
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mwallis | 1 Dec 1997 23:09

Space Frontier Conference Review

This comes from "SpaceViews Update", the Boston NSS Newsletter:

Opening Space for Business: Highlights of the Space Frontier Conference
			       by Jeff Foust

	Space activists, entrepreneurs, engineers, and others exchanged
information on efforts to expand commercial space enterprises in Los
Angeles last month at the annual conference of the Space Frontier
Foundation.

	Space Frontier Conference VI, titled "Space: Open for Business"
brought a crowd to the Sheraton Gateway Hotel near Los Angeles
International Airport November 7-9.  Befitting the meeting location, a
strong emphasis of the conference was on commercial space transportation
efforts and the technical and regulatory hurdles they face.  Similar
attention was also focused on the commercialization of space itself,
from current projects to the promise of space tourism and space power.

Space Transportation
	The first day of the conference was devoted to the discussion of
present and future spaceplane concepts in both the public and private
sectors.  NASA, Air Force, and industry speakers reported on projects
such as military spaceplanes and the NASA Future X program, while small
startup companies provide updates on their efforts to build reusable
launch vehicles.

	Jerry Rising of Lockheed Martin updated conference attendees on
the status of the X-33 project, which had just passed its critical
design review a week before the conference. Having solved "a number of
developmental problems" related to the weight, control surfaces, and
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