The Founding Meeting
of the New York City Chapter of the National Space Society!

Saturday, March 4, 2000 @ 3:30 pm

Guest Speaker: William E. Burrows "ARC: An Alliance to Rescue Civilization"

Location:NYU Education Building, NYC, 35 W. Fourth Street, Rm 879

William E. Burrows will speak about his plan, "ARC: An Alliance to Rescue Civilization", a bold proposal for Earth's future, featured in the Sept/Oct issue of Ad Astra. William E. Burrows is the author of "This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age", and directs the Science and Environmental Reporting Program at NYU.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES:  Saturday, April 15, 2000 @ 3:30 pm

NSS/NYC Meeting with Guest Speaker, Ken Murphy "Space Activism"

Location: NYU Education Building, NYC, 35 W. Fourth Street, Rm 879

Ken Murphy will discuss a unique educational initiative taking place here in NYC to get Boy and Girl Scouts qualified for their respective Space Exploration merit badges. Mr. Murphy was a US delegate to the Space Generation Forum at UNISPACE III, the third United Nations conference on the peaceful uses of Outer Space, and will be attending the International Space University this fall. A banker by profession here in NYC, he’s proof positive you don’t have to be an “insider” to be a space activist. Come and find out how to get involved in spreading the knowledge about space.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES:  Saturday, May 6, 2000 @ 3:30 pm

NSS/NYC Meeting with Guest Speaker, Ed Belbruno "Weak Stability Boundary Transfer"

NEW Location!! : NYC, 50 W.4^th Street, Rm 630

Edward Belbruno, former NASA mathematician now at Princeton, and an artist, will be speaking about how the "fuzzy boundaries" between the gravitational basins of the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon can be exploited to send spacecraft to the Moon and Mars with a fraction of the fuel. Belbruno's findings have allowed him to use the mathematics of chaos theory to chart safe and efficient paths through the turbulent topology of space-time. His theories were successfully put to the test in April 1991, when a Japanese spacecraft called Hiten had run low on fuel and was rescued by sending the spacecraft to the Moon using Belbruno's calculated trajectory. Belbruno also played a key role in the salvage of the Hughes satellite HGS-1, and shared Aviation Weeks Laurel award for this in 1999. You do not want to miss this informative and inspiring talk!

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, May 13, 2000 @ 12:00 pm

Special Luncheon Talk with Frank Sietzen! "Space Politics 101" $20 registration fee includes Buffet. Please pay in advance.

Location: NYC, Cowgirl Hall of Fame Restaurant , 519 Hudson St (at 10th St), 212-633-1133

SPACE POLICY ANALYST AND SPACE.COM JOURNALIST GIVES THE INSIDER'S VIEW ON THE LATEST U.S. SPACE DEVELOPMENTS

Frank Sietzen, Jr., space policy analyst for spacepolicy.org, journalist for space.com and editor-in-chief for the National SpaceSociety's magazine, Ad Astra, serves up the latest hot developments facing the NASA and military space programs and policies in his talk "ThePolitics of Space 2000: Space Policy 101". Fresh from the McCain 2000 campaign, Sietzen will give the current status of NASA's latest round of scathing outside reviews, space station and shuttle delays, White House moves in the space policy arena, and what the Presidential candidates are likely to say about space and high technology policy as the campaign year heads into the convention cycle. Sietzen is the author of four books on space and has won numerous awards for his coverage of NASA and the military space projects.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, June 10, 2000 @ 3:30 pm

Dr. Eleanor O'Rangers "Space Medicine"

Location: New York University, NYC, 32 Waverly Place, Room 804

Dr. Eleanor O’Rangers will explore the physiologic effects of spaceflight with an emphasis on the medical problems of astronauts and potential countermeasures (treatments) for these problems.Physiologic changes associated with microgravity, including cardiovascular and musculoskeletal deconditioning, immune function changes, bone demineralization and endocrinologic effects will also be introduced and more importantly, will be placed in perspective with respect to their potential impact on astronaut health, mission function, and application to disease management on earth, Dr. Eleanor O'Rangers maintains an active interest in microgravity pharmacokinetics/dynamics and lectures frequently on the subject. She also serves as a pharmacology consultant to NASA, is the Space Medicine column editor for Ad Astra (the magazine for the National Space Society) and is a docent at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Thursday, July 6, 2000 @ 7:00pm

Marianne Dyson "Overview of Space Station Systems"

Location:  New York University, NYC, 31 Washington Place, Room 810

Marianne Dyson will be talking about Space Station Systems. Communications, power, cooling, computers, life support (including how the toilet works!), and debris/meteorite protection are explained using diagrams, photos, and demonstrations. Dyson is a former NASA flight controller and the author of the award-winning children's book, Space Station Science. She also serves on the Board of NSS and chaired the 1999 ISDC in Houston.

* * * IT'S PHILI OR BUST, TO MEET JOHN McCAIN!! * * *

Elaine Walker-Mullen, president of the NYC chapter, and Don Doughty, president of the Boston chapter, met up in Blue Bell, PA for a town meeting with local Senator Greenleaf.  John McCain was there to support Greenleaf, and there were some issues with Space Launch Initiative we wanted to bring to his attention. We were joined by Henry Vanderbilt of the Space Access Society who happened to be on the East coast visiting family, and an unexpected addition to our entourage showed up - Lawyer, Rich Robbins, formerly with NASA. Henry and Rich both asked questions to McCain and got good positive responses. Don and Elaine both separately handed McCain a handful of articles regarding SLI, a T-Shirt, NSS brochure, and an Ad Astra and received a warm and extended greeting from him. He was familiar with NSS and happy to see us there.  Hurrah!

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday August 5, 2000, 3:30 pm

Ian Randall Strock, Artemis Society "Your Ticket to the Moon: The Artemis Project"
(and a little review of the recent Lunar Development Conference and the founding session of the Moon Society)

LOCATION:  New York University, NYC, 32 Waverly Place, Room 520

The Artemis Project is a comercial project to build a lunar colony. This may be your chance to get there, and since it builds on the recent spate of commercial aerospace endeavors, it may also help you get whereever you're aiming off this rock. Ian Randal Strock is one of the founders of the Artemis Project (and the editor of Artemis Magazine, which was spun off from the Project). He'll have a presentation, copies of the magazine, ways for you to get involved, and answers for your questions, so bring your enthusiasm! If you can't make it, but want to learn more about the Project, check out www.asi.org (for more information on the magazine, see www.LRCPublications.com).

SPECIAL EVENT!: Saturday September 2, 2000, 4:00 pm

A movie about the Mars Society and the Flashline MarsArcticResearchStation,http://www.marssociety.orgtitled:

"The Mars Society" a film by Sam Burbank.

plus...Elaine Walker sings a few songs about Mars and Devon Island after the movie.

LOCATION:  NYC, at the "Main Mission:2000" "Sci-Fi convention in Manhattan!
Crown Plaza Hotel, 1605 Broadway. http://www.cybrary1999.com/con2000

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, October 7, 2000, 3:30 pm

LOCATION: New York University, "Shimkin Hall", 50 West 4th Street, Room 630, NYC.

Guest Speaker:  Leonard David, Space.com http://www.space.com

"Reporting in the Space Industry and What the Future Holds"

"Leonard David is well known in the aerospace industry as a popular commentator and reporter of exciting current events. He writes regularly now for space.com and has been a contributer for a number of space magazines and other publications, including Space News, Final Frontier, Ad Astra, and many others. He is based in Washington DC."

SPECIAL EVENT! Wednesday, October 4, 7:30 to 9:00 PM

Location:  The Museum of Natural History, Main Auditorium
$8 for NSS members, call in advance - 212-769-5200

For the United Nations' first World Space Week!
An event at the Museum titled "Should the Search for Life Be the Primary Goal of Space Exploration in the 21st Century?"
Panel members will be Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (director), Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz (Space Shuttle astronaut), Adriana Ocampo (JPL), James Oberg (JSC), William E. Burrows (NYU) and Bill Nye (the "Science Guy").

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, November 4, 2000, 3:30

Guest Speaker:  Dr. Gregory L. Matloff
"The Interstellar Initiative : To the Heliopause and Beyond"

LOCATION:  New York University, NYC, 32 Waverly Place, Room 401

NASA is committed to beginning serious exploration beyond the confines of our solar system during the first quarter of the 21st century. Early probes to the boundary of the Sun's influence, the heliopause at 200 Astronomical Units could be launched as early as 2010 using the solar-sail for propulsion. Later missions might utilize laser/maser -beam propelled sails, the nuclear-electric rocket, fusion or antimatter. If human interstellar flight within the time frame of a human lifetime is to become possible, some form of breakthrough propulsion must become feasible.

Bio: Dr. Gregory L. Matloff
Prof. Matloff has his BA from CUNY and his MS/Ph.D both from NYU. He iscurrently a full-time physical science and astronomy faculty member at PaceUniversity and an adjunct at NYU and The New School. His research hasconcentrated upon advanced spacecraft design, space astronomy and atmospheric pollution. Dr. Matloff has published more than 80 scientific and technical papers in peer-reviewed journals includig Acta Astronautica, Applied Optics, AIAA Journal, J. Energy, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, JGR. Icarus, Mercury, Spaceflight, and SPIE Journal at at international conferences. He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and a member of the interstellar exploration subcommittee of The international academy of Astronautics. He has co-authored "The Starflight Handbook" with E. Mallove (Wiley, Ny, 1989). His latest book on interstellar travel, "Deep Space Probes," is scheduled to be published by praxis/Springer-Verlag in the near future. During the summers of 1999 and 2000, Dr. Matloff worked as a Faculty Fellow at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabam on interstellar propulsion. he is currently principal investigator on a nASA grant investigating aspectsof interstellar light sailing.

An Art Unveiling Ceremony at The
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters Gallery in Washington DC
of a New Painting by Artist and Mathematician Edward Belbruno

NSSNYC President Elaine Walker, Administrator Dan Goldin, and Dr. Edward Belbruno after painting is unveiled

 On November 13, 2000, Administrator Daniel Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration presided over the unveiling of a new painting by Edward Belbruno of Princeton, NJ. The event was held at NASA's executive gallery, and will be on display for at least six months.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, December 2, 2000 @ 4:00 pm

LOCATION:  New York University, NYC, 32 Waverly Place, Room 714

Guest Speaker:  Dr. Pascal Lee

"Mars on Earth"

No place on Earth is truly like Mars.  Our planet presents nevertheless some (often extreme) environments with specific climatic circumstances, geologic features or biological traits that may shed light on some aspects of the nature and evolution of Mars. In the Canadian high Arctic for instance, the Haughton impact crater and surroundings on Devon Island, Nunavut, is a unique “Mars analog” in that it presents a wide variety of features that may offer insights into the history of the martian climate and surface, in particular the evolution of mar’s water and possibly of life. Devon Island’s Mars-like terrains and life’s adaptation to the harsh polar environment are among the site’s features of interest.  The NASA-led Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) seeks to understand both similarities and differences between Devon Island and Mars: are resemblances between the Earth Mars merely superficial or do they have a common underlying cause?  The HMP also seeks to learn how humans and robots will further explore Mars effectively and incorporates studies in field exploration technologies, strategies, and human factors. The Mars Arctic Research Station, to be sponsored by the Mars Society in July 2000, will enhance ongoing HMP research and help plan the human exploration of Mars.