SPECIAL EVENT!!

WHAT: NSS/NYC Special Organizational Meeting
WHEN: Saturday, February 3, 2001, 3:00pm-4:00pm, preceeding our normal lecture at 4:00-6:00pm
WHERE: NYU, 32 Waverly Place, Room 401, NYC

1.] The March for Space (D.C. in 2002) is joining forces with ISU students' "Yuri's Night - World Space Party" April 12, 2001. We propose to rename the "March for Space" to be "World Space Party 2002/DC". Elaine is switching the website over.
2.] We are helping the National Science Teacher's Association (NSTA) with their educational outreach program called "Building a Presence for Science".www.nsta.org/bap
3.] We are planning on booking speakers for our NSS/NYC monthly lecture series through June of 2001 in advance.
4.] We are helping the Eatontown Boy/Girlscout Jamboree on June 9, and are looking into the feasibility of launching model rockets.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: February 3, 2001, 4:00-6:00pm

Guest Speaker: Robert DeBiase, Independent Technologist, Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.
"POWERING THE EARTH WHILE LOOKING FOR ET: BEYOND THE SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY"

Location: NYU, 32 Waverly Place, Room 401, NYC

The One Square Kilometer Array (SKA), under study by a group of international participants, is the first instrument that approaches the needs of a search for planetary leakage from a putative extraterrestrial technological civilization. However, it would be able to detect leakage (such as our civilization produces) from only the nearest star system. To detect leakage tens to hundreds of light years away would require a detector proportionately times the effective diameter of the SKA. Since such a large detector on earth's surface could be problematic, it is desirable to place it in space. Even if the cost of launch were ignored, the cost of the array would still increase as the square of the effective diameter. This apparently hopeless situation may be overcome by placing the detector array in orbit around the Earth / Sun L2 point. Here the Earth and the Sun are always in a single direction behind the telescope array. By using the forever sun lit rear side of the array to collect solar energy for sale at Earth, the resulting funds can be used to ever increase the size of the array.

FREE Movie Screening of "The Dish", March 12, NYC!

The NYC Chatper of the National Space Society hosts a free advanced screening of the movie "The Dish" (Warner Brothers Pictures) in New York City, March 11 and 12, 2001.
Time/Location: 7:30 pm at City Cinemas Village East Cinemas, 189 Second Avenue at 12th Street, NYC

Warner Brothers presents The Dish, a funny, warm, uplifting and inspiring movie bound to make you feel good to be a human being. The film opens in the U.S. in mid March. Based on a true story, The Dish follows the emotions, drama and laughter leading up to July 20, 1969, when 600 million people around the globe watched the most incredible triumph the world had ever seen. What's not so well known is how those live television pictures were beamed to the people. NASA originally intended a facility in Goldstone California to take the first pictures of man walking on the moon. Halfway round the world at Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes in New South Wales, Australia, a team of dedicated scientists prepared their radio telescopes as 'back up' to the powerful dish in the USA. But a late schedule change meant that the telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere would be in a position to receive the famous images. Australia in fact broadcast Neil Armstrong's moonwalk to the world. In recognition of Australia's involvement in the moon mission The Dish honors the teamwork, skill and passion of scientists from NASA, Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes, by taking elements from all those facilities and turning it into one story. For a few days in July 1969 a small group of Australian scientists found themselves key players in the Apollo XI space program. Their mission. to pick up and relay the most historic television pictures ever seen. Live. And with any event on such a grand scale, there's sure to be a few hitches along the way. The Dish, which has already begun the third highest grossing film in Australian history, stars Sam Neill ("Jurassic Park"), was directed by Rob Sitch, and written and produced by Santa Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy and Rob Sitch.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, April 14, 2001 @ 4:00 pm

Lecture by Paul Bartlett: The Case for Robotic Exploration of Space and Why NASA Looks to Little Italy for a Hand

Location: NYC, New York University, 32 Waverly Place, Room TBA (there will be signs)

Paul Bartlett from Honeybee Robotics will highlight different drilling projects that are being researched for other planets!
Talking about some of the missions will lead into the involvement of a small robotics company located in New York City's Little Italy: the company at which he works as an engineer, Honeybee Robotics. In addition to Honeybee's previous and current involvement he will present some of the concepts they have in the works for future missions to destinations such as Mars, comets, and Europa. Honeybee Robotics is a developer of highly customized robots, smart machines, mechanisms and related technologies. http://www.honeybeerobotics.com

Bio: Paul Bartlett
Bartlett's admiration for Dr. Carl Sagan led him to Cornell University where he worked in the astronomy department. It was Sagan's approach to nature and his drive to popularize science that prompted Bartlett to pursue his education in the field of space exploration. While he studied for his BS in mechanical engineering, Bartlett worked researching radio pulsars and discovering one, doing design work for an infrared instrument intended for the Keck telescopes, and working for Dr. Steve Squyres on the Athena Payload, a group of tools and analytical instruments slated for NASA's 2003 mission to Mars. In 2000 Bartlett moved to New York City and joined Honeybee Robotics, home of the RAT (Rock Abrasion Tool), an essential tool on the Athena Payload. He currently works at Honeybee in concept development, mechanical design, and testing on projects ranging from the RAT to drilling on Europa. He also travels to various NASA offices to present Honeybee's innovative concepts for exploring and sampling the planets, moons and comets of our solar system.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, May 5, 2001 @ 4:00 pm

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

Lecture by Dr. Rick Fleeter: The Search for Extraterrestrial Utility

Dr. Rick Fleeter, founder and President of the small satellite and space transportation company AeroAstro Inc., will speak about new technologies and applications which might deliver on the promise of utility and how microspacecraft and AeroAstro are contributing to these attempts to provide a positive return on space investment. Whether space will remain a niche technology for science and warfighting, or if it will usher in a new era in human life, depends on our ability to create utility - to produce value for people - in space. To date this search for utility at the "final frontier" has produced much less than we like to admit.

Eatontown NJ, Scout Jamboree "Space 2001"

On Saturday, June 9, four of us from NSS/NYC (including three of us from the NYC-Geek clan, and one special guest from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque) helped out from 9am to 9pm at the 2001 Eatontown (NJ) Scout Jamboree! We taught them about the scale of the Solar System and the Universe, helped them put their model rockets together, and showed them how to build simple altimeters that they can use when they launch their rockets as part of their requirement to get their Space Exploration Merit Badges.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, June 16, 2001 @ 4pm

Location: NYC, 35 West 4th St, room 879 (NYU Education Building)

Lecture by Jim Morrissey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Spacecraft System Engineering

Jim Morrissey is a spacecraft control systems engineer at the Guidance Navigation and Control Center at NASA-Goddard. This talk will present an overview of the spacecraft system engineering process. Individual subsystems will be described including: Mechanical, Power, Communications, Thermal, Software, Command and Data Handling, Propulsion, Attitude Control, Mission planning, Mission Operations and Launch Vehicle. A typical timeline from concept to operations with milestones such as design reviews, and spacecraft subsystem and launch vehicle integration will be discussed.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, July 14, 2001 @ 4pm

Location: NYC, 35 West 4th St, room 808 (NYU Education Building)

Lecture by John Pazmino: Finding Mars in the Sky

John Pazmino will describe how to find Mars and other visible planets in the sky with the naked eye and/or binoculars. A hydroelectric engineer by career, Mr. Pazmino is active in the Amateur Astronomers Association (AAA) and crews many of the star viewings and seminars. He will help us to correlate the solar system with cellestial features we can see with our own eyes for most of the year. Audience members will receive a schedule of AAA starviewings.

Our thoughts go out to all friends and loved ones who were lost or injured as a result of the NYC and DC attacks.

Hello all,

Ed Belbruno and I were determined to hold the NSS/NYC lecture this Saturday, despite the horrible tragedy. We thought it would help for us to all get together and be there for eachother, looking of course, to the future. Ed's talk would have been appropriate, and inspiring and uplifting. Ironically, it includes parts on enormous calamities in ancient Rome, and how to view them in a positive way.

Unfortunately, since NYU is in the zone below 14th street, it is closed, and we have not yet gotten a room assignment from the room reservation office. I think very few people will be back to work at NYU this week. Since we don't yet have a room, and it is not clear if that area will even be open, we need to postpone it. I am out of town next weekend, so we decided to hold it October 29th instead. I hope that date works for everyone else.

In honor of the deceased, and the living who have lost loved ones... for the honor of this great city...this great world and all of humanity...on behalf of the NYC Chapter of the National Space Society, we are confident that the towers will be re-built so tall that they will reach the Moon!

On that note, I would like to invite any and all of you to gather at the Mars 2112 Restaurant this Monday evening at 7pm. The restaurant is on Broadway and 50th. Please RSVP to nssnyc@yahoo.com.

A proud New Yorker,
-Elaine

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Elaine Walker
NSS/NYC, President

elaine.walker@nssnyc.org
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Location: NYC, NYU, 32 Waverly Place, room 520

Lecture by Dr. Edward Belbruno, Princeton University: St. Clement, Orbits and Art

The new NSS/NYC newsletter

The World Space Party 2002/DC

World Space Week (October)

2001: A Space Odyssey movie (viewing in November)

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, November 17, 2001

"Perspectives From Washington, D.C.:
Reshaping NASA, Space Station Troubles, Where Do We Go From Here?"

GUEST SPEAKER: Leonard David

DATE: Saturday, November 17, 4:00 PM (FREE REFRESHMENTS 3:30PM-4:00PM)

LOCATION: 32 Waverly Place, Room 501 (Main NYU Building, near Washington Sq. Park)

BIO: 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.comand 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.

DATE: Sunday & Monday - November 18 & 19, 2001, 7:00–9:00 pm
LOCATION: Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, NYC
TICKETS: $20 for one night, $30 for both nights, Event Code — HPS21

PLUS!
Two showings of the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Friday or Saturday - November 16 or 17, 2001, 5:00 pm
Intrepid SeaAirSpace Museum, Allison & Howard Lutnick Theatre
$10 (includes admission to the Intrepid Museum for that day)
Event Code - HPS21a or HPS21b

Call AMNH Central Reservations for events - 212 769 5200 [hours: Monday-Friday 8:00-5:00; Saturday 10:00-5:00 ET].
Seating is limited and we expect high demand for tickets. We strongly advise purchasing tickets in advance.

Description of Panel Discussions:

Across two evenings, DREAMS OF SPACE TRAVEL: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE will explore how the social, political, economic and military climate has influenced the imagination of scientists, engineers and the public regarding space travel. These dreams will be traced along with the actual path that space travel has taken. Particular attention will be given to how our achievements have fallen short of these visions in some ways but exceeded them in others. While the thread of these topics will run through both days, each night will be themed.

* Sunday night will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original 1951 Space Symposium held at the Hayden Planetarium, which spawned a series of articles on space travel
in Colliers Magazine that birthed an indelible vision for the public's imagination and fascination with space.

* Monday night will commemorate and critique the vision of space put forth in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Host & Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson - astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium

Panelists:
Fred Ordway - NASA Gemini and Apollo engineer; technical advisor to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
Donna Shirley - Assistant Dean of Engineering at University of Oklahoma; manager of the Mars Exploration Program
Franklin Chang Diaz - Director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center; NASA astronaut
Roald Sagdeev - Director of the East West Institute, University of Maryland; former Director of the Institute for Space Research at the Soviet Academy of Sciences
Leonard David - space journalist and historian; former editor-in-chief of Ad Astra magazine
Wes Huntress - Director of Geophysical Laboratory at Carnegie Institution of Washington; former Associate Administrator for Space Science at NASA
LtGen Martin R. Steele - President & CEO of Intrepid Sea?ir?pace Museum; USMC (Ret)

Special Guest, Monday night: Keir Dullea - 2001: A Space Odyssey actor

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, December 15, 2001

“The NSS and the UN: New Roles in the New Millenium”

GUEST SPEAKER: Amanda Moore, United Nations Representative for the National Space Society

DATE: Saturday, December 15, 4:00 PM (FREE REFRESHMENTS 3:30PM-4:00PM)

LOCATION: 32 Waverly Place, Room TBA (Main NYU Building, near Washington Sq. Park)

BIO: Amanda Moore is the United Nations Representative for the National Space Society. Dr. Moore has covered the peaceful uses of outer space at the UN through the meetings of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its subcommittees for the past two decades. She also attended the Second UNISPACE in 1982 and UNISPACE III in 1999, both in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Moore is an honors graduate of Northwestern University and holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University for her work on remote sensing and direct broadcasting satellites. She is the author of Astrobusiness: A Guide to the Law and Business of Outer Space.

NSS/NYC LECTURE SERIES: Saturday, January 19, 2002 @ 4:00 pm

SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Fiorella Terenzi

DATE: Saturday, January 19, 2002 @ 4:00 pm
LOCATION: 32 Waverly Place, Room 714 (Main NYU Building, near Washington Sq. Park)

BIO : Dr. Terenzi is often described as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna". An astrophysicist, author, and musician, Dr. Fiorella Terenzi received her doctorate in physics from the University of Milan, has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, Corsi Popolari and taught mathematics and physics at Liceo Scientifico, Milan. In research at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, she developed techniques to convert radio waves from galaxies into sound - released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD "Music from the Galaxies". Her March `98 Avon hardcover "Heavenly Knowledge" explores astronomy as a metaphor for human relationships and humanity's place in the universe. Media coverage includes ABC Radio, NPR Talk of The Nation, BBC Radio, Women Outside magazine and The Sci-Fi Channel. Dr. Terenzi's best-selling CD-ROM "Invisible Universe" (The Voyager Company) blends astronomy and music into a uniquely entertaining and enlightening voyage through the stars and won the Sigcat Award for "Most Creative Application of Multimedia in Higher and Adult Education".