Space Association of Australia Inc.
powered by TidyHQJune Public Meeting | Blue Origin's Fourth Developmental Test Flight
June Public Meeting | Blue Origin's Fourth Developmental Test Flight
07:00 PM – 10:00 PM
27-06-2016
Caulfield RSL, 4 St Georges Road, Elsternwick
This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome!
We'll be in the Function Room on the first floor of the Caulfield RSL. The venue is disabled friendly and includes a lift. Meals are available at reasonable prices. Ample car parking is available immediately behind the RSL or in St Georges Road. Trams and trains run within 200 metres of the venue.
Agenda
| 7.15 - 7.30 | Association business: Wrap-up of Gene Cernan - The Last Man on the Moon Australian tour | Review of Searching for Life with the SpaceX Dragon, IceBreaker and BRINE joint meeting with the Mars Society Australia | Arrangements for the Final Frontier Festival and SpaceUp Australia 2016 conference |
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| 7.30 - 7.35 | Retrospective: Fifty Years of Moon Dust: Surveyor 1 was a Pathfinder for Apollo |
| 7.35 - 8.10 | Member activities/Guest speaker: Pre-recorded interview/presentation by Mike Dinn -- Deputy Station Director at DSS-42 (Tidbinbilla) in 1966 -- on the "50th Anniversary of Surveyor 1: The View from Downunder" |
| 8.10 - 8.40 | A tour of the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Sunita (Sunny) Williams filmed during her last days as Commander of Expedition 33 |
| 8.40 - 9.00 | Break for socialising |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Space news: Sea Launch, the mobile maritime launch platform for specialised Zenit-3SL rockets, may be bought by an Australian business investor with Igor Rozenberg | New Space update with Angelo Di Grazia & Michael Abdilla and the latest in space and planetary science missions with Andrew Rennie |
