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January 2005 Meeting Minutes (1/8/2005)
The January 2005 MASA meeting was held on the 6th at
the Science Museum.
MASA's first meeting of 2005 followed tradition by starting a
little past 700 PM. Turn out was quite good, with about 17 members
and members-to-be in attendance.
Old business
New Business
We brainstormed a list of about 15 ideas for meeting topics, and,
as in previous years, dot-voted [another one of those corporate
meeting processes has worked its way into our tradition] to narrow
the field to fit the available dates. We then discussed, with a bit
less vigor, ideas for launch themes and activities, and assigned
them to dates as well. The resulting list:
February
"Build your own Cape Canaveral" [GSE] --Mike Erpelding
March
KSC Travelogue --Andy Heren
Launch: Green rocket drag race
April
Contest rockets --Mike Erpelding
Launch: MASA Sectional contest, events TBD
May
LCO/RSO Training --Ted Cochran to organize
Launch: Comanche Drag Race
June
Tube Fin Rockets --Alan Estenson (tentative, pending Alan's being
strong armed into acquiescing -)
Launch: G80 & HPR Drag Race
July
Picnic
Picnic launch: Special fun event D Ice cube duration
August
Paper rocket construction session --Stuart Lenz
Launch UFO Drag Race
September
NARAM Highlights --NARAM attendees
October
Kit Bash --Glen Overby to organize
November
Rocket Finishing --Dave Whitaker
December
Holiday Party
We talked up, promoted, and generally encouraged everyone to go
to NARCON in Kenosha, WI, March 11-13.
Round Table
- Ted Cochran handed out the new issue of the MASA Planet
(Volume 8, Number 1) to everyone. It will be mailed in the next
few days to all members in good standing as of the end of last
year. This is the tradition with the first issue of the year, in
order to make sure everyone is reminded to renew their
membership for the year. The next issue only goes to members -)
- Ted also passed around a paper glider model from the NASA Ares
Mars Airplane site--Get your own at http//marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/platform.html!
- Stuart had another fleet of cool MicroMaxx rockets, including
a couple of SF models and Phoenixes in two different sizes. He
also had a paper Mercury Redstone. Folks asked about sources for
paper models, so I'll list some here:
- Precision Paper Space Models http://www76.pair.com/tjohnson/ppsm.html
(Includes Mercury Redstone, Mercury Atlas, Atlas
Centaur, Gemini Titan, Saturn 1B, Atlas Agena)
- Currell Graphics http://www.currell.net/models/mod_free.htm
(Includes SpaceShipOne, Japanese RVT, Soviet N1, Friede,
V2)
- Philippus Lansbergen (click "Modelbouw") http://www.lansbergen.net/
(Estes Mercury Redstone wraps, Delta 2 (different
variations), Delta 3, Jupiter, Juno, Soyuz, Pegasus, Ariane
Vega, B-1 Interkosmos, Titan IIIC, Diamant B, and a bunch of
satellites, aircraft, science fiction, and other stuff)
- Delta 7 http://www.delta7studios.com/
(MR-8, STS Columbia, Rosie Retrorocket, maybe others)
- Rick Vatsaas showed off his Hindrocket, and discussed some of
the interesting construction details--in particular the
removable fins and the paper nose cone. Rick will have details
on his web site, sooner or later, but pictures are there now
http//www.vatsaas.org/rtv/
- Finally, Andy Heren passed around an unopened, shrink-wrapped
tube of 1/2A6-0 motors.
(Ted Cochran)
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