| This Meeting was attended by Gerry Williams, Jeff Berkwits, John Stone,
Israel Lidsky, Jesse Clark, and Tim Sommer attended the December meeting.
- NOVEMBER RECAP OF TMS-SD ACTIVITIES -
Gerry and John took the Rover to the San
Diego Aerospace Museum's Family Day on November 13, 2004. While there they met Donald W.
Rethke, aka "Dr. Flush" from Hamilton-Sundstrand. Dr. Flush was there to give a talk
on "Life After Lift-off" (and how to go to the bathroom in outer space). He's an expert
in spacecraft and spacesuit life support design.
Shannon gave an FMARS talk at Miramar
College on November 19, 2004.
Gerry, John, Tim and Jesse took the Mars Rover, Mars Suit and Display Table to the
"SALLY RIDE SCIENCE
FESTIVAL" in Irvine on November 20, 2004.
Gerry and Jesse gave a talk at the
San Diego Mission Valley
Library on November 22, 2004 that recapped the Mars Exploration for 2004.
- UPCOMING TMS-SD EVENTS IN DECEMBER -
Mars Movie Night is December 17, 2004. The featured movie is an anime, "Armitage: Dual Matrix."
The movie will be preceded by "Duck Dodgers" and either an episode of "The Martian Chronicles"
or "The Purple Monster Strikes" serial.
Our next outreach events will be at
"STARS IN THE PARK" on
January 5, 2005, and at the San Diego
Aerospace Museum's Family Day on January 8th or 15th.
- OTHER UPCOMING TMS-SD EVENTS -
We've been invited to support a talk at the
Reuben Fleet Science Center
on February 12, 2005. The speaker will the a Solar System Ambassador from JPL.
Our Annual Banquet is coming again in February. It is tentatively scheduled for February
26, 2005. More details to follow.
We've been invited to return to the San Diego Science Educators'
Conference on March 11-12, 2005.
ConDor XII Sci-Fi Convention is March 25-27, TMS-SD
intends to participate in programming and displays.
We discussed planning an event for Yuri's
Night
World Space Party on April 12, 2005.
The Reuben Fleet Science
Center has requested us to do a Weekend Talks lecture on Saturday, April 16th, tentatively
entitled the "Mars Rover's Road Trip".
Our Rover has been committed to appear at two schools in Victorville on a date to be determined.
The schools won the visit in a raffle at the
"SALLY RIDE SCIENCE FESTIVAL".
- PROJECT STATUS REPORTS -
Mars Society San Diego Rovers: The radio-controlled San Diego Mars
Society Rover took a beating at the
"SALLY RIDE SCIENCE
FESTIVAL". Patrick will be doing some needed maintenance work on it.
Gerry purchased a Lego Mars Exploration
Rover model kit of the Spirit/Opportunity rovers. It's a static display that will complement
our homemade radio-controlled model.
Mars Society San Diego Mars Suit: The suit was used most recently
at the "SALLY RIDE SCIENCE
FESTIVAL". We suffered a broken hangar that Tim will fix or replace. Tim will also work on
bands to shorten one suit and on building a communications module chest-pack for both.
Public Relations: This is a slow time of the year for PR so
nothing was reported.
Display Board: No work reported on the second display board.
Website: Jesse agreed to update the website's Suggested Reading
list. Any suggested revisions should be forwarded to him.
The URL MarsSanDiego.org is still down, but
The mars Society - San Diego is working.
- MISCELLANEOUS -
Jeff turned over our P.O. Box key to Dave.
We decided on a denim shirt for our new embroidered shirts. We also agreed on the new chapter
logo. We gave our requests to Tim to order shirts. Anyone who wants a shirt should contact Tim
with size and quantity information.
Mission Support 2005: We discussed whether to do
MDRS Mission Support for a month again.
It is unknown whether any San Diego members will participate as crew this season.
We will be looking into starting another lecture series at local libraries for 2005.
John's simulator project was deemed to be too large and complex a project for our chapter to
undertake.
We watched the trailer for the upcoming documentary about Robert Zubrin,
"The Mars Underground".
-dkr | 
