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THE MARS SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO (TMS-SD) CHAPTER
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"The Earth is the Cradle of Mankind, but one does not
live in the cradle forever."
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895 |
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TMS-SD MEETING NOTES FOR APRIL 8,
2002 |
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| It was a different kind of meeting of the San Diego Chapter of The Mars Society. Kelly
Jernigan, Andrew Salamon, John Stone, Shannon Rupert, Dave Rankin, Gerry Williams and Bruce
Lieberman were present. |
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| SHANNON AT MDRS and the UNION-TRIBUNE |
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| We hosted both Shannon Rupert's return from two weeks at the
MDRS -- MARS Desert Research Station
near Hanksville, Utah as Crew Rotation #4 Biologist; as well as Bruce Lieberman, a staff
writer for the San Diego Union Tribune, came by to do a story on both Shannon's adventure
and our local chapter's involvement as Mission Support for the MDRS. Bruce was here for two
hours listening to Shannon's tale as well as asking questions of the group. Bruce sent a
Union-Tribune photographer over to Kelly's the following day to photograph San Diego's MDRS
Mission Support in action. Bruce's story was eventually published the following
Wednesday.
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| After Bruce had gone, Shannon (who literally just got back from MDRS that same day)
gave us a more detailed report on her adventure at the MDRS. She'd also brought about six
rolls of photographs she'd taken that we poured over while she answered our questions. |
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| OTHER NOTES |
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| Because our meeting had run over three hours, we quickly discussed
Yuri's Night and the
X-Prize people in town for Eric Lindberg's recreation flight; our monthly
SDAA Telescope Night Outreach in
Balboa Park; possibly switching the date of our monthly meeting for better attendance; our
Mars San Diego Web Store; the Fleet
Science Center wanting us to be involved in a robotic presentation; and our upcoming ComicCon
panels. We also discussed our four weeks as MDRS Mission Support, and debated whether to write
up a Lessons Learned report to submit to MDRS Mission Control in Denver, but tabled this topic
until our next meeting. |
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