Category Archives: Participate

Still Haven’t Found What You’re Looking For?

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Reckon you’re more of a scientist/geeky type? Perhaps you are a good moo-baa working in a 9 to 5 or serve on the home-front, yet feel trapped, yearning to discover something that is forever known by [enter your name here]. … Continue reading

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Art, Space, Space Art & Project Hermes

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I have some news for you, and it’s about as fresh as you can get! I’ve been ‘Facebook Friends’ with Robert Brand, who is from Sydney, New South Wales, for a little while now.  He recently had a wonderful idea … Continue reading

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Design Something Part 3

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Maybe you’d rather do something a little less object oriented and devote your energy and creativity into a business like Gwynne Shotwell does.  Gwynne (pictured) is the current president of SpaceX.  She’s in charge of people who build stuff. “HAWTHORNE, … Continue reading

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Design Something Part 2

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Perhaps you aren’t an Aeronautics and Engineering Professor at MIT like Dava Newman who we mentioned in Design Something Part 1. That’s OK, you can still design things. There are other ways to learn things and create things.  How about … Continue reading

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Design Something Part 1

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What’s that your saying? Nothing described so far floats your boat? OK then, Design Something! You’re smart, you’re creative, why not? And there are certainly puzzles to solve. Puzzles like protecting the human body in the vacuum of space while … Continue reading

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Connect & Collaborate with NASA

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I keep bumping into ‘NASA Social’ so I thought it was time to figure out what it’s all about. Turns out that it is part of something called Connect & Collaborate with NASA.  That’s made up of four parts, listed … Continue reading

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HamSats Part 4

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So, how do we use the rest of the HamSat system?  It starts with a little more information… Documents for New Satellite Users is a good place to start. “This is a collection of articles introducing amateur satellites and related topics … Continue reading

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Be a Daredevil?

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Today, a Falcon 9 went up, Tuesday,^ Felix Baumgartner is coming down. He’s going after a record set by Joseph W. Kittinger in August 1960. Could you be a daredevil like these two?  Would you like the rush?  The speed?  … Continue reading

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Write a Letter

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My Facebook friend, Robert Brand, from Australia, wrote a letter which may make history.  You can too. Here’s the post, as I found it, reprinted here with permission… My letter to Alan Bean: Dear Alan, I am part of a … Continue reading

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HamSats Part 3

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Well, there are lots of Amateur Radio Satellites, or HamSats, overhead and they orbit the earth many times a day. So what? How does that help you? It seems that there are several types of satellites up there and a … Continue reading

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