Revised Agenda July 25 AE Meeting

Aerospace Agenda July 2018 CAP Squadron 508

1845                Announcements

                                October 6^th Midway Museum field trip

                                CyberPatriot demonstration round

                                        August 4/11

                                August Foothills Library dates

                                        Thursday August 2^nd

                                        Thursday August 9^th

                                Mars opposition

1850                Video: Disaster Robots

Video: Alaskan Pilot

1900                Break

1905                Foothills Astronomy July 2018 (PPT)

2000                Video: Blue Origin Flight and landing

2020                Adjourn

July 2018 Aerospace Education Links Yuma CAP Squadron 508

Aerospace Education Links July 2018

SpaceX moves ahead with Dragon manned capsule testing with first launch pegged for late summer 2018

https://www.space.com/41006-spacex-first-crew-dragon-spacecraft-test-photos.html

New delays for James E. Webb telescope. Launch now delayed until 2021. NASA and Northrop Grumman shoulder the blame for construction errors.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-delay-cost-nasas-next-170251042.html

New spacesuits being developed by United Launch Alliance and by SpaceX are tested by commercial astronaut cadre

http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronaut-suni-williams-on-spacex-boeing-spacesuits-2018-6?r=UK&IR=T

Up close and personal images obtained by NASA space craft of dwarf planet located between Mars and Jupiter

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2018-07-02/nasa-spacecraft-sending-back-close-ups-of-dwarf-planet-ceres

Future uncertainties for Russian human launch program as US firms ULA and SpaceX speed toward astronaut carrying capability within the next 18 months

https://www.space.com/41038-roscosmos-russian-space-strategy-commercial-crew.html

Saturn 1B rocket to begin a one and a half year restoration process in the rocket garden at KSC\

https://www.space.com/41055-restoration-begins-nasa-saturn-ib.html

NASA prepares new solar probe designed to get within 4 million miles of the sun without burning to a crisp

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-readies-probe-to-touch-the-sun-with-cutting-edge-heat-shield/

****Dramatic video of failed launch of Japanese rocket

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/japan-rocket-team-releases-crash-100040993.html

NASA again considers reusable, rapid turn-around launch vehicle for unmanned missions to space with lifting capacity of 3,000 pounds

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-phantom-express-engine-originally-designed-for-nasa-space-shuttle-is-key-to-low-cost-spaceplane/

***Humorous look at the awesome size of SpaceX launch vehicles-video

https://www.space.com/41118-spacex-rocket-size-epic-video.html

Source for neutrino billions of light years away discovered thanks to information provided by a detector located in ice at the south pole

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628142995/a-4-billion-light-year-journey-ends-at-the-south-pole

How fast is Earth moving through space?

https://gizmodo.com/can-we-measure-our-own-galaxy-speeding-through-space-1827577208

Experts discuss the financial and political hurdles that are forestalling US return to and exploration of the moon and future manned missions to Mars

http://www.businessinsider.com/moon-missions-why-astronauts-have-not-returned-2018-7

***Emmy award nomination for Cassini final video

https://www.space.com/41174-nasa-cassini-coverage-emmy-nomination.html

https://www.space.com/39192-cassini-saturn-mission-grand-finale-2017.html

****https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGAQCq9BMU

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ho30EMRm4

Satellite gathers images of massive iceberg from space. The massive block of ice could threaten local communities on Greenland

https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-11-million-ton-iceberg-013924494.html

Flying a drone on Mars? It may happen by 2022 with next unmanned NASA mission to launch in 2020.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/drones-mars-aerovironment-help-nasa-121300038.html

NASA braces for further delays in crew capsule development and certification for both Boeing and SpaceX designs. Earliest launch for either program pushed into 2019 at the earliest.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-commercial-crew-program-space-station-faces-delays-142612518--finance.html

Multiple views of Pillars of Creation help clarify cosmic changes in the region

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/16/the-pillars-of-creation-havent-been-destroyed-say-new-nasa-images/#544174d84d55

***Blue Origin New Shepard launch video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRDhdHRyyjc

Adaptive optics yield unprecedented images of Neptune from Earth’s surface using Very Large Telescope

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/07/18/Very-Large-Telescopes-new-optics-achieve-super-sharp-images-of-Neptune/9391531923347/

Extraordinary infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan

https://mashable.com/2018/07/18/saturn-moon-titan-images/#a7CC7gHnnZqC

***LM-100J model flies demo including inverted flight at Farnborough Airshow

http://www.businessinsider.com/incredible-video-shows-lm-100j-super-hercules-inverting-at-air-show-2018-7?yptr=yahoo&r=UK&IR=T

Looking back to Apollo 11 on anniversary of first moon landing

http://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-moon-landing-photos-nasa-1969-2018-7#but-today-many-astronauts-argue-that-the-main-reasons-no-humans-have-touched-the-moon-or-any-other-planet-since-1972-arent-scientific-or-technical-challenges-instead-its-due-a-lack-of-cash-and-political-waffling-29

A planetary nebula observed from its birth with the death of a red supergiant

https://nypost.com/2018/06/27/astronomers-capture-life-death-and-rebirth-of-supergiant-star/

SpaceX to launch second Block 5 booster and land on barge in Atlantic Ocean. Company has yet to reuse this version of its rocket

https://www.cnet.com/au/news/spacex-ramps-up-rollout-of-block-5-falcon-9-rocket-fleet/

Multiple previously unseen moons observed circling Jupiter

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jupiters-moon-count-reaches-79-including-tiny-oddball-140453729.html

Leaky escape rocket poses further delays for development of Boeing Crewed Capsule

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-boeing-spacecraft-setbacks-20180721-story.html

***Videos of Hubble history and the new James E Webb telescope

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-whats-next-for-the-worlds-greatest-telescope/

Amazing photographs of the second launch of a Block 5 version of the Falcon rocket by SpaceX

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/now-witness-the-firepower-of-this-fully-operational-falcon-9-rocket/?comments=1&post=35708477&mode=quote

Aerospace Education Agenda for July 2018

Aerospace Education Agenda July 2018 CAP Squadron 508

1845                       Announcements

1850                       Video: Disaster Robots

       Video: Alaskan Pilot

1905                       Video: Blue Origin Flight and landing

1925                       Break

1930                       Foothills Astronomy July 2018 (PPT)

2015                       Adjourn

Stargazing in July at Foothills Library

Yuma Stargazing at Foothills Library branch for July 2018

The scheduled nights for stargazing in July are:

July 5^th and July 12^th. Both events are scheduled to start at 8PM