SLAS Regular Meeting
McDonnell Hall, Washington University - St. Louis
7:30pm Friday, November 15, 2024
"The Case for Mars"
by
Robert Zubrin, PhD.; The Mars Society
Since the beginning of human history, Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. Unlike the dead world of the Moon, the Martian landscape is filled with possibility, but humans must be able to survive there. Zubrin calls for a travel-light and live-off-the-land approach to Martian settlement. He explains how scientists can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars; produce fuel and oxygen on the planet’s surface with its own natural resources.
Robert Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars. He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal in a 1990 research paper intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission.
The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM Friday, November 15 in McDonnell Hall, Room 162, on the Danforth campus of Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63105. McDonnell Hall is accessible from Forsyth Boulevard via Tolman Way. Free yellow zone and garage parking spaces are available. The event will also be available via Zoom online conference.
To request Zoom link, please click here
The event, cosponsored by NASA's Missouri Space Grant Consortium, is open to the public free of charge.
Meeting Agenda
- Main Speaker
A101 - How to select a good first telescope
Annual Membership Anniversary Recognition
Review of Proposed 2025 Budget
Please renew your Expiring Memberships. LINK
SLAS has 2024 group permits for Whiteside and Danville.
Upcoming Meetings:
December 2024: Robert Reeves; "Postcards from the Moon"; LPOD
January 2025: Bhupal Dev, PhD. “Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron “Stars; Washington University.
February 2025: K. Michael Malolpszy; "Probing the Sub-Microwave Universe Part III"; SLAS2024 Astronomy Events by Mark Jones
Randy Harrison's Lookin' Up Optics page: http://lookinup.info/
Here are the websites that Dr. Gokhale mentioned in his talk in June
Dark Sky Missouri
www.darkskymissouri.org
Video: 'Saving the Dark' A film on Light Pollution by Sriram Murali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHxNn-FEnc
Globe at Night program for light pollution
Telescopes for Sale!
Shirts and Mugs for sale!
Our new SLAS coffee mugs have arrived. They will be available to purchase at
our regular meetings at Washington U. Price: $10 each, 2 for $15
All shirts are $10!!!
Moon Shirt
Globular Cluster Shirt
Pleiades Shirt
There is also a Dobsonian shirt
New Poster from Guy Ottwell you might be interested in
It's called the Zodiac Wavy Chart
https://www.universalworkshop.com/zodiac-wavy-charts/?mc_cid=cfa6f33be8&mc_eid=9d6fcdbdfa