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Hi all, I have been a little lax in keeping my blog up to date.

First back in July I notified the Phoenix Chapter that was leaving the Presidency of the Chapter.  The reason being I was having trouble driving and getting to meetings.  And the reason was Diabetic Neuropathy in both of my legs and the beginnings of Arthritic pain in my right hip.

Then in September the departure became a fact and I turned the leadership of the Chapter over to Mike, the Chapter's Treasurer.

During this time I was also doing things for the ConNotations NewsZine, Delivering copies to various locations, updating the "Events" section, Selecting and/or okaying Science Articles and working on a master listing of Science Fiction Clubs.  I was also helping out with the LepreCon39 committee for Fan Tables.

But the legs continued to get worse and when I saw an advertisement for Neuropathic treatment I checked it out and decided to sign up so I could get my legs back. 

More to come on this and other topics.

Hi all, The Moon Society Phoenix will be at CopperCon this Labor Day Week end.  Come join us in Avindale Arizona.  Stop by our table and say hi, or watch and/or participate in one of our panels that are available.

August 2011 Moon Society Phoenix

Convention participation: 1) We will not be participating in CopperCon31 this Labor Day. 2) We will be participating in LepreCon38 in May 2012.

Selection of a Logo for a Chapter Shirt was unsuccessful, too few votes to select a logo from the three nominated logos.

The Moon Society Phoenix website has faulty documents uploaded due to coding glitchs. Corrected files should be up and downloadable by the time you read this post.

Pictures have been added to the website and more will be added as time allows.

There is a prospective forum that we are thinking about helping out on. The forum is "A Forum on Space Policy in the Post Shuttle Era", it will be sponsored by several groups with more adding their support for the forum. There will be a Panel Discussion followed by an extended moderated discussion. The Panel will consist of Experts in Politics, Planetary Science, Manned Space Flight and NASA Operations. Location and time are tentative at this point, but will be posted here and on the Moon Society Phoenix website when it is available.

Tranquility Community College

Tranquility CC is up and operational with the first subject posted with both a Manual and a Workbook. More subjects will be posted as they are available. Items may be down loaded and used for instructional purposes. All we ask is that when you use the various materials you give due credit to the developer/s and Chapter of origination.

If you have a presentation that you would like to share please submit it to Donald Jacques in pdf format.

PARTICIPATION IN CONS, RACING AND EVENTS

Con:

We need members that want to participate in the Conventions, chairing Panels on:
1) Lunar Science and Engineering,
2) Costing concerns,
3) Manufacturing Methods,
4) Mining Methods for both Surface and below Service.
5) Agricultural Engineering,
6) Human Interactions,
7) Living Quarters.

Racing (Telepresence)

We need members to help in the planning and conduting of the races, also includes developing the needed venues for the racing along Sponsorships.

Events

We also need members to help in planning new events and carrying them out.

If interested come to a meeting or send me an e-mail at portercd@msn.com

December Chapter Meeting

To All:

With a Quorum and Proxies in hand the yearly elections were held.
The Officers for the Chapter for the coming year are as follows:
President ----------------------- Craig Porter
Exec VP------------------------- Don Jacques
VP Special Projects ------------- Patti Hultstrand
Treasurer ----------------------- Mike Mackowski
RC Racing Committee Chairman - Stuart Scott

Chapter's presentation to visitors at Conventions and other Venues:
We will be developing new "Stand Ups" and "Display Table Exhibits" because we need to re-emphasize our position on the Moon and its eventual Settlement and development. The stand ups will feature our version of a basic, low tech, settlement and the equipment that we see as important to the settlement and its growth and survival. We will build some basic systems in miniature and some in full scale, as we are capable of.

The table displays will also have one of our RC Racers on display with a descriptionof what it is about.

Along with the new table displays we will be developing new panels for the Cons to advance ideas about what is needed, what is probable, and what is likely along with other ideas about settling the Moon. We will be looking into what we can "depend on" from the local terrain and how to utilize it successfully.

Panels will also be dedicated to the companies setting the lead in Commercial Space, such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Bigelow Aerospace and others as they develop.

The telepresence RC Racing Venue has been combined under Stuart Scott to have a better grasp on the progress of the procurement, assembly and the other associated items to make the racing a GO. Stuart will have full access to Don, Mike and Me for technical assistance and support as he needs it.

We have talked about having a larger Telepresence RC car for the Cons and other places to demonstrate the remote Control of vehicles on the Moon.

Our next Con will be LepreCon 37 in May in Tempe Arizona, refer to http://www.blogger.com/ for information, and then in September CopperCon31 in Avondale Arizona, refer tohttp://www.blogger.com/ for information.

Craig

Come take in a Convention, bring the spouse and kits, show them what we do and what others are doing to bring about the settlement of the Moon and it's development.

November Chapter Meeting

To all,

The regular monthly meeting was held as scheduled at the Tempe Denny's at US 60 and Rural Road.

Present at this meeting were Stuart Scott, Don Jacques, Mike Marron and myself.

Old business for today included the Teleprescience RC Racing, The Lunar Habitat development and the Chapter Website. Teleprescience Racing has three cars available and needs one more for the planned racing. Also available are one Remote TV camera, TV receiver and Monitor we need three more sets to complete the car modifications. We are also looking for the equipment that we will need for recording and broadcasting (Internet) the races with funds being raised by the sale of copies of the races to the participants as a separate cost or as part of the entrance fees. Scheduling and Advertising have been put back until after the first of the year, Possible Venues include The Challenger Center in Peoria, Cub Scout Pine Wood Derbies, The Phoenix Science Center and others.

Lunar Habitat design and planning continue with various questions being raised and answers sought for a variety of problems. The Habitat group have opted for the lowest possible tech solutions and are building test designs for evaluations. This approach, in our opinion, allows us the position of letting nature to do its share of problem solving. We have noted the NASA's "One Way Plan for Mars" but are taking that into consideration in our planning. The work continues.

The Chapter Web Site continues to be a problem. Chuck has been unable to recover our original Web Site from the hackers. This leaves us with the options of starting a new site from scratch or not keeping a web site. If we choose to not keep a web site then we lose our ability to communicate with those that are interested in what we have to say and offer comments and suggestions. If we do keep a web site then that leaves us with several options, one is the old 'YAHOO' site, we could update it and go with it, or we can start a new site and go with it. Currently we are experimenting with two different sites, one by Mike on the carrier that services his personal web site and Don is experimenting with a format on the same basis as Mikes, just different servers. Links to the sites will be on my blog later today or tomorrow for both sites for review and comments.

My blog site will be brought up to date and the new information will included as it is available and I will see if I can make down loadable data available.

New business consists of what to have for panels and information for our outreach tables at the up coming Conventions in May and September. So far it is possible that I will be doing the "disaster Strikes" panel again with additional material included. I am thinking about presenting this same material to various groups that request it. Later this year I might even have some demonstrations on what can be done with materials around the home.
Don and Patti will most likely have their Dealer's Table and do panels on Publishing and Writing and Don way have some panels on Science Topics.
Craig D. Porter

Come to the Conventions and see what we do and meet with us at the Table and attend our panels.

CopperCon30

This this past Labor Day weekend at the CopperCon30 Convention the Moon Society Phoenix Members presented several Panels.

Don presented one panel on Comercial Space and another on Settling the Moon. Both Panels were full of interesting information and ideas on how to use Space on a budget including settling the Moon. Don and Patti colaborated on several panels on writing and publishing. They also through a launch party for a couple of authors and they also sold copies of their clients books and their books in the Dealer's Room. Also, both are excellent writers and their stories always please the reader and leave them wanting more.

Chuck's presention on the Space Based Solar Power Satellite was cancelled due to circumstances beyond his control. This panel was to include new material and the clarification of the previous material.

I did three panels on Disasters, one "Disasters Strikes" will be a teaching session on how to survive a Disaster. The other two are about senarios on the Mega Disasters of Science Fiction and Prediction.Weston Osche (pronounced Oaks) helped with on the "Disaster Strikes" panel. Weston was one of the Author Guests of Honor.

If we missed you at the Con we will be at the LepreCon37 and the CopperCon31 Cons in 2011.Come and enjoy the Cons and the presentations that will be available at the Cons on various topics along with costuming and other items.

Information at http://www.casfs.org/.

CROSS SOCIETY ASSISTANCE

All members of the Moon Society, the Mars Society, the National Space Society, the Planetary Society and any other Space based Society in the Valley of the Sun please feel free to make suggestions on how we may help each other meet our goals.

We should be working together to achieve our goals for Space Exploration and Development. As well as supporting the private sector in reaching for our place in Space. That place will require us to get there in the most cost effective way possible to do what needs to be done to protect our enviroment and species.

Without the group of us helping each other in our goals none of us will be able to generate the interest in what is need to succede in our aims.

For those that want to help please address your comments to me at portercd@msn.com.
I will post them to this blog and make sure to pass them onto the other groups.

Craig

ELECTIONS MEETING

At the December 2009 meeting the elections for the coming year were held.

I, Craig Porter, was reelected as the Chapter President, Chuck Lesher was reelected to the Vice Presidency along with Patti and Mike was reelected as Treasurer. Don Jacques declined to run for reelection as President because of other needs and projects.

Don has a project in progress for a Lunar Habitat that he is working on.

Chuck is trying to finish the rewrite of his book with the completion of the sequel.
Patti is also working on the sequel to her book.
Look for them on Amazon some time after the first of the year.
I'm working on a display wall for use when we have a booth or outreach table at a Convention or other event.

Anyone who is interested in joining us for our monthly meeting please feel free to meet with us.
Come share your concerns about our future on the Moon and the development of the Hub for Planetary exploration and the test bed for mining the asteroids for their resources to benefit the Earth's ecology.

The meeting will continue to be held the third Saturday of the month at Denny's on the South East corner of US 60 and Rural Road. The time remains the same, 3:PM.

NEW WEBSITE

There is a new website available for the anniversary of the Moon Missions.

http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

RECYCLING ELECTRONICS

I would like to thank the following corporation for its assistance in my recycling computer components, including three CRT Monitors, a tower, a keyboard and a VCR.

EARTH PROTECTION SERVICES, INC. EPSI
Conducts Electronic Product Recycling & Recovery services in thevalley and across the country. It is primarily associated with Sony, Zenith, LG and Goldstar electronics. They conduct week-end events where they gather all brands for recycling. At other times trhey will accept the products that are manufactured by the above Manufacturers for free recyclying but products are processed for a small fee.

Because I was the member of a non-profit Organization, they waived the fee.

There phone numbers are:
623-934-4409
800-414-0443
FAX 623-934-4366
Cell 605-317-3213

Web Site: http://www.earthpro.com/

COPPERCON 28

CopperCon 28 was an unquallified success for the Moon Society.
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We presented three lectures with question and answers participation.
Chuck's Solor Power presentration was the most popular by far.
Bonnie's Moon presentation was a close second with many participants.
Craig's presentation was the least attended of the presentations, but it had good participation on Sunday Afternoon.
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We had a meet the Moon Society session to introdsuce the attendees to the Moon Society and what we do, including meeting times and frequencies.
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Chuck's and readings were poorly attended.
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The Autograph sessions for Bonnie and Chuck wer not well attended.
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All had a good time with volunteer support by Stuart and David.

Some links for MagLevs and Rail Guns and Mass Acceterators

MagLev references:

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Summer03/maglev2.html
http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/MagShang.html
http://clearlyexplained.com/technology/maglev/maglev.html


Rail Gun and Mass Accelerator references:

http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun2.htm
http://users.skynet.be/BillsPage/MassAccelerators.html
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_RailGuns,,00.html


The references are updated perodicaly.

Craig

STAR WARS "BAD GUYS"

The Arizona Chapter of the International Star Wars costuming club known as the 501st Legion shown at the Yuri's Night Party on April 12th at the Chalenger Center in Peoria.

The 501st Legion support various Charity functions dressed as the "Bad Guys" from Star Wars.

This coming week end they will appear at a Phoenix Prowlers Woman's Professional Football League game at Mesa Community College, 1833 W. Southern Ave, the time it starts is 7:00 PM.

The appearenc will benefit Phoenix children's Hospital.

For additional details go to www.az501st.com.


The 501sr poses with one of their fans at the Yuri's Night Party. (Picture by David Bluestein)

Visitor to the Yuri's Night Party take pictures nof the 501st with their fan. (Picture by David Bluestein)

Three members of the 501st pose for the guests at Yuri's Night. (picture by David Bluestein)

The 501st enjoying some of the entertainment at Yuri's Night Party. (Picture by Craig Porter)

This year the party was during the afternoon.

MDB plans suborbital tourism craft

This article was published in the May 13 - 19, 2008 Flight International.

LEPRECON34

Our setup at LepreCon34. The setup included our normal standups, Shuttle models and the Lunar Globe. Added this time were a standup by Chuck showing a new propulsion system along with two models of Sciencd Fiction fighters from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Also, the simulated Space Station is new to our setup. We also had our normal hand outs and some posters to give out.

Chuck and Art manning the outreach table prior to Chuck's Seminar and Discussion events.

Chuck's Simulated Space Satellite, soon to be featured in a new short story by Chuck.

Come join us at a meeting and let us have your input on going back to the Moon.

leprecon34, Charles Lee Lesher in Seminar

Award winning Author, Engineer, Moon Society Member and Executive Vice President of the Phoenix Chapter Charles Lee Lesher presents his "A Light on the Moon" presentation at LepreCon34. The Convention was held at the Francisco Grande Golf Resort in Casa Grande, Arizona in May from the 9th to the 11th.



Chuck also served on three discussion panels at LepreCon34 as co-chair.

Mr. Lesher's book, "Evolution's Child, the Republic of Luna" is available on Amazon.com.

AUTHOR CHARLES LEE LESHER WILL SPEAK AT LEPRECON 34

Author, Engineer, Speaker and Moon Society Member Chuck Lesher will give a short talk at the Convention about the return to the Moon and its settlement. His scheduled time is at 4: PM on Saturday, the 10th of May, in Casa Grande. Every one come see and listen to Chuck as he makes his presentation, ask him your questions about the settlement of the Moon and get his autograph.