NSS ad Astra on 2007 Space Settlement Art Contest

Another article in the summer 2007 ad Astra I want to mention is one on the NSS Space Settlement Art Contest (earlier post here). You can see the art on the link I provided, but it's one thing to see it on a computer screen, and another to see it in print (especially the winner which gets a 2-page presentation in the magazine). As I said in the previous post, you can get ad Astra to see what I mean. In this case, according to the article, you can also see some of the pieces if you get the NSS Space Settlement 2008 calendar.

Judging for the NSS 2009 Space Settlement Art Contest

Artsnova Digital Art and Space has the inside scoop on the judging for the 2009 Space Settlement Art Contest. The winners were recently announced.

Twitter List

Rather than start a huge category on the right, I'm going to use this blog post to record some twitter addresses. I expect the coverage to be broader than the usual content of this blog. I also expect to gradually update the list over time.

U. S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
NASA_HSF - The Committee will conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans and programs, as well as alternatives.
AstroDude - Leroy Chiao - Astronaut and more...

Space Prizes

NASAPrize - NASA Centennial Challenges

Regolith Excavation Challenge

Regolith_Chal - Regolith Excavation Challenge (a Centennial Challenge)
paulsrobotics - Serving all your robotic needs - http://www.paulsrobotics.com/

Space Elevator Games

segames - Ted Semon - Mojave, California - Official tweets from the Space Elevator Games

Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge

NGLLC09 - LunarLanderChallenge - Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, presented by X PRIZE, and prize money from NASA
bonnova - design . innovation . lunar lander challenge team http://www.bonnova.com/
mastenspace - Masten Space Systems
colinake - Recent Georgia Tech Grad (09) working at GTRI and Masten Space Systems. Join me for musings on life, space, technology, and whatever.
wikkit - Ben Brockert - I moved from Iowa to the Mojave Desert to be a rocket scientist.
dmasten - Dave Masten
mojaverocketguy - Jonathan A. Goff - Your typical mild-mannered rocket engineer, dad, and entrepreneur
mmealling - Michael Mealing (Masten Space Systems)

Google Lunar X PRIZE

glxp - Google Lunar X PRIZE
OdysseyMoon - Odyssey Moon, Google Lunar X PRIZE team and commercial space venture
Bob_Richards - Space entrepreneur. Orphan of Apollo. Founder of International Space
University, Singularity University and Google Lunar X PRIZE competitor Odyssey Moon Ltd.
whitelabelspace - White Label Space (Google Lunar X PRIZE team) LunarX_EU - earlier White Label Space twitter
interorbital - Randa Milliron - CEO/CoFounder, Interorbital Systems and Trans Lunar Research SynergyMoon - Google Lunar XPRIZE entrant Team Synergy Moon
OmegaEnvoy - We are the Florida Team competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. We are students, engineers, entrepreneurs, and space geeks: Join us on our awesome adventure!
oe_rover - Omega Envoy Rover - I'm the Omega Envoy Rover being built to go to the moon to win the 30 million dollar Google Lunar X PRIZE. Follow me to the moon!
ARCAspace - Asociatia Romana pentru Cosmonautica si Aeronautica (ARCA) este o organizatie non-guvernamentala, lider national in domeniul cercetarii aerospatiale.
NextGiantLeap - Michael Joyce - A Google Lunar X PRIZE team
teamFREDNET - Team FREDNET is an open source and open participation competitor in the Google Lunar X PRIZE
csete - Alexandru Csete - I work with space, communications, video processing and related technologies. I blog for GLXP @teamfrednet.
jeffkrukin - NewSpace Business Development consultant, speaker, and writer
SoldTheMoon - David Gump - http://www.astrobotictech.com/ - private-sector space exploration

N-Prize

nprize - Paul Dear
NebulaAerospace - News from Nebula Aerospace (N-Prize team)
fineri - Iain Finer - Ametuer rocket engineer, aspiring song writer and musician.Just trying to live the dream.
ValkyrieFed - The Valkyrie Federation is a canadian (Quebec) entreprise, which has the goal of space exploration, and the lastest team on the N-Prize!
thomasspacecorp - Thomas Space Corp

Astronaut Glove Challenge

pkhomer - http://www.flagsuit.com/ - Astronaut Glove Guy

X PRIZE Foundation
alias_amanda - Amanda Stiles - Space maven, website designer, crowdsourcing evangelist, and engineer of the entrepreneurial variety.
GLXPFeeds - Google Lunar X PRIZE - Feeds and news related to the Google Lunar X PRIZE. You can follow a human at @glxp
Pomerantz - Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Projects
PeterDiamandis - Peter Diamandis
nickyjor - aerospace eng,space lover, tech girl,dancer,pilot!! social media learner, fashion enthusiast,wine lover and well..I am simply a person who loves life
genomics_xprize - A $10 million prize to the first team to successfully sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days
i_2_i - 2 days at the United Nations that will change your world. June 8 + 9. NYC. How WILL you innovate in today's economy?
progautoxp - The official Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Twitter
HealthXPRIZE - Developing a $10M+ X PRIZE to fix health care
xprize - Radical Breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity
BobXPF

Student Prizes
ConradAwards - Enabling young minds to connect education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
inventioneer - nancy conrad - Chairman of Conrad Foundation
sedsusa - SEDS - The world's only student run space organization!
FIRSTAtlanta09 - FIRST Championship 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
astrosociety - American Astronautical Society (listed here because of their CanSat competition coverage)
MoonBots - MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge

Commercial Space
cswiki - Commercial Space Wiki (Ken Davidian)
richardbranson - Richard Branson (Chairman of Virgin Group)
rocketshadow - Aleta Jackson - I build rockets & rocket powered vehicles
rclague - Randall Clague
ikluft - Ian Kluft, Software Engineer and Commercial Pilot/Flight Instructor
Spaceport_NM - Spaceport America in New Mexico
pat_hynes
ISPCS - International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight
SpaceX_Media - cassie kloberdanz
ElonMusk - "I'm the genuine ElonMusk." muskfoundation.org teslamotors.com spacex.com solarcity.com paypal southafrica mars tolkien x.com blastar zip2 tosca kimb
mlaine - LiftPort - Building the Elevator to Space. Company Motto = "Change the world, or go home!" Author, Speaker, Consultant, Teacher, Venture Capitalist
ec_anderson - Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, serial entrepeneur.
edyson - Internet court jEsther
robinsnelson - Robin Snelson - looking for a few good rockets
Virgin_Galactic - The world's first commercial spaceline.
Frank4 - Frank Taylor - Google Earth Blogger and sailor. Also read TahinaExpedition.com
gearth - Google Earth - Grab Google Earth and the Google Pack here
GoogleMoon - Something truly out of this world is coming, you WILL want to follow us...Promise. Clue - Facebook, Twitter & The Moon
digitalearth - All of the latest news about Google Earth, Virtual Earth, Google Maps, etc.
spaceangels - Space Angels Network - Premier source of aerospace dealflow for investors and of early-stage capital for aerospace
burtonlee - www.linkedin.com/in/burtonlee
StephenFleming - Academic VC, professional investor, amateur rocketeer
4frontiers - 4Frontiers Corporation is an emerging space commerce company focused on the settlement of Mars.
the2suit - the (unofficial) real 2suit - as seen on History Channel The Universe - humanity is colonizing the universe in 2s ... Zero-G or Earth ultimate geek gadget FLY!
8C_Project - 8thContinentProject - Colorado School of Mines - The 8th Continent Project connects start-ups built on space technology – in energy, medicine, GPS, materials. We call it Space 2.0.
RichardGarriott - Computer Gaming Pioneer and Private Astronaut (1st 2nd Generation)
gozerog - a privately held space entertainment and tourism company http://www.gozerog.com/
nextstepinspace - Show Your Support for Commercial SpaceFlight!
NewSpaceNews - http://spacefront... - follow NewSpace News to stay informed about developments in the exciting entrepreneurial space arena! *Sponsored by SpaceIsle.com*

Media
jeff_foust - Jeff Foust, Space industry analyst, writer, blogger, baseball fan
HobbySpacer - Clark Lindsey, Publisher and editor of HobbySpace.com and SpaceTransport News.com
SpaceShow - Dr. David Livingston, Host of The Space Show talk show
spacehack - a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community.
milesobrien - Miles Obrien, freelance journalist
SpaceflightNow - Spaceflight Now
NASAWatch - NASA Watch
KeithCowing - Keith Cowing (NASA Watch, also see http://www.cowing.com/)
andrewchaikin - Andrew Chaikin
Free_Space - Irene Klotz blogs about what's happening off Earth
Spacevidcast
cariann
bencredible - Alpha nerd at Innovating Media and TechnologyEvangelist.com
SpaceFellowship - The International Space Fellowship (ISF) is an international news and information network dedicated to the development of the aerospace industry.
b0yle - Alan Boyle (MSNBC/Cosmic Log)
flspacereport - Edward Ellegood
xenijardin - Curator of Internet Esoterica, Anomalies, and Curiosities. BB co-editor, Boing Boing Video host/exec producer. http://tv.boingboing.net/
fitzwillie - Editor of GeekDad.com. That says a lot right there.
MichaelBelfiore - Michael Belfiore - Space & technology writer for Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, HarperCollins, and advanced technology companies.
flighthyperbola - Rob Coppinger is a recovering powerpoint user and engineer who mistakenly thought journalism was more glamorous than production engineering
UniGalactic - SpaceTravel Magazine - UniGalactic is a Unique Print Magazine Covering Space Tourism as well as Space Travel and Exploration Industries.
spacecom - Managing editor, Parabolicarc.com. Communications specialist. Have something to say. Let me help you say it.
robertpearlman - Editor, collectSPACE.com
collectspace - The Source for Space History & Artifacts
spaceteam - Fla Today Space Team - Live space updates at The Flame Trench, honored last year as the best beat reporting on the web.

NASA
Doug_Comstock - Director of NASA Innovative Partnerships Program (includes Centennial Challenges, FAST, SBIRs, etc)
worden - Pete Worden (NASA Ames Director)
waynehale - Wayne Hale (Former Flight Director)
gtwhitesides - George Whitesides
LADEE_NASA - Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer
LCROSS_NASA - NASA mission to explore the Moon and see if there is water ice near one of the lunar poles!
NASA_Ames_Web - NASA Ames Web
NASA_Wallops - NASA Wallops, Wallops Island, VA
PharmaSat - The PharmaSat experiment and flight system are designed to measure the influence of microgravity upon yeast resistance to an antifungal agent.
NASA_Greenspace - NASA_Greenspace
NLSI - NASA Lunar Science - Moon science rocks
NASAGoddard - Check out all the latest in NASA Goddard news and video!
Astro_Mike - Mike Massimino - NASA astronaut, mission specialist for STS-125 (Hubble Telescope servicing mission)
SPOTScott - Scott Parazynski - Drawn to explore high places, via spacecraft, aircraft and even on foot!
NewHorizons2015 - The First Space Mission to Explore Planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
flymetothemoon - NASA manager for LCROSS–NASA’s 1st mission back to the Moon, MoM/StepMoM, anthropologist, walker, chef, and BookBabe.
MarsRovers - Spirit and Oppy - Roaming the Red Planet on six wheels. The official mission Twitter of Spirit and Opportunity
jetlab - The latest news from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This Twitter is a service of SpaceLinks.net: http://spacelinks.net/
EarthObser - Earth Observatory from NASA

Innovation Prizes
tedprize - TED Prize
airshipz - Airship Z-Prize - Airships for humanitarian logistics and environmental improvement. The Z-Prize is for successful development of freight airships!

Other
SpaceFrontier - Space Frontier Foundation -People dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement
kimbal - Kimbal Musk
isdc - The International Space Development Conference is the premier space activist conference. See http://isdc.nss.org/
nss- National Space Society
spaceelevator - Cheap reliable access to space.
ewalker - Elaine Walker - Bio EPO, Mars Institute
airshipventures - Zeppelin Tours of the San Francisco Bay Area
arielwaldman - Ariel Waldman - Digital Anthropologist. Founder of Spacehack.org; CupcakeCamp. Engadget columnist. Previous NASA program coordinator, Pownce community manager.
antifaev - Youthful engineer/entrepreneur with a special affinity for anything awesome.
InnosightInstit - a non-profit think tank that applies Clayton Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation to the social sector. See our recently published books to the left.
revrev - Mike Fabio - Community Manager at Google Lunar X PRIZE; musician; nerd; no I will not fix your computer.
fedcity - Diane Murphy
MDRSupdates - MDRS Official Update - You can go to Mars, but you can never leave!
YurisNight - A global celebration marking the anniversary of manned spaceflight.
LunarPioneer - Joel Raupe - Principal Investigator, Lunar Pioneer Research Group; Promoting extended human activity on Earth's Moon
TEMPO3 - Sci-fi 2 sci-fact (Mars Society artificial gravity smallsat project)
TEDMED - Marc Hodosh - TEDMED 2009: OCTOBER 27-30 IN SAN DIEGO! CHECK OUT WWW.TEDMED.COM AND REGISTER TODAY!
shellymurray1 - Michelle Murray - FAA AST Experimental Permit Program Lead
willjwatson - William Watson - Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation
SpaceFrontier - SpaceFrontierFound'n - People dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement
jamesmuncy - Space policy/business consultant
kdavidian - Ken Davidian - One Exciting Challenge After Another
brettalexander - Bretton Alexander
lorettahidalgo - Loretta Whitesides - Co-creator of Yuri's Night, Zero-G Flight Director, and passionate about bring people together to made a huge difference on our home planet...
flight0001 - Russ Dale - Writer, journalist, paleoecologist, scientist, urban farmer, chef, space enthusiast, actor, comedian, space 2.0 advocate and human (featured in the gonzo Russ Dale X-Prize Cup Interview, I might add).
makerfaire - Maker Faire Bay Area May 30-31 (The World's Largest DIY Festival)
Murphian - Ian Murphy - PR expert specializing in Aerospace, Technology and Science
brettsilcox
neiltyson - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. Author: "The Pluto Files" & "Death By Black Hole"; Host: PBS NOVA scienceNOW
digitalart - Jim Plaxco - A digital artist and photographer specializing in astronomical art and abstract art
SpaceSolarPower - Space solar power satellites will provide Earth with abundant, clean electric power.
moonrangerlaura - Space enthusiast; Works on a space telescope; Loves scifi/fantasy, travel, podcasts, fiber arts and of course people. Not officially speaking for anyone but me
Apollo11TheGame - iPhone Game developed by Decode Interactive in conjunction with NASA.
GwenGriffin - Houston and often Cocoa Beach
TeslaMotors - The official Tesla twitter
BadAstronomer - Phil Plait - Astronomer, author, skeptic, funny guy, writer
SGAC - Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications
Moon4You - space instrument bringing the benefits of the Moon back to Earth
ad_astra2 - Erika Wagner - Cambridge, MA (blogging at MIT Giant Leaps)
therealBuzz - Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut, Apollo XI, Gemini 12, Doctorate from MIT in astronautics, married to Lois Aldrin for 21 years. Korean War veteran - fighter pilot of 66 missions
ac_charania - http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/
wingod - Dennis Wingo
EVA_Interviews - Eva-Jane Lark - EVA is creator and host of EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Age™ (and in real life a VP and Investment Advisor at a major Canadian investment co)
AlanStern


Twibes
Moon - http://odysseymoon.com/ - Encouraging participation and collaboration among people interested in expanding humanity's social, legal and economic sphere to our sister world, the Moon.
TeamFREDNET - Team FREDNET is the open source competitor for the Google Lunar XPrize.
Astrogeology - http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/ - Astrogeology, alternatively known as planetary geology, is a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of the celestial bodies such as the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteorites. The study of these rocks is similar to Earth-based geology.
Astronomy - For anyone intersted in Astronomy or Astrophotography.
Cosmology - Obsession of the Universe in its totality and humanity's place in it. Star seeking and theory, physics and awe.
LunarPioneers - http://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/ - Lunar Pioneer is a long established "Society of Friends interested in exploration of the Moon," founded in 1977 as a private discussion club, the conversation intensified finally into an enterprise. Our goal remains unchanged: As the Rosetta Stone of the Solar System, Earth's Moon is also our Pier, our deep water port to our destiny.
Mars - http://martiansoil.com/ - All about the Planet Mars.
NASA - Encouraging participation and collaboration among people interested in NASA and space. News, views, and reviews to enlighten and inform.
SpaceFellowship - The International Space Fellowship (ISF) is an international news and information network dedicated to the development of the aerospace industry.
TEDTalks
WaterRocket - You're a little Gyro Gearloose somehow and like to tinker with scientific stuff? This is your twibe!
geocaching - A place for geocachers to get together and see what other cachers are twittering about.
space - All things space & Earth & in between. NASA, commercial space, space industry, space geeks, dreamers, explorers. Welcome space tweeps!

Here's another, considerably longer and more comprehensive list that seems to have similar goals. It's too bad I didn't encounter it earlier. The coverage is somewhat different, since I'm going into prize and innovation topics that aren't specific to space, and this list covers a number of space areas I probably won't touch. I'd recommend checking the link below if you didn't find what you were looking for in the list above.

Twitter SpaceMeme - Space People, Missions, Agencies, Events ... - OnOrbit Colab Space

spacehack points out the following list of twitter sites from Star Stryder: astronomy-twitter-users. This list is mainly for astronomy sites of all sorts. The comments have more selections.

... and Ariel from spacehack also has the following list: Space-related web 2.0 accounts that are on my radar

... June 19 update: Follow active and former astronauts on Twitter - collectSPACE

... August 23 update: Top 50 Twitterrati for all of Space - Big on Good

National Space Society 2009 Space Settlement Art Contest

During a bit of web surfing done while writing my previous post, I noticed that the National Space Society is holding the Space Settlement 2009 Calendar Art Contest. That link is just the flyer; here are the rules and prizes. Hopefully this becomes a long-term annual contest.

The rules sound similar to what I remember from last year's contest. There will be 12 winners whose artwork will appear in the 2009 calendar. The contest is divided by subject matter: orbital, asteroid, Moon, and Mars settlements. In addition to the main prize, which is having their artwork appear in the calendar and on the NSS website, the winners get cash, copies of the calendar, and other space and art prizes like software, paid memberships, and signed books.

The contest deadline is December 31, 2007!

Heinlein Centennial - National Space Society

George Whitesides from the National Space Society and George Howard from the Heartland of America Chapter of the NSS had a space advocacy presentation at the Heinlein Centennial. I can't report on this talk too much, because I missed a great deal of it because of some confusion on my part with session titles and schedule changes. They discussed a number of space-related activities that the NSS has that everyone, even those without Aerospace Engineering graduate degrees, can get involved with. As I tend to do (because of this blog, not because they're more important than the others) I tended to take notes on the ones involving prizes or awards:

Space Settlement Art Contest - which they discussed as a possible annual competition. They showed how the winning art looks in the calendar, too.

Space Settlement Student Design Contest

The Moon-Mars Blitz, advocating the NSS's space priorities to Congress, including Centennial Challenges - They would like to do this again in the Fall.

They gave a lot more information on the NSS and the local chapter, and had a discussion with audience members (and it seemed from their comments like some were NSS members, but others were more involved with SF and were interested in learning about space advocacy) about their ideas on what NSS should be concentrating on.

Peter Hodges has a post from the point of view of Generation X on this NSS seminar.

National Space Society New Moonth

It's April ... I'd intended to post a winning picture from the 2009 National Space Society Space Settlement Art Calendar contest at the beginning of each month, but I haven't remembered to do that, even though I've remembered to flip the calendar on my wall. This month's picture featuring thriving Martian vegetation is appropriate given the recent news of Odyssey Moon's intention to bring a flower to the Moon.

While discussing the National Space Society, I should mention the NSS Gerard K. O'Neill Memorial Award, which this year goes to Peter Kokh. From the main NSS page:

The National Space Society Awards Committee is pleased to announce that longtime space movement activist and editor of the Moon Miners’ Manifesto, Peter Kokh, is the winner of the 2009 Gerard K. O’Neill Award for Space Settlement Advocacy. Peter was the co-founder (in 1986) and is current president of the Lunar Reclamation Society (NSS Chapter) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also currently president of the Moon Society, an NSS affiliate organization. He is the editor and principal writer for the Moon Miners' Manifesto, which has been published monthly continuously since December, 1986, which is now up to issue 222 in its 23rd year of publication, and which is the longest running printed pro-space publication of its type. Peter has also previously served on the NSS Board of Directors and was chair of the International Space Development Conference held in Milwaukee in 1998. He is currently a member of the NSS Board of Advisors, and maintains an extensive web site for his chapter.

See the 2009 Space Settlement Art Contest Winners

The National Space Society announces the winners of the 2009 Space Settlement Art Calendar contest. Check out the link to see the pictures. Also, if you check out the gallery you can see all of the winners, and you can get a larger view of the images you select.


Don't forget to order the 2009 calendar:

The calendars are scheduled to be published and available for retail purchase by the end of May 2008. Further details will be posted on www.nss.org.

Prize Roundup: July 2-3, 2009 (Part 2) - Rocket Racing Financing, Masten LLC Plans, MiniSpaceWorld, NewSpace 2009 & Prizes, Prometheus Update, SF

The picture is from the NSS Space Settlement art calendar - July. Notice the flag - and related to that, I'll be celebrating the July 4th holiday tomorrow, so you get 2 prize roundups for the price of one today.

Masten Space tests - RLV News - This includes videos of recent tests and a note about Masten plans with respect to the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.

Rocket Racing League Closes Multi-Million Dollar Financing - MarketWire press release:

The Rocket Racing League® today announced the closing of a $5.5 million dollar financing round, ensuring the next phase of development of the league. It also announced the appointment of a new President & CEO and the commencement of manufacturing activities for its next generation Rocket Racer®. ... July 2009 also marks the kick-off of the manufacture of the League's next generation Rocket Racer, an advanced design based upon the current ships already built, flown and FAA-certified in 2008, in a collaborative partnership with Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas and Velocity, Inc., of Sebastian, Florida.

MiniSpaceWorld Design Contest - This is a new competition entry in SpaceHack:

The MSW Design Contest is a contest open for participants worldwide about imagining various parts of MiniSpaceWorld, a lively scale model exhibit about spaceflight and astronomy. Participants shall create a high-level content design including a theme description, map and graphical representations.

Here's a link to the MiniSpaceWorld contest itself: MiniSpaceWorld Design Contest - Overview

Sturgeon & Campbell Winners - Science Fiction Awards Watch
Locus Award Winners - Science Fiction Awards Watch

Here are some of the NewSpace 2009 events and speakers related to space prizes and awards:

A.C. Charania
Ken Davidian
Peter Diamandis
Art Dula
Jonathan Goff
Nicole Jordan
Michael Mealling
Bob Richards
Paul Spudis

Friday, July 17th: Space Elevator Day (including a session specifically on "Spaceward and the Elevator Games")

Monday, July 20th: GLXP Discussion (presumably with some of the above speakers with connections to the Google Lunar X PRIZE)

Heinlein Business Plan Competition
Finalists Selected for the Heinlein NewSpace Business Plan Competition - As I mentioned in an earlier post, this includes teams in, or with history in, other space prize competitions. I mentioned Flagsuit, LLC and Next Giant Leap. I didn't mention Aeronautic Enterprises because I didn't know about them, but this should give a hint:

http://teamprometheus.org/movies/2009/07/prometheus-makes-finals.html -

Aeronautic Enterprises/ Team Prometheus made the finals of the New Space Fronter Foundations Business Plan competition ... We will be launching a large rocket on the 11th and I will go to the NASA AMES Reasearch center for the New Space Convention 2009 on the 16th ...

Team Prometheus has been posting a lot more than that. Here are some. Don't be intimidated by the number of posts because most are short, a lot of it is imagery, and it's all iteresting.

Balloon Making 101
Load Cell for QPIII motor test
Balloon For Near Space Expedition II
Quad Pod III Rocket Motors
Station Keeping in the upper atmosphere
More Horizon Shots

Let's Hope for Next Year

I took down my 2008 National Space Society Space Settlement Calendar and replaced it with my 2009 one. I took a look to see what's happening for 2010, but according to the NSS Contests page, it's not happening this time:

NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest
Buy the 2009 Space Settlement Calendar
See gallery of NSS 2009 Calendar contest entries
See gallery of NSS 2008 Calendar contest entries
There is no contest for a 2010 Calendar

Best of the Moon

Best of the Moon 2008 - Out of the Cradle - A number of Lunar Library "Best Of"s are selected. It features a lot of competitions related to the Moon, including Lunar Ventures, the calendar from the NSS Space Settlement Art Contest, the International Space Settlement Design Competition, the 2009 NASA Art Contest, the Return to Luna short story compilation, and the International Atlas of Lunar Exploration” by frequent Google Lunar X PRIZE Forum poster Philip Stooke. (link from RLV News)

2009 Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest

I recently posted about the National Space Society 2009 Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest. I thought I would post it again because I noticed that a couple days ago the NSS wrote a news item for the contest. The NSS site also have prominent image links to the 2008 Calendar (to buy ... again holiday gifts come to mind) and the 2009 contest (to compete in - it ends Dec 31, 2007).

One link I don't remember seeing before (maybe it's new - I don't know) is one showing the gallery of art accepted into the contest.

The NSS also has a number of other recent news items. Some of them will be covered here ASAP. Others don't belong on this blog, but they nonetheless deserve to be read, so check out the recent items at NSS.

National Space Society Space Art contest

I got a mass email from the NSS (NSS Downlink Issue #68) that describes an NSS Space Art contest. The theme is space settlements, divided by location (orbit, asteroids, Moon, and Mars). There are 12 prizes of varying levels, including cash, software, suborbital launch of a small object, and having the art published in the 2008 NSS Space Settlement Calendar.

Active NSS Blog

The National Space Society Blog looks like it's pretty active. Here's a post by Jim Plaxco on Space Art, NASA, and NSS that features the NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contests.

The picture, just in time for Valentine's Day this Saturday, is called "Lover's Lookout". It's the February image for the 2009 calendar.

NSS Art Contests

Space for All posts on the winners of the NSS Return to Luna story contest and the availability of the NSS 2009 Space Settlement Calendar, also the result of a contest. I actually picked up a copy of the calendar in May at the ISDC, and the 2008 calendar is right in front of me.

The Lunar Greenhouse

While I'm featuring images, I'll show the May picture on the NSS Space Settlement 2009 Calendar Art Contest. It goes well with Odyssey Moon's Google Lunar X PRIZE plans.