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THE charity awards, dinner, live music dance party that is out of this world!

VOTE with Your feet and Join the Pro Space Party of the YEAR!

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BAHEP is excited to invite our local aerospace companies to participate in the first-ever Space City Job Fair that we are hosting in partnership with Space Center Houston and Career Services at UHCL along with University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Event Details:

Date: July 23, 2024

Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership (1150 Gemini St. Houston, TX 77058)

This event presents a unique opportunity to connect with the bright and talented graduates of 2024, including NASA’s Summer Interns, students from 15 Houston-area colleges and universities, the National Diversity Council’s Emerging Leaders program, and others, who are all eager to embark on their professional journeys. By participating, you will have the chance to engage with highly motivated job seekers, promote your company and available career opportunities, and network with other industry professionals. Your presence will greatly contribute to the success of this event and provide your organization with access to top-tier talent.

Downtown Rotary Welcomes Astronaut Randy Bresnik

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Randy “Komrade” Bresnik was selected as an astronaut in 2004. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in May 1989. During his military career, he became an F/A-18 Test Pilot and was eventually deployed to Kuwait to fly combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A veteran of STS-129, he has also trained as a Cave-a-naut with the European Space Agency to test living deep beneath the Earth’s surface as well as an Aquanaut for NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO) 19. Bresnik most recently served as the Commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 53 and flight engineer for Expedition 52.

TICKET POLICY

Downtown Rotary Club of Houston members are entitled to one (1) free ticket per paid member.

Corporate members are entitled to five (5) tickets. Visitors and guests must purchase a ticket at $75.

*** If you are ordering more than one (1) ticket, please ENTER EACH ATTENDEE'S NAME for faster event check in. ***

All credit cards and PayPal accepted. Valet parking included.

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Date: From May 3rd, 2024

1. Schedule: Thursday to Sunday

2. Duration: Approx. 1 hour - 40 minutes of which are in VR. We recommend that you arrive 15 minutes before the time indicated on your ticket.

3. Location: Silver Street Studios at Sawyer Yards 2000 Edwards Street Houston, TX 77007

4. Age requirement: 8+. Children aged 8 to 12 must be accompanied by a person aged 14 or older.

5. Tickets: Online booking is recommended and guarantees entry. However, it is possible to buy a ticket on site, subject to availability.

Enjoy night sky constellation tours in the Helen S. Martin Star Amphitheater and views of celestial objects through a number of telescopes in the Rebecca Gale Telescope Park behind the Visitors Center. Star Parties are approximately two hours in length and are fun for the entire family. Check in at the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center at 3640 Dark Sky Dr., Fort Davis, TX 79734.

To ensure program participation, make advance reservations. Star Parties frequently sell out during busy periods like Spring Break and major holidays. Even on an average night, it is not uncommon for 300 people to be in attendance. We may be in the "middle of nowhere" but we do see some large crowds!

Dress appropriately for the weather. The Star Party takes place outdoors. During fall through early spring, consider bundling up, as temperatures can be in the 30s or colder. Our amphitheater seating consists of stone benches, so feel free to bring a pad or blanket for added comfort.

In the event that weather is likely to prevent views of the night sky, Visitors Center reservations staff will contact (via text and email) program participants to explain available options. Please be sure to include your mobile phone number and email address when making your reservation.

Reschedules and Refunds:  On cloudy nights, refunds (minus a $3 processing fee) may be offered. Refunds may only be claimed on the night of the program. Except for weather emergencies (flooding, snow, ice, etc), no-shows will not be rescheduled or refunded.

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Enjoy night sky constellation tours in the Helen S. Martin Star Amphitheater and views of celestial objects through a number of telescopes in the Rebecca Gale Telescope Park behind the Visitors Center. Star Parties are approximately two hours in length and are fun for the entire family. Check in at the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center at 3640 Dark Sky Dr., Fort Davis, TX 79734.

To ensure program participation, make advance reservations. Star Parties frequently sell out during busy periods like Spring Break and major holidays. Even on an average night, it is not uncommon for 300 people to be in attendance. We may be in the "middle of nowhere" but we do see some large crowds!

Dress appropriately for the weather. The Star Party takes place outdoors. During fall through early spring, consider bundling up, as temperatures can be in the 30s or colder. Our amphitheater seating consists of stone benches, so feel free to bring a pad or blanket for added comfort.

In the event that weather is likely to prevent views of the night sky, Visitors Center reservations staff will contact (via text and email) program participants to explain available options. Please be sure to include your mobile phone number and email address when making your reservation.

Reschedules and Refunds:  On cloudy nights, refunds (minus a $3 processing fee) may be offered. Refunds may only be claimed on the night of the program. Except for weather emergencies (flooding, snow, ice, etc), no-shows will not be rescheduled or refunded.

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Enjoy night sky constellation tours in the Helen S. Martin Star Amphitheater and views of celestial objects through a number of telescopes in the Rebecca Gale Telescope Park behind the Visitors Center. Star Parties are approximately two hours in length and are fun for the entire family. Check in at the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center at 3640 Dark Sky Dr., Fort Davis, TX 79734.

To ensure program participation, make advance reservations. Star Parties frequently sell out during busy periods like Spring Break and major holidays. Even on an average night, it is not uncommon for 300 people to be in attendance. We may be in the "middle of nowhere" but we do see some large crowds!

Dress appropriately for the weather. The Star Party takes place outdoors. During fall through early spring, consider bundling up, as temperatures can be in the 30s or colder. Our amphitheater seating consists of stone benches, so feel free to bring a pad or blanket for added comfort.

In the event that weather is likely to prevent views of the night sky, Visitors Center reservations staff will contact (via text and email) program participants to explain available options. Please be sure to include your mobile phone number and email address when making your reservation.

Reschedules and Refunds:  On cloudy nights, refunds (minus a $3 processing fee) may be offered. Refunds may only be claimed on the night of the program. Except for weather emergencies (flooding, snow, ice, etc), no-shows will not be rescheduled or refunded.

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50th Anniversary

Calling planet Earth! Jazz on Film presents a special 50th-anniversary screening of the Afrofuturist classic Space Is the Place. Avant-garde jazz mystic Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Myth-Science Arkestra land their yellow spaceship in Oakland offering an alter-destiny to Black youth, including battling the FBI, NASA, and a supernatural pimp named “The Overseer.”

This unique iteration of Ra’s musical concepts and social commentary is a blend of science fiction B-movie, blaxploitation flick, and concert documentary. Featuring Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, and June Tyson, the Arkestra performs pieces including “Watusi,” “Outer Spaceways, Inc.,” and “The Satellites Are Spinning.”

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The success of the NASA Family relies on teamwork – come strengthen your family with our Human Performance Accelerator Lab program for parents and children.

To the Moon and Back
A Human Performance Accelerator Lab Family Experience

Join us at Space Center Houston for a day of hands-on learning and incredible access to Johnson Space Center. Our mission goals include training activities to simulate reduced gravity on the moon and building a solution for the on-going challenge of how lunar regolith impacts equipment. To successfully complete the mission, you’ll have to work as a team, communicate, and think innovatively, just like NASA and the Artemis II Crew.

• Simulated buoyancy training to learn how to build an airlock, perform underwater maneuvers, handle underwater rovers and more.

• Aerospace Innovation: Test your ingenuity as your family problem solves for protecting astronauts from the hazards of space.

• Enjoy dinner with an astronaut to celebrate the day’s achievements together.

Enjoy night sky constellation tours in the Helen S. Martin Star Amphitheater and views of celestial objects through a number of telescopes in the Rebecca Gale Telescope Park behind the Visitors Center. Star Parties are approximately two hours in length and are fun for the entire family. Check in at the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center at 3640 Dark Sky Dr., Fort Davis, TX 79734.

To ensure program participation, make advance reservations. Star Parties frequently sell out during busy periods like Spring Break and major holidays. Even on an average night, it is not uncommon for 300 people to be in attendance. We may be in the "middle of nowhere" but we do see some large crowds!

Dress appropriately for the weather. The Star Party takes place outdoors. During fall through early spring, consider bundling up, as temperatures can be in the 30s or colder. Our amphitheater seating consists of stone benches, so feel free to bring a pad or blanket for added comfort.

In the event that weather is likely to prevent views of the night sky, Visitors Center reservations staff will contact (via text and email) program participants to explain available options. Please be sure to include your mobile phone number and email address when making your reservation.

Reschedules and Refunds:  On cloudy nights, refunds (minus a $3 processing fee) may be offered. Refunds may only be claimed on the night of the program. Except for weather emergencies (flooding, snow, ice, etc), no-shows will not be rescheduled or refunded.

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Families can enjoy learning together with the Van ISD STEAM bus at McDonald Observatory on June 8 from 12-5 p.m. This makerspace-on-wheels provides students with learning opportunities across a variety of disciplines including science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Visitors can engage in hands-on, problem-based activities using technology such as tablets, Chromebooks, microscopes, AR/VR equipment, and robots. The STEAM Bus is free, open to the public, and designed for pre-K through 12th graders. 

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A new adventure-inspired show about the science of space. Fun for the whole family!

You will witness an alien abduction, a talking cow, a star that becomes a black hole, and a supernova explosion as we explore the role art plays in society and the time delay of light across the universe

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Agenda
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​5:15-6:15 p.m. Networking

6:15-7:30 p.m. Presentation

7:30-7:45 p.m. Q&A

​8:00 p.m. Networking at Trifecta

Speaker

Steven Finkelstein, Professor, Department of Astronomy, UT Austin

Event Summary
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), after decades of planning, has finally launched and is fulfilling its destiny of revolutionizing all areas of astronomy. The telescope was built with the primary science goal of observing the “First Light in the Universe”. The early universe is ripe with exciting questions - when did the first galaxies form? What were they like? How did the first super-massive black holes form? Data from JWST is now answering these questions, and providing new puzzles. Our speaker, Steven Finkelstein of the University of Texas, will describe why we are so curious about the early universe, highlight the exciting technological achievements represented by JWST, and highlight some of our early findings. He will conclude by describing the Giant Magellan Telescope, now being constructed in the foothills of the Chilean Andes, which will be one of the largest ground-based telescopes upon completion early in the next decade.

Registration and Attendance Instructions

In-person
Join us at the Austin Central Library, 710 W. César Chávez St. where you will be checked in at the front desk. Parking information can be found here. Please join us from 5:15 to 6:15 for networking and food. We look forward to chatting with you face-to-face!

The Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation (GBIC) and Brownsville Conventions & Visitors Bureau (BCVB) proudly announce the inaugural Space Fest, a unique community event celebrating innovation, arts, and local businesses, while highlighting Brownsville’s commitment to supporting the space industry. Space Fest will take place on Friday, May 31, 2024 from 6PM to 10PM at 923 E Washington St. Doors open at 5:30 PM.

Space Fest promises a day filled with exciting activities for the whole family, including robotics demonstrations, drone shows, Cybertruck exhibition, a space costume contest, a vendors market featuring around 200 vendors, live painting sessions, a mural celebration, food trucks, drinks, free merchandise, DJ, live music, and much more! Best of all, the event is completely free for both vendors and attendees.

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We want HOU! Join us to discover NASA’s toughest tech challenges and apply your skills and expertise to solve them.

Featured Program: Nutrition as Fuel for Human Space Flight

History books are rife with examples of how nutrition either made, or broke, exploration missions on Earth. As we write the future of space exploration, nutrition will be even more critical in ensuring crew health and safety and ultimately mission success. NASA’s Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory supports both operational and research protocols to help ensure astronaut health before, during, and after flight. Ground-analog research includes head-down tilt bed rest studies, studies of crews wintering over in Antarctica, and an ongoing year-long Mars surface simulation study: the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission. The Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory’s flight research has yielded findings on effects of spaceflight on vitamins, minerals, and hormones.

They have documented dietary effects on bone health, and effects of oral contraceptive use on venous thromboembolism (i.e., blood clot) risk. A key line of research has documented that ocular changes affecting some astronauts is genetically predisposed, and more specifically, genetic differences which affect B vitamin requirements appears to increase the risk of these ocular changes. An experiment being conducted on the ISS right now is testing a B vitamin countermeasure. As humans move beyond low-Earth orbit nutrition will be even more important for the maintenance of crew health and ultimately for mission success. Uniting the many disciplines which comprise the human system with the engineering of spacecraft will be a significant challenge, but daring to leave the planet demands this collaboration.

About the Speakers:

Scott M. Smith leads the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. This group is charged with keeping crews healthy with respect to nutrition, including using nutrition to optimize astronaut health and safety. This work includes ground-based and spaceflight research to understand how nutrition can mitigate the risks of spaceflight.

Smith has ongoing spaceflight research projects on the International Space Station. His past projects have been flown on the space station, space shuttle, and the Russian space station Mir. Smith has also led several ground-based research projects to better understand astronaut health in space, including studies of vitamin D in crews in Antarctica, studies of crews living on the bottom of the ocean, and studying subjects spending months in bed or a year in an enclosed habitat.

Smith is a member of the American Society for Nutrition, the American Physiological Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. He holds a B.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Nutrition, both from the Pennsylvania State University

Montgomery B. Goforth has over 30 years of experience as both an Engineer and Manager in various highly technical space and defense-related efforts. He joined NASA in 1990 as part of the Mission Operations Directorate, working on planning systems and automated procedure execution tools for the International Space Station (ISS). He became Deputy Project Manager for the Portable Computer System, the laptop used for command and control of the ISS, in 1996. He became Chief of the Branch responsible for all laptops onboard the ISS and the Space Shuttle.

In 2002, he moved to the ISS Avionics and Software Office as Manager of the Flight Software Development Office and later served as Chief Engineer. In 2005, he spent several months at NASA Headquarters working in the Robotics Lunar Exploration Program. In 2006, he joined the Constellation Program as Chief of Avionics and Software Test and Verification and became Chief of the Software and Avionics Integration Office in 2007. In this role, he was responsible for leading a large nationwide Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization which provided program-level coordination, oversight, integration, and management of the system-of-systems avionics and software, including the coordination of integrated modeling and simulation and test activities across the Constellation program and the technical integration of Constellation’s Command, Control, Communications, and Information (C3I) architecture.

 In 2011, he joined the Avionic Systems Division to support their Strategic Planning and Partnership efforts. In 2015, he moved on to Engineering Directorate Staff to support Strategic Pursuits and Partnerships. In this role, he put together a framework to focus better Engineering’s efforts toward Human Spaceflight technology and systems development consistent with JSC and Agency goals for exploration. This framework guides Engineering’s internal investments and external partnerships supporting Lunar and Mars Exploration.

Mr. Goforth was born in East Texas, raised in Southern California and Arizona, and graduated from Rice University (BSME 1982, MSME 1987). Before coming to Johnson Space Center, he was employed by a small defense contractor specializing in anti-submarine warfare.

Please mark your calendars for a Space Force Association Texas Chapter Houston area social.  It will be held at Rock Neutney's Sports Bar from 6 -8 pm on April 25th.  The address is 2416 Bar Area Blvd, Suite E, Houston, TX.  This is located between NASA Johnson Space Center and Ellington Space Port.  

Please come out to meet and discuss the current and future projects and plans for the Space Force Association.  Many exciting things are happening in the Space Force Association both nationally and in Texas.  Our goal is to support the Space Force Guardians in their mission to secure our nation's interests in, from, and to space.  

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The Space Force Association Texas Chapter & The Midland Development Corp (MDC) are pleased to announce they have entered into a formal agreement to help facilitate, promote and develop Midland’s space interests and business development goals in the space industry.

Join us for the this exciting milestone as leaders and members from the Texas chapter of the Space Force Association, including:

Col Bill Woolf (USAF, ret) National President and Founder of the Space Force Association

Eric Sundby Executive Director

Eric McManus Texas Chapter President

Connect with members of the business community and Midland leaders at this special meet and greet event.

The public is invited!

April 11, 2024

Location: Second Story, 223 W Wall St STE 200, Midland TX 79701

Light appetizers and refreshments

Event Schedule

5:00 pm - Event check in

5:15 pm - SFA - Texas Announcements

5:30 pm - Update on Space Force Needs

5:45 pm - SFA and MDC Sign Agreement

6:15 pm - Networking

We look forward to seeing you there as we celebrate this important partnership for SFA and MDC!