From tcoffee at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 6 14:20:07 2005 From: tcoffee at MIT.EDU (Thomas Coffee) Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:20:07 -0500 Subject: [Mars-discuss] Fwd: One-on-one Space Leadership Workshop With Space Advocate Loretta Hidalgo THIS SUNDAY Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051206141907.0454a930@hesiod> An event sponsored by MIT SEDS you may be interested in: >THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER YOU'LL HEAR THIS YEAR! >CLEAR AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR: > >MIT SEDS One-on-one Space Leadership Development Workshop With The Fabulous > >LORETTA HIDALGO >Sunday Morning 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, December 11, 2005--MIT Room 1-135 >*FREE BREAKFAST!* >FREE EVENT! OPEN TO EVERYONE! > >See a space visionary who believes that the future is in space >tourism, and who >leads the nonprofit educational Space Generation Foundation! > >Hear a researcher who studied at NASA and Caltech in order to develop >sustainable food growth in space! > >Listen to the tales of an astrobiologist who interned with NASA, journeyed to >the depths of the ocean in search of life, and appeared in the IMAX film >"Aliens of the Deep"! > >Meet one of the co-founders of Yuri's Night, the annual worldwide >space party in >celebration of space exploration! > >Hear the zero-gravity adventures of a ZERO-G Corp. flight attendant! > >Be inspired by one of the two people slated to be the first honeymooners in >outer space! > >LEARN ABOUT THE WORK OF A SUCCESSFUL AND PASSIONATE SCIENTIST-SOMEONE WHO CAN >HELP *YOU* DETERMINE YOUR OWN FUTURE! DON'T MISS THIS EVENT, AND BRING ALL OF >YOUR FRIENDS. > >"When I was a kid, people said in the year 2000 we'll be flying around in jet >packs and stuff. One thing I've learned is the future has to be built; it >doesn't just happen. Unless somebody stands for it and fights for it, and gets >all the people around them excited about it, it won't become real. We've got >to take charge and make all this happen." - Loretta Hidalgo > >For more information visit http://www.spacegen.org and >http://www.yurisnight.net > >Sponsored by MIT Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. > >Download a poster at http://web.mit.edu/ssteiner/www/loretta.pdf From mclinkor at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 6 17:06:23 2005 From: mclinkor at MIT.EDU (Ryan McLinko) Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:06:23 -0500 Subject: [Mars-discuss] [Fwd: [SEDSexec] Fwd: FW: NASA Announces Telerobotic Construction Competition] Message-ID: <43960B5F.6010305@mit.edu> I know someone associated with Mars Homestead was working on something like this and would probably find this of interest. - Ryan -----Original Message----- From: NASA News [mailto: hqnews at mediaservices.nasa.gov ] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:21 AM To: NASA News Subject: NASA Announces Telerobotic Construction Competition Dec. 2, 2005 Dolores Beasley/Melissa Mathews Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1753/1272 Marc Schwager The Spaceward Foundation, Mountain View, Calif. (650) 969-2010 RELEASE: 05-417 NASA ANNOUNCES TELEROBOTIC CONSTRUCTION COMPETITION NASA's Centennial Challenges program office, in collaboration with the Spaceward Foundation, Mountain View, Calif., announced the new Telerobotic Construction Challenge. The competition awards $250,000 to teams to develop technologies enabling robots to perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention. "The Telerobotic Challenge may directly affect how exploration is conducted on the moon," said NASA's Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Scott Horowitz. "If the Challenge can successfully demonstrate the remote assembly of simple and complex structures, many aspects of exploration in general will be affected for the better." This Challenge will be conducted in an arena containing scattered structural building blocks. The task is to assemble the structure using multiple robotic agents remotely controlled by humans. The operators may only see and talk to the robots through communications' equipment that simulates Earth-moon time delays and restrictions. The robots must be smart enough to work together with only intermittent human direction to be successful. "The Telerobotic Construction Challenge is directly linked to NASA's focus on lunar exploration," said Brant Sponberg, NASA's Centennial Challenges program manager. "Spaceward has shown their capability to conduct a successful prize competition, and we look to them to help advance this new technology." NASA's Centennial Challenges promotes technical innovation through a novel program of prize competitions. It is designed to tap the nation's ingenuity to make revolutionary advances to support the Vision for Space Exploration and agency goals. The Exploration Systems Mission Directorate manages the program. "Spaceward is pleased to expand on our prior collaboration with NASA to conduct this competition," said Spaceward President, Metzada Shelef. "Because of the high degree of student interest in robotics, it is a great fit with our mission to advance space science and technology in educational curriculums." The competition takes place over two years, the first in August 2007. Competition rules will be finalized in early 2006. For information about Centennial Challenges on the Web, visit: http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/home Spaceward is a non-profit corporation dedicated to furthering space science and technology through education and engineering competitions. For information about the Spaceward Foundation on the Web, visit: http://www.spaceward.org -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/RYAN/LOCALS%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.txt Url: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mars-discuss/attachments/20051206/457a1828/attachment.txt From jpalaia at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 7 18:42:33 2005 From: jpalaia at MIT.EDU (Joseph E. Palaia, IV) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:42:33 -0500 Subject: [Mars-discuss] [Fwd: [SEDSexec] Fwd: FW: NASA Announces Telerobotic Construction Competition] In-Reply-To: <43960B5F.6010305@mit.edu> Message-ID: <008c01c5fb87$e598f2d0$6501a8c0@Deimos1> Hello Ryan, Thanks. Yes we did see that already. And yes we did find it of interest. Thanks again. Joe --------------------------------- Joseph E. Palaia, IV The Mars Homestead Project To Arrive, Survive & Thrive! www.MarsHome.org -----Original Message----- From: mars-discuss-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:mars-discuss-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryan McLinko Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:06 PM To: mars-discuss at MIT.EDU Subject: [Mars-discuss] [Fwd: [SEDSexec] Fwd: FW: NASA Announces Telerobotic Construction Competition] I know someone associated with Mars Homestead was working on something like this and would probably find this of interest. - Ryan -----Original Message----- From: NASA News [mailto: hqnews at mediaservices.nasa.gov ] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:21 AM To: NASA News Subject: NASA Announces Telerobotic Construction Competition Dec. 2, 2005 Dolores Beasley/Melissa Mathews Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-1753/1272 Marc Schwager The Spaceward Foundation, Mountain View, Calif. (650) 969-2010 RELEASE: 05-417 NASA ANNOUNCES TELEROBOTIC CONSTRUCTION COMPETITION NASA's Centennial Challenges program office, in collaboration with the Spaceward Foundation, Mountain View, Calif., announced the new Telerobotic Construction Challenge. The competition awards $250,000 to teams to develop technologies enabling robots to perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention. "The Telerobotic Challenge may directly affect how exploration is conducted on the moon," said NASA's Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Scott Horowitz. "If the Challenge can successfully demonstrate the remote assembly of simple and complex structures, many aspects of exploration in general will be affected for the better." This Challenge will be conducted in an arena containing scattered structural building blocks. The task is to assemble the structure using multiple robotic agents remotely controlled by humans. The operators may only see and talk to the robots through communications' equipment that simulates Earth-moon time delays and restrictions. The robots must be smart enough to work together with only intermittent human direction to be successful. "The Telerobotic Construction Challenge is directly linked to NASA's focus on lunar exploration," said Brant Sponberg, NASA's Centennial Challenges program manager. "Spaceward has shown their capability to conduct a successful prize competition, and we look to them to help advance this new technology." NASA's Centennial Challenges promotes technical innovation through a novel program of prize competitions. It is designed to tap the nation's ingenuity to make revolutionary advances to support the Vision for Space Exploration and agency goals. The Exploration Systems Mission Directorate manages the program. "Spaceward is pleased to expand on our prior collaboration with NASA to conduct this competition," said Spaceward President, Metzada Shelef. "Because of the high degree of student interest in robotics, it is a great fit with our mission to advance space science and technology in educational curriculums." The competition takes place over two years, the first in August 2007. Competition rules will be finalized in early 2006. For information about Centennial Challenges on the Web, visit: http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/home Spaceward is a non-profit corporation dedicated to furthering space science and technology through education and engineering competitions. For information about the Spaceward Foundation on the Web, visit: http://www.spaceward.org -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov