[oasis-members] FW: This Wednesday: Basics of Interplanetary Flight, Open House at Art Center in Pasadena

[Potter, Seth D]

This may be of interest. Wish I could be there.
-Seth Potter

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Doody - The Planetary Society [mailto:tpsmbl at planetary.org] 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:23 PM
To: Potter, Seth D
Subject: This Wednesday: Basics of Interplanetary Flight, Open House at
Art Center in Pasadena

Dear fellow Planetary Society Members -

If you're in the Pasadena area this Wednesday night, August 15, you're
invited to attend a free Open House at the award-winning South Campus of
the Art Center College of Design. 
I'll be outside the main entrance from
7-10 pm, talking about my upcoming class -- "Basics of Interplanetary
Flight" -- and offering live telescope viewing as soon as it's dark.

The Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena, which trains professional designers in transportation and
other disciplines, permits me to teach a night course open to the
public, "Basics of Interplanetary Flight." 
I'd like to invite you to consider joining us next term, which starts
September 13, 2007. 

The College kindly offers members of The Planetary Society 25% off the
regular tuition. Registration opens Monday August 13, and class size is
limited to 12 participants. 
There are no prerequisites.

Here's a quote from a participant in the summer term that ended
recently:

"Incredible. Interesting topics were
explored in a fun way, often with experiments. 
Each night left me eager to learn more."

This is hands-on interplanetary flight. 
In the course of seven consecutive Thursday evenings, we will experiment
together to intuitively learn the keys to interplanetary flight. We can
usually count on enjoying a stellar guest speaker, as well.

So far, previous class participants have included (some of them members
of The Planetary Society): physicians, film producers, engineers,
undergraduate and graduate students, writers, teachers, pilots,
architects, and even a celebrity.

Information from the Art Center course
catalog about my Basics of Interplanetary Flight class is included
below. I look forward to meeting you at the Open House and do hope you
can join us for the course. 

If you have any questions, please email me at doody at artcenter.edu

Thanks Dave

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Course Information From the Catalog:

E/078 Basics of Interplanetary Flight,
noncredit, $395 -- $296.25
for Planetary Society Members
 
Art Center at Night is pleased to offer you this extraordinary
opportunity to study the fundamentals of robotic space flight with
Caltech/JPL senior engineer Dave Doody, Flight Operations Lead for the
Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft's realtime operations. We have as our
home a very rare planet, the companion of a star-in-a-bubble, orbiting
the distant black hole at our galactic center. In this 7-week workshop,
you will look back at our planet from this greater perspective, and
explore the vehicles, the techniques, and the science experiments
involved in today's ongoing extraterrestrial exploration. The range of
topics will intrigue any inquisitive participant. 
Class discussions will be enhanced by ongoing Q&A, many hands-on
demonstrations (including the Gravity Assist Mechanical Simulator),
design-based learning sessions, and a "guest star" appearance or two. 

No prerequisites.
 
7 sessions Thursdays 7-10 pm  Dave Doody
 
SOUTH CAMPUS 950 South Raymond Avenue 
(at Glenarm), Pasadena CA 91105

To register or for more information, visit 
http://people.artcenter.edu/doody


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