Iowan Student Space Society

Hi all, please feel free to fill out this survey! We're trying to figure out where exactly our members would like to see this club go, and we'd appreciate your input!

ISSS Club Direction Survey This survey is intended to gauge interest in different aspects of the club, and where members would like to see it go. Please direct any questions to the president, Fiona DeMoss, at [email protected]

This is a great opportunity for Iowa State students to hear about some of the exciting research that NASA is doing! Hope to see you there!

Come listen to NASA Chief Technologist David Voracek speak at Iowa State on September 24 at 6 pm. Details in the photo below. See you there!

Hello space fans!

ISSS is happy to announce Yuri’s Night!

This is our annual celebration of the first space flight (by a Mr. Yuri Gagarin) and all things space.

Join us this April 12th from 6:00-8:30 and enjoy our free pizza, liquid nitrogen ice cream, guest speaker, and a Kerbal Space Program space race competition!

Hello everyone just a quick update. Under new ISU rules no campus clubs are allowed to use the words Iowa State, Cy, or ISU in there names. So we are proud to announce our new name!

In all official business ISSS will now be known as the Ames Space Teaching and Recognition Association or ASTRA for short.

So let us know what you think of the new name and we can't wait to see you this fall!

Its that time of year again! ISSS is proud to announce this years Yuri's Night celebration!

So come one come all and help us celibate the first human space flight this April 12th. There will be guest speakers, free food, games, and prizes. So make sure to join us next week for a night to remember!

Quick update everyone. Due to some confusion with event authorization processes and reserving a space ISSS will not be hosting a star night tomorrow on valentines day. We know some of you we looking froward to attending and we apologize for any disappointment we may have caused.

All this being said it should still be a beautiful night Wednesday so make sure to get out there and see it with that special someone.

I think its safe to say that we have found the picture of the decade. Congrats to Elon and the people at SpaceX that keep making the impossible a reality.

Hey everyone I'm glad to say ISSS is back for the semester! Our first meeting is this Sunday at 630 pm in Carver 232. There will be games, space news, and club info so make sure to stop by and help us ring in the new semester!

Due to the approaching cloud cover, likelihood of rain, and midterms keeping us very busy star night tonight will be called off. Don't worry thought we will be out next week same time if the weather holds

Quick reminder everyone ISSS will be on central campus tomorrow night at 730 with telescopes for everyone to use! So make sure to stop by and see the stars with us!

Exciting news everyone! Iowa State Space Society will be hosting our first Kerbal Space Program competition of the year! Your mission (should you choose to accept it) will be to land a kerbal on the mun and return them safely to Kerben by October 20th. See the details bellow and show us your rocket building skills!

Exciting news everyone! Tomorrow ISSS will be hosting its first star night on central campus. We will be on central with telescopes from sundown to midnight and all are welcome! This will kick off weekly Friday star nights for the rest of the semester so make sure to join us! (we will postpone the start night till Saturday if bad weather)

Also don't forget that there is another club meeting this Sunday in Carver hall at 6:30 pm! So weather its at star night or just our normal meeting we cant wait to see all of you!

ISSS had a great first week of classes here on campus. Weather it was heading down to the eclipse, building solar telescopes, or hanging out at DIS, it was all a lot of fun. Cant wait to what else is coming this year!

Exciting news everyone! ISSS will be taking a van of our members down to the total solar eclipse! Its a once in a life time event and we cant wait so if you want to come along email [email protected] if your interested!

Now for those of you that cant make it down to the total eclipse (it is the first day of classes after all) make sure to come to the library that day. We plan on holding a viewing of the partial eclipse in Ames. We will be in front of the library with plenty of eclipse glasses and maybe even some solar telescopes. So either way come along and help ISSS celibate this once in a life time event!

Had a great time cleaning out the ISSS closet this week! Found lots of interesting things buried away, from old newspapers to rockets! Everything is ready for this fall and we cant wait!

Our firends over at cyclone space mining made these awesome mission patchs for there compition this summer.....check them out!

Mission 2017

Come one come all to Space fest this April 12th! Help ISSS, AIAA, CSM, SGT, and the flying cyclones ring in the anniversary of the first human space flight with food, games, and guest speakers!.

Exciting space news! Tomorrow if everything goes well SpaceX will be launching there first reused rocket! Its a huge milestone for space exploration so i suggest you all find the time to see it!

Engineers are still aiming for launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday evening, but the timeline is tight to complete mission preps in time. The target launch time Thursday has been adjusted to 6:27 p.m. EDT (2227 GMT). There is a backup opportunity available Friday. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/03/24/ses-10-flight-preps/

Possibly the coolest (or should i say hottest) place for new start to form has been discovered!

Stars Born Inside Violent Black Hole Jets Spotted for the 1st Time Infant stars have been discovered inside raging streams of material spewed into space by a monstrous black hole. Surfing on these cosmic jet streams, these stars could influence the evolution of a galaxy.

An awesome video showing what it would be like to fly over Mars!

A FICTIVE FLIGHT ABOVE REAL MARS The anaglyph images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera holds information about the topography of Mars surface. There are hundreds of high-resolution images of this…

We all had a great time taking part in last fridays ISU AfterDark! We had games, prizes, and just lots of fun and interesting people. We would like to thank the student union board for the amazing location, oprotumity and for helping us hit our goal of 100 plus people in attendance! Looking forward to tagging along to the next ISU after dark and seeing you all there!

Had a lot of fun yesterday at Meeker Elementary STEM night! We were given the awesome oprtonuity to build film canaster rockets with the kids and teach them about science (we even got to sport our new club shirts!). We had a blast and cant wait to work with Meeker again! Also for those of you on campus make sure to stop by out table at ISU after dark tonight for games and prizes!

Happy Birthday from space! Today is France's own Thomas Pesquet's birthday and he gets to spend it on the ISS! We all wish him a good day and cant wait to see what he has in store for the future.

to ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (27 February 1978). Born in Rouen, France, and currently serving on the International Space Station on Expedition 50/51.

This is Exciting! While still a little ways out there is a possiblity of returning humans to luna orbit by 2019!

Safety Group Flags NASA Idea to Fly Crew on Space Launch System Debut Flight A safety oversight panel expressed concern Thursday (Feb. 23) about an idea, currently being studied by NASA, to put astronauts aboard the first flight of the heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket.