Sorry about the long wait for the January 10th meeting report. I’ve been between jobs and places. The meeting was attended by 6 members. At that time the January Launch date was set at the 25th. I haven’t heard back how it went. The treasury report was for a balance of $17837.61.

Chris informed us that the USC Law school has externship programs where students can gain legal skills while working on public interest and pro bono cases with real-life clients. So that means we may be able to get some free legal help. It particular they brought up the example of getting the RRS registered as a Non-Profit federally (501c3), which we are currently in the process of doing.

Like I’ve mentioned I’ve been between jobs and places, so I missed the launch and the February meeting. I’ll know after the March 14th meeting if I’ll have anything to report on them.

-Richard Garcia

The new web site is finally online. It will work a little more like a blog with hopefully more regular updates. I’m still working on a few things. We still need to have a PayPal account setup for the RRS so we can receive membership payments and donations online. I’ll also be adding to the RRS library as I get new items.

Some content will only be accessible by members, and if you are already a member of the RRS you can access member content from the web site. To do so you need to be registered as a member on the website. To do this you must first register as a “Public User,” on the registration page and then send an email to the web master at reactionresearchsociety@gmail.com. Put “RRS” in the subject line and let us know you’re a member and we’ll change your registration to “RRS Membership” so you can access the member content.

-Richard Garcia

At the last launch [April 27th] we had the pleasure of working with National Geographic for their show “Meltdown.” We’re not sure how much they will show of RRS stuff. Maybe a few minutes. The premise of the show is there is a guy looking to get precious metal from various sources, melt it down and resell it. Some rockets have precious metals like copper for combustion chambers and silver or platinum for catalysts. Sometimes they will have more exotic metals that are expensive metals like niobium or molibduim for radiativly cooled nozzle extensions, but I don’t they went looking for that.

Here is the info:

National Geographic Meltdown segment that was shot at the MTA will air on November 7th at 7:30 PM PST or 10:30pm ET

Here is the link to the show:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/meltdown/episodes/ready-to-rock-it/

-Richard Garcia