Illinois Space Society
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
The Illinois Space Society was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September 2003 by Kirk Kittell and Derek Meyer. ISS was created to develop a network of students and members of the surrounding community who are interested in space exploration and development.
The purposes of ISS are to ...
- Create a network of space supporters in the Champaign-Urbana area
- To serve the community through educational outreach, and
- To provide supporters with resources that will assist them in following their dreams in the field of space exploration.
The Illinois Space Society has been a proud member of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) since November 2003 and has also been a member of Engineering Council since 2003.
A brief list of successes for Illinois Space Society since:
- Numerous Engineering Council awards, including:
- Society of the Month, October 2003, October 2007, and November 2010
- Most Improved Society of the Year, Fall '03-Spring '04
- Engineering Open House:
- 1st place, Original Undergraduate Research, 2005 for "Fun with Explosives, Spacesuits, and Gradeschoolers"
- 2nd place, Just For The Fun of It, 2004 for "Space Mission: Urbana, We Have a Problem"
- Hosted the 2005 and 2010 SEDS SpaceVision national conferences.
- Mocket broke the sound barrier in early 2010, and the tech team has grown exponentially since.
- Our Eduactional Outreach group has grown as well, and has even worked its way into a science curriculum.
- We won the 2010 SEDS Holiday Competition. Mocket was a beautiful tree.
A summary of our spring 2011 activities can be found in our Spring 2011 Newsletter. This is the first of our new semesterly newsletters.
