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What makes ISU07

July 4, 2007

Its been almost a year since the ISU, its time for us to prepare our graduation speech and to do this , we need a vote on who will represent us in the graduation ceremony in September. Isra, one of our students suggest a way for us to vote

Here it is:

Xavier can upload the forums for the class in the ISU forums online….

Richard will count the electronic report and will pass it on to S. and B.

Shawna and Brian will edit the results (Brian won’t sleep for the whole week the process will last and will try to live in ISU)

William will put the edited results on the web and broadcast them trough his satellite….

but not before double-checked the link by Kenny

Mr. Hubert can provide some tips for the speech

Luisa will write in pink the results and send congratulations to the winner and organize the grad-party

but not before Mr. Wale will ask his two questions

Dave will try to add a point to save the empire

so does Natalie who also has feelings too

S. Moon will ask to hurry the process due we need to find jobs after the graduation

Sebas will say that he would like that somebody from France could give the speech “I think is fair guys

Rodolphe will “just want to say this: that we should remember this should be something good“….all this with his cute smile

Kieran will propose to add the space tourism topic to the final speech…

Simon from the remotes areas of the planet will try to watch the event

Andreaa will say that we shouldn’t worry too much “what doesn’t kill you make you stronger” and probably can help us with references

Alma will try to show her knowledge in Bethoveen’s 5th simphony at the piano

so KJ can play his instrument along too, while he explain us what does the DS words mean

Magda (just married) and Shawna can delight us with their beautiful voices…not before the motion has been passed by 2/3 majority according to the Robert’s rules of order

and Violetta can calculate market potential of the number of viewers coming to the graduation

not forgettin Mac Phee can acompany us with guitars

Marianne will add some pictures from her field trip to the Artic and will try UNESCO be our sponsor for the class trip

Antonio would try to give his feedback from his engineer’s point of view followed by

the risk assesment and the risk matrix done by Ahmet

Nabila might want to do an international document with her contacts in the UN and add some Remote Sensing facts to the speech

Alex will try to impress some girls practicing his Japanese and talking about robotics

Matej…heeey maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! will be watching the Graduation speech at the X Prize’s office, czech it out!

Thiago could be the contact manager for the event

Christine will suggest not to forget the topic of outreach of space

Dag might want to show with his tight Navy costume

Harish could give some imparcial judgement of the speech and add some sportive outlook

AV will try to get the TP2 final report with data from Mars rovers and will refuse to go back to India despite that India’s president might watch the event

John might want to take some photos for the class memories

Marc could design the Class 2007’s logo and add some cool pics from the cosmos

to all this Nicola would remain equanimous…

Thomas…well he has already a job…he is too cool now

Carlos will check if the webcast won’t violate any international treaty

Carla will try to optimize the voting process using algorithm and probability

Laure-Helene and Pierre they would like that the voting does not happen during the weekend

Dimitrious is a good listener so will provide his political analysis with a rocket engineers perspective

Renee will design a spreedsheet in excel to have the class contact list updated not before she figures it out an algorithim to be used with the database file

Henrik would like to suggest if we can hang some beds in the ceiling….just for decoration purposes

ID she will be a beautiful new mom!

Seaun will be checking the network satellite’s link

Gabriel will be back in Stras bringing some positive energy

Ziggy…is in love oh la la!

Jun after having watched all this he will say “I cannot believe it” this time was easy!

Gioulie will provide us her feedback and she will say: “I liiiiiike!!!”

Bee would definetely give us her input of the speech not without having received a well deserved Alsacian wine for all her passion for space to what she will say: “Thank you guys!”

hopefully one student will give Annelie a nice and well deserved Jiraffe with a nice thank-you note attached

Isra well, holly Mooolly!!!! I luv you all guys and I miss you all from Japan! I am looking forward to meet you and have some tequilas along with some dancing (not necesarily in “Salamander” no more Salamander pleease!!!!) I swear there are more places in Stras!!!!!

Isra ; )

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Castle-Climbing in Germany

July 3, 2007

“Watch out for the stinging nettle!” – Daniela

“What does stinging nettle look like?” – Me

“See that thing that you are standing waist-deep in…?”

Shawna from Cologne, Germany here. So other than learning valuable lessons about what NOT to liberally traipse through, this weekend we (myself, Daniela, my co-intern/probable future ISU student J and Chris, the visiting NASA Biomedical Engineer at EAC ESA) visited castles galore and took a million pictures. We’ll spare you, though, and only show you the highlights.

First, we visited a castle in Koblenz where parts of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed. Yes, THAT Indiana Jones. Very pretty, even if the tour was in German and we smiled and nodded with vacant looks in our eyes lots.

The rest of the day was even MORE amazing than that: Next we visited the itty-bitty town of Monreal (population of several hundred, tops!) and spent the day climbing amongst the ruins of castles from the 13th century (and through stinging nettle – word to the wise: if you can avoid it – DO!).

Of course, I would be the worst Canadian ever if I didn’t celebrate July 1st, Canada Day, so the next day, the three of us hit Cologne for some Mexican food and ice cream – to all the other Canucks out there, HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

I could go on about how amazing the weekend was, but really – the photos speak for themselves, so enjoy!

Shawna from EAC

Over and out

More pics

 

Ed Note : Shawna is the only climber that brings umbrella during her climb( see climb pictures). She can face the danger and thrill of a rock climb, but she needs her umbrella for the rain on top !!

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Missed Le Bourget ??

July 1, 2007

If you miss the last weekend Le Bourget show, dont fret because of our special friend from Russia is there bringing stories and pictures from the Paris Airshow 2007. Violetta is now having an internship in Frost and Sullivan Paris and last weekend , she visited the Paris Air Show 3 days in a row. ( Amazing, she cant get enough of aerospace stuff) . She brought many amazing pictures from the air show and of course being a Russian herself, she is proud to bring pictures from the Russian Aerospace Technology.

V ( Violetta’s nick ) also watch the Airbus 380 flight, sit on the EADS Space Tourism plane and of course watching the fighter plane do acrobatic show.

AIR ELEPHANT

EADS SPACE TOURISM

Of course, as ISU is a big family, definitely you will bump to someone from ISU

With THOMAS MSM 07


Paris Alumni

Once again thank you V for bring us an amazing pictures and stories from Paris for all of us to see

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Postcard from Brazil

June 27, 2007

Once again , we continue to update about our stories from around the world. This week, we take you to an exotic place where ISU07 prettiest student (according to everyone ) Laure-Helene is reporting from South America. Laure-Helene is our french student who now work for Equatorial Sistemas in Brazil for her internship. According to the update, not only she works hard she is also enjoying a lovely time in brazil too especially with the beautiful brazillian beaches, pristine green and traditional colonial towns. We all miss you laurie, take good care there alright

Here are some of selected Pictures

Please Click Here to see the Whole Album

Here

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News from California ( Xprize JPL )

June 25, 2007

While browsing for some website, i found out matej blog that has some new pictures, YES at last i got pictures from X-Prize and JPL guys in California. Anyway i would like to share some of the pictures with you to show them how they are doing.

Here is Rodolphe and Andreea in the sunny California probably near their home. Andreea loves black, even in the hot summer she wear long dark clothes

THE JPL Gang eating Pizza ( Summer Feel )

Matej while visiting Space-X factory

and

Finally Brian and Matej in a what seems a rocket booster while visiting the Space-X Corporation

Enjoy your awesome Internship guys and tell us more stories about your work there and finally dont forget us. Keep in touch

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EADS Space Tourism Plan Discussion in ISU

June 19, 2007

The ISU 07 community are always keeping in touch with everyone about the recent space news. Last week was about ISS losing its power, we keep emailing/spaming each other about the progress until the day it is back on line and then one of our friend who is doing an intern in EADS emailed us about EADS plan to join the space tourism race.

It quickly get the news going

Here are the E-mail

Magda ( EADS)
If you haven’t heard yet EADS Astrium are looking to go into competition with SpaceShip Two with their own version of space tourism. Article with cool pics: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,488559,00.html

Ahmet ( SES)
After I heard the EADS interest in space tourism, I and John started a big discussion on the predicted scenarios and possible market and I built a quick Excel sheet

to see economical viability of the project. It is a simple one built in 5 min but it works.

EXCEL

I really don’t think it is a feasible project. But i guess this is a strategic move for EADS to attract more attention to other issues after I would say collapsing of A-380 Project by ending up with over budget and overtime than actually planned. They are in the process of firing people because of this project. And the first quarter financial numbers of EADS is very interesting, they made 10 billion revenues for Q1 of this year but only 10 million net profit which is nothing. And recently the management were highly criticized by shareholders in the general assembly about these issues both A-380 and financial figures.

They may want to get more attraction from public and also I remind John Logsdon analysis about how US Space Shuttle program started. “Engineers need a toy to play after Apollo missions” after A-380 EADS needs a strategic project in order to survive.

Maybe this analogy is a bit too pessimistic about space tourism but still has some true in it.

The EADS president’s speech about Virgin Galactic saying “Some of the guys think that they can build s/c in their garage” doesn’t seem like nice and moreover it is not fair. Their market research of 15000 passangers by 2020 seems to be too optimistic as well. They are announcing these kind of things that sounds interesting but i really don’t think they are realistic. It again reminds me the space tourism market researches that was done in Germany, Japan and some other places which predicts thousands of passangers for 2000s.

John and I played on the Excel sheet a lot and discussed these issues on our 1,5 h journeys back to home from SES.

space tourism guys if you want to play and extend the sheet, have a look.

BTW, I really want to see comments on EADS initiative on space tourism who are particularly interested in the issue in their internships.

 

 

Dimi ( JPL )
Hello business team,

I kind of agree it is a move to stay in contact with the other side of Atlantic in space tourism and private spaceflight etc, but:

Why is A380 a collapsing project?? There are problems, but don’t you cannot say it’s collapsing. It’s a huge project with lots of innovations and a LOT MORE financial risk and investment than any space tourism toy we are discussing for a year now in ISU (@250M/plane they need sth like 200 planes or more to break even, check the figures online). Don’t compare government money like Apollo and shuttle with industrial-private ventures like EADS, or any other. The first works for the good of society (whatever) the second for profit and shareholders (Yes EADS is owened by 25-30% by french state but again…). When A350 didn’t work in the market as initially planed Airbus redesigned it as A350XWB and re-launched it taking huge risk while rival Boeing had already 500+ orders for the rival B787. What did NASA do when people started saying that shuttle this and shuttle that and ISS this ISS that.. Outreach and T-Shirts and movies!!! :-)

Do you think a space tourism rocket will save EADS if A380 ‘collapses’?? The fact that airbus is loosing ground is known for 2-3 years now, after Boeing was in the same position while airbus was thriving. Boeing restructured and that is what airbus is doing now.. It’s just that the by big percentage government owned airbus (you know how French are), employees unions, inflexible in laying-off European way of business, makes the whole process more difficult and sound worse than it is. At least that is my opinion from what I read here and there.

The Master 07 shows that even we are all over the world we still can keep in touch with each other even on the latest news . So i hope all the alumni too can use the ISU talk and News to keep us updated about the and join the discussion

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Weekend Updates around the world

June 18, 2007

JPL WEEKEND

This week two of our master class update their weekend outing

JPL gangs went to the beach (leaving andreea alone ) to do some surfin and spotted a mermaid !!!

SEBA

Sebastian who is working in Colorado went to denver and did some hiking near his home !!

here are some of the pics

Have a nice time working everyone !!

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Little archeologist back from Syria

June 14, 2007

Here is an email from our lovely, beautiful and talented TA, who took off to Syria during her holidays, while we are struggling with our internship.

“Hey all,

I hope everything is going well for you all over the world and that your internships started off well!

Just wanted to let you know I went to Homs, Syria, to actually make sure what you said was correct ;) and here is a picture of me playing little archeologist

Syria could actually be turned into a gigantic Archeoland, because Im sure wherever you excavate, youll bump into something 6000 years old here I am with a mosaic that somebody discovered by mistake yep I know, no future for space in there

Cheers,

Annelie”

PS; Did you find any treasure back for us ??

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Frosties in Paris

June 13, 2007

In the sunny Parisian mornings, we go to work… Being Frosties, we take no ordinary means of transportation, of course. We’ve found a little bit more exciting. (As you can see we sometimes seem to have a tough time with knowing where we are)
Observe:

Here, we’re just arriving at work, where we meet all the other Froties. Ahoy, Mateys!!!

Editors Note: Did you meet any Pirates Of The Parisian ??

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THE INTERNSHIP MAP IS FINALLY HERE

June 11, 2007

THE INTERNSHIP MAP IS FINALLY HERE .. after spending the most of my weekend in updating the Internship Map. At last, this is a gift for those who are waiting this for a long time for this map… Here is the map that shows where are we at this moment. Especially for MSS08, I hope this helps to tell you about the internship questions.

Anyway i think i am missing a couple of students, so who ever im missing please mail me and update me where you are !!

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS TO GOOGLE MAPS

William

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE