[HYBRID] Building Axiom Space Station

Join us for our Monthly NSS North Houston Space Society ([http://NorthHoustonSpace.org](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FNorthHoustonSpace.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3vlmUtbLlQ7bDZYE7ktdwfphiWS0phPBjtm5-BFdm5rMaU0I8vVrAr2NI&h=AT0V2rZM0T3Cw2vovRTfELcl38ena2B3UohsppNeTxr_noXk_ZozkHdyLZBPKQ13M3iY9wH7Ou-KxA4_GJG4-NdPjxFTp3NopENfUrRYZwBVTfuagv9_a50iSk7pkBK_eA&__tn__=q&c%5B0%5D=AT02mVkVLdz8V9zSuQ7yF3rJ0c1TqCXk1zg9ZtlfcQSUpDVKKiM73zXg7RJOazzenyJjGhJB-dekzuw-HL_xIo28DkasWrcqXhNMDnvCTnU1l6-CELoxXKnNWXWzQ1oYKE4Wz8vdfXO8vXxIbs5WsTmgcFRc)) meeting. Connect with others who are excited about exploring the cosmos, learning how to use the resources of space to improve human life, and who want to go and spread humanity to the rest of the universe.
This will be a hybrid meeting. Come in person at Barbara Bush Library (6817 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379) or join us online Via ZOOM (detail on our website [http://NorthHoustonSpace.org](http://northhoustonspace.org/?fbclid=IwAR2aSSR2-Ew9Abanpu9olQocscU3rxPlilETg4eIB_xoxpG9y9J63sgBCxA)).
The meeting will be on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 2PM (US Central Time).
2:00 PM – Opening Remarks

2:15 PM – Recent Space News – Greg Stanley
2:45 PM – Featured Speaker: Building Axiom Station – Megan Yang – Axiom Space
3:40 PM – Socializing
4:00 PM – End of Meeting

## About Our Featured Presentation: Building Axiom Station

Axiom Space is building the world’s first commercial space station, Axiom Station. Construction of Axiom Space’s first habitation module for the commercial space station is underway and is on track to launch its first module to the International Space Station by 2026. Megan Yang, the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Water Accumulation and Treatment Assembly (WATA) Group Lead, will talk about her role and experience designing the space station to support continuous human presence living in space after the International Space Station’s (ISS) deorbit, which is planned for 2030.

## About Our Featured Speaker: Megan Yang

Megan Yang’s family immigrated to the US from Taiwan in 1999. She followed in her father’s footsteps as an engineer and majored in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, then moved to Houston after graduation. At Axiom Space, Megan is the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Water Accumulation and Treatment Assembly (WATA) Group Lead, where she oversees hardware design for the water system that recycles astronaut urine, sweat, and condensate, and turning them back to clean water for various crew use, including for drinking. In this role, she provides technical input and oversight of her group’s project scope, cost, and schedule.

## **About the Meeting**

Meetings are open to all age groups and interest levels. Come explore with us the potential that developing and exploring space has to better life here on earth and to open up new frontiers creating new perspectives that can help enrich the human experience.
The Vision of NSS is people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.
The Mission of NSS is to promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity. Accordingly, we support steps toward this goal, including human spaceflight, commercial space development, space exploration, space applications, space resource utilization, robotic precursors, defense against asteroids, relevant science, and space settlement oriented education.
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