Meeting of 2/9/18

Discuss update on the reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster which is also now a satellite. Does planet4589 have it? Does Wikipedia? Checking this would be a test of these sites.

list of readings:
https://thehumanraceintospace.blogspot.com/2018/02/list-of-possible-future-readings.html

Discuss the article:
   http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/successful-test-fire-massive-falcon-heavy-rocket-poised-boost-space-science

Agenda for next week will be:
   Discussion on reading
   Reports

Discussion of  https://brycetech.com/downloads/Bryce_Start_Up_Space_2017.pdf and
https://brycetech.com/downloads/Start_Up_Space.pdf included the notes in the previous post plus the point that, as a leading indicator, the information provided by this source could be used to improve our curve by using it to help calculate the most recent years (which suffer from the problem of a smoothing computation that does not know what future years' data will be). It could also add to discussion about what might be expected for a few years into the future, in addition to extrapolating the curve.