5/25/2018: Updates from whoever has one

Everyone who had something to report had a chance to do so.

• HA will send a partial first draft of his OAS paper later.
• VK reported an interesting new figure data mined from the data.
• DB reported a start on curating international data. The NASA Lunar Orbiter series of missions was not in our existing NASA data because the missions are not on the alphabetical mission list at https://www.nasa.gov/missions
• JS is welcomed and plans to curate the international data based on the initial mission list DB has compiled
• We used Collaborate Ultra for screen sharing and it helped significantly with the discussion, so this seems like something to continue.

5/18/18: Progress on Summer activity list

Based on the Summer 2018 plan, here are the activities to discuss for today.

1. Readings. Discuss
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z43gm4/the-astronautical-congress-is-one-big-sales-pitch
and add notes to 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SNdhUycxcNbRsCKXT6dAvZWRG9yKuXpDCBo7tNXjITQ/edit#. 
    Find new readings and add them to the reading list, which is at
http://thehumanraceintospace.blogspot.com/2018/02/list-of-possible-future-readings.html. (RS gave us a couple of links to add to the list during the meeting.)

2. Find a trend curve for international mission data. Update the spreadsheets with international mission data including satellites and analyze for trends.

3. A new paper for, e.g. OAS. Pull figures from HA's document & VK's thesis for use in the next paper. Revise/rephrase background and discussion text from AAS paper and HA's document to use in the new paper. Develop new interesting figures that mine satellite data.

4. Other professional development. HA has another paper to revise. Anyone else have plans or activities? 

5/11/18: First steps after Spring 2018's AAS meeting and master's graduations

Here are the items planned last time, plus first reports and next steps

1. Plan: DB will update the annotated bibliography paper that HA has been working on, which may be the one at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7H9Kb495hE9rJDU5wMpWfz7XTBaLJDaicufOU25npU/edit, and identify those references that we have not yet cited.

    Report: The annotated bibliography portions of that paper have been stored into the shared folder as: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SNdhUycxcNbRsCKXT6dAvZWRG9yKuXpDCBo7tNXjITQ/edit#. It contains all references we have cited in papers or in the annotated bibliography.
The previous version, which HA maintained, is still at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7H9Kb495hE9rJDU5wMpWfz7XTBaLJDaicufOU25npU/edit, and contains figures and background/discussion text that can potentially be used for publication (e.g. for an OAS paper). 
     Next steps: Continue to maintain the annotated bibliography. HA has already posted some notes on the reading that we plan to discuss more next time.

2. Plan: DB will get started on adding international data records to the spreadsheets in an effort to develop an extrapolatable curve like we found for US data, but for the entire world's data. This will support a future paper, a subsection in my book, and a web page that displays the data and generates the graph using Javascript (which will require training of a student to lead the implementation effort).
     Report: None. But this is a critical next stage.
     Next steps: Start.

3. Plan. HA found another interesting reference that we can add to our reading list at http://thehumanraceintospace.blogspot.com/2018/02/list-of-possible-future-readings.html.
     Report: It is the reference at https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z43gm4/the-astronautical-congress-is-one-big-sales-pitch.
     Next steps: We will read the article at https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z43gm4/the-astronautical-congress-is-one-big-sales-pitch (HA already has) so that we can discuss it next time.

4. Planned: HA plans to find some figures from VK's thesis that we can use for a OAS meeting and proceedings paper submittal.
     Report: He has been looking at them but has not yet decided.
     Next steps: (1) HA will pull some figures out for use in the next paper. 
                         (2) He will also consider checking through the document he has been maintaining for some time and see if there are any figures he would like to use from there. 
                         (3) He can also consider pulling background and discussion text from that document to use in the new paper.
                         (4) DB will email out an outline for HA to consider using. 
                         (5) DB will email the latest version of the AAS paper submittal to everyone in MS Word format.

5. Planned: HA has more time during the summer and plans to also work on an OAS submittal of another paper, not yet accepted, under guidance from colleague JS. RS suggested we would be willing to read it and comment.
     Report: That paper is still under consideration for revision and resubmittal to OAS.
     Next steps: We will be glad to discuss the paper in our meetings as needed.

6. Planned. RS plans to search for more readings that might discuss, such as at scholar.google.com.
     Report: scholar.google.com did not initially provide obvious useful results. He plans to try other search engines.
     Next steps: try some other searches and report on the results.

7. Planned: VK plans to consider developing another figure using advanced data mining techniques, since such an analysis gets deeper and thus is less superficial than the more obvious analyses. He is also willing to develop any further figures we might provide some specs for.
      Report: He has been thinking about how to do this.
      Next steps: He will send a new graph soon for us to review.  

5/4/2018: Planning the next steps!

• Congratulations to Rohith for finishing his project report. We agreed during the meeting that the report was adequate and I can go ahead and key him in as ready to graduate.
• We discussed next steps in our research program. Here are some suggestions:

1. DB will update the annotated bibliography paper that HA has been working on, which may be the one at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7H9Kb495hE9rJDU5wMpWfz7XTBaLJDaicufOU25npU/edit, and identifying those references that we have not yet cited.
2. DB will get started on adding international data records to the spreadsheets in an effort to develop an extrapolatable curve like we found for US data, but for the entire world's data. This will support a future paper, a subsection in my book, and a web page that displays the data and generates the graph using Javascript (which will require training of a student to lead the implementation effort).
3. HA found another interesting reference that we can add to our reading list at http://thehumanraceintospace.blogspot.com/2018/02/list-of-possible-future-readings.html.
4. HA plans to find some figures from VK's thesis that we can use for a OAS meeting and proceedings paper submittal.
5. HA has more time during the summer and plans to work on an OAS submittal of our work as well perhaps revising under guidance from JS a previously written paper on another topic that might also be submitted to OAS. RS suggested we would be willing to read it and comment.
6. RS plans to search for more readings that might discuss, such as at scholar.google.com.
7. VK plans to consider developing another figure using advanced data mining techniques, since such an analysis gets deeper and thus is less superficial than the more obvious analyses. He is also willing to develop any further figures we might provide some specs for.