My good friend Dave Doody is teaching his awesome space class again at Art Center College of Design beginning May 14. His class is really great and gives a good overview of everything from the environment in the solar system to reference systems to get around the solar system, on to gravity, spacecraft trajectories, flight missions and operations. Everyone is 6 degrees from a JPL flight mission. You are either working on one, or you know someone on a mission or you'd like to work on one someday. Dave's class is a great start for the enthusiast to the advocate! Dave's class takes place on seven Thursday evenings beginning May 14. It's a great way for everyone to get a good overview about space flight: You night see me there! Course: Basics of Interplanetary Flight Starts: May 14. Registration opens April 8, 2009 Venue: Art Center College of Design Public Programs Meets: 7 Thurs evenings 7-10pm, South Campus, Pasadena Space: 12 participants total ($315 tuition, some discounts available) Instructor: Dave Doody, Caltech/JPL senior flight operations engineer Visit: http://people.artcenter.edu/doody -- Jane Houston Jones Monrovia, CA 34.2048N 118.1732W, 637.0 feet http://www.whiteoaks.com Old Town Astronomers: http://www.otastro.org My JPL What's Up podcast: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup.cfm Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhjones http://twitter.com/CassiniSaturn