Membership fees would be in lieu of launch fees - it buys you launch access, a card (which will enable stats gathering) as well as pays for the club equipment. If you go to one launch, its $10/day - if you go to all launches, $55/year - quite a saving. Santa Clara would be ~3.5 - 3hrs drive - I live in south san jose (MH) and it's 3hrs if we have the cleaning party at the same site as last time. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Douglas Valkenaar <douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Are the membership fees in lieu of launch fees or do they cover something > else? What does membership "buy" you? > > Looking forward to the changes and improvements. We're a bit far away for > cleaning parties, etc. (Santa Clara) but want to be involved as much as > possible. >