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13.0. "Space Development Conference" by CASTOR::RABAHY () Tue Oct 23 1984 11:23

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SPACE Digest                                      Volume 5 : Issue 17
 
Today's Topics:
		       Space Development Conference
		       Space Conference correction
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Date: 22 Oct 84 16:09:45 EDT
From: Dale.Amon@CMU-RI-FAS
Subject: Space Development Conference
To: BBoard.Maintainer@CMU-CS-A
 
1984 L5 Regional Space Development Conference
 
Place: 		Pittsburgh Hilton, next to Point State Park
Host: 		Pittsburgh L5
 
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Friday, 26-Oct-84
 
Opening Session
 17:00		Registration begins
 18:30  	Reception with cash bar
 19:00 - 20:00	Opening address, Dr. Charles Sheffield
 20:00 - 22:00	Filk songs by Julia Ecklar
 
 
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Saturday, 27-Oct-84
 
Morning Session:	Chapter workshops: Effective Chapter Organization
  9:00 - 12:00	Elisa Wynn	Niagara L5
		Beverly Freed	Pittsburgh L5
 
 
Afternoon Session:	A Space Based Civilization: The Grand Design
 13:00 - 14:30	Morris Hornik	Space Studies Institute
 14:30 - 15:30	E Doug Ward	Astrotech International
 15:30 - 16:30	Eric Drexler	L5 Society
 16:30 - 17:30	Greg Maryniak	Geostar Corporation
 
 
Evening Sessions:	Banquet/entertainment
 18:30			Banquet begins
 19:00 - 20:00		Dr. Philip K. Chapman
 20:00 - 21:00		Diane Ackerman poetry reading
 21:00 - 22:00		SOFEX concert: Return of the Electronic Dream
 
 
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Sunday, 28-Oct-84
 
Morning Session:	Chapter workshops: Politics and Space
  9:00	- 12:00	Jim Muncy	Consultant, White House Science Office
		Gary Oleson	DC L5
		Sandy Adamson	Spacepac
 
Afternoon Session:	The politics of space
 13:00 - 14:00	Doug Walgren	Chairman House Sci,Rsrch&Tech Subcommittee
 14:00 - 15:00	Jim Muncy	Consultant, White House Science Office
 15:00 - 16:00	Michael Fulda	Space politics and Policy
 16:00 - 17:00	Walter Byrnes	High Frontier: BMD
 
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Dr. Sheffield, writer of science fiction and science fact, former president
of the American Astronautical Society and current Vice President of Earth
Sat Corporation (Satellite image processing) will open the conference on
Friday night.
 
Julia Ecklar is a well known writer of 'fiction folk' songs or filk.
 
Morris Hornik will discuss the hardware directed research of the Space
Studies Institute on mass drivers, lunar mining, solar power satellites and
the rest of the grand vision.
 
Astrotech will discuss it's future plans, including the purchase of a space
shuttle. E. Doug Ward is a VP at Astrotech and has a long and distinguished
career managing large aerospace projects.
 
Eric Drexler, a member of the first Space Colony Design Summer Study and one
time student of Dr. Gerard O'Neill, will discuss solar sails and asteroid
mining
 
Geostar will discuss their commercial navigation satellite system, due to
launch in 1987. Morris Hornik is also the Executive Vice President of the
Space Studies Institute in Princeton
 
Dr. Phil Chapman is an employee of Arthur D. Little Corporation, An former
member of the NASA astronaut corps (although he did not fly) and current
President of the International L5 Society.
 
Diane Ackerman is a published poet and a member of the Board of Directors of
the Planetary Society. Her first book, 'The Planets' was checked for
technical accuracy by Carl Sagan.
 
SOFEX is a performance art group that uses their own electronic instruments,
slide projectors, film, video, dancers, smoke, scents, and who knows what
else...
 
Doug Walgren is a local congressman and chairman of the House Subcommittee
on Science, Research and Technology.
 
Jim Muncy is a consultant on space to Dr. George Keyworth in the White House
Science Office.
 
Dr. Michael Fulda is a professor of Political Science at Fairmont State
College in West Virginia.
 
Walter Byrnes is a representative of General Daniel Grahams 'High Frontier'
organization, the originators of the 'Star Wars' defense plan.
 
 
FurtherDetails: 
	Banquet is $18.20 and must be reserved 48 hours in advance.
Call Steven Shulik, 412-381-2190 (h) or 412-434-6357 (w). All
other payments may be made at the door.
 
			3 day	Fri	Sat	Sun	concert
				only	only	only	only
L5 Regular member	$30	$10	$15	$15	$5
L5 Student member	$20	$5	$10	$10	$5
General public		$45	$15	$20	$20	$5
General public, student	$30	$5	$10	$10	$5
 
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Date: 22 Oct 84 16:57:20 EDT
From: Dale.Amon@CMU-RI-FAS
Subject: Space Conference correction
To: BBoard.Maintainer@CMU-CS-A
 
SOFEX concert is from 21:30-22:30
 
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Date:  8 Nov 1984 16:28:40 PST
Subject: OASIS/L5 lecture in L.A.
From: Alan R. Katz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
cc: [email protected]

			"Steps to the Stars"

			    a talk by

			   Eric Burgess
	Author and co-founder of the British Interplanetary Society


Saturday, Dec. 8, 1984
7:00 PM
Von Karman Auditorium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena

Sponsored by OASIS/L5, the Los Angeles chapter of the L5 Society. 

				Alan