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Conference 7.286::space

Title:	Space Exploration
Notice:	Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:	PRAGMA::GRIFFIN

Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	974
Total number of notes:	18843

414.0. "U.S. Companies Aboard MIR" by AUTHOR::KLAES (Kind of a Zen thing, huh?) Fri Mar 18 1988 08:15

VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH:                           [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
=====================                           [Nashua, NH, USA               ]

                  The Soviets Have The Only Game in Town

       Payload Systems Inc., a tiny startup in Wellesley Mass., wants 
       to help drug makers and other companies conduct long duration
       experiments in space.  But it isn't waiting for the US to launch
       a space station.  By next year it will begin its first multi-year 
       series of experiments, aboard the Soviet's MIR space station
       tended by cosmonauts.

       Before the company could sign a contract with the Soviets, it had 
       to convince Washington that the experiments would not give away
       any technological secrets.  It did so even though the US still
       prohibits the launches of American made communications satellites 
       by the Soviets.  And it won the tacit support of US agencies that 
       are trying to encourage commercial uses of space.  "We don't have 
       a space station and they do," says an official at the Commerce Dept. 

       The first experiments will be growing protein crystals in space.  
       Scientists analyze these crystals to understand the structure and 
       activity of proteins in the body. The experiments, says Payload
       System's managing director, will "lay the groundwork for later
       microgravity research aboard the proposed Industrial Space
       Facility (ISF) and the US space station."  But it will be years 
       before any US space station is in orbit.  Until then, MIR is the 
       only laboratory in space.

       {BUSINESS WEEK - March 7, 1988}

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414.1 Send your creativity into space! VERGA::KLAES All the Universe, or nothing! Fri Feb 21 1992 17:57 136

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414.1	Send your creativity into space!	VERGA::KLAES	All the Universe, or nothing!	`Fri Feb 21 1992 17:57`	136
	Article: 40640 From: [email protected] (George Hastings) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: MIR Student/Teacher Competitions Date: 19 Feb 92 22:55:49 GMT Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network SPACE EDUCATION COMPETITIONS A huge array of space education contests and space experiment competitions, open to Americans of all ages, has been announced by a U.S. aerospace education organization, the Aerospace Ambassadors. The competitions, involving more than 50 categories emphasizing the impact of Science and Technology on Society, will launch the winning entries into space to Earth's only orbiting space station, MIR. Many of these are the first competitions of their type in the world, and will help Americans of all ages come to share in the knowledge, benefits, and wonders space exploration and research offers mankind. Competition categories include artwork, essays and editorials, research/study, science experiments, commercial experiments, educational lessons, and more. Contests for individuals will be conducted in five age categories (5-8 years old, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, and 21+) while competition for commercial experiments is open to individuals, research institutes, colleges, universities, businesses and industries. Under exclusive agreements reached with the new Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Space Initiative officials, Aerospace Ambassadors will send the winning entries from the national competitions to the space station MIR. Individual artwork, essays, research papers, and other such winners will be sent to Mir and stamped in the only post officee in space, and returned to their owners. Education lessons sent to Mir will be taught from Earth orbit by an American teacher chosen in the Educator-In Space Competition or will be broadcast to schools all over the nation from an education satellite to be launched from the Mir by the American Educator-In Space. Educational and commercial experiments that fly to Mir will stay in space as long as required to bring the experiment to completion, and may be designed for use inside or outside the space station or inside the education satellite. The Educator-In Space Program is a national competition now underway, conducted by Aerospace Ambassadors to select the first American educator to fly into space to visit the Russian space station Mir. Finalists for the program will be announced this summer, with the winner to be launched in the fall of 1993 from the Commonwealth of Independent States launch facilities at Baikonur. Art and essay contests are being implemented twice: now until June 5, 1993, with winning entries flying to Mir this summer, and now until June 5, 1993, with winning entries flying to Mir with the American Educator-In-Space in the fall of 1993. All other competitions begin now and will end the summer of 1993. This schedule will allow educators and schools to include the competitions in this year's and next year's curriculum. The art competitors must design their entry around the theme "A Message To Mir". Essays/Editorials and Research Papers must carry the theme "Cooperation In Space" and / or "Business In Space". Science experiments may be entered in a variety of categories: small experiments (the size of a milk carton or smaller), larger experiments (any size), and commercial experiments. These may be designed for implementaiton either inside or outside Mir, or in the educational satellite. Competition is also being conducted for the Education Satellite, for educational ideas, experiment ideas, and a competition for the lessons to be taught from Mir, Lessons to be taught before and after the Educator-In-Space returns to Earth, and lessons to be broadcast from the education satellite. The five best ideas, covering any subject or project that do not fit into a standard category, will also be considered for a launch to Mir. EDUCATOR IN SPACE COMPETITION The Impact of Science and Technology on Society Age Categories 5-8 9-12 13-16 17-20 21+ Society 1) Art Theme: "A Message To Mir" 2) Essay/editorial Theme: "Cooperation In Space" 3) Research/Study Theme: "Cooperation In Space 4) Research/Study Theme: "Business In Space" 5) Other Ideas Science 1) Small "Milk Carton" (standard size); inside or outside Mir 2) Larger "Best Ideas"; inside or outside Mir 3) Satellite (see Satellite) 4) Commercial Unlimited Opportunities 5) Other Ideas Satellite (to be launched by American Educator from Mir) 1) Education Ideas 2) Experiment Ideas 3) Other Ideas Education 1) Lessons from Space 2) Lessons for Students Before and after spaceflight by American Educator-In Space 3) Satellite (See Satellite) 4) Commercial Unlimited Opportunities 5) Other Ideas Other Ideas The five best ideas not in the standard categories For detailed outlines and information on these space competitions and the Educator-In-Space program, contact: George Hastings, Aerospace Ambassador vdoe386.vak12ed.edu or call (205) 883-9922 or write to: Aerospace Ambassadors P.O. Box 12603 Huntsville, AL 35815

Article: 40640
From: [email protected] (George Hastings)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: MIR Student/Teacher Competitions
Date: 19 Feb 92 22:55:49 GMT
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network

SPACE EDUCATION COMPETITIONS

   A huge array of space education contests and space experiment
competitions, open to Americans of all ages, has been announced by a
U.S. aerospace education organization, the Aerospace Ambassadors. 

   The competitions, involving more than 50 categories emphasizing the
impact of Science and Technology on Society, will launch the winning
entries into space to Earth's only orbiting space station, MIR. 

   Many of these are the first competitions of their type in the
world, and will help Americans of all ages come to share in the
knowledge, benefits, and wonders space exploration and research offers
mankind. 

   Competition categories include artwork, essays and editorials,
research/study, science experiments, commercial experiments,
educational lessons, and more. Contests for individuals will be
conducted in five age categories (5-8 years old, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20,
and 21+) while competition for commercial experiments is open to
individuals, research institutes, colleges, universities, businesses
and industries. 

   Under exclusive agreements reached with the new Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) Space Initiative officials, Aerospace
Ambassadors will send the winning entries from the national
competitions to the space station MIR. 

   Individual artwork, essays, research papers, and other such winners
will be sent to Mir and stamped in the only post officee in space, and
returned to their owners. Education lessons sent to Mir will be taught
from Earth orbit by an American teacher chosen in the Educator-In
Space Competition or will be broadcast to schools all over the nation
from an education satellite to be launched from the Mir by the
American Educator-In Space. 

   Educational and commercial experiments that fly to Mir will stay in
space as long as required to bring the experiment to completion, and
may be designed for use inside or outside the space station or inside
the education satellite. 

   The Educator-In Space Program is a national competition now
underway, conducted by Aerospace Ambassadors to select the first
American educator to fly into space to visit the Russian space station
Mir. Finalists for the program will be announced this summer, with the
winner to be launched in the fall of 1993 from the Commonwealth of
Independent States launch facilities at Baikonur. 

   Art and essay contests are being implemented twice: now until June
5, 1993, with winning entries flying to Mir this summer, and now until
June 5, 1993, with winning entries flying to Mir with the American
Educator-In-Space in the fall of 1993. All other competitions begin
now and will end the summer of 1993. This schedule will allow
educators and schools to include the competitions in this year's and
next year's curriculum. 

   The art competitors must design their entry around the theme "A
Message To Mir". Essays/Editorials and Research Papers must carry the
theme "Cooperation In Space" and / or "Business In Space". Science
experiments may be entered in a variety of categories: small
experiments (the size of a milk carton or smaller), larger experiments
(any size), and commercial experiments. These may be designed for
implementaiton either inside or outside Mir, or in the educational
satellite. 

   Competition is also being conducted for the Education Satellite,
for educational ideas, experiment ideas, and a competition for the
lessons to be taught from Mir,  Lessons to be taught before and after
the Educator-In-Space returns to Earth, and lessons to be broadcast
from the education satellite. The five best ideas, covering any
subject or project that do not fit into a standard category, will also
be considered for a launch to Mir.

EDUCATOR IN SPACE COMPETITION

The Impact of Science and Technology on Society

Age Categories                5-8     9-12     13-16     17-20     21+

Society

1) Art                        Theme: "A Message To Mir"
2) Essay/editorial            Theme: "Cooperation In Space"
3) Research/Study             Theme: "Cooperation In Space
4) Research/Study             Theme: "Business In Space"
5) Other Ideas

Science

1) Small                      "Milk Carton" (standard size);
                              inside or outside Mir
2) Larger                     "Best Ideas"; inside or outside Mir
3) Satellite                 (see Satellite)
4) Commercial                 Unlimited Opportunities
5) Other Ideas

Satellite (to be launched by American Educator from Mir)

1) Education Ideas
2) Experiment Ideas
3) Other Ideas

Education

1) Lessons from Space
2) Lessons for Students       Before and after spaceflight
                              by American Educator-In Space
3) Satellite (See Satellite)
4) Commercial Unlimited Opportunities 
5) Other Ideas

Other Ideas

The five best ideas not in the standard categories

   For detailed outlines and information on these space competitions
and the Educator-In-Space program, contact: 

George Hastings, Aerospace Ambassador
vdoe386.vak12ed.edu

or call (205) 883-9922

or write to:

   Aerospace Ambassadors
   P.O. Box 12603
   Huntsville, AL  35815