Conference 7.286::space

    This really catches the imagination, doesn't it?  This thing sounds
    like the infant form of an Amnesty International or Red Cross of
    pursuits in space.
    
    "If ISU makes a plea on behalf of a project, there's a good chance that
     project will move to completion."
    
    [No satirical comment intended on AI]
    
    I might even let my imagination go completely and see this as the
    masses rising up where governments have feared to go.  Granted, it's
    a mass of people with IQs over 180, but what the heck.
    
John

    INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY - can881204.txt - 12/1/88
 
    The second annual International Space University session will be
held June 30-Aug. 31, 1989, at the Universite Louis Pasteur in
Strasbourg, France, ESA and the ISU have announced. A total of 120
graduate-level students from more than 20 nations are expected to
attend. The inaugural 1988 session at MIT was attended by 104 students. 
 
    The session includes 240 hours of lectures and 280 hours of design
project work, compressing a year of study into two months.  The cost
of sending a student is $10,000 with tuition paid by an industry or
government sponsor. For information or appplication forms, write to: 
 
     International Space Universityy
     636 Beacon Street
     Boston, MA 02215
 

Article: 37912
From: [email protected] (Kay Speed Kelly)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Ontario makes bid for ISU permanent campus
Date: 26 Nov 91 22:28:29 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
 
International Space University news 
from the Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science 
 
(ISTS was host of ISU's 1990 Summer Session and is submitting a bid
for the 1992 ISU permament campus competition.) 
 
To subscribe to the ISTS electronic news service, please send an
electronic mail message to: 
 
Internet: [email protected]
 
Ontario minister announces ISTS bid for International Space
University's Permanent Central Campus 
 
TORONTO -- The Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science, supported
by funding from the Ontario government, is leading a bid for Ontario
to become the permanent home of the International Space University's
central campus. 
 
At a press conference September 30 at McLaughlin Planetarium,
Ontario's Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology, Ed Philip,
announced that the province would contribute at least $500,000 toward
funding of the ISTS permanent campus bid. 
 
ISTS is an Ontario Centre of Excellence that encourages collaborative
research and development by industry, government and academic
institutions in areas of space and environmental science and
technology.  It hosted the very successful 1990 summer session of the
International Space University in Canada. 
 
Philip noted that the Canadian aerospace industry now generates
revenues of more than $7.1 billion a year and that about half of that
is generated by Ontario-based firms. 
 
"Our support for the International Space University bid confirms our
government's committment to Ontario's growing space industry," he
said. "Growth in this high-value-added industry creates demand for
engineers, scientists and researchers and drives space-related
industries, such as robotics and telecommunications." 
 
Ontario is home to Spar Aerospace Ltd. of Mississauga, a developer of
space robotic systems (including the famous Canadarm); COM DEV Limited
of Cambridge, a major developer of satellite subsystems; CAL
Corporation of Ottawa, a builder of space, radar and communications
systems, and a number of other corporate players in space research and
development. These companies all belong to the Institute's 19-member
team of industry partners. 
 
Since the announcement of the Ontario bid team, led by Dr. Ron
McCullough, chairman of the ISTS board of directors, team members have
been working with the Montreal team to organize a joint "Canadian" bid
for the ISU permanent campus. This would ensure maximum support from
Canadian industry and federal government. 
 
The ISU permament campus facilities would be established as an
affiliate of either York University or the University of Toronto.
These two universities, along with other universities in Ontario and
Canada, will collaborate to provide the best of their research and
teaching strengths to the ISU bid. 
 
The deadline for submission of proposals is February 28. This proposal
will include a feasibility study and anaysis of what the host is
pre-pared to advance in terms of land, infrastructure costs and
long-term financing.  The ISU board of directors plan to announce the
winning bid in the summer of 1992. 
 
The ISU was established in 1987 as a nonprofit foundation to promote
international research in areas related to the exploration of space.
Thus far, the annual summer sessions have moved to different locations
around the world. The first four sessions have been in the United
States, Canada and France (two sessions). The 1991 session will be in
Japan and the 1992 session in the Soviet Union. 
 
Canadian Report from ISU '91 in France
 
By John Criswick
ISU '91 Student
 
Four ISTS graduate students were among the 13 Canadians who attended
the fourth session of the International Space University (ISU) last
summer in Toulouse, France. Altogether, 137 students from 26 countries
attended ISU. 
 
The ISTS students were Laura Childerson and Christine Marton, both of
the Human Performance in Space Laboratory, Michel LeBlanc of the Space
Technology Laboratory, and John Criswick of the Solar-Terrestrial
Physics Laboratory. 
 
The Canadian Foundation for ISU (CFISU) coordinates sponsorships and
selects Canadian candidates for each ISU session. It also handles
travel and meeting arrangements. 
 
For instance, before the Canadian students left for France, CFISU
arranged a briefing at the Canadian Space Agency in Montreal and, on
their return, a seminar by industry and government sponsors. 
 
ISU is split into eight academic departments: business and management,
policy and law, physical sciences, engineering, life sciences,
resources and manufacturing, satellite applications and architecture.
A student is admitted to one of these departments. 
 
Students spend the first five weeks of ISU attending core lectures to
develop  understanding in all space-related disciplines. Next the
students attend six advanced lecture blocks. Three to five of these
are in their department and the remainder are from other departments. 
 
From the start, students are involved in a design project. This year's
project was to design an international mission to Mars. The students
divided into task groups to attack specific aspects of the mission,
such as life support systems, science, exploration, Mars' surface
requirements, international relations, technology evaluation and
timelines. 
 
Students had to consider a range of design issues, from what type of
propulsion to use to mission funding. To keep the project coherent,
they had to interface with other task groups and constantly be aware
of the overall design. 
 
Students obtained most of their experience through work on the design
project. This environment allows stu-dents to learn how to work with
persons from other cultures and disciplines. Time spent on the project
increases throughout the session, culminating in the last two weeks,
when students enter into a frenzy of round-the-clock work to finish
the project and final report. (This 600-page report is available upon
request from CFISU.) 
 
To achieve this, students must work hard and develop a strong ability
and desire to work together towards a common goal. 
 
Students were given other opportunities to learn about the space
industry. In Toulouse, the organizers arranged tours to such places as
Matra-Marconi Space, SPOT Image, Centre National d'Itudes Spatiales
(CNES) and a Hermes Space Shuttle simulator at Airospatiale. The
students also attended extracurricular workshops. 
 
Space experts, such as Soviet and French cosmonauts, directors of the
European, French and German space programs and many others involved in
space exploration, presented lectures through the summer. 
 
The students themselves organized special cultural nights during the
session. Canada's night, on July 1, set the stage for the others. These 
events generally consisted of stage skits, game activities and a dance. 
	
ISU provides a forum for people to build and foster contacts within
the space industry. ISU students represented the European Space
Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moscow Aviation
Institute, Airospatiale, Matra-Marconi (France), McDonnell-Douglas,
Lockheed Corporation (U.S.), Institute for Astronautics Information
(China), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and many more 
organizations. 
 

From:	DECWRL::"abrams%[email protected]" "Steve Abrams" 11-DEC-1991 
        13:33:37.88
To:	[email protected]
Subj:	International Space University 1992

                      APPLICATIONS FOR

             THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY
             1992 SUMMER SESSION, TO BE HELD IN
           KITAKYUSHU, JAPAN, 16 JUNE - 26 AUGUST

           ARE NOW AVAILABLE UPON E-MAIL REQUEST.

The International Space University, founded in 1987, provides
graduate-level students and aerospace professionals an annual summer
program embracing nine academic areas in a multidisciplinary approach
to space studies.  The intensive summer course, with over 185 hours of
lectures and 125 hours of design project work, compresses a full year
of study into ten weeks. 

The ISU program has graduated 494 students from 43 countries in four
sessions held in four different cities in the world (Cambridge, USA;
Strasbourg, FRANCE; Toronto, CANADA; Toulouse, FRANCE).  Next summer,
during the International Space Year 1992, the host city will be the
southern city of Kitakyushu in JAPAN. 

The core curriculum of ISU includes series of lectures in each of
eight departments:  Space Architecture, Space Business & Management,
Space Engineering, Space Life Sciences, Space Policy & Law, Space
Physical Sciences, Space Resources & Manufacturing, and Satellite
Applications.  A new program, Space Humanities, will also include core
lectures.  These departments include Faculty and Visiting Lecturers
who are internationally-recognized experts in their fields.  All
students attend the core curriculum lectures of all departments; this
provides the common set of knowledge utilized by the students in the
second-half multidisciplinary seminar program (more focused than the
core program) and the design projects.  The seminar program includes
lectures on topics of overlapping interest in two or more departments.
Approximately 75 visiting lecturers contribute to the seminar program. 

In addition to the scheduled lectures and cultural activities,
students next summer will work on one of two design projects:  the
ISUNET or the Space Solar Power Program (SSPP).  The design projects
complement the academic lectures by providing a venue for the students
to apply what they have learned, as well as the skills they bring to
the session, in a multicultural setting. 

The ISUNET design project will involve the design of a global
telecommunications and data network relating to ISU's plan to
establish a Permanent Campus System in the 1995-6 timeframe.  This
System will include a Central Campus (the one-year program of which
will award a Masters in Space Studies degree; this site for this
Campus is planned to be announced around the end of August next year),
several Affiliate Campuses, and - eventually - several Advanced
Campuses.  The design project will use these plans of ISU as a
background for the establishment of this network. Although the design
project is an academic exercise, past experience has shown that many
innovative ideas are generated by the dynamic synergy between faculty
and students; as such, it is expected that ISU will implement many of
the results of this project.  Connecting the many campuses and other
research facilities together via voice, fax, data, and video links
(both space-based and terrestrial), in support of ISU's administrative
and academic needs and goals, will provide one focus for this design
project.  Development of an all-electronic, full-text & graphics Space
Library and the role of the information sciences in higher education
will provide other foci. Evaluating anticipated user needs, both
internally to ISU and externally with government agencies, academia,
and industry, will round out the program. 

The Space Solar Power Program design project will give students the
opportunity to develop a strategic plan for the creation and
development of a multinational space power consortium.  Students will
investigate potential means of solar power generation in space and
recommend an optimum course of action, with alternatives, to utilize
these energy resources both in space and on earth.  Topics of interest
will include the development of a business plan, study of the legal
ramifications,  review of previous technology development, engineering
problems inherent in projects of this scale, evaluation of environmental 
impact, and laboratory demonstrations of requisite technology. 

In addition to the arduous academic program, the ISU summer session
features a series of multicultural events, designed to facilitate the
students' learning about the world outside their native lands, and
other events that will expose the students to the way of life in the
host country, Japan. Cultural Nights feature specific countries and
regions of the world and can include ethnic meals, visual
presentations, native entertainment, and social interaction to relax
from the day's studies.  Talent Night will allow students to express
themselves creatively.  A four-day Alumni Visit by previous graduates
of ISU will promote the networking of future space leaders.  Midway
through the session, a Field Trip will expose students to the space
industry in Japan and provide a brief respite from the program. 

Applicants to the ISU program must have a Bachelor's degree from an
accredited university and a general understanding of the disciplines
represented in the ISU curriculum.  They must either have "graduate
student" status (either holding a Master's or Doctoral degree or
currently enrolled or accepted in a graduate program) or professional
experience in industry, academia, or government following the
successful completion of a bachelor's degree (or equivalent).  All
applicants must have a demonstrated proficiency in the English
language (the language of operation for ISU); native English-speakers
must demonstrate proficiency in a second language.  Selection criteria
for students include:  excellence in their chosen field, leadership,
internationalism, commitment, and experience. 

   ***** Applications are due by 15 January 1992 *****

Applications are available via e-mail request to:
[email protected].  Allow 2-3 weeks for delivery outside North
America.  If you have any questions concerning ISU or the application
process, please contact Steve Abrams at: [email protected] or
call ISU at +1.617.354.1987. 

This announcement is submitted due to the high likeliehood that
subscribers to Space Tech would be interested in a means through which
they could apply their technical know-how, and gain something in the
process... 

Steve

Article: 46254
From: [email protected] (Steve Abrams)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Space FestSchrift'92
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:40:56 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: [via International Space University]
 
                       Subject:                               Time:5:18 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          Space FestSchrift'92                   Date:7/21/92

(The following announcement is being sent on the 23rd anniversary of
the 1969 human landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong.  Before anyone
corrects us, the Apollo 11 landing was early in the morning on 21 July
1969 in *Japan*, the current site of the ISU 1992 Summer Session. 
Please feel free to pass the information along to any person,
newsgroup, digest, listserv, club, organization, or agency that you
deem appropriate.) 
 
========FESTSCHRIFT'92(tm):  20 July-20 August 1992========
 
        "The Space Community Tribute to Those Who
      Passed and Significant Events of the Past Year"
 
=======SEND BY E-MAIL:  [email protected]=======
 
YOU ARE INVITED to participate in an open celebration of the
individuals who died and events which occurred during the past year -
"Festschrift'92".  This is a Space Generation-era borrowing of the
German tradition called "festschrift" (written tributes given in
memory of those who died).  Based on a suggestion of International
Space University (ISU) Faculty member James D. Burke, Festschrift'92
tributes will be compiled during the ISU'92 summer session taking
place right now in Kitakyushu, Japan.  If a sufficient number of
responses is received, the tributes will be published on a Special
Edition CD-ROM.  The CD-ROM will be produced in ISO9660 standard
format, suitable for CD-ROM drives in Macintosh, MS-DOS, or UNIX
environments. 
 
All participants are invited to submit a short essay, poem/haiku,
song, artwork, or just a few sentences on a space-related topic of
their choice.  Submissions may be made in non-English languages
(please include an English translation).  Although we suggest a theme
of "Why Space?" (i.e., a survey of rationales for space exploration
and development), we also encourage people to respond with thoughts,
reminiscences, and/or anecdotes about some of the space pioneers
who've died in the past year, as well as any thoughts about specific,
space-related events in the past year.  The group of people includes,
but is not limited to: 
 
     Science Fiction author, Isaac Asimov
     Space Studies Institute founder and visionary, Dr. 
        Gerard K. O'Neill
     Former NASA Administrator, Dr. Thomas O. Paine
     Star Trek producer, Gene Roddenberry
     ISU'89 alumnus, Rick Robinson
 
For those without access to CD-ROM drives, the essays will also be
available via anonymous ftp to host 'isu.isunet.edu' (192.31.110.15)
in directory /pub/festschrift.92 around 15 September 1992.  Depending
upon the volume of responses, we reserve the right to only make
subsets of the essays available via ftp (due to storage constraints);
we also reserve the right to edit inappropriate responses.
"Inappropriate" specifically *does not* include essays that are
unfavorable to space exploration and development, but *does* include
essays with obscene or offensive language as well as essays that are
not relevant to space, in general. Such inappropriate essays will not
be included on the CD ROM, but will be available via anonymous ftp
upon request. Finally, we reserve the right not to produce a CD-ROM if
the level of response is deemed to be insufficient; the ftp option
will still be supported, however. 
 
All participants submitting essays are encouraged, but not required,
to submit biographical and demographic information about themselves. 
Such information could include: name, age range (i.e., 0-10, 11-20,
etc.), occupation, geographic location, educational background, how
you learned of FestSchrift'92, etc.  Essays submitted anonymously will
be accepted and included with the other essays. 
 
The project will be completely financed by voluntary individual or
organizational sponsorship.  If you would like to become a sponsor of
the Festschrift'92 project, please see the file 'sponsor.info' in the
anonymous ftp directory above.   If you do not have access to ftp
services, please e-mail a request for the file to: 
[email protected] (Steve Abrams).  Sponsors will be acknowledged
on the CD- ROM, as well the planned Bonestell "Mars Globe" exhibit
planned for the ISU Permanent Campus Exhibit (see below). Sponsors
will also receive a copy of the CD-ROM.  This is a trial project and
the results will be used to determine its feasibility for future
years.  If you feel that celebrating the lives of visionaries who may
(or may not) have influenced your life or personal philosophy is a
worthwhile endeavor, then we encourage to read the file mentioned above. 
 
Festschrift'92 is coordinated by ISU Founder Todd B. Hawley, who heads
ISU's Space Humanities Program.  Steve Abrams, Director of Information
Systems at ISU, is the Festschrift'92 Compiler.  The Space Generation
Foundation of Washington, DC, is acting as repository of this
International Space Year (ISY) project, until completed products (Mars
Globe and CD Master) are turned over to the International Space University. 
 
MARS GLOBE EXHIBIT
 
In addition to the Festschrift CD ROM project, sponsors will have a
unique opportunity to preserve a piece of space history.  As a
permanent reminder of the ISU'91 International Mars Mission design
project, an original Chesley Bonestell painting of the planet Mars on
an 18" globe will be purchased from a Bonestell protege, the
astronomical artist and author Ron Miller.  This unusual globe was
used as a model for the "flat" paintings of Mars in Bonestell's famous
Collier's series in the early 1950s. This series has been often cited
as having inspired many people to consider a career in the space
field.  The globe is permanent art and "one-of-a-kind," linking the
past 40 years of spaceflight to our next 40 years, when Mars shall
become a new outpost for humankind. 
 
So put down your thoughts about Asimov, O'Neill, Paine, Robinson
(ISU'89), Roddenberry, and others, plus events between 20 July 1991
and 19 July 1992, and SEND THEM IN!!! Entries will NOT be accepted
after 20 August 1992, when the ISU'92 computer center closes. 
 
===========GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION============== 
================FOR PARTICIPANTS IN====================
===================FESTSCHRIFT'92======================
 
FESTSCHRIFT'92 RATIONALE: 

   o In Memoriam of Those Who Died Between 20 July 1991 and 19 July 1992 
   o Collect Personal Thoughts and Reflections on Events of the Past 12 Months 
   o A Tribute to ISU'91 Design Project: the International Mars Mission 
   o Preserve/Exhibit a Unique Work by Master Space Artist Chesley Bonestell
 
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? 

   o ANYONE sending their Festschrift'92 files by e-mail to 
     the ISU'92 session via [email protected]
 
FORMAT: 

   o Electronic Entries - Personal Statements or Original Articles of 
     Any Length 
   o Entries made by 20 August 1992 to:  [email protected] 
 
LEGAL NOTIFICATIONS: 

   o Space Generation Foundation and ISU jointly own 
     copyrights to materials sent to the Festschrift'92 
     account at ISU'92, and reserve the right to withhold 
     from publication materials deemed unsuitable to the 
     spirit of Festschrift'92, or which pose any legal, 
     copyright or liability risk to SpaceGen or ISU 
   o This is a not-for-profit, educational project for the benefit of all
 
======================Festschrift'92(tm)====================
=====(tm) and (c) copyright 1992 by the Space Generation====
=======Foundation, Inc  All rights reserved worldwide.======

From:	DECWRL::"[email protected]" "George William Herbert" 3-SEP-1992 00:14:55.10
To:	[email protected]
CC:	[email protected]
Subj:	A look back at my summer at ISU

	This summer I attended the International Space University
summer session in Kitakyushu, Japan.  I'd promised to send some status
reports on what it was like to space-tech, but due to massive overload
of work to do while there, I didn't have a chance.  This overview is
intended to convey what those messages should have, though 8-)  First
will be my impressions and some analysis of what we did, then finally
I'll go into what I learned and how I value the experience. 

	ISU currently is not accredited as anything; there was some
hint that it was going to be for this summer, but it fell through at
some point.  It will be when it's permanent campus is in place, and it
will teach a "Masters of Space Studies" program lasting one year then.
More later. 

	The summer started with four weeks of "Core Lectures"; four
lectures a day, sometimes five (1.5 hours), and/or additional random
project and other work and study totalled to about 10 hours a day,
Monday thru Saturday.  The Core Lectures covered the different
department areas: Space Engineering, Space Architecture, Space Policy
& Law, Space Business & Management, Space Physical Sciences, Space
Life Sciences, Satellite Applications, Space Resources &
Manufacturing, and Space Humanities.  There were about 80 core
lectures all told, and each one was a pretty good introduction to its
specific subject. One warning: don't expect to learn anything new in
your own field in your core lectures.  Do expect to learn a whole lot
in any field you haven't been involved in before 8-) 

	At the same time, we started the department seminars and the
design project work.  The department seminars basically gave the
students a chance to give a 15 min to hour talk on their work, or we
had visiting lecturers in to discuss what they were doing. One of the
heads of the Engineering Department, Marcel Pouliquen, is high up in
SEP in France; the other, Dr. (can't remember first name) Shigehara,
is involved in the ISAS and NASDA programs in Japan. Both gave talks
on what they're doing during one seminar or the other.  We got a bunch
of good seminars, overall. 

	There were two design projects: SSPP (Space Solar Power
Program), managed by Gregg Maryniak (from Space Studies Institute),
and ISUNet, managed by Jim Burke from JPL.  The SSPP project was
(another 8-) feasibility study on space-based solar power, as its
name implies. ISUNet was a project to design the computer and
telecommunications system for ISU as it becomes a permanent campus
entity (more later). SSPP was more space-related, per se, but I got a
bad feeling about it during the introductions to the projects and I
chose to go with ISUNet.  My bad feeling wasn't entirely justified in
the end; I was afraid that nothing positive or new would come out of
SSPP, but in fact they did manage to propose a series of feasibility
and affordability demonstrations that logically would be required
before any space solar power sat could be built (and ecological/health
concern studies, and ... etc. .  They had a real big CPM chart of what
was needed, and I think that a reasonable assesment of _how_ we get to
space power is as valuable as looking at how to do the satellites
etc.).  I would suggest looking at the study if you are into solar
power sats. 

	ISUNet was a raving success, though the last 10 days
(including 8 where I worked 110 hours) were a bit much.  It's not so
space-related, so I won't go into detail.  Suffice it to say that the
various faculty were expecting the project to be an academic exercise,
not a real plan for the computer system, and that they concluded after
reading it that the report was basically the first complete, coherent
plan in the implimentation process. 8-) 

	The second half of the summer was spent split about 1/3 time
going into Advanced Lectures in your department, related departments,
and areas of personal interest to you.  These were again 1.5 hour
lectures, but more in depth (more aimed at someone who already knows
the field some). 

	ISU was an interesting experience... I didn't learn as much in
the academic parts as most of my fellow students, because I already
try and be a generalist.  Anyone who isn't much of a generalist will
learn a hell of a lot; something I consider of immense value for most
people.  What I did learn was how to interact with a group of 30
people (the ISUNet project group) who have never met each other and
don't even all speak English that well; we all learned how to work
together, how to manage ourselves and the project without managing
each other too much (that's discouraged by ISU policy; nobody is the
"project manager").  We went through two design reviews, a final
technical review of progress, and a final presentation with everyone
working together as an effecient team.  I now count the rest of the
ISUNet teams among my friends as well as many of the people from SSPP.

	Learning people and project management skills in a
multinational environment, getting contacts with all these up and
coming engineers (presumably, space agencies and the like are sending
their best and brightest, for the $12k+expenses it cost 8-) and
scientists, these all were important.  I learned quite a bit about
business and management aspects of space, and policy and legal issues,
and got some inside scoops that I am working on tracking down right now. 

	What I see the real, long-term value of ISU being is that in
10-15 years, these people who were ISU students are all going to be
senior engineers (several were already, at impressively young ages)
managing all the world's space programs... and they'll all know and be
able to work with each other.  ISU is helping not only educate all
these people in the breadth of the space field, it's also building a
cooperative community from the ground up: starting with the young 
talented engineers/scientists/managers and bringing these people
together. 

	NASA as an organization is sort of undecided about the value
of ISU, probably because it's still too small (only about 10 NASA
people a year go, plus about ten NASA contractor employees and some
grad students from the US).  ESA, on the other hand, is sending a
whole lot of people; out of about 2,000 ESA employees about 20 (plus
about that many ESA contractor employees) came. Over the five years of
ISU, that's several percent of ESA's employee base that's been to ISU.
I see this as indicative of how much ESA is interested in being able
to do joint projects in the future.

	ISU will be settling down in a permanent campus in 1995 (for
the 95/96 school year, i presume).  The three finalists for the
location are Kitakyushu, Japan; Toronto, Canada, and Strausbourg,
France.  While bid details are supposed to be secret, due to one
(outside) leak and some world-class conversational trickery by one
Doug Hamilton, Canadian astronaut finalist, we got some information on
the class of the offers: each site is offering on the order of
$10million plus and several million dollars per year to be the central
campus. ISU is going to get it's own campus and faculty, based on the
site funding, donor funding, and space agency funding.  The central
campus/full year program is intended to be more academic in nature
than the summer sessions are (which are pretty industry-oriented now;
it's too short a time to do a good academic session). 

	Final assesment: ISU is worth totally different amounts to
different people.  It's not worth it (summer session) from the
academic standpoint, but it's got a whole load of use from the real
world standpoint.  Anyone who thinks that they might be managing a
complex or international project, or working in one, will find it
useful.  Anyone who wants to generalize their knowledge will find it
useful.  I did, and I'd do it again if I could afford to bring my wife
over for longer (which I may be able to arrange for Moscow next year;
I may apply to be on staff next summer). 

	Feel free to ask me more questions if you want.  I may (in my
infinite free time...) post a faculty and student list of who was there. 8-) 

    - george william herbert
      [email protected]  [email protected]  [email protected]

Article: 28757
From: [email protected] (Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Int'l Space University
Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:05 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
 
In article <[email protected]>,
Steve Janis <[email protected]> writes... 

>	I just caught the tail end of "Space Age" last night and Capt.
>	Picard mentioned the International Space University which is
>	headed by Arthur C. Clarke.
> 
>	Can anyone provide me with more info about this University or
>	point me in the right direction as to where to look?
> 
>	Thanks!

        Steve,

	ISU was founded in 1987 with a weekend session at MIT and has
since held 10 week summer sessions in places as far ranging as MIT
(1988), Strasbourg, France (1989), York U, Toronto (1990), Toulouse,
France (1991) and Kitakyushu, Japan (1992).  The 1993 session is
currently set to be held on the campus of the University of Alabama,
Huntsville. 

	The founders of ISU (Peter Diamandis, Todd Hawley and Bob
Richards) are three of the most enthusiastic space supporters around
(as well as three men I am proud to consider my friends).  Peter was
the founder of SEDS, the Students for the Exploration and Development
of Space, while he was a student at MIT in the early 80's.  He is
currently the CEO of International Microspace, a launch company based
in Virginia.  Todd was the first Secretary-General of SEDS, and later
served as the CEO of ISU.  Bob Richards was the founder of SEDS-Canada. 

	Over the past few years, ISU has moved from a dream of this
small group of individuals to a successful reality.  There have been
about 600 graduates from this program over the first 5 years, the vast
majority of whom come from nations other than the US.  The basic
course outline has 9 different areas of space instruction, ranging
from physical sciences to space engineering to space law to design and
architecture to life sciences to humanities. During the summer, the
students get split into two teams who work on a specific design
project (you heard ACC refer to the International Mars Mission project
on Space Age).  These are substantial projects ranging from Lunar base
scenarios to asteriod mining to the creation of the ISUNET, a
worldwide computer network for space professionals. 

	The person I would recommend contacting at ISU would be Mr.
Steve Abrams.  He is the director of their computer resources (and a
former SEDS member, of course :-).  His net address is: 

	[email protected]

(I know he has an ISUnet address, but I forgot his username...you may
wish to try [email protected]).  He can more fully answer any
questions you may have concerning ISU...just tell him I sent you :-). 

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California Institute of Technology    |--Charlene Sinclair, "Dinosaurs"
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Article: 54983
From: [email protected] (Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: ISU
Date: 13 Jan 1993 10:33 PDT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
 
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Dave
Michelson) writes... 

>Where can I find out more about the International Space University?
>A site that I could FTP some files from would be great.  What about
>application forms? :)
> 
>I've heard that the 1993 session will be held at the University of Alabama
>at Huntsville but not much else... yet.  Thanks in advance.
> 
>--
>Dave Michelson
>[email protected]

Dave,
	What follows below is from a draft version of the ISUnet FAQ, as
provided to me by Steve Abrams, the system manager for ISU.  Hope it helps.
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 11:45:14 EST
From: [email protected] (Steve Abrams)
Subject: Re: Returned mail: Host unknown
 
Good guess, Irwin!  Any staff person of ISU can now be reached via e-mail to
[email protected].  executive no longer exists.  Sorry for the hassle.
 
Here is an excerpt from our ISUnet FAQ for your reference:
 
7. HOW DO I SEND E-MAIL TO THE ISU EXECUTIVE OFFICE? 
	Every ISU staff person has e-mail access.  The single, 
standard format for their address is:  [email protected], 
where lastname = the person's last name.  Currently valid 
addresses are:
 
   Steve Abrams     [email protected]    ISUnet (both for
                    [email protected]     Summer Sessions and 
                                             Permanent Campus)
   Jim Brice        [email protected]     Summer Session 
                                             academics and 
                                             operations planning
   Goldie Eckl      [email protected]      Vice President, 
                                             Executive Affairs
   Patrick French   [email protected]    Permanent Campus 
                                             Planning
   Gene Fujii       [email protected]     Intern
   Ryan Harris      [email protected]    Intern
   George Haskell   [email protected]   Vice President, 
                                             Academics
   Kim Hudson       [email protected]    Receptionist, 
                                             Shipping & Receiving, 
                                             Merchandising
   Matt Lynch       [email protected]     Publications
   Sterling North   [email protected]     Founder's 
                                             Association, fund-
                                             raising, public 
                                             relations, promotion
   Young-Min Shim   [email protected]      Vice President,
                                             Program and Finances
   Beatrice Traub   [email protected]     logistics (travel, 
                                             housing)
   Pascale Traub    [email protected]    Intern
   George van Reeth [email protected]  President
   John Wallman     [email protected]   Summer Sessions, 
                                             Affiliate Campuses, 
                                             & Research
GROUP ADDRESSES
---------------
We have set up several aliases for specific programmatic areas of ISU 
operations.  Since people's responsibilities do change, we do this to make 
it easier to contact the right people, even if you don't know who they are.
These groups are listed below:
   [email protected]    This address is the default 
                                address for resolution of all 
                                e-mail problems.  Bounced messages 
                                are forwarded here and requests 
                                for e-mail assistance should be 
                                addressed here.
   [email protected]          This is *THE* address to send all
                                changes to your contact 
                                information (mailing address, 
                                phone, fax, telex, e-mail, etc.) 
                                This is the information that ISU 
                                uses daily to send info to you, 
                                call you, etc. and it is the 
                                information that is provided to 
                                the Whois Info Server described 
                                above.
   [email protected]  This address is to be used for 
                                anything relating to student 
                                applications including, but not 
                                limited to:  requesting them, 
                                returning them to ISU via e-mail, 
                                questions about them, and 
                                inquiries about status.  This is 
                                also the appropriate address to 
                                use to send requests for 
                                applications to be sent somewhere.
   [email protected]    This is specifically for requesting 
                                information about the status of an 
                                applicant's admissions process.
   [email protected]        This can be used to ask/answer 
                                any/all alumni-related questions.
   [email protected]      This address should be used to 
                                submit articles, news, or 
                                information the ISU's quarterly 
                                Universe publication.  Also, 
                                questions about items appearing in 
                                the Universe can be addressed 
                                here.
   [email protected]        These aliases will soon (by the 
   [email protected]        end of October 1992) be evolved 
                                into a separate discussion-
                                oriented digest to be distributed 
                                to all people interested and 
                                involved in the development and 
                                implementation of the ISUnet.  
                                Currently, this also includes the 
                                development of the ISU Space
                                Library.
   [email protected]         This can be used to ask/answer 
                                any/all questions pertaining to 
                                the ISU 1993 Summer Session.  Each 
                                year, there will be an updated 
                                address for each upcoming summer 
                                session.
   [email protected]      This address goes to the ISU 
                                Founder's Association and should 
                                be used to ask questions about 
                                ISU's fundraising and public 
                                relations questions, as well as 
                                provide information about 
                                potential sources of funding, 
                                support, or publicity for ISU.
   [email protected]         This address should be used for 
                                issues relating to the 
                                administration of ISU in areas not 
                                covered by other aliases.
   [email protected]           This address should be used for 
                                issues relating to the 
                                ISU Board of Directors.
   [email protected]           This address should be used for 
                                issues relating to the 
                                ISU Board of Advisors.
   [email protected]  This address should be used for 
                                issues relating to ISU
                                publications.
   [email protected]      This address should be used for 
                                questions and answers about 
                                academically-related issues faced 
                                by ISU. 
   [email protected]           This address should be used for 
                                questions and answers about the 
                                planned Master of Space Studies 
                                degree. 
   [email protected]           This address should be used for 
                                questions and answers about the
                                planned ISU Permanent Campus 
                                System (including Central and 
                                Affiliate Campuses, summer 
                                sessions in general, and research 
                                activities) and the status of any 
                                existent RFPs or proposals, 
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Irwin Horowitz                        |
Astronomy Department                  |"Whoever heard of a female astronomer?"
California Institute of Technology    |--Charlene Sinclair, "Dinosaurs"
[email protected]                |
[email protected]                 |
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From:	DECWRL::"[email protected]" "Ron Baalke"  8-FEB-1993 23:35:50.97
To:	[email protected]
CC:	
Subj:	ISU Selects Strasboug for Central Campus

Forwarded from Steve Abrams, [email protected]

International Space University announces...
INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY SELECTS STRASBOURG FOR CENTRAL CAMPUS

Washington, DC  (1 February 1993) ..... At the National Press Club today, Dr.
John  L. McLucas, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Space
University (ISU) announced that Strasbourg, France, has been selected as the
site for the ISU Central Campus facility subject to the completion of
satisfactory negotiations.

The Strasbourg proposal was jointly presented by the City of Strasbourg and the
regional authorities of Alsace as well as l'Universite Louis Pasteur,
l'Universite Robert Shumann and l'Universite des Sciences Humaines, with
substantial support from the French government, European industry and the
universities of the Rhine region in Germany and Switzerland.

Dr. McLucas expressed the board's appreciation for the quality of the other
short-listed Central Campus proposals from Kitakyushu, Japan, and Toronto,
Canada, and thanked both teams for their efforts.  ISU looks forward to
continued cooperation and involvement from both countries.

He went on to say that, based on the quality of the proposals received, ISU
will work with all 18 Affiliate Campus proposers, as well as the non-selected
Central Campus proposers, to integrate them progressively into the worldwide
ISU Permanent Campus system.  As one of the initial steps, ISU will convene an
Affiliate Campus conference at its upcoming Summer Session in Huntsville,
Alabama, to discuss specific ways in which the Affiliate Campus proposers can
contribute to the ISU Master of Space Studies program and the timing of their
integration into the ISU Permanent Campus system.

ISU intends to maintain its presence in the United States through the
establishment of the headquarters of its Summer Session operations in the
Washington, DC area.

The planned ISU Permanent Campus system (the Central and Affiliate Campuses) is
a global network of facilities for graduate-level multi-disciplinary and
international space education and research to be linked by ISUnet, an
electronic information and communications network.  Students at the ISU Central
Campus will follow a one-year Master in Space Studies (MSS) degree program,
embracing all space-related fields.  MSS graduates may continue their studies
at ISU Affiliate Campuses, co-located at leading space universities and
research centers around the world. 

Founded in 1987, ISU is committed to education for the international
cooperative development of space for solely peaceful purposes.  Over the last
five years, ISU has held highly successful Summer Sessions at leading
universities and research centers in the United States, France, Canada and
Japan. The ISU 1993 Summer Session will be held at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville, USA.

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Article: 67739
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: MAILRP%[email protected]
Subject: message from Space Digest
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: [via International Space University]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 11:15:01 GMT
 
Press Release Nr.35-93
Paris, 17 July 1993
 
International Space University students to talk to shuttle astronauts
in orbit 
 
Students attending the International Space University's (ISU) 1993
Summer session in Huntsville, Alabama, will have the opportunity to
ask questions to the astronauts on board Space Shuttle Discovery
(mission STS-51) on Monday July 19, 1993. 
 
Out of the group of 15 students scheduled to talk to the astronauts,
10 come from European countries. Scholarships granted by ESA, national
Space Agencies and industry allow them and other colleagues (20 in
total), to attend the ten week long ISU Summer Session this year. One
of the crew members on Space Shuttle Discovery, James H. Newman, is
the first ISU graduate in space (ISU 1989). 
 
The International Space University is a non-profit, educational
institution specializing in international and multidisciplinary
advanced space studies programs. The ISU 1993 Summer Session hosts
more than 100 students from 30 nations. The International Space
University - which will have its permanent home in Strasbourg, France
as of 1995- has so far held courses in Boston (USA) in 1988,
Strasbourg (France) in 1989, Toulouse (France) in 1990, Montreal
(Canada) in 1991 and Kitakyushu (Japan) in 1992. 
 
Each year, ESA fosters a group of European students to attend the
University courses. This year students will be exposed to over a dozen
academic or research courses, including: Space Architecture, Space
Business and Management, Space Engineering, Space Life Sciences, Space
Policy and Law, Space Resources and Manufacturing, Satellite
Applications, Space Physics, Space Humanities and Space Informatics. 
 
The students scheduled for the 'space-talk' will gather at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and will be
engaged in a real-time conversation with the STS- 51 crew as they
orbit the Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. 
 
Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to be launched from Kennedy Space
Center on Saturday 17 July at 09:22 hrs (KSC time), 15:20 hrs Paris
time. In a mission which will last nine or ten days, the crew of five
astronauts will deploy a NASA telecommunications satellite (ACTS,
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite) and will then deploy and
retrieve a German built scientific platform jointly developed under a
co-operative endeavour between the German Space Agency DARA and NASA. 
 
The German/US Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet
Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite (ORFEUS-SPAS) mission is the
first in a series of missions designed to investigate the very hot and
very cold matter in the universe, thus allowing to study the birth and
the death of stars. Once deployed from the Shuttle by its Remote
Manipulator System (on the second day of the mission), the ASTRO-SPAS
satellite operates quasi- autonomously for several days in the Shuttle
vicinity. The satellite is then retrieved by the RMS and returned to
Earth at the end of the Shuttle mission. 

Article: 69727
From: [email protected] (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: International Space University?
Date: 19 Aug 1993 22:50:49 GMT
Organization: Retro Aerospace
 
In article <[email protected]>,
 <say%[email protected]> wrote:

>I have just caught the last 1 minute (i.e. missed the first x minutes) of
>a CNN report about the International Space University. Could somebody
>help me find more info about this institution? Where is it located? Is it
>any good? How does one enroll? Does the FAQ list (which I never read)
>contain answers to any of the above? Help needed....
 
The FAQ has some contact information, but you probably would like some
more... 
 
 Disclaimer: I am an ISU alumni and still am working with it in some
	     specific areas (their computer network), so I'm not exactly
	     an unbiased reporter.  
 
International Space University (ISU) is a US organization which
currently runs summer session programs at the graduate level.  The
summer session in progress is in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. 
Previously, they've been in Japan (1992, when I went), France,
Germany, and Canada.  The summer session program gives you about the
equivalent work of introductory semester or so of graduate work in
your department (space engineering, science, life science, policy and
law, business and management, etc) and a very intensive introduction to
all the rest of the fields. It also teaches you how to work together
in teams with people from around the world. 
 
In 1996 (?) ISU plans to open a permanent campus in Strausbourg,
France to offer a yearlong accredited Masters degree program. 
 
ISU's strength isn't in any particular academic field; there's too
little time in a summer to get into depth in a field.  Its strength is
the broad overview of the whole complex and dynamic spectrum of
activities related to Space.  Anyone who's going to end up handling
projects, international cooperation, political interactions etc. will
find the experiences valuable.  Combined with the broad academic
spectrum of the classes everyone goes to, you spend the second half of
the time working on specialized classes in your area and working on
some project, which have ranged from manned Mars missions to an
asteroid return mission to space rescue (one of this year's projects).
The project is an applied lesson in how to make multinational
projects work. 8-) 
 
It's moderately expensive (abt. $12,000) for the summer session, but
that covers all costs and most attendees are able to find corporate or
governmental backing to pay for the cost. 
 
-george william herbert
Retro Aerospace