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email: Jan.29. 40
years commemorative meeting, GCVS, followed by party hosted
by Bill
Ramsay. Feb.19.
Andy
Nimmo
launches discussion project on 'How Do We Get Politicians
Interested in Space Again?'. Feb.22.
Duncan
Lunan
Waverider
lecture to Glasgow University Astrosoc. Apr.8. Group
visit to 'Star Party' at Royal Observatory, Edinburgh,
during Edinburgh International Science Festival (repeated
1995). May 13.
Council meeting on proposal for Glasgow premises in King St.
(not successful). May 17 - June
9. McDonnell Douglas conducts successful windtunnel tests of
Waverider
design at speeds up to Mach 16.5, US Navy Surface Warfare
Center, Maryland. May 21. AGM at
GCVS. Andy
Nimmo becomes
Secretary. June 11. Open
Day, Airdrie
Public Observatory,
with photo exhibit from Royal Observatory,
Edinburgh. July 18-23.
Public Jupiter watch at Airdrie
Public Observatory
during Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacts. August. Deaths
of Margaret
Schwiglhofer,
former ASTRA Secretary, and Pat
Jones. Analog publishes
'Keep Watching the Skies!' by Duncan
Lunan and
Gordon
Ross,
formerly Gordon Dick, advancing the Solaris lightsail
concept as a way to protect Earth from impact hazards;
longer version in Asgard, May 1995. Aug.25. Annual
Dinner and Presidential toast to spaceflight at the Uisge
Beatha, Woodlands Road, Glasgow. Guests of Honour
ex-cosmonaut trainee Mikhail Lisun (Commander of the prime
crew for the Salyut 5 military space station, but dropped
when his co-pilot suffered a nervous breakdown), now
Assistant Director of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow,
and Igor Popov, Business Manager of the Museum. Mikhail
Lisun proposed the toast to the memory of Yuri Gagarin, whom
he knew well. Aug.26.
Lecture at Airdrie by Mikhail Lisun and Igor
Popov. Sept.2.
Greg
Beekman, (now
of Keele University) 'Stellar Winds and Accretion Discs',
Airdrie. Sept.16.
Duncan
Lunan, 'Keep
Watching the Skies!', Airdrie, based on the article in
Analog; followed by the Lightsail Project (see
1995). Oct.21. ASTRA
poster exhibition at Albacon SF Convention, Central Hotel,
Glasgow. Programme participation includes talk on the Analog
article by Gordon
Ross and
Duncan
Lunan,
Waverider
update by Gordon and space politics discussions by
Andy. Dec.18.
Anniversary Dinner at Riggend Restaurant, near
Airdrie. 1995
1993
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