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email: Jan.31. New
series of discussions on "Man and the Stars"
sequel. Apr.12.
Chris
O'Kane (not
yet ASTRA member) at maiden launch of the Space Shuttle (see
Spacereport, April 1987). Apr.18. Dr.
Robin Green, G.U. Astronomy Dept., 'Time'. Apr.21-25.
National Astronomy Week. Three ASTRA exhibitions, at Irvine
Library (organised by Richard McKelvie), Airdrie Library,
and Hamilton College of Education (The High Frontier). After
helping to mount the last-named, John Bonsor suggested
showing it at Largs Library later in the year. ASTRA also
offered High Frontier publications to members of the
Federation of
Astronomical Societies, and held various lectures, including
(Apr.25) Dr. A.S. Thom, 'The Geometry & Astronomy of
Megalithic Man', Airdrie Library, followed by Annual Dinner
at the Loon Fung Restaurant in Sauchiehall St.,
Glasgow. May 2. AGM.
Gavin
Roberts had
left the ASTRA Council and been replaced by Robert
Law, whose
position was ratified. June 6.
Lectures by Ian
Downie, Paul
Benson, Robert
Law, J.
Maguire at Open Day, Airdrie Observatory, during Monklands
Festival. June 19.
Ian
Downie begins
extended re-run of 'Cosmos' on video at Airdrie. Attendance
falls away. July 4. Visit
to Hunterston B nuclear power station, Largs,
Ayrshire. July 18.
Apollo anniversary lecture, 'Unrealised Possibilities -
Especially Lunar Ones!', by Paul Barnett. Aug.22 -
Oct.9. High Frontier exhibition at Largs Library,
organised by John Bonsor, opened by Viscount Kelburn, later
Lord Glasgow; including for the first time Waverider
model built on the Parks Astronomy Project by the late Bill
Braithwaite, finished by John. This was to lead to the
formation of the Ayrshire Branch and the Waverider
Aerodynamic Study Programme. Aug.25.
Kit
Weinrichter
represents ASTRA at JPL during Voyager 2 Saturn flyby.
Photos rushed to us for High Frontier exhibition at Largs.
Kit's report published in Jan. 82 Spacereport. Aug.31. Oscar
at Spacelab medical conference, University of
Stirling. Sept.12.
'Black Holes and the Possibility of Space Travel', by
visiting US member John Fadum. (Printed in Sept. 81
Spacereport). Oct.3. Joint
amateur rocketry meeting with the Paisley Rocketeers at
Pencil Monument in Largs. The Paisley Rocketeers are an
amateur rocket society founded by John Stewart in Paisley in
the 1930's. - John Boyes, 'Soyuz
- Was It Russia's Lunar Spacecraft?' at High Frontier,
Largs. Oct.3-9.
National Children's Book Week, lectures by Duncan
Lunan and
Chris
Boyce at High
Frontier, Largs. Oct.24. United
Nations Day Lecture, 'The UN and Space', by Bill
Ramsay. Dec.3. First
meeting of new Ayrshire branch. Discussion meeting on 'Space
Elevators' for "Man and the Planets" (last meeting of
discussion project before going to press). Ayrshire branch
committee appointed: John Bonsor, Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross), Ron Williams, Richard McKelvie, Jean
Tycholiz (formerly Jean Coles). 1982
1980
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