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Should you wish to contact the
society or require general information please contact ASTRA
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email: In response to the
loss of our HQ, I proposed a 'tripartite programme' of one
meeting per month each in Glasgow, Largs and Airdrie, with a
social meeting at the end of each month in the Victoria Bar.
That last was abandoned after two attempts due to lack of
support, and meantime on 11th Feb. Robert
Law had
resumed weekly meetings at Airdrie. Monthly Glasgow meetings
began on Feb.26 in the Quiet Room of Strathclyde University
Union. Mar.10.
Publication of "Man and the Planets" by Ashgrove Press,
completing the Interplanetary Project after 9½
years. April.
Ayrshire Branch junior members produce 'Space Explorer'
newsletter, supervised by Gordon
Dick (Now
known as Gordon Ross) (first of two issues). - after contact
through the Paisley Rocketeers, John Pitfield of Rocket
Propulsion Systems offers Tiger rocket for Waverider
test. April and
September. The nuclear waste disposal study and its
'Project Starseed' outgrowth published by the Journal of the
British Interplanetary Society. A more popular version
appeared in Analog, Feb.1986, and articles on the nuclear
waste scenario in World Magazine, Oct.88, and The Journal of
Practical Applications in Space, Spring 1990. I gave a
poster paper on Starseed at the Space Manufacturing
Conference in Princeton in 1985; a subsequent article for
Space Voyager with painting by Tom Campbell didn't appear
because the magazine ceased publication, but later versions
appeared in Settlers Sentinel May-June 88, and Asgard,
Nov.1991. May.
Duncan
Lunan begins
monthly astronomy column, 'The Sky Above You', for various
newspapers and magazines, also supplied to ASTRA branches
(see
1987).
Continued until March 1993. May 7. AGM.
Ian Chalmers appointment as Treasurer ratified. May 28. Open
Day at Airdrie
Public Observatory
during Monklands Festival. Summer 1983.
New satellite tracking aerial complex built by
Oscar
Schwiglhofer
and Duncan
Lunan
incorporating components from aerial donated by the Civil
Aviation Authority. August 12-14.
Ayrshire Branch observations of Perseid meteors, from the
walled garden of Sir Thomas Brisbane's former estate, are
the most comprehensive compiled in Scotland for
1983. Aug.23.
Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross), 'Flight in Non-terrestrial
Atmospheres', Quiet Room, Level 7, Strathclyde University
Union. Sept. John
Pitfield visits ASTRA-Ayrshire and reaffirms support for
Waverider
project. Sept.16.
Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross) reports on Waverider
to Youth & Space IXth Conference, Autrans, France. ASTRA
was admitted into the Youth & Space Movement (for which
amateur rocketry is an essential qualification) and Gordon
was appointed UK representative on Youth & Space
council. Nov.'83 -
Aug.'84. John Pitfield conducts multiple tests of
attached Waverider
payloads on solid-fuel rocket flights. Nov.20. ASTRA
withdraws from International Astronautical Federation
because of massive increase in membership dues. Dec.10. 30th
Anniversary of society, 20th anniversary of independence.
Historical review and dinner at Mackerston Hotel, Largs,
Oscar and Margaret guests of honour. Cake by Kenny
Bradshaw. Winter 1983.
Satellite tracking aerial complex felled by
hurricane. 1984
1982
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