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email: Jan.25.
Kit
Weinrichter
represents ASTRA at JPL during Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus
(report in Spacereport, Easter 86). Ayrshire branch holds
'Burns Uranus' night, celebrating flyby and Robert Burns's
birthday. Poem by Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross), vindaloo haggis by Kenny
Bradshaw. Feb.1. First
meeting of Starseed discussion project, chaired by Neil
Strachan, hosted by Neil & Joyce Craig at 27 Woodlands
Drive, Glasgow. Feb.10.
Repairs begun to Airdrie
Public Observatory
telescope after damage in a break-in. Feb.24. ASTRA
files and photos returned to Glasgow from Largs. March. ASTRA
membership breaks 100 for the first time. Waverider
wind-tunnel tests at Mach 2.4 conducted by Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross) and Kenny Bradshaw, at Royal College
of Military Science, Shrivenham, by courtesy of British
Aerospace. Mar.28-31.
Albacon III, Eastercon 86. ASTRA mounts exhibition and
spaceflight programme, including panel 'Where are the
extraterrestrials?', Voyager-Uranus and Halley's Comet
lectures, (Oscar produces Spacereports on both), Waverider
presentation, panels on space stations and on the role of
amateur societies. Guest of Honour was Joe
Haldeman. April. Colour
report on Waverider project in The Scotsman
Magazine. Apr.7-12. 25
Years of Manned Spaceflight exhibition at Glasgow Film
Theatre, with talks after SF films. Apr.7, Duncan
Lunan
'Extraterrestrial Life' after Alien and Planet of the Apes;
Apr.11, Chris
Boyce,
'Bioengineering and Artificial Intelligence', after
Bladerunner and THX 1138; Apr.12 (Gagarin anniversary),
Duncan
Lunan, '25
Years of Manned Spaceflight', after The Right Stuff,
followed by Annual Dinner and Presidential Toast at the Bank
Restaurant, Queen Street. (Same day), Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross) and Kenny Bradshaw, 'Mach 2 in a
Built-up Area', report on Shrivenham wind-tunnel tests,
Flatt Road, Community Centre, Largs. Apr.25-May 2.
Halley's Comet Watch (also Mir and Salyut 7) at
Airdrie
Public Observatory. May 16. ASTRA
exhibition at Theatre Royal to accompany Halley's Comet
lecture by Patrick Moore and John Mason. May 23-26.
Duncan
Lunan
speaking at Space Development Conference, Seattle. 'Meet
ASTRA' session technically the first US ASTRA
meeting? July 4-6.
Westercon SF convention, San Diego. Hal and Dorothy Heydt
host ASTRA room party. Before this I had visited
Jim
Randolph and
Chris Purves at JPL, and at their request I now visited Joe
Carroll at Energy Services Laboratory in San Diego, leading
to a suggested re-entry test of Waverider
by tether launch from the Space Shuttle. July 18-20.
ASTRA exhibition and speakers at Triple-S Con at North East
London Polytechnic. Guest of Honour Roy Gibson agrees to
represent us in negotiations with NASA on re-entry test of
Waverider (see July 88 SPACEREPORT). July 27-30.
ASTRA participation in Brisbane Queen Festival Week, Largs:
aquajet demonstration, and prize-winning entry in car float
competition. Aug.22-25.
First Scottish Rocket Weekend at Kelburn Country
Centre. Sept.26.
Oscar
Schwiglhofer
begins production of 'International Spacereport' newsletters
on Peter Dawson's computer. Sept.26-29.
Xiicon SF convention, Glasgow, with ASTRA exhibition and
spaceflight programme, including panel discussions 'Wings
into Space', 'Halfway to Anywhere', 'The Orbiting Hotel';
Delphi exercise by Neil Strachan. Sept.27. Oscar
produces the 'phantom issue' of Spacereport, distributed
only to branch organisers. Oct.4. Sputnik
Anniversary Lecture, at Glasgow University Dept. of Adult
& Continuing Education: Prof. Graham Cairns-Smith,
'Designs for Replicators'. Nov.1. PARSEC
discussion, George Service House, University Gardens,
Glasgow, on amateur space research conference proposed by
John Bonsor. December.
Renfrew & District Branch (Paisley) produces first of
two issues of Newsletter. 1987
1985
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