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email: January.
Publications committee formed: Oscar
Schwiglhofer,
Duncan
Lunan,
Chris
O'Kane. Chris
becomes editor of Space- report, Oscar continues to produce
'International Spacereport' as technical supplements
(available for a small fee), also astronomy supplements
based on 'The Sky Above You' (see 1983). By a careful count
of issues produced over the years, the Jan.87 Spacereport
issue became vol.7 no.1. Jan.10. 'Wind
Power and the NASA Connection', by Peter
Jamieson of
James Howden & Son, at Glasgow University Engineering
Dept. Jan.13.
Council approves Andrew Matthewman's proposal to reform
London Branch. Jan.24.
'Disaster in Space', hosted by Robert
Law in
Foxbar, Paisley. The programme now included monthly meetings
of the Renfrew and District Branch. Feb.18.
Ayrshire Branch evening in the Shieling, with speaker
Ed
Buckley. Feb.21.
Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross) stands down as President;
Bill
Ramsay
elected. Mar.21.
Robert
Law stands
down from ASTRA Council, as later do Joyce Craig and Peter
Dawson. Paisley Branch suspended. Duncan
Lunan takes
over from Robert as Assistant Curator of Airdrie
Public Observatory
(Oscar still Senior Curator). April. James
Voller proposes to set up Liverpool branch; this was not
successful and was suspended. - Monklands District
Council votes £400 annually for speakers at
Airdrie. May 2. AGM at
Central Hotel, Glasgow, being used for meetings in run-up to
Albacon 87. Richard Newlands and Jim Shaw elected to
Council. May 23-25.
Participation in Paisley Rocket Weekend. Pyrotechnic firings
on Gleniffer Braes, aquajets in St. James's Park. May 30. Open
Day at Airdrie
Public Observatory
during Monklands Festival; display of Moonrock on loan from
British National Space Centre, seen by over 300
people. - First meeting of
new London Branch. June 6.
Dr.John Simmons, Glasgow University Dept. of Astronomy,
'Solar Sails', at Central Hotel. June 19-21.
Albacon 87. ASTRA spaceflight programme includes talks by
Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross), Andy
Nimmo,
Duncan
Lunan; panels
on 'Britain and Europe in Space' and on 'Colonising the
Galaxy'. Guest of Honour David Brin. July 26,29.
Aquajets and car float in Brisbane Queen Festival, again
winning prize. Aug.15. Visit
to East Fortune Air & Space Museum. Glasgow meetings now
being held at the Pearce Institute, Govan. - Teddy Bear rocket
flight at Kelburn Country Centre Teddy Bears'
Picnic. Aug.21-24.
Scottish Rocket Weekend, Kelburn Country Centre. Pat Jones
of Big Bear Lake presented the Victor Hirt
Trophy. Aug.27-Sept.1.
ASTRA exhibition at the World Science Fiction Convention,
Metropole Hotel, Brighton (see Spacereport, Apr.1988). ASTRA
also mounted panel discussions on Space Advocacy and on the
proposed PARSEC conference. Copies of "Pioneering the Space
Frontier" and "A Meeting with the Universe" left with us for
sale. During the setting up, many of our historic posters
were stolen, but we eventually received satisfactory
compensation, calculated on the basis of the poster theft at
Rolls-Royce (see
1978). Sept.28.
Roy
Gibson,
former Director-General of ESA and now former
Director-General of British National Space Centre, accepts
Honorary Membership of ASTRA. Oct.11-16.
Duncan
Lunan at
International Astronautical Federation Congress and Space 87
Exhibition, Brighton, on behalf of US 'Space News Weekly'
magazine (see Spacereport, Jan.88). The hurricane which
devastated southern England was blowing itself out as the
conference ended and it became clear that the British
National Space Plan would not be reprieved, leading to
Roy
Gibson's
comment, as the emergency lights died: "I hope you're
enjoying this last entertainment Her Majesty's Government
has laid on for you." Oct.30. ASTRA
affiliated to National Space Society in USA, by courtesy of
Aleta Jackson. 1988
1986
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