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email: Jan.19. Archie
Roy, 'How Safe Is the Moon?',
Airdrie Library. Mar.9. 'Soviet Mars
Exploration', Anders Hansson, Commercial Space Technologies.
Airdrie Library was closed by industrial action and the talk
took place at the Riggend Restaurant, organised by
Danny
Kane; likewise
Peter
Jamieson's on 'Wind Power'
the following week. April. Return of Asgard,
edited by Iain
Girdwood, with cartoon cover
by Lorna
Napier for Jim
Randolph's visit (see below).
Included poem 'The Astronomer's Daughter' by Jennifer
Tifft. Apr.7 - May 2. 'Urban
Spacemen' art exhibition at 90's Gallery, Otago St.,
Glasgow, by courtesy of Matt
& Rona Ewart, featuring
work of Ed
Buckley, Gavin
Roberts, Brian
Waugh, Sydney
Jordan and Tom
Campbell; sundials by Richard
Robertson; telescopes by John
Braithwaite; Waverider
model rebuilt by Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross) (see 1989).
Tom Campbell Dry Eye Syndrome Appeal launched. Private view
sponsored by Uisge Beatha, Woodlands Road (see 1993).
Extensive press coverage of exhibition, appeal and
Waverider. Apr.8/5th May. 2nd London
branch votes to become an independent Space Discussion
Society. Apr.13-17. ASTRA mounts
spaceflight programme at Eastcon 90 science fiction
convention, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, by courtesy of Lisanne
Norman; includes ET encounter simulation scripted
by
Chris Boyce; talk on the
'Face on Mars' by Chris
O'Kane; panel discussion on
winged space vehicles; talk by Graham Yates, Jodrell Bank
(see below); and 'Shopping Malls on Mars'. Apr.21. Presidential toast to
spaceflight at 90's Gallery, sponsored by West End Bar,
Airdrie (see 1993), followed by lecture in Basement Cafe by
Jim
Randolph, 'United States
Plans for Space Exploration', followed by Annual Dinner at
the Koh-i-Noor, and by
Waverider meeting at the
Basement Cafe the following morning. Jim
Randolph accepts Honorary
Membership. May 9. AGM at the Fairfield
Hall, Pearce Institute. Iain
Girdwood stands down from
Presidency; Duncan
Lunan elected. June 9. Open Day,
Airdrie
Public Observatory, with
'Face on Mars' display by Chris
O'Kane. June 24. Death of
John
Macvey (see 1967 and
1971). Aug.10. Colin McInnes, G.U.
Astronomy Dept., 'Setting Sail for Orbit',
Airdrie. Aug.12. Bus run to Nuffield
Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Jodrell Bank. Aug.13. Duncan
Lunan 'Waverider'
talk at Space School, Brunel University; repeated following
week at World Science Fiction Convention, The
Hague. Oct.13. Regular Glasgow
meetings resumed, hosted by Chris
O'Kane; discussion meetings
on SETI. Oct.18-19. Gordon
Dick (now
known as Gordon Ross),
Duncan
Lunan, Terence Nonweiler,
Aleta Jackson (by then editor of "The Journal of Practical
Applications in Space") and Jim
Randolph at the 1st
International Hypersonic Waverider
Symposium, University of Maryland, cosponsored by NASA;
Gordon gave our joint paper, 'Amateurs' View of
Waverider
Research'. Followed by a seminar on the history of
hypersonic research, organised by Dr. Dick Hallion of the
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Oct.26. Graham Yates, Jodrell
Bank, 'Galaxy Formation', Airdrie. Nov.17-21. National Astronomy
Week. Mars Watch at Airdrie
Public Observatory; photo
exhibition and Braithwaite telescopes at the Dome of
Discovery, Glasgow, accompanying Renfrew & District
Astronomical Society planetarium star shows by
Ian
Downie; ASTRA lectures by
John
Braithwaite, Chris
O'Kane and Danny
Kane. Nov.23/24. Backup Juno
astronauts Clive Smith & Gordon Brooks at Airdrie
Library and Dome of Discovery. Dec.14. Anniversary Dinner,
The Heritage, Greengairs. 1991
1989
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