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email: Jan.27. AGM.
Oscar
Schwiglhofer
elected President, Duncan
Lunan
Vice-Pres. Apr.16.
International Astronautical Federation invites ASTRA to join
on the strength of the space probe hypothesis. In the meantime the
hypothesis had emerged on to the international news scene,
but almost entirely through second or many-hand reports. I
gave my paper to the BIS at Caxton Hallon March 29th, and it
appeared in the April issue of Spaceflight. A.T. Lawton had
set up Project GOLDE (Ground Observation of Long Delayed
Echoes), using equipment supplied by EMI Ltd., and Oscar had
built a receiving aerial to participate. June 16. Visit
by Rosalind Jackson, worker on Apollo sample analysis
including the Apollo 17 'orange soil'. Oct.23 -
Nov.25. Paintings by Ed
Buckley and
Gavin
Roberts on
display at 'Beyond This Horizon' Festival in Sunderland,
organised by Chris Carrel (see 1979). Oscar and I attended
the spaceflight weekend, Nov. 3, at which I spoke, and an
ASTRA team attended the SF writers' weekend. All had been well
with Project GOLDE as late as September, when an ASTRA team
visited A.T. Lawton, but when Oscar and I went down before
Sunderland, we were told that ASTRA would from now on be
excluded from the project, which would be restricted "to
those who can be wholly trusted". We know now that Lawton
had obtained unpublished records from the 1920's, which he
considered ruled out the space probe hypothesis, but had
decided not to reveal that to us. Nov.14.
Prof.
Nonweiler,
'The Role and Future of the Space Shuttle', in which for the
first time he outlined to us in full the theory of the
Waverider, the man-carrying vehicle he'd designed for the
British Blue Streak space programme, cancelled by Harold
Macmillan. This inaugurated a new discussion project, the
Interplanetary Project, to produce "Man and the Planets". It
was intended that all contributors should appear in their
own words, as originally planned for the Interstellar
Project. This aspect did not go well, though it became clear
at the outset that we could break new and valuable ground.
Lectures were held at G.U. Union, where at that time I could
book rooms as a life member, and discussions in
Hamilton. Dec.22.
Andy
Nimmo, 'The
Colonisation of the Moon'. Dec.28.
Guthrie St. rooms now scheduled for demolition. ASTRA moves
into former ticket office above Hamilton Central Station.
British Rail demands we do thousands of pounds 'worth of
repairs, as a condition of a lease for less than six
months. 1974
1972
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