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Should you wish to contact the
society or require general information please contact ASTRA
using the following Email address: Should you encounter any problems
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email: Early Jan.:
ASTRA moves to premises in Brown St., which we had
previously turned down, but now we had no choice.
Interplanetary Project lectures continue at G.U.
Union. Jan.16.
Archie
Roy,
'Interplanetary Navigation'. Feb.20.
Ed
Buckley,
'Spacecraft and Boosters'. Mar.20. John
Macvey, 'Life in the Solar System'. May 11. A.T.
Lawton, 'Beyond Pluto', Royal Hotel, Hamilton. May 23.
Publication of "Man and the Stars" by Souvenir Press, with
guest chapter by Chris
Boyce and
artwork by Ed
Buckley and
Gavin
Roberts,
completing the Interstellar Project after seven years. The
book was to go through hardback and paperback in the UK, USA
and France, paperback in Spain, serialisation in the
Netherlands and Japan, and a pirate edition in Greece.
Unfortunately, the latter was the only one after the first
to reproduce the artwork. June 22. "Man
and the Planets" seminar at G.U. Faculty of Engineering and
College Club, by courtesy of Prof.
Nonweiler,
then Dean of the Faculty. This session was enormously
valuable; 24 attended, a new ASTRA record. Followed by "Man
and the Stars" publication party and barbecue in
Troon. Summer 1974.
A.T. Lawton with Jack Stoneley of the National Enquirer
publishes 'Is Anyone Out There?' in the USA, drawing heavily
on the space probe hypothesis although rejecting it. Having
had no warning of the book's existence, our US publisher
responds by cancelling my US lecture tour and postponing the
US hard cover by one year, US paperback by three years and
British paperback by four. Nevertheless, as ASTRA was a
signatory to the "Man and the Stars" contract, we were now
committed to turning the society into a company limited by
guarantee, like the BIS. A constitutional committee of
Margaret
Schwiglhofer,
Drummond Mansbridge and Duncan
Lunan worked
intensively on this under guidance of John Mason, of Waddell
& Mackintosh, Troon. Aug.27. First
meeting of proposed ASTRA-London branch. Sept.23.
Extraordinary General Meeting to authorise creation of first
London branch, founded by George
Hay, meeting
at the offices of Environmental Consortium, hosted by
Gerry
Carter. Sept.30. ASTRA
admitted to IAF membership. Nov.9. EGM.
ASTRA Constitution suspended, Memorandum & Articles of
Company Limited by Guarantee adopted, subject to
ratification by the Companies Office. Late Dec - early
Jan. Coach trip to 'Gerry's Place' independent hostel,
Achnashellach, Wester Ross, for Hogmanay, organised by
Duncan
Lunan and
David
Proffitt,
with Linda Donnelly, Bill
Ramsay,
Gavin
Roberts, Anne
Clark and Julia Baynes from the London branch. 1975
1973
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