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email: Jan. The tracking station had
now had to be dismantled and moved, just after the return of
the power pack from Phillips. Soon afterwards, Oscar and
Margaret suffered a burglary at their new address. The
villains used the aerial segments as a ladder, smashing
them, so Oscar began a redesign to incorporate elements from
the CAA radar antenna donated in 1979. Jan.19. Chris
Boyce begins instruction
series in BASIC using PET computer. Jan.26. "Man and the Planets"
review meetings begin. Almost at once, David & Charles
notify me that Westbridge Books are no more and the option
is terminated. Mar.19 - Apr.10. Part of High
Frontier exhibition at Collins Hall, Strathclyde University,
as part of exhibition organised by Dr. I.F. Clarke (see
1962). April. ASTRA launches appeal
for the 'Viking Fund', to prevent Viking Lander 1 being shut
down. In June a payment of £60 was sent, with a
contribution from the Viking Re-enactment Society in
Glasgow. Apr.12. Chris
Boyce PET session followed by
Annual Dinner, at the Ubiquitous Chip, Ashton Lane,
Glasgow. May 2. Airdrie Astronomy
Section AGM: committee set up. Chairman Paul Benson, Secy.
Ian Chalmers, Treas. Robert
Law, junior members'
representative Richard Foxley. May 3. AGM. ASTRA subscription
raised to £5. July 7-12. High Frontier
exhibition at Pollock Library, July 21-Aug.26 at the Dick
Institute, Kilmarnock, afterwards at Gisborough. July 26. Astronomy and Space
Education meeting, chaired by Bill
Ramsay. The Parks Project had
now been wound up, following the change of government, and
followed by a Youth Opportunities project featuring only
Ian
Downie and not involving
ASTRA. Bill and I collaborated on an article about the
Astronomy Project work with schools, but it was turned down
by all regular educational journals and eventually published
by the BIS 'Space Education' in May 1986. Sept.. A publications
committee had been formed, consisting of David
Proffitt, Linda Lunan, Jean
Coles, Oscar
Schwiglhofer and Ian
Chalmers. Printing was to be on a quarterly schedule, on a
Gestetner jointly purchased by David, Oscar and myself,
using printed covers donated by David, featuring the ASTRA
logo redrawn by Paul Benson and incorporating adverts for
"New Worlds for Old" and "Extraterrestrial Encounter". Both
books were to be remaindered by David & Charles before
the covers were used up. - Lecture series started by
Chris
Boyce (Cosmology) and Paul
Benson (History of Astronomy). Sept.16. 'Spacetravel and
Astronomy' classes by Duncan
Lunan begun at Hamilton Arts
Guild on Saturday mornings. Oct. High Frontier exhibition
at Bellarmine Community Centre. Oct.25. Visit by Darrell
Strobel, US Naval Research Laboratory, who described his
'hobby', the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer on Voyager
2. Nov.12. US member
Kit
Weinrichter, formerly of Ames
Research Center, represents ASTRA at JPL during the Voyager
1 Saturn flyby, reported in May 1981 Spacereport. Nov.15. ASTRA hosts Scottish
Astronomers Group annual meeting at Airdrie, with surprise
guest Prof. Malcolm Longair, the new Astronomer Royal for
Scotland. Nov.22. High Frontier
exhibition at Magnum Leisure Centre, Irvine. Dec. 8-13. ASTRA participation
in 'Space flight in fact and fiction' exhibition at
Saltcoats Library, organised by the Saltcoats & District
Science Fiction Group. 1981
1979
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