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I'm afraid this is a bit long - so I hope nobody on the list is paying by
the byte - but thought I'd go ahead and forward this to the list. (A
friend of mine just sent it to me.)
--Kathy
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 95 13:32:38 -0700
From: pc13 <pc13@unixbox.naclerio.com>
To: kathy@fred.net
Subject: http://muon.qrc.com:80/space/start.html
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> Contents
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> Current Activist Related News
> Latest articles, newsletters, and press releases concerning
> space
> development and exploration arranged by latest additions to the
> Space Activism Home page.
> ALERT!!!
> Critical events need your immediate attention and action.
> Space Science Data Purchase - Making It a Reality *Now*
> Guidelines for Effective Activism
> Instructions on how best to get involved and make a difference.
> Political Contacts and Space Organizations
> Links to government and congressional information as well as
> Space related FAQ's.
> Related Links
> Links to other sites on the Internet dealing with space
> development
> and exploration issues.
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> The Space Activism page is seeking as much information as possible
> regarding groups, organizations and initiatives involved in
> promoting the development and exploration of space. If you have
> information, or suggestions for improving this page, please forward
> them to jlewis@qrc.com.
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> ALERT!!!
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> We need as many people as possible writing letters to their
> representatives in support of space related projects. See
> Backgrounder: The Annual US Congressional Funding Process. (5/23/94)
> for a recap on how funding works on the Hill.
>
> Get involved with the local space activists in your area. The
> National Space Society has chapters throughout the World. See the
> NSS Chapters list for contact information.
>
> Also, come attend the NSS
>
> 14th Annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC '95)
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> to be held in Cleveland, Ohio
> May 18, 19, 20 & 21, 1995
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> Space Access Update #51 5/16/95
> DC-X Sixth Flight Test Successful. The DC-X reusable rocket
> low-altitude operations testbed took off under cloudy skies on
> its sixth flight this morning at 9:40 MDT. The test mission
> lasted just over 123 seconds, beginning with a slanted ascent
> to 4350 feet and 1150 feet downrange, continuing with a
> horizontal translation to directly over the landing pad (350
> feet from the launch stand), and finishing with a vertical
> descent to a normal landing.
>
> NSS Space Hotline updated May 5
> DON'T PUNISH SUCCESS! NASA Reinvention Efforts Deserve Stable
> Budgets Space Supporters Warn Not to "Send the Wrong Signal"
>
> Space Group Cites NASA Pork Barreling - Calls for Immediate
> Cancellation of X-34 Small Booster Project. A Space Frontier
> Foundation News Release: 4/28/95
> The Space Frontier Foundation, a national grassroots space
> policy and media organization, is calling for NASA
> Administrator Dan Goldin to cancel the X-34 Small Booster
> Technology Program. According to a Foundation spokesman, X-34
> does not meet the "X" Vehicle criteria; wastes scarce NASA
> funds on a vehicle the chosen contractor would build anyway due
> to market forces; and is the result of old style insider
> porkbarreling at a time when the agency is claiming to be
> changing its way of doing business.
>
> A False Profit on the Path to the Frontier: X-34 Small Booster
> Technology Program A Space Frontier Foundation White Paper; April
> 28, 1995
> The Space Frontier Foundation wants government funding of the
> X- 34 Small Booster Technology Program stopped immediately.
> X-programs are supposed to produce leading edge technologies
> beyond the scope of private sector research and development
> capabilities. The X-34, however, is a low risk technology
> development program, aimed at producing an operational vehicle
> that will compete with current small commercial space launchers
> and will in all probability stifle alternative private efforts
> to achieve even more efficient systems.
>
> Space is a place; not a program.
> Message 8 of the Frontier Files. "It's not a matter of scale or
> budgets or time. The problem is with the fundamental purpose
> and design of our space program. The painful fact is that our
> space program can't open the space frontier because it wasn't
> and isn't designed to do that."
>
> Space Science Data Purchase - Making It a Reality *Now*
> Nearly everyone supports space science data purchase as a
> needed NASA reform. The trick is to enact data purchase into
> law in the 104th Congress. Your help is needed *now* to make
> commercial space exploration a reality. Enclosed for your
> review is language containing the basis for establishing space
> science data purchase as the law of the land. Please pass this
> language this along *now* to your elected officials - if you
> belong to a pro-space organization, have a letter sent from
> that organization, as well.
>
> Space Access Update #50 4/14/95
> DC-X, X-33, NASA Cuts & Restructuring, Shuttle Contractor
> Consolidation, Volunteers Take DC, SA'95 Schedule Firms Up;
> "X-34" Questions; SAS Political Action Alert: Free The Pentagon
> Thirty Million! DOD SSTO Funds Holdup Threatening X-33 Schedule
>
> One Small Step for a Space Activist... by Allen Sherzer Volume 6 No.
> 2 -- March 1994
> This month's column addresses what the inside game for SSTO
> will be this year but also what we activist outsiders can do to
> help things along. The X-33 program is barely started and not
> yet rolling. Two big dangers are that it could die from lack of
> funding, or be rendered impotent by weak goals and politics
> (both NASA and Congress). (April 10, 1995)
>
> Draft Space Exploration Awards Act of 1995
> A proposed bill for the 104th Congress that would encourage
> private companies to explore Mars. Please feel free to
> distribute this document, as long as comments are pointed back
> to David Anderman for incorporation in a later draft. (April
> 10, 1995)
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> SPACE ACCESS '95 Conference April 21-23, 1995, Phoenix, AZ
>
> Lori Garver, Executive Director and Dr. Scott Pace, Policy Committee
> Chairman and Senior Vice President of the National Space Society
> presented testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space and
> Aeronautics on March 16
>
> Space Access Update #49 3/9/95
> House Space Subcommittee Nears NASA Budget Markup, Support Needed
> For Enough X-33 Funding To Assure Rapid Program Pace, Competitive
> Flyoff
>
> Space Frontier Foundation E-Mail Essay series
>
> 1996 NASA Budget Request
>
> NSS Press Release 95-1: Space Supporters' New Year's Resolutions: A
> Space Program for all of Us
>
> NASA Press Release RLV (X-33) CAN: REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE NOTICES
> ISSUED
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> Space Access Society Political Alert 12/27/94 X-33 Future-Year
> Budget Problem
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> The Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act: 1994 Final Update
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> Don't Leave Space Explorers Powerless Space Advocates Decry RTG
> Budget Cuts NSS Press Release Nov-4
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> Clinton Administration Puts Forward a New Space Launch Policy
> (FYI143)
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> Why you should get active:
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> To give you all a calibrator for what constitutes a large
> response on an issue like this, one House staffer on the
> Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee (not the
> appropriations subcommittee) said she was amazed at the
> amount of letters their office had received - they got a
> grand total of ten. It seems that on a low-budget item
> like Surveyor, anything more than half a dozen letters is
> considered a big response. The power of net-prompted
> letter-writing campaigns becomes immediately apparent.
> Jeff Moersch: moersch@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
>
> As far as possible follow the usual rules - keep it to one
> page, make the main point right at the start, and above
> all be polite -- both we and the overworked staffers who
> have to read these thank you. hvanderbilt@BIX.com
>
> While the Budget season has drawn to a close, below are links to
> action requests and information on the major issues from the height
> of the past budget season. JNL
>
> * To support the Space Station, see the Space Station Future
> Fighters Support the Space Station alert, or Space Station
> Petition. Also see the Online Space Station Petition by Student
> Space Action.
> * To support the DC-X/SX-2, see Henry Vanderbilt's SAS Action
> Alert - DOD Appropriations Conference Happens Tuesday or Acton
> Request for SSTO: very urgent! (15-sept-94)
> * To support the HR2731 Space Commercialization Act, see Return
> to the Moon Campaign Update by David Anderman.
> * To support the Mars Surveyor Program, see Mars Surveyor in
> Congress, May 1994
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