I've long had a desire to see a Space Shuttle launch in person.  STS-135 was my last chance, & I made it, by the skin of my teeth, & at the cost of a perfectly good car.
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Two, actually.  Both, of course, are for activities related to the Luna Project which neither I nor the Publications Fund in its current deplorable state (depleted by expenses & lack of revenue) can pay for.
One is to send me to Australia & New Zealand, to the World Science Fiction Convention & the New Zealand natcon, with a $1000 goa (& basically a ( Read more... )

This Raleigh  NASFiC has been rather quiet.  It wasn't unenjoyable, but it seemed poorly attended ;  we were like a handful of dried pease rattling around in a bin.
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A couple of weeks back, found myself in Chicago for the International Space Development Conference. The photograph below, taken at the Sunday night banquet, shows the legenday Dr. Freeman Dyson, keynote speaker that evening, and me, wearing a T-shirt in public for probably the first time in a decade - even if it was over shirt, tie, & waistcoat!


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