Dale.Amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (01/20/89)
I was likewise surprised to see Van Allen on the Board of Governors. Keep in mind though that the Board of Governors is a do-nothing body that doesn little more than fill space on the letterhead margin and possibly act as contacts to other VIPs. But truthfully, I really don't understand why he would want to have anything to do with us. We are unabashedly pro-settlement, and more strongly free-market oriented than any other large space organization I am aware of You need only look at our magazine, now that we have dumped Space World and the conservative Palmer Publications. Ad Astra states up front that we are for the human settlement of space. It makes no bones about it.