Dale.Amon@H.CS.CMU.EDU (10/16/86)
6TH SPACE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE "RETURN TO THE VISION: What will it take?" Pittsburgh L5 invites you to participate in a major event on March 27-29, 1987 at the Pittsburgh Hilton: The 6th Space Development Conference, sponsored by the L5 Society, the National Space Society, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, Spacepac, American Space Foundation, AMSAT, Spaceweek, Space Studies Institute, and the United States Space Foundation. We will examine where we should be going in space over the next fifty years and how we will reach our stated goals. Our focus will be on the long range, elements of which will be addressed in small workshops on computer networking, space science, space technology, politics, chapter organization, nanotechnology, arts and commerce. The three day conference also includes: - A technical technical session on Innovative Space Systems with an emphasis on Closed Ecological Life Support Systems. Chaired by Dr. David Webb, member National Commission on Space and Dr. Richard Parker of the University of North Dakota Center for Aerospace Science. - A course on Basic Spaceflight. Captain Ed Daley will team teach the course with Greg Maryniak, SSI Vice President. Attendees will learn orbital mechanics, proximity operations and aspects of space propulsion. Captain Daley has trained NASA employees on this topic. - An Educators Seminar. The importance of education will be stressed in programming for educators and students. Programming for teachers will make them aware of the past, present and future of the space program and the ways in which space education may be incorporated in every subject area from art to social sciences and every grade level from Kindergarten to high school senior. - Student programming for K-12. Students will be given an opportunity to go through a professional conference in which they can both learn and have fun. Young Astronaut exchange student Amy Grubb will discuss her visit to Soviet space facilities, and a 'shuttle' bus of students from the Philadelphia public schools will rendezvous with Pittsburgh students. - A Space Defense Seminar. General Daniel O. Graham and other experts will discuss defense issues. - Funding and governing of space settlements via a free market approach. - Professional workshops on space themes in performing arts, painting, writing and photography. If you wish to apply for an invitation to participate, checkmark the session on your registration form. A sample of your work will be requested. - An evening of filk music by Julia Ecklar, dance, and electronic music by Don Slepian and other performers. There will be exhibits by space organizations and space related businesses; a film room; an extensive art show with works by Alan Bean, Jack Olsen, Robert Rauschenberg, Kim Poor, Kelly Freas and many other reknowned artists of the space age; a tour of Allegheny Observatory, site of some of the world's most advanced work on the search for extrasolar planets; and tours of the widely acclaimed CMU Robotics Institute. For further information write to PO Box 8391, Pittsburgh, PA 15218-0391 or call 412-351-4973. (Or send EMAIL to amon@h.cs.cmu.edu for an electronic copy of the registration form. Feel free to copy and pass this around.)