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September 20-22, 2007: The
2007 Space Generation Congress in Hyderabad, India, draws delegates
from around the world for three days of project
work and discussions. Special speakers included
Bill Nye, the Science Guy! |
April 12, 2007: Yuri's
Night is celebrated at 126 parties in 35 countries over 6 continents
on 2 worlds! (We counted the persistent virtual
world of Second
Life as a separate place than our "real world" on Earth).
Included among
the events are a huge celebration at the NASA
Ames Research Center in California that had over
3,000 participants! This topped the charts as the
largest single Yuri's Nige celebration to date. |
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January 2007: Space Gen announces a partnership with
the World
Space Expo to provide support for the development of
online education materials and resources to compliment
the large public outreach event at Kenndy
Space Center. |
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Nov 25, 2006 - Jan 21, 2007: Student teams participating
in Spaceward
Bound participate in 2-week training
and research missions to the Mars
Desert Research Station (MDRS) in
Utah. |
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Oct 2-6, 2006: Space
Generation Advisory Council co-chair
Jim Volp helps to form the Young Professionals
Programme for the International Astronautical
Congress.
This includes reduced fees for young professionals
and networking events with industry veterans. |
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June 2006: The first expedition of Spaceward
Bound teachers goes to the Atacama desert in Chile for intense
study and field training in a Moon/Mars analog
environment. |
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April 12, 2006: Yuri's
Night is celebrated at 96 parties in 38 countries over 7 continents! |
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Sept 28-30, 2006: Space Gen holds the annual Space
Generation Congress in Valencia, Spain. Students and young professionals
engage in workgroups to produce a strategic plan
for the Space Generation and a Youth Space Declaration.
Events continue during the International
Astronautical Congress. |
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Oct 14-16, 2005: Space Gen holds the annual Space
Generation Congress in Fukuoka, Japan. Over 100 students and
young professionals network over 3 days of speakers
and projects. Events continue during the International
Astronautical Congress. |
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August 2005: Space Gen works with SEDS, NSBE-Space,
the Mars Society, and NASA
to propose a "Spaceward
Bound" project. The program is intended to provide
field training to future space explorers. K-12
teachers and university students are envisioned
as participants in the program. Components will
include research rotations at the Mars
Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah. |
July 26, 2005: Speaking at the EAA's 2005 AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI, Sir Richard Branson announced that Space
Gen's own Loretta Hidalgo and George Whitesides will
be the first honeymoon couple to fly with
fledgling space tourism company Virgin
Galactic. Branson brought the couple on stage and presented them
with a bottle of champagne and special pins created by the
Queen's Jewler in London. "It’s not going to happen for a
few years, but it’s something we’ve been thinking about for
a long time,” George
told SPACE.com in a phone interview.
Congratulations,
George and Loretta! Let us know if you want company
on the flight!! |
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23,
2005: Over 100 guests watch as Space
Gen's Tim Bailey and Jennifer Schuck exchange
wedding vows at
the Kennedy
Space Center Visitor's Complex. The ceremony
took place the in Rocket
Garden with the reception at
the Debus
Conference Center adjacent to the Early Manned
Spaceflight exhibit. The wedding was the first
ceremony ever to be held at the Visitor's
Complex. "We are both space nuts--it's what
brought us together in the first place. We both
wanted
to share that love of space with our
friends and families
as we began our life together, reaching for the
stars." said Tim. |
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April 12, 2005: Yuri's
Night is celebrated at 59 parties in 21 countries on 6 continents! |
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Jan 2005: Space Gen's Kirk Kittell goes to the
Mojave Desert to work at Scaled Composites making
replicas of SpaceShipOne. The project is organized
by the X-PRIZE Foundation as a way
for students and young professionals to get hands-on
experience working with authentic spacecraft tooling.
The fiberglass mock-ups of SpaceShipOne will be used
in educational and outreach activites around the
country. |
| Jan
28, 2005: More than a year after their
expedition to deep-ocean hydrothermal vents, Space
Gen's Kelly
Snook, Kevin Hand, and Loretta Hidalgo are featured
in the new James Cameron IMAX movie "Aliens
of the Deep". The film helps to popularize
hands-on exploration for young people while posing
questions about life elsewhere in our solar system.
Congratulations to Loretta, Kevin, and Kelly on
becoming movie stars! |
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Jan 2005: Space Gen joins the aerospace community
in celebrating one year of discovery by the Mars
Exploration Rovers. These tough little rovers have completed all
of their primary missions, exceeded their life
expectancy, and found the first conclusive evidence
of water on Mars. Way to go, Little Rovers! |
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Oct 4, 2004: Brian Binnie becomes the second commerical
astronaut as SpaceShipOne reaches space on its
second successful Ansari X PRIZE launch
attempt. Movaje
Aerospace Ventures wins the $10 Million
prize!
Space
Gen's
"Roadtrip
to Space" encourages young
space enthusiasts to come to Mojave to see the
launch. More than a dozen
delegates from Space
Generation Congress change
travel plans and make their way down for the experience
of a lifetime.
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Oct 3-8, 2004:
Space Generation Congress in
Vancouver, CA. Over 100 young space leaders are
on-hand to map out projects for the upcoming year.
Leaders of space agencies from around the world
talk with SGC participants and help them refine their ideas. Final project
topics are presented in a closing pleniary session
to the International Astronomical Congress.
Groups continue to work online at www.space-generation.net/forums. |
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Sept 29, 2004: Mike Mellville pilots SpaceShipOne on
the first successful Ansari
X PRIZE launch attempt. Movaje Aerospace
Ventures must repeat this feat within two weeks to win the $10 Million
prize. |
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Sept 10, 2004: After years of hard work, Zero
Gravity Corporation finally gets FAA approval and begins commercial
parabolic flights. SpaceGen's Peter Diamandis, Tim
Bailey, Loretta Hidalgo, and George Whitesides are
among the crews flying on a two-week nation-wide
tour. Hundreds of space enthusiasts achieve a life-long
dream of feeling weighlessness. |
| July
21, 2004: Mike Mellville becomes the first
private commercial astronaut. SpaceGen is on location
in Mojave, CA, to see this milestone in space history. |
| June
11, 2004: SpaceGen
becomes the eighteenth organization to join the Space
Exploration Alliance. |
| May
8, 2004: In an unprecedented
show of unity, thirteen of the nation's premier space
advocacy groups, industry associations and space policy
organizations have teamed up to support the effort
to refocus NASA's human space activities toward exploration,
including a return to the Moon and moving on to Mars
and beyond. Calling themselves the Space
Exploration Alliance, their first act is to stage a unified
"Moon-Mars
Blitz" to take their passion for space
exploration directly to the United States Congress.
Seventy six participants visited
over 200 Congressional offices! |
| April
12, 2004: Yuri's
Night 2004 happens in over 75 cities in 7 continents,
including the South and North Poles, and the Seattle
Space Needle. Dennis Tito, Lance Bass, Ray Bradbury,
and Nichelle Nichols (of the orginal Star Trek
Series) make apperances at Yuri's Night events
this year. |
| March
1, 2004: Space Gen Board Member George T.
Whitesides becomes the Executive Director of the National
Space Society. |
| Feb
19, 2004: Space Gen presented the Space
Generation Congress plans at a meeting with
Canadian Space Agency, NASA and ESA to prepare
for the October IAC
conference in Vancouver. The International
Aeronautical Federation accepted the Space
Generation Plenary proposal to host a panel at
their conference on the Space Generation's
vision for the next 50 years of space. |
| Jan
19, 2004: 13 Space Generation team members
reported for 2 weeks FAA training to be cabin crew
for the new Zero-G Spaceliner. They will
be poked and prodded and will get their "weightless" wings
after the engineering flights begin in a few months... |
| Jan
14, 2004: President Bush announces a new long-term
plan for US spaceflight, the Vision
for Space Exploration. The Vision gives NASA a
new focus and clear goals for returning to the
moon, sending manned expeditions to Mars, and continuing
robotic and human exploration farther into the
solar system. The space community applauds
the Vision as a coherent plan. NASA dubs it
the "Moon, Mars, and Beyond" model of exploration
and begins reorganization to meet the new objectives. |
| Jan
2004: Thirty Los Angeles Space Gen volunteers
visit 3,500 kids at 50+ local schools as part of
our
Explorers Wanted Mars
Exploration Rovers outreach
efforts. Volunteers, students and teachers
alike report having an incredible time. |
| Dec
2003: The Canadian government invites Space
Gen to host a Space Generation Congress at their IAF conference
in Vancouver in Oct 2004. |
| Nov
15, 2003: Space Gen Board member George Whitesides
visits China to donate 15 telescopes to
a local province as part of our co-sponsored "Permission
to Dream" Project. |
| July
19- Aug 23rd and Sept 24- Oct 23rd, 2003: Xtreme
Life Expedition Space Gen team members Kevin
Hand and Loretta Hidalgo dive together in a Russian
Submersible to 3,500M in the filming of a new 3D
IMAX movie about life in extreme environments and
the search for life in the galaxy due out Nov/Dec
2004. |
| July
7, 2003: Sally Ride Science Camp hosts Sally
Ride at Stanford to inspire junior high girls about
math and science. (All campers also got to
ride on the new 2 wheeled "Segway" human
transport) |
| June
25, 2003: Space Gen Team members Kelly Snook,
Kevin Hand and Loretta Hidalgo are selected to
be expedition scientists for a 4-week cruise on
the Atlantic Ocean for a film about the Deep Sea
Vents. |
| June
18, 2003: Space Gen hosts a BBQ in the San
Francisco area in honor of the 30th Anniversary
of Sally Ride's flight. Many new members
of the space community in the bay area came to
meet each other, hang out and inspire each others
space dreams. |
| June
14, 2003: Space
Generation Advisory Council presented its Annual
Report to the UN Committee for the Peaceful Uses
of Outer Space in Austria, was invited to meet
with the European Commissioner to discuss the European
delegates input into the new EU Space Policy, and
may also be invited to input into the UN COMEST
Space Ethics meeting in Spain later this month. Congratulations
to new SGAC Global Co-chairs Paul Reilly and Gulnara
Omarov! |
| June
8-10, 2003: Space Gen Team Florida prepares
for Mars
Exploration Rover "Spirit's" Launch! We
had a table set up at the launch to talk to the
public about space and had a dinner for Space Gen
folk in the area on Monday night where Jen Law
and Natasha Chough told us first hand about working
on the Rovers! We also met a Solar System
Ambassador for JPL who had hosted a Yuri's Night
party for 700 people! During the weekend
we planned for more space gen outreach and activities
for the Mars Rovers... |
| June
7, 2003: On
Saturday 7th June 2003 Space Generation Advisory
Council conducted its first General Assembly, by
teleconference and online vote. This was successful
and included the adoption of the new
statutes of the organisation. (link downloads
the statues in PDF format) |
| June
3, 2003: Space Gen site is updated to match
letterhead and include Bremen, the survey, the
database, and the Board of Directors
Biographies. |
| June
1, 2003: 500 people went to UCLA to
hear Bill Nye
the Science Guy talk about Astrobiology. Loretta
arranges trip to Florida to see the Mars Exploration
Rover A launch and visit the Space Generation folks
near KSC (esp the ones she just met at the NSS
conf). |
| May
30, 2003: Buzz Aldrin is added to the Permission
to Dream Board of Directors |
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May
26, 2003: 8 members of the No
Weapons in Space team just returned from
a No Weapons in Space Conference in Spain hosted
by Pugwash, an international consortium of scientists
created during the Cold War to address the uses
of the technology they create. They presented
their efforts and continued work on a joint paper
they are writing on the issue with representatives
of the United States Air Force.
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May
25, 2003: Presented on "Yuri's Night and
the Space Generation, How Young Professionals are
Exciting the Public about Space and Transforming
the Space Community" at the National Space
Society's annual conference.
Meet about 10 people under 35 there who were ready to go out and tackle
things, we all met up by the pool and shared our ideas. One thing
that came out of that conf is that a sub-group who live in the San Francisco
area are organizing a commemoration of Sally Ride and Valentina Tereshkova's Anniversaries
of Flight. |
| May
7, 2003: SpaceGen's lead art director wins "Most
Creative" for her teams excellent Public
Service Announcements as part of the NASA Means
Business Competition at Johnson Space Center. |
