Newsgroups: sci.space Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Space Travel Services **NEWS FLASH*** Message-ID: <1991Feb11.212654.2928@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: aws@iti.org Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1991 21:26:54 GMT The following is a message Allen Sherzer was asked to post; he's having software problems with his news system, so he's asked me to post it... (No replies to me, please!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** NEWS FLASH ***** NEWS FLASH ***** NEWS FLASH ***** The Roadblocks to Space As many of you may know, Space Travel Services, Corp. was founded in 1990 to give the average American citizen a chance to get into space. To that end, its organizers started a sweepstakes in which the winner would win a free trip to the Soviet space station "Mir". Unfortunately, the district attorney's office in Harris County, Texas, had the company officers arrested on Wednesday, Feb 6th for felony gambling promotion. They were handcuffed and held in a police car for an hour -- two blocks from the jail -- and then paraded before the media, who coincidentally happened to be there when they finally arrived. At this staged media event, the DA issued a rediculous statement denouncing the company as "evil". According to Jim Davidson (who I've known for about three years), six lawyers have advised him that the DA's office does not have a legal leg to stand on. Unfortunately, the DA has frozen Space Travel Services' checking accounts, so they cannot defend themselves with company funds. And they need $20,000 within a week (for work that the criminal lawyers have already done). To solve this problem, the Space Frontier Foundation, with the help of the Houston Space Society, is instituting a legal action fund for space activities whose first project is to aid the defense of these two space entrepenuers. The Space Frontier Foundation is a media-oriented public interest pro-space group whose goal is to change how the American people think about space. Space should be viewed as an open frontier of opportunity for everyone, and not the private domain of an elitest bureaucracy. (example quote: NASA should *open* the door - not *be* the door). SFF can be reached at 612 641-1930. The officers include: Jim Muncy, Chairman; Rick Tumlinson, President; Greg Barr, Vice Presicent; Tim Kyger, member of the board (and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's legislative aide on space). Bjo Trimble, who helped lead the science fiction fan community to rename the first (non-orbiting) shuttle to Enterprise, will be helping to administer the project. She can be reached at (703) 359-4284 James Thomas, CPA, a non-spacer who is not connected to the company, will be administering the financial aspects of the project. Space Travel, Inc. can be reached at 713 333-4046, and their fax number is 333-4047. Donations can be sent to: Space Travel Legal Fund C/O James R. Thomas, CPA 1414 South Friendswood Drive, Suite 306 Friendswood, TX 77546 Pat Gibbs, a lawyer out of Atlanta, GA, and a member of the Space Frontier Foundation, is checking on the tax-deductability of contributions to the Space Travel Legal Fund. Please send your check ASAP! If you know of any other networks or BBS, please repost!! ttf@iti.org (Tihamer T. Toth-Fejel) Industrial Technology Institute, P.O. Box 1485, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 office: (313) 769-4248 fax: (313) 769-4064 home: (313) 622-4741 *----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----* > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- "Read the OSI protocol specifications? | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology I can't even *lift* them!" | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry