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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: is the American Space Foundation worthwhile?
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 19:15:06 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 19:15:06 1984
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Two good places to send your $$$ to are:

	The Space Studies Institute
	195 Nassau Street
	P.O. Box 82
	Princeton, NJ 08540

	The L-5 Society
	1060 East Elm
	Tucson, Arizona 85719

I think both of these addresses are current.

SSI is Gerard O'Neill's organization.  It exists to fund research related
to space industrialization and colonization.  It funds all current work
on the O'Neill mass driver, both as a launch device and as a rocket engine.
It recently funded a major study on the details of chemical processing of
lunar ores, and is gearing up for the first major study of how to build a
Solar Power Satellite from lunar/asteroidal materials.  These folks are
doing good stuff; they are practically the only independent source of
research funding for space work (although the Planetary Society has been
dabbling in it lately).  They will definitely use your money well.

The L-5 Society is the oldest and still the best of the space-activist
groups, involved in serious pushing for bigger and better space programs.
L-5 was instrumental in defeating the infamous "Moon Treaty", played
an important role in the survival of the Galileo mission, and has
helped the Space Station along noticeably.  (Oops, excuse me, correction:
L-5 didn't do these things, organizations "loosely affiliated" with it
did them.  L-5's tax status doesn't permit it to engage in politics. :-)
If you want to help the space program, JOIN!!
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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