From: steve_abrams@gw.isu92.ac.jp (Steve Abrams)
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Subject: Space FestSchrift'92 (long)
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:40:56 GMT
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  OFFICE MEMO          Space FestSchrift'92 (long)            Date:7/21/92
(The following announcement is being sent on the 23rd anniversary of the 1969
human landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong.  Before anyone corrects us, the
Apollo 11 landing was early in the morning on 21 July 1969 in *Japan*, the
current site of the ISU 1992 Summer Session.  Please feel free to pass the
information along to any person, newsgroup, digest, listserv, club,
organization, or agency that you deem appropriate)

========FESTSCHRIFT'92(tm):  20 July-20 August 1992========

        "The Space Community Tribute to Those Who
      Passed and Significant Events of the Past Year"

=======SEND BY E-MAIL:  festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp=======

YOU ARE INVITED to participate in an open celebration of the 
individuals who died and events which occurred during the 
past year - "Festschrift'92".  This is a Space Generation-
era borrowing of the German tradition called "festschrift" 
(written tributes given in memory of those who died).  Based 
on  a suggestion of International Space University (ISU) 
Faculty member James D. Burke, Festschrift'92 tributes will 
be compiled during the ISU'92 summer session taking place 
right now in Kitakyushu, Japan.  If a sufficient number of 
responses is received, the tributes will be published on a 
Special Edition CD-ROM.  The CD-ROM will be produced in 
ISO9660 standard format, suitable for CD-ROM drives in 
Macintosh, MS-DOS, or UNIX environments.

All participants are invited to submit a short essay, 
poem/haiku, song, artwork, or just a few sentences on a 
space-related topic of their choice.  Submissions may be 
made in non-English languages (please include an English 
translation).  Although we suggest a theme of "Why Space?" 
(i.e., a survey of rationales for space exploration and 
development), we also encourage people to respond with 
thoughts, reminiscences, and/or anecdotes about some of the 
space pioneers who've died in the past year, as well as any 
thoughts about specific, space-related events in the past 
year.  The group of people includes, but is not limited to:

     Science Fiction author, Isaac Asimov
     Space Studies Institute founder and visionary, Dr. 
        Gerard K. O'Neill
     Former NASA Administrator, Dr. Thomas O. Paine
     Star Trek producer, Gene Roddenberry
     ISU'89 alumnus, Rick Robinson

For those without access to CD-ROM drives, the essays will 
also be available via anonymous ftp to host 'isu.isunet.edu' 
(192.31.110.15) in directory /pub/festschrift.92 around 15 
September 1992.  Depending upon the volume of responses, we 
reserve the right to only make subsets of the essays 
available via ftp (due to storage constraints); we also 
reserve the right to edit inappropriate responses.  
"Inappropriate" specifically *does not* include essays that 
are unfavorable to space exploration and development, but 
*does* include essays with obscene or offensive language as 
well as essays that are not relevant to space, in general.  
Such inappropriate essays will not be included on the CD 
ROM, but will be available via anonymous ftp upon request.  
Finally, we reserve the right not to produce a CD-ROM if the 
level of response is deemed to be insufficient; the ftp 
option will still be supported, however.

All participants submitting essays are encouraged, but not 
required, to submit biographical and demographic information 
about themselves.  Such information could include: name, age 
range (i.e., 0-10, 11-20, etc.), occupation, geographic 
location, educational background, how you learned of 
FestSchrift'92, etc.  Essays submitted anonymously will be 
accepted and included with the other essays.

The project will be completely financed by voluntary 
individual or organizational sponsorship.  If you would like 
to become a sponsor of the Festschrift'92 project, please 
see the file 'sponsor.info' in the anonymous ftp directory 
above.   If you do not have access to ftp services, please 
e-mail a request for the file to:  steve@uchu.isu92.ac.jp 
(Steve Abrams).  Sponsors will be acknowledged on the CD-
ROM, as well the planned Bonestell "Mars Globe" exhibit 
planned for the ISU Permanent Campus Exhibit (see below).  
Sponsors will also receive a copy of the CD-ROM.  This is a 
trial project and the results will be used to determine its 
feasibility for future years.  If you feel that celebrating 
the lives of visionaries who may (or may not) have 
influenced your life or personal philosophy is a worthwhile 
endeavor, then we encourage to read the file mentioned 
above.

Festschrift'92 is coordinated by ISU Founder Todd B. Hawley, 
who heads ISU's Space Humanities Program.  Steve Abrams, 
Director of Information Systems at ISU, is the 
Festschrift'92 Compiler.  The Space Generation Foundation of 
Washington, DC, is acting as repository of this 
International Space Year (ISY) project, until completed 
products (Mars Globe and CD Master) are turned over to the 
International Space University.

MARS GLOBE EXHIBIT

In addition to the Festschrift CD ROM project, sponsors will 
have a unique opportunity to preserve a piece of space 
history.  As a permanent reminder of the ISU'91 
International Mars Mission design project, an original 
Chesley Bonestell painting of the planet Mars on an 18" 
globe will be purchased from a Bonestell protege, the 
astronomical artist and author Ron Miller.  This unusual 
globe was used as a model for the "flat" paintings of Mars 
in Bonestell's famous Collier's series in the early 1950s.  
This series has been often cited as having inspired many 
people to consider a career in the space field.  The globe 
is permanent art and "one-of-a-kind," linking the past 40 
years of spaceflight to our next 40 years, when Mars shall 
become a new outpost for humankind.


So put down your thoughts about Asimov, O'Neill, Paine, 
Robinson (ISU'89), Roddenberry, and others, plus events 
between 20 July 1991 and 19 July 1992, and SEND THEM IN!!!  
Entries will NOT be accepted after 20 August 1992, when the 
ISU'92 computer center closes.

===========GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION============== 
================FOR PARTICIPANTS IN====================
===================FESTSCHRIFT'92======================

FESTSCHRIFT'92 RATIONALE: 
   o In Memoriam of Those Who Died Between 20 July 1991 and 
     19 July 1992 
   o Collect Personal Thoughts and Reflections on Events of 
     the Past 12 Months 
   o A Tribute to ISU'91 Design Project: the International 
     Mars Mission 
   o Preserve/Exhibit a Unique Work by Master Space Artist 
     Chesley Bonestell

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? 
   o ANYONE sending their Festschrift'92 files by e-mail to 
     the ISU'92 session via festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp

FORMAT: 
   o Electronic Entries - Personal Statements or Original 
     Articles of Any Length 
   o Entries made by 20 August 1992 to:  
        festschrift@uchu.isu92.ac.jp 

LEGAL NOTIFICATIONS: 
   o Space Generation Foundation and ISU jointly own 
     copyrights to materials sent to the Festschrift'92 
     account at ISU'92, and reserve the right to withhold 
     from publication materials deemed unsuitable to the 
     spirit of Festschrift'92, or which pose any legal, 
     copyright or liability risk to SpaceGen or ISU 
   o This is a not-for-profit, educational project for the 
     benefit of all

======================Festschrift'92(tm)====================
=====(tm) and (c) copyright 1992 by the Space Generation====
=======Foundation, Inc  All rights reserved worldwide.======
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