From: higgins@fnala.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Subject: Higgins? What episode was HE in? (was Re: Visions '92)
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:47:03 GMT
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In article <1992Oct13.223707.625@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
> In article <92287.1455073453VMR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Ann M. DeLong <3453VMR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
>>I am interested in finding out if there is a Visions Convention this
>>November in Chicago.  Is there a way to get on their mailing list?
>>I am also interested in finding out who the guests will be, and
>>ticket prices.  I attended last year when Tom Baker (among others...)
>>was there!!!!
> When I get home tonight I will able to post up some Visions' 92 info
> for you.  Try looking after eleven Central time (US).

Still waiting, Iain.

The Visions committee has asked a local National Space Society chapter
to arrange some speakers to give talks on space.  I have been invited to
give my slideshow on NASA's Galileo probe at Visions.  

I'm not used to attending TV-oriented SF cons.  I know that there is
considerable appetite for science programming at ink-and-paper SF
conventions, and have often done slideshows and panels for them.  (I
managed the science track at Worldcon in 1991 as well.)  

But will videofen be interested in hearing about space and astronomy?
I don't really know.  I gave a talk two years ago at Visions, and
almost nobody showed up (like three or four people, out of hundreds or
more attending).  However, the concom had failed to list our events in
the program, so nobody knew they were going on.  I'm willing to give
Visions another shot.  

Maybe somebody with more experience with Trek/DrWho/B7/whathaveyou
cons can tell me whether anybody will bother to attend a space
slideshow.

Oh, while I'm on the subject, I might as well post a description of my
talk... [rummage, rummage] here it is...

                 THE GALILEO MISSION: TO JUPITER THE HARD WAY

         The Galileo spacecraft, launched by NASA in 1989, is designed
         to orbit Jupiter and to parachute a probe into the Jovian
         atmosphere.  But Galileo is forced to travel there on a very
         indirect path which takes it past Venus, Earth, the asteroid
         Gaspra, Earth again, and the asteroid Ida before it reaches
         the giant planet at the end of 1995.  So far the mission has
         performed very well despite being crippled by a
         malfunctioning antenna.  Most significantly, it has given the
         human race its first and only close look at an asteroid.  If
         its problems are overcome, Galileo may return information
         about Jupiter, its satellites,  and its magnetosphere in far
         more detail than the brief (but breathtaking) glimpses
         provided by the Voyagers over a decade ago.

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