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Topic: Spacefest IV, June 2012, Tucson, Arizona
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alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 03-14-2012 07:06 PM
   
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Originally posted by Spacefest:
No problem, Alan.
Thank you for your understanding. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am. I already have next year's dates marked on the calender. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-15-2012 09:02 PM
Scott Carpenter will join us at Spacefest IV. |
jiffyq58
Member Posts: 218
From: Durham, NC, USA
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 03-15-2012 10:05 PM
I am really happy about that, Kim. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 03-16-2012 05:45 AM
Scott Carpenter...that is excellent news. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-17-2012 12:06 AM
Deluxe city-view rooms w/balconies sold out at Starr Pass. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-18-2012 08:09 PM
First the bad news — Jim Lovell had to cancel.Good news is he wants to do private signing later this summer, so stand by for that. Sorry, Dwight! |
Daugherty54
Member Posts: 591
From: Cabot, Arkansas, USA
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 03-18-2012 10:31 PM
It's disappointing about Mr. Lovell, but a private signing works for me. To be honest, I'm grateful for what I can get - and Spacefest makes most of it possible. Even if a private signing falls through, I'll get him next year at Spacefest! Thanks for an event like this where I can meet these guys at all. |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-19-2012 06:39 AM
Any chance you could get both Lovell and Freddo to do a mail-in signing?
It would help those of us who can't make Spacefest this year from having to mail items that need both signatures twice across the pond. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-21-2012 01:18 AM
We're excited to report our newest SPACEFEST speaker will be an old friend, the uber-talented Carter Emmart, "visualization director" of New York's American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium. He's got a flyover program that uses any altitude data along with surface pics for real-time, off-the-cuff flyovers of Earth, Moon and Mars. Data is streamed over the internet from JPL! See his Facebook page for examples. He can show low-angle flyovers of the Apollo sites to less than half-meter resolution. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-21-2012 03:00 PM
10 days until many Spacefest prices rise. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-22-2012 07:11 PM
We've made available a dozen Universal tickets orderable online or by phone (800-727-NOVA.) 9 left.Be careful of our new website embellishments, especially if you're holding a tablet. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 03-25-2012 05:45 PM
This is my first Spacefest, and I'm looking forward to a great event. Does anyone know if we will have confirmation of our lunch, dinner, and breakfast astronaut/guest selections prior to the event? |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 03-27-2012 11:40 PM
Yes, Mel. Randy will be in touch with choices towards the end of May.Six Universal packages remain. |
SteveG
Member Posts: 48
From: Scottsdale, AZ
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-09-2012 10:18 PM
Reminder that for folks interested in the autograph mail order service, my order form will be ready on April 28th.... please contact me then. I will start accepting items after then. Cutoff for any mail order items will be May 24th — so that gives everyone a three week window to send items. Feel free to email me with questions — stevegruber34@yahoo.com. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-12-2012 03:33 PM
Spacefest IV panel talk lineups now complete. |
Grounded!
Member Posts: 367
From: Bennington, Vermont, USA
Registered: Feb 2011
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posted 04-12-2012 06:19 PM
Wow! What a tremendous lineup of speakers. It will be hard to pick which talks to attend. The Apollo panel is a must for me... just to hear Dick Gordon say: "I don't know what you are talking about". What a card he is.Kudos to Sally, Kim and company for putting together what will be another great show! |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-12-2012 11:04 PM
Thanks! The Apollo panel was a big hit last year. I think the spacesuit panel will be the sleeper this year. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 04-13-2012 02:09 PM
Bill Ayrey from the forthcoming Spacefest Spacesuit panel is a good friend of mine. It will come as little surprise that as ILC Company Historian his knowledge of spacesuits is vast.What may be a little less well known is that he is a real great guy. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-14-2012 02:48 PM
NEW semi-final schedule. |
jiffyq58
Member Posts: 218
From: Durham, NC, USA
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 04-15-2012 07:44 PM
Thanks very much for moving the KSR talk away from the one to be given by Leslie Young. I REALLY want to hear both of them, and I just could not come up with a way to choose. Probably would've had to flip a coin. Would be hard for me to miss the talk about New Horizons, but I would hate to miss Robinson talking about his Mars books, either. Thanks for making it easy for me to see both. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-16-2012 12:32 AM
Well, KSR's new book "2312" will be published that week. He'll be doing a reading from that. He'll be on the Mars Panel Sunday, too. |
jiffyq58
Member Posts: 218
From: Durham, NC, USA
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 04-16-2012 08:50 AM
Yep, looking forward to all of that. Hope to have a copy of 2312 in hand when I arrive in Tucson. That Mars panel ought to be good, too. It'll be the last thing I do before jumping in the rental car and trying to just barely catch my plane! |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-23-2012 12:40 AM
Six more days until room discount ends for Spacefest. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-27-2012 09:46 PM
New Horizons Pluto probe talk (10am Fri 6/1) now replaced by her colleague Dr. John Spencer. Original speaker Leslie Young was called away to OZ for a Pluto occultation. Spencer, a UofA grad, is designing the post-Pluto flyby of some Kuiper Belt planets. Brrrr! |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 04-29-2012 03:54 PM
Today (Sunday 4/29) last day to order hotel reservations online. - 2 Universal packages available
- 1 Pima A&S-Boneyard-Titan Missile Museum tour available.
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Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-01-2012 04:23 PM
- Pima tour sold out
- 1 Universal remains
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Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-11-2012 08:33 PM
FINAL schedule for Spacefest IVEvents in colorful column far left,
Days in fat black horizontal bars,
Hours in vertical black rules; (15 min. grid) |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-12-2012 04:39 PM
Slightly revised prices for a few astronauts.Nothing major. |
DChudwin
Member Posts: 1096
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-17-2012 08:34 PM
While the astronauts are the big draw to Spacefest, there are many other outstanding speakers who are true experts in their professions relating to space. This year's list of speakers is superior, ranging from scientists and project managers to writers and journalists. To give you an example of the caliber of their work, I'll mention Emily Lakdawalla, who is making her first Spacefest appearance. Besides being a planetary geologist, Emily is a blogger for the Planetary Society and an imaging expert. An example of what she can do is pictured here. It's not too soon to look at the Spacefest schedule to plan which of the many talks to attend, especially since there are multiples talks at the same time. A surfeit of riches! |
jiffyq58
Member Posts: 218
From: Durham, NC, USA
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 05-17-2012 09:54 PM
Not too soon, indeed! I've had my whole schedule mostly planned out for weeks! I only change it when they put up a revised version! |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 05-18-2012 02:43 PM
Looking forward to the waterslide here. I think I will try it head first while laying on my back this time around. You only live once.  |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-18-2012 06:10 PM
Thanks for the Emily Lakdawalla plug, David. I see Spacefest as becoming known as a great place to hear great speakers as astronauts fade away. We're fortunate to have top space scientists here in Tucson. It costs almost nothing to bring them in.Watching the Science Channel, you'll see many of our guests. |
SteveG
Member Posts: 48
From: Scottsdale, AZ
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 05-19-2012 07:03 PM
Everyone who has sent a mail order autograph request to me or has sent an email with questions has gotten a reply by now. I am extending my deadline by one day...last minute orders need to be here by this Friday. I can take more requests, but they need to come ASAP. Email me at stevegruber34@yahoo.comThanks! |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-19-2012 08:05 PM
Book signing schedule. |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 05-20-2012 03:18 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Aztecdoug:
Looking forward to the waterslide here.
Make a splash for me Doug. Sadly I can't make it back there this year. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-20-2012 06:20 PM
The Bar asked if we had any Brits or Aussies coming. They want to stock up. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 05-20-2012 08:02 PM
Here's one Aussie making the trip. |
Jay Gallentine
Member Posts: 287
From: Shorewood, MN, USA
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 05-20-2012 10:01 PM
The bar should also be advised if anyone is coming from Wisconsin. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 05-21-2012 03:49 PM
The cheese bar? |
DChudwin
Member Posts: 1096
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-22-2012 08:03 PM
Just got my seating assignments and couldn't be happier. Only 10 days to go-- can't wait
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