SISC Organizes
Space Camp for Children affected by Chernobyl Accident
The Society for International Space Cooperation in association
with the Children of Chernobyl Program and The
Belarus Society held a summer Space Camp for the 80 children brought
to the Washington D.C. area for the summer to receive medical and
other treatment. SISC also arranged a behind the scenes tour of the
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center and the Neutral Buoyancy Test Facility
at the University of Maryland where many robotic craft are tested
before being launched to the Planets. The kids also got a chance to
touch one of the Apollo astronauts spacesuits that was used on the
surface of the Moon. The Society has commited itself to supporting
the program in 2002 and beyond. if you are interested in making adonation
to help support us in these activities please e-mail donations@spacesociety.org
New Strategic
Partner:
SISC
is proud to welcome LaCie to it's
list of Strategic Partners and as a co-sponsor
of SpaceTV!
Other
News:
SISC
now provides information in Portuguese bringing
our total to 5 languages, we hope to double that within the next few
months.
SISC has been
chosen to moderate the Space Education Forum at Apple Computer's Apple
Learning Interchange a resource for thousands of teachers
and students around the world.
The
SISC
Store is now online for your shopping convenience. Choose from
an array of fashionable and witty t-shirts or our Space CD's.
New Strategic Partners:
SISC is also proud to welcome iRez
, Sorenson Vision, Inc. Metrowerks,
Inc, and Apple Computers, Inc.
to it's list of Strategic Partners
New Board Members:
Ralf Huber, Head of the Washington Office for the German Aerospace
Center (DLR) joins the Board.
Dr.
Lawrence DeLucas, former Astronaut and current Director, Center
for Macromolecular Crystallography, University of Alabama at Birmingham
New Board Member:
Alexander Serebrov,
former Cosmonaut and Space Policy Advisor to the Russian Government
joins the SISC Board of Directors.
New Board
Members:
The Society for International Space Cooperation is pleased to welcome
James Cameron, Producer, Director, and Writer of such films as
Titanic, Terminator 2, True Lies, and an upcoming series about Mars
to its Board of Directors. Mr. Cameron brings a lifelong interest
in Space and Exploration to the Society as well as a unique understanding
of the ways humans interact with each other regardless of locale.
SISC is also pleased
to continue expanding it's Board with representatives from the Space
Programs of the World by welcoming the following individuals to its
Board.
Vincent
Sabathier Space AttachÈ, CNES U.S.Rep., Embassy of France,
Makoto Kajii U.S. Rep. NASDA, Space Agency of Japan
Jo„o Vaz
President, Brazsat
Space Party
1999 Internet Broadcast:
SISC provided a live lecture, audio and video, by Adriana
Ocampo about her work on planetary impacts of asteroids in Mexico
which may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The lecture
was broadcast live via the Internet using Quicktime
4.0 and the Sorenson
Broadcaster and will be the first of many events SISC will conduct
worldwide. If your organization is interested in cooperating with
SISC for a broadcast event, please e-mail broadcast@spacesociety.org
Space Commercialization
Workshop:
SISC will conducted an International Space Corps Program, for the
Third Annual Space Commercialization Workshop to be held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, August 23-24, 1999.
SISC is looking
for Educators interested in developing projects. All interested please
e-mail edu@sisc.org
A Call for
Volunteers has been made. All interested please e-mail volunteers@sisc.org
Pictures from
Together in Space '98:
Barcelona/Toulouse posted on the Events
Gallery Page.
