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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007 On October 4, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the International Space University (ISU) will be conducting a 10-day auction on eBay of unusual and interesting Space-related and Sputnik/Apollo era items. Turn your office or home into a museum, dine with an astronaut, party with a movie director, attend a rocket launch, own priceless books and memorabilia, send a payload to orbit, all of these are at your finger tips through an eBay auction. Included in this auction will be a full-size, museum-quality Sputnik 1 replica, the opportunity to fly a 1-kilogram payload in space, to lunch or tour the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with a former NASA astronaut, acquire space art, to purchase beautiful coffee-table books and other items autographed by Buzz Aldrin, and more! Proceeds from the auction will be used to create a scholarship fund in the U.S. to support deserving students seeking to attend ISU. For the auction, visit "ISU auction" under Stores on eBay.com, or link to it from the ISU website. Additionally, the timing of this auction was chosen to commemorate and pay respect to the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky who was a true visionary and pioneer of astronautics, theorizing many aspects of human space travel and rocket propulsion decades before others, and played an important role in the development of the Soviet and Russian space programs.
About the International Space University ISU develops the future leaders of the world space community by providing interdisciplinary educational programs to students and space professionals in an international, intercultural environment. ISU also serves as a neutral international forum for the exchange of knowledge and ideas on challenging issues related to space and space applications. This year, the University celebrates the 20th anniversary of its founding. ISU is registered in the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization and has graduated more than 2500 students from 96 countries. ISU grants two Masters degrees: a Masters in Space Studies, and a Masters in Space Management. It also conducts short programs lasting from one day to two weeks, and annual interdisciplinary 9-week Space Studies Programs (SSP) at universities and research institutions around the world that are selected to serve as SSP hosts. For 2008, this program (SSP08) will be held in Naples, Italy, June 30 - August 29, 2008. The 2009 Space Studies Program will be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Related Links The latest information about the Commercial Satellite Industry
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2007The space age began 50 years ago this October, when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, sparking a U.S.-Soviet space race. Scientists and engineers gathered at the California Institute of Technology Sept. 20 and 21 to talk about space milestones of the past and future exploration. Mike O'Sullivan reports, they say the next 50 years should be even more exiting than the last 50. |
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