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Good news

· Science & Technology

Our own Dale Amon has just been named Space Activist of the Year by the National Space Society. Well done Dale.

May 22nd, 2011 |

13 comments to Good news

  • Alisa
    May 22, 2011 at 9:51 am

    For he’s a jolly good fellow:-)

  • Michael Jennings
    May 22, 2011 at 11:29 am

    And in case anyone is wondering, no, that link doesn’t reference Dale and the NSS have not put news of this on the internet yet. I got the news through other channels.

  • Taylor
    May 22, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    BRAVO ZULU

    Congrats Dale – Kol Hakavod

    Though to be frank I’m not sure that you’re the kid of guy who wants to ever be labeled an “Activist” . The word has taken on some less than savory connotations.

  • RW
    May 22, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    Congratulations!

  • Laird
    May 22, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Congratulations, Dale.

  • Laird
    May 22, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    Well, my two-word (and wholly innocuous) congratulatory post has been interdicted by the Smitebot. I had been feeling a bit neglected by it of late, but surely that’s a new low even for a bot of very little brain.

    My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine.

  • Andrew Ian Dodge
    May 22, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    Congrats Dale, and well deserved too from what I can tell.

  • RAB
    May 22, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    The only way we are going to get off this goddam rock and back up there where we belong, is going to be down to the likes of you Dale.

    I raise a glass, and strum a blues, in you honour, good Sir!

  • Thomas Johnstone
    May 23, 2011 at 12:23 am

    In your list of who you are, left out were neo-(U.S. New England) Transcendentalists.

  • Rob Fisher
    May 23, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    Good news! I always really enjoy the space posts here.

  • Paul Marks
    May 23, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    Well done indeed Dale.

  • Taylor
    May 23, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    Even more major good news Will Watson of the Space Frontier Foundation is now a dad.

    A new (small) spacey libertarian has just joined the human race.

  • Dale Amon
    May 26, 2011 at 7:37 am

    All the photos I have so far were blurred, but there was also a professional photographer but I don’t yet have a copy of hers. By the time of the awards banquet I was so far into sleep deprivation that I looked like I was going to fall over. I really had no idea I looked as sleep deprived as I felt…

    It’s really a major hunk of metal. The pewter lunar globe is about the size of a shotput and is suspended over a mahogany base.

    Among other things I’ve been the behind the scenes overseer of the NSS ISDC conference for nearly a decade now. I’ve also been putting together an historical digital archive that is starting to become quite a big thing.

    Oh and while at it, my latest project: NSS Pilots, a special interest group open to any NSS member who has ever had a CFI signoff for solo flight in their log books.

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