April 12-13, 2007 -- Yuri's Night

This year, the party enters another dimension.   At NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, over 4,000 people gathered in an aircraft hangar for the unique event.  Scientists and engineers mingle with artists and musicians. Anousheh Ansari, General Pete Worden, and Chris McKay spoke to the crowd.

At the same time a party took place in another dimension:  the 3D virtual world known as Second Life. Who knew that Avatars could boogie!

Yuri's Night is a global celebration of peace and space travel. In 2007 there were 126 parties in 35 countries on 6 continents and 2 worlds!

See http://www.yurisnight.net/2007/ for details.  Check out photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157600085662330/

April 7-21, 2007 -- Charles in Space

Charles Simonyi, former Microsoft engineer and chief architect of software programs Microsoft Word and Excel, flew to the International Space Station to become the fifth civilian space traveler.


Dr. Simonyi conducted several science experiments for JAXA, the Japanese space agency, and a radiation dosimeter test for the Hungarian space office. He answered questions to school children via live video feeds and a blog.




June 15-17, 2007 “RoboGames 2007”


Thousands of people visited Ft. Mason Center in San Francisco to see robots of all types meet in competition.  From the famous Battlebots, to humanoid soccer players to amusing art bots and drink bots, it was a unique gathering. The cutting edge of bot technology was on display.


Web:  http://www.robogames.net/


Photos:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157600554161339/

 September 13-16, 2007 “WIRED NEXTFEST” • Location: Los Angeles, CA Experience hundreds of exhibits from researchers and inventors around the globe. • Web: http://www.wirednextfest.comhttp://www.wirednextfest.comhttp://www.wirednextfest.com/shapeimage_7_link_0
The Space Tourism Society congratulates Google and the X PRIZE Foundation for the Google Lunar X PRIZE!  http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/
 Happy Sputnik Day! October 4, 1957 was the first time a man-made object successfully orbited the Earth. Listen to the famous beeps!
 Check out the photographs from the inaugural meeting of the “62 Mile Club Network” in Los Angeles: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157602306327544/    http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157602306327544/http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157602306327544/shapeimage_10_link_0shapeimage_10_link_1
Check out the photographs from 3rd X PRIZE Cup! http://flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/   http://flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/http://flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/http://flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/http://flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/sets/72157603332923084/shapeimage_11_link_0shapeimage_11_link_1shapeimage_11_link_2shapeimage_11_link_3
November 5-8, 2007 “Transforming Space” • Location: Los Angeles, CA Meet the leaders of California space enterprise community - industry, government and academia. • Web: http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/conference2007/index.htmlhttp://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/conference2007/index.htmlhttp://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/conference2007/index.htmlhttp://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/conference2007/index.htmlshapeimage_12_link_0shapeimage_12_link_1
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