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May 22, 2011
Sunday
 
 
Good news
Michael Jennings (London)  Science & Technology

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

Comments

For he's a jolly good fellow:-)


Posted by Alisa at May 22, 2011 09:51 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.


Posted by Michael Jennings at May 22, 2011 11:29 AM

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.


Posted by Taylor at May 22, 2011 02:52 PM

Congratulations!


Posted by RW at May 22, 2011 05:34 PM

Congratulations, Dale.


Posted by Laird at May 22, 2011 05:55 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.

Posted by Laird at May 22, 2011 05:59 PM

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


Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at May 22, 2011 07:59 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!


Posted by RAB at May 22, 2011 10:43 PM

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


Posted by Thomas Johnstone at May 23, 2011 12:23 AM

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


Posted by Rob Fisher at May 23, 2011 01:34 PM

Well done indeed Dale.


Posted by Paul Marks at May 23, 2011 07:16 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.


Posted by Taylor at May 23, 2011 09:09 PM

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.


Posted by Dale Amon at May 26, 2011 07:37 AM
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