Apollo 11 astronaut press conference Wednesday on USS Hornet - 22nd Annual Int'l Space Development Conference May 23-26 San Jose, CA

Media Advisory: Apollo 11 moonwalker, retired Air Force Colonel and NSS governor Buzz Aldrin will be at the USS Hornet Museum (Pier 3, Alameda Point) on Wednesday, May 21 at approximately 1:00 p.m., and will be available for questions and answers with the press. He will be joining the 22nd Annual International Space Development Conference attendees at 2:00 p.m. for a tour of the aircraft carrier that served as the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 11 lunar mission that landed the first Americans on the Moon on July 20, 1969. If there are any questions I can be reached at 408-930-5506 (cell) or 408-736-2363. Thanks, Pat Montoure - ISDC Chair 806 Acacia Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Phone: 408-736-2363 Email: patmontour@aol.com Office address: National Space Society 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Suite 201 Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 543-1900 Fax: (202) 546-4189

THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY
INVITES YOU TO JOIN FELLOW ENTHUSIASTS, ASTRONAUTS, ASTRONOMERS & SPACE ENTREPRENEURS
AT THE
22nd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
"The Roadmap to Human Settlement of the Space Frontier"

http://www.nsschapters.org/isdc/2003/

May 23 - 26, 2003

Hyatt San Jose
1740 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95112
Reservations: 1-800-233-1234

Experience the Excitement of the people and the organizations pioneering the settlement of Space:

SETI NASA Haughton Mars project http://www.marsonearth.org/

Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS) http://www.erps.org/index.shtl

SPACE Adventures http://www.spaceadventures.com/

Space Island Group http://www.spaceislandgroup.com/main.html

Nanotechnology Foresight Institute http://www.foresight.org/

XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor.com/index.html

Space Enterprise Event - A meeting of Space Entrepreneur's and Venture Capitalists This event requires a separate registration.

Go to the Space Foundation Web Site and select Space Enterprise Event.

http://www.space-frontier.org/

http://www.nsschapters.org/isdc/2003/

NOTE: Tour of the U.S.S. Hornet aircraft carrier with Apollo 11 astronaut (and NSS Governor) Buzz Aldrin on May 21 has been changed to 2:00 p.m.

Tour dates and times for the Chabot Science Center (May 22) and NASA/Ames Research Center (May 23) are still as listed.

Please forward this to anyone interested.

Also, you may be able to get a $69 hotel room at http://hyatt.com

Encourage others to switch hotels, it will save them money and also NSS might save money on the function space.

The hotel promised NSS the lowest advertised rate to ISDC attendees, but apparently some of us reserved rooms at a higher rate.

To register

http://isdc.NSS.org

https://www.nss.org/isdc/isdc2003.html

$125 through May 20, 2003 (includes Sunday Night Awards Banquet)
$150 after May 20, 2003 and at the door (does NOT include Sunday Night Awards Banquet)
Children in tow - free
Discounts for Senior/Teacher/Student

Hotel: http://www.hyatt.com/

(Not sure if this will work)
http://www.hyatt.com/reservations/flow1/corpSelectedHotelRates.jhtml?xactionid=f541c0d48e&_requestid=929940