Ideas for local action:

• Organize and invite speakers, and advertise in community (recruitment) (NSS-NYC can help)
• Meet with politicians about legislation:
  • Felix Grucci, Jr. (R) - represented NY 1st District, on House Science Committee
    We met with him Tuesday, August 13th: summary of the meeting is here
  • We should schedule to meet Tim Bishop (new 1st district rep.)
  • Steve J. Israel (D) - represents NY 2nd District, also on House Science Committee
    • Editorial by Steve Israel that mentions "Manhattan project for energy independence" - space solar power?
    • 2nd congressional district map
    • Space Exploration Act of 2002 (H.R. 4742) introduced by Nick Lampson (D-TX) May 15, 2002, currently has 14 co-sponsors.
    We have 2 of the 4 NY congressmen on the House Science Committe from our area (the chair is Sherwood Boehlert, from upstate NY); we definitely can have an impact politically if our voice for space exploration and settlement is heard.
  • Local development: a local directory of companies, research groups, etc. involved in space-related work? (Cradle of Av. museum has some of this)
  • Other local development: perhaps a proposal for part of the Riverhead Grumman site? A New York space authority/space port, modeled after the ones in Florida, CA, Texas, Oklahoma, etc.? (Such a spaceport is currently being proposed for southern New Jersey, but limited to HTHL craft...)
  • Opportunities for space industry development on LI - perhaps through LISTnet or LIFT?
  • A Challenger center?
  • Bringing part of a new "Manhattan project for energy independence" to Long Island (Brookhaven lab?)
  Note the NSS chapters handbook has a lot of good project ideas which we should consider (including some of the above).

  Last Modified: 23 November 2002