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Topic: 4/24-25: Space Lectures Eileen Collins event (UK)
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Rick Mulheirn
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posted 08-04-2014 02:21 PM
   
Space Lectures and Ken Willoughby are able to confirm some of the details for the first event of 2015! - April 24th; Dinner at the Wentbridge House Hotel with all the usual trimmings i.e. photo shoot, auction and signing.
- April 25th the public lecture at Carleton Community High School complete with prize raffle and a second signing. Timings and ticket prices for both are the same as those for Fred Haise in October.
I eluded to this event some weeks ago on the Fred Haise thread and already 60 lecture tickets and 35 dinner have been sold to date.I did state that I would start a new thread as and when I could name names but at this stage I am unable to do so. But I thought it reasonable to let people know what I could in order to facilitate budgets, holidays, hotel bookings etc asap. The name of the astronaut will be announced at the Fred Haise event in October. To the best of my knowledge this pioneer has not appeared previously in the UK but I can confirm the contract has been signed and the deposit paid already so we are good to go. |
crash
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From: West Sussex, England
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 08-04-2014 03:45 PM
Great, another bag to pack! |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 08-07-2014 06:34 PM
People who have paid for their tickets for the April 2015 event already can collect them in person from Ken following the Fred Haise lecture.Anybody who would like to pay Ken in person for April 2015, by either cash or cheque please, can do so at the Fred Haise event also. Be sure and give Ken your name and address details; for an additional £1 Ken will provide envelopes and postage for mailing out tickets. The Wentbridge is a popular hotel so get your reservations in asap! |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 08-09-2014 08:07 AM
77 lecture tickets already and 47 for the dinner. |
OWL
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From: United Kingdom
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posted 08-09-2014 09:32 AM
We are already pulling together memorabilia for the April event auction.A great deal of time and effort goes into the planning and organisation to ensure the attendees and the astronaut have a positive experience of the Space Lecture events. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 08-27-2014 12:15 PM
Tickets for the April 2015 event will be coming from the printers next week.Since Ken Willoughby plans on naming the April 2015 guest at the Fred Haise event in October I'd imagine he will hold off mailing them until the week after Freddo... |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 08-27-2014 05:51 PM
Half the dinner tickets have now sold and over 100 for the lecture. Great start! |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 10-16-2014 10:08 AM
A reminder that the guest speaker for the Space Lectures April 2015 dinner and lecture will be announced next weekend at the Fred Haise event.Despite the fact that the name of the guest speaker for April has not as yet been released, half the dinner have already sold and 130 for the lecture. |
moorouge
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posted 10-26-2014 03:28 AM
Can't wait for the official announcement of this unique guest. Wonder who it will be? |
Tykeanaut
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posted 10-26-2014 04:30 AM
I thought the guest for April was to be announced last night? |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 10-26-2014 04:51 AM
The cat is out of the bag... or should I say Eileen Collins is out the bag.The announcement was very well received and anecdotally, Ken tells me ticket sales for Eileen's lecture are approaching 300! The queue for tickets at Ken's table outside of the theatre, coupled with the 160 tickets already ordered "blind" would support that kind of estimate. More details about the April event will be posted shortly.  |
Tykeanaut
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posted 10-26-2014 10:19 AM
Tickets reserved already! Great news Rick. I can feel a Dexys Midnight Runners song coming on.  |
18blue78
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posted 10-27-2014 06:20 AM
This is great news. I had heard rumours at the dinner about who was being announced and I'm happy to hear the rumours were true. Now I just need to decided on which item or photo I'll be getting signed. |
OWL
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posted 10-27-2014 07:54 AM
Having spent a considerable amount of time with Fred over the four days of his visit, Fred's eyes lit up when I told him the next guest would be Eileen Collins.Fred has met Eileen on several occasions and has attended several official engagements with her. He tells me she has some great stories to tell and presents to a very high standard. As Rick has already stated, tickets are selling very very quickly and the dinner is almost sold out. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 10-27-2014 03:16 PM
Just received this message from shuttle astronaut Clayton Anderson. Don't think I ever met Mr. Haise, but I know (and love!) Commander Eileen Collins. She deserves a packed house... SELLOUT! Who am I to argue?Latest ticket sales for Eileen Collins confirmed by Ken this evening; 280 so far for the lecture and 97 for the dinner.
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Tykeanaut
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posted 11-02-2014 09:19 AM
Be great to see Robert come over sometime. Fancy a trip to the UK Mr. Pearlman?  |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 11-02-2014 09:59 AM
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Originally posted by Tykeanaut:
Fancy a trip to the UK Mr. Pearlman?
Are you offering to pay my airfare and accommodations? If so, sure.I've told Ken and Rick that I would be happy to attend a Space Lectures event, if my schedule allows for it. I've heard Eileen talk on a number of occasions, and of course interviewed her for this site a number of times as well. She's a fantastic speaker, so I am sure it will be an equally outstanding event. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 11-04-2014 04:43 PM
Lecture tickets are going well; dinner tickets are going better still. Just 14 tickets remain for the dinner. |
james watt
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Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-04-2014 05:48 PM
I have been away on holiday for a while and just heard that Eileen Collins is in Pontefract next April! Cannot wait for this. I have wanted to meet her for years. |
james watt
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posted 11-21-2014 06:01 PM
Tickets arrived today. Looking forward to this more than Christmas. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 11-21-2014 06:20 PM
Such has been the demand for tickets to meet Eileen Collins that Space Lectures can confirm... with 5 months still to go that the event is a GO! |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 11-21-2014 06:33 PM
It should be pointed out at at this time the Space Lectures website is down and our resident PC boffin is out of the country on business at the moment. Anybody looking to buy tickets can either mail me directly and I will forward your enquiry to Ken or check out the Space Lectures Twitter account for details. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 11-22-2014 04:09 PM
The Space Lectures website is back up and running. |
Tykeanaut
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posted 11-24-2014 03:14 AM
Must have crashed due to high demand! |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 11-29-2014 06:01 PM
Just 7 tickets now remain for dinner with Eileen Collins. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 12-16-2014 07:05 PM
Tickets for dinner with Eileen Collins stubbornly refuse to sell out; there are still a few remaining but we suspect that is down to the distraction of the impending festive season.In the mean time, Ken is working to finalize the guest for October 2015 and all being well should be in a position to make an announcement in the next week or two. Watch this space but be aware, priority for October 2015 will be given to those attending the Collins event in April. |
apollokev
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posted 12-17-2014 02:54 PM
Rick, I am a regular supporter and attendee of Space Lectures and it is with much disappointment that I am unable to attend the Eileen Collins event. Even more regrettable is the latest news that as a non-attender in April, I may also miss the opportunity to come again in October. Does the priority for Collins ticket holders supersede a previous posting stating: quote:
Ken has asked that people let him know of their intention to attend October 2015 and he will keep a record of such until he gives the go ahead to send payment.First come best placed will apply even if payment follows later...
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Rick Mulheirn
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posted 12-17-2014 04:28 PM
It is my undertanding that those attending the Collins event in April, and those who made known to Ken (at the Fred Haise event) their intention to attend in October 2015 will be seated nearer the front of the lecture theatre.Late comers to the October event who did not attend the earlier April 2015 event will naturally be seated nearer the back. In the event October 2015 is a sell out and there are not enough tickets to satisfy the demand then those who attended the Eileen Collins event in April will get priority. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 12-17-2014 06:39 PM
Further clarification from Ken himself. Can you make it clear to ApolloKev and others that anyone who applies now for Oct. 2015 is certain of a ticket. The ones who attend the EC event will be able to purchase tickets on the night so they too will be certain of one. The ones who apply now or come in April have the best chance because when it is announced the flood gates will open That said, the final ticket prices for October 2015 have to be confirmed but all being well, we should be able to do so very shortly. |
apollokev
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posted 12-18-2014 12:33 PM
Many thanks for the re-assurance on my query. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 12-22-2014 05:44 AM
Can I also remind those who have yet to send payment for their Eileen Collins tickets to do so?Ken tells me there are a number of folk who have asked for tickets but have yet to send payment. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 01-04-2015 01:52 PM
With the turn of the new year April's encounter with Eileen Collins suddenly seems so much closer.For those sending payment for tickets please remember to enclose a sae. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 01-09-2015 07:05 AM
All being well we hope to post images of some of the post dinner auction items in the comining weeks and months. Watch this space. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 01-09-2015 11:55 AM
Tickets for the October event can be collected in person at the Eileen Collins event or mailed out afterwards. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 01-11-2015 04:57 PM
Just a reminder folks that Eillen will not be adding missions, inscriptions or dedications to her signature.With the best will in the world adding such to a potential 450+ items is simply too time consuming. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 01-12-2015 04:40 PM
We have been discussing possible backdrop photo options for the Eileen Collins photo-shoot in April. It dawned on me that they are some very knowledgeable and talented guys on this forum so I suggested to Ken that we invite cS members to come up with a backdrop design.There are certain criteria we would like designers to adhere to. A dynamic image that captures the excitement of flying shuttle but not too "busy"; a shuttle launch maybe. Ideally one of Eileen's launches. Each of Eileen's mission patches must be represented. The backdrop image should be predominantly light so as to make a good ground for signing, which would suggest a daytime photo and not a night launch. And consideration should be given to the composition; Eileen will be stood somewhere in or around the middle of the backdrop with typically one or two people along side, so the patches and key background imagery and patches should frame the central characters. You can refer to previous Space Lectures threads e.g. Fred Haise, TK and Alan Bean to see the kind of things we have come up with previously. In the event we use a backdrop provided by a cS member we will photogragh Eileen against the ground and post it to the winner, duly signed, courtesy of Space Lectures. So how about it guys? You can mail the designs to me but it would be fun to post them here for others to share, deliberate and discuss. |
18blue78
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posted 01-13-2015 11:06 AM
I think I could come up with 100+ ideas but in the interest of fairness I'll only suggest one backdrop:
A silhouette of the rollout of Discovery, STS-114 "Return to Flight", with mission patches alongside.A problem could be the image is portrait and I assume you would prefer landscape. |
cycleroadie
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posted 01-13-2015 11:28 AM
STS-114 launch: 1 or 2 or 3. And lastly Discovery in flight, STS-114.Since these are all NASA images (even the Wiki ones), I could superimpose one or more patch designs on it for you if you wanted them, the reflecting launch image would lend itself well for all the patches across the top. |
Rick Mulheirn
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posted 01-13-2015 12:33 PM
I'd me interested to see some mocked up backdrops complete with mission patches. The backdrop would need to be landscape format; the patches to the side of the image might be better under those circumstances and don't forget to allow for the fact that two or more people would be stood in the middle so it might be an idea to avoid shuttles or palm trees sprouting from the tops of heads. |
cycleroadie
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posted 01-13-2015 12:56 PM
Might have to use a different launch image than one of her launches is all. Most of what I find in high enough resolution would not meet your criteria.... look for a link later tonight with a rough idea.
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