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Association of Space Explorers Collection [Schweickart] NASM MAIL QSC 1 From: R.SCHWEICKARTThu 7-May-87 9:39 EDITED VERSION OF PROLOGUE 2 From: ASE-USA Fri 8-May-87 0:16 Ted’s Threshold Opus 3 From: ASE-USA Fri 8-May-87 0:24 the text 4 From: ASE-USA Fri 8-May-87 0:27 not absolutely final 5 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 8-May-87 6:57 MORE ON ADVISORS/POSTER 6 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 8-May-87 10:51 IMMEDIATE ATTENTION * • • ANDREI KOKOSHIN 7 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 8-May-87 10:52 REQUEST FOR DAKIN TOUR 8 From: POSTMASTER Fri 8-May-87 11:20 The following response from TIMETRAN has been 9 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 8-May-87 11:49 OH NO! 10 From: ASE-USA Fri 8-May-87 13:03 letter to kartsev via joel 11 From: E.ACTON Fri 8-May-87 14:39 Congratulations 12 From: E.MITCHELL Sat 9-May-87 10:02 Reply to: MORE ON ADVISORS/POSTER 13 From: A.LEONOV Mon 11-May-87 7:44 Acknowledgment of: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.• AN: 14 From L.ACTON Mon 11-May-87 9:25 Commente re/ advisory board. 15 From L.ACTON Mon 11-May-87 9:27 Fund raising. 16 From L.ACTON Mon 11-May-87 9:28 Coments re/ book and poster. 17 From: R.SCHWEICKARTMon 11-May-87 9:38 PERFORMANCE REVIEW Read or Scan: MAIL R NOMORE HARDCO To: ASE-USA (TCN423) Cc: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) Delivered: Thu 7-May-87 9:39 EDT Sys 141 (62) Subject: EDITED VERSION OF PROLOGUE : 870507 1 Mail Id IPM-141- -086961246 Ted: 9:31:12 5/7/ 1987 Here is a slightly edited version of the prologue I sent to you yesterday. I am only slightly happier with it.*. but if it's not too late please use this version.• *. and pass on any improvements you might feel appropriate for my review. PROLOGUE This is a unique moment in the history of life on earth. For the first time, through the creative process we call technology, we humans have gathered the energy and resources to allow people, and eventually other life forms as well, to leave the historic confines of the planetary womb. This capability, which WILL be used, can be directed to either enhance life and open the evolutionary process to the limitlessness of space..• or to utterly destroy all civilization and perhaps all present and future life on this planet. What is demanded is a new and enlarged vision on the part of the human community as to who we are and the historic process in which we are involved. Without this transformative vision, our "old ways" will inevitably lead us toward self destruction and the anhiliation of life. With a new vision we have the possibility of being "born" childlike out of Gaia, our earth mother, into the infinite cosmos, with all the unknowable potential of the newborn. This seemingly amorphous concept is not some abstract intellectual vision but rather the outcome of my direct experience of flying around this planet for 10 days on Apollo 9. My personal participation in that historic project which first placed a human being on another world (the Moon), combined with my personal experience of seeing the beauty of our planet from the vantage of space, forced me to think seriously about what we, the human community, are involved in beyond the surface issues of national pride, technological gymnastics, and scientific curiosity. I realized that from the larger perspective of human evolution (or the evolution of consciousness) that we are involved in an unprecedented transition in which we must move, at our peril, beyond the limiting conceptual boundary of nation state (and perhaps even self). This huge challenge, to go beyond the destructive "you or me” thinking of the past is made absolutely essential by our marriage to technology and the increasing power embodied within that union. I do not believe we have the option to divorce ourselves as a human community from that power; we must, rather, re-envision ourselves and our inter-relatedness to one another and to all life, in order to direct that gathering power toward life enhancing behavior. Spaceflight, by its nature, and the continuing development of space technology, bring these options for collective death or collective birth to our immediate attention. Spaceflight, primarily through direct human involvement, also provides us an essential glimpse of the one-ness of all life on earth, together circling our local sun, limited only by our own concepts and visions. It is to enlarge this collective vision that I formed the Association of Space Explorers• *.. an institutional mechanism, composed of other people who have shared the experience of seeing this small beautiful planet as the home of all life. Together, by sharing our experience and vision, and being willing to act on it, we might , through public influence, enlarge the collective understanding of what we are involved in as a human family •.. and what our responsibility for cosmic citizenship entails. Rusty Disposition: d To: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: ASE-USA (TCN423) Delivered: Fri 8-May-87 0:16 EDT Sys 141 (4) Subject: Tedfs Threshold Opus Mail Id: IPM-141-870508-002520121 Hi « ..This is going to be long. Have enough disk space? Youve seen the project descriptions which appear at the end, so feel free to nuke them. Only at the very end, there is some project revenue information I put together. Disposition: d To: L.ACTON (TCN409) To: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: ASE-USA (TCN423 ) Delivered: Fri 8-May-87 0:24 EDT Sys 141 (420) Subject: the text Mail Id: IPM-141-870508-003640747 ORGANIZATION/PROJECTS THE INSPIRATION Edgar Mitchell said: Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel « .•a light, delicate sky blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white * » » rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth.••home. Even after all his preparation time, watching Earthrise, it took Dr. Mitchell moments to come to terms with the experience. One expects that it must be an enormous mental task to absorb the emotional and spiritual impact of gazing at the Earth from a desolate, isolated surface void of all life, thousands of miles away. What is it about this experience that challenges the human brain to accept that the Earth is, in essence, one tiny ball in a void of space, finite, self dependent, fragile and unique? Looking back from the void, where is one's-truest, deepest emotional allegiance directed? Rusty Schweickart said: "That whole process of what it is you identify with begins to shift• * •you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing". THE RESPONSE The transformation Rusty and Ed experienced was so profound, so empowering, that they both felt they needed to share their transformation with the world. Together with several colleagues, they decided to investigate the possibility of convening a meeting of space travellers from all over the world to share and and make sense of the experience, and then, drawing on the strength of the collective experience, to develop an international Association whose purpose would be to transmit to the world this experience and to engage in educational activities derivative of it. ACTION/REACTION As they proceeded, they discovered that many of their fellow space travellers had an equally strong desire to orchestrate expression of their experience. After three years of talks, the Association of Space Explorers was founded by twenty five explorers from thirteen countries. The Report from the 1st Congress says: "The astronauts and cosmonauts met together to explore their shared vision of the planet, resulting from their experiences in space, which unites them in a way that transcends their cultural differences. All the space fliers..* acknowledged they had been substantially affected during their flights by a heightened. ..awareness of how delicate and potentially creative our Earth is". The impression was universal. Sultan Al Saud of Saudi Arabia said of his flight at the gathering: "The first day -or so in orbit we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to continents. By the fifth day we were aware only of one earth." Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov said: "Astronauts and Cosmonauts are the handful of people who have had the good fortune to see the earth from afar and to realize how tiny and fragile it is. We hope that all peoples of the Earth can understand this, and treat this Earth as the home in which they were born, the home in which they live, and the home where their children and grandchildren will live after them. For Leonov, the sacred Russian term "rodina", meaning native birthland, had taken on new meaning. CONSENSUS The Space Explorers set forth several goals at the Congress, which are in essence a group response to their shared experience. To communicate to the world the nature of space fliers 1 transformative experiences, to globalize awareness of humanity's responsibility for the future as we determine the vision with which we enter space, a major step in our evolution, and to promote international cooperation in exploring space for the purpose of wisely and consciously accessing space as a resource for all people on Earth: all of these aspirations reflect a deep seated desire on the part of the explorers to work together to use their collective weight to articulate a new vision of the world as it is and positive vision of what our future could be.
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