[oasis-members] Another call for Odyssey submissions

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Lisa/ Eliza:
    Please consider running this in your   Newsletters:   Bob
 
    Prof. Mike Gruntman, Director of the Astronautics  and Space Technology 
program at USC,  grew up with the Russian Space  effort. His father was Chief 
Engineer of the construction of their first launch  base, Baikonur. He is now 
well-versed in the history of space from an  international viewpoint,as 
evidenced by his recent prize winning book, "BLAZING  THE TRAIL - The early history 
of spacecraft and Rocketry" (AIAA books). To help  celebrate the forthcoming 
50th anniversary of Sputnik (Oct. '57), the first  earth satellite, he and his 
students have prepared an hour plus program  sketching the beginnings of the  
race to space using his book for back  ground material. The program is suitable 
for use as a class room instruction  tool as well as for general interest to 
history  buffs.    
    The Distance Education Network of the USC Viterbi  School of Engineering 
has made publicly available a webcast of the lecture "Road  to Space -The 
First Thousand Years" that focuses on the history of the events  that led us to 
the space age. The presentation can be viewed on a standard PC  with Windows 
Media Player and a high speed internet connection. See it at 
_http://den.usc.edu/prospectives/roadtospace.htm_ 
(http://den.usc.edu/prospectives/roadtospace.htm) .