[WIham] AMSAT SYMPOSIUM UPDATE

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AMSAT announces the 2010 Space Symposium and Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, October 8 through Sunday, October 10. This year we have selected the Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn which is near O'Hare Airport for the event. The Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn is located at 1000 Busse Road, Elk Grove, IL (near O’Hare Airport with free hourly shuttles).

On-line registration for the Symposium continues on-line at the AMSAT Store with the registration fee of $45.00 from now through 5 October. Online registration closes 5 October at Midnight. Registration at the door will be $50.00.

The 2010 Symposium Proceedings book has been sent to the print shop with the exciting papers listed here. Also, the speaker schedule will include topics with late breaking news and photos as ARISSat-1 completes its assembly and test phase prior to shipment to NASA and then on to Russia.

  There will be an organized four-hour tour of the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory on Sunday starting at
noon. If you do not plan to rent a car while in Chicago; the Hosting Committee has rented a bus and will provide transportation from the Hotel to Fermilab, then to O'Hare and back to the Hotel on Sunday for the tour. The cost of the bus is $25 per seat and it will provide transportation to Fermilab and return according to the following schedule;

Leave the Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village   11:00AM
Arrive at Fermilab                        Noon   12:00PM
Depart Fermilab                                       3:30PM
Arrive at O'hare Airport                              4:15PM
Arrive back at the Holiday Inn                    5:00PM

There will be room on the bus for those who will be departing for the airport directly after the Fermilab tour.
Please email Kermit Carlson ( W9XA at yahoo.com) if you would like to attend the tour (symposium attendees only) and please note if you plan to use the bus transportation.

Hope to see you at the Symposium & 73,

John - AG9D
Symposium Host Committee



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