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- Cutting-edge research and public education
programs aim to open the frontier of Space in the 21st Century
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- SANTA CLARA, CA - July 29,
1999 - The International Space Sciences Organization (ISSO), a newly formed
advanced science research and education institute, was launched yesterday
in a presentation broadcast simultaneously over radio and the Internet.
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- "We have formed the International Space Sciences
Organization to provide a platform for research and education in view of
breakthroughs likely in 21st Century physics. Experimental and astrophysical
observations of the past 20 years give us reason to reconsider the very
nature of spacetime, with stunningly interesting implications. In the spirit
of courageous and rigorous science, we hope to be joined by NASA and other
organizations if they can consider our view that controlled explosions
-- rockets -- may one day cease to define the limits of human travel in
Space," said Joe Firmage, Chairman of ISSO.
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- ISSO has launched with two operating divisions. The first,
ISSO Science, is pursuing a research agenda which includes theoretical
and experimental studies of breakthrough propulsion, energy generation,
and the physical processes of consciousness. ISSO Science has provided
grants to a hand-selected number of researchers and organizations involved
in advanced studies in these domains. Relevant research results will be
submitted for publication in scientific journals and will appear over time
on ISSO.org. ISSO Science has been funded by Firmage to date, and a limited
number of significant philanthropic investments will be invited through
1999.
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- Heading research for ISSO science is Creon Levit, who
has held science and engineering positions at NASA Ames Research for the
past 17 years. An expert in computational science, nanotechnology, and
physics, Levit will organize and integrate ISSO's multidisciplinary theoretical
and experimental programs. "It's clear to those of us who study physics
that several important concepts have moved much closer to center stage.
Emerging understandings of the quantum vacuum are giving us new phenomenological
insight into physical mechanisms," said Levit. Under his leadership,
ISSO has arranged a summer-long schedule of lectures and discussions with
several world-leading physicists, including Jean-Pierre Vigier, in San
Francisco through August 1999 as a guest of ISSO.
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- The second division, ISSO Productions, will be responsible
for ISSO.org -- a not-for-profit research and education site presenting
ISSO research to the public, and for developing a number of commercial
science education and fiction films and interactive sites. ISSO Productions
will be funded as a commercial venture through a private placement financing
this summer.
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- ABOUT ISSO
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- The International Space Sciences Organization (www.ISSO.org)
is a cutting-edge research institute dedicated to advancing human knowledge
of the science of being. ISSO Science organizes and funds theoretical and
experimental research into advanced propulsion, energy generation, and
consciousness studies.
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- ISSO is headquartered in the Bay Area of California,
and can be reached at (408)395-4378. Correspondence should be sent to ISSO,
1556 Halford Avenue, PMB 110, Santa Clara, CA 95051.
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