starship-design: Old news?

["Ben Franchuk (Woodelf)" <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>]

International Space Development Conference,
http://www.nss.org/isdc/   
        ISD Conference, May 1999, Houston
sponsored by the National Space Society, a leading CATS institution, 
will be
held in Houston at the end of May. The cost is only $65 for the 2 1/2
day
conference. There will be insider tours of the Johnson Space Center and
a
chance to meet Dr. Bob Zubrin, leader in the "Mars Direct" scheme, and
four
Apollo astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin, not only a nice guy but the
president of NSS and the second man to walk on Luna.!