Our three lectures today were “Origins of the Space Age,” “Microgravity (Hoffman),” and “The Electromagnetic Spectrum.” The post-lunch workshop was about teamwork. But the best part of the day was Bob Richard’s talk on ISU’s origins. As I have probably mentioned, Bob was one of the 3 founding fathers of ISU along with Peter Diamandis and Todd Hawley. There are 3 phases for ISU: the migratory phase, the permanent campus phase, and the space campus phase. So far we are in phase 2. The SSP (used to be summer session program, now it’s called the space studies program) migrated from country to country. In 2000, ISU opened their first campus in Strasburg, France. So it’s only a matter of time before we have the space campus! *wink* Arthur C. Clarke was involved with ISU at the very beginning. Bob was personally mentored by Carl Sagan. Some inspiring thoughts from the talk:
- Do what you love, even if it’s hard… it’s all hard!
- Pick your passion and stick with it.
- Don’t be “pie in the sky.” Lay out the steps, have backup plans, and demonstrate progress.
- Fail to plan, plan to fail.
- Peter’s Laws
- Bring amazing people together and tell them they can do amazing things and then just sit back and watch.
What I liked most about this talk was hearing about someone who had a dream, made a plan, followed it, and here we are 24 years and 3000 SSP graduates later enjoying the benefits of that dream. It’s truly inspiring.
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