6 - 8 April 2006, Charterhouse School, Godalming
Featured the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards on the evening of 8 April
On the evening of Saturday April 8, the 2006 Sir Arthur
Clarke Awards - the Space equivalent of the Oscars® - were
presented at a black-tie dinner which closed this year's
conference of the British Rocketry Oral History Programme.
Like the Hollywood event, this was a glittering occasion.
With the judges, the nominees and other guests, the list of
attendees read like a "Who's Who" of the UK space
community.
Companies and organisations represented on the night
included:
The British Interplanetary Society, The British National
Space Centre, Careers Scotland Space School, EADS Space,
the European Space Agency, Inmarsat, LogicaCMG, the Open
University, PPARC, the Mars Society, the Royal Aeronautical
Society Space Group, SSTL, The UK Rocketry Association and
UKSEDS.
Amongst
the attendees were:
- Colin Hicks, Director General of the British National
Space Centre
- Reginald Turnill, the world's longest serving aerospace
journalist
- Writer and broadcaster Nigel Henbest
- Ian Wright, Head of the Planetary Space Science Research
Institute at the Open University
- Monica Grady of the PSSRI and President of the Society
for Popular Astronomy
- Robin Scagell, Vice President of the SPA and Chairman of
the West of London Astronomical Society
- Bo Maxwell, President of the Mars Society UK
- from Belgium, Matthieu Bolland, President of the Student
Space Exploration & Technology Initiative
- and from the USA, our special guest, Hugh Harris, former
Director of Public Affairs at Kennedy Space
Centre.
The
list of winners and a selection of photos - along with the
shortlists and award categories - can be seen on the
following pages.
A
DVD of the event will be available shortly. If you would
like further information, please contact me using the link
below.
Sponsors
were:
The British National Space Centre, EADS Space, LogicaCMG
and PPARC
Supporting
organisations were:
The British Interplanetary Society, The Space Education
Council and the UK Students for the Exploration and
Development of Space