Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room D
Start Date
30-4-1997 1:00 PM
Description
Student Space Awareness (SSA) is a student run organization established to employ and promote the efforts of students to increase the awareness of the space program and to contribute in formulating a national space agenda. SSA was formed as Student Space Action in 1993 by outspoken students who were seeking to take an active role in the space program.
The initial actions of this group were to go to congress in Washington DC to talk to its members about the space program. To better achieve an impact with these members of congress, these students developed a web page with the first on-line interactive petition on the internet. This initial petition enabled these students to show the broad based support for the space program to members of congress not only throughout the nation, but in their specific communities.
Paper Session II-D - Student Space Awareness
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room D
Student Space Awareness (SSA) is a student run organization established to employ and promote the efforts of students to increase the awareness of the space program and to contribute in formulating a national space agenda. SSA was formed as Student Space Action in 1993 by outspoken students who were seeking to take an active role in the space program.
The initial actions of this group were to go to congress in Washington DC to talk to its members about the space program. To better achieve an impact with these members of congress, these students developed a web page with the first on-line interactive petition on the internet. This initial petition enabled these students to show the broad based support for the space program to members of congress not only throughout the nation, but in their specific communities.
