Re: ARSA info request for Izzy

Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed wrote:

> what money?  membership in ARSA is free!
> [ see http://www.space-rockets.com/arsa ]
>
> what time? your time is your own at launches, just as it is everywhere 
> else.  I (and others) spend OUR time researching, documenting and 
> explaining regulations and relating actual events that are pertinent 
> to the future of our hobby.  OUR time, not yours.  We save you time, 
> by documenting the facts for you, complete with authoritative 
> references to primary source materials (regulations, notices, verbatim 
> texts of letters and speeches) so we are telling the truth.  I don't 
> know any other organization that does that.
>
> That's ok ... no thanks are necessary.  We do it because (1) we love 
> what we do in rocketry and delight in others enjoyment of it; (2) are 
> committed to preserving it for our chldren and yours, and Georges, and 
> Rays; and (3) are patriotic enough to stand up to a corrupt 
> bureaucracy that thinks nothing of eroding our rights.
>
> - iz

Is it fair to say ARSA is more a working think tank to ferret out the 
crud, scud and FUD of amateur and hobby rocketry? :-)

>
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