Micro-Space is preparing our 2 to 3 “PQ-Gemini (++)” satellite cluster for flight into Sun-Synchronous orbit late this year. This (and a sting of proposals, plus the pater we presented at the AUVSI, international meeting last month) is keeping us pretty busy! More later. For Now: An Opportunity: We have offered to help OpenLuna with their fund raising efforts by flying a copy of a “Supporter List” in each of our tiny satellites. This is like the “Bigelow Aerospace” paid service, flying business cards and photos to orbit in one of their “Orbital Habitat”, but we can't provide any form of Radio Downlink associated with a payment, because that is prohibited by our Amateur Radio licensing for our Satellite Communications. You will be able to track and listen to the satellite beacons with good Ham Radio Gear (all transmissions will be clustered around 437.525 MHz). If you chose to respond to this opportunity, you will know that your Name and Message are flying in space with those satellites! Think of it as Your Name Card on a Banquet or Conference Table (in SPACE)! Of course this is “Simply Symbolic”! As if “Symbolism” is simple and meaningless! Every “Big Accomplishment” starts with a concept, and usually does not move forward until we “Own” and “Name” that concept – making it a “project”. Progress accelerates when we add substance (as a commitment and effort) in the form of money (we trade hours of of our life and real effort for the money we receive – we flag anything we will exchange it for as important to us). God knows (as do many successful humans) that Dreams which inspire effort and personal investment have a chance of being fulfilled! Those that don't will “die on the vine”. You can dream of flying into space, and do nothing about this invitation. But if so, you will probably find “good reasons” to avoid all the other steps necessary to see your dream of personal spaceflight realized! Decades from now, you will likely be considering your “missed opportunities”, and dreaming of “What Could Have Been”. Or you can begin to take steps which will make the reality possible! Go to , and select your level of commitment to this future. Get YOUR NAME onto the list of people “Planning to Fly into Space”! “OpenLuna: Sending your name, your loved ones's name, or a clever message into space just got easier. See existing content at openluna.org/mission1”. (None of the funds flow to Micro-Space.) (Open Luna has done a good job of publicizing the concept of affordable, “Ultralight Spaceflight”, using Micro-Space demo hardware at a number of meetings and conferences. Just as “Ultralight Underwater Gear” (SCUBA), makes undersea exploration affordable for people who can't afford a submarine, Ultralight Space systems will make personal exploration in space affordable! Until the real possibility of “Affordable Spaceflight” sinks in, funding for these efforts will remain tiny compared to Auto or Sailboat racing. Funding comparable to that for an “America's Cup” racing team will take an adventurer to the Moon or Beyond!) I had a dream (of participation in spaceflight). The first steps led to Telemetry, Tracking and Control, in small rockets. They grew to guided rockets, and liquid fuel motors. A NASA funded project was added. Now they include a cluster of co-operating satellites. What next? God Knows! But MY Dream, like yours, began to become reality when I decided to Own it: to Attach My NAME to it, and take concrete steps. To put money into it (no matter how modest). The “Road to Space” is actually open: when you take those first actions, you step onto it! It is a long and difficult road, but all who walk that road are “Spaceflight Pioneers”. Not all will see their dreams completely realized, but all will be part of history, and will have aided others on that road. “The road goes on and on ...”, but all who have taken a step, and helped others on this road, will be able to take pleasure from being a part of this great adventure!