Well, I’m back!
The volunteers and I have been working on the next version of the website coming late August and new graphics from the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Part of the new website will include "notes" we’ve obtain permission from the British Interplanetary Society (http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/) and we’re working with Ipix.Com for our Tech Museum exhibition section.

The past few days have been incredible "space wise" from the discovery of water on Mars to the next mission to the International Space Station and the latest news from Dr. Greer from the disclosure Project! I’ve added links and brief information about that but first, let’s get to the point about no-censorship:

UPDATES NEWS FOR ALL ARTISTS #3:
Model maker, Alan Nadel has updated me about the Discovery Channel credit issue. Way to go Alan!

Wow! I actually got a reply from The Discovery Channel that I would call "satisfactory". Of course, this was after two previous replies that basically read, "Thank you for contacting us at Discovery.com ...Our viewers are important to us...Please send any inquiries to..." Today I got an e-mail back that read:

Subject: Regarding removal of credits
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:08:41 -0400
From: viewer_relations@discovery.com
To: Alan Nadel <noodle@ixpres.com>

Dear Viewer:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us regarding our discussion of credits at the end of programs. Your feedback is important to us and we value the comments of all our viewers on this issue.

Over the past few months, we've talked with our production partners about end-of-show credits and how they meet their business needs. As a result of these discussions, Discovery Networks decided to give our production partners a choice about how to run credits at the end of their programs.

A specific number of credits that run at the beginning of the program;
Production company logo at the end of the program;

Web support including an on-air throw at the end of the program to a complete list of credits on the web (discovery.com/credits) and links to the Production Company’s web site. The web support is at Discovery Networks' cost, and the credits for specific programming will live on the site for approximately 6 months after each program airs; and, "Special thanks" messages as needed on air.

This new, innovative option is designed to help our production partners develop new business and help us meet the needs of our viewers. Most of our production partners have been enthusiastic about changing the way we run credits at the end of shows.

Our producers and our viewers are our most valuable allies in this process, so we appreciate your feedback. Thank you again for contacting us.

A reply to this message is not necessary. For more information about schedules and programming check our website, www.discovery.com. If you have any further inquiries or comments, please contact us via our webform at http://extweb.discovery.com/ViewerRelations. Thank you again for expressing your interest in our programming.

Sincerely,

Viewer Relations
Discovery Networks

I'm satisfied with their response. It shows that they really did read my e-mail and do care about what their viewers think (well, at least am little bit). Allan Butler told me he was involved in a discussion on the subject with the powers that be at TDC. Nice to know they listen.

Website Update:
Visit the 2010 section under the Design category for the latest graphics June 6 and 7, 2002. I want to thank "Space Odyssey" local fan, Terry Boblet for teaching me Cyrillic and Russian for our new 2010 section:
http://www.2001exhibit.org/arts/designs.html

We’ve added Mike Jackson’s famous 2001 computer graphics in our design pages and we’ll be adding more as well as 2010 computer graphics. Also, Mike’s website, HAL 9000 was interrupted by accident by his ISP without notice. They are no longer around for the time being, so he is moving the site to a new home. If you have any questions, please contact him at:

Mike Jackson
Mental Pictures Photography & Graphic Design
(228) 696-2702 Phone/ Fax
(228) 918-4596 Cellular

Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-111 Mission:
STS-111, which is the 14th shuttle mission to the station, will deliver the Mobile Remote Servicer Base System and the Expedition Five crew. The mission is slated to launch from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 4:23 p.m. CDT (2123 GMT) Wednesday. For more information about the mission, visit http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/ or to watch the lift off and docking to ISS, visit http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/index.html and http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

Mars Odyssey Mission:
For updates, visit: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/

Update from J. L. Ayuso from TWINCH SQAUD:
Hello,

Here in TWINCH SQUAD we have today very fresh news about our company, And the future of it. As you know very well, because you've been suffering the delay in shipping your order, we've experienced serious production troubles and "workshop crew" troubles too. All of it resulted, of course, in financial troubles... the mother of all troubles!
In the other side, we've discussing the spacesuit production with manufacturing companies in Asia, and it become fruitless...
And then...

Maybe you're familiar with the old MADELMAN action figures.
They were manufactured in Spain, since the late 60's till early 80's.
They were 6" tall, half the size of the GI Joes. They are now highly collectible items! They were of superb quality, with very detailed accessories, vehiclesand outfits. The figure itself was very well articulated (though fragile). A 2001 astronaut was produced in the line, a delightful figure, which I enjoyed greatly when I was a kid, and probably is the origin of the 2001 TWINCH SQUAD spacesuit.

Now, in 2002, a big toy company in Spain has relaunched the Madelman!
New figures (a little Dragon figure of 6", more or less), new outfits...
They are manufactured, of course, in China. The manager director was the production manager in HASBRO Spain for 20 years.

Believe it or not, their offices are here, in Valencia. A ten minutes Car rides from our studio! One of my bigger clients in my graphic design Studio is the Valencia Stock Exchange. The managing director of the citrus futures market, my direct client there, is a very close friend of the managing director of the Madelman manufacturers. Of course, they talked about us.
"You know, my designer owns an action figure little company" The new Madelman has been designed and developed in England, at a very high cost.
This man couldn't believe he had the solution at home. "Well, maybe we should meet".

Oh man; wish you should be there then! I had an interview with the Madelman line product manager, a very nice woman called Mila. I carried with me a couple of suits. The big man, obviously, was not very interested being there. He was in another meeting, and he was going to be there for all morning.

Mila observed the suits in complete silence for five minutes. Then, she Told me "excuse me for a minute, please", leaving the office.
A couple of minutes later, she returned. With the big man. I recognized Him because the news of the Madelman relaunches was a matter of every single TV news bulletin in Spain, and he was interviewed.
He observed the spacesuits in complete silence for a couple of minutes.
"Maybe we should talk in my office". A five-hour meeting followed!

After that, we had a lot of work to do. We agreed with them to prepare proposals, in absolute secret. We've been very busy the last two months...

We presented our proposals last weeks. And we succeed! The result:
We're going to design high quality outfits and vehicles for the Madelman...
we're going to design too a new line of very high quality12" figures and outfits!!! Everything is there: Our 2001 spacesuit (which they will try to license), historical spacesuits (Gemini, Mercury, Apollo), very well known movies and TV series spacesuits, military, historical...

One of our first demands was that every single client of ours would Receive free of charge a couple of the new releases. So, in a few months, we won't be manufacturing anymore. Only design, prototyping and quality control.
We expect to make together very good things.

We're discussing now the terms of our contract. And we've redesigned our schedule. Our objective number one is to fulfill all our pendent orders.
We've contracted new people to do it, and we expect to finish all of them before mid June.

Thanks to you, because you supported us all this time. And I never
Forget that!

Sorry to keep away from the latest news but I’ve been trying to catch up with new blueprints and working with other organizations to improve the website for you. We will be around for a very long time.
I want to thank (if I forgotten) Randy Jensen, USA, Raja Thiagarajan, USA and Wilson Lee, USA, for donating funds for our entry in the Webby Awards.
If you have 2001/2010 news to report to the World Tonight, please send them to me! Until then…

See you next Wednesday (Frank).

THE WEBBY AWARDS REPORT: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY COLLECTIBLES EXHIBIT.
The Webby Awards review is over and we were not picking for this years award competition. This doesn’t mean we’ve given up, we are now working on the website for the next design version, which will be fantastic!

As you know, the Webby Awards is about recognizing websites with good content in a category. Since we are non-profit, the fee is 95.00 to enter the event and we are asking 5.00 per mailing list member to send to us to cover costs if they want to. So far we’ve raised 45.00. We’ve been given an extension to apply but the organizers have given the "2001" Exhibit.Org a place for the awards without fee for the time being.
For details about the awards, visit http://www.webbyawards.com

My address is, Dennis Gonzales, 82 N. Ellsworth Ave. #B, San Mateo CA 94401. Donors will be noted on the special page or anonymously.
We also offer PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=webmaster%402001exhibit.org

DISCLOSURE: ONE YEAR LATER

By Dr. Steven Greer,
Disclosure Project Director
May 28, 2002

In May 2001 - just one year ago - The Disclosure Project was launched with one of the largest and best-attended press conferences in the history of the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington DC.

In the following days, Disclosure Project military and government witnesses to UFO, extraterrestrial and related projects and events had been seen and heard on CNN, CNN World, BBC, The Voice of America, CBS Radio News and countless other media outlets in the US and around the world. Dozens of meetings with members of Congress and their offices occurred, resulting in the greatest wave of education of our national leaders on this important subject in history.

The webcast of the NPC event on May 9, 2001 had over 400,000 people attempting to view it live over the internet - an historic number that
puts the event at the top of all Internet webcast programs since the Internet was created.

Astonishingly, over 1 million people have viewed the 2 hour NPC video through our website, www.DisclosureProject.org. This again is an historic number and represents the enormous interest in society for the UFO issue.

Dozens of Campaign for Disclosure events have been organized around the world, and we have addressed tens of thousands of people live in audiences from New York to Vancouver.

And in the past year, 119 new military and government witnesses have been identified, many who stand ready to testify at the next Disclosure event.

The Disclosure Project website, www.DisclosureProject.org, has had nearly 10 million hits with up to 800,000 hits on a single day occurring.

And we have created a new company, Space Energy Access Systems (www.SEASPower.com) to identify, create, test and prove the existence of new energy and propulsion systems to replace fossil fuels in the coming years.

Leaders in society - top Pentagon officials, Ambassadors, Congressmen, world leaders and others- continue to inquire about the Disclosure Project and we continue to hold important briefings for these and
others each month.

Over 100 people have signed on as Disclosure Project Representatives around the world, and we are beginning to organize them into a substantial educational team to get the word out on a local, grass-roots basis.

All of this has been accomplished with little to no staff, a very meager budget - but the most extraordinary dedication of a core of volunteers and funders.

Imagine what we could do if we had a significant increase in our resources, funds and volunteers!

So where to from here?

In the coming months, we would like to begin filming the dozens of new military and government witnesses to UFO, ET and related events and projects. And in the fall, hold another National Press Club Disclosure event, with new witnesses and even more public awareness.

And we urgently need your help.

The out of pocket expenses for filming, editing, travel, NPC expenses, etc. - even while using mostly volunteer labor - will be between
$150,000 - $200,000. If each person reading this gave only $25 by the end of June, 2002, we would be able to move to the next level of Disclosure.

The courageous witnesses, the dedicated volunteers - and the world - are ready to spring into action and unveil the next level of Disclosure.
Please help us by contributing what you can and by getting the word out to everyone you know.

Refer them to the website, www.DisclosureProject.org, get a copy of the National Press Club tape and air it on your local cable access system, or show it at your school, university, business or church.

And please, give what you can to Disclosure. The world will not wait another 50 years.

Donations may be made on our website at www.DisclosureProject.org, or may be sent to PO Box 265, Crozet, VA 22932.