[FPSPACE] FW: [MarsHome] Sad news about Richard Sylvan, design team and political t.f.

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: Bruce Mackenzie ph <BMackenzie at alum.mit.edu>
>Reply-To: info at marshome.org
>To: Mars Foundation <Announce at marshome.org>
>Subject: [MarsHome] Sad news about Richard Sylvan,design team and political 
>t.f.
>Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:46:03 -0400
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>[Announcement from the Mars Foundation / Mars Homestead project - 
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>Dr. Richard Sylvan passed away this past weekend.
>
>Richard was passionate about helping people, obviously as a doctor.  But, I 
>knew him for his work in helping people move beyond the Earth, to open up 
>new opportunities for the next generations on the next world, Mars, and 
>beyond.
>
>Richard was instrumental in the Mars Homestead project.  He helped design 
>our first Mars Settlement design, now called the Hillside Settlement, 
>especially the medical facilities.  He was very interested and 
>knowledgeable, such as on the effects of radiation and gravity.   And, he 
>helped support the Mars Foundation and its Mars Homestead effort is several 
>other ways, when it was most needed.
>
>I had first met Richard through the Mars Society; he was especially active 
>in the Political task force.  His health was already not good, when we met. 
>  It took significant effort for him to travel, yet he loved to attend Mars 
>and Space conferences to learn and spread his knowledge to others.   I 
>remember him as passionate, and as energetic as he was able to be given his 
>health.
>
>Richard also had good stories to tell from his past, I wish I had known 
>Richard when he was younger.
>
>Here is a photo of Richard (on right), explaining something to Matt Bowes, 
>at a conference in 2004:
>http://www.marshome.org/images2/displayimage.php?pos=-1527
>
>Richard is 2nd from the right, in both of these photos of some of the 
>members of the Mars Homestead programming team:
>http://www.marshome.org/images2/displayimage.php?pos=-1794
>http://www.marshome.org/images2/displayimage.php?pos=-1894
>
>We don’t have an image of Richard’s work, but he laid out a medical room 
>for the Mars Hillside Settlement, which is just around the corner to the 
>left in this interior view (by Phil Smith):
>http://www.marshome.org/images2/displayimage.php?pos=-3420
>
>A service will be held Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at 1:30 edt, in Boynton 
>Beach, Florida.  Richard resided in Atlanta and Florida.
>
>-Bruce Mackenzie
>
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