The Lebanese Rocket Society Page #5

like art and cinema

that such a project can take place.

Our territory, the place where

we're trying to live, can expand.

So, there is a message here...

in a certain way.

Our project is to offer a replica

to scale of the Cedar 4 rocket

8 meter long

and weighing nearly a ton

to the university where it all began.

A sculpture that pays tribute to the

Rocket Society and its dreamers.

Paul Haidostian

the university President

accepts and understands that there

only on the university grounds

can this rocket

be interpreted accurately:

as an artistic

and scientific project.

All our condolences

The government falls again!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

the government falls.

The Joumblatt bloc

can topple the government

Ben Ali makes concessions

Last chance to save Lebanon

Day after day, tension persists.

A new cabinet

does not seem to see the light.

Hariri:
me or chaos

The revolt of the Egyptian people

"legitimized" by the army

Dignity

Arab and Iranian regimes threatened

Egypt - Bahrain - Lybia

Tunisia-Iraq - Yemen

The region is boiling

Lebanon is snoring

Meanwhile

throughout the region and beyond,

things are changing profoundly.

Like an awakening after a long sleep

a sleep without dreams

in societies that hailed dictators

who narrowed horizons

and our yearning for space.

An extraordinary wind of freedom

is blowing in most of the region.

Strength, courage, dignity

are invading streets.

Men and women

revolt and don't fall silent

they cannot be silenced.

Despite the uncertain future

the fear of what could come next

longing for freedom and the

ability of dreaming came back.

And this dream cannot be stopped.

On February 21st

the day before D-Day

everything is ready.

We check the rocket's trajectory

for one last time

under dreadful, torrential rain.

We check the weather forecast:

Sunny tomorrow

with a possibility of rain...

Outwitting reality, provoking it

defying it, transforming it.

As a tribute to our dreamers

create a rocket.

But this is not a weapon.

This is the fruit of what a group

of scientists were some years ago

and of what we too could be today:

researchers, utopians, dreamers.

What if it had never stopped?

What if the Lebanese

space project had continued?

Welcome to the Museum

of the Lebanese Rocket Society.

You are going to discover the story

of the Lebanese space research

which began in 1960.

In 1969, the first Lebanese satellite

was launched into space.

Since then

satellites have played

a fundamental role in our country

on the economic

military and scientific levels.

Military satellites helped us

avoiding regional conflicts

and securing our borders

turning Lebanon nowadays into the

most secure countries of the area.

Scientific satellites discovered

gas fields in the territorial waters

by the end of the 60's

and helped turn this country

into the modern and developed nation

it has become.

On this glorious day

modern Nations have decided

to send probes into space

to pursue the mission

of the probe Voyager 1

launched years ago

on a reconnaissance mission.

Voyager 1

traveling at more than 17 km/s

in relation to the sun

carries a message

which symbolizes Humanity.

It will be the first probe

to approach a star.

Soon, the probe will stop working

because of a shortage of energy.

The mission of Voyager 1

is coming to an end

at a time when new probes

are being launched worldwide

Throughout their journey

these probes will gather

information through space

and send messages

in the form of images, sounds

and words from our planet.

All this information

is engraved on Golden Records

destined to reach

life in outer space.

Lebanon is sending

out the probe Adonis

bearing the colors

of the Lebanese flag

which will travel through space

with other probes

from all over the world

for an encounter with the absolute.

The Lebanese Golden Record

has collected images

and sounds from Lebanon

to carry them far and very high

as a message of peace and liberty.

I will borrow the words

that President Jimmy Carter

used for the launching of Voyager 1

to also send our message to the

dwellers of other skies saying:

"This is a present

from a small, distant world

"a token of our sounds

"our science, our images

"Our history

our thoughts and our feelings.

"We are attempting

to survive our time"

"so we may live into yours."

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