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A meeting of the Chicago Society for Space Studies Public Program at Schaumburg Library
The National Space Society booth at the 2002 World Space Congress. Left to right: CSSS Jim Plaxco, Larry Ahearn, Bruce MacKenzie, Marianne Dyson.
Illinois Institute of Technology's Jason Malkin (L), Apollo 13 astronaut Capt. James Lovell (C), National Space Society Executive Director George Whitesides (R) prior to Lovell receiving the NSS Heinlein Award.
A spacesuit onstage at the Music Institute of Chicago's Blast Off concert - Sept. 2007
Left to right: Phil Boyce, astronaut Dr. Loren Acton, Jim Plaxco, Bill Schmid, cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Victorovich Romanenko, David White, Joe Redfield, Jeffrey Liss, Bill Higgins, Melissa Bodeau, and Larry Ahearn October 10, 1989 at the Northeastern Illinois University Distinguished Lectureship Series event where cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Victorovich Romanenko and astronaut Dr. Loren Acton spoke on U.S./Soviet cooperation in space exploration and development.
Apollo 13 astronaut Captain James Lovell (R), NSS Executive Director George Whitesides (C), CSSS Vice President Jim Plaxco (L) before the award ceremony at the Illinois Institute of Technology - June 12, 2004.
Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko speaking to an audience at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry as part of a CSSS sponsored speaking tour of Chicago in April 1993
Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell introducing cosmonaut Georgi Grechko at the Adler Planetarium as a part of his CSSS Chicago speaking tour.
Jim Plaxco introducing Space Shuttle Astronaut Dr. Byron Lichtenberg to an audience at Harper College - Oct. 1993.
CSSS' Jim Plaxco providing narration to the Blast Off concert - performed by the Music Institute of Chicago Orchestra - Sept. 2007
Trying a space helmet on for size at the Music Institute of Chicago Blast Off Concert - Sept. 2007
Northern Illinois Space Advocacy President Jim Plaxco presenting the president of Harper College with a $500 donation towards the construction of an observatory on behalf of Chicago area NSS members and chapters. NISA subsequently merged with CSSS.
CSSS Moon Base Project construction image - forming lunar craters.
Megan, from the Music Institute of Chicago, posing with a spacesuit at the Blast Off concert - Sept. 2007
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols and Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin at a special NSS presentation at the 2002 World Space Congress
Space Policy Blitz 2016 - Jim Plaxco, Representative Randy Hultgren, Andrew Gasser, and Amador Salinas
Gary Johnson and CSSS President Jim Plaxco at the Libertarian National Convention
CSSS Jim Plaxco narrating the Blast Off concert performed by the Music Institute of Chicago Orchestra - Sept. 2007
CSSS Vice President Jim Plaxco accepts the NSS Chapter Award for Public Outreach from National Space Society Vice President for Chapters Arthur Smith at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles, California May 6, 2006.
Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko speaking to an audience at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry as part of a CSSS sponsored speaking tour of Chicago in April 1993
Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko speaking to an audience at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry as part of a CSSS sponsored speaking tour of Chicago in April 1993
NSA member Charlie Klingel, CSSS member Brian Szymanski, CSSS speaker Jim Plaxco at NSA Astronomy Day at Harper College.
CSSS Moon Base Project construction image - forming lunar craters.
The Blast Off concert underway - performed by the Music Institute of Chicago Orchestra - Sept. 2007
Jim Plaxco in front of the under-construction Space Shuttle Endeavour at Rockwell's Palmdale CA facility - May 1990

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