James Eric Davidson

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Jim Davidson at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver

James Eric Davidson, better known simply as Jim Davidson (born March 29, 1962) gained notoriety after being arrested in 1990 on charges of conducting an illegal lottery for potential space tourists.

1 Aerospace
2 Space Travel Services
3 Notes
4 External links

Aerospace

Davidson is a former director of the National Space Society, 1989-1990; former NSS chapters assembly organizer; logistics manager and announcer for the first licensed commercial space launch in March 1989 (Space Services Incorporated of America's Starfire One); former director of marketing for Microsatellite Launch Systems, 1989-1990. As president of the Houston Space Society 1988-1989, Davidson organized a scholarly conference on a lunar polar probe and helped form the Lunar Prospector Team. Principal investigator Alan Binder credits the group with early support for the ultimately successful project in his book on the project, Against All Odds (ISBN 1-928771-31-9).

Space Travel Services

Davidson gained notoriety on December 17, 1990 when he and two colleagues announced Space Travel Services of Texas had a contract with the Soviet space agency Glavkosmos to put one American on the Mir space station for seven days. The company offered the trip in a nationwide sweepstakes. In February 1991, charges of felony gambling and promotion of a lottery were filed against Space Travel president David Mayer and Jim Davidson in Harris County, Texas. Davidson was arrested on these charges.

The charges were dropped in May 1991, and the company went bankrupt.

Notes

^ http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/lp_prehistory_paper.htm Peter Kokh reviews Lunar Prospector history
^ http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/missions/mir/news/1990/19901218.html
^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DA1530F934A35751C0A967958260 The New York Times, 7 February 1991

External links

Lunar Prospector Team overview
Chicon V 1991 WorldCon scroll to or search for "Your Ticket to Orbit Has Been Confiscated"
Re: Plutonium really the "most toxic poison known to man"? A posting by Jim Davidson.
Biography of Davidson courtesy of The Indomitus Project.
Interview with Jim Davidson in American Chronicle, parts one and two
Interview continues with Jim Davidson in American Chronicle, parts three and four.

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