The Planetary Society is embarking on a major effort to clean out our building in preparation for selling it and moving in to more modern quarters. (While this has something to do with the state of our finances, it has much more to do with the fact that our headquarters is an architecturally significant building that needs a lot of repair and restoration, and The Society has taken the decision that restoring significant architecture to the tune of several hundreds of thousands of dollars is not an appropriate use of our members' dues and donations.) As a result, in a month we'll be doing a great big sale and giveaway from the house, and among the things we're giving away are back issues of The Planetary Report.

I figure many people here would be interested in receiving back issues but won't be able to drop by the sale. So -- if the demand is not too overwhelming -- I might be interested in assembling packages of back issues for a small number of people. I'd ask you to pay for postage and a little extra for my time, whatever you think that's worth. I'd ship using Priority Mail flat rate boxes. I weighed a stack of Planetary Reports and it comes out almost exactly to one pound per year (6 issues). Here is the domestic Priority mail rate scale, and here is the international rate scale. I'd entertain requests for single issues but would prefer it if you'd just request whole years (or continuous date ranges) as that requires much less thinking on my part. I think I will probably be able to find whole years' worth going back to 1990; before that, there are some issues missing here and there from our collections.

Send me an email (blog at planetary.org) if you're interested.

--Emily

Finally a chance to get the issue of Planetary Report with lead article - Bootleg Postcards... Do You take PayPal?

May I point out that there's no "finally" about that one, Phil -- if you'd wanted a copy of that issue all you needed to do was join the Society at the time it was published earlier this year!

Yes, we do take Paypal. Contact me by email at blog at planetary.org and I'll get the details to you.

--Emily

I did send email on address provided but had no answer up to now.Is my request to have back issues from the very start up to 1989(thats when i became a member) possible or too far fetched?

Apologies for my lack of response to your emails on this -- last week was absolutely insane for me, and this week is even worse. Hopefully I'll be able to reply next week.

--Emily

Emily, for those of us in the LA area, will there actually be a "yard sale" event? If not, maybe scheduled pick-up times for stuff?

Understand that permitting in-person visits like that to HQ TPS might easily turn into a logistical nightmare, but thought I'd ask.

Nprev, indeed we are having an enormous yard sale, on October 17. Lots of stuff will be given away. I hope we'll empty out two thirds of the crap treasures that have accumulated in our offices over two decades. If you're a member in Southern California you should be getting a postcard at some point.

For those of you who won't make it to the yard sale, I should point out we're also clearing out all our old merchandise from our online store -- we're going to be setting up a new shop with all-new merchandise. Posters and spacecraft kits are especially cheap. For those of you who are MER fans, you can get a Red Rover Goes to Mars patch for 50 cents. Why not?