From: John Brockman Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 7:10 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Cc: Lesley Groff Subject: check in, please - Edge London dinner JE, --What's up? Did you (and your island) get through =aria OK? In town this weekend off to London Monday. --KM and I are in London next =eek. Come to the Edge dinner, Thursday night (10/5). Date: Thursday, October 5th Time: 7:00 pm Place: The Red Fort, =7 Dean Street, Soho, W1D 3SH, 020 7437 2525 =nbsp; Map: bit.ly/2x658Hu <http://bit.ly/2x6S8Hu> RSVP: —My older brother Philip, the =ocket scientist, died That night, I went on Google and found out, for the =irst time, about his career, which began as a member of first hired =roup of physicists at NASA in 1958 (to work on Project Mercury =longside Alan Shepard and John Glenn) and his work as one of the =egendary "MAD scientists of MPD" in using plasma =hysics to provide the rocket thrust to achieve reliable orbit; and =ulminated as the technical head of the amazingly successful NASA/FAA =ffort to improve passenger aircraft safety. Who knew? We never had a =onversation about it and we did stay in touch over the years. See the =iece I wrote and the obit in the local NASA paper below. "Philip Pushes =he Button" (my piece) https://www.edge.org/philip-pushes-the-button "NASA Langley's =he "mad scientist' dies" (Daily Press, Hampton, =A) https://www.edge.org/news-update-on-philip- pushes-the-button —Anyone I should see in =ondon?? My Al project is taking off. I believe it will be the only =seful book as no one in the project is in the bag. You might want to =hink about providing some support as I am convening meetings to get the =ontributors to talk to each other. Here's the Cambridge meeting two =eeks ago, and the first meeting last year... JB —John =rockman mobile EFTA_R1_01360748 EFTA02365431