GLPA Newsletter
Volume 61, Number 2
Summer Solstice, 2026
Bart Benjamin, Editor
Jackie Baughman, Cover
Articles
Minutes of the Spring Executive Committee Meeting Meeting
– Sally Brummel
Use GLPA for YOU – Newsletter
– Steve Burkland
Tributes to Mark Reed
– Garry Beckstrom, Art Klinger, et al.
A Tribute to Roger Grossenbacher
– Jeff Hunt
Tributes to Jon Marshall
– Garry Beckstrom, et al.
Columns
President’s Message
– Mike Smail
Editor’s Message
– Bart Benjamin
Dome to Dome
Bulletin Board
2026 GLPA Conference Update
Jack Daleske
Jon Marshall obituary
Roger W. Grossenbacher obituary
The Quarterly Question
Image Credits
Summer Solstice 2026 Cover — Artemis II takes us back to the Moon
• Cover design: Jackie Baughman (qnbaughman@gmail.com)
• Caption: Artemis II marked humanity’s return to deep-space exploration, carrying a crew of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon and back for the first time since the Apollo era. The early April mission successfully tested the Orion spacecraft and critical systems needed for future lunar landings, while inspiring a new generation to look outward toward the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
M96: A Galactic Maelstrom
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and LEGUS Team
Young stars in the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC and University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
M106: Composite of Amateur and Professional Astronomer Images
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (Hubble Heritage Team)
M13: A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Supernova remnant E0102 explodes within the Small Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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