Towards the end of 1995, South London AAA began issuing statements regarding a proposed space launch. Even before the official launch of the AAA and the Five Year Plan for establishing a world-wide network of local, community-based groups dedicated to building their own space exploration programs, South London AAA had instigated a rigorous training program aimed at selecting Autonomous Astronauts for their Dreamtime Mission project. However, due to the secrecy of the mission and the necessity to avoid any interference from the government in this experiment with space travel, the names of Autonomous Astronauts and specific details of the mission were kept a secret. As the press release and the statement issued by the returning Autonomous Astronauts indicates, South London AAA intend to entirely re-invent the concept of what space travel is and can be.

PRESS RELEASE-issued November 1995

The Association of Autonomous Astronauts' independent space exploration program, launched on April 23rd 1995, includes a 'Five Year Plan' for establishing local, community-based Association of Autonomous Astronauts groups around the world, dedicated to building their own space ships.

South London Association of Autonomous Astronauts have now announced the dates of their DREAMTIME MISSION. After a rigorous training program, South London AAA have selected three Autonomous Astronauts who will be in space for a total of 66 hours, from 6 p.m. 21st December 1995 - 12 a.m. the 24th December 1995. This mission will therefore coincide with the Winter Solstice.

Due to the secrecy of the mission and the necessity to avoid any interference from the government in this experiment with space travel, specific details of the mission will be kept secret until the press conference is held for the returning Autonomous Astronauts. The location of the conference will be kept a secret until 24th December, but will take place later that day.

South London AAA Dreamtime Mission Statements include these declarations

An absolute belief in space as infinite and continuous was conjured up by the inexorable workings of rationality.

Centuries of psycho-social conditioning maintained by the Hegelian dialectic service a division between inner and outer space.

Our space travel will destroy the Gnostic concept of an inner space of mind (spirit) that conquers the outer space of the universe (matter).

Dualism is developed by the military and intelligence agencies as a means of controlling their monopoly on space exploration.

Knowledge is organised by the state to prevent the working class building their own space ships.

WHAT WE NEED TODAY IS AN INDEPENDENT SPACE EXPLORATION PROGRAM, ONE THAT IS NOT RESTRICTED BY MILITARY, SCIENTIFIC OR CORPORATE regulation of the identity of thought and being.

An independent space exploration program represents the struggle for emancipatory forms of thinking and being.

The days of this society are numbered.

STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE RETURNING AUTONOMOUS ASTRONAUTS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 24th1995

South London Association of Autonomous Astronauts proclaim the success of their DREAMTIME MISSION.

At 12 am today three Autonomous Astronauts from South London AAA returned from space. As part of the Dreamtime Mission we had been in space for a total of 66 hours. The following report attempts to indicate the form that our space travel has taken.

Space-age fictions have enabled us to enter the reality of a new concept of space. This concept formed the working parts for a new form of spacecraft (which we re-defined as our concept-craft) which we then constructed using the combined powers of our three minds. Once we had then located the particular orbit our concept-craft was taking around the earth, we simply climbed aboard. We could now move through a new space with the infinite speed of thought. Now we have returned with bloodshot eyes, like revellers after a night of excess, to report our experiences.

For the Dreamtime Mission we had constructed a concept-craft based on a new concept of space. Our new concept of space resists the opinions promoted by government space agencies such as NASA, who want the notion of a divide between inner and outer space. We now have the possibility of creating new concepts of space, concepts that each have their own autonomous existence and philosophical reality, but which still resonate with and connect to other possible concepts.

Like flashes of lightning, our space travel could be defined as a coming and going rather than a tedious advancing from point A to point B and so on. It was certainly more about losing our way than knowing where we were going. And like the lines of flight undertaken by objects floating in zero-gravity, the return of one movement of thought would relaunch another, ceaselessly weaving across and throughout this space that we could barely orientate ourselves in. We could see how in this space the most subjective thought is also the most objective.

We inferred that the space we were travelling through was fractal. In addition to this each movement we made was like the throws of a dice. We were discovering how intuition is important for a space travel that moves by creating connections.

Every movement of thought that passed through the whole of this space did so by immediately turning back on and folding in on itself, like a liquid escaping from gravity. These movements could also fold other movements of thought or allow itself to be folded by them thereby giving rise to retroactions, connections and proliferations in what we were beginning to discern as an infinitely folded up infinity that is/was the variably curved space we were travelling in.

To travel through space by means of concepts, at an infinite speed of thought, it is vital to destroy the illusion of a universe that is ours to control. Instead we move towards the possibilities of connecting with others as we pass from one world to the next. South London AAA are inventors of new immanent modes of space travel and these experimentations of ours are philosophical. The reality of our space travel is not concerned with what we are now but with what we are becoming, which is always different to the present (a present which has already ceased to be).