Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from corsica.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Thu, 27 Jul 89 00:29:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 00:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #558 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 558 Today's Topics: Re: TF-104 Re: Space Transportation Act Re: Apollo 11 anniversary. Re: I'm getting too old for this George Bush's Upcoming Speech - Have YOUR Say! Significance of July 20th Re: space news from June 12 AW&ST Interesting Apollo crew observations NASA awards grants for future exploration studies (Forwarded) Magellan Status for 07/17/89 (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Jul 89 22:02:48 GMT From: skipper!shafer@ames.arc.nasa.gov Subject: Re: TF-104 In article <1063@dinl.mmc.UUCP> holroyd@dinl.uucp (kevin w. holroyd) writes: >>In article shafer@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov writes: >>Greenamyer's F-104 was the structural test article--I'm not sure I'd >>like to fly in something used to test structural fatigue life! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I should have said proof load (sorry) >>There's another TF-104, in a museum in Texas that also has a MiG-15 >>and an F-86. One of our test pilots flies all three for them. >All three of these airplanes participated in an air show at Centennial >last year. One day after the show was over, I was working with a student >doing touch and goes. I heard the Starfighter call for clearance to taxi on >ground freq. Suitably warned, I timed our pattern so we would be on upwind >(we were on the parallel runway) when the TF-104 took off. What a sight. >It was up and out of there and very quickly, and soon was only a smoke trail in >the distance. And I'm sure he was throttled back since we were under >a TCA. When I got my ride in the TF-104 we did a max-performance takeoff and it was incredible! The pilots here claim that nothing can match the F-104, although they're starting to accept the F-18s that we got to replace the F-104s. They do like using radar to find the test aircraft when flying chase--saves a lot of "Where are you now?" chatter. I think that the most impressive takeoff I've ever seen was an Ames U-2, though. I believe the TR-2 is just as good, although I haven't seen one yet. -- M F Shafer shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center arpa!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer Dryden Flight Research Facility ames!elxsi!shafer Of course I don't speak for NASA DON'T use the drynix address ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jul 89 22:36:57 GMT From: mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Space Transportation Act In article <4205@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> larryb@speed.CNA.TEK.COM (Larry Brader) writes: >>...my blessing to the concept that the the government be forced to give up >>it's milspecs and such when it is requesting a parcel delivery to LEO. > >Considering the harsh enviroment of space I'm surprise you suggest this. >What specifications do you actually require for electronics/mechanical items >in space? the moon? That they work. Which does not imply milspec. Details depend on the environment. Note that he's talking about launchers, not payloads, too. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jun 89 05:38:14 GMT From: hplabsb!dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (David Smith) Subject: Re: Apollo 11 anniversary. Re: I'm getting too old for this In article <1091@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes: >Would this person's name be "Module" by any chance? I remember hearing >on the TV News at around the time of Apollo 11, that someone in the >States had named her newly-born daughter "Module". I don't recall whether the baby was boy or girl, but the name given was Lunar Module McGee. -- David R. Smith, HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (415) 857-7898 ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jul 89 05:03:15 GMT From: EWTILENI@pucc.princeton.edu (Eric William Tilenius) Subject: George Bush's Upcoming Speech - Have YOUR Say! President George Bush will be giving a speech dealing with space policy on July 20. Dan Quayle and the National Space Council have already unveiled a plan that would consist of putting a base on the moon, then going on to exploration of Mars. According to a column in the Washington Post (7/12): "Whether the president will use his July 20 speech to buy the full Quayle package or only bits and pieces will not be known until he returns from Europe." YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!! IF YOU CARE ABOUT HAVING A SPACE, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT! Bush is a president who is very sensitive to public moods and opinions. If the White House gets lots of calls urging him to commit to a broad, extensive, far-ranging space program -- including BOTH the Moon and Mars -- the chances of his committing to these goals on July 20 increases tremendously! CALL OR WRITE THE WHITE HOUSE WITH YOUR OPINIONS TODAY! LET PRESIDENT BUSH KNOW THAT WE WANT A VIBRANT CIVILIAN SPACE PROGRAM THAT AMERICA CAN BE PROUD OF ONCE AGAIN! The Address: President George Bush ----------- The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 The Phone: 202-456-1414 (Ask for the General Comments Office --------- or say you'd like to leave your opinion.) PLEASE CALL OR WRITE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN SUPPORT OF BOTH A MOON BASE AND A MARS MISSION!! IF WE MISS THIS JULY 20 OPPORTUNITY, WE MAY BE WAITING UNTIL WE GET A NEW PRESIDENT FOR ANOTHER CHANCE. - ERIC - Eric W. Tilenius | ColorVenture Software | ewtileni@pucc.BITNET Quadrangle Club | 11 Prospect Drive South | ewtileni@pucc.Princeton.EDU 33 Prospect Avenue | Huntington Sta, NY 11746 | rutgers!pucc.bitnet!ewtileni Princeton, NJ 08540 | 516-424-2298 | princeton!pucc!ewtileni 609-683-4411 | * Sft. for the CoCo 3 * | CIS: 70346,16 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 12:37:37 CDT From: pyron@lvvax1.csc.ti.com (Who remembers 8USER.PAR?) Subject: Significance of July 20th For me, the moon walk happened on July 21st. For most of the world, this is true, since the time was so late in the Western Hemisphere, the remainder was already into July 21. Not that this matters much or obscures the meaning of the celebration, but I've always observed it on July 21 and nobody seemed to contradict me. A happy 20th to Neil, Buzz, Mike and everyone who helped! Dillon Pyron | The opinions are mine, the facts TI/DSEG Lewisville Computer Services | probably belong to the company. pyron@lvvax1.csc.ti.com | (214)462-5449 | I hear Quayle sent Michel Jackson | congratulations on hearing it was | the 20th anniversary of the moonwalk ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 12:02:40 GMT From: b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown%B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU@pt.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: space news from June 12 AW&ST In article <1989Jul18.030914.3417@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) wrote: }Story on Ball Aerospace's large-array image-intensifying sensors, one of }which will be the sensor on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph }(first of the second-generation instruments that will eventually replace }the current ones on the Hubble telescope). They also have potential Any bets on whether the replacement will be done before or after launch? :-) }Rockwell International says that cutting production costs for ALS engines }appears best done through simple designs, new production processes, and }less use of exotic materials. The efficiency of the manufacturing process }is more important than ultimate maximum engine performance, Rockwell says. BDB rears its head again.... -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 FAX: available on request Disclaimer? I claimed something? PROGRAM n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunies for reward. -- from a flyer advertising for _Inside_Turbo_Pascal_ ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jul 89 15:57:12 GMT From: iconsys!danny@uunet.uu.net (Danny Young) Subject: Interesting Apollo crew observations The July Astronomy magazine quotes Buzz Aldrin's comments on standing on the moon: "I quickly discovered that I felt balanced--comfortably upright--only when I was tilted slightly forward. I also felt a bit disoriented: On Earth when one looks at the horizon, it appears flat. On the Moon, so much smaller than the Earth and quit without high terrain (at least in the Sea of Tranquility), the horizon in all directions visibly curved down away from us." Were these sensations anticipated? Are there other interesting observations that Apollo crews have made that perhaps came as a surprise to them? -- Danny Young USENET: uunet!iconsys!danny Icon International, Inc. ARPANET: icon%byuadam.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu 764 East Timpanogos Pkwy BITNET: icon%byuadam.bitnet Orem, Utah 84057-6212 Telephone: (801) 225-6888 ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 19:53:30 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA awards grants for future exploration studies (Forwarded) Edward Campion July 18, 1989 Headquarters, Washington, D.C. RELEASE: 89-118 NASA AWARDS GRANTS FOR FUTURE EXPLORATION STUDIES NASA's Office of Exploration has awarded a series of study contracts to various organizations to provide NASA with ideas, concepts, devices, systems, trajectories, operations or implementations which could be applied to furthering human exploration of the solar system. The 20 winners, selected from 115 proposals submitted in response to the April 12, 1989, NASA Research Announcement, are located in 12 different states and come from various occupations with five industry-related firms, two space support-related organizations and 13 universities receiving awards. In selecting the winners, the criteria applied to all the submissions was the experience of the principal investigator, the relevance of the proposal to programs of human exploration of the solar system, the performance improvement or complexity reduction possibilities and the uniqueness of the idea or concept. Space Support-Related Organization Winners o Oregon L-5 Society, Inc., Oregon City, Ore. - "Site Characterization of the Oregon Moonbase." o Tether Applications, La Jolla, Calif. - "Preliminary Design of a 1KM/SEC Tether Transport Node." Industry-Related Winners o Martin Marietta Strategic Systems, Denver, Colo. - "Study of Nuclear Thermal Rockets Utilizing Indigenous Martian Propellants." o Dean & Associates, Alexandria, Va. - "An Early Warning System for Monitoring Large Projects." o Titan Systems, Inc., San Diego, Calif. - The Evolution of Design Alternatives for the Exploration of Mars by Balloon." o Engineering Development Laboratory, Inc., Newport News, Va. - "Determination of the Concentration of Spacecraft Cabin Gases using Laser Spectroscopy." o Orbitec, Madison, Wis. - "Aluminum/Oxygen Rocket Engine for Lunar Transport Applications" and "The Use of Tethered Platforms to Recover, Store, and Utilize CO2 from the Mars Atmosphere for On- Orbit Propellants." University-Related Winners o Energy & Mineral Research Center, Grand Forks, N.D. - "Further Investigation of the Feasibility of Applying Low-Temperature Plasma Technology to a Closed-Loop Processing Resource Management System." o Texas Engineering Experiment Station, College Station, Texas - "Design of a General Purpose, Mobile, Multifunctional Radiation Shield for Space Exploration." o Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. - "Design Considerations of a Lunar Production Plant." o Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Mich. - "Planetary Materials and Resource Utilization." o The Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif. - "A Small Particle Catalytic Thermal Reactor (SPCTR) for the Conversion of CO and CO2 to Methane in a Gravity-Free Environment Vehicle." o The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. - "Advanced Fuel Cycles for the MICF - Fusion Propulsion System." o Boston University, Boston, Mass. - "Pneumatic Structures for Lunar and Martian Habitats." o State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y. - "Artificial Intelligence to Simulate the Green Thumb." o The Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. - "Mars Tethered Sample Return Study." o The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. - "Teleprospector: A Teleoperated Robotic Field Geologist." o Duke University, Durham, N.C. - "Deployable Magnetic Radiation Shields using High Tc Superconductors: A New Concept." o International Space University, Boston, Mass. - "International Lunar Polar Orbiter (ILPO)." o The University of Texas, Houston, Texas - "Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care to Support Human Exploration of the Solar System." The Office of Exploration intends to follow these selections with future solicitations for other innovative ideas and concepts. These follow-on studies could be to refine concepts studied this year or to deepen NASA's understanding or reexamine using different conditions or ground rules; or these future studies could be aimed at finding more new ideas. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 17:54:08 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Magellan Status for 07/17/89 (Forwarded) MAGELLAN WEEKLY STATUS July 17, 1989 This is a weekly status report. The Magellan spacecraft continues to perform twice daily momentum wheel desaturations and, for purposes of attitude update, once daily star calibrations. All of the desaturations were normal and seven of nine of the star calibrations were successful. Two were interrupted and anomalies in the star scans are being investigated. For 15 hours on July 8 the spacecraft maneuvered to the alternate Medium-Gain Antenna attitude to gather additional Rocket Engine Module temperature data. The data showed that REM temperatures in August and September should be about 87 C (188.6 F). This will require plans to work around the problem unless ground tests now underway show the higher temperature will be safe. The Solid Rocket Motor upper dome temperatures are increasing slightly each day, and prior to this report, the temperature was 30 C (86 F). Results of tests by Morton Thiokol, received last Wednesday, show that the upper dome temperature limits can be raised to 70 C (158 F) for a sustained period of four weeks, or 80 C (176 F) for a period of two weeks. After review, it is expected the higher limit will be used. The Cruise-6 computer command sequence was uplinked Sunday and took effect today. The uplink was attempted three times before it was successful, and the problem was attributed to Goldstone. SPACECRAFT Distance From Earth (mi) 10,167,907 Velocity Geocentric 9,024 mph Heliocentric 67,493 mph One Way Light Time 54.6 sec ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #558 *******************