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 ; Mon, 7 Aug 89 00:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 00:20:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #587 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 587 Today's Topics: Re: It was 20 years ago today... Re: Electronic Journal of the ASA, Vol. I, No. I (part 2) Truly assigns JSC's Cohen to lead NASA preparation for new civil space goals (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Jul 89 17:34:08 GMT From: meccts!viper!dave@UMN-CS.CS.UMN.EDU (David Messer) Subject: Re: It was 20 years ago today... In article <1989Jul21.204236.2935@ziebmef.uucp> mdf@ziebmef.uucp (Matthew Francey) writes: >In article <4924@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) writes: >> >> Need I say anymore? > > You may have said too much. > > Sigh. I can't for the life of me figure out where the celebratory mood >in the media and the like came from. While watching the replay of the Great >Event, I could barely hold back a wail of despair when comparing what the US >space program once was (or might have been (or should have been)) to what it >is today. It is only natural for a society to celebrate it's zenith. Just as England looks back on the days when she ruled the seas, the US now looks back on her days of ascendency while the rest of the world pushes on to explore space. -- Remember Tiananmen Square. | David Messer dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or- | Lynx Data Systems ...!bungia!viper!dave ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jul 89 23:27:06 GMT From: garcon!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!ahiggins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Andrew Higgins) Subject: Re: Electronic Journal of the ASA, Vol. I, No. I (part 2) From: don@chara.UUCP (Donald J. Barry) > THE ONE DREAM MAN: ROBERT H. GODDARD, ROCKET PIONEER > > Copyright (c) Larry Klaes I really must object to this title. In Goddard's own words, "God pity a one- dream man." Even after he devoted his life to the attainment of space exploration, Goddard dabbled in all areas of physics, astronomy, and aviation. > What makes Goddard stand out is that he went beyond > just theorizing about various rocket designs and actually built working > models. Oh, and Oberth didn't? > In 1920, the Smithsonian Institution published Goddard's paper > on rocket concepts, "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes", in the > Smithsonian's Miscellaneous Collections (Volume 71, Number 2). At the recent International Space Development Conference in Chicago, I had the chance to talk to one of my heroes, Frederick I. Ordway III, who is one of the world's leading authorities on astronautics history (and was also the technical consultant to _2001: A Space Odyssey_). He mentioned that Goddard's paper ("A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes") appeared in a 20 volume Soviet encyclopedia on astronautics published in the early 1920's. More copies of this encyclopedia were circulated in the Soviet Union than copies of Goddard's original paper were printed in the U.S.!! And people wonder why we are second to everyone in space! > Another book (actually a multi-volume work) on Goddard's work > is THE PAPERS OF ROBERT H. GODDARD, edited by G. Edward Pendray > and Esther C. Goddard, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970. Highly recommended. Goddard kept a fairly thorough diary since the age of sixteen. The volumes also contain *all* of Goddard's correspondence. It is rather amusing to read the rejection letters he received from magazines like _Scientific American_ and _Popular Science News_ for articles he had written on spaceflight. -- Andrew J. Higgins | Illini Space Development Society prometheus@uiuc.edu | a chapter of the National Space Society phone: (217) 359-0056/333-1608 | at the University of Illinois P.O. Box 2255 - Station A, Champaign, IL 61825 "The ability of man to walk and actually live on other worlds has virtually assured mankind immortality." - Wernher von Braun ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jul 89 21:02:48 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Truly assigns JSC's Cohen to lead NASA preparation for new civil space goals (Forwarded) James W. McCulla Headquarters, Washington, D.C. July 27, 1989 RELEASE: 89-126 TRULY ASSIGNS JSC's COHEN TO LEAD NASA PREPARATION FOR NEW CIVIL SPACE GOALS Richard H. Truly, Administrator of NASA, today announced that he has asked Aaron Cohen, Director of the Johnson Space Center, to lead agency activities in response to the national goal of human exploration of the moon and the planet Mars announced by President Bush last week. Cohen will be temporarily assigned to NASA Headquarters in Washington for the next few months. Speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the President asked Vice President Quayle to lead the National Space Council to determine what is needed for the next round of exploration to establish a scientific outpost on the moon and begin human exploration of Mars. Recommendations to the President will be influenced markedly by the NASA effort which Cohen will lead. "From his engineering work in the early days of the Apollo program in the 1960s to today, when he leads the JSC team in support of the Shuttle and Space Station programs, Aaron has done outstanding work," Adm. Truly said. "No one in the agency is as well suited to prepare NASA to accept the challenges of this historic new project. Aaron will be calling on many other people across NASA to accomplish this comprehensive self-examination of the agency, and all of us look forward to this challenge. JSC will remain in good hands during this period under the leadership of Paul Weitz, the Deputy Director." ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #587 *******************