Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Sat, 3 Feb 90 01:29:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sat, 3 Feb 90 01:29:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #4 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 4 Today's Topics: Re: Magellan Update - 01/17/90 Re: Magellan Update - 01/17/90 Former head of Apollo program dies Re: SPACE ACTIVIST ALERT Re: Magellan Update - 01/17/90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2 Feb 90 18:42:26 GMT From: calvin.spp.cornell.edu!johns@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (John Sahr) Subject: Re: Magellan Update - 01/17/90 In article <1990Jan30.162930.14286@calvin.spp.cornell.edu> johns@calvin.spp.cornell.edu.UUCP I write: >901306800000 furlongs/fortnight --- it's not just a good idea, it's the law. Someone wrote and pointed out that I screwed up this number. Multiply the one above by 2. You will have plenty of opportunities to use this number, so copy it down and remember it. -- John Sahr, | Electrical Engineering - Space Plasma Physics johns@alfven.spp.cornell.edu | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 ------------------------------ Date: 2 Feb 90 16:56:12 GMT From: mailrus!uflorida!mephisto!prism!gt7545b@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (John B. Cooper) Subject: Re: Magellan Update - 01/17/90 Concerning the Magellan/Galileo reports from JPL: If you don't like these updates having English rather than metric units, there is a shell script in your news program that will automatically convert all units in English to metric, kind of like x does to decode ROT13 messages. Just hit "u" whenever you want to "undo" those nasty un-metric numbers. Should work just fine. P.S. - I hate flaming on this newsgroup; the people on here are too intellegent to worry about stuff like that. -- John B. Cooper Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt7545b Internet: gt7545b@prism.gatech.edu ------------------------------ Date: 2 Feb 90 17:49:15 GMT From: crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen@uunet.uu.net (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Subject: Former head of Apollo program dies Air Force General Samuel Phillips, who headed NASA's Apollo program when the United States put the first man on the moon, dies Jan 31st of heart failure. He was 68. Phillips, who retired as an four-star Air Force general in 1975, headed the Apollo Lunar Landing Program of NASA from 1964 to 1969. He returned to NASA in 1986 to conduct a management review and recommend changes in the wake of the Challenger disaster. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me ------------------------------ Date: 1 Feb 90 23:30:58 GMT From: att!cbnewsj!skran@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (dale.l.skran) Subject: Re: SPACE ACTIVIST ALERT In article <9001300244.AA21250@trout.nosc.mil>, jim@pnet01.cts.COM (Jim Bowery) writes: > > > OBJECTIVE > > Remove Scott Pace from the Department of Commerce's space office. > > > * As Chairman of the National Space Society's Legislative Committee, > opposed endorsement of Baldrige's Commercially Developed Space Facility > when support for that facility was most needed, thus leaving us with > NO SPACE FACILITY until "Freedom" is built, IF EVER And a good thing he did for reasons already discussed in sci.space. CDSF would wipe out spacehab. > * Is considered by most activists as working against HR2674 A lie. Scott has always supported HR2674, and worked to make it a reality. > * Has virtually no commercial experience Has tons of space policy experience. > * Is heavily affiliated with government space interests through his employment > at the RAND Corporation and position of authority in the National Space > Society and its political organizations Translation: has done more for the pro-space movement than Bowery will ever do. > * Is considered to be a two-faced suck-up supporting whatever the current > power structure is doing while claiming to represent the grass-roots > (ie: YOU) to YOUR Congressional representatives Translation: Bowery doesn't like him because he is intelligent, persuasive, and gets more recognition than bowery. I am pleased to see Scott Pace in Washington and wish him the best of luck. He is a real grassroots activist who finally will be in a position to have some real effect on what we are doing in space. Those of you on the net who are serious about the pro-space movement would do well to imitate Scott and ignore Bowery's flames. Dale Skran ------------------------------ Date: 2 Feb 90 22:02:49 GMT From: skipper!shafer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer (OFV)) Subject: Re: Magellan Update - 01/17/90 In article <21900064@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: So do as the French do, and measure your angles in grads -- a grad of longitude is near enough to 100 km at the equator. Oh, and by the way, 8-). Isn't the g in grad for German? -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov or ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #4 *******************