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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
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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

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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 <shift>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

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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

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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

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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

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