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 ; Fri, 8 Jun 1990 01:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Fri, 8 Jun 1990 01:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #506 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 506 Today's Topics: Voyager 1 Images Revealed Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed Re: Ulysses/plutonium Payload Status for 06/07/90 (Forwarded) Logajan's rule of satellites Veteran astronaut Hawley to accept executive position at Ames (Forwarded) Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle Program is terminated (Forwarded) Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed Re: Doing something/political reality Re: 2001/2010 and Gravity in the Pod Bay Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription notices, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Jun 90 20:58:46 GMT From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Voyager 1 Images Revealed Voyager 1 Images Revealed Yesterday, NASA unveiled the historic "family portrait" of the planets taken from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1. A series of 64 black-and-white photos were crafted into a mosaic and serveral several color portraits of individual planets were also shown. Voyager 1 photographed the images of the solar system February 14, at a point 32 degrees above the plane of the Sun's equator and scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory compressed the images in a single photo, removing vast empty spaces that would have extended the montage to 100 feet or more. The portrait includes the Sun, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune but Mercury was too close to the Sun and Mars was omitted because its position made it appear as a sliver of a crescent. _ _____ _ | | | __ \ | | Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov | | | |__) | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov ___| | | ___/ | |___ M/S 301-355 | |_____/ |_| |_____| Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 22:34:02 GMT From: bbn.com!ncramer@eddie.mit.edu (Nichael Cramer) Subject: Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes: > Voyager 1 Images Revealed > Yesterday, NASA unveiled the historic "family portrait" of the planets >taken from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1... OK, net, so where are the GIFs?? ;) N ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 90 16:03:43 CDT From: Will Martin Subject: Re: Ulysses/plutonium >Dr. Edward Teller has offered to *eat* a quantity of Pu if a journalist >will at the same time eat a similar quantity of caffeine. No takers... What probably hasn't been emphasized enough in the discussion on this quote, though it has been alluded to, is the definition of "similar quantity". If it is by weight, Teller would eat a minute speck of Pu whilst the journalist would drink a small beaker-full of caffeine. Result = one dead journalist. I suppose Teller would have to turn in his bodily wastes to the DOE for the next n days for them to retrieve the Pu, which is, I believe a "controlled substance". Having ingested a "controlled substance", I wonder if Teller would have to undergo a urine test thereafter... "Nurse, take this sample into the closet and see if it glows." :-) The logs for the Pu distribution would have an interesting entry: " micrograms (Curies? what do they measure Pu in?) eaten by Dr. Teller"... Then, later, " micrograms retreived from Dr. Teller"... Hmmm... maybe this could start a fad amongst physics students, like goldfish-eating... :-) Regards, Will ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 20:10:13 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 06/07/90 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 06-07-90. - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at Pad-A) - Launch countdown and scrub/turnaround support continue today. -STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) - Electrical, mechanical and fluid preps for CITE testing along with MVAK training continues. - STS-41 Ulysses (at ESA 60) - CITE MUE validation will continue today. - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) - Rack, floor, and module staging along with water servicer validations are continuing. - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) - Pallet staging operations were performed on third shift today. - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) - Lifter arm installation and coldplate hoist assembly proofloading will be performed third shift Friday. - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) - Rack 11 staging continues. - STS- 55 SL-D2 (at O&C) - Rack 12 staging continues. - STS-LON-3 HST M&R (at O&C) - ORUC interface testing will be active today along with MLI installation. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 21:59:46 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!ns!logajan@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Logajan) Subject: Logajan's rule of satellites After adding a "local radar" mode to my graphic satellite tracker, I am able to relate an observation made -- at least 10% of all satellites in orbit around the earth are above YOUR local horizons at any given instant. -- - John Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - logajan@ns.network.com, john@logajan.mn.org, 612-424-4888, Fax 424-2853 ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 20:12:27 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Veteran astronaut Hawley to accept executive position at Ames (Forwarded) Mary Sandy Headquarters, Washington, D.C. June 7, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-2754) Noon EDT Del Harding Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif. (Phone: 415/604-9000) Jeffrey Carr Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 713-483/5111) RELEASE: 90-77 VETERAN ASTRONAUT HAWLEY TO ACCEPT EXECUTIVE POSITION AT AMES Dr. Dale Compton, Director of NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif., today named Astronaut Steven A. Hawley as the Center's Associate Director (acting). Hawley will assume his duties on July 29 as the center's third-ranking executive "We are extremely pleased," Compton said, "to have someone with Dr. Hawley's administrative and scientific skills joining us at Ames." Hawley, 38, has served as Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office since 1987 and most recently as mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31 in April of this year. During that flight, he successfully delivered the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit using Discovery's robot arm and extended his total time in space to over 412 hours. The three-time Shuttle flight veteran was selected as an astronaut in 1978. Hawley worked as a simulator pilot in the Shuttle software laboratory and on astronaut support crews for Shuttle missions STS-2, STS-3 and STS-4 before making his first space flight. He first flew as a mission specialist on the maiden voyage of Discovery, STS-41D, in August 1984. Discovery's crew deployed three communcations satellites and activated the OAST-1 solar cell wing experiment. He made his second trip to orbit aboard Columbia on STS-61C in January 1986, during which Hawley participated in the deployment of the SATCOM KU satellite and conducted experiments in astrophysics and materials processing. Hawley's hometown is Salina, Kansas. An honors graduate of the University of Kansas, he will be returning to the San Francisco bay area, where he earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1977. In 1988, Hawley was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Sigma Pi Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa. Hawley is married to the former Eileen M. Keegan of Redondo Beach, Calif. His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Hawley, live in Rancho Mirage, Calif. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 20:51:40 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle Program is terminated (Forwarded) Jim Cast Headquarters, Washington, D.C. June 7, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-8536) 4 p.m. EDT RELEASE: 90-78 ORBITAL MANEUVERING VEHICLE PROGRAM IS TERMINATED NASA today announced the termination of its Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) program. Citing budgetary pressures "across the Space Flight realm" for the next several years, together with a lack of firm, near-term requirements for such a vehicle, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Dr. William B. Lenoir, concluded that it is necessary to terminate OMV which had been scheduled for a maiden flight in 1995. "It, or something similar, eventually will be needed in our space infrastructure," Dr. Lenoir explained, "but we will have at least 2 or 3 years to develop firm requirements before it will be necessary to begin development." As originally conceived, the OMV was to have been a reusable, remotely controlled low-Earth orbit free-flying "space tug" capable of performing a wide range of on-orbit satellite servicing and retrieval missions. The two existing requirements for an OMV are supporting the reboost of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Advanced X-Ray Astronomy Facility. According to Dr. Lenoir, the near-term operational requirements for these payloads can be satisfied with the baseline Shuttle capabilities. Commending the Marshall Space Flight Center program managers for an excellent job in pulling the OMV program together, Dr. Lenoir stated that, "this has been a difficult decision to make, but I feel that it is a necessary step in order to keep the overall space flight program healthy, on firm footing and capable of delivering on schedule and on budget." "I have no doubt that an OMV-like capability will be required in the future. Potential demands to support servicing- type missions will overburden the efficient use of Shuttle capabilities in the late 1990s. The documented accomplishments of the OMV program to date will be incorporated into an eventual detailed specification for the restart," Dr. Lenoir said. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 22:25:29 GMT From: ptolemy!fineman@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Charles Fineman) Subject: Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed In article <3967@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes: > > Voyager 1 Images Revealed > > Yesterday, NASA unveiled the historic "family portrait" of the planets > taken from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1. A series of 64 > black-and-white photos were crafted into a mosaic and serveral several color > portraits of individual planets were also shown. > I saw some B/W pictures in a paper today. There was a distict, highly eccentric, halo around the earth. What was that? Enquiring minds want to know! (At least this one does) Chuck Fineman ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jun 90 23:22:05 GMT From: philmtl!philabs!ttidca!sorgatz@uunet.uu.net ( Avatar) Subject: Re: Doing something/political reality In article <1083@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes: +mcgill.ca> +In article <3517@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> msdos@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) writes: + +| I want to go to Venus NOW(!!!!) because we can do it right now with +| our current technology. + + I want to go to Mars, because we have the ability to keep people alive +on Mars now, while I'm not sure that we have the ability to keep them +going on Venus. And I want to go now, because I'll be too old or too +dead to appreciate it in 30 years. +-- I'd settle for a trip to and from the Moon! Fact is guys, face it, the politicians in this country are too busy covering their dead asses, or making sure that the 'OleBoysClub' in their hometown has enough porkbarrel to insure a cush retirement, to spend anywhere near enough time/money driving a real space program towards these kinds of goals. Blame it on the bureaucrats, the sons and daughters of frends-of-frends, etc because THAT'S where the money is going. HUD spends the equivalent of NASA's budget every 21 days! And look at what we (the Taxpayers) get for it - NOTHING! If we ever get a spacestation (Freedom or whatever, you doomsayers piss me off!) or a Moonbase it'll be a freakin' miracle! We've had the technology to do BOTH since 1970...the politics have simply not changed and these clowns we keep electing to office cannot see the true benefits of an expanded manned space program..too bad. -Avatar-> (aka: Erik K. Sorgatz) KB6LUY +-------------------------+ Citicorp(+)TTI *----------> panic trap; type = N+1 * 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 +-------------------------+ {csun,philabs,psivax,pyramid,quad1,rdlvax,retix}!ttidca!sorgatz ** (OPINIONS EXPRESSED DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF CITICORP OR IT'S MANAGEMENT!) ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jun 90 17:14:28 GMT From: sco!natei@uunet.uu.net (Nathaniel Ingersoll) Subject: Re: 2001/2010 and Gravity in the Pod Bay In article <521.266D6713@ofa123.fidonet.org> Mark.Perew@ofa123.fidonet.org (Mark Perew) writes: : :In 2001 the use of velcro in the pod bay is establish (albeit by :implication and foreshadowing, not by direct statement or observation). : :However, if you will check 2010 at 0/1:07:14 MET [Movie Elaped Time :-)] :you will observe that the director of 2010 blew it. Here and in :subsequent places you will see the characters blithfully walking :across the *shiny* pod bay floor (it was dull in 2001) without :paying any attention to where the velcro sections were placed in 2001. : Perhaps they had magnets in their shoes? -- ________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #506 *******************