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 ; Wed, 20 Jun 1990 02:14:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <8aTlEn200VcJ0UiE4i@andrew.cmu.edu> Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Wed, 20 Jun 1990 02:14:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #545 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 545 Today's Topics: Rockets to the moon Space incentives (was Re: NASA 91 Appropriation (long)) Re: SpaceList Payload Summary for 06/18/90 (Forwarded) CRRES mission briefing and spacecraft showing at KSC on June 22 (Forwarded) Re: Public Perception Of Space Smileys Investing is our space future. 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: 19 Jun 90 16:31:48 GMT From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!maven!games@ucsd.edu Subject: Rockets to the moon Rocket to the moon. I think that this is a good idea. However are there not some really terrible beaurocratic paperwork things that need to be done in order for a launch like this to take place? (Having only launched D birds to a height of about 1000 feet myself, I am unsure.) John. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 90 16:11:54 GMT From: hplabsb!dsmith@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (David Smith) Subject: Space incentives (was Re: NASA 91 Appropriation (long)) All this talk about prizes is (for the sake of this argument) nonsense. What we really should do is hire a launch of a light sail. Sail it out to an asteroid, link up with it, and sail the asteroid over into an orbit which will cause it to collide with Washington, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, or Canberra. Disconnect sail. Point out fact to world. That ought to get some kind of action on some sort of space development. :-) <-- Is the smiley really necessary? -- "Some fear that Newtonian physics | David R. Smith, HP Labs governs superpower relations: | dsmith@hplabs.hp.com What goes up must come down." | (415) 857-7898 Time Magazine, interviewing Gorbachev, June 4, 1990 ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 90 13:20:05 GMT From: clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!watyew!jdnicoll@uunet.uu.net (Brian or James) Subject: Re: SpaceList Defining one gravity as 9.8 m/s**2 has alway grated on me slightly. I'm aware of the source for the 1-g value, but we don't *have* to tie our measuring system to arbitrary natural phenomena. 10 m/s**2 would so much tidier to work with. I bet this goes over as well as my suggest to dump the 1 day = 86400 seconds in favour of 1 day = 10**5 seconds :) JDN ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 90 18:23:26 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Summary for 06/18/90 (Forwarded) Payload Status Report Kennedy Space Center Monday, June 18, 1990 George H. Diller 407/867-2468 FTS 823-2468 GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY On Friday, June 15, there was a pressurization test of the orbit attitude thrusters (OAT). They were pressurized with gaseous nitrogen to 10% above flight level. Today there is a partial loading of hydrazine attitude control propellant to wet seals in a pair of thrusters which will allow these seals to seat. This could reduce or eliminate a small amount of leakage in one of the thrusters which was detected in early testing. Twenty pounds of fuel, or about 2 1/2 gallons, will be loaded aboard. Tomorrow the system will be repressurized to begin three days of leak checks. In other work, mechanical preparations were begun for an upcoming functional test scheduled for next week. Also, thermal blanket closeouts have started on a limited portion of the spacecraft. CRRES/AC-69 Final pyrotechnic installation was completed early last week which were ordnance that separate the spacecraft from the Centaur. Also, the final thermal blankets were installed. The spacecraft was then mated to the payload/launch vehicle adapter and the ground transporter for transportation to the launch pad. Engineers have been troubleshooting a relay on a spacecraft antenna boom pyrotechnic firing circuit which has failed. The problem created concern about having partial grounding on this subsystem. Analysis shows that the boom will deploy and there is expected to be no mission impact. Payload test and telemetry equipment was transported from the clean room to the blockhouse at Launch Complex 36 on Friday. Encapsulation in the nose fairing is scheduled for June 25 with transporation to the launch pad and mating to the Atlas Centaur scheduled for the following day. At Launch Complex 36, the Simulated Fight Test of the Atlas Centaur was successfully completed on Thursday. An avionics Signal Conditioning Unit has been replaced and was succesfully retested during the Simulated Flight Test. Today the RP-1 kerosene fuel is being loaded aboard the Atlas stage in preparation for the countdown dress rehearsal scheduled for tomorrow. During this test the vehicle will be fully fueled and all countdown events will be performed up to main engine ignition. The simulated T-0 is 11:00 a.m. Vehicle repairs continue on or near schedule. The interstage adapter repairs are nearing completion and the replacement of the failed Centaur pressurization helium line is in work. The launch of AC-69/CRRES is scheduled for Monday, July 9 at 4:50 p.m. EDT at the opening of a 25 minute launch window. The mission briefing is scheduled for June 22 at 11:00 a.m. on NASA Select. ULYSSES/IUS-17 (PAM-S) The testing of Ulysses nine onboard experiments is on schedule. Four of the experiments which were scheduled for testing last week have been successfully completed. Five more are undergoing functional tests this week, which concludes the experiment test program. Ulysses is scheduled to be moved to the Explosive Safe Area (ESA-60) on July 10 for fueling and will transported to the Vertical Processing Facility on July 20. Delivery of the Inertial Upper Stage to the Vertical Processing Facility is now scheduled for on or about June 22. Processing will begin on June 29. The Payload Assist Module (PAM-S) will be delivered on July 10. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 90 18:21:42 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: CRRES mission briefing and spacecraft showing at KSC on June 22 (Forwarded) Paula Cleggett-Haleim Headquarters, Washington, D.C. June 18, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-1547) George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (Phone: 407/867-2468) EDITORS NOTE: N90-43 CRRES MISSION BRIEFING AND SPACECRAFT SHOWING AT KSC ON JUNE 22 NASA and U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials will brief the press on the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) mission at 11 a.m. Fri., June 22, in the Kennedy Space Center News Center. CRRES, to be launched aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket on July 9, will embark on a joint NASA/USAF mission to study Earth's magnetic field and the effects of the radiation environment of space on advanced electronics. Chemical releases from the satellite in the ionosphere and magnetosphere will briefly "paint" the waves and lines of magnetic fields with luminous particles. During the mission's first year, canisters of five chemical tracer elements expelled from the spacecraft will create brilliantly visible releases over the Caribbean, South Pacific and North America. Participating in the briefing will be: James L. Womack, Director of Expendable Vehicles NASA Kennedy Space Center William Swords, CRRES Project Manager NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Dr. David Reasoner, CRRES Project Scientist NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Col. John E. Armstrong, Space Test and Transportation Program Manager, USAF Space Systems Division Major Stanley A. Sneegas, CRRES Program Manager USAF Space Systems Division The briefing will be carried on NASA Select television, Satcom F2R, transponder 13, located at 72 degrees W. longitude. Audio only is also available on the V-2 circuits which may be dialed directly at 407/867-1220, 1240 or 1260. A two-way question and answer capability will be available at other NASA news facilities. After the briefing, news media will be taken by bus to the airlock of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, where preparations will be underway for encapsulating the CRRES spacecraft within the Atlas Centaur nose fairing. White room smocks and caps will be provided. Photographers may use electronic flash and battery powered lights. No outside power will be available. No shorts or skirts are permitted and flat, closed-toe shoes are required. Camera accessories to be taken into the clean room must be transferred to special plastic bags that will be provided -- no leather or vinyl can be taken into the facility. Quality control personnel may request a wipe- down of photographic support equipment such as tripods before entering the clean room area. Cleaning materials will be furnished. As propellant is aboard the spacecraft, no matches or lighters are allowed in the facility. Arrival back at the KSC News Center is expected at about 1:45 p.m. Media needing accreditation for this event should contact NASA's KSC News Center at 407/867-2468 to request badging. The date of this event is driven by spacecraft readiness for encapsulation, so media representatives may wish to contact the news center a day in advance to assure there has been no change in the schedule. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 90 19:04:28 GMT From: js9b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. Slenk) Subject: Re: Public Perception Of Space I don't think we should be worried about the public opinion of the space program, mainly because I don't think the government should be the only thing involved in it: 1) The only involvement the government should have in space is purely military. 2) The real work of exploration, advancement and making use (ie: set up zero gee labs, do communications etc.) should be done by private companies. Thus, I don't care about the "public," as they shouldn't have any say/sway in nonmiltiary funding and advancement in space. Rather, companies and customers should be the ones deciding. If a pharmacutical company could have access to space, don't you think they would jump at the chance? How about metalurgical (if that is the right word)? Or just about any science, applied or abstract? Lets get the government out of an area it shouldn't be in, and get private companies doing things instead. -Jon. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 19:20:03 CDT From: John Nordlie Subject: Smileys For all you net tenderfoots out there, the following character sequence is known as a "smiley". :-) Tilt your head 90 degrees to the left. There! Doesn't it look like a smiling face? Aren't you glad you know now? However, there are several mutations of the basic smiley, so I have compiled a guide to help you recognize this interesting compu-critter: JOHN NORDLIE'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO SMILEYS: :-) Smiley with long nose. :<) Smiley with humungous nose. :^) Oblique (not face on) Smiley. :#) Smiley with broken nose (note bandage). ;-) Flirtatious smiley (winking). :) Smiley with no (or very small) nose. :/) Smiley with crooked nose. := Smiley with split nose (not smiling, a split nose hurts!). :*) Clown smiley. :-} Buck-toothed smiley. >:-) Devious smiley (better watch him). Ok, Ok, so I have been up too long. No flames please. JCN ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 90 16:29:01 GMT From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!maven!games@ucsd.edu Subject: Investing is our space future. There have been statements that we need to INVEST in the space corporations in order for them to truly succeed. ASSUMING that this is true, and that the average american investor has between $1,000 and $10,000 to invest, and the affluent american investor may have up to $100,000, HOW should we invest this money? Please do not forget that the idea behind investing money is to ultimately MAKE more of it, so very high risk projects demand the potential for very high returns, and if they require high dollar ammounts, then they are really only available to the very wealthy investor. I personally have money in the Calvert family of "Socially Responsible" funds, and am not against investing in space, actually I would RATHER invest in space, it is just that I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT THE MONEY!!! Got any ideas? ( Yes, I HAVE looked at OSC but only a little ) John. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #545 *******************