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 ; Tue, 24 Jul 1990 02:28:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Tue, 24 Jul 1990 02:28:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #118 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 118 Today's Topics: Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once? Magellan press conference scheduled [Corrected] (Forwarded) Balloons, anyone? Magellan press conference scheduled (Forwarded) NSS 1990 Convention Re: Soyuz stuff Re: Freedom Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once? Whatever happened to the Moon Walkers? Citizen of the Galaxy ? 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: 24 Jul 90 02:35:31 GMT From: usc!wuarchive!mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@ucsd.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once? In article <104277@philabs.Philips.Com> rfc@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Robert Casey) writes: >Did the USSR ever fly their shuttle "Burin" (sp) more than once? Buran has flown only once so far. They flew it before it was really ready, actually. Nobody is in a big hurry to fly it again, and funding is a bit tight. Last I heard, the second flight was expected next year. -- NFS: all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and its performance and security too. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 21:12:39 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Magellan press conference scheduled [Corrected] (Forwarded) Paula Cleggett-Haleim Headquarters, Washington, D.C. July 23, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-1547) EDITORS NOTE: N90-56 MAGELLAN PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED "How to cover the Magellan mission" will be the subject of a press briefing, Thursday, July 26, 2 p.m. EDT, in the NASA Headquarters 6th floor auditorium, 400 Md. Ave., S.W., Wash., D.C. Principals from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will explain what media can expect during Magellan's arrival at Venus, insertion into the planet's orbit, instrument check-out and subsequent mapping. On Aug. 10, 1990, Magellan reaches Venus after a 15-1/2 month voyage. Last year on May 4, the spacecraft was deployed from Atlantis on STS-30, the first planetary mission launched from a Space Shuttle. Magellan's primary mission is to map 70 to 90 percent of Venus, with 10 times better resolution than any achieved before. A 3-1/2 minute, animated videotape of the mapping process will be available. Conference presenters include: Dr. Joseph Boyce, NASA Hdqtrs., Magellan Program Scientist Anthony J. Spear, JPL, Magellan Project Manager Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, JPL, Magellan Project Scientist Dr. Gordon Pettengill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Principal Investigator, Radar Experiment This briefing will be carried live on NASA Select television, Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13, C band, at 72 degrees west longitude, frequency 3960.0 MHz. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 13:25:14 GMT From: beck%mpx0.lampf.lanl.gov@lanl.gov (Beck, James C.) Subject: Balloons, anyone? I was reading the other day about cosmic-ray research, where big zero- pressure weather balloons would lift big pieces of Lexan up to 140,000 ft. This got me thinking, so I went to the library to do some research. My initial findings show that these things can carry up to 5000 kg. over 100,000 feet in the air. My question to you is: Does anyone think this could serve as an inexpensive 'first stage' for a small rocket? Could a rocket be built under this weight and that could go the extra 250 km to low-earth orbit? (The books I've found mention that this altitude is above 99% of the atmosphere, so aerodynamic drag can be ignored). Thanks in advance for your help. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ James C. Beck * "No eternal reward will ] [ beck@mpx0.lampf.lanl.gov * forgive us now for wasting ] [ or * the dawn..."- Texas Radio, ] [ beck@enuxha.eas.asu.edu * The Doors ] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 18:40:54 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Magellan press conference scheduled (Forwarded) Paula Cleggett-Haleim Headquarters, Washington, D.C. July 23, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-1547) EDITORS NOTE: N90-56 MAGELLAN PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED "How to cover the Magellan mission" will be the subject of a press briefing, Thursday, July 26 in the NASA Headquarters 6th floor auditorium, 400 Md. Ave., S.W., Wash., D.C. Principals from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will explain what media can expect during Magellan's arrival at Venus, insertion into the planet's orbit, instrument check-out and subsequent mapping. On Aug. 10, 1990, Magellan reaches Venus after a 15-1/2 month voyage. Last year on May 4, the spacecraft was deployed from Atlantis on STS-30, the first planetary mission launched from a Space Shuttle. Magellan's primary mission is to map 70 to 90 percent of Venus, with 10 times better resolution than any achieved before. A 3-1/2 minute, animated videotape of the mapping process will be available. Conference presenters include: Dr. Joseph Boyce, NASA Hdqtrs., Magellan Program Scientist Anthony J. Spear, JPL, Magellan Project Manager Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, JPL, Magellan Project Scientist Dr. Gordon Pettengill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Principal Investigator, Radar Experiment This briefing will be carried live on NASA Select television, Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13, C band, at 72 degrees west longitude, frequency 3960.0 MHz. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 12:24:41 CDT From: ROsman%ASS%SwRI05@D15VS178A.SPACE.SwRI.EDU Subject: NSS 1990 Convention Cc: CALL FOR PAPERS!!! CALL FOR PAPERS!!! CALL FOR PAPERS!!! Abstracts are being solicited for the National Space Society's 10th Annual International Space Development Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, May 22-27, 1991. The theme is SPACE: A CALL FOR ACTION. Topics include: SPACE ADVOCACY FOR THE PUBLIC SPACE TECHNOLOGY Community Action Law & Politics Infrastructure Chapter Action Space Medicine Space Stations Political Action Space Education Space Manufacturing Fund Raising Business & Econ. Planetary Communities Recruiting Debate for Space Off-Planet Colonies Media & Publicity International Prog. Future Manned Missions Abstracts are due by November 1, 1990. Submissions must include a cover letter with name, address, phone, and brief description of your experience or expertise, and a one page abstract. Send to : Bob Blackledge, 6015 Eagles Nest Ct., Colorado Springs, CO 80918-1510 (719) 548-2329 For registration information contact: Beatrice Moreno, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510 (512) 522-2260 For further information contact: Dr. Carol Luckhardt Redfield, Southwest Research Institute 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510 (512) 522-3823 ___________________________________________________________________ | | | | Rich Osman (Oz) | Good judgement comes | | Southwest Research Institute | from experience, and | | 6220 Culebra Road | experience comes | | San Antonio, TX 78238 | from bad judgement. | | Osman@Jules.ADSD.SwRI.EDU | -Fred Brooks, UNCar. | |__________________________________________|______________________| ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 03:33:22 GMT From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!dhw68k!ofa123!Mark.Perew@ucsd.edu (Mark Perew) Subject: Re: Soyuz stuff David Anderman writes: >Please keep in mind that this thread began with a discussion of a >capsule to be used in conjunction with the Freedom space station >(if there is going to be such a station), and so any discussion of >the attributes of the Soyuz should take into consideration the >constraints of capsule technology - that is that capsules are not as >large as the Space Shuttle, that they can carry a limited number of >passengers, and perhaps the Soyuz, within these constraints, is a viable >substitute for the $1.5 billion program to develop a rescue vehicle for >Freedom. I believe that my comments were in reply to assertions by Alan Sherzer (Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow) that we should immediately phase out the Shuttle and develop the Heavy Life Titan and use a Soyuz for all manned flight. I also believe that Mr. Sherzer asserted that there will be no "Space Station Fred". -- Mark Perew Internet: Mark.Perew@ofa123.fidonet.org BBS: 714 544-0934 2400/1200/300 ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 23:36:39 GMT From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Subject: Re: Freedom 27000@AECLCR.BITNET (SIMMONS DONALD F): | Who named the space station Freedom anyway? Did they consider any other | names besides it. It smells of a politically motivated PR choice to me. shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) : | This is a remarkably stupid comment. Of course it was politically | motivated PR. Longtime readers of this newsfroup know that the actual name of the Space Station is "Fred". For various political reasons this has been corrupted to the longer form, so that now the budgetary process can kill Freedom instead of merely bumping off Fred. :-) ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jul 90 04:13:47 GMT From: sam.cs.cmu.edu!vac@pt.cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate) Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once? Matthew DeLuca: >Robert Casey: >>Did the USSR ever fly their shuttle "Burin" (sp) more than once? > >Nope. It flew one unmanned mission in 1988, and won't fly again until >1991. From what I've heard, they're going to launch it unmanned, rendezvouz >with Mir, and fly it back manned. This is pretty old, so they may have >changed their plans. You know why they are waiting so long to launch again? They have to get get the bugs out of the O-ring on their own. What do ya bet that the 1991 launch is delayed due to a hydrogen leak? :-) :-) Stolen from Allan Heydon. - Vince ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 15:10:35 GMT From: spock!grayt@uunet.uu.net (Tom Gray) Subject: Whatever happened to the Moon Walkers? Whatever happened to the Moon Walkers? The following information was taken from a newspaper article celebrating the 21st anniversary of the first moon walk. If you've ever wondered about the current status of all of the moon walkers you're curiosity will be sated. Neil Armstrong - 59 executive with a computer services company Edwin Aldrin 60 sold Cadillacs in Beverly Hills now science consultant and professor at the University of North Dakota Charles Conrad - 60 vice-president of McDonnell Douglas Alan Bean - 58 formerly in charge of astronaut training now retired and full time artist Alan Shepard - 67 oldest man on the moon formerly had a beer distributership in Houston now a real estate developer Edgar Mitchell - 59 established a forum to investigate ESP the Institute of Noetic Sciences David Scott - 58 engineering services executive President of Scott Science and Technolgy James Irwin 60 preacher, founder of evangelical organization High Flight John Young - 60 was astronaut office chief piloted maiden flight of shuttle Columbia Charles Duke - 55 youngest man on the moon President of Southwest Wilderness Art Inc and Duke Investments Harrison Schmidt - 55 was a US senator now a consultant Eugene Cernan - 56 last man on the moon was an oil executive now owns a consulting firm ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 90 00:13:54 GMT From: van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a752@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Dunn) Subject: Citizen of the Galaxy ? The following note is from the July 1990 issue of "Spaceflight", which is received monthly by members of the British Interplanetary Society. For information on joining the society and receiving this excellent magazine, contact the British Interplanetary Society at 27/29 South Lambeth Road, London, SW8 1SZ, England. (begin quote) Women Cosmonauts Discussed The Soviet Union tried to recruit a husband and wife team to fly a long duration mission in space, according to Aleksandr Aleksandrov, civilian cosmonaut training manager. Aleksandrov said that the notion of flying mixed crews on long duration flights raised "moral and ethical problems". Aleksandrov did not rule out short duration flights involving mixed crews, however, citing the American Shuttle as an example of such crews. The experienced cosmonaut gave no information about the date of the recruitment plan for the married couple. [end quote) If the Soviet Union is serious about trying to get a married couple to fly together for long periods in the Mir space station, they presumably will make some arrangements for them to have occasional privacy for sex. Think of the potential public relations aspect - the Soviet Union might not have been first to the moon, but could have the first country to have a citizen who was conceived in space! -- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada a752@mindlink.UUCP ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #118 *******************