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 ; Thu, 13 Dec 1990 02:40:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 02:40:05 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #649 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 649 Today's Topics: WUPPE Status for 12/06/90 [1930 CST] (Forwarded) Press briefing on Augustine Committee final report (Forwarded) Need Space Science References in Bibtex. Re: Another Russian first Fred is dead (was Re: space news from Oct 6 AW&ST) Astro-1 Status for 12/07/90 [1514 CST] (Forwarded) Astro-1 Status for 12/07/90 [1340 CST] (Forwarded) Astro-1 Status for 12/07/90 [0320 CST] (Forwarded) 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 Dec 90 16:42:36 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: WUPPE Status for 12/06/90 [1930 CST] (Forwarded) University of Wisconsin-Madison WUPPE Status Report 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6, 1990 The WUPPE telescope aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia has not made an observation since before the loss early this morning of the remaining Spacelab Dedicated Display Unit (DDU). The loss of the DDU will hamper observations by the Wisconsin telescope, but the WUPPE science team is hopeful that an observation can be made within the next few hours as the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope has now been able to successfully acquire and photograph objects in the ground operation mode. The Wisconsin science team must now wait for the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope to acquire targets before WUPPE objects can be focused through the smaller aperture of the Wisconsin telescope. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 90 16:45:56 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Press briefing on Augustine Committee final report (Forwarded) Ken Atchison Headquarters, Washington, D.C. December 7, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-8400) N90-98 EDITORS NOTE PRESS BRIEFING ON AUGUSTINE COMMITTEE FINAL REPORT The final report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program will be the topic of a press briefing on Monday, Dec. 10, at 11 a.m. EST, Room 450, Old Executive Office Building. Participants will include Vice President Dan Qualye, NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly and Norman R. Augustine, Chairman of the committee. Media representatives wishing to attend the briefing who do not hold White House press credentials should contact the Vice President's press office with date of birth and social security number (Ethel Sappington at 202/456-7034). The briefing will be carried live on NASA Select television, Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-band, at 72 Degrees West Longitude, Frequency 3960.0 MHz, Audio 6.8 MHz. There will not be a two-way question and answer capability. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 90 01:49:03 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!uos-ee!ees1ae@uunet.uu.net (Ata Etemadi) Subject: Need Space Science References in Bibtex. Hello folks I am new to this news group. I wanted to know if anyone out there has a set of references to papers in the Journal of Geophysical Research or Planetary And Space Science in Bibtex format. If so then please mail me a copy. Thanks in advance Ata <(|)>. =============================================================================== Dr. A. Etemadi, | Phone: (0483) 571-281 Ext. 2311 V.S.S.P. Group, | Fax : (0483) 300-803 Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Eng., | Email: University of Surrey, | Janet: a.etemadi@ee.surrey.ac.uk Guildford, | ata@c.mssl.ucl.ac.uk Surrey GU2 5XH | SPAN : ata@mssl United Kingdom | ata@msslc =============================================================================== -- =============================================================================== Dr. A. Etemadi, | Phone: (0483) 571-281 Ext. 2311 V.S.S.P. Group, | Fax : (0483) 300-803 Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Eng., | Email: ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 90 18:29:05 GMT From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!cunews!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel@ucsd.edu (Chris Stanfield) Subject: Re: Another Russian first In article <6616@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Glen Pill) writes: >From article <546@newave.UUCP>, by john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III): >I always thought skylab was splattered over Western Australia. > > :-) I'm not sure what your smiley means, so I just thought I'd point out thet the Spacelab you are talking about was the one that went into orbit. The one at the Air and Space museum was an extra (backup? future mission?) and is very impressive to take a walk through, if you ever get the chance. Chris Stanfield, Mitel Corporation: E-mail to:- uunet!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel (613) 592 2122 Ext.4960 We do not inherit the world from our parents - we borrow it from our children. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 90 16:27:49 GMT From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!crg5!szabo@uunet.uu.net (Nick Szabo) Subject: Fred is dead (was Re: space news from Oct 6 AW&ST) In article <1990Dec6.174515.2343@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <20634@crg5.UUCP> szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes: >>>some of the attendees commented that the deck was stacked: the choice >>>of participants seemed to be deliberately aimed at such a conclusion.) >> >>Isn't "invitation only" also true of NASA committees, the Space Council, >>NSS committees, etc.? Your biases are showing, Henry. :-) > >"I don't make the news, I just report it." The comment was in the original. > >Committee-stacking is a venerable tradition in the government, but the >Planetary Society only undermines its position as a source of honest >advice by such tactics. The comment may be in the original, but it does look like you agree with it. :-) I still don't see how the choosing mechanism was different from NASA, NSS, Space Council, and other non-elected committees. I don't see any reason to comment on it and I don't see how a normal committee selection process undermines that committee's position as a source of honest advice. Since the committee includes space scientists that have explored most of the solar system, and other "customers" of Fred, their opinions bear great weight. > >>Nobody wants "Fred" anymore.... >>We are coming to the realization that the "space station" concept is an >>obsolete 19th-century idea... > >Nonsense. We are coming to the conclusion that trying to build a space >station that is all things to all people -- most notably, a reliable >source of income for the NASA centers and their contractors -- is a lousy >way to explore space. Only organizations in it for reliable source of tax income (eg NASA and Glavkosmos) would seriously consider launching a space station. Even Glavkosmos does it only because they lack automation technology. Fred isn't all things to all people, it is nothing to nobody. Before the Fred announcement, no customers came out and expressed a desire to use (and even remotely pay for) a space station. The "requirements" were gimicked after the announcement to make it look like a space station would be useful. It turns out that a space station is useless. "We live and we learn, or we don't live long" (Robert A. Heinlein). >That in no way indicates any fundamental failing >in the concept of a space station as a useful resource. Even -- dare I >say it -- the Planetary Society has proposed a suitably designed space >station as an important part of their headlong-race-to-Mars project. I don't know what the Planetary Society has proposed in this regard, but I have never heard any experienced deep space mission planner propose significant use of a space station. (I have heard a lot of people who have never planned a successful deep space venture propose all sorts of weird things with a space station). Astronauts point out that we didn't need a space station to do Apollo -- in fact a space station was explicitly proposed and rejected, for the good reason of being a costly side diversion. As for microgravity furnaces, I have read the Soviet microgravity papers which clearly show that cosmonaut vibrations are (by several orders of magnitude) the worst destroyers of microgravity material structure. Nearly all microgravity scientists want a free-flyer. What is left? What vapor customers can be conjured up now? The long search for the mythological Space Station Application is over. Fred is dead. Let the Space Age begin. -- Nick Szabo szabo@sequent.com "We live and we learn, or we don't live long" -- Robert A. Heinlein The above opinions are my own and not related to those of any organization I may be affiliated with. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Dec 90 05:20:50 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Astro-1 Status for 12/07/90 [1514 CST] (Forwarded) Astro 1 Mission Report #32 3:14 p.m. CST, December 7, 1990 5/14:22 MET Spacelab Mission Operations Control Marshall Space Flight Center "It's working as well as it ever possibly could have worked at this time," said Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope Principal Investigator Dr. Arthur Davidsen as he described the successful reactivation of the Astro observatory last night. "Do I understand that you are right now operating at an efficiency rivaling that which you had hoped to operate at with everything working automatically, perfectly, and nothing had broken down?" a reporter asked. "You've got it right!" affirmed Davidsen. Dr. Peter Serlemitsos, Broad Band X-Ray Telescope principal investigator, announced exciting indications from his observation of a Seyfert 1 galaxy Markarian AR335. The galaxy is about 325 million light years from Earth. Such galaxies have something very compact and luminous in the center, thought to be caused by a very massive black hole. The X-ray spectrum taken last night, recorded simultaneously with observations taken of the same galaxy by the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, seems to confirm theoretical predictions of such an object. The spectra will help to estimate the mass of this candidate black hole. Deputy Mission Scientist Gene Urban recounted the procedure ground controllers at Huntsville had used to reactivate the ultraviolet observatory the previous day. "We were going to take a very conservative approach, first bringing up the IPS, then one experiment at a time." However, the process worked better than expected. They were able to gather data the first time with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. The next step was operation of the Hopkins telescope alone. Then a Hopkins/Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment co-observation was successful. Since then the nominal operation is all three ultraviolet instruments working in parallel. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Dec 90 05:20:06 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Astro-1 Status for 12/07/90 [1340 CST] (Forwarded) Astro 1 Mission Report #31 1:40 p.m. CST, December 7, 1990 5/12:50 MET Spacelab Mission Operations Control Marshall Space Flight Center Space became a classroom this morning as the crew of the Astro observatory taught a lesson from orbit to students monitoring the flight from the Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers. "Space Classroom--Assignment: the Stars" began with Payload Specialist Sam Durrance playing two taped versions of the same musical theme as he floated in the orbiter's crew cabin. The first, Durrance explained, was an unrecognizable screech because the high and low notes had been taken out. The second tape, with all the notes intact, proved to be the theme from "Star Wars." "You need to hear all the notes to appreciate the sound," said Durrance. Saying that "the heavens are playing a symphony of light," the payload specialist began a brief explanation of visible and invisible forms of light that make up the electromagnetic spectrum. "Stars and other celestial objects emit all kinds of radiation, and we must look at them all to understand the stars." Mission Specialist Jeff Hoffman followed, describing how space astronomy missions such as Astro, operating above the Earth's obscuring atmosphere, are used to get a complete picture of the universe. Hoffman was decked out in a dress shirt and necktie for the occasion. "I realized that all my male teachers wore ties, so I thought I would see how they work in space," he explained as the tie floated around him. A classroom lesson from Huntsville's Spacelab Mission Operations Control, led by teacher Karen Widenhofer, used imaginative demonstrations to strengthen the students' understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. "What do light and a slinky have in common?" Widenhofer asked as she had the students shake the outstretched toy. "They both travel in waves." She used the slinky to illustrate that the length and frequency of light waves is directly proportionate to the amount of energy producing them. The hotter or more energetic the star, the shorter the wavelengths it produces. After a crew change of shift, students at Marshall and Goddard questioned astronauts Ron Parise and Bob Parker about the mission. The Space Classroom program was designed by NASA to encourage students to pursue studies in mathematics, science and technology. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 90 16:40:45 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Astro-1 Status for 12/07/90 [0320 CST] (Forwarded) Astro 1 Mission Report #29 03:20 a.m. CST, December 7, 1990 5/02:30 MET Spacelab Mission Operations Control Marshall Space Flight Center "Due to a monumental team effort with the scientists and NASA Support Operation teams," said Stu Clifton, assistant mission manager, "new commanding procedures for operation of the Astro instruments have been successful following the loss of the second Data Display Unit. The Astro Mission has made a rapid recovery in obtaining important science data on a number of targets. As time goes on, we anticipate that all the instruments will be acquiring nominal science." As of 3:30 a.m. CST, the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope has obtained about 73 minutes of data on a large eliptical galaxy, referred to by scientists as NGC 1399. NGC 1399 is in the Fornax cluster of galaxies. UIT Astronomer Susan Neff had these comments: "We're looking at this galaxy because it is in a nearby cluster of galaxies. And we can do galaxy sociology by studying this cluster. We look at how different galaxies evolve and interact with each other. And when we take a picture of a field like this, we will probably get several hundred galaxies at once. We assume they have all formed together because they are living in this cluster together now." While the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope had lead command on this important target, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope has also jointly recorded science data. Gerard Kriss, assistant project scientist for HUT, described the significance of NGC 1399. "One of the most significant things about this target is that the UV spectrum, which has been observed by the International UV Explorer, shows an unexplained excess brightness of UV emission at short wavelengths. "Elliptical galaxies are usually composed of old, cool, red stars, without much ultraviolet emission. So it is surprising to see excess emissions from galaxies like this one. We want to know what's going on here and will be looking at the spectrum to determine the temperature and type of star that is emitting this radiation." HUT Co-investigator Dick Henry was quick to add that "this is a good example of where both instruments are doing very wonderful jobs and very important science! We are very excited about it." ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #649 *******************