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 ; Sat, 29 Dec 1990 01:45:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sat, 29 Dec 1990 01:45:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #685 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 685 Today's Topics: Astro-1: Limited success and nearly complete failure? Re: Enough for a big party... Re: Another Russian first Re: Soviets sell Mir flight to Americans SECTION 2 OF 8 - U.S.T.R. PART I (uuencoded) 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: Thu, 13 Dec 90 07:04:47 CST From: nagy%warner.dnet@fngate (Frank J. Nagy:VAX Guru,Wizard&Loose Cannon) Subject: Astro-1: Limited success and nearly complete failure? Although the recent Astro-1 mission is, of and by itself, a reasonable success, I would consider Astro to be pretty much a complete failure. The sense of this statement begins with Astro being made up of a number of highly sophisticated instruments, with Astro-1 being their first use. As expected, there were a number of "teething" pains getting the systems up and running. However, the original plans for Astro called for many re-flights so that the learning pains for this first mission would not be so critical plus allowing the instruments to be improved with each flight. Insteed, we seem to have yet another NASA one-shot program. My sense from this is that NASA is totally incapable of long-range planning for space science. = Dr. Frank J. Nagy "VAX Guru & Wizard" = Fermilab Computing Division/Distributed Computing Dept/Special Projects Grp = HEPnet/SPAN: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = Internet: NAGY@FNAL.FNAL.GOV = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/234 Batavia, IL 60510 ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 90 15:55:22 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!andy@uunet.uu.net (Andy Clews) Subject: Re: Enough for a big party... UK news reports said that the Japanese journalist who went up to Mir (and came back) said that during the flight he felt so sick "he thought his brain was going to explode". Come to the UK and sample a few of our more notorious ales and you too can explode your brain - at a fraction of the cost to this poor oriental gentleman! -- Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, England JANET: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: andy%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 90 00:39:12 GMT From: exodus!vygr.Eng.Sun.COM!mae@sun.com (Mike Ekberg, Sun {DSGG.DGDO.Mid-Range Graphics.Egret(GS)} MS 8-04) Subject: Re: Another Russian first In article <1990Dec9.235127.9247@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >The NASM people were >quite proud, in the beginning, that apart from perishable supplies their >Skylab was *precisely* as it would have been flown. >-- >"The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology >points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry A minor side note, I believe it is the policy to have all exhibits at NASM flight ready, to the extent possible. -- # mike \(sun!mae\), M/S 8-04 "Paying more for petroleum is still cheaper than one day of fighting in the Mideast." Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Managing in Turbulent Times" Drucker 1980 ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 90 23:27:11 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!dahm.engin.umich.edu!sheppard@ucsd.edu (Ken Sheppardson) Subject: Re: Soviets sell Mir flight to Americans cosc12i2@jetson.uh.edu writes: >The electronic publication SPACE FAX DAILY reported Friday, Dec. 7, that: > >"a flight to MIR had been sold to an american buyer through > SPACE COMMERCE CORPORATION. More details available on Monday." > >First Japanese, then British, and now American! I guess the soviets >ARE cornering the commercial spaceflight market. Next aboard for >CLUB MIR??? > >Has anyone else heard this one yet? Any ideas? Maybe SPACE FAX >will tell who it is and what's going on Monday, or at least soon. > According to Space News, an undisclosed American firm has payed an undisclosed amount (greater than $12 million) for a ride in the next six months or so. I don't recall the exact numbers, but I'll check them when I get back to the office on Friday and post a correction if necessary. =============================================================================== Ken Sheppardson Email: kcs@sso.larc.nasa.gov Space Station Freedom Advanced Programs Office Phone: (804) 864-7544 NASA Langley Research Center FAX: (804) 864-1975 =============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 21:15:39 MST From: std_oler%HG.ULeth.CA@vma.cc.cmu.edu (Cary Oler) Subject: SECTION 2 OF 8 - U.S.T.R. PART I (uuencoded) X-St-Vmsmail-To: ST%"space+@andrew.cmu.edu" Uuencoded Document: Understanding Solar Terrestrial Reports - Part I ------------------ SECTION 2 of 8 Strip all of the lines from this message down to and including the "cut" line below. Save the resulting message and collect the remaining sections of this document. 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