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Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #414

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 13 : Issue 414

Today's Topics:
		      The first VOSTOK in space
		     Re: NASA & Executive Branch
			   Viking FTP Site?
			      skin-suit
			     REV COUNTRY
		Re: comsat cancellations and lawsuits

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Date: 17 Apr 91 12:16:48 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!marcamd!mercury!kcbbs!kc@uunet.uu.net  (George Muzyka)
Subject: The first VOSTOK in space

We all call the first Soviet Vostok manned spacecraft, piloted by Yuri
Gagarin in April 1961, VOSTOK 1.

Well on Radio Moscow World Service last week an item on this 30th anniversary
mentioned that the technicians back then called Gagarin's Vostok by 
the name of VOSTOK 3A.

A young guy by the name of Sergei (Sergei Korolev's namesake, Korolev 
the man who designed the Vostok) was part of the testing of Gagarin's
Vostok by sitting inside through a rugid program of tests, namely high
temperature changes. The young Sergei is suppose to have lost 13 lb 
(6 kg) in weight (most presumably in body sweat) from that Vostok cabin
test.

So could it be that the name VOSTOK 3A refers to the third major phase 
in the first V8Aec!$JJ.*P3)aft? Any light on this, anyone?

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Date: 17 Apr 91 04:18:49 GMT
From: wuarchive!rex!rouge!dlbres10@decwrl.dec.com  (Fraering Philip)
Subject: Re: NASA & Executive Branch

In article <1020@epiwrl.UUCP> parker@wrl.epi.com (Alan Parker) writes:

>Does it bother others that so many don't seem to understand how our
>government works?   We shouldn't expect everyone around the world to
>understand the limits of a President and the role of Congress; but
>certainly every American kid in school is taught about these things.
>If Henry has to start telling posters how our government works, then we are
>in big trouble.   I'm sure few of us can tell him how his works!

Anericans aren't as ignorant of this as it currently seems. It's just
pretty hard for us to sort out the _way_ it is supposed to work, the
way it usually works, the most expedient way it works, and the way it
worked when putting together the latest budget agreement. Keep in mind
that there may be no equivalence between any of the above, _and_ that
Congress, the Executive Branch, and others all have their own
selective interpretations of all of the above, depending on whether
they are trying to take credit for something, make the other side take
blame for something, or merely engage in occasionally giving the
public the mushroom treatment.

So it's not as if we really don't know how our government works, but
rather that we know several ways our government works, and telling
which one(s) are functioning at any given moment is a non-trivial
task. Therefore it is no wonder that Americans tend to keep silent
about many political arguments, and have basically let the media
portray political arguments as basically falling between two (and only
two) rather limited paradigns (to Thomas Kuhn if he's reading this:
Hi! and Thank you for such a wonderful word!)...

--
Phil Fraering
dlbres10@pc.usl.edu
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extermes, in
which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself
of almost all sense and meaning." - Winston Churchill, _The Birth of
Britian_
"X-rays are a hoax." - Lord Kelvin

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Date: 15 Apr 91 17:41:57 GMT
From: mdisea!mdivax1!sture@uunet.uu.net  (John Sture)
Subject: Viking FTP Site?

Is there a site with some of the Viking images stored for anon FTP? Thanks.

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Date: 17 Apr 91 01:13:01 GMT
From: cix.compulink.co.uk!printf@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Ian Stirling)
Subject: skin-suit

}more than the application of a simple tensor bandage! A micrometerite
}will likely be hard on the human underneath, as well, so a first
}layer of something blood-tight would probably be needed. But any
}system which changes a fatality into an injury is worth looking at
}more closely.
What sort of injury would this cause?
Would it be a bullet-wound type with entry/exit wounds or
because of the much higher velocitys would a cauterised "crater" be
produced?

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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 91 21:34 EDT
From: Seanor@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Subject:  REV COUNTRY


REV COUNTRY

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Date: 16 Apr 91 01:01:15 GMT
From: skipper!shafer@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Mary Shafer)
Subject: Re: comsat cancellations and lawsuits

In article <10448@hub.ucsb.edu> 3001crad@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Charles Frank Radley) writes:

>I agree, NASA is definitely government.   NASA employess enjoy the
                                                          ^^^^^ 
Let's not push credibility too far here.

>same benefits and restrictions as all other federal employees,
>federal holidays, diplomatic passports, conflict of interest
                   ^^^^^^^^^^ 
No, they're official, not diplomatic.  Maroon instead of navy blue.  I
don't know what color diplomats have.  I have two passports, in two
names, and both are current and correct.

>regulations etc.
--
Mary Shafer  shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov  ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
           NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
                     Of course I don't speak for NASA
 "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot

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