Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from corsica.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Thu, 27 Jul 89 03:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 03:19:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #559 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 559 Today's Topics: Kuiper Airborne Observatory Looking for Arthur Dula Re: Apollo Books Re: Apollo 11 Re: Interesting Apollo crew observations Re: Apollo Ascent Modules NSC pledge for a permanent manned lunar base. Posting of space images (software) Re: Questions about Apollo 11 Apollo 8, 9, and 10 Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10 Re: Apollo 12 (And Surveyor 3) Re: A&E Network rebroadcast of APOLLO 1 Magellan Status for 07/11/89 (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Jul 89 19:19:31 GMT From: frooz!cfa.HARVARD.EDU@husc6.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) Subject: Kuiper Airborne Observatory > Now take the Kuiper observatory. Why is NASA in charge? Ya got me, > buddy. (I know NSF and others help adminstrate.) Just a tiny correction. The KAO is entirely operated by NASA - no NSF or other agency involvement whatever. The next-generation airborne observatory (SOFIA - Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) will be a joint project of NASA and the West German space agency. (BMFT, I think, though darned if I know what the initials stand for.) So why NASA? Probably because NASA runs active programs in aeronautical research and in airborne terrestrial sensing and so has lots of pilots and mechanics on staff, not to mention hangars, runways, and other support services. (Many facilities are shared with the Navy at NASA Ames - Moffett Field.) NASA also runs an active planetary research program that includes ground-based as well as space observations (and often accomodates non-planetary astrophysical research). Frankly, I don't see any other agency that could run the KAO program with reasonable efficiency. Steve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Bitnet: willner@cfa 60 Garden St. FTS: 830-7123 UUCP: willner@cfa Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Internet: willner@cfa.harvard.edu ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jul 89 03:05:37 GMT From: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!turing.cs.rpi.edu!weltyc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher A. Welty) Subject: Looking for Arthur Dula I am looking for Arthur Dula, who I hear is a lawyer representing some companies who want to put payloads up on Energia. I think he's in Phoenix. Please reply by mail. Thanks. Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs | "Porsche: Fahren in weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc | seiner schoensten Form" ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 16:25:56 GMT From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Subject: Re: Apollo Books Try Books in Print. Also try your local library. They will offer a more complete list than could ever be listed on the net. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Live free or die. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 20:34:37 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!milano!kepler!richter@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Charlie Richter) Subject: Re: Apollo 11 In August, 1969, President Nixon awarded Medals of Freedom to four people associated with the Apollo 11 mission. Three medals went to Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. Who was awarded the fourth, and what was that person's contribution to the mission? And the answer is ... Steve Bales. Bales was the guidance officer for Apollo 11. As such, he was the person who gave Eagle the GO to land despite the 1202 and 1201 program alarms. -- Charlie Richter MCC Austin, Texas uucp: richter@milano.uucp arpa: richter@mcc.com "The panic ... was not due to anything fundamentally weak in either business or finance. It was confined to the market itself." - WSJ, Oct. 31, 1929 ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 17:28:27 GMT From: stadler@apple.com (Andy Stadler) Subject: Re: Interesting Apollo crew observations In article <392@iconsys.UUCP> danny@iconsys.UUCP (Danny Young) writes: >The July Astronomy magazine quotes Buzz Aldrin's comments on standing on >the moon: "I quickly discovered that I felt balanced--comfortably upright--only >when I was tilted slightly forward. I also felt a bit disoriented: On Earth >when one looks at the horizon, it appears flat. On the Moon, so much smaller >than the Earth and quit without high terrain (at least in the Sea of >Tranquility), the horizon in all directions visibly curved down away from us." > >Were these sensations anticipated? Are there other interesting observations >that Apollo crews have made that perhaps came as a surprise to them? > If you look at any of the surface photos, especially a profile view, this forward lean is quite evident.... But it's also very evident why: the large, heavy life support backpack. Leaning forward moved the center of mass back over the feet. --Andy stadler@apple.com ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 17:02:59 GMT From: hplabsb!dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (David Smith) Subject: Re: Apollo Ascent Modules Not long after Apollo 11, a Berry's World cartoon showed one farmer coming up to another who was sitting on a chair on the porch of his house. He said, "Say, Lem, what's this I hear about you going to the moon?" -- David R. Smith, HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (415) 857-7898 ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 15:27:02 GMT From: wrksys.dec.com!klaes@decwrl.dec.com (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283) Subject: NSC pledge for a permanent manned lunar base. The following article is from the Space Activists Digest, written by Chris Welty, who is the Moderator of the newsgroup. Information on how to receive/send to the Digest appears after this article: The National Space Council, headed by Vice President Quayle, is urging the President to launch a "JFK-like manned assault on the Moon, including the establishment of a permanent base there." The NSC is also advising President Bush to announce this effort in a speech to Congress commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Moon landing (July 20). This information was also reported in THE WASHINGTON TIMES (July 11, p. A1). A permanent base on the Moon would provide major scientific advances for the US, the most important of which is badly needed direction for the "dying" space program. A permanent Moon base would also provide an ideal stepping stone for a later mission to the planet Mars. This proposal by the NSC has caused some controversy within the Bush Administration, as the government is no longer convinced that the space program is important to the people. This country needs such an effort, if for no other reason than to stimulate the imaginations and spirits of a younger generation whose only heroes are Wall Street slicksters and rock stars. All persons are urged to call the Presidential Comment Line at (202) 456-7639, and express their opinions on the need for such a space program. --- I sent a copy of this, titled "PRESS RELEASE" to the local TV stations here, and was invited on the local news for a brief interview. I encourage everyone to try it - this week TV stations are looking for news about the space program. It is VERY EASY to get on a local news broadcast, and you can reach a LOT of people. I've done this three times already, and it works! TO RECEIVE SPACE ACTIVISTS DIGEST: Submissions: space-activists@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: space-activists-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.1.10] in the files space-activists/Vxx/Nyy (ie space-activists/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 18:46:38 GMT From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Subject: Posting of space images (software) NASA does not officially post images to the net for a variety of reasons, but I just got a note from a couple of net readers who do not run on any typically nice graphics hardware asking that if you do post any kind of ASCII encoded image, that you post the software to convert or at least tell the format you are using up front. This goes for anything from PostScript(tm), GIF, uuencode (oops Unix source code...), etc. Okay, so at least tell what type of format you are using. Don't flame me, I'm only forwarding the request (one running EBCDIC hardware). Follows up to sci.space because neither astro nor graphics gets gatewayed to the Internet. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Live free or die. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 16:36:39 GMT From: cwjcc!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Questions about Apollo 11 In article <4423@druhi.ATT.COM> tml@druhi.ATT.COM (Tim Larison) writes: >> something that looks like a hand holding a needle-like object appears in >> the upper right-hand side of the picture and comes down across the window. >> What was that? What did it do? > >I believe that is the shadow of the antenna on top of the LEM... I happened to catch a bit of Apollo coverage the other night -- I watch TV about once a year, so this isn't as predictable as you might think! -- and it happened to show that sequence. I can now confirm what I posted as my best guess the other day: it is the shadow of one of the LM's legs and the long contact probe sticking down from it. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 17:20:54 GMT From: dftsrv!tomc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Tom Corsetti) Subject: Apollo 8, 9, and 10 Hi, I remember Apollo 8 as being the first time men orbitted the moon. They had no LM for that mission. If I remember right, 10 was the first test of the LM, and it was done in Earth Orbit. Please correct me if I am wrong. I can't for the life of me remember what Apollo 9 accomplished. Can someone out there give me the details? - thanks! Tom -- Tom Corsetti ************** IP - tomc@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov "The hammer of the gods will drive ************* decnet - dftnic::tomc my ship to new lands" - Zeppelin (of course) *** bitnet - tomc at dftbit ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 89 18:57:34 GMT From: asuvax!enuxha!kluksdah@handies.ucar.edu (Norman C. Kluksdahl) Subject: Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10 In article <377@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, tomc@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tom Corsetti) writes: > If I remember right, 10 was the first test > of the LM, and it was done in Earth Orbit. Please correct me if I am > wrong. I can't for the life of me remember what Apollo 9 accomplished. Your memory has a few corrupted bits. Apollo 9 was the first manned test of the LM, in earth orbit. 10 was a 'dress rehearsal' for the landing, in lunar orbit. ********************************************************************** Norman Kluksdahl Arizona State University ..ncar!noao!asuvax!enuxha!kluksdah alternate: kluksdah@enuxc1.eas.asu.edu standard disclaimer implied ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jul 89 14:37:07 GMT From: dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!seldon@bu-cs.bu.edu (Seldon) Subject: Re: Apollo 12 (And Surveyor 3) In article <8907112246.AA01428@angband.s1.gov> writes: > > Can anyone fill me in as to what the Apollo 12 astronauts did when they >found the SURVEYOR 3 probe on the lunar surface? I read a while back (in >a now-forgotten magazine) that they took the probe's camera off for "a >souvenir"... > I know that they brought back several small pieces including the remote sampling arm. It was more than just a souvenir, they were examined to see what the effects of a long term stay on the moon were. Effects like micrometeriod impacts, radiation, cosmic rays, etc... Does anyone know what else went on? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- seldon@eleazar.dartmouth.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jul 89 15:08:00 GMT From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!s.cs.uiuc.edu!noe@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: A&E Network rebroadcast of APOLLO 1 dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Douglas Krause) writes: > In article <8907111417.AA18948@decwrl.dec.com> klaes@wrksys.dec.com (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283) writes: > > "Liftoff" - July 16, 9:20 AM - 11 AM > > "Moonwalk" - July 20, 10:30 PM - 2 AM > > "Splashdown" - July 24, 1:30 PM - 3 PM > > Are these times EDT? I think they must be. The times of the actual events were (in EDT): 69/07/16 09:32 liftoff 69/07/20 22:50 approx. beginning of EVA 69/07/21 01:30 approx. end of EVA 69/07/24 12:50 splashdown The only one that doesn't match up is the splashdown. I don't think I could be one hour off with the time, but if there's a typo in "The History of Manned Space Flight" I suppose it's possible. That would mean a mistake of one hour in the printed mission elapsed time (MET), however. The astronauts were on the aircraft carrier deck 63 minutes after splashdown, or at 13:53 EDT according to my figuring. A 12:30-14:00 time slot would include both events, and what klaes@wrksys.dec.com wrote about A&E's schedule is just this shifted over one hour. Either I'm messed up about the actual times, or A&E is off by one hour for the splashdown segment. But I'm fairly confident that the other times are in fact EDT. -- Roger Noe noe@s.cs.uiuc.edu University of Illinois 40:06:39 N. 88:13:41 W. Urbana, IL 61801 USA (217) 333-3496 ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jul 89 06:33:21 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Magellan Status for 07/11/89 (Forwarded) MAGELLAN WEEKLY STATUS July 11, 1989 This is a weekly status report. The Magellan spacecraft is operating well but has had some problem with glitches during star calibrations which have prevented updates in attitude knowledge. Still, attitude drift is small and the mission operations team said the spacecraft can go at least five days without a star calibration update. So far, only two days in a row have been missed. The cause of the glitches is being studied. The team is studying ways to eliminate the problem through filters in the attitude control software. The glitches are described as only an aggravation during cruise but will have to be eliminated to a larger degree before the mapping phase begins. High temperature readings on the Solid Rocket Motor and the Rocket Engine Modules in some attitudes have been a problem. The operations team said Morton Thiokol made tests with a sample of the Solid Rocket Motor core, and believes the temperature limit can be raised from 34 C (93.2 F), to 70 C (158 F). Rocket Research is doing the tests on the Rocket Engine Modules, using spares. The current upper limit is set at 77 C (170.6 F). The tests are to see if the limit can be raised to 120 C (248 F). Both studies will be carefully reviewed. The heating is caused by direct sunlight when the spacecraft is in certain attitudes. This month, Magellan will participate in Deep Space Network very long baseline interferometry and telecon tests. It also will accomplish star calibration with additional stars and continue high-rate data playbacks. SPACECRAFT Distance From Earth (mi) 9,098,851 Velocity Geocentric 7,536 mph Heliocentric 66,163 mph One Way Light Time 48.0 sec ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #559 *******************