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/usr1/ota/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Sun, 1 Oct 89 05:25:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sun, 1 Oct 89 05:25:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #96 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 96 Today's Topics: Re: Lost Papers of Edward Ruppelt Re: Space goals, cheap launchers Galileo probe media briefing set (Forwarded) NASA opens its data bases to stimulate student science/engineering (Fowarded) Goals, Objectives, Plans, Steps Images available? Pro-Expendable Amendment to NASA Budget ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Sep 89 04:32:38 GMT From: uhccux!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba!baby!gnb@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Gregory N. Bond) Subject: Re: Lost Papers of Edward Ruppelt In article <5573.25187630@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Michael.Corbin@f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin) writes: More details later on ParaNet re the upcoming sale of this remarkable, previously unavailable UFO find. ======================================================================== ParaNet has been retained as the exclusive marketing agent for this incredible cache of treasures. Direct all inquiries to ParaNet by phoning our offices ... I wonder. Is it written on official "Dukes of Hazzard" stationary? -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 89 03:52:47 GMT From: jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@rutgers.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Space goals, cheap launchers In article <8909260257.AA19934@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes: >>... companies like AMROC, SSI, and >>OSC/Hercules seem to be on the right track towards providing low-cost >>access to orbit. >Remember that what these companies offer (at least in the near term) is >low cost *per launch*, not *per pound*. Cost per pound is even higher than >the shuttle... This is true of small launchers in general, not just the new ones. (Although... there is much to be said for getting a dedicated launch on a launcher whose proprietors don't insist on mil-spec payloads. For a gross case of this, almost any GetAway Special payload would be *lots* easier to build, not to mention lighter and more reliable, if it could be built for a dedicated flight rather than as a hitchhiker on a shared vehicle with very restrictive rules.) Most of the new launch companies are very interested in offering big launches as well as small ones. They just want to see some positive cash flow first. >Can any of these small launchers be equipped with a secondary booster, and get >a payload of usable size into lunar or interplanetary trajectories? Depends on what you mean by "useful". The answer is definitely yes if you are willing to settle for small payloads. Ball Aerospace has signed a deal with OSC/Hercules to launch small Clarke-orbit comsats on Pegasus, and a system which can get a payload into Clarke orbit can get roughly the same payload into lunar orbit. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 16:19:10 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Galileo probe media briefing set (Forwarded) Paula Cleggett-Haleim Headquarters, Washington, D.C. September 25, 1989 Peter W. Waller Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif. N89-67: GALILEO PROBE MEDIA BRIEFING SET The role of the Galileo spacecraft's probe, during the planet Jupiter exploration mission, will be detailed at a media briefing to be held at NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif., at 1 p.m. EDT, Thurs., Sept. 28. The Galileo spacecraft, with the probe, will be launched from the Space Shuttle Atlantis no earlier than Oct. 12. Approaching Jupiter, the probe will be released to penetrate down 400 miles into Jupiter's atmosphere to make the first direct atmosphere measurements, seeking lightning, dense water clouds and clues to Jupiter's hurricane winds. Data gathered could disclose much more about the outer giant-gas planets and the origin of the solar system and the universe. Reporters planning to attend the briefing should come to the Ames Pass and ID Office. Print and still photo material and two TV clips, with new mission animation, will be available. News organizations can downlink the briefing from NASA Select television, Satcom F2R, transponder 13, 72 degrees West longitude. Two-way question and answer capability will be available from NASA Headquarters, Wash., D.C., and most NASA field centers. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 20:05:29 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA opens its data bases to stimulate student science/engineering (Fowarded) Terri Sindelar Headquarters, Washington, D.C. John M. Dumoulin Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. RELEASE: 89-148 NASA OPENS ITS DATA BASES TO STIMULATE STUDENT SCIENCE/ENGINEERING NASA has opened its computerized science data bases to the nation's universities to stimulate "cottage industry" space research by professors and entice more students to specialize in science and engineering studies. Through the new Joint Venture (JOVE) Program, currently in the pilot phase at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, Ala., NASA makes available scientific and engineering data generated from space missions in exchange for analysis and interpretation by faculty members and students. In 1989, NASA is expected to generate several trillion bits of raw science and engineering data -- roughly equal to the amount of information stored in the Library of Congress. Analyzing and translating the data into useful knowledge presents NASA with a big challenge and offers an unprecendented opportunity. In addition to direct analysis of space science data, participating JOVE universities assume the role of space program emissaries, using the excitement of space to enhance educational programs in their areas of influence. Currently in the first year, plans are to add seven more colleges and universities to the pilot phase in 1990. It is anticipated that in 1992 the JOVE program will enter an operational stage, subject to available funding and will allow broad college/university participation. The JOVE program just completed the first summer of the pilot phase and the university response has been tremendous. The seven participating universities are so enthusiastic about the program that in some cases they are providing $3 to every $1 NASA has offered. "Where NASA offered to pay the equivalent of one professor's salary this summer to do research, our university paid for three additional professors' salaries," said Dr. Gary White, JOVE faculty research associate from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, La. "I've proposed to change the title of our physics curriculum to Space Physics. Because of JOVE, our program will have the substance to offer new courses with space science emphasis and offer the kinds of scholastic incentives to attract new students." White spent this past summer on a JOVE research project in solar science. "Space provides the hook," said Dr. Rick Chappell, Associate Director for Science at MSFC and initiator of the JOVE idea. "Youngsters are interested in space. Space Science is a natural extension of that interest and can draw students from all backgrounds into the technical fields." "JOVE is already helping train undergraduates in space astronomy at the University of Georgia," said Dr. J. Scott Shaw, Associate Professor of Astronomy. "The university has funded two undergraduate stipends this year for astronomy research as a direct result of JOVE, and we hope to sponsor four physics majors from other, smaller Georgia universities in 10 weeks of research next summer. Eventually the University of Georgia hopes to expand the program to 8 yearly, co-sponsored undergraduate stipends. "For the first time," said Shaw, "we'll be able to regularly expose our students to the thrill of original space research." This research will include data from the International Ultraviolet Explorer and Einstein orbiting observatories. Universities also will assist NASA in the studies of the Earth's environment, planetary science and microgravity research, eventually including the orbiting sensors on satellites in NASA's Mission to Planet Earth program and on Space Station Freedom, according to Chappell. This summer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and Northwestern State sent professors to MSFC to participate in materials processing research. West Virginia University, Morgantown, and Northwestern State each sent professors to perform research in atmospheric science. "This summer," said Chappell, "every research team discovered that the visiting professor brought a refreshing perspective to the research. They were a valuable resource and the program has been very successful for both research and educational outreach." Texas Southern College, Houston, sent one of its faculty to work on a solar wind study at Rice University, Houston. Rice participates in JOVE as a research-sponsoring institution, having extensive experience in space science research. "Educational outreach is one of the most exciting parts of JOVE," said Dr. Joe Perez, Department of Physics Chairman, Auburn University, Ala., who with three other Auburn physics professors spent part of the summer analyzing space physics data at MSFC. "We've received a good response across the state from elementary schools through 4-year colleges who want to participate. We hope to provide written and video materials to them, using space examples to teach basic physics principles. We've also sent a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a high school program for Alabama juniors and seniors to spend 2 weeks of space science research with one of our four JOVE professors." "We plan to offer to high schools in Louisiana a space science course using a two-way satellite television system," said Dr. Bobby Alost, president of Northwestern State University, "and we've already received a grant from the Department of Education to set it up. We're also planning to initiate a pre-college 'Space Camp' in collaboration with Space Camp in Huntsville." Texas Southern University expects to use the JOVE program to add a space component to an existing outreach program in predominantly Hispanic schools and to establish a space science lecture series at Houston-area high schools. "The research side of the JOVE program -- the direct analysis of space science data -- is important, but in the long run it may be the contributions of the outreach portion, which involves generating science interests in pre-college students, that will bring the most far-reaching benefits," according to Chappell. "JOVE is showing that an involvement in the space program by universities is very positive for promoting careers in science. "The future of the United States, particularly our economy, depends on our technology," said Chappell. "It's the kids who are now making career choices about science and engineering who are going to generate the new technology for the nation's future. They'll be our new explorers in science and technology. "There are 250 U.S. universities now participating in some area of the space program," Chappell said. "By making NASA's world-class data available to institutions of higher education, JOVE could conceivably double that number in 5 to 10 years. Add to that the educational outreach programs, and you begin to understand the incredible impact of the JOVE program. Everybody wins -- scientists, educators, students and the nation!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 09:51:24 PDT From: mordor!lll-tis!oodis01!riacs!rutgers!pnet01.cts.com!jim@angband.s1.gov (Jim Bowery) To: ucsd!nosc!crash!space@angband.s1.gov Subject: Goals, Objectives, Plans, Steps Brian Yamauchi writes: > OK, what >goals< do *you* think NASA (and/or the private space industry) > should be pursuing?... > ...I have yet to see any > >long-range plan< that provides a better alternative. This demonstrates confusion between goals and plans. A goal is a desired state. One might say the plan is the means and the goal is the ends. The way George Koopman described his approach to achieving goals was to first, set the goal (which is not scheduled or very well defined), and then decide on a wide range of "objectives" which will bring one closer to that goal. Objectives are states between where you are now and where you want to be, that can be scheduled and objectively defined so that one knows exactly when one has met the objective. Having defined an objective, one THEN comes up with a "plan" which is a sequence of "steps" to acheive the objective within the schedule. A "step" is something that you have done before. If it isn't something you have done before, don't plan on it -- although you might make it, itself, an objective and then having demonstrated the capability, plan on it later. Neither plans nor objectives are to be laid down in concrete. They should be under constant re-evaluation and revision. One doesn't stick to one's objectives in the face of all adversity since they are simply there to teach you and bring you closer to your goal. The critical thing to note here is that one does not achieve "goals" by "planning". Rather one achieves "objectives" by "planning" and all one can say after having achieved an "objective" is that one is now closer to one's "goal". This is George Koopman's semantics and it seems to be a big step up from where we are presently in our approach to space goals. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Bowery Phone: 619/295-8868 PO Box 1981 Join the Mark Hopkins Society! La Jolla, CA 92038 (A member of the Mark Hopkins family of organizations.) UUCP: {cbosgd, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pnet01!jim ARPA: crash!pnet01!jim@nosc.mil INET: jim@pnet01.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 13:31:46 GMT From: astroatc!feuling@speedy.wisc.edu (Lindsay Feuling) Subject: Images available? I'm looking for any image data available from Voyager. If anyone knows where I could obtain this, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Lindsay Feuling ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 13:51:19 CDT From: Will Martin Subject: Pro-Expendable Amendment to NASA Budget The following article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sept. 22: BUECHNER AMENDMENT LIMITS UNMANNED SHUTTLE FLIGHTS By Robert L. Koenig, P-D Washington Bureau. [The headline is wrong -- the editor must have not read the piece; it promotes expendable use as opposed to shuttle use, and doesn't have anything to do with "unmanned shuttle flights", if those are even possible (not Shuttle C, regular shuttle).] A space bill that gained House approval Thursday included a provision sponsored by US Rep. Jack Buechner to discourage the use of Space Shuttle flights for missions that do not require astronauts. Buechner, R-Kirkwood [a St. Louis suburb], said using the Shuttle for routine missions is "like using a Cadillac to haul bricks." He said his amendment would help ensure that the manned shuttle is "preserved and available for those special missions for which it is best suited." Buechner successfully added the amendment this summer in the House Space, Science and Technology Committee to legislation continuing the operation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Buechner spoke in support of the measure Thursday in the full House, which approved the NASA bill. Suechner's provision would reduce the use of the manned Space Shuttle in favor of unmanned rockets, knowns as "expendable launch vehicles." Some of the rockets are made by St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corp. [The obvious real reason for all this... :-) WM] The Shuttle would be reserved only for missions that either require an astronaut or are designed specifically for the shuttle's capabilities. Buechner said he decided to sponsor the amendment after a NASA official told the House space panel that the probability of a catastrophic accident similar to the Challenger explosion was one in 78 launches. "This nation won't be able to maintain an active space exploration program if we experience Challenger-type setbacks," Buechner said. "I'm a strong advocate of manned space flight, and it only seems prudent to reduce risk to human life at every opportunity." ***End of Article*** Side comment: I reproduced the above with the capitalization exactly as shown in the original article. Notice that the term "shuttle" is sometimes capitalized and sometimes not. Personally, I think it should be in lower case, being a generic term. But I have no idea who or what would be the over-riding authority or determining judge to decide this burning issue. :-) Anybody have any ideas? Do we leave it up to NASA? Maybe the Illuminati or the Trilateral Commission make these sort of decisions... :-) Regards, Will Martin ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #96 *******************