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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 90 01:55:58 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #136

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 11 : Issue 136

Today's Topics:
     United Space Federation (International organization)  [LONG]
	 NASA Select Radio Programs for 03/12/90 (Forwarded)
	     NASA Headline News for 03/08/90 (Forwarded)
		   Frequently asked SPACE questions
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Date: 11 Mar 90 00:58:25 GMT
From: lazlow!evenson@louie.udel.edu
Subject: United Space Federation (International organization)  [LONG]


	I am posting this for a good friend with an intersting dream.
PLEASE NOTE:  Do not reply by email--the author of this posting does not
have access to the internet (see the end of the posting for the mailing
address of his organization).


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	WHAT IS THE UNITED SPACE FEDERATION

The United Space Federation (USF) is a non-military. non-govermental,
non-profit international organization which promotes, pursues, and
undertakes civil space projects and missions for industry, commerce, and
science.

	
	FUTURE GOALS OF THE ORGANIZATION

1)  Creating a physcial building and staff to represent the world community
into spacem the solar system, and beyond.  This building would be the focal
point for purely scientific, industrial, and commerce related international, 
peaceful civil space projects.

2)  Creating two international commisions to debate, draft, plan, propose,
and enforce international civil space projects, ventures, missions,
agreements, trade, and unilateral space law documents.  These two
commissions will be the Space Planning Commision (SPC) and the Space
Regulations Commission (SRC).  These two commisions will mandate all United
Space Federation projects, ventures, missions, and operations through 
international mediation, debate, and agreement to be carried
out as agreed upon as by the two commisions through the elected board of
directors (EBOD).

3)  Creating a direct link a communications with the United Nations in
order to provide a neutral and important link of communications with the
international community so that the United Space Federation may have a
critical insight of world events that may effect or greatly influence
United Space Federation operations or international agreements.  Also this
will allow the international community to communicate with the United Space
Federation openly and neutrally outside of normal USF links of
communication already established.

	FUTURE PROJECTS OF THE ORGANIZATION

A)  Building an international headquarters to conduct all United Space
Federation administrative tasks, operations, planning, and to accommodate
the personel and diplomats of the Space Planning Commision, Space
Regulations Commision, Elected Board of Directors and the VIPs and guests
participating in international conferences, lectures, and debates related
to USF operations or important international space-related topics.

B) International civil space operations and research complex to assist and
support international space projects, ventures, and missions.

C) Creating an international commission and support facility for Earth
weather/atmposphere/global temperature and oceeanographic monitoring and
observations, in order to provide information to world governments of any
changes or effects created by humankind and civilization on Earth.  Also,
to track and monitor any large dangerous natural events which may endanger
large populations.  So advance notice may be given as soon as possible to
local civil authorities so that the affected population may be warned of
the event.  Also to allow in-depth international coopertative studies to be
conducted on weather and atmospheric conditions on our planet in order to
stimulate further awareness and understanding. 

D) Creating a network of international orbital refueling, staging, and
supply facilities to support USF operations, ventures, and missions, and to
provide an international emergency and rescue capabilities in support of
expanding global manned space missions and facilities.

E)  Planning, establishing, manning, and operating an international
earth-moon base for scientific and industrial peaceful civil space
projects, ventures, and missions.  Basic space research related to
enviromental studies, life sciences, space resources retrieval and
processing for industrial and support purposes.  Establishing and
supporting a lunar optical/radio observatory for international use.
Supporting the construction of large space structures and spacecraft for
expanding human exploration of the solar system.  Supporting future
international solar exploration for inudstry, commerce, and science.
Creating and operating an international communications center and
earth/moon navigation beacons and trnasmitting equipment to support
earth/moon operations and navigation.  Also to support all future
international projects for which such a facility will be of the utmost of
importance to, such as supporting missions and bases elsewhere in the solar
system like Mars or being a refueling point for future manned solar
exploration ships.

F)  Supporting, manning, and establishing international Mars missions and
bases for industry, commerce, and science.  Operating, expanding, and
establishing additional bases industrial complexes and facilities,
exploring, sharting and identifying Martian terrain, landmarks, natural
resources.  Supporting future international projects on Mars for industry,
commerce, and science.

G)  Supporting, promoting, building, and operating spacecraft to explore
the solar system, using manned crews.  The first international solar
cruiser will be designed to accomodate (8) United Space Federation crew
members.  (10) scientists from varing specialties and backgrounds, and (2)
engineers involved with spacecraft design and construction.  The solar
cruiser shall use liquid fuels for orbital operations, fission or fusion
for interplanetary operations and electrical propulsion for manuevering.
The solar cruiser shall be constructed to provide both gravity and
non-gravity working and living spaces for the crew.  The solar cruiser
shall be able to operate for three years independently from outside sources,
and fice years with in-space resupply of food and life supporting elements.
The spacecraft in entirety will be reusable upon completion of each
mission, by being reconditioned in earth or moon orbit and then being
refuelled and resupplyed for the next mission.

H)  The United Space Federation will support and undertake both manned and
unmanned international civil space projects, ventures and missions for the
good and benefit of all humanity and the planet earth.


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Important Update:

	The United Space Federation is now in the process of being accepted
in non-goverment organization (NGO) status with the United Nations.  Also,
at present papers are pending with the Department of State, State of New
York, for official non-profit status.  Presently the organization is
establishing volunteer officer detachments at universities and colleges
around the world.  If you are interested in obtaining more information or
have further questions about the United Space Federation then send SASE to:

			Rick R. Dobson
			Founder and First Director
			United Space Federation
			POB 4722
			Ithaca, NY 14852
       
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	It is my dream to see the United Space Federation realized within
my lifetime.  So it is my hope that others will see the importance of this
quest for the stars and the many benfits it will have for humankind in the
future.
		Thank you for your time and support, Godspeed,
			Sincerely,
				Rick R. Dobson
				United Space Federation

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Date: 10 Mar 90 19:02:22 GMT
From: ames.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Select Radio Programs for 03/12/90 (Forwarded)

The next series of NASA radio programs will be on NASA Select 
Monday, March 12th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.  The shows include:

#1368  "Cockpit of the Future"
(Feat:  Jack Hatfield, LaRC)
USE:  03/12/90 thru 03/18/90

#1369  "A Six-Legged Robot Named Ambler"
(Feat:  Dave Lavery, Hdqts.)
USE:  03/19/90 thru 03/25/90

#1370  "Our Sun...Our Star"
(Feat:  Kenneth Schatten, GSFC)
USE:  03/26/90 thru 04/01/90

#1371  "The Ice Team Cometh"
(Feat:  Greg Katnik, KSC)
USE:  04/02/90 thru 04/08/90


NASA Select is on Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13, 72 West Longitude.

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Date: 10 Mar 90 18:53:45 GMT
From: ames.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Headline News for 03/08/90 (Forwarded)

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Thursday, March 8, 1990                 Audio: 202/755-1788
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This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, March 8......

Turnaround operations are on schedule at the Dryden Flight 
Research Facility in California for a Saturday departure of the 
shuttle carrier aircraft and the space shuttle orbiter Atlantis.
Workers are closing off a high pressure leak, residual liquid 
oxygen and liquid hydrogen reactants are being offloaded and 
power checks of the 747 are scheduled for today.

At Kennedy Space Center, the orbiter Discovery was hard-mated to 
the external tank solid rocket booster stack in the Vehicle 
Assembly Building.  Umbilical mate preparations are underway.  
Mission managers target an earlier rollout date of 8:00 A.M. 
March 15.  The STS-31 launch, to deploy the Hubble Space 
Telescope, target date is April 12.

Johnson Space Center will host the 21st Lunar and Planetary 
Science Conference next week.  Over 750 scientists will review 
subjects including a Venus overview prior to Magellan, lunar 
meteorites and cosmic rays.  Two public sessions will discuss 
President Bush's Moon-Mars Exploration Initiative and a special 
Voyager 2 session. 

Today, the Galileo spacecraft is 54 million miles from Earth and 
over 65 million miles from the sun traveling approximately 90,000 
miles per hour in its solar orbit.  Sun-point maneuvers are a 
part of the current operations along with selected "cruise 
science" measurements of fields and particles.  Galileo has 
logged over 239 million miles in space since launch last 
October 18.

AP reports Japan successfully tested one of the world's most 
advanced rocket engines earlier this week.  A four-second test 
firing of the LE-7 went well.  The liquid hydrogen and oxygen 
engine will be used to power the first stage of a new Japanese 
H-2 rocket for future space exploration.  The H-2 succeeds the 
H-1 and is slated to go into service March 1992. 


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Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA 
Select TV.  All times are Eastern.

Wednesday, March 14...

         11:30 A.M.          NASA Update will be transmitted.
                             (note change).


Thursday, March 15....       ____________________________ 

          9:00 A.M.          Hubble Space Telescope science   
                             briefing.

         12:00 P.M.          Preparation, deploy        
                             and verification servicing briefing.

          5:00 P.M.          How to cover the mission.
                             (for media).


Monday, March 19......       ____________________

          9:30 A.M.          STS-31 flight directors      
                             mission overview.

         10:30 A.M.          Secondary middeck student       
                             experiments.

         11:30 A.M.          Flight crew news conference.


Wednesday, March 21...

          1-2:30 P.M.        Total Quality Management in Action
                             colloquium.

All events and times are subject to change without notice.
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These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12 noon, 
Eastern time.
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A service of the Internal Communications Branch (LPC), NASA 
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 90 04:00:24 -0800
From: Eugene Miya <eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Subject: Frequently asked SPACE questions

This list does change.

This is a list of frequently asked questions on SPACE (which goes back
before 1980).  It is in development.  Good summaries will be accepted
in place of the answers given here.  The point of this is to circulate
existing information, and avoid rehashing old answers.  Better to
build on top than start again.  Nothing more depressing than rehashing
old topics for the 100th time.  References are provided because they
give more complete information than any short generalization.

Questions fall into three basic types:
1) Where do I find some information about space?
Try you local public library first.  You do know how to use a library, don't
you?  Can't tell these days.  The net is not a good place to ask for
general information.  Ask individuals if you must.  There are other sources,
use them, too.  The net is a place for open ended discussion.

2) I have an idea which would improve space flight?
Hope you aren't surprised but 9,999 out of 10,000 have usually been
thought of before.  Again, contact a direct individual source for
evaluation.  NASA fields thousands of these each day.

3) Miscellanous queries.  Sorry, have to take them case by case.

Initially, this message will be automatically posted once per month
and hopefully, we can cut it back to quarterly.  In time questions and
good answers will be added (and maybe removed, nah).

1) What happen to Saturn V plans? What about reviving the Saturn V
as a heavy-lift launcher?

Possible but very expensive -- tools, subcontractors, plans, facilities
are gone or converted for the shuttle, and would need rebuilding,
re-testing, or even total redesign.

2) Where can I learn about space computers: shuttle, programming,
core memories?

%J Communications of the ACM
%V 27
%N 9
%D September 1984
%K Special issue on space [shuttle] computers

Other various AIAA and IEEE publications.

Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
James E.  Tomayko
1988?

3) SETI computation articles?

%A D. K. Cullers
%A Ivan R. Linscott
%A Bernard M. Oliver
%T Signal Processing in SETI
%J Communications of the ACM
%V 28
%N 11
%D November 1984
%P 1151-1163
%K CR Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.4.1 [Operating Systems]:
Process Management - concurrency; I.5.4 [Pattern Recognition]:
Applications - signal processing; J.2 [Phsyical Sciences and Engineering]:
astronomy
General Terms: Design
Additional Key Words and Phrases: digital Fourier transforms,
finite impulse-response filters, interstellar communications,
Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, signal detection,
spectrum analysis

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