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 ; Thu, 24 May 90 01:39:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 24 May 90 01:38:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #445 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 445 Today's Topics: NASA Headline News for 05/23/90 (Forwarded) Re: Endangered squirrels Re: terraforming Venus Voyager 1 Images to be Unveiled German MIR astronaut Re: Manned Mission To Venus Squirrels in space apollo 13 Re: Splitting sci.space Payload Status for 05/23/90 (Forwarded) Re: Manned mission to Venus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 May 90 16:40:29 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 05/23/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 23, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Wednesday, May 23........ The Kennedy Space Center mission managers will confirm the launch date for the Space Shuttle Columbia tomorrow. At this time, the night launch for STS-35/Astro-1 is scheduled for May 30. Tomorrow's flight readiness review agenda will cover the results of the replacement of a coolant valve functional test. The launch countdown preparation operations started yesterday. ******** A more clearly defined photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope's first test picture reveals two distinct stars. Ground-based telescope pictures show an elongated image where astronomers previously believed was only a single star. Updated photographs are available at the Goddard Space Flight Center. ******** A high performance camera will be manufactured by the Japanese for a Soviet Mars project. According to a Japanese news service, it will be the first space project ever agreed upon by the Japanese with the Soviet Union. A Tokai University professor said the nearly $7 million camera, manufactured by a Japanese contingent, will be used on a Soviet Mars probe scheduled for launch in 1994. Other countries included in the mission are the U.S., France and West Germany. ******** The Los Angeles Times reports General Motors will form the world's largest internal corporate satellite network. It will connect all major operations. The new system called Pulsat is expected to be installed in most GM dealerships by 1992. The programming will include electronic shop manuals, vehicle invoicing and diagnostics. ******** A "family portrait" of the solar system transmitted by the Voyager I is scheduled for release June 6. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, will unveil a wall mosaic at the same time a science briefing will be held in Washington, D.C. ******** The Senate Science, Space and Technology subcommittee is scheduled to meet this afternoon at 4:00 P.M. The meeting will discuss the results of the Space Shuttle Mission STS-31 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Room 2318. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Wednesday, May 23............ 2:30 An Evaluation of Human Locomotion Thursday, May 24............. 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted 12:00 Noon The Hubble Space Telescope first test pictures. The Eagle Has Landed, The Flight of Apollo 11 All events and times are subject to change without notice. These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 Noon, EDT. This is a service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA HQ. Contact: JSTANHOPE on NASAmail or at 202/453-8425. ----------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Select TV: Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band 72 Degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 22:00:12 GMT From: manta!simpkins@nosc.mil (Michael A. Simpkins) Subject: Re: Endangered squirrels In article <136117@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes: >If the squirrels are spread evenly over the range, like peanut butter, then >they'll have trouble breeding. (I've noticed that most mammals, when spread >so thinly, seem to have trouble doing much of anything.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have'nt I seen these types of squirrels before? Shure! Spread *evenly* across the road. Yeah, that's it!.....no wonder they're so rare. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ >Doubt if their distribution throughout their range is very smooth. >------------ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ More likely, extra chunky. :-) sorry. "And now for something completely different" NOSC, SAN DIEGO. DUDE! ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 90 19:28:52 GMT From: igloo!ddsw1!corpane!sparks@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (John Sparks) Subject: Re: terraforming Venus PSHAWCRO@NAS.BITNET (Paul Shawcross) writes: |>To terraform Venus you have to get rid of that gas, either by |>removing it to space or by reacting it with something to form solids. |> |> Paul F. Dietz |> dietz@cs.rochester.edu |How about diverting a good sized asteroid into Venus? It |should blow some of the atmosphere off, and might raise a |dust cloud as well. Find an icy asteroid (or a comet), and |you get water too. Most importantly, it would be fun to |watch. [time to let my ignorance show]... Doesn't our large moon account for the Earth not having an atmosphere like Venus? Or at least partially account for it? I think what Venus needs is a large moon like Earth has, to reduce the atmosphere. Or several smaller ones in a closer orbit should do the trick. Or several large asteroids in orbit. -- John Sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 2400bps. Accessable via Starlink (Louisville KY) sparks@corpane.UUCP | | PH: (502) 968-DISK You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 16:08:39 GMT From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Voyager 1 Images to be Unveiled The "family portrait" images taken by Voyager 1 last February will be unveiled as a wall mosaic at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, on June 6. _ _____ _ | | | __ \ | | Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov | | | |__) | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov ___| | | ___/ | |___ M/S 301-355 | |_____| |_| |_____| Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 13:56:20 GMT From: eagle!news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Macrae) Subject: German MIR astronaut A german astronaut is scheduled to make a trip to the Soviet Space Station, MIR. I would like to know if the primary and backup candidates have been selected yet. If so, can someone tell me who they are? If not, is there a list of names of people who are being considered? Specifically, I would like to know if Dr. Messerschmid, who flew on Spacelab D-1, STS61A, is likely to make the trip. Thank you in advance for any help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg | Looking twice through the glass, I see | The bull watching spgreg@csd.lerc.nasa.gov | The torreador. | -MacRae ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 16:54:58 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Manned Mission To Venus In article dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip) writes: >However, I have never heard of nuclear submariners having to be carried >off of the submarine in stretchers due to decalcification and atrophied >muscles. The Soviet cosmonauts who set the current records of around 9 >months to a year have. The 6-month ones had serious problems. The Soviets seem to have those under control: the 9-12 month cosmonauts have not had nearly as much trouble on return. I think they still do the stretcher drill as a precaution, but it's getting less necessary. -- Life is too short to spend | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology debugging Intel parts. -Van J.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 15:05:38 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali!ieevlsi2@ucsd.edu (VLSI) Subject: Squirrels in space I thought that the squirrel problem was an environmental issue - not that I'm not sympathetic - but I'm reading about space stuff in this newsgroup. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 90 16:33:54 +0100 From: D.W.Merrick%durham.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK Subject: apollo 13 Hello there, With reference to the several-hundred-line-long article remembering the apollo 13 ('The Day the Dice Stopped Rolling), I sent it to my friend and he was wondering if it would be all right to publish it in a non-profit-making and limited-distributed magazine? please, any replies to rr3@vaxa.york.AC.UK thank you! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 90 08:54:41 PDT From: greer%utdssa.dnet%utadnx@utspan.span.nasa.gov X-Vmsmail-To: UTADNX::UTSPAN::AMES::"space+@andrew.cmu.edu" Subject: Re: Splitting sci.space In SPACE Digest V11 #439, mcsun!ukc!inmos!conor%wren.inmos.co.uk@uunet.uu.net (Conor O'Neill) writes: >Could we perhaps have a discussion on splitting sci.space into a few >smaller groups. A *very provisional* suggestion might be: > >sci.space.nasa -- Peter Yee's and Ron Baalke's postings, etc. > (Also HST, Voyager, Magellan, Gallileo, etc) >sci.space.manned -- Non shuttle manned discussions (Mars, etc) >sci.space.seti -- Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence > (maybe should be talk.space.seti until proved (:-)) >sci.space.henry -- the definitive question-and-answer group (:-) >sci.space.misc -- anything else > >Maybe sci.space.misc should be left just as sci.space. Sounds good to me in principle. Personally, I'd prefer to just split off the sci.space.manned and sci.space.seti and leave the rest as sci.space. Lately there have been an excessive number of sci-fi postings too. Surely there is already some sort of talk.sci-fi group out there where such postings ought to be directed. Of course, who am I to talk since I recently posted some info about Mt. Graham Red Squirrels to the SPACE Digest! What would really be nice would be to actually see some discussion on space sciences in sci.space, like, has anybody out there been able to relate chaos theory to the study of magnetospheres and solar particle interactions with planetary magnetic fields, for example. _____________ Dale M. Greer, whose opinions are not to be confused with those of the Center for Space Sciences, U.T. at Dallas, UTSPAN::UTADNX::UTDSSA::GREER "I stand by all the misstatements." -- J. Danforth Quayle ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 16:46:15 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 05/23/90 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 05-23-90. - STS-31R HST (at VPF) - Post launch GSE removal continues. Preps IPUC/UDM removal in work today to support scheduled removal tomorrow. - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at Pad-A) - Working preps to support ASTRO experiment closeouts tomorrow. - STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) - CITE MUE and S/W verifications are to be performed today to support CITE testing. All troubleshooting on SLS-1 is complete for level III/II. Preps in work to support move to CITE on 1 June. - STS-41 Ulysses (at ESA 60) - PAM-S spin balance operations will continue today at ESA 60. CITE MUE installation in work to support CITE testing. Working trunnion alignment problem with spacecraft simulator. - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) - Module pyrell foam replacement, floor staging, and rack staging continues. - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) - Pallet cable and orthogrid installations are scheduled today. - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) - No activities are scheduled for today. - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) - No work is scheduled for today. - STS-55 SL-D2 (at O&C) - Rack 12 staging will continue today. - STS-LON-3 HST M&R (at O&C) ORUC interface testing continues today. ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 90 16:37:51 GMT From: clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!quiche!calvin!msdos@uunet.uu.net (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) Subject: Re: Manned mission to Venus In article <8661.26594dbd@pbs.uucp> pstinson@pbs.uucp writes: >In article <3434@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>, msdos@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) writes: >> It depends. This kind of thing is already achieved by Mir which I was able >> to see many times each month just by looking up a few minutes after dusk >> every clear evening, not talking about the tens of other large satellites >> having a lower but still proeminant visibility. Does it really make a >> big cultural impact???? >> ------- >Active colonies changing the face of the moon will be at least several orders >of magnitude more noticible than the rapid overflights of Mir. Just about >anyone can find the moon in the sky. How many people really know when or where >to look for Mir? Watching tiny Mir fly overhead is not the same thing at all. > But you seem to forget that hardly anything can be seen through the smog of the cities and megalopolises that will cover our planet within 5 to 10 years. Does it really matter if the lights on the moon will be 100 times brighter than those of Mir if the light emitted by a single street lamp is a few hundred times brighter than the full moon. For those that will really look for something on the moon, it won't be much harder to see the hundreds of satellites brighter than stars like Sirius or planets like Venus, Jupiter and Mars. On the other side, what will really be fun to watch will be the athmospheric entry of a manned (and therefore significantly large) spacecraft on Venus. Any 50 mm telescope should be sufficient enough for this purpose, and showing it on television with the HST (and a real time camera) will be so much more impressive than the invisible (and slow) entry on Mars. Mark S. ------- ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #445 *******************