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, 11 Oct 1990 02:53:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 02:52:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #443 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 443 Today's Topics: Re: disposal of N-waste into sun Re: Contract for space services New models of Voyager, Viking et al. Payload Status for 10/10/90 (Forwarded) Re: Magellan Update - 10/10/90 Re: 7's in Mercury flight names? Re: Political Satire? Re: Magellan Update - 10/09/90 Psych. effects of moonwalking Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Microgravity Re: Looking for NASA video Re: Manned/unmanned tradeoffs Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription notices, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2 Oct 90 18:52:37 GMT From: mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc@uunet.uu.net (Jose Pina Coelho) Subject: Re: disposal of N-waste into sun In article <14177@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes: > But, what is wrong with dumping the waste sealed in glass into a subduction > zone on the ocean floor? The waste would disappear into the mantle of the > earth...what could possibly be wrong with that? Nothing, just you can't explain a lamp to a troglodite (ecohisterics) You should dump it in a stable (and open) volcano. The waste would be dissolved by several cubic meters of granite. "But that would make the granite radioactive" No, because granite is already radioactive (you receive a bigger ammount of rad. in a granite house than near a nuclear generator (ignoring accidents)) -- // Pina - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ? ------------------------------ Date: 1 Oct 90 18:33:03 GMT From: ucivax!zardoz.cpd.com!dhw68k!ofa123!David.Anderman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (David Anderman) Subject: Re: Contract for space services Your basic premise that we need to look at altering government space procurement policies is correct. I can't say as I agree with your specifics, but I can tell you that HR 2674 is the first step in accomplishing what you want. -- David Anderman Internet: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 90 13:58:02 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!nickw@uunet.uu.net (Nick Watkins) Subject: New models of Voyager, Viking et al. I've just received a catalogue from Lunar Models of: 5120 Grisham Rowlett Texas TX 75088 Phone 1 214 475 4230, 9am to 5pm CST. They have several new kits planned which I felt might be of interest to netters, namely: Voyager 1 1/32 scale Hubble Space Telescope 1/72 scale (in scale with Monogram or Revell orbiter kits). Viking 1/25 and Lunar Rover 1/25. Not sure if these are resin, vacform or what, also not sure about prices at all yet. Please contact them for further info, this is all I have. Usual disclaimers apply, I have no connection with company, not even as a customer (yet :-)). Nick -- Dr. Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND JANET: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: nickw%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac ------------------------------ Date: 11 Oct 90 02:49:59 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 10/10/90 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 10-10-90. - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at VAB) Experiment monitoring continues. - STS-41 Ulysses (at DFRF) Post-flight operations will begin today. - STS-38 DoD MMSE support (at VPF) Canister sensor replacement will continue today. - STS-39 AFP-675/IBSS/STP-01 (at CCAFS) Ground software development continues. - STS 40 SLS-1 (at O&C) Module closeouts continue. - STS-37 GRO (at PHSF) No work is scheduled for today. - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) Module and experiment staging continue. - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) Experiment and pallet staging continue. - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) Experiment and pallet staging will continue today. - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) Rack staging continues. - STS-67 LITE-1 (at O&C) No work is scheduled for today. - HST M&R (at O&C) Development of the ADP for shipment of the M&R pallet to GSFC continues. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Oct 90 02:55:59 GMT From: usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!amara!khai@ucsd.edu (S. Khai Mong) Subject: Re: Magellan Update - 10/10/90 In article <1990Oct10.213934.20701@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes: confirmed satisfactory the end-to-end system performance. Production of standard image products through the SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) processor has started. Twelve image swaths covering the reproccessing of orbits 376 through 387 were successfully completed yesterday. What is the SAR processor and what is special about it? How does it differ from the processing of the images for the press releases? -- Sao Khai Mong: Applied Dynamics, 3800 Stone School Road, Ann Arbor, Mi48108 (313)973-1300 (uunet|sharkey)!amara!khai khai@adi.com -- Sao Khai Mong: Applied Dynamics, 3800 Stone School Road, Ann Arbor, Mi48108 (313)973-1300 (uunet|sharkey)!amara!khai khai@adi.com ------------------------------ Date: 3 Oct 90 10:48:50 GMT From: unisoft!hoptoad!pacbell!pacbell.com!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!dkrause@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Doug Krause) Subject: Re: 7's in Mercury flight names? In article <43400@sequent.UUCP> jerryg@sequent.UUCP (Jerry Gerue) writes: #I noticed that each of the Mercury flights had a "7-name" - # Aurora 7 # Friendship 7 # Freedom 7 You're gonna kick yourself. How many astronauts were in the Mercury program? Douglas Krause One yuppie can ruin your whole day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- University of California, Irvine Internet: dkrause@orion.oac.uci.edu Welcome to Irvine, Yuppieland USA BITNET: DJKrause@ucivmsa ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 90 00:12:03 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!lwall@ucsd.edu (Larry Wall) Subject: Re: Political Satire? In article <272EC33DA97F601452@UALR.BITNET> RDBROWN@UALR.BITNET writes: : Are you trying to be funny or what? Your mail address is interesting, : Scott. I'd expected better from someone who earns a mail address at : NASA. I certainly hope other interested parties take note as well. I'm : not certain this kind of flippancy is the type of image that NASA is : trying desperately to capture amongst the public and with government : and business administrators. Please keep partisan comments such as the : ones in this message confined to private email to the specific recipient : you intended instead of the net-reading public, if for no other reason : than decorum. We can all take a joke, Scott, but there's a time and : place for everything and a lot of the administrators I mentioned read : this mailing. That's the best parody of a humorless person I've seen in ages, Robert. My hat's off to you. I bet a lot of people actually took you seriously for a moment. Larry Wall lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 90 23:03:49 GMT From: news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!nereid!white@rutgers.edu (Harold Peter White) Subject: Re: Magellan Update - 10/09/90 I'm just wondering a bit. Since the Magellan satellite is constantly going over both the north and south polar areas, will this improve the resolution of these areas? And has there been any changes observed in these regions (ie, volcanic.)? H. Peter White white@nereid.sal.ists.ca ------------------------------ ReSent-Message-ID: Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 17:00:36 EDT Resent-From: Harold Pritchett Resent-To: Space discussion group Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 09:14 GMT From: NAME "Chris Welch" Subject: Psych. effects of moonwalking This message was originally submitted by ME_S420@TITAN.KING.AC.UK to the SPACE list at FINHUTC. If you simply forward it back to the list, it will be distributed with the paragraph you are now reading being automatically removed. If you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will need to remove this paragraph before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (44 lines) ------------------ Path: titan!me_s420 From: me_s420@titan.kingston.ac.uk Newsgroups: space Subject: Psych. effects of moonwalking Message-ID: <24914.2712e662@titan.kingston.ac.uk> Date: 10 Oct 90 09:14:10 BST Organization: Kingston Polytechnic News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to space Lines: 34 Greetings all. Perhaps someone out there has the hard information to settle a little dispute for me. A friend has asserted that "All the astronauts who walked on the Moon either became intensely religious, alcoholic, or both". I have heard this asserted before and have always dismissed it as being an urban myth. I know that one or two astronauts may have been affected to a certain extent, but that's all. What I would like to be able to do, assuming that I am right, is to issue a fairly detailed rebuttal. So, does anyone out there have *the facts*, or could we piece them together bit by bit. If you know the whole answer post to news, otherwise email to me and I will summarise. (Interestingly enough, when the selection for the UK Juno mission was being done the candidates were actually screened to see if they expected to get 'cosmic/religous perspective' on the trip. Any who showed a tendency in this direction were scrubbed.) Cheers, Chris -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Welch Janet: cswelch@kingston.ac.uk Kingston Polytechnic Bitnet: cswelch%kingston.ac.uk@uk.ac U.K. 'Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 90 17:13:54 GMT From: dftsrv!nssdcb.gsfc.nasa.gov!jordan@ames.arc.nasa.gov (JOSEPH JORDAN) Subject: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Microgravity Does anyone know where and how I can obtain information about the latest proposals and ideas for manufacturing pharmaceuticals in microgravity? I would like to know what drugs are being considered, what diseases these drugs are used against, and why production in microgravity would be preferred to "normal" gravity. I'm doing research for a science fiction story. Please reply by E-MAIL to JORDAN@NSSDCB.GSFC.NASA.GOV Joe Jordan ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 90 01:22:04 GMT From: olivea!orc!inews!hopi!sstrazdu@apple.com (Stephen Strazdus) Subject: Re: Looking for NASA video There is an ad on page 558 of the November Sky & Telescope for NASA videos. The company is called SkyWatcher Video. 1-800-423-6837 1-800-526-9269 (TX) Prices are between $22 and $30. Disclaimer: I have never seen any of these videos, and I never heard of SkyWatcher Video before I read their ad. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Strazdus | sstrazdu@hopi.intel.com | Insert your favorite .sig here. ------------------------------ Date: 9 Oct 90 20:17:30 GMT From: dg!dg-rtp.dg.com!ahughes@uunet.uu.net (Arch Hughes) Subject: Re: Manned/unmanned tradeoffs In article , jimcat@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes: |> In article <6324@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes: |> >While we are on the subject of dealing with time delays, I |> >wonder if anyone has considered hiring whales to teleoperate |> >bulldozers on the Moon. |> > |> |> Ignoring about fifty zillion biotechnical problems, and assuming that such |> a thing were indeed possible... |> |> Why would the whales have any interest in doing such a thing? |> -- |> Jim Kasprzak kasprzak@mts.rpi.edu (internet) |> RPI, Troy, NY userfe0u@rpitsmts.bitnet |> "A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission." -Rush For the same reason that they've put up with man's obcessive behavior with whales over the years; they are very benovolent creatures who gladly sacrifice themselves for the sake of our ladies lip coloring. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #443 *******************