Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 18:07:23 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V15 #281 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Sat, 3 Oct 92 Volume 15 : Issue 281 Today's Topics: NASA Daily News for 09/30/92 (Forwarded) Psalms from outer space? What is this ? Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Oct 92 19:00:00 GMT From: wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov Subject: NASA Daily News for 09/30/92 (Forwarded) Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Oct3.041048.13395@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes... >In article henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>>... the second shuttle mission for a CSA astronaut - >>>the first having been STS-41G in October 1984 with payload specialist >>>Marc Garneau... >>If I were Roberta Bondar, I'd be annoyed about being omitted... > >I seem to have missed something: The only "CSA" I'm familiar with >is the Confederate States of America, but they haven't existed for >a good 127 years... They do still seem to have an air force despite >this, but I hadn't heard of a space program... > > Frank Crary > CU Boulder > As an adjunct to the Confederate Air Force (CSAAF), we have the headquarters of the Confederate Space Command (CSC) located in Paint Rock Alabama. Our office gained unnecessary publicity when our SPACE SPHERES were seen over Fyffe Alabama. Also it has been erroneously reported in this newsgroup that our COSMOSPHERE space ships are of Soviet/Russian origin. Our purpose in allowing this disinformation to be disseminated by the poster that you have read recently is to provoke the war mongers in the pentagon to continue the buildup of the STAR WARS missile defense system. Why? Well look at it this way. The ground based portion of the Star Wars missile system is managed from our capital city of Huntsville Alabama. It is a common fallacy that this city is still under the control of United States of America forces. We allow this fallacy to continue in order to have the USA government fund their own downfall!! With the Confederate States Aeronautic and Space Administration (CSASA) located at the Marshall Space Flight Center (supposedly a US federal installation) we are quietly working with our Sister centers in Florida, Houston, and Virgina to continue to develop our Confederate space flight capability. Why would I spill the beans at this point? Because you all will laugh and think that I am joking. Well well there folks just look around you. We now have our primere baseball team the braves winning the pennant in their division, our football teams are always at the top. Just who is getting fooled here? :-) Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville (Grits Forever!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:56:38 GMT From: Mike Smithwick Subject: Psalms from outer space? Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Oct1.141210.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes: >Trivia time: > >A friend has stumped me with the following question: > >> Which Psalm was it that was read from space by an astronaut? >>My mom was wondering (she guessed Psalm 8). > >The best I can come up with is that some passages from Genesis were >read byt the Apollo 8 crew on Christmas in 1968, but I have no record >that they read Psalms or any other part of the Bible. > >Can anybody do better than this? It was Jim Irwin who quoted Psalms 121:1 on EVA 3 (I think) of Apollo 15 as he was preparing to leave the lunar surface. THe verse went : I lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help..." He then said that he got a lot of help from Houston as well. mike -- "There is no problem too big that can't be solved with high explosives"-Rush Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike ------------------------------ Date: 3 Oct 92 19:49:15 GMT From: topcoat Subject: What is this ? Newsgroups: sci.space PHARABOD@FRCPN11.IN2P3.FR writes: > Carl Hage writes (30 Sep 92 22:52:50 GMT): > > : Seconds after Heading Speed Altitude > : lock-on (degrees) (knots) (feet) > : > : 00 200 150 7000 > : 01 200 150 7000 > : 02 200 150 7000 > : 03 200 150 7000 > : 04 sharp 200 acceleration 150 6000 > : 05 turn 270 = 22 g 560 6000 > : 06 270 560 6000 > : 07 270 570 6000 > : 08 270 560 7000 > : 09 270 550 7000 > > >It must have a warp drive since it managed 1000 feet of altitude change > >while going only 150 knots (253 f/s). > > Not necessarily, since the altitude displayed on the F-16's Westinghouse > APG-66 radar display screen (upper right hand corner) has only two > digits. 07 means 7000 + or - 500, 12 means 12000 + or - 500, etc... > So in this report, 7000 could be 6501, and 6000 could be 6499. > > J. Pharabod Looks like bad data, was the soucre a pulse doppler radar or pulse? If this was FAA "primary" data I'd call it jitter and disregard -- top@wuntvor.pillar.com (topcoat) The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK -- +1 405 447 3772 ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 15 : Issue 281 ------------------------------