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SPACE Digest                                      Volume 9 : Issue 559

Today's Topics:
             Kuiper Airborne Observatory
               Looking for Arthur Dula
               Re: Apollo Books
                Re: Apollo 11
           Re: Interesting Apollo crew observations
              Re: Apollo Ascent Modules
        NSC pledge for a permanent manned lunar base.
          Posting of space images (software)
            Re: Questions about Apollo 11
             Apollo 8, 9, and 10
               Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10
            Re: Apollo 12 (And Surveyor 3)
           Re: A&E Network rebroadcast of APOLLO 1
           Magellan Status for 07/11/89 (Forwarded)
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Date: 18 Jul 89 19:19:31 GMT
From: frooz![e-mail]  (Steve Willner)
Subject: Kuiper Airborne Observatory

> Now take the Kuiper observatory.  Why is NASA in charge?  Ya got me,
> buddy.  (I know NSF and others help adminstrate.)

Just a tiny correction.  The KAO is entirely operated by NASA - no NSF
or other agency involvement whatever.  The next-generation airborne
observatory (SOFIA - Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy)
will be a joint project of NASA and the West German space agency.
(BMFT, I think, though darned if I know what the initials stand for.)

So why NASA?  Probably because NASA runs active programs in
aeronautical research and in airborne terrestrial sensing and so has lots
of pilots and mechanics on staff, not to mention hangars, runways, and
other support services.  (Many facilities are shared with the Navy at
NASA Ames - Moffett Field.)  NASA also runs an active planetary
research program that includes ground-based as well as space
observations (and often accomodates non-planetary astrophysical
research).  Frankly, I don't see any other agency that could run the
KAO program with reasonable efficiency.

Steve Willner            Phone [phone]         Bitnet:   willner@cfa
60 Garden St.            FTS:      830-7123           UUCP:   willner@cfa
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA                 Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: 19 Jul 89 03:05:37 GMT
From: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!turing.cs.rpi.edu![e-mail]  (Christopher A. Welty)
Subject: Looking for Arthur Dula

I am looking for Arthur Dula, who I hear is a lawyer representing some
companies who want to put payloads up on Energia.  I think he's in
Phoenix.  Please reply by mail.  Thanks.


Christopher Welty  ---  Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs | "Porsche:  Fahren in
[e-mail]             ...!njin!nyser!weltyc |  seiner schoensten Form"

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Date: 18 Jul 89 16:25:56 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (Eugene Miya)
Subject: Re: Apollo Books

Try Books in Print.
Also try your local library.  They will offer a more complete list
than could ever be listed on the net.

Another gross generalization from

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, [e-mail]
  resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
  "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology."
  {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene
                  Live free or die.

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Date: 18 Jul 89 20:34:37 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!milano!kepler![e-mail]  (Charlie Richter)
Subject: Re: Apollo 11


    In August, 1969, President Nixon awarded Medals of
    Freedom to four people associated with the Apollo
    11 mission.  Three medals went to Armstrong, Aldrin,
    and Collins.  Who was awarded the fourth, and what
    was that person's contribution to the mission?

And the answer is ... Steve Bales.  Bales was the
guidance officer for Apollo 11.  As such, he was the
person who gave Eagle the GO to land despite the 1202
and 1201 program alarms.
--
Charlie Richter   MCC   Austin, Texas
  uucp: [e-mail]     arpa: [e-mail]
"The panic ... was not due to anything fundamentally weak in either business
   or finance.  It was confined to the market itself."   - WSJ, Oct. 31, 1929

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Date: 18 Jul 89 17:28:27 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (Andy Stadler)
Subject: Re: Interesting Apollo crew observations

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Danny Young) writes:
>The July Astronomy magazine quotes Buzz Aldrin's comments on standing on
>the moon: "I quickly discovered that I felt balanced--comfortably upright--only
>when I was tilted slightly forward.  I also felt a bit disoriented:  On Earth
>when one looks at the horizon, it appears flat.  On the Moon, so much smaller
>than the Earth and quit without high terrain (at least in the Sea of
>Tranquility), the horizon in all directions visibly curved down away from us."
>
>Were these sensations anticipated?  Are there other interesting observations
>that Apollo crews have made that perhaps came as a surprise to them?
>

If you look at any of the surface photos, especially a profile view, this
forward lean is quite evident....  But it's also very evident why:  the large,
heavy life support backpack.  Leaning forward moved the center of mass back
over the feet.

--Andy             [e-mail]

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Date: 18 Jul 89 17:02:59 GMT
From: hplabsb![e-mail]  (David Smith)
Subject: Re: Apollo Ascent Modules


Not long after Apollo 11, a Berry's World cartoon showed one farmer
coming up to another who was sitting on a chair on the porch of his
house.  He said, "Say, Lem, what's this I hear about you going to the
moon?"
--

            David R. Smith, HP Labs
            [e-mail]
            [phone]

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Date: 18 Jul 89 15:27:02 GMT
From: wrksys.dec.com![e-mail]  (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283)
Subject: NSC pledge for a permanent manned lunar base.


        The following article is from the Space Activists Digest,
    written by Chris Welty, who is the Moderator of the newsgroup.
    Information on how to receive/send to the Digest appears after
    this article:

        The National Space Council, headed by Vice President Quayle, is
    urging the President to launch a "JFK-like manned assault on the
    Moon, including the establishment of a permanent base there."  The
    NSC is also advising President Bush to announce this effort in a
    speech to Congress commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Moon
    landing (July 20).  This information was also reported in THE
    WASHINGTON TIMES (July 11, p. A1).

        A permanent base on the Moon would provide major scientific
    advances for the US, the most important of which is badly needed
    direction for the "dying" space program.  A permanent Moon base
    would also provide an ideal stepping stone for a later mission to
    the planet Mars.

        This proposal by the NSC has caused some controversy within the
    Bush Administration, as the government is no longer convinced that the
    space program is important to the people.  This country needs such an
    effort, if for no other reason than to stimulate the imaginations and
    spirits of a younger generation whose only heroes are Wall Street
    slicksters and rock stars.  All persons are urged to call the
    Presidential Comment Line at [phone], and express their
    opinions on the need for such a space program.
    ---

        I sent a copy of this, titled "PRESS RELEASE" to the local TV
    stations here, and was invited on the local news for a brief interview.
    I encourage everyone to try it - this week TV stations are looking for
    news about the space program.  It is VERY EASY to get on a local news
    broadcast, and you can reach a LOT of people.  I've done this three
    times already, and it works!

        TO RECEIVE SPACE ACTIVISTS DIGEST:

    Submissions: [e-mail]
    Requests, policy: [e-mail]
    Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.1.10] in
    the files space-activists/Vxx/Nyy (ie space-activists/V01/N01 for V1#1),
    mail requests will not be promptly satisfied.  If you can't reach
    `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead.

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Date: 18 Jul 89 18:46:38 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (Eugene Miya)
Subject: Posting of space images (software)

NASA does not officially post images to the net for a variety of
reasons, but I just got a note from a couple of net readers who do not run
on any typically nice graphics hardware asking that if you do post any kind
of ASCII encoded image, that you post the software to convert or at least
tell the format you are using up front. This goes for anything from
PostScript(tm), GIF, uuencode (oops Unix source code...), etc. Okay,
so at least tell what type of format you are using.  Don't flame
me, I'm only forwarding the request (one running EBCDIC hardware).
Follows up to sci.space because neither astro nor graphics gets gatewayed
to the Internet.

Another gross generalization from

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, [e-mail]
  resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
  "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology."
  {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene
                  Live free or die.

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Date: 18 Jul 89 16:36:39 GMT
From: cwjcc!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo![e-mail]  (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Questions about Apollo 11

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tim Larison) writes:
>> something that looks like a hand holding a needle-like object appears in
>> the upper right-hand side of the picture and comes down across the window.
>> What was that?  What did it do?
>
>I believe that is the shadow of the antenna on top of the LEM...

I happened to catch a bit of Apollo coverage the other night -- I watch TV
about once a year, so this isn't as predictable as you might think! -- and
it happened to show that sequence.  I can now confirm what I posted as my
best guess the other day:  it is the shadow of one of the LM's legs and the
long contact probe sticking down from it.
--
$10 million equals 18 PM       |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
(Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry [e-mail]

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Date: 18 Jul 89 17:20:54 GMT
From: dftsrv![e-mail]  (Tom Corsetti)
Subject: Apollo 8, 9, and 10

Hi,
I remember Apollo 8 as being the first time men orbitted the moon.  They
had no LM for that mission.  If I remember right, 10 was the first test
of the LM, and it was done in Earth Orbit.  Please correct me if I am
wrong.  I can't for the life of me remember what Apollo 9 accomplished.
Can someone out there give me the details?
                                             - thanks!
                                               Tom

--
  Tom Corsetti                     ************** IP - [e-mail]
  "The hammer of the gods will drive ************* decnet   - dftnic::tomc
   my ship to new lands" - Zeppelin (of course) *** bitnet   - tomc at dftbit

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Date: 18 Jul 89 18:57:34 GMT
From: asuvax!enuxha![e-mail]  (Norman C. Kluksdahl)
Subject: Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Tom Corsetti) writes:
>  If I remember right, 10 was the first test
> of the LM, and it was done in Earth Orbit.  Please correct me if I am
> wrong.  I can't for the life of me remember what Apollo 9 accomplished.

Your memory has a few corrupted bits.  Apollo 9 was the first manned test
of the LM, in earth orbit.  10 was a 'dress rehearsal' for the landing,
in lunar orbit.


**********************************************************************
Norman Kluksdahl              Arizona State University
            ..ncar!noao!asuvax!enuxha!kluksdah
alternate:   [e-mail]

standard disclaimer implied

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Date: 13 Jul 89 14:37:07 GMT
From: dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu![e-mail]  (Seldon)
Subject: Re: Apollo 12 (And Surveyor 3)

In article <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> Can anyone fill me in as to what the Apollo 12 astronauts did when they
>found the SURVEYOR 3 probe on the lunar surface? I read a while back (in
>a now-forgotten magazine) that they took the probe's camera off for "a
>souvenir"...
>

  I know that they brought back several small pieces including the remote
sampling arm. It was more than just a souvenir, they were examined to see
what the effects of a long term stay on the moon were. Effects like
micrometeriod impacts, radiation, cosmic rays, etc...

  Does anyone know what else went on?

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Date: 12 Jul 89 15:08:00 GMT
From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!s.cs.uiuc.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Re: A&E Network rebroadcast of APOLLO 1


[e-mail] (Douglas Krause) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283) writes:
> >    "Liftoff" - July 16, 9:20 AM - 11 AM
> >    "Moonwalk" - July 20, 10:30 PM - 2 AM
> >    "Splashdown" - July 24, 1:30 PM - 3 PM
>
> Are these times EDT?

I think they must be.  The times of the actual events were (in EDT):

69/07/16  09:32  liftoff
69/07/20  22:50  approx. beginning of EVA
69/07/21  01:30  approx. end of EVA
69/07/24  12:50  splashdown

The only one that doesn't match up is the splashdown.  I don't think I could
be one hour off with the time, but if there's a typo in "The History of Manned
Space Flight" I suppose it's possible.  That would mean a mistake of one hour
in the printed mission elapsed time (MET), however.  The astronauts were on
the aircraft carrier deck 63 minutes after splashdown, or at 13:53 EDT according
to my figuring.  A 12:30-14:00 time slot would include both events, and what
[e-mail] wrote about A&E's schedule is just this shifted over one
hour.  Either I'm messed up about the actual times, or A&E is off by one hour
for the splashdown segment.  But I'm fairly confident that the other times
are in fact EDT.
--
Roger Noe                            [e-mail]
University of Illinois               40:06:39 N.  88:13:41 W.
Urbana, IL  61801  USA               [phone]

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Date: 15 Jul 89 06:33:21 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Magellan Status for 07/11/89 (Forwarded)


                     MAGELLAN WEEKLY STATUS
                          July 11, 1989


     This is a weekly status report. The Magellan spacecraft is
operating well but has had some problem with glitches during
star calibrations which have prevented updates in attitude
knowledge. Still, attitude drift is small and the mission
operations team said the spacecraft can go at least five days
without a star calibration update. So far, only two days in a row
have been missed. The cause of the glitches is being studied.

     The team is studying ways to eliminate the problem through
filters in the attitude control software. The glitches are
described as only an aggravation during cruise but will have to
be eliminated to a larger degree before the mapping phase
begins.

     High temperature readings on the Solid Rocket Motor and the
Rocket Engine Modules in some attitudes have been a problem. The
operations team said Morton Thiokol made tests with a sample of
the Solid Rocket Motor core, and believes the temperature limit
can be raised from 34 C (93.2 F), to 70 C (158 F).

     Rocket Research is doing the tests on the Rocket Engine
Modules, using spares. The current upper limit is set at 77 C
(170.6 F). The tests are to see if the limit can be raised to 120
C (248 F). Both studies will be carefully reviewed. The heating
is caused by direct sunlight when the spacecraft is in certain
attitudes.

     This month, Magellan will participate in Deep Space
Network very long baseline interferometry and telecon tests. It
also will accomplish star calibration with additional stars and
continue high-rate data playbacks.



     SPACECRAFT
     Distance From Earth (mi)                    9,098,851

     Velocity Geocentric                         7,536 mph
              Heliocentric                      66,163 mph

     One Way Light Time                           48.0 sec

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