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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 11 : Issue 506

Today's Topics:
              Voyager 1 Images Revealed
            Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed
            Re: Ulysses/plutonium
           Payload Status for 06/07/90 (Forwarded)
             Logajan's rule of satellites
Veteran astronaut Hawley to accept executive position at Ames (Forwarded)
    Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle Program is terminated (Forwarded)
            Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed
        Re: Doing something/political reality
           Re: 2001/2010 and Gravity in the Pod Bay

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Date: 7 Jun 90 20:58:46 GMT
From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Voyager 1 Images Revealed


                      Voyager 1 Images Revealed

     Yesterday, NASA unveiled the historic "family portrait" of the planets
taken from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1.  A series of 64
black-and-white photos were crafted into a mosaic and serveral several color
portraits of individual planets were also shown.

     Voyager 1 photographed the images of the solar system February 14, at a
point 32 degrees above the plane of the Sun's equator and scientists at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory compressed the images in a single photo, removing
vast empty spaces that would have extended the montage to 100 feet or more.

     The portrait includes the Sun, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune but Mercury was too close to the Sun and Mars was omitted because its
position made it appear as a sliver of a crescent.
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Date: 7 Jun 90 22:34:02 GMT
From: bbn.com![e-mail]  (Nichael Cramer)
Subject: Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed

[e-mail] (Ron Baalke) writes:
>                      Voyager 1 Images Revealed
>     Yesterday, NASA unveiled the historic "family portrait" of the planets
>taken from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1...

OK, net, so where are the GIFs??        ;)

N

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Date:     Wed, 6 Jun 90 16:03:43 CDT
From: Will Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Re: Ulysses/plutonium

>Dr. Edward Teller has offered to *eat* a quantity of Pu if a journalist
>will at the same time eat a similar quantity of caffeine.  No takers...

What probably hasn't been emphasized enough in the discussion on this
quote, though it has been alluded to, is the definition of "similar
quantity". If it is by weight, Teller would eat a minute speck of
Pu whilst the journalist would drink a small beaker-full of caffeine.
Result = one dead journalist.

I suppose Teller would have to turn in his bodily wastes to the DOE
for the next n days for them to retrieve the Pu, which is, I believe
a "controlled substance".

Having ingested a "controlled substance", I wonder if Teller would have
to undergo a urine test thereafter...
"Nurse, take this sample into the closet and see if it glows." :-)

The logs for the Pu distribution would have an interesting entry:
"<n> micrograms (Curies? what do they measure Pu in?) eaten by Dr.
Teller"... Then, later, "<n-x> micrograms retreived from Dr. Teller"...

Hmmm... maybe this could start a fad amongst physics students, like
goldfish-eating... :-)

Regards, Will

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Date: 7 Jun 90 20:10:13 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Payload Status for 06/07/90 (Forwarded)


    Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 06-07-90.


    - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at Pad-A) -

    Launch countdown and scrub/turnaround support continue
    today.


    -STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) -

    Electrical, mechanical and fluid preps for CITE testing
    along with MVAK training continues.


    - STS-41 Ulysses (at ESA 60) -

    CITE MUE validation will continue today.


    - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) -

    Rack, floor, and module staging along with water servicer
    validations are continuing.


    - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) -

    Pallet staging operations were performed on third shift
    today.


    - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) -

    Lifter arm installation and coldplate hoist assembly
    proofloading will be performed third shift Friday.


    - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) -

    Rack 11 staging continues.


    - STS- 55 SL-D2 (at O&C) -

    Rack 12 staging continues.


    - STS-LON-3 HST M&R (at O&C) -

    ORUC interface testing will be active today along with MLI
    installation.

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Date: 7 Jun 90 21:59:46 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!ns![e-mail]  (John Logajan)
Subject: Logajan's rule of satellites

After adding a "local radar" mode to my graphic satellite tracker, I am
able to relate an observation made -- at least 10% of all satellites
in orbit around the earth are above YOUR local horizons at any given
instant.

--
- John Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
- [e-mail], [e-mail], 612-424-4888, Fax [phone]

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Date: 7 Jun 90 20:12:27 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Veteran astronaut Hawley to accept executive position at Ames (Forwarded)

Mary Sandy
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                       June 7, 1990
(Phone:  [phone])                                   Noon EDT

Del Harding
Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif.
(Phone:  [phone])

Jeffrey Carr
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone:  [phone])

RELEASE:  90-77

VETERAN ASTRONAUT HAWLEY TO ACCEPT EXECUTIVE POSITION AT AMES

     Dr. Dale Compton, Director of NASA's Ames Research Center,
Mountain View, Calif., today named Astronaut Steven A. Hawley as
the Center's Associate Director (acting).  Hawley will assume his
duties on July 29 as the center's third-ranking executive

     "We are extremely pleased," Compton said, "to have someone
with Dr. Hawley's administrative and scientific skills joining us
at Ames."

     Hawley, 38, has served as Deputy Chief of the Astronaut
Office since 1987 and most recently as mission specialist aboard
the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31 in April of this
year.  During that flight, he successfully delivered the Hubble
Space Telescope to orbit using Discovery's robot arm and extended
his total time in space to over 412 hours.

     The three-time Shuttle flight veteran was selected as an
astronaut in 1978.  Hawley worked as a simulator pilot in the
Shuttle software laboratory and on astronaut support crews for
Shuttle missions STS-2, STS-3 and STS-4 before making his first
space flight.

     He first flew as a mission specialist on the maiden voyage
of Discovery, STS-41D, in August 1984.  Discovery's crew deployed
three communcations satellites and activated the OAST-1 solar
cell wing experiment.  He made his second trip to orbit aboard
Columbia on STS-61C in January 1986, during which Hawley
participated in the deployment of the SATCOM KU satellite and
conducted experiments in astrophysics and materials processing.

     Hawley's hometown is Salina, Kansas.  An honors graduate of
the University of Kansas, he will be returning to the San
Francisco bay area, where he earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy and
Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in
1977.

     In 1988, Hawley was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service
Medal.  He is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Sigma Pi Sigma and Phi Beta
Kappa.

     Hawley is married to the former Eileen M. Keegan of Redondo
Beach, Calif.  His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Hawley, live in
Rancho Mirage, Calif.

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Date: 7 Jun 90 20:51:40 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle Program is terminated (Forwarded)

Jim Cast
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                       June 7, 1990
(Phone:  [phone])                                 4 p.m. EDT


RELEASE:  90-78

ORBITAL MANEUVERING VEHICLE PROGRAM IS TERMINATED

     NASA today announced the termination of its Orbital
Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) program.  Citing budgetary pressures
"across the Space Flight realm" for the next several years,
together with a lack of firm, near-term requirements for such a
vehicle, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Dr.
William B. Lenoir, concluded that it is necessary to terminate
OMV which had been scheduled for a maiden flight in 1995.

     "It, or something similar, eventually will be needed in our
space infrastructure," Dr. Lenoir explained, "but we will have at
least 2 or 3 years to develop firm requirements before it will be
necessary to begin development."

     As originally conceived, the OMV was to have been a
reusable, remotely controlled low-Earth orbit free-flying "space
tug" capable of performing a wide range of on-orbit satellite
servicing and retrieval missions.  The two existing requirements
for an OMV are supporting the reboost of the Hubble Space
Telescope and the Advanced X-Ray Astronomy Facility.  According
to Dr. Lenoir, the near-term operational requirements for these
payloads can be satisfied with the baseline Shuttle capabilities.

     Commending the Marshall Space Flight Center program managers
for an excellent job in pulling the OMV program together, Dr.
Lenoir stated that, "this has been a difficult decision to make,
but I feel that it is a necessary step in order to keep the
overall space flight program healthy, on firm footing and capable
of delivering on schedule and on budget."

     "I have no doubt that an OMV-like capability will be
required in the future.  Potential demands to support servicing-
type missions will overburden the efficient use of Shuttle
capabilities in the late 1990s.  The documented accomplishments
of the OMV program to date will be incorporated into an eventual
detailed specification for the restart," Dr. Lenoir said.

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Date: 7 Jun 90 22:25:29 GMT
From: ptolemy![e-mail]  (Charles Fineman)
Subject: Re: Voyager 1 Images Revealed

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ron Baalke) writes:
>
>                       Voyager 1 Images Revealed
>
>      Yesterday, NASA unveiled the historic "family portrait" of the planets
> taken from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1.  A series of 64
> black-and-white photos were crafted into a mosaic and serveral several color
> portraits of individual planets were also shown.
>

I saw some B/W pictures in a paper today. There was a distict, highly
eccentric, halo around the earth. What was that?

    Enquiring minds want to know! (At least this one does)

        Chuck Fineman

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Date: 6 Jun 90 23:22:05 GMT
From: philmtl!philabs!ttidca![e-mail]  ( Avatar)
Subject: Re: Doing something/political reality

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
+mcgill.ca>
+In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) writes:
+
+| I want to go to Venus NOW(!!!!) because we can do it right now with
+| our current technology.
+
+  I want to go to Mars, because we have the ability to keep people alive
+on Mars now, while I'm not sure that we have the ability to keep them
+going on Venus. And I want to go now, because I'll be too old or too
+dead to appreciate it in 30 years.
+--
   I'd settle for a trip to and from the Moon! Fact is guys, face it, the
politicians in this country are too busy covering their dead asses, or making
sure that the 'OleBoysClub' in their hometown has enough porkbarrel to insure
a cush retirement, to spend anywhere near enough time/money driving a real
space program towards these kinds of goals. Blame it on the bureaucrats, the
sons and daughters of frends-of-frends, etc because THAT'S where the money is
going. HUD spends the equivalent of NASA's budget every 21 days! And look at
what we (the Taxpayers) get for it - NOTHING!
   If we ever get a spacestation (Freedom or whatever, you doomsayers piss
me off!) or a Moonbase it'll be a freakin' miracle!
   We've had the technology to do BOTH since 1970...the politics have simply
not changed and these clowns we keep electing to office cannot see the true
benefits of an expanded manned space program..too bad.

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Date: 7 Jun 90 17:14:28 GMT
From: sco![e-mail]  (Nathaniel Ingersoll)
Subject: Re: 2001/2010 and Gravity in the Pod Bay

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark Perew) writes:
:
:In 2001 the use of velcro in the pod bay is establish (albeit by
:implication and foreshadowing, not by direct statement or observation).
:
:However, if you will check 2010 at 0/1:07:14 MET [Movie Elaped Time :-)]
:you will observe that the director of 2010 blew it.  Here and in
:subsequent places you will see the characters blithfully walking
:across the *shiny* pod bay floor (it was dull in 2001) without
:paying any attention to where the velcro sections were placed in 2001.
:

Perhaps they had magnets in their shoes?
--
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