Last I had heard because of budget and such the Air Farce is the only "Space
Command" left.. The rest missions were generally given to the Air Farce..
Probably a good reason for me to transfer from the Army Guard to the Air
Guard..
I hate walking with a pack on my back, and how do you put on your application
for a job as a kitchen worker, that you have done a lot of KP (Kitchen
Police)..
==
Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 08:19:36 GMT
From: Tom Chamberlain <uck@netcom.com>
Subject: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space?
Newsgroups: sci.space
Has anyone heard of or Played Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space?
Does anyone know when it is expected to be released...?
Thanx, Tom.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 02:03:59 GMT
From: Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com>
Subject: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary
> > Can these questions be answered for a previous
> > instance, such as the Gehrels 3 that was mentioned in an earlier posting?
> Orbital Elements of Comet 1977VII (from Dance files)
> p(au) 3.424346
> e 0.151899
> i 1.0988
> cap_omega(0) 243.5652
> W(0) 231.1607
> epoch 1977.04110
Thanks for the information!
I assume p is the semi-major axis and e the eccentricity. The peri-
helion and aphelion are then given by p(1-e) and p(1+e), i.e., about
2.90 and 3.95 AU respectively. For Jupiter, they are 4.95 and 5.45 AU.
If 1977 was after the temporary capture, this means that the comet
ended up in an orbit that comes no closer than 1 AU to Jupiter's --
which I take to be a rough indication of how far from Jupiter it could
get under Jupiter's influence.
> Also, perihelions of Gehrels3 were:
>
> April 1973 83 jupiter radii
> August 1970 ~3 jupiter radii
Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. So the
1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove.
Is that the case for the 1973 figure as well?
--
Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto "Remember the Golgafrinchans"
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com -- Pete Granger
This article is in the public domain.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 01:33:11 GMT
From: "J. I. Blackshear Jr." <jib@bonnie.jsc.nasa.gov>
Subject: DSPSE (was Why Clementine?)
Newsgroups: sci.space
The SDIO has "contracted" with the NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) to fly the Clementine Mission. BTW we call it DSPSE (Deep Space Project Science Experiment).
The NRL is building the spacecraft, designing the detailed mission and doing the
integration and operations (with help from, JPL & Goddard & prob. some folks I
have left out...don't be mad).
I am on the TAMP (Trajectory Analysis & Mission Planning) team and am responsable
for the IV&V of the traj that Goddard/CSC are designing.
As for why SDIO is doing it, some of the reasons are:
1) the safety constraints are too tight to try to run the LIDAR in LEO
2) in LEO we don't get any new radiation data on the sensors, we will get
that data on our 9 passages through the Van Allen (sp?) Belts
3) since we are going out there...why not piggy-back some general science
4) the intercept problem is a lot easied over LONG distances and LONG times
I am sure there are some things I have forgotten, and some I haven't been told
but, those are the reasons we all talk about.
--
Jim Blackshear
jib@bonnie.jsc.nasa.gov
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 17:11:48 GMT
From: Marcus Lindroos INF <MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI>
Subject: Into Infinity?(WAS:Re: *Doppelganger* (was Re: Vulcan?)
Newsgroups: sci.space
In <1qkn6rINNett@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
> In article <1993Apr15.170048.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>, higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>
> >This was known as *Journey to the Far Side of the Sun* in the United
> >States and as *Doppelganger* in the U.K... Later, they went
> >on to do more live-action SF series: *UFO* and *Space: 1999*.
> >
> >The astronomy was lousy, but the lifting-body spacecraft, VTOL
> >airliners, and mighty Portugese launch complex were *wonderful* to
> >look at.
Exactly. Some of the SPACE:1999 effects remain first-rate even today.
> They recycled a lot of models and theme music for UFO. Some of the
> concepts even showed up in SPACE: 1999.
>
Later on, the Andersons tried to shed their reputation as creators of some
of the worst pseudo-scientific shows in TV history by flying "Into Infinity."
This was a one-off thing done as part of BBC's "educational SF" series "The
Day After Tomorrow." The Anderson episode dealt with a spaceship capable of
reaching the speed of light ("lightship Altares"), the four-man crew eventually
journeyed into a black hole and ended up on the far side of the galaxy (I
think). I saw this as a 9-year-old back in 1976 and liked it very much, but
then again I was a fan of SPACE:1999 so I guess I was easily satisfied in those
days:-)
---
Does anyone know if "Into Infinity" has been released on video? I have some
SPACE:1999 shows on VHS and know that Thunderbirds etc. also are available in
England.
MARCU$
>
> Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?
> -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --
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Date: 19 Apr 1993 06:20:47 GMT
From: Shari L Brooks <bafta@cats.ucsc.edu>
Subject: Into Infinity?(WAS:Re: *Doppelganger* (was Re: Vulcan?)
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <1993Apr18.171148.6367@abo.fi> MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI (Marcus
Lindroos INF) writes:
>Later on, the Andersons tried to shed their reputation as creators of some
>of the worst pseudo-scientific shows in TV history by flying "Into Infinity."
>This was a one-off thing done as part of BBC's "educational SF" series "The
>Day After Tomorrow." The Anderson episode dealt with a spaceship capable of
>reaching the speed of light ("lightship Altares"), the four-man crew
>eventually journeyed into a black hole and ended up on the far side of the
>galaxy (I think). I saw this as a 9-year-old back in 1976 and liked it very
>much, but then again I was a fan of SPACE:1999 so I guess I was easily
>satisfied in those days:-)
Wow. I was beginning to think that I had made that up. I remember that
movie (it was about 1.5 hours long). I don't think they ended up anywhere
in the known universe.
I remember they got a message halfway out to Proxima Centauri, that Earth
transmitted a day after they launched, timed to catch up with them at the
halfway point. I thought it was neat, I think I was all of 10 at the time.
>Does anyone know if "Into Infinity" has been released on video? I have some
>SPACE:1999 shows on VHS and know that Thunderbirds etc. also are available in
>England.
Space:1999 has just come out with 4 episodes released in American stores.
I will look for the Into Infinity show, I never did know that was the
name of it, I thought the show was called "the day after tomorrow", and
that was it.
--
If you blow fire against the wind, take care to not get the smoke in your eyes.
