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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 12 : Issue 506

Today's Topics:
              Dr. Robert Zubrin lecture
            Re: Galileo Update - 11/06/90
             Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations
           Payload Status for 11/07/90 (Forwarded)
            Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90
       Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station to be Cheap
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From: [e-mail] (Marc Wayne Mcconley)
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Subject: Dr. Robert Zubrin lecture
Summary: "Humans to Mars in 1999!"
Keywords: Princeton Planetary Society
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Dr. Robert M. Zubrin, Senior Engineer at Martin Marietta Astronautics,
will give a public presentation at Princeton University on Tuesday,
November 13, at 7:30 pm.  The topic of the presentation will be "Humans
to Mars in 1999!"  Zubrin will discuss an alternative plan for reaching
the goals of the Space Exploration Initiative.

Dr. Zubrin recently spoke at the 1990 International Space Development
Conference, where his presentation received a standing ovation.

Tuesday's lecture is sponsored by the Princeton Planetary Society,
Princeton University's space interest organization and a chapter of the
National Space Society.

The lecture will take place in the auditorium of the McCormick Art
and Archaeology Building on the Princeton University campus.  Admission
is free; parking is available.  For more information, contact PPS
president Audrey Robinson at [phone].

--
Marc W. McConley
Vice President, Princeton Planetary Society
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From: [e-mail] (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 11/06/90
Keywords: Galileo, JPL
Date: 7 Nov 90 17:43:37 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (SERRE GLENN) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ron Baalke) writes:
>>     A NO-OP command was sent yesterday to the Galileo spacecraft to reset
>>the Command Loss Timer to 216 hours.  A MAG (Magnetometer) instrument
>
>I think this was posted before, but I forgot and my coworkers keep asking:
>"What is the Command Loss Timer, and why does it need to be reset?"
>
If the timer countdowns to zero, Galileo will assume it had lost contact
with Earth and then automatically go into safemode, where it will then
try to restablish communications with Earth.
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Subject: Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations
Date: 7 Nov 90 16:16:48 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] ("Allen W. Sherzer") writes:
[...]
   After final testing, the entire Earth Station is deflated and packed
   into a Delta or Titan derived HLV and launched. The crew follows on
   a Delta, Atlas, or the Shuttle. They inflate the station and dock.

Question: what would the crew go up in, if not the Shuttle ?  I was under
the impression that the Apollo capsules were the last crew transport
devices built before the Shuttle became available.  Would some be
(re)built for this purpose only ?  Sounds expensive...
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From: [e-mail] (Peter E. Yee)
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Subject: Payload Status for 11/07/90 (Forwarded)
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    Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 11-07-90


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

    Experiment monitoring continues.


    - STS-39 AFP-675/IBSS/STP-01 (at CCAFS)

    CITE preps continue at the VPF along with ground software
    development.


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

    Preps for tomorrows crew equipment interface test will be
    active today.


    - STS-37 GRO (at PHSF)

    Software validation continues.


    - 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 continue.


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

    Rack staging continues.


    - STS-67 LITE-1 (at O&C)

    Pallet staging will be performed today.


    - HST M&R (at O&C)

    PR troubleshooting continues.

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Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ron Baalke) writes:
>>>Probably because Ulysses is a European project ...
>>
>>Ulysses is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency...
>
>Oh yes, I forgot.  When a project is done by NASA with modest ESA involvement,
>it's a US project (e.g. HST), but when it's done by ESA with modest NASA
>involvement, it's a joint project. :-) :-)
>
>ISPM would have been a joint project.  Ulysses is a European project with
>minor NASA participation.
>--

Here is NASA's contributions to the Ulysses mission:

   o Launch vehicle and launch facilities
   o Power Source (RTG)
   o Tracking of the spacecraft using the Deep Space Network
   o 50% of the experiments on board the spacecraft
   o Use of JPL's Control Center

NASA's participation with Ulysses is much more than minor.

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From: [e-mail] (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station to be Cheap
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ron Baalke) writes:
>>???  They've never built a manned spacecraft at all, and as far as I recall
>>offhand they have zero experience in "large platform" work.  Their normal
>>line of work -- unmanned deep-space exploration -- is as far from space
>>stations as you can get and still be in space.
>
>JPL is involved with the Space Station program...

Quite true.  However, they still have zero experience with flying real
manned hardware, which is what this particular branch of the discussion
was about.
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From: [e-mail] (Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth)
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Subject: Re: Call for new news group : sci.space.seds
Keywords: Space, newsgroup, SEDS
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (M.S.Bennett  Supvs= Prof Pendry) writes...
>
>SEDS is one of the largest space student organisation in the world- USSEDS was
>founded 10 years ago to put pressure on congress to uncancel a number of
>probe missions - in this it was successful.
>
Just want to clear this up for the record...SEDS WAS NOT formed to put pressure
on Congress to fund certain space probes (our friends in the UK seem to have
this crazy notion, but I know not from where...).  SEDS is a non-profit
organization, and as such is limited to the rules governing such groups in
terms of political lobbying.  What SEDS (which by the way stands for Students
for the Exploration and Development of Space) does is work to promote our goals
through educational activities.  While it is true that the members of SEDS can
become politically involved (as US citizens we all have that right), we can't
really do it as an organization, but simply as individuals.  In fact, in the
past few months, I have written a letter to several congressmen (concerning the
SEI) as well as helped in the reelection campaign of Congressman George Brown
(who appears to have won!).  However, I did this not as a SEDS member, but
rather as a concerned citizen (see the difference, Sean?).
>
>Now SEDS is growing into a multi-national organisation with branches across the
>world (Italy, Tiwan, Canada). We have links with the ISU and Eurasia (the
>European Space student group).
>
>We clearly need some means of giving people an easy mode of access other than
>BITNET mail servers - NEWS would be an excelent method.
>
For anyone who is interested, there are two news groups that are devoted to
SEDS information.  One, called SEDSNEWS, is basically a rehash of much of the
NASA info released on sci.space and sci.space.shuttle (probe and shuttle
updates) as well as some other info of interest.  The other deals mainly with
the internal workings of SEDS as an organization, and has proven extremely
helpful in terms of communications between students at widely scattered
locations.  It is called SEDS-L.  If you are interested in receiving either
of these, please contact me, and I'll forward the instructions on how to sign
up for them.

In the meantime, if ANYONE out there is curious about SEDS, and would like more
info, I'll be more than happy to provide whatever you may need.  We are looking
to expand our organization, and would like to get contacts from interested
high school and college students from around the world!

BTW, I have been a member of SEDS since my freshman year at MIT (1982), and
have had many wonderful experiences due to my involvement with SEDS.  I really
want to make SEDS available to anyone who is interested in humanity's future
in space.
>
>I await your responses, if any - (would that mean you did not object?)
>
>            Yours M.S.Bennett
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