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- Subject: Shameless Hucksterism to Plague STS-54
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:45:19 GMT
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- Here is a report on the upcoming Shuttle mission from Francis
- Slakey of The American Physical Society. Is it just me, or does
- anyone else think that NASA's Shuttle people engage in a little
- too much hucksterism? I especially find the wake-up calls to
- raucous music annoying - do those people really find that amusing?
- Do they do their Christmas shopping at Spencer's Gifts?
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- WHAT'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 8 Jan 93 Washington, DC
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- 3. SHUTTLE MISSION STS-54 WILL ADVANCE THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE.
- The seven-day $843M mission is scheduled for a 13 Jan 93 launch.
- In the "Application Specific Preprogrammed Experiment Culture
- System Physics of Toys" test, Mission Specialist Susan Helms will
- play with a "flipping mouse," Mario Runco with "klacker balls",
- Greg Harbaugh with a basketball, and pilot Don McMonagle with a
- "balloon helicopter". After recess they can relieve themselves
- in a test of the new $30M Hamilton Standard Space Toilet. Then,
- it's on to the Extravehicular Activity test. The Intravehicular
- Crew Member (Helms) will observe as Extravehicular Crew Member 1
- (Harbaugh) and Extravehicular Crew Member 2 (Runco) manipulate
- each other in the cargo bay. As explained by NASA: "To simulate
- carrying a large object, the astronauts will carry one another;
- to simulate how well they can align an object, they will attempt
- to place each other into brackets in Endeavor's airlock."
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- Francis Slakey (202) 662-8700 The American Physical Society
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- Dale M. Greer, whose opinions are not to be confused with those of the
- Center for Space Sciences, U.T. at Dallas, UTSPAN::UTADNX::UTDSSA::GREER
- "Let machines multiply, doing the work of many,
- But let the people have no use for them." - Lao Tzu
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