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From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
Subject: Re: Reality check (2)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 15:51:03 GMT
Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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In article <BxKxDv.14u.1@cs.cmu.edu>, roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:

[in reference to doing work on the moon...]

>I think a lot of the initial work could be done with robots, more cheaply than
>sending humans there right away. (Once we know more, and hopefully have more
>appropriate launchers, we can send humans.)

You'll need some humans hanging around, just to apply duct tape.

                 Play in the intelluctual sandbox of Usenet 

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From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: U.N. Moon Treaty
Organization: Vonnegut Tent Rentals, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:23:32 GMT

carlis_jc@cs1.lamar.edu wrote:
>    There is susposed to be something in international law about any country
> over which the Moon passes directly (plumb) has some kind of claim but I'm 
> having a hard time tracking the particulars.
> 
That's from Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon".  If you're having a hard
time finding the particulars its probably because they don't exist, though
you should be able to locate oodles of declarations that the Moon belongs to
all humankind.

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From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:43:48 GMT

In article <6615@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 3001crad@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Charles Frank Radley) writes:
>Space Station Freedom is Apollo type technology ?
>Really ?
>
>Using ADA and 386 / 586 processors and Nickel Hydrogen batteries,

Military COBOL and Intel processors, FRED IS DOOMED. :-) :-)

Gary

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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Magellan Update - 11/13/92
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 11:53:10 GMT

Forwarded from the Magellan Project

                     MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT
                       November 13, 1992

1.  Magellan continues to operate normally, performing a
    starcal (star calibration) and desat (desaturation of
    the reaction wheels) on each orbit and transmitting a
    carrier plus 40 bps X-band signal.

2.  On Wednesday Magellan ended its period of apoapsis
    occultations in which it passed through the shadow of
    Venus on each orbit.  Temperatures are expected to
    increase gradually, requiring adjustment of the radar
    heaters and the length of "hides" (periods in the shadow
    of the High Gain Antenna).

3.  The craft has completed 6086 orbits of Venus.  So far in
    Cycle 4 the spacecraft has completed 450 orbits which is
    almost exactly 25% of the orbits in a 243 cycle.

4.  The gravity data collected during the first ten days of
    Cycle 4 was affected by some residual effects of the Orbit
    Trim Maneuver to lower the periapsis, so the Mission
    Planning Team has recommended extending the gravity data
    collection to May 25, 1993.
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From: atmtjkv@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Man in space ... )
Date: 7 Nov 92 15:30:32 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <720944603snx@osea.demon.co.uk>, andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Nov4.093438.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> you write:
> 
>>In article <720796989snx@osea.demon.co.uk>, andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew> Haveland-Robinson) writes:
>>> 
>>> In article <13335@ecs.soton.ac.uk> nf@ecs.soton.ac.uk writes:
>>>>   What will happen if the space suite of an austronaut gets ripped in space> ?
>>> 
>>
>>Ever put your hand up against the nozzle of vacuum cleaner? Your skin
>>will hold about 1 atmosphere pressure nicely.
>>
>>The reason I'm writing, instead of just allowing the discussion to
>>peter out, is to mention that a suggestion of Hermann Oberth's:
>>Astronauts might wear spacesuits without gloves for delicate work!
> 
> !!
> 
> Ah well... I stand corrected...  Thanks for the explanation, it still
> sounds like a horrible way to go...
> 
> I suppose after further thought, if one doesn't notice the 7psi or so at
> 35,000ft in an aircraft, 0 psi isn't going to make that much difference.
> 
> The key is the uniformity of pressure - a vacuum cleaner could cause a
> slight bruise in time, but that's because of the 15 psi air pressure trying
> to squeeze you into the tube!  Reduce the outside pressure, and reduce the
> apparent suction.
> 
-- 
Anyone who thinks you get 15psi of `suck' from a vacuum cleaner is
seriously in error.  A typical reduction in pressure (nozzle to atmosphere)
is about 2--4 inches of water: remember that one atmosphere is 32 feet of water
approximately.  You need a much larger diameter, and a much larger rotation
speed, to get a bigger pressure difference from a centrifugal pump for air,
as the density is so low. To get a decent vacuum from something
of a similar size you need a displacement-type pump (i.e. one with valves, 
such as a diaphragm or rotary vane pump).  

You can certainly plug up a hole about 1/4" diameter with your finger for at least 
a minute -- I've done it (got a leak rate of about 10^-8 mb l/s) , but I wouldn't
advise trying a larger area for a long time as the skin isn't sufficiently
rigid.  I do remember a story of someone trying -- he was in
hospital for a long time.  

Tim Kingsmill-Vellacott
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
University of Oxford, UK.
tjkv@atm.ox.ac.uk  preferred
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From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
Subject: Nuclear waste to Venus?
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:30:40 GMT


-From: Lauren.Podolak@mechanic.Fidonet.org (Lauren Podolak)
-Subject: Re: Drop nuc waste into
-Date: 4 Nov 92 23:03:02 GMT
-Organization: Mechanic: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway oF St. Pete Florida

-HS>Actually, as Larry Niven pointed out, if you can get the stuff as far as
-HS>Venus, you might as well just fly it *into* Venus.  It's not as if Venus
-HS>is good for anything else.  (Although one would want to do rather more
-HS>thorough studies of Venus before starting to use it as a dump...)

-Why do that?  Conceivably Venusian terraforming could be done and now
-you've contaminated it with radioactives.  If dumping is the solution
-dump on an airless body.

Without working too hard at the math, I strongly suspect that cleaning up
a few million tons of high-level radioactive waste would add far less than
a thousandth of a percent to the cost of terraforming Venus. With that kind
of cost ratio, it would be an insignificant impediment to terraforming.

This is not to say I favor the idea - I think the nuclear waste should be
kept on the Earth.

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

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From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
Subject: Photo opportunity with cosmonauts [NTE 92-94] (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:17:14 GMT

Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                       November 5, 1992
(Phone:  202/453-8536)

Barbara Schwartz 
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone:  713/483-5111)


N92-94

EDITORS NOTE:  PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH COSMONAUTS

	Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Vladimir Titov will be available 
for a photo opportunity at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tuesday, 
Nov. 10, at 9 a.m. EST, in Building 9A adjacent to the Shuttle trainer.

	Donald R. Puddy, JSC's Special Assistant for Joint U.S./Russian 
Federation Programs, and the Space Shuttle mission STS-60 Pilot Kenneth S. 
Reightler, Jr., will introduce the cosmonauts, who will make brief statements.

	News media are invited to attend and should be badged in Building 2, 
Room 136 before going to Building 9.

	The cosmonauts will begin an intensive 3-month training program in 
preparation for STS-60 mission specific training and will not be available for 
other media activities until the initial training period is complete.
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: MSTI Launch Rescheduled Again, to Nov. 8
Keywords: MSTI, JPL, DOD
Date: 7 Nov 92 05:27:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov6.212835.11801
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Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                                    	November 6, 1992
(Phone:  202/358-1547)

Mitch Varnes
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone:  407/867-2468)

Robert MacMillin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone:  818/354-5011)

Maj. Mike Doble
Department of Defense, Pentagon
(Phone:  703/693-1778)

LAUNCH ADVISORY

SCOUT  LAUNCH  RESCHEDULED  FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8

    NASA has rescheduled the launch of a Scout rocket from Space Complex 5 at
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for Sunday, Nov. 8, carrying a Department of
Defense payload called Miniature Seeker Technology Integration (MSTI).

    This is the fifth launch attempt for the Scout/MSTI vehicle.  Previous
launch attempts have been hampered by range control, power supply and ground
support equipment problems.

    Sunday's launch window opens at 8:42 a.m. EST and extends until 9:42 a.m.
The launch will be carried live on NASA Select TV.  The broadcast also may be
monitored on the V-circuits.  This system can be reached by calling
407/867-1260.

    The Scout/MSTI News Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base will be located in
Building 840, the NASA Administrative Headquarters.  The News Center can be
reached by calling 805/734-8232 ext. 53820.
- end -
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: Galileo Update - 11/12/92
Keywords: Galileo, JPL
Date: 13 Nov 92 07:02:56 GMT
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Forwarded from:
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109.  TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011

                     GALILEO MISSION STATUS
                        November 12, 1992

     The Galileo spacecraft is operating normally in the dual-
spin mode and is transmitting coded telemetry at 7680 bits per
second, a change from the 1200-bit-per-second rate that was
executed on November 3.  The spacecraft is less than 21 million
miles (13 million miles) from Earth now, and that distance is
decreasing at almost a million kilometers each day.  Galileo's
actual speed in its solar orbit is almost 32 kilometers per
second (71,442 mph).

     Today the command load for Galileo's sixteenth trajectory
correction maneuver is being transmitted to the spacecraft.  The
maneuver, amounting to less than 1 meter per second in velocity
change, will refine Galileo's trajectory for its second and last
Earth gravity assist, to occur December 8, 1992; that in turn
will send the spacecraft to Jupiter in late 1995.

                              #####
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From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
Subject: NASA clusters computers to solve "Grand Challenges" [Release 92-195] (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:28:49 GMT

Drucella Andersen
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                            November 5, 1992
(Phone:  202/453-8613)

Mary Ann Peto
Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
(Phone:  216/433-2902)


RELEASE:  92-195

NASA CLUSTERS COMPUTERS TO SOLVE "GRAND CHALLENGES"


	An array of powerful, interconnected computers will help NASA solve 
some of the complex problems associated with designing aircraft propulsion 
systems.

	The Lewis Advanced Cluster Environment (LACE) system at NASA's Lewis 
Research Center, Cleveland, is a network of 33 IBM RISC/6000, stand-alone 
computer workstations that can be set up for both distributed and parallel 
computing.  LACE can perform up to 1 billion floating point operations per 
second and has 3 billion bytes of memory, making it the world's most powerful 
IBM workstation cluster.

	"This is the first system of its kind for NASA," said Karen Pischel,
LACE Project Manager at Lewis.  "By applying the power of a network of high-
performance computers, we are creating new, more efficient and more 
economical ways to perform computational research."

	LACE is a test facility for NASA's role in the multi-agency High 
Performance Computing and Communications program.  This high-priority 
national effort fosters the development of advanced computing techniques by 
tackling "grand challenges" that eventually will require one trillion floating
point operations per second.

	One of the program's grand challenges involves the complete simulation
of a supersonic aircraft in flight.  In a key LACE project, researchers are
modeling the performance of a supersonic throughflow fan engine -- an engine in
which the airflow remains supersonic throughout -- by distributing the various
engine components among the LACE computers.  

-end-

EDITORS NOTE:  Photos are available to illustrate this release by calling 
202/453-8375.

Color:    92-HC-682               B&W:   92-H-739
          92-HC-683                      92-H-740
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Mars Observer Update - 11/12/92
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:04:50 GMT

Forwarded from the Mars Observer Project

                        MARS OBSERVER STATUS REPORT
                            November 12, 1992
                              11:00 AM PST
                            Launch +48 Days

Flight Sequence C3 C continues executing toward its completion on
November 17.  Magnetometer and Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument
teams are receiving early cruise calibration data.  The Mars Observer
Camera "bakeout" is continuing through December 28.

The Spacecraft Team reports that all Mars Observer subsystems continue
to perform well.

The Gamma Ray Spectrometer experienced a Single Event Upset Tuesday.
The SEU caused the instrument to switch out of GRS random access
memory operation and reset to programmable read only memory.  Analysis
indicates no problems with the memory load, and a command to switch
back to random access memory operation has been approved for radiation
this evening.
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From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
Subject: Mission Control Status Report for 10/31/92 [#25, 0930 CST] (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:12:46 GMT

MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Status Report #25
 
Saturday, October 31, 1992, 9:30 a.m. CST
The crew of Columbia wrapped up its varied experiments this 
morning, releasing a target that has been the object of tests with a 
Canadian robotic vision system throughout the flight, and began 
preparations for tomorrow's trip home.

Early today, Mission Specialist Lacy Veach released the Canadian 
target and Payload Specialist Steve MacLean tested the vision 
system's ability to track it while Commander Jim Wetherbee flew 
Columbia in formation, 140 feet away. MacLean reported the 
vision system accurately measured the distance between Columbia 
and the target, although Columbia's bright jet firings made 
television camera images from the shuttle, the basis for the vision 
system's calculations, degrade.

After about 20 minutes, Wetherbee maneuvered Columbia out of 
the vicinity of the target. The target assembly is expected to burn 
up in Earth's atmosphere tomorrow morning. Later, Mission 
Specialist Tammy Jernigan put in a final exercise session on 
Columbia's lower deck aboard a stationary bicycle. And Wetherbee 
and Pilot Mike Baker checked the instruments and equipment 
Columbia will use for tomorrow's landing. All equipment checked 
out in perfect shape, as has been the case for the entire spacecraft 
during the flight.

Columbia remains scheduled to fire engines at 7:13 a.m. CST to 
begin a free-fall home, culminating in a touchdown at the Kennedy 
Space Center, Florida, runway at 8:06 a.m. CST. The current 
forecast calls for acceptable weather. If there is a delay, Columbia 
could fire its engines at 8:46 a.m. CST, leading to a 9:39 a.m. CST 
touchdown at KSC.

Columbia is in a 113 nautical mile orbit, circling Earth each 88 
minutes, 48 seconds, and the crew is scheduled to spend the 
remainder of today stowing gear in preparation for landing.
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From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
Subject: Shuttle Status for 11/03/92 (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:40:13 GMT

                                SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
                                 Tuesday, November 3, 1992


          George Diller
          Kennedy Space Center
          407/867-2468


          Vehicle: OV-103/Orbiter Discovery
          Location: Vehicle Assembly Building (transfer isle)
          Mission: STS-53/DoD
          Launch timeframe: December, wk 1
          Mission duration: 7 days
          Landing Site: KSC


          IN WORK TODAY:

          - attachment of lifting sling
          - mating to external tank/solid rocket booster stack in Bay 3


          WORK SCHEDULED:

          - establish electrical connections on Wednesday
          - begin Shuttle Interface Test on Thursday
          - rollout to Pad 39-A on Sunday Nov. 8 at 12:30 a.m.
          - countdown dress rehearsal (TCDT) Nov. 12-13


          WORK COMPLETED:

          - mate to orbiter transporter
          - rollover to the VAB transfer isle  (first motion 8:15 a.m.)
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Mars Observer Update - 11/13/92
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:49:36 GMT

                      MARS OBSERVER STATUS REPORT
                          November 13, 1992
                            11:00 AM PST
                          Launch +49 Days

Flight Sequence C3 C continues executing toward its completion on
November 17.  Magnetometer and Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument
teams are receiving early cruise calibration data.  The Mars Observer
Camera "bakeout" is continuing through December 28.

A new Star Catalog/Ephemeris was uplinked and a successful "USE"
command radiated this morning.  The ephemeris previously used had the
intended effect of altering the solar array sun incidence angle by 5
degrees, from 60 degrees to 55 degrees.  This sun incidence angle periodic
decrease will be performed in subsequent ephemeris loads, with the final
objective being to point the high-gain antenna at earth by the time
transition from inner to outer cruise takes place.  The current offset is
designed to prevent direct sunlight on the solar panels creating an excess
amount of power.  At the time of transition from inner to outer cruise, the
spacecraft will be of sufficient distance from the sun that excess power
is of a lesser concern.

Uplink of the C4 sequence is planned for November 16.  C4 will begin
execution at 8:00 AM, PST, upon completion of C3 C.  C4 is 28 days in
duration and continues the MOC bakeout, performs Radio Science Ultra
Stable Oscillator tests, Modulation Index Test, Radio Frequency Subsystem
Automatic Gain Control and Command Data Unit Signal to Noise Ratio
tests, and a Static Phase Error test.

The Spacecraft Team reports that all Mars Observer subsystems continue
to perform well.

Today, the spacecraft is 8,793,376 miles from earth, traveling at a
velocity of 8,106 miles per hour.  One way light time is approximately 47
seconds.
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