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From: atran@austin.ibm.com (Quan Tran)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: questions on space robotics developments
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:05:29 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: atran@hostname.austin.ibm.com


I am currently trying to do a research on robot development on the space station.  I
am seeking information on the GSC Flight Telerobotic Servicer and the Canadian 
Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator and Space Station Remote Manipulator System.

Is there any kind of documents or lists of documents I can look at that will help me?
There must be some kind of number at JPL, JSC,  GSC or KSC that I can call to request 
such information. I have tried looking at NTIS, but is looking at other alternatives.
IEEE proceedings have some information, but I would like information created by NASA

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

I am also looking for information concerning current developments in robot autonomy
and vision.

Please respond through news, or to furong@innerdoor.austin.ibm.com . 

-Regards,
Quan Tran.
From: mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org (Michael Wallis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Gravity-NEUTRALIZING Space Shuttle
Keywords: get serious
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 12:01:59 PST
Organization: Club Zen BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA

kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:

> Pardon me?  Have you heard of the High Speed Photometer aboard the Hubble
> Space Telescope or the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
> aboard the Astro telescope payload?  I didn't think so.  FYI, WI has one
> of the best educational systems in the USA.

My apologies. I've been out of the loop FAR too long, obviously.

> Never cross a Wisconsinite when his fridge is devoid of beer!  :(

Good point.             8-)

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From: mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org (Michael Wallis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Columbia, STS-52 crew practice
Keywords: M113 practice
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 12:26:18 PST
Organization: Club Zen BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA

drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude) writes:

> If you ever have a chance to see the IMAX film "The Dream Is Alive", 
> you'll get a first hand view of what it's like to come down those launch
> tower escape baskets.  Just make sure you don't watch it on a full
> stomach. Those who've seen the film firsthand will know what I mean. ;-)

I've watched it on the 6 story IMAX screen at Ontario Place, after dinner
with friends, and had no side effects.

Mind you, I already know I don't get airsick at all. (And I've been on
some "interesting" flights.)

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From: system@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Hello Richie Clifford (Way to GO!)
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:33:09 GMT


Does anyone know how to get a hold of Rich Clifford. I heard he was going 
to be on the next shuttle mission. If anyone knows him, would you ask
him to get in contact with his old neighborhood buddy Stan Smith. I would 
like to wish him Good Luck!

Thanx in advance.

Stan Smith
(801) 625-8163  (during work hours)
ssmith@oz.bmd.trw.com
From: steier+@CS.CMU.EDU (David Steier)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: space shuttle software development references
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:39:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BvtFty.MqJ.1
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

I use the following in my software engineering classes at CMU:


  Madden, W. A., & Rone, K. Y.
      Design, Development, Integration: Space Shuttle Primary Flight Software
         System.
      Communications of the ACM 27(9):914-925, September, 1984.

  Spector, A & Gifford, D.
      The Space Shuttle Primary Computer System.
      Communications of the ACM 27(9):874-900, September, 1984.

  Tomayko, J. E.
      Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience.
      Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology.
      In Kent, A. & Williams, J. G.,
      Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.

--David Steier
Engineering Design Research Center
From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS-52 two-line elements
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:21:29 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

This is from the SPACEBASE SAT_TRACK echo:

STS-52
1 99999U 92999  A 92296.68669561 0.00064000           25599-3 0    25
2 99999  28.4722  91.7218 0004167 267.1332  92.8416 15.91121437    28
-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom)  Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Columbia, STS-52 crew practice
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:51:02 GMT
Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Organization: <JyZ5RB10w165w@clubzen.fidonet.org>o

In article <JyZ5RB10w165w@clubzen.fidonet.org> mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org (Michael Wallis) writes:
>
>I've watched it on the 6 story IMAX screen at Ontario Place, after dinner
>with friends, and had no side effects.
>
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>Michael Wallis -> mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org
>
You've also watched it in the OMNI-Max Space Dome theater at the Space
and Rocket Center in Huntsville. Remember? :-) I am meeting the Enterprize
team down there again in less than 2 weeks for another 8-day session.
Wish you could be there.

Peter Jarvis..........
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: daryl@dman.b24a.ingr.com (Daryl Owens)
Subject: Re: Where is Neil Armstrong??
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:37:09 GMT

|> 
|> >Does anyone know where Neil Armstrong, we always hear about the other
 
|> Lessee..if I recall correctly, I saw him on the Discovery Channel hosting
|> one of their flight or space shows.  I heard that after the moon walk,
|> he had some serious bouts with depression, since he had done the most
|> important thing in his life and everything else was meaningless.
|> 
|> -Mark
|> 
|> --
|> 
I may be wrong, but I recall that it was "Buzz" Aldrin that went into 
a depression (not Armstrong).  In fact, there was a movie made
about 10 to 15 years ago about Aldrin and the depression episode took 
up a good part of the movie.

That's my $0.01 worth. (Inflation you know)

         Daryl Owens
From: mcglk@bike.rad.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Where is Neil Armstrong??
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:16:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: bike.MCGLK.92Oct9111629
	<1992Sep22.181933.15315@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
	<1992Oct9.102536.25650@Cadence.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dubious.

In <1992Oct9.102536.25650@Cadence.COM> mas@Cadence.COM (Masud Khan) writes:
+----------
| Does anyone know where Neil Armstrong, we always hear about the other
| space pioneers but our man Neil fas the first on the moon doesn't
| account for something? [...]
+----------

Neil Armstrong is still around.  He has his own company, but what it is escapes
me for the moment.  He's currently hosting a series called "First Flights" on
the Arts and Entertainment Network; he's okay, if a bit wooden.  :)

				---Ken McGlothlen
				   mcglk@cpac.washington.edu
				   mcglk@cpac.bitnet
From: ghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (George Hastings)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Columbia, STS-52 crew practice
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:28:05 GMT
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)

Pete! I wish that you could have joined us for the trip to Star
City Russia this summer for the Cosmonaut Training Session. You
would have LOVED it!
    I'm told that Aerospace Ambasadors may run another training
session in 1993. E-mail me for details if you want to GO! You
get a sampling of the whole guest-cosmonaut training program:
    Spaceflight physical
    Celestial navigation
    Soyuz-TM rendzvous and docking SIMS
    Life support systems aboard the full size MIR space station
    Centrifuge to 6-G MAX
    Hypobaric high altitude chamber to 5,000 M
    Training in both the SOKOL (Soyuz) and ORLAND (EVA)
spacesuits
    vestibular training
    EVA/IKARUS (MMU) SIMS
    parachute training
    Weightlessness training aboard the TU-76 MDK AC, min ten
parabolic arcs, giving about five minutes of weightlessness.

	I hope to do it again, since I didn't hurl! 8-)
 ...Next time for real, aboard MIR, if I make it through selection!

			George Hastings
-- 
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: ghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (George Hastings)
Subject: Re: Sources for Shuttle Flightsuits needed
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:59:36 GMT

The light blue "flight suits" sold at the Alabama Space and
Rocket Center when I was there are approximations of the light
blue suits that have been worn on some shuttle missions. Some
of the NASA suits worn on shuttle missions were separate pants
and jackets, worn with short sleeved dark blue cotton shirts.
    The ASRCenter DOES have (or DID when I was there several
years ago), authentic dark blue flight suits, made of cotton,
but they are not EXACTLY the same as those you've seen worn on
shuttle missions, either. However, they ARE very comfortable,
have lots of baggy pockets placed where you don't have to SIT
on them.
     I took mine to Zhvezhny Gorodok (Star City), Russia this
summer, and wore it on the TU-76 MDK aircraft during
weightlessness training.
--
From: pstinson@pbs.org
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: mission to Toutatis?
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:01:46 EDT
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA

In a recent news post it was stated that asteroid 4179 Toutatis will pass
within 1.6 million kilometers of Earth (about 4x the distance to the moon)
in 2004.  Any possibility of a manned landing mission to Toutatis? 

If not we should at least send up some probes to accomplish half of the
objectives of the cancelled CRAF.  This asteroid is coming to us.  Let's
make the most of this opportunity.
From: clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Software Development
Date: 7 Oct 1992 16:52:26 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: lychee.cs.utexas.edu

In <a previous article> se_taylo@rcvie.co.at (Ian Taylor) writes:
>The Space Shuttle software development project has been rated Level 5
>(the best) on the Software Engineering Institute's Maturity Index. 

Are you sure?   Can you cite a reference that I can go find (preferably
including who did the evaluation)?   Last I heard, NASA got the highest
rating *so far* -- which at the time was a 3.   Rumor has a couple of
4's existing now, but no 5's that aren't a result of self-evaluation.

But maybe I'm just behind the times.

pc
From: terry@venus.sunquest.com (Terry R. Friedrichsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Gravity-NEUTRALIZING Space Shuttle
Summary: Don't blame the institution, either
Keywords: humor   physics   randomly-capitalized words
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:43:00 GMT
Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson

mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org (Michael Wallis) writes:
>kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes:

>> >                                        Robert E. McElwaine
>> >                                        B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC
>> 
>> My already-low opinion of the B.S. degree in physics has just ratcheted
>> down another notch.

>I don't think it's the BS Physics but the institution. Wisconsin isn't
>known for its brilliant space studies program.

Well, as a graduate of UW-Madison, I have to take issue with this.  First
of all, please notice that Robert is from UW-Eau Claire, not the main campus
in Madison.

But secondly, let me note that Wisconsin does indeed have a very well-respected
and high-profile space studies program.  UW has, in fact, contributed a number
of instruments for space satellite missions (most notably, an instrument for
the Hubble Space Telescope and WUPPE (Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimetry
Experiment?) that flew aboard the space shuttle not long ago (as part of
ASTRO-1?  I don't exactly recall).

There are no doubt numerous other examples; I recall at least a couple with
insufficient clarity to recite them here.

I realize it's easy to toss out such a criticism; but it is a little-known
fact that the University of Wisconsin is a nationally high-ranking institu-
tion in a wide variety of areas, and is annually in the top ten in terms of
grant monies received (number 4 last year, if I recall properly).

I think you'll find that, in fact, Wisconsin *is* known for its brilliant
space studies program.

Terry R. Friedrichsen

terry@venus.sunquest.com  (Internet)
uunet!sunquest!terry      (Usenet)
terry@sds.sdsc.edu        (alternate address; I live in Tucson)
From: cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Craig Fifer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS 51-L LOGO
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:04:42 GMT
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)

Does anyone have or know where I could get the Mission Logo for
Flight STS 51-L (Challenger) in GIF, PICT, or other Macintosh
graphic format?  Any information would be appreciated.

-Craig Fifer
cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
Subject: Re: Gravity-NEUTRALIZING Space Shuttle
Keywords: get serious
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:20:03 GMT

Michael Wallis writes: 
#I don't think it's the BS Physics but the institution. Wisconsin isn't
#known for its brilliant space studies program.

Surely you jest. Wisconsin has a long history in space science, going
back to OAO, being co-investigators in HST instruments, flying WHUPPE
as part of the Astro-2 mission, and doing the WISP sounding rockets. 




--
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From: mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org (Michael Wallis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Gravity-NEUTRALIZING Space Shuttle
Keywords: get serious
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 12:13:27 PST
Organization: Club Zen BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA

kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes:

> >                                        Robert E. McElwaine
> >                                        B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC
> 
> My already-low opinion of the B.S. degree in physics has just ratcheted
> down another notch.

I don't think it's the BS Physics but the institution. Wisconsin isn't
known for its brilliant space studies program.

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Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Craig Fifer)
Subject: Mir
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:41:28 GMT

I'd like to know more about Mir.  How ling has it been up and
who is in it?  How long will it stay up?  What do the
cosmonauts do all day?  What kinds of lS systems are in
operation (i.e. water and oxygen), etc.

Craig Fifer
cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
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From: cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Craig Fifer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS 51-L LOGO
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:00:26 GMT
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)

Does anyone have or now where to get a color copy of the logo
of STS 51-L (Challenger) in GIF, PICT, or other mac accesible
formats?  I have found it on Spacelink, but it is B&W and is
200% of the original size.

Also, are there anyone space-oriented QuickTime movies
availible anywhere (besides the ones on expensive commercial
CD-ROM's)?

Any information on either of these topics would be greatly
appreciated.

-Craig Fifer
cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
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From: sef@drutx.ATT.COM (Scott E. Farleigh)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: I Need Launch Data
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:27:37 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO


I am working with a High School Physics class. My job is to help
these kids with the Algebra that is needed for computing various
physics equations.

To make Algebra less boring I want to use a real world application i.e.
force/mass equation, F = ma, as applied to a Shuttle launch. I would
run the equation from launch till SRB separation. I don't feel like
teaching the "step-function" of the mass and thrust loss at SRB
separation. For a given launch, what I need is, the "dry" mass of the
Shuttle, the mass of the fuel, the burn rate of the fuel, the force
of the thrust, the force of the atmospheric friction (as a function
of altitude), and a curve of the real acceleration for the launch.
I want to set up the force/mass equation to solve for the
acceleration curve. I will do it in steps, first I will let the
kids assume constant mass, then add in the rate of mass loss due to
fuel burn. Next would be to add in the effect of atmospheric
friction (Ballistic coefficient for gunnery types). At each step I
am hoping the calculated equation would get closer to the real one.

I realise that the shuttle's main engines are throttled during the
launch. However, I am hoping that this will not throw too much error
into the example. Therefore, are my expectation realistic? And is
the data that I need available?

Thanks
Scott Farleigh
From: jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Cosmic strings
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:10:00 GMT
Organization: Drexel University


What are cosmic strings?  Is there any consensus within the
astronomy community as to whether they exist?
-- 
Justin R. Smith
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104                    (215) 895-1847
From: higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: All systems are what? (was Re: Mars Observer Update #2 - 10/07/92)
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:45:14 GMT
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalo.fnal.gov

In article <1992Oct7.234649.18675@news.arc.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
>
> The updated spacecraft status, as reported by the Spacecraft Team, is
> that all subsystems are "Go".

Is this terminology really in use officially?  It sounds like a holdover
from the days of Col. John "Shorty" Powers...  Ungrammatical.  One
should say "all systems are Going," no?

And what does it mean?  If a subsystem is not "Go,"  what else could
it be?  I mean, what other values X might "All subsystems are X" have?

Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey              | The restaurant's architect
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory  | said every effort had been
Bitnet:           HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET  | made to build McDonald's
Internet:       HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV  | 15th outlet in Italy 
SPAN/Hepnet:           43011::HIGGINS  | in harmony with Pompeii.
                                       | --Reuters story in *Chicago 
                                       |  Sun-Times*, 18 June 92
From: mwallis@clubzen.fidonet.org (Michael Wallis)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: NASA Daily News for 10/02/92 (Forwarded)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 11:10:31 PST
Organization: Club Zen BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA

davem@ee.ubc.ca (david michelson) writes:

> Just a correction or two:
> 
>  - the first Gemini mission (Gemini 3) flew in March 1965  not 1962.
>  
>  - John Young commanded the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972 not Apollo 17.
> 
>  - the first shuttle mission (STS-1) flew in April 1981 not 1983.
> 
> I won't even *mention* his other Gemini or shuttle flights.

Sounds like another typical NASA press release.

* sigh *

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From: rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov (Michael W. Rowland)
Subject: Re: ENV SATELLITE SHUTDOWN IN DEC 1992
Keywords: nasa, environment, meteorology, satellite, ozone, aerosol
Reply-To: rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov (Michael W. Rowland)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681  USA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:57:15 GMT

In article <yawzjl-@rpi.edu>, kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
> In article <Bvv8xA.HGw@news.larc.nasa.gov> rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov 
> (Michael W. Rowland) writes:
> >This is a repost of 6 Oct. posting (revised)...
> >
> >     NUMBUS-7
> >     
> >     Total Ozone Measurement System (TOMS)
> 
> Is this real?  NASA plans to shut down TOMS?  Why?
> 
> This is about the last instrument on the last satellite I expected to be
> voluntarily shut down.
> 
> >Budget cuts are specified in House Conference Report 102-902
> >that is attached to HR 5679, Sept. 24, 1992.
> 
> I guess this is a likely explanation.  Were these satellites mentioned by 
name
> or was it just a line item that got hacked to death?
>

As far as I know, the satellites were not mentioned by name.

mike rowland

Mike Rowland, Aerosol Research Branch, MS 475
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA 23681
internet: rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
Subject: Re: Controversy over V-2 anniversary
Organization: UDSI
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:03:17 GMT

In article <1097@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
>
>	Don't forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki people!!  Those along with
>Dresden would have to be some of the most infamous single hours in


THe difference is that the designers didn't want it used.
the chicago people were petitioning truman,  oppenheimer was drummed
out for being weak on the h-bomb.  that is ethics.  they built the bomb
for germany,  they didn't want it used on japan.  for dropping the bomb
blame  truman and groves.   werner and company played good little
german beavers,  building missiles and smashing cities without a peep.