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re moonbase race nasa resources why in article keithley kip apple com keithley apple com craig keithley writes ah there s the rub and a catch to boot for the purposes of a contest you ll probably not compete if n you can t afford the ride to get there and although lower priced delivery systems might be doable without d...
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re moonbase race in article hgf b w w shakala com dante shakala com charlie prael writes doug actually if memory serves the atlas is an outgrowth of the old titan icbm nope you re confusing separate programs atlas was the first generation us icbm titan i was the second generation one titan ii which all the titan launch...
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re sunrise sunset times in article r f a ai news umbc edu rouben math math umbc edu rouben rostamian writes hello i am looking for a program or algorithm that can be used to compute sunrise and sunset times here is a computation i did a long time ago that computes the length of the daylight you should be able to conver...
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re old spacecraft as navigation beacons in article apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes other idea for old space crafts is as navigation beacons and such why not because to be any use as a nav point you need to know exactly where it is which means you either nail it to something that doesn t move or you...
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re abyss breathing fluids loss fs ece cmu edu doug loss writes besides the mechanical problems of moving so dense a medium in oan out of the lungs diaphragm fatigue etc is there likely to be a problem with the mixture i mean since the lungs never expel all the air in them the inhaled air has to mix pretty quickly with ...
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re keeping spacecraft on after funding cuts in c w zj hhq murdoch acc virginia edu greg hennessy writes in article r aqr dnv access digex net prb access digex com pat writes the better question should be why not transfer o m of all birds to a separate agency with continous funding to support these kind of ongoing scien...
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re death and taxes was why not give billion to in article apr indyvax iupui edu tffreeba indyvax iupui edu writes in my first posting on this subject i threw out an idea of how to fund such a contest without delving to deep into the budget i mentioned granting mineral rights to the winner my actual wording was mining r...
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re eco freaks forcing space mining in article r b v ec access digex net prb access digex com pat writes besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining they still mine coal in the midwest but now it doesn t look like the moon w...
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billboard station space dock seems that the mile long billboard and any other inflateble space object station or what ever have the same problems other than being a little bit different than the normal space ideas such as trusses and shuttles but also dag and such why not combine the discussion of how and fesibility to...
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re abyss breathing fluids are breathable liquids possible i remember seeing an old nova or the nature of things where this idea was touched upon it might have been some other tv show if nothing else i know such liquids are possible because they showed a large glass full of this liquid and put a white mouse rat in it si...
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re crazy or just imaginitive apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes so some of my ideas are a bit odd off the wall and such but so was wilbur and orville wright and quite a few others sorry if i do not have the big degrees and such but i think i might be wrong to error is human i have something that is in...
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re vandalizing the sky i posted this over in sci astro but it didn t make it here thought you all would like my wonderful pithy commentary what you guys have never seen the goodyear blimp polluting the daytime and nightime skies actually an oribital sign would only be visible near sunset and sunrise i believe so pollut...
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vandalizing the sky from phil g fraering pgf srl cacs usl edu finally this isn t the bronze age please try to remember that there are more human activities than those practiced by the warrior caste the farming caste and the priesthood right the profiting caste is blessed by god and may freely blare its presence in the ...
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command loss timer re galileo update in article apr kelvin jpl nasa gov baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov ron baalke writes on april a no op command was sent to reset the command loss timer to hours its planned value during this mission phase this activity is regularly reported in ron s interesting posts could someone explain...
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re death and taxes was why not give billion to in article apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes in article apr indyvax iupui edu tffreeba indyvax iupui edu writes somebody pointed out quite correctly that such rights are not anybody s to grant although i imagine it would be a fait accompli situation for ...
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re death and taxes was why not give billion to in my last post i referred to michael adams as nick completely my error nick adams was a film and tv actor from the s and early s remember johnny yuma the rebel he was from my part of the country and michael s email address of nmsca probably helped confuse things in my min...
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re sunrise sunset times in article apr titan tsd arlut utexas edu pearson tsd arlut utexas edu n shirlene pearson writes jpw cbis ece drexel edu joseph wetstein writes hello i am looking for a program or algorithm that can be used to compute sunrise and sunset times would you mind posting the responses you get i am als...
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space station redesign chief resigns for health reasons writer kathy sawyer reported in today s washington post that joseph shea the head of the space station redesign has resigned for health reasons shea was hospitalized shortly after his selection in february he returned yesterday to lead the formal presentation to t...
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re clementine mission name wales larrison ofa fidonet org writes old pioneer song from the s or so goes as follows in a cavern in a canyon excavating for a mine dwelt a miner forty niner and his daughter clementine chorus oh my darling oh my darling oh my darling clementine you are lost and gone forever oh my darling c...
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dreams and degrees was re crazy or just imaginitive in article c xp k g brunel ac uk mt dac brunel ac uk del cotter writes apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes sorry if i do not have the big degrees and such but i think i might be wrong to error is human i have something that is in many ways just as imp...
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re command loss timer re galileo update in article apr bnr ca agc bmdhh bnr ca alan carter writes in article apr kelvin jpl nasa gov baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov ron baalke writes on april a no op command was sent to reset the command loss timer to hours its planned value during this mission phase this activity is regula...
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re eco freaks forcing space mining in article apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes here is a way to get the commericial companies into space and mineral exploration basically get the eco freaks to make it so hard to get the minerals on earth they aren t going to leave a loophole as glaring as space mini...
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re keeping spacecraft on after funding cuts in article almaden ibm com nicho vnet ibm com writes since we don t have the money to keep them going now how will changing them to a seperate agency help anything how about transferring control to a non profit organisation that is able to accept donations to keep craft opera...
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re command loss timer re galileo update in article apr bnr ca agc bmdhh bnr ca alan carter writes a no op command was sent to reset the command loss timer this activity is regularly reported in ron s interesting posts could someone explain what the command loss timer is if i m not mistaken this is the usual sort of pre...
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re space news from feb aw st in article c ros uy zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes pluto s atmosphere will start to freeze out around and after about increasing areas of both pluto and charon will be in permanent shadow that will make imaging and geochemical mapping impossible where does the sh...
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re death and taxes was why not give billion nsmca aurora alaska edu university of alaska fairbanks writes a good deal of healthy if not deeply thought out idealism deleted below major question is if you decide to mine the moon or mars who will stop you can the truly inforce it if their parent company does business and ...
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comet when did will she launch comet commercial experiment transport is to launch from wallops island virginia and orbit earth for about days it is scheduled to come down in the utah test training range west of salt lake city utah i saw a message in this group toward the end of march that it was to launch on march does...
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re command loss timer re galileo update interesting question about galileo galileo s hga is stuck the hga was left closed because galileo had a venus flyby if the hga were pointed att he sun near venus it would cook the foci elements question why couldn t galileo s course manuevers have been designed such that the hga ...
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hst servicing mission scheduled for days ed campion headquarters washington d c april phone kyle herring johnson space center houston phone release hubble telescope servicing mission scheduled for eleven days the december flight of endeavour on space shuttle mission sts to service the hubble space telescope hst has bee...
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re moonbase race nasa resources why henry didn t the little joe and big joe get built in under a year months for little joe and months for big joe i thought i saw something on that for a old mercury film pat
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re eco freaks forcing space mining in article apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes in article r b v ec access digex net prb access digex com pat writes besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining i aint talk...
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re planets still images orbit by ether twist in sci astro dmcaloon tuba calpoly edu david mcaloon writes a nearly perfect parody needed more random caps thanks for the chuckle i loved the bit about relevance to people starving in somalia to those who ve taken this seriously read the name aloud thank you thank you i ll ...
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re why dc will be the way of the future in r ub mgl access digex net prb access digex com pat writes in article apr julian uwo ca jdnicoll prism ccs uwo ca james davis nicoll writes hmmm i seem to recall that the attraction of solid state record players and radios in the s wasn t better performance but lower per unit c...
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re command loss timer re galileo update in apr bnr ca agc bmdhh bnr ca alan carter writes in article apr kelvin jpl nasa gov baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov ron baalke writes on april a no op command was sent to reset the command loss timer to hours its planned value during this mission phase this activity is regularly repo...
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re new planet kuiper object found if the new kuiper belt object is called karla the next one should be called smiley james nicoll
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re vandalizing the sky jeff cook ftcollinsco ncr com jeff cook writes in article c t k db research canon oz au enzo research canon oz au enzo liguori writes now space marketing what about light pollution in observations i read somewhere else that it might even be visible during the day leave alone at night i can t beli...
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sirtf mission is still alive from the jpl universe april sirtf is still very much in business by mark whalen in these times of extra tight nasa budgets the very survival of a number of missions has been uncertain but thanks to major design refinements implemented in recent months jpl s space infrared telescope facility...
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stephen hawking tours jpl from the jpl universe april cosmologist stephen hawking tours lab by karre marino some years after his first visit to jpl prof stephen hawking lucasian professor of mathematics at cambridge university and author of a brief history of time returned to the lab april on a tour hosted by jpl chief...
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re sunrise sunset times in apr cbis ece drexel edu jpw cbis ece drexel edu joseph wetstein writes hello i am looking for a program or algorithm that can be used to compute sunrise and sunset times i would appreciate any advice i once thought it would be easiest fitting a sine to the times but not this gave discrepancy ...
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jpl s vlbi project meets with international space agencies from the jpl universe april vlbi project meets with international space agencies by ed mcnevin members of jpl s space very long baseline interferometry vlbi project team recently concluded a week long series of meetings with officials from russia and japan the ...
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re keeping spacecraft on after funding cuts on fri apr bst nicho vnet ibm com greg stewart nicholls said gs how about transferring control to a non profit organisation that is gs able to accept donations to keep craft operational i seem to remember nasa considering this for some of the apollo equipment left on the moon...
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re sunrise sunset times there is a nice little tool in lucid emacs it s called calendar on request it shows for given longitude latitude coordinates times for sunset and sunrise the code is written in lisp i don t know if you like the idea that an editor is the right program to calculate these things theo w theo wawers...
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weekly reminder for frequently asked questions list this notice will be posted weekly in sci space sci astro and sci space shuttle the frequently asked questions faq list for sci space and sci astro is posted approximately monthly it also covers many questions that come up on sci space shuttle for shuttle launch dates ...
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re sunrise sunset times in article apr cbis ece drexel edu jpw cbis ece drexel edu joseph wetstein writes hello i am looking for a program or algorithm that can be used to compute sunrise and sunset times joe wetstein there is a wonderful book by jean meeus called astronomical algorithms which i am fairly sure contains...
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re level in article almaden ibm com wingert vnet ibm com bret wingert writes the onboard flight software project was rated level by a nasa team this group generates kslocs of verified code per year for nasa will someone tell an ignorant physicist where the term level comes from it sounds like the risks digest equivalen...
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space station redesign jsc alternative i have mb worth uuencode d gif images contain charts outlining one of the many alternative space station designs being considered in crystal city mr mark holderman works down the hall from me and can be reached for comment at or via e mail at mholderm jscprofs nasa gov mark propos...
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re new planet kuiper object found in a recent article jdnicoll prism ccs uwo ca james davis nicoll writes if the new kuiper belt object is called karla the next one should be called smiley unless i m imaging things always a possibility qb the kuiper belt object discovered last year is known as smiley jeff foust days yo...
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re russian email contacts i am coordinating the space shuttle program office s e mail traffic to npo energia for our on going joint missions i have several e mail addresses for npo energia folks but i won t post them on the net for obvious reasons if you need to know give me a yell ken jenks nasa jsc gm space shuttle p...
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re vandalizing the sky in article c xr w dnw cs cmu edu flb flb optiplan fi f baube tm writes from phil g fraering pgf srl cacs usl edu finally this isn t the bronze age please try to remember that there are more human activities than those practiced by the warrior caste the farming caste and the priesthood right the p...
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re new planet kuiper object found in article r de innjkv gap caltech edu jafoust cco caltech edu jeff foust writes in a recent article jdnicoll prism ccs uwo ca james davis nicoll writes if the new kuiper belt object is called karla the next one should be called smiley unless i m imaging things always a possibility qb ...
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re space news from feb aw st jbreed doink b b ingr com james b reed writes in article c ros uy zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes pluto s atmosphere will start to freeze out around and after about increasing areas of both pluto and charon will be in permanent shadow that will make imaging and ge...
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what counntries do space surveillance ethnocentric usian that i am i ve assumed that we and the xussr were the only countries with significant capabilities to track non cooperative objects in low earth orbit grazing in a couple of databases recently i found that japan has some optical capabilities along this line and a...
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mars observer update forwarded from the mars observer project mars observer status report april am pdt flight sequence c is active the spacecraft subsystems and instrument payload performing well in array normal spin and outer cruise configuration with uplink and downlink via the high gain antenna uplink at bps downlin...
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magellan update forwarded from doug griffith magellan project manager magellan status report april the magellan spacecraft continues to operate normally gathering gravity data to plot the density variations of venus in the mid latitudes the solar panel offpoint was returned to zero degrees and spacecraft temperatures d...
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re new planet kuiper object found in article steinly apr topaz ucsc edu steinly topaz ucsc edu steinn sigurdsson writes in article r de innjkv gap caltech edu jafoust cco caltech edu jeff foust writes in a recent article jdnicoll prism ccs uwo ca james davis nicoll writes if the new kuiper belt object is called karla t...
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re space station redesign chief resigns for health reasons in article c xugl jow skates gsfc nasa gov xrcjd mudpuppy gsfc nasa gov charles j divine writes writer kathy sawyer reported in today s washington post that joseph shea the head of the space station redesign has resigned for health reasons shea was hospitalized...
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re surviving large accelerations amruth laxman al andrew cmu edu writes hi i was reading through the spaceflight handbook and somewhere in there the author discusses solar sails and the forces acting on them when and if they try to gain an initial acceleration by passing close to the sun in a hyperbolic orbit the magni...
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re eco freaks forcing space mining in article r hb kbi access digex net prb access digex com pat writes in article apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes in article r b v ec access digex net prb access digex com pat writes besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed when th...
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re space news from feb aw st in article apr dazixco ingr com jbreed ingr com writes pluto s atmosphere will start to freeze out around and after about increasing areas of both pluto and charon will be in permanent shadow that will make imaging and geochemical mapping impossible where does the shadow come from there s n...
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space design movies is there a few grasp pictures of space related items namely space station designs so you can see the finished revolt around if you don t know what a grasp prograsm is check out some adult entertainment files and see what i mean or maybe geta few gif files and create a slide shows i think cshow can d...
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re vandalizing the sky in article c t k db research canon oz au enzo research canon oz au enzo liguori writes most of message deleted what about light pollution in observations i read somewhere else that it might even be visible during the day leave alone at night really really depressed enzo no need to be depressed ab...
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re space station redesign jsc alternative in article apr aio jsc nasa gov kjenks gothamcity jsc nasa gov writes description of external tank option for ssf redesign deleted mark proposed this design at joe shea s committee in crystal city and he reports that he was warmly received however the rumors i hear say that a d...
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re vandalizing the sky newsgroups sci astro sci space subject re vandalizing the sky excerpts from posting on this topic in article c t k db research canon oz au enzo research canon oz au enzo liguori writes now space marketing is working with university of colorado and livermore engineers on a plan to place a mile lon...
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re why not give billion to first year lo keithley apple com craig keithley writes all in all i m not certain that the single goal prize of staying on the moon for a year is wise and or useful how about a prize for the first non government sponsered unmanned moon landing then another for a manned moon landing then yet a...
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re planets still images orbit by ether twist news saved at apr gmt in article apr zeus calpoly edu dmcaloon tuba calpoly edu david mcaloon writes ether implodes earth core is gravity this paper both describes how heavenly bodys can be stationary ether sucking structures and why we observe orbital motion light years bet...
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re vandalizing the sky jeff cook ftcollinsco ncr com jeff cook writes people in primitive tribes out in the middle of nowhere as they look up and see a can of budweiser flying across the sky d seen that movie already or one just like it come to think of it they might send someone on a quest to get rid of the dang thing...
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re dreams and degrees was re crazy or just imaginitive higgins fnalf fnal gov bill higgins beam jockey writes like others involved in sci space mr adams shows symptoms of being a fledgling member of the technoculture and i think he s soaking it up fast i was a young guy with dreams once and they led me to get a technic...
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dc x y question i ve been following discussions about the delta clipper program and i have one small question as i understand it the dc x derived orbital vehicle dc y is to reenter the atmosphere sort of sideways not completely nose first so why is the dc y look symmetric in every drawing i ve seen i would think that a...
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dc y trajectory simulation i ve been to three talks in the last month which might be of interest i ve transcribed some of my notes below since my note taking ability is by no means infallible please assume that all factual errors are mine permission is granted to copy this without restriction note for newbies the delta...
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rimsat us russian joint venture i ve been to three talks in the last month which might be of interest i ve transcribed some of my notes below since my note taking ability is by no means infallible please assume that all factual errors are mine permission is granted to copy this without restriction michael sternberg che...
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re space station redesign jsc alternative dbm tm lerc nasa gov david b mckissock writes text of options a and b deleted option c single core launch station this is the jsc lead option basically you take a ft diameter cylinder that s ft long slap space shuttle main engines on the backside put a nose cone on the top atta...
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re jemison on star trek in article apr aurora alaska edu nsmca aurora alaska edu writes in article c sb p ib fs ece cmu edu loss fs ece cmu edu doug loss writes i saw in the newspaper last night that dr mae jemison the first black woman in space she s a physician and chemical engineer who flew on endeavour last year wi...
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re command loss timer re galileo update prb access digex com pat writes galileo s hga is stuck the hga was left closed because galileo had a venus flyby if the hga were pointed att he sun near venus it would cook the foci elements question why couldn t galileo s course manuevers have been designed such that the hga did...
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gamma ray bursters where are they what evidence indicates that gamma ray bursters are very far away given the enormous power i was just wondering what if they are quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by why would they have to be at galactic ranges my own pet theory is that it s flying saucers enterin...
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re stephen hawking tours jpl in article apr kelvin jpl nasa gov baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov ron baalke writes using a model of mars observer albee spent several minutes describing the project and the spacecraft s features in answer to a question from hawking chahine described a proposed drag free satellite but confirmed...
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re boom whoosh in article r mcginne gap caltech edu kwp wag caltech edu kevin w plaxco writes in article scicom alphacdc com wats scicom alphacdc com bruce watson writes once inflated the substance was no longer needed since there is nothing to cause the balloon to collapse this inflatable structure could suffer multip...
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re level while we are on the subject of the shuttle software what ever happened to the hypothesis that the shuttle flight software was a major factor in the loss of l to wit that during the wind shear event the flight control software indicated a series of very violent engine movements that shocked and set upa harmonic...
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re gravity waves was predicting gravity wave quantization cosmic noise in article c m e aud csn org et teal csn org eric h taylor writes from et teal csn org eric h taylor subject re gravity waves was predicting gravity wave quantization cosmic noise summary dong dong do i hear the death knell of relativity keywords sp...
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re gamma ray bursters where are they prb access digex com pat writes what evidence indicates that gamma ray bursters are very far away given the enormous power i was just wondering what if they are quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by why would they have to be at galactic ranges gamma ray bursts g...
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army in space i just got out of the army go signal corps or intelligence photointelligence interpretation if you go ada you might get to play with rockets but space will look pretty far away dug in the mud next to a grunt protecting the foward troops from low flying objects good luck origin americomm dallas info source...
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re jemison on star trek in article apr princeton edu phoenix princeton edu carlosn carlos g niederstrasser writes a transporter operator that better be one important transport usually it is a nameless ensign who does the job for such a guest appearance i would have expected a more visible meaningful role christian slat...
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re vandalizing the sky in article apr rhea arc ab ca thacker rhea arc ab ca writes in article c t k db research canon oz au enzo research canon oz au enzo liguori writes what about light pollution in observations i read somewhere else that it might even be visible during the day leave alone at night no need to be depre...
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re planets still images orbit by ether twist please get a real life
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drag free satellites was stephen hawking tours jpl in article raee b s access digex net prb access digex com pat writes in article apr kelvin jpl nasa gov baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov ron baalke writes in answer to a question from hawking chahine described a proposed drag free satellite but confirmed that at this point i...
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russian phobos mission did the russian spacecraft s on the ill fated phobos mission a few years ago send back any images of the martian moon if so does anyone know if they re housed at an ftp site thanks
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re space debris another fish to check out is richard rast he works for lockheed missiles but is on site at nasa johnson nick johnson at kaman sciences in colo spgs and his friend darren mcknight at kaman in alexandria va good luck r landis behind every general is his wife and behind every hillary is a bill
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re soviet space book what in blazes is going on with wayne matson and gang down in alabama i also heard an unconfirmed rumor that aerospace ambassadors have disappeared can anyone else confirm rob landis stsci baltimore md
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re space station redesign jsc alternative in article apr tm lerc nasa gov dbm tm lerc nasa gov david b mckissock writes man tended capability griffin has not yet adopted non sexist language glad to see griffin is spending his time on engineering rather than on ritual purification of the language pity he got stuck with ...
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re space station redesign jsc alternative in article ralibinnc f cbl umd edu mike starburst umd edu michael f santangelo writes the only thing that scares me is the part about simply strapping ssme s and a nosecone on it and just launching it i have this vision of something going terribly wrong with the launch resultin...
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re level in article raejd bf access digex net prb access digex com pat writes what ever happened to the hypothesis that the shuttle flight software was a major factor in the loss of l to wit that during the wind shear event the flight control software indicated a series of very violent engine movements that shocked and...
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re planets still images orbit by ether twist in apr coe montana edu uphrrmk gemini oscs montana edu jack coyote writes in sci astro dmcaloon tuba calpoly edu david mcaloon writes a nearly perfect parody needed more random caps thanks for the chuckle i loved the bit about relevance to people starving in somalia to those...
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general information request i am looking for any information about the space program this includes nasa the shuttles history anything i would like to know if anyone could suggest books periodicals even ftp sites for a novice who is interested in the space program todd giaquinto maverick wpi wpi edu
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re gamma ray bursters where are they in article radsr att access digex net prb access digex com pat writes what evidence indicates that gamma ray bursters are very far away given the enormous power i was just wondering what if they are quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by why would they have to be...
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re hst servicing mission scheduled for days somebody mentioned a re boost of hst during this mission meaning that weight is a very tight margin on this mission how will said re boost be done grapple hst stow it in cargo bay do oms burn to high altitude unstow hst repair gyros costar install fix solar arrays then return...
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russian phobos mission yes the phobos mission did return some useful data including images of phobos itself the best i ve seen had a surface resolution of about meters by the way the new book entitled mars kieffer et al university of arizona press has a great chapter on spacecraft exploration of the planet the chapter ...
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how can you see the launch of the space shuttle sorry for asking a question that s not entirely based on the technical aspects of space but i couldn t find the answer on the faqs i m currently in the uk which makes seeing a space shuttle launch a little difficult however i have been selected to be an exchange student a...
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re hst servicing mission scheduled for days in article rd g ckb access digex net prb access digex com pat writes how will said re boost be done grapple hst stow it in cargo bay do oms burn to high altitude unstow hst repair gyros costar install fix solar arrays then return to earth actually the reboost will probably be...
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re planets still images orbit by ether twist in article apr mksol dseg ti com mccall mksol dseg ti com fred j mccall writes in apr zeus calpoly edu dmcaloon tuba calpoly edu david mcaloon writes ether implodes earth core is gravity if not for the lack of extraneously capitalized words i d swear that mcelwaine had chang...
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re vandalizing the sky re space billboards even easier to implement than writing messages on the moon once upon a time a group of space activists i belonged to in seattle considered a goodyear blimp in orbit the idea was to use a large structure that could carry an array of lights like the goodyear blimp has placed in ...
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re drag free satellites was stephen hawking tours jpl joe your description sounds like one of the gravity probe spacecraft ideas pat