From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 29 00:01:26 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:01:26 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Risky events - Earth or Sea or Stars Message-ID: Good evening. While watching the second session of NASA Administrator's Symposium: "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," we had a 5.9 Earthquake. While my chair was rocking, the speaker at Monterey was startled. An appropriate accent to the subject of risk, and just 4 times the distance from here to the Moon, the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is passing by. :-) - LRK - http://news.com.com/Calif.+earthquake+shakes+up+Web/2100-1038_3-5387495.html http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/nort hern_california/9782447.htm?1c http://www.axcessnews.com/national_092804b.shtml http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040928/APA/409280 831&cachetime=5 Reminder - Tomorrow morning - SpaceShipOne first X-Prize flight. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ snip First X-Prize flight scheduled for September 29, 2004 For information about the X-Prize flights (press inquiries, news updates, ticket information, etc.) please visit the Ansari X-Prize website. http://web1-xprize.primary.net/launch.php snip SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space "Mojave, CA: The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth's atmosphere. The successful launch demonstrated that the final frontier is now open to private enterprise." (READ MORE) http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm Multimedia: * Videos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/video.htm * Photos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/gallery/june21 -------------------------------------------------------------- SpaceShipOne will attempt the first of two flights Wednesday morning that would win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The privately managed mission is a milestone prelude to space tourism. See SPACE.com's live webcast, with streaming cockpit video! Plus reporter's updates from the Mojave Airport before, during and after the flight. Get crew and flight information now, and watch the live video webcast starting at 9 a.m. EST (6 a.m. PST) Wednesday. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_full_coverage.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ADD TO THAT, VIRGIN GALACTIC PLANS TO BUILD SPACECRAFT TO HELP DEVELOP THE SPACE TOURISM INDUSTRY BY USING SPACESHIPONE CRAFT AS A MODEL. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.virgingalactic.com/index.html http://www.virgingalactic.com/whatis.html Virgin Galactic is a company established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of developing space tourism for everybody. Virgin Galactic will own and operate privately built spaceships, modelled on the history-making SpaceShipOne craft. These spaceships will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in our history. Due to the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan, this space craft design has overcome the difficult issues of re-entry into the earth's atmosphere faced by so many designers trying to create efficient, re-usable space vehicles. We believe that it is in mankind's interest to develop our knowledge and understanding as well as access to space. Every customer of Virgin Galactic will be helping the development of a new generation of space craft. Designs for the Virgin Galactic craft are progressing on a weekly basis at Rutan's base in Mojave, California and by early 2005 the final design for the maiden Virgin Galactic ship, the VSS (Virgin SpaceShip) Enterprise, should be signed-off. What will follow will be a concerted Research and Development programme to earn the craft their qualification to carry some of the world's first scheduled space tourists. Safety is paramount. It is planned to have multiple levels of redundancy on key systems in order to achieve a very robust system in every phase of flight. Virgin's experience in aviation, adventure, luxury travel and cutting-edge design will be vital in contributing to the design of the spaceship, the smooth operation of the spaceline and creating an unforgettable experience unlike any other available to mankind. "We've always had a dream of developing a space tourism business and Paul Allen's vision, combined with Burt Rutan's technological brilliance, have brought that dream a step closer to reality. The deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by human beings a real possibility." Richard Branson ============================================================== TONIGHT - REPLAY OF THE NASA Administrator's Symposium: "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," - LRK - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html NASA Television can be seen in the continental United States on AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, Transponder 9, 3880 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, NASA TV can now be seen on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, Transponder 18, at 4060 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. The programs listed below are changes to the general NASA Television schedule. All programs subject to change without notice. All times are Eastern U.S. time. September 2004 Daily Programming 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Expedition/ISS Commentary - JSC (Updates on the ISS Mission and Expedition Crews) (Replays at 7 p.m., 11 p.m., and 7 a.m. the following day) 12 p.m. - 1 p.m - NASA TV Video File (NASA Newsfeed for Broadcast Media) (Replays at 3, 6, and 10 p.m. Also 12, 6, and 10 a.m.) **ALL PROGRAMS MAY BE PRE-EMPTED OR RESCHEDULED WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE** September September 28, Tuesday 5 p.m. - NASA Administrator's Symposium: "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Three - "Space" - AMES/HQ September 29, Wednesday 1 a.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Three - "Space" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/28/04) 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Ansari X Prize Competition from Mojave Test Flight Center - HQ (Feed of Space Ship One test flight) September 30, Thursday 8 a.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session One - "Earth" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/27/04) 1 p.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Two - "Sea" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/28/04) 5 p.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Three - "Space" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/28/04) snip ============================================================== Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:03:56 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: LARGE ASTEROID WILL ZOOM SAFELY PAST EARTH WEDNESDAY Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:; Gretchen Cook-Anderson Headquarters, Washington Sept. 28, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-0836) D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/393-9011) RELEASE: 04-319 LARGE ASTEROID WILL ZOOM SAFELY PAST EARTH WEDNESDAY A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT tomorrow. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between the Earth and the moon(approximately 961,000), this will be the closest approach of any known asteroid of comparable size this century. "This is the closest Toutatis will come for another 500 years, and its orbit is very well known," said Dr. Don Yeomans of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., manager of NASA's Near Earth Objects Program Office. "What this fly-by provides is an opportunity to study one of our closest solar system neighbors," he said. "While we have done radar observations on this particular asteroid before, this is the closest it has come since at least the twelfth century " said Dr. Steve Ostro, a scientist at JPL. "We will use the huge dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to refine our knowledge of its physical characteristics and its trajectory," he said. Named after an obscure Celtic and Gallic god, Toutatis, the yam-shaped space rock measures 1.92 kilometers (1.2 miles) by 2.29 kilometers (1.4 miles) by 4.6 kilometers (2.9 miles). Toutatis has one of the strangest rotation states observed in the solar system. Instead of spinning around a single axis, as do the planets and the vast majority of asteroids, it "tumbles" somewhat like a football after a botched pass. Its rotation is the result of two different types of motion with periods of 5.4 and 7.3 Earth days that combine in such a way that Toutatis's orientation, with respect to the solar system, never repeats. When the asteroid flies past Earth, it will be traveling at approximately 39,600 kilometers per hour (24,550 mph). Toutatis has not passed this close to Earth since the twelfth century, and it will not be this close again until 2562. Toutatis was discovered in 1989. Arecibo Observatory is operated by Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, with support from NASA. To view a computer model of asteroid Toutatis on the Internet, visit: http://reason.jpl.nasa.gov/~ostro/ToutatisHires.mov and http://reason.jpl.nasa.gov/~ostro/ToutatisHires.avi For more information about near Earth objects on the Internet, visit: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ For information about NASA on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. 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Will the X-Prize ring be grasped from the edge of space? - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ snip First X-Prize flight scheduled for September 29, 2004 For information about the X-Prize flights (press inquiries, news updates, ticket information, etc.) please visit the Ansari X-Prize website. http://web1-xprize.primary.net/launch.php snip SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space "Mojave, CA: The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth's atmosphere. The successful launch demonstrated that the final frontier is now open to private enterprise." (READ MORE) http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm Multimedia: * Videos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/video.htm * Photos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/gallery/june21 -------------------------------------------------------------- We drove by on our way to Las Vegas not long ago. Just a road across the desert. Highway 58 wraps around the area. You can see some of the airplane companies from the road, both alive and dead. Hard to think this could be the next SpacePort. - LRK - -------------------------- ANSARI X PRIZE: "Launch Schedule EVENT TICKETS AND PARKING PASSES AVAILABLE ONSITE! SEE YOU IN MOJAVE! September 29th launch currently scheduled for approximately 6:00 A.M. P.S.T. Mojave Civilian Flight Test Center http://www.mojaveairport.com/ Address: Mojave Airport 1434 Flight Line Mojave, CA 93501 http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=US&addtohistory=&s earchtab=address&searchtype=address&address=1434+Flight+Line&city=Mojave&sta te=CA&zipcode=93501&search=++Search++ Scaled Composites Inc: 661-824-4541 1624 Flight Line # 78 Mojave, CA 93501, US http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=internal&addtohistory=&lati tude=RcogHLJWsnw%3d&longitude=ugCrZeXl9tOcrLg9nikbRg%3d%3d&name=Scaled%20Com posites%20Inc&countryid=250&country=US&address=1624%20Flight%20Line%20%23%20 78&city=Mojave&state=CA&zipcode=93501&phone=661%2d824%2d4541&cat=Scaled%20Co mposites&spurl=0&searchtype=GenSearch -------------------------- -------------------------- http://www.co.kern.ca.us/gsd/kgov/internettv.asp Internet Television (KGOV-Live) You can watch the current KGOV broadcast from your computer, via a feature called KGOV-Live. In order to use KGOV-Live, you must first install RealOne Player version 8 or higher on your computer. -------------------------- Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/world/9762570.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 26, 2004 'A tunnel to the moon' Next step to future will be taken in desert outpost By BOB KEEFE COX NEWS SERVICE MOJAVE, Calif. - The Mojave Airport is an unassuming collection of old runways and dusty tin buildings. Planes and parts of planes - fighter jets, crop dusters, outdated commercial airliners - sit like ghosts in a desert graveyard. The little airport has no regular passenger traffic, but it's becoming known as the hub for space travel's future. On Wednesday, the first commercial rocket ever piloted by a non-military astronaut is scheduled to take a second brief trip from Mojave to beyond the Earth's atmosphere. SpaceShipOne, as it's called, made its maiden voyage to the stars from here in June, helping reignite a worldwide interest in private space travel that has been compared to beginning of commercial flight. Rocket companies abound But the company that built SpaceShipOne, Scaled Composites Inc., is only one of several rocket designers here shooting for the stars. Not far from Scaled Composites is Xcor Aerospace Inc., which is building rocket engines it hopes to sell to commercial space companies. Also nearby is Interorbital Systems, which is offering promotional $250,000 tickets for a week in space orbit, even though its first ship isn't expected to be complete before 2006. Space Launch Corp., meanwhile, is building a rocket plane that could be used to launch small satellites. In all, nine companies are working on space-related projects at Mojave, according to airport officials. Those who have been to the airport known to pilots as "Mojo" say it really does have a lot going for it. "You never expect by looking at it that this is where the next space age is being born, but it is," said George Whitesides, executive director of the National Space Society, a Washington, D.C. group that promotes civilian space travel. "It's a very special place that I think history is going to remember." What makes the 1940s-era former naval air station 100 miles north of Los Angeles the place to be is "location, location, location," said airport manager Stuart Witt, echoing the old real estate mantra. Perfect weather for flying Edwards Air Force Base, where military flight testing has its roots, is a next-door neighbor. China Lake, where the Navy does bombing training, is not far away. Hundred-degree heat and little rainfall have limited residential development, but make for great conditions for flying. With airspace that's restricted from regular air traffic because of military flights nearby, Mojave has what Witt calls "a tunnel to the moon" where commercial rocket companies are free to try creating the next space jetliner. Already a hot spot for civilian flight testing, Mojave in June was designated by the Federal Aviation Administration as the nation's first inland "spaceport." The designation could help make it easier for companies to launch rocket ships and someday send passengers into space. The people behind Mojave's commercial space projects are an eclectic collection of space cowboys and colorful characters. Some are hard and weathered like the desert itself, while others are out-of-town billionaires who have more money than they can ever spend. SpaceShipOne's financier, for instance is Paul Allen, a Microsoft Corp. co-founder who can travel to Mojave from his Seattle-area home on any of his personal collection of airplanes. The rocket ship's creator is legendary airplane designer and engineer Burt Rutan. Interorbital Systems, on the other hand, is run by a husband-and-wife team who are trying to pay the bills by selling, along with the advance tickets to space, NASCAR-style ads on rocket ships and spacesuits and annual memberships in the Pacific Rocket Society. $10 million at stake Like Scaled Composites, some of the companies at Mojave are planning to compete for the biggest prize in commercial space rocketry. Sponsors of the Ansari X Prize promise $10 million to the owner of the first private spaceship capable of launching three people into suborbital flight on two consecutive flights within two weeks. The prize, created in an effort to jump-start commercial space travel, is modeled after aviation prizes such as the $25,000 competition that led to Charles Lindbergh's 1927 historic transatlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis." Mojave Airport's Voyager Restaurant is named after another record-setting airplane, built by Burt Rutan and flown by his brother Dick and co-pilot Jeana Yeager around the world in 1986. The nine-day trip was the first ever nonstop flight around the world without refueling. Today at the Voyager, Mojave's space junkies are talking shop over chicken wings and beer while TVs play videos of the historic flight. They bad-mouth NASA for what they say is overspending for too few accomplishments, and dream of a world when commercial space flight is as common as commercial air travel is today. "There's always space talk about who's doing what and who's going to fly the next mission," said Dick Rutan, who in addition to helping his brother also has worked as a test pilot for Xcor and other companies. "It's awful interesting being real close to all of this, but it's also fun to sit back and hear all the pronouncements versus (seeing) all the reality," he said. There have been flops at Mojave, and almost certainly there will be more. Rotary Rocket Co., for instance, tried to build a pear-shaped rocket at Mojave that would initially be lifted with a helicopter-style rotor before blasting off into space. But the company ran out of money for its Roton rocket ship. Two years ago, Xcor acquired much of its assets and technology. Failures, though, are part of the lore and nature of flight. What's important, almost anyone at Mojave will tell you, is that the spirit of flight - and now space travel - lives on despite the occasional flop. "It's the 'Field of Dreams' concept," said airport manager Whitt. "What everybody here shares in common is the attitude that it's OK to think big and take risks." -------------------------------------------------------------- ? 2004 The Sun Herald and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.sunherald.com ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040927/0407ca1e/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 24 23:49:11 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:49:11 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] ADMINISTRATOR'S SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES EXPLORATION AND RISK Message-ID: Good day. Yesterday Fred Becker asked me if the Administrators Symposium being held next Monday at Monterey CA. was open to the public. I had not heard about the symposium and the only reference I could find then was the one Fred gave me from SpaceRef.com - http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3121 They have a Calendar of Events at - http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/ - Lots of Events - LRK - Just got back from a trip up the road and in looking at my e-mails, see one from Ames that announces the symposium. Copied them both as their formatting is a bit different and maybe you will catch something in one that you didn't see in the other. Added links in the Ames post. - LRK - Monterey is an hour south of Ames and several hours from Tracy. Have other obligations so won't try to go in person. Sounds like it is a video conference that would be viewable on the web by all of you. 5:30 EDT would be 2:30 PDT, 12:00 EDT would be 9:00 PDT. I told Fred that I have listened to Chris McKay and Penny Boston at the Mars Terraforming workshop a couple of years back. Penny works with slim in caves made by microscopic organisims that don't like oxygen. These guys eat rock. Something you could use on Mars to get some of the elements back to the surface. (no plate techtonics to up turn rock, so go eat it.) A LOT OF IDEAS ON HOW ONE MIGHT MAKE MARS HABITABLE. JUST A LOT OF MONEY AND TIME. Look at the names in the video coming up and then some of the names at this conference. - LRK - http://spot.colorado.edu/~marscase/cfm/pgm.html This is the two day Mars terraforming conference I snuck in. - LRK - http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2000/00_68AR.html This was a more recent Mars Terraforming debate held at Ames that I didn't make either. (something about driving 60 miles over the hill from Tracy to Ames.) http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/informal/features/N_Star-Studded_M ars_Debate.html See the names of the players. - LRK - http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/research.cfm More players. - LRK - http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/ Astrobiology Portal http://www.astrobio.net/ Astrobiology Magazine Interesting set of participants. I listened to Steve Squyres at Foothill College before the launch of the rovers and watched him on our cable TV about the problems with working on a mission for such a long time just to get to the launch. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/minu-trans.html I would like to hear Harrison Schmidt in person. Ron Wells, up the road at UC Berkeley, is working with him on a book and has done a lot of work on the Apollo 17 portion of the ALSJ. Thanks Ron. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/Rwells.htm One other thought about the topics and participants. I attended a conference at Ames, also a while back, that was on extremes. Those scientists that are working in our oceans and going to cold places had to put up with hardships for equipment and personnel. Since the Deep Space launching type of scientists didn't have all that many missions going, they tought it would be good to get a lot of folks together from different disciplines and share ideas. http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/extremes/ Somehow I get the feeling that these video presentations might be sort of a recap of these meetings and a way to share those ideas with the general public. If you get a chance to log on to NASA TV next Monday and Tuesday, you might see what they have produced. It looks like the general NASA TV weekly schedule has the noon time and 5:00 p.m. EDT blocked for videos and educational films. - LRK - One last note here - GOOGLE found http://www1.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/sep/HQ_n04151_risk_symposium.html While looking up a reference to Chris McKay. Logged it on the http://KelloggSerialReports.blogspot.com Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== NASA Administrator's Symposium symposium, "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars" Have you ever been into space, in a research submarine, or been a part of a remote polar research base? Whether it's exploring the depths of our oceans or reaching the top of our highest mountains, great feats often involve great risk. During a special symposium hosted by Administrator Sean O'Keefe, NASA examines the similarities between space exploration and other terrestrial expeditions with the help of some of the best known explorers in the world, including mountain climbers, deep sea explorers, scientists and science fiction writers. The discussions also will include NASA astronauts, other notable aeronautics and deep space explorers. The symposium, "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," will be carried live Sept. 27-28 on NASA TV and webcast on www.nasa.gov from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Sessions and participants: Monday, Sept. 27 - 5:30 p.m. EDT Session One - Earth Moderator: Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA's Ames Research Center (ARC), Calif. * Ed Viesturs, American High-altitude Mountaineer * Penny Boston, Director of Cave and Karst Studies, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology * Dale Andersen, Astrobiologist, Antarctic/Artic researcher, SETI Institute * Nathalie Cabrol, Planetary Geologist, ARC, SETI Institute * Bill Stone, President, Stone Aerospace * David Roberts, Writer specializing in mountain climbing, adventure, and archaeology Tuesday, Sept. 28 - 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. EDT Session Two - Sea Moderator: David Halpern, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy * John Chatterton, Professional Diver, featured in the book, Shadow Divers * Sylvia Earle, Founder and Chairman, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research * Jean Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society * Mike Gernhardt, NASA astronaut * James Cameron, Academy Award winning director, undersea explorer * Laurence Bergreen, author, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Session Three - The Stars Moderator: John Grunsfeld, NASA Chief Scientist and astronaut * Harrison Schmidt, former NASA astronaut * Shannon Lucid, NASA astronaut * Steve Squyres, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, Scientific Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission * Jim Garvin, NASA Chief Scientist for Mars and the moon * John Mather, James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center * Graham Yost, Writer/Director, From the Earth to the Moon Times and participants are subject to change. See the NASA TV schedule on the Internet for the latest updates. NASA TV is available in the continental United States on AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, Transponder 9, 3880 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, NASA TV is on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, Transponder 18, at 4060 MHz, vertical polarization, and audio at 6.8 MHz. For more information about NASA TV or to watch the events on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html Theme Date 09/27/04 - 09/28/04 Location Monterey, CA, US Web Address http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html ============================================================== MESSAGE FROM NASA HEADQUARTERS - Ames email - LRK - Point of contact: David Steitz, Public Affairs, 202/358-1730 --------------------------------------------------------- - Ames email - see if I can't add a link or two about the participants - LRK - ADMINISTRATOR'S SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES EXPLORATION AND RISK During a special symposium hosted by Administrator Sean O'Keefe, NASA will examine the similarities between space exploration and other terrestrial expeditions with the help of some of the best known explorers in the world, including mountain climbers, deep sea explorers, scientists and science fiction writers. The discussions also will include NASA astronauts, other notable aeronautics and deep space explorers. The symposium, "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," will be carried live Sept. 27-28 on NASA HQ Channel 3 and webcast on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Times and participants are subject to change. See the NASA TV schedule on the Internet for the latest updates. SESSIONS AND PARTICIPANTS Monday, Sept. 27 - 5:30 p.m. EDT Session One: Earth Moderator: Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA's Ames Research Center http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/workshops/1996/astrobiology/speakers/mckay_ c/mckay_c_bio.html Ed Viesturs, American High-altitude Mountaineer http://www.edviesturs.com/ Penny Boston, Director of Cave and Karst Studies, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology http://www.ees.nmt.edu/boston/ Dale Andersen, Astrobiologist, Antarctic/Artic researcher, SETI Institute http://www.astrobiology.com/asc2002/abstract.html?ascid=146 Nathalie Cabrol, Planetary Geologist, ARC, SETI Institute http://pokey.arc.nasa.gov/~ncabrol/ Bill Stone, President, Stone Aerospace http://www.geo.utexas.edu/zacaton/3D_Mapping/3-D%20mapping.htm http://www.usdct.org/mapper.htm http://www.usdct.org/personnel/stone.htm http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020828minerobot0828p2.asp David Roberts, Writer specializing in mountain climbing,adventure, and archaeology http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=51 http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document4191-2.html Tuesday, Sept. 28 - 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. EDT Session Two: Sea Moderator: David Halpern, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy http://www.coaltechnologies.com/2004%20Program.htm http://www.uwa.edu.au/media/statements/2003/april/high_powered_symposium_on_ was_water_at_uwa_(30_april) http://www.usgcrp.gov/irc/members.html John Chatterton, Professional Diver, featured in the book, Shadow Divers http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-lihist053881952jul05,0,4911857.st ory http://www.bestpub.com/bookstore2.asp?Category=Wreck/TreasureDiving Sylvia Earle, Founder and Chairman, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research http://www.oceantechnology.org/board_of_directors.htm http://www.divernet.com/profs/earl1196.htm Jean Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society http://www.oceanfutures.org/jmc/bio.asp Mike Gernhardt, NASA astronaut http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/gernhard.html James Cameron, Academy Award winning director, undersea explorer http://www.astrobio.net/news/article813.html http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesArtistsC/cameron_james.html http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghosts_of_the_abyss/about.php James Cameron's company, Breakpoint Media, has prepared an edited version of the movie For All Mankind for downloading in Microsoft Windows Media. It may be found at http://www.breakpointmedia.com/. Laurence Bergreen, author, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0066211735 http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=author&authorID=955 Session Three: The Stars Moderator: John Grunsfeld, NASA Chief Scientist and astronaut http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/grunsfel.html http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_03280_Grunsfeld.html Harrison Schmidt, former NASA astronaut http://www.oasis-nss.org/articles/2002/12/apollo17-gounley.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0210/p02s02-usgn.htm http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC1/trip.html Shannon Lucid, NASA astronaut http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lucid.html http://www.space.com/news/lucid_promo_020212.html Steve Squyres, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, Scientific Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission http://astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=112 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/mission.html Jim Garvin, NASA Chief Scientist for Mars and the moon http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_N04038_rover_press_brfg.html http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/personal_pages/garvin/garvin.html John Mather, James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/hubble_future_030610.html http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/ Graham Yost, Writer/Director, From the Earth to the Moon http://www.donniewahlberg.com/mercurynews11202.htm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/ ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040924/32cee39a/attachment.htm From lkellogg at mail.arc.nasa.gov Thu Sep 23 12:31:39 2004 From: lkellogg at mail.arc.nasa.gov (Larry Kellogg) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:31:39 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA * SCHOOL YEAR TWO CLASS ACTS * ROVER MISSIONS RENEWED * SHOWING IN A THEATRE NEAR YOU Message-ID: Good day. Long subject line suggested from three NASANews postings, which I have copied below. In the public eye with something longer than a sound byte, should help get folks excited about going to space. If you know of other public space related events from around the World, let me know. Will be glad to share. This going to space should be as popular as a YoYo, well today probably a cell phone or an iPod. I remember sending away with my Wheaties box top and a dime for the mysterious "Dragon's Eye" ring that glowed with green luminescence in the dark. Aaah the age of Radio. Now you will just have to put up with me on the Internet. :-) - LRK - http://historytogo.utah.gov/tuning.html What prize should I offer for going to space? - LRK - http://www.kelloggserialreports.net/ http://www.kelloggserialreports.net/LarryKelloggReports.htm Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:12:10 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: NASA BEGINS SCHOOL YEAR WITH TWO CLASS ACTS Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington September 21, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1726) RELEASE: 04-309 NASA BEGINS SCHOOL YEAR WITH TWO CLASS ACTS Two NASA education programs, to inspire the next generation of explorers, have launched for the new school year. They are open for applications and proposals. Schools from across the country are eligible to apply online for an opportunity to partner with the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) Program. NES is designed to bring mathematics, science, technology and engineering learning to educators, students and families. NASA also released a cooperative agreement notice for the informal education community, with an opportunity to compete for funding support to host focus groups for the NASA Explorer Institutes (NEI) Program. "Students participating in classroom and informal education institute activities are the discoverers, space explorers and inventors of tomorrow. Their future role is vital in order to ensure our nation's technological and space exploration goals become a reality," said Dr. Adena Williams Loston, NASA's Chief Education Officer. "These two programs personify NASA's commitment to foster learning environments that will inspire young people to understand and protect our home planet, seize opportunities to venture to the moon, Mars and new worlds beyond." Each spring, a three-year partnership is established between the agency and 50 new NASA Explorer School teams. More than 100 teams of teachers and education administrators from diverse communities from 46 states have participated. NASA invites the selected teams to work with education specialists from agency centers to spark innovative science, mathematics and technology instruction aimed at students in grades four through nine. NES teams acquire new teaching resources and technology tools using NASA's unique content, experts and other resources. The deadline for submission of NES applications is January 31, 2005. The NEI Program's focus groups assemble experts from the informal education community to assist NASA with developing engaging experiences, opportunities, materials and information for use by science centers, museums, planetariums, libraries, parks, aquaria, nature centers, botanical gardens and youth groups across the nation. NASA anticipates up to 10 NEI focus groups will be funded through this solicitation, at a maximum funding level of $50,000 per project. Proposals must be received by November 12, 2004. To view the 2005 NES application on the Internet, visit: http://explorerschools.nasa.gov For information on the cooperative agreement notice and NASA Explorer Institutes, visit: http://education.nasa.gov/divisions/informal/overview/F_path finder_explorer_institute.html For information about NASA education programs on the Internet, visit: http://education.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ======= Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:11:42 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: ROVER MISSIONS RENEWED AS MARS EMERGES FROM BEHIND SUN Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington Sept. 21, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1547) Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-6278) RELEASE: 04-307 ROVER MISSIONS RENEWED AS MARS EMERGES FROM BEHIND SUN As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working. Both rovers successfully completed their primary three-month missions on the surface of Mars in April and have already added about five months of bonus exploration during the first extension of their missions. "Spirit and Opportunity appear ready to continue their remarkable adventures," said Andrew Dantzler, solar system division director at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "We're taking advantage of that good news by adding more support for the teamwork here on Earth that's necessary for operating the rovers." Neither rover drove during a 12-day period this month, while radio transmissions were unreliable because of the sun's position between the two planets. Daily planning and commanding of rover activities recommenced Monday for Opportunity and today for Spirit. "It is a relief to get past this past couple of weeks," said Jim Erickson, project manager for both rovers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. "Not only were communications disrupted, but the rovers were also going through the worst part of Mars southern-hemisphere winter from a solar-energy standpoint." "Although Spirit and Opportunity are well past warranty, they are showing few signs of wearing out," Erickson said. "We really don't know how long they will keep working, whether days or months. We will do our best to continue getting the maximum possible benefit from these great national resources." Rovers' science team members will spend less time at JPL during the second mission extension. They are able to attend daily planning meetings by teleconferencing from their home institutions in several states and in Europe. "All 150 science team members and collaborators have been provided the tools to be able to participate remotely," said JPL's Dr. John Callas, science manager for the rover project.Workstations researchers used at JPL are at their home institutions. Planning tools include video feeds, workstation display remote viewing, and audio conferencing. Besides reducing costs, remote operations allow scientists to spend more time at home. "We get back to more normal lives, back to our families, and we still get to explore Mars every day," said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator. Another change in operations is a shift from seven days per week to five days per week from October through December. This accommodates a temporary trim of about 20 percent in the project's engineering team to about 100 members. The rovers' reduced energy supply, during the rest of the Martian winter, makes the inactive days valuable for recharging batteries. By January, the energy situation will have improved for the solar-powered rovers, provided they are still operating. The team size will rebound to support daily operations. As Mars emerges from behind the sun, Spirit is partway up the west spur of highlands called the "Columbia Hills," a drive of more than 3 kilometers (2 miles) from its landing site. Opportunity is inside stadium-size "Endurance Crater," headed toward the base of a stack of exposed rock layers in "Burns Cliff," and a potential exit route on the crater's south side. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Images and additional information about the project are available on the Web at: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov http://athena.cornell.edu For information about NASA programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ======= Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:47:32 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: NASA IS SHOWING IN A THEATRE NEAR YOU Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:; Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington Sept. 21, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1726) Kimberly Land Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. (Phone: 757/864-9885) Lauren Leff Regal CineMedia, Inc., New York (Phone: 212/931-8107) RELEASE: 04-304 NASA IS SHOWING IN A THEATRE NEAR YOU As moviegoers wait in line to purchase tickets at Regal Entertainment Group (REG) theatres across the country, they will also get a lesson in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as NASA becomes part of the movie preview line up. REG theatres, including Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres nationwide, have added NASA programming to their lobby-advertising venue. Through a partnership with NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) Center for Distance Learning, Hampton, Va., one-minute newsbreaks are being shown on 42-inch plasma screens nationally in REG theatre lobbies. The programming is from NASA's Kids Science News Network (KSNN). "This special relationship with REG theatres is an opportunity to show the public NASA considers education a vital part of its service for students and adults," said Ron Shaneyfelt, KSNN program manager. "The in-theatre programming gives viewers information they may not find anywhere else." Through this unique partnership, REG theatres will receive award-winning videos from KSNN. An estimated 14.4 million patrons will see NASA videos monthly in more than 400 REG theaters. REG theatres have scheduled lobby showings in September, October and December. KSNN features kids teaching science, technology, engineering, and math to other kids in an entertaining and instructional format. The newsbreaks answer commonly asked questions and engage students to research misconceptions they may have about math and science. Produced by the LaRC Office of Education, KSNN newsbreaks may be downloaded from the Web with supporting content. Each component has a background information section. Students and educators can learn about the topic from a list of related resources and Web links. The hands-on activity can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing parents to get involved with their children's education, while sharing fun and exciting content. REG is the largest motion picture exhibitor in the world. The company's theatre circuit, comprising Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres, operates 6,053 screens in 544 locations in 39 states. Regal operates approximately 17 percent of all movie screens in the U. S. including theatres in 46 of the top 50 markets and growing suburban areas. Regal CineMedia is a wholly owned subsidiary of REG focusing on the expansion and development of advertising and new uses for Regal's theatre assets, while at the same time enhancing the movie-going experience. Media are invited to attend the premiere event at Regal Greenbrier Cinemas 13, Chesapeake, Va., from noon to 2 p.m. EDT, Sept. 25, 2004. Media should contact Kimberly Land at: 757/864-9885 for details and directions. To learn more about KSNN and other distance learning programming visit: http://dlcenter.nasa.gov For information about NASA education programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.education.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov For information about REG (NYSE: RGC), Inc., visit: http://www.regmovies.com or http://www.regalcinemedia.com -end- ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040923/d5a90635/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 23 00:37:31 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:37:31 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Sell-out crowd wowed by ESOC's Long Night of the Stars Message-ID: Good evening. (lunar-update list and those I blind copied.) Hans Kalff sent me these two links. You folks in the ESA community are on the mark. Get the kids interested. The Engineers (Astronauts) of the future. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- Let all the good ideas come together and start cracking Hans Kalff ------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "ESA Portal News" To: "Media:" Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:32 PM Subject: [esa_general] ESA focuses its 'Cosmic Vision' > ESA's 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025' workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris on 15-16 > September 2004, showed that Europe is richer than ever in ideas for what > should be done in space science in the coming years. > > Read more: > http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDH41XDYD_index_0.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Sell-out crowd wowed by ESOC's Long Night of the Stars 21 September 2004 "Greetings to all the people of Europe and especially tonight at the Night of the Stars at the European Space Operations Centre," boomed International Space Station crewman Mike Fincke's voice over the public address system as a listening crowd burst into applause. This live, public radio chat with orbiting astronauts was just one part of an unforgettable evening at ESA's mission control centre. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIP61XDYD_Life_0.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Space Camps help the kids too. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.spacecamp.com/ http://www.spacecamp.com/index_1.php (HTML) http://www.spacecamp.com/broadband/ (FLASH) ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.spacecamp.no/ An introduction to Space Camp Space Camp at And?ya Rocket Range was arranged for the first time in the summer of 1996. The Norwegian Association of Young Scientists initiated the idea of a summer camp with this specific subject. Today the camp is made possible by the joint efforts of And?ya Rocket Range AS and the National Centre of Space-Related Education (NAROM), in cooperation with the Norwegian Space Centre and the European Space Agency (ESA). ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.tsbvi.edu/space/ Space Camp for Students with Visual Impairments ... Celebrating 15 years!! 1990-2004. "Just because I can't see the stars, doesn't mean I can't reach for them" - Space Camp Alumni. 2005 Program Dates are Sept. ... www.tsbvi.edu/space/ - 7k - Sep 21, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.atlasaerospace.net/eng/camp.htm The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. It is also intended to induce the interest of the young generation (high school, colleges and university students) in aero-space professions, feasibility of studying at Russian Universities and Institutes, as well as in cosmonauts' training techniques and technologies on the premises of the Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.delmarvanow.com/easternshore/stories/20040828/1135107.html Flying high at space camp Director laments local students' lack of interest in program By STEPHEN FURNESS WALLOPS -- Rockets flying through the air, advanced arial spy technology, and human controlled robots -- all in a day's work. The Virginia Space Flight Academy, located at Wallops, specializes in instructing middle- and high-school students in how each facet of space technology works. Though it isn't exactly the simulated astronaut-in-training space camp, the Virginia Space Flight Academy gives youth with imagination a chance to learn about the many government operations that take place on Wallops. "We're not space camp in Huntsville -- we don't try to be," said Bob Marshall, executive director for the Virginia Space Flight Academy, of the Alabama-based offering. "But for every astronaut, there's a thousand technicians on the ground. So why not show kids some realistic career opportunities?" snip ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- FOR EVERY ASTRONAUT,THERE'S A THOUSAND TECHNICIANS ON THE GROUND. :-) SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD REASON TO GO TO SPACE TO ME. HOW MANY MORE JOBS WHEN WE HEAD TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. - LRK - WOWING KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD REASON TOO. - LRK - Now if only the politicians get the vision. - LRK - Maybe they need to go read the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. - LRK - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. It includes a corrected transcript of all recorded conversations between the lunar surface crews and Houston. The Journal also contains extensive, interwoven commentary by the Editor and by ten of the twelve moonwalking astronauts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- As Hans said, "Let all the good ideas come together and start cracking" Thanks Hans. SHALL I GET A BULL HORN? DO YOU ALL HAVE YOUR FLASH CARDS? (watching a game on TV) - LRK - ALTOGETHER NOW, SPELL OUT --- TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. --- (Were we missing a few cards? Do we need to add more in the stands? Did you car pool? Tell someone about the lunar-update list and watch me jump up and down in front of the crowd. :-) Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDH41XDYD_index_0.html http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDH41XDYD_index_2.html ESA focuses its 'Cosmic Vision' Exploring space (image) 21 September 2004 ESA's 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025' workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris on 15-16 September 2004, showed that Europe is richer than ever in ideas for what should be done in space science in the coming years. Scientists from across Europe brought together their papers outlining what they thought should be the major issues of space exploration a decade from now, on topics such as 'Tracing the origin of the Solar System', 'The evolving violent Universe' and 'Other worlds and life in the Universe'. This workshop was a major step forward in developing the vision of the future for Europe's space science that will be presented by ESA's Science Directorate next spring. ESA's working groups are also working to identify the technology challenges, with the help of the ESA Advanced Concepts office. Following endorsement by ESA's Science Programme Committee in February 2005, the 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025' document will be produced, laying out the targets for European space science for the decade 2015-2025. Subsequently, once the financial framework is known, the European scientific community will be called upon to produce a plan, including concrete missions and mission scenarios, which will capture as much as possible of the range of scientific themes targeted. ESA's Director of Science, Prof. David Southwood, said: "Europe's funding for space science has always been substantially less than the US but there can be little doubt from the last two days that Europe can claim intellectual parity and, with the right funding, can push back any frontier." More about... * Gaia overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120377_index_0_m.html) * BepiColombo overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120391_index_0_m.html) * JWST overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120370_index_0_m.html) * XEUS overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120369_index_0_m.html) Related articles * Plans for the future (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMF9M1PGQD_index_0.html) * IAA's vision for the next steps in exploring deep space (http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQY5M26WD_index_0.html) * How a mission is chosen (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMTV1T1VED_index_0.html) Related links * More on Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 (http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35857) ============================================================== http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIP61XDYD_Life_0.html http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIP61XDYD_Life_2.html Sell-out crowd wowed by ESOC's Long Night of the Stars A young visitor releases a mock weather balloon (image) 21 September 2004 "Greetings to all the people of Europe and especially tonight at the Night of the Stars at the European Space Operations Centre," boomed International Space Station crewman Mike Fincke's voice over the public address system as a listening crowd burst into applause. This live, public radio chat with orbiting astronauts was just one part of an unforgettable evening at ESA's mission control centre. As the astronauts spoke, visitors to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) glimpsed their home in space, the International Space Station (ISS), which was flying at an altitude of 360 kilometres over Darmstadt, Germany, at 20:54 local time on Saturday, 18 September 2004. The visitors had registered to attend ESOC's open house, part of the Long Night of the Stars ("Lange Nacht der Sterne") event involving 170 planetaria, observatories, astronomical organizations, museums, companies and scientific institutes in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The public radio discussion with the ISS astronauts, which lasted about five minutes as the station sped overhead, was just one highlight of the evening, which saw over 3,000 people welcomed to ESOC. First ESOC open house in 25 years As lead ESA organization supporting Long Night, ESOC communications staff organized the evening with strong support by volunteers from all engineering and mission teams; the result was a spectacular series of activities staged for five separate public groups that entered every 90 minutes between 18:00 and 1:30. The event was ESOC's first major open-door event in 25 years. The ESOC portion of The Long Night of the Stars was given wide pre-publicity by German press, radio and web media, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Hessische Radio. Some media ran contests where readers could win ESOC Long Night tickets, which - once sold out - even began to appear for sale on eBay. Amateur astronomer helps ESOC guests view the Sun (image) Comprised of more than 500 visitors each, the groups were guided in turn through the Main Control Room and several mission-specific Dedicated Control Rooms, viewed the Rosetta and Cassini-Huygens test models and could attend multimedia presentations given by engineering staff focussing on ESOC, the Earth, the solar system and the universe. The presentations highlighted ESOC's role in controlling and operating missions that gather valuable data related to Earth observation, the environment and navigation or that expand scientific knowledge by visiting other worlds. The presentations sparked lively questions and discussion from the audience, including on whether drivers will have to "purchase new cars" in order to make use of Galileo's upcoming highly accurate navigation services (short answer: No). In another presentation, Michael Schmidt, from the Integral mission team, explained to audiences how the new Vega launcher is intended to serve as a "very cost-effective" way to get satellites into space. Outside, visitors could view planets, stars and galaxies through a dozen telescopes set up by Darmstadt's "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Astronomie und Weltraumtechnik" (AAW), a local amateur astronomy club. The evening was perfect for viewing the setting sun (through heavily shielded lenses) and once night fell, the skies remained almost crystal clear. On such evenings, up to 10,000 galaxies can be seen with a typical amateur telescope according to Eric von den Heyden, 35, one of 30 people from the AAW who supported the event. Visitors lined up for 15 minutes at a time to view astronomical objects including the M87 gas nebula, located some 2,000 light years away. Children celebrating 10th birthday party at Long Night of the Stars (image) Young space fans laugh while learning Another highlight of the evening was the Children's Programme, an experiential play space designed to stimulate creativity and teach young visitors about space science. Children could scribble in an ESA colouring book, build paper models of Ariane launchers from paper, view 3-dimensional images of Mars' surface, and watch videos highlighting space exploration activities. There was also a live countdown and launch (of a compressed air rocket) and all young visitors received an official participation certificate and button. Space fans of all ages could also release mock weather balloons with an address card attached; the one found furthest from ESOC in the next few weeks will garner a prize for both sender and finder. After the tour, visitors were led to the ESOC cafeteria which had been converted into a showroom and information centre, with tables set up to spotlight careers at ESA and to distribute posters and other ESOC promotional items; the Space Shop was also offering a great selection of ESA- and ESOC-branded goods and souvenirs. Judging by the persistent crowds, space souvenirs are evidently in high demand. ISS amateur radio call grabs spotlight The highlight of the evening for many was the public amateur radio call with the ISS crew participating from 360 kilometres above. After answering questions on a typical day aboard the ISS (scientific experiments and on-going maintenance) and what the crew do for relaxation (call their families and watch DVDs), Astronaut Fincke wished ESOC visitors "A special goodnight" before the station orbited out of line-of-sight radio range. He also urged listeners to "Think about other humans and our future together." Editor's Note: An initiative of Germany's Stern magazine, Long Night of the Stars aimed to boost public support and understanding of space science, astronomy, and space-related research, education and industry. The Long Night was supported by the European Space Agency, as well as Germany's Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), automaker Mercedes Benz, the German Space Agency (DLR), the European Southern Observatory and the Association of Friends of the Stars (VdS). Related news * Long Night of the Astronauts (http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMK281XDYD_astronauts_0.html) * Long Night of the Stars (German language) (http://www.Lange-Nacht-der-Sterne.de) * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German language) (http://www.faz.net/s/RubABE881A6669742C2A5EBCB5D50D7EBEE/Doc~E40FFFBBF682F4 93295549F0DBA17679E~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html#top) * S?dwestrundfunk (German language) (http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/ts/oid3625956_mod1.html) * Yahoo! Nachrichten (German language) (http://de.news.yahoo.com/040919/336/47obi.html) Related links * ESOC-ISS crew radio call (MP3; 8.5 MB) (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/ARISS_ESOC_040918.mp3) * ISS video tour (WMV; 152 MB) (http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv) * Ariane 5 cutout model (PDF) (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/Ariane5EvoluationPaper.pdf) ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040922/ffdc13b5/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 22 01:08:37 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:08:37 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Space Stations and Manned Spaceflight in the 1980s and 90s - by Marcus Lindroos Message-ID: Good evening. I mentioned before that you Sci-Fi writers should fire up the quill pen and give us some visions to think about. Larry Klaes sent me the link below with the comment, "Hi Larry - you probably know about this web site, but just in case..." Well I hadn't seen the site and am finding it very interesting. Thanks Larry K. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://wwwabo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/sld001.htm -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/ Space Stations and Manned Spaceflight in the 1980s and 90s 05-Apr-2002 -------------------------------------------------------------- This is from Marcus Lindroos' web site in Finland. He has a number of interesting pages besides this history of the ISS. What comes to mind as I look a the many beautiful images is that we seem to have been writing wishful fiction for some time now as much of the ideas for the ISS have not come about. When I got out of the Navy in 1983 and walked around the bottom of Moffett Field to start work with Bendix Field Engineering, the walls in the building had large posters of what the ISS might be. These continued to change over time and now we are still putting the shell together. There were grand plans to do many things in space but history doesn't always play out as the artists portray. When you look at slides 1-99, with all the artwork and Marcus' write ups, you will note that we have spent a lot of money on proposals that got dropped. Many, many studies, with lots of good information, that cost a lot of money, that later were not acted upon. I think what has been lacking has been the support or continued support from congress, the administrations that change and disprove earlier plans, and the people that have forgotten the Tang {Tm} ads and meals in squeeze tubes. http://www.oldtimecandy.com/space-food-sticks.htm Now once again we are presented with a grand vision which I fear history will walk on unless enough voices are heard to clarify and motivate. http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html I suppose I am as much at fault as anyone. I am writing this, watching a ball game on cable and trying to improve my use of the written Thai language for next Sunday class. At the same time, those that walked on the Moon are not getting any younger. Some of you have been attending space universities. Lets hope more find the dream exciting enough to focus and make it happen. I'll help support from the bleachers. http://www.isunet.edu/about_us/what_is_isu.htm Do you want to come and cheer with me? Bring a friend. Who knows, they might even want to sign up for this lunar-update list and help me make some noise. :-) Thanks for looking up with me. :-) TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. DESTINY AWAITS THE ADVENTURE. Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Marcus Lindroos http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/welcome.html http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Space.htm SPACE I have been interested in space exploration since I was in kindergarten, but only became a true "space buff" in the mid-1990s. Before that, science fiction was more interesting but now I actually belong to the tiny minority who regards past, current & future space plans as more fascinating than Star Wars or Star Trek. Besides, none of it will happen unless the "real" space program manages to explore and conquer the other worlds of the solar system. This won't be easy...I will show two slides that I've prepared for a space history book/webside project of mine. The first picture shows the predicted rate of progress in 1975 while the second lists the actual milestones in 1980-2000! NASA's recent "Space Exploration Initiative" plan from 1989 is as dead as a doornail; click here for a list of projected milestones for 1990-2010, and here for the AD 2010-2029 timeline. Looks like we will have to set our sights considerably lower than that...e.g. the 1993 General Dynamics "Early Lunar Access" plan from 1993 would be far less expensive. snip -------------------------------------------------------------- Having recently completed my MSc thesis for Space Systems Finland Ltd. http://www.ssf.fi/ ("Software Quality for Space Applications"), I am now working part-time for my university while pursuing several projects in my spare time... I am preparing an illustrated data book on the International Space Station and other manned spaceflight projects in 1984-1998. http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/ There will eventually be similar articles on the Space Shuttle and future missions to the Moon and Mars as well. I have also got some freelance space market work (space tourism and entertainment etc.) which I need to look at as well. My future career plans are open. Finally, I really enjoy space history, including "alternative" projects that never happened. I wrote an essay on the history of the manned Soviet lunar landing program (1962-74), a project that actually was regarded as highly secret until the advent of glasnost and perestroika in 1988. The article (which was written in 1996) is actually slightly out of date now. Mark Wade's ENCYCLOPEDIA ASTRONAUTICA http://www.astronautix.com/ is the Internet source for this kind of material, and I have provided some data for Mark as well. David Portree's "Romance to Reality" Moon/Mars website http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/ is also very good. For current projects and space news, my friend Joe Hopkins is doing a great job for Andrews Space & Technology http://www.spaceandtech.com/index_current.html -- check this website for the latest news. snip -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/ http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/sld001.htm ============================================================== http://www.prnewswire.com/ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-21 -2004/0002255997&EDATE= SpaceX Selected for Responsive Space Launch Demonstration Under DARPA Falcon Program EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been awarded $8M by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Air Force to demonstrate highly responsive, affordable launch capability. This supports broader interest by the Defense Department and Air Force in a launch capability that can rapidly add satellite coverage when needed. The demonstration will take place next summer with the objective of cutting on pad processing time by a factor of two from the standard commercial Falcon I launcher, which was developed with private funding. The SpaceX Falcon I rocket, whose name precedes the DARPA FALCON program, was named after the Star Wars Millennium Falcon(TM). "With this program, the Department of Defense is continuing a tradition of supporting new American space launch capabilities," said Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. "We are honored to be selected by DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. We will work hard to exceed their expectations." SpaceX now has three launches of Falcon I and one launch of Falcon V under contract. First launch of Falcon I will carry the TacSat-1 satellite to a 500km orbit from the SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base and is scheduled to occur between the end of 2004 and early 2005. About SpaceX SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten. Located in El Segundo, California, the company was founded by Elon Musk in June 2002. SpaceX is the third company founded by Mr. Musk. Previously he co-founded and was the largest shareholder of PayPal (formerly X.com), the world's leading electronic payment system, which sold to online auction giant eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. More information about SpaceX can be found at SpaceX.com. SOURCE Space Exploration Technologies Corporation Web Site: http://www.spacex.com -------------------------------------------------------------- More news from PR Newswire... 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URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040922/c68da5e1/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 20 23:15:21 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:15:21 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA SELECTS CONTRACTOR FOR FIRST PROMETHEUS MISSION TO JUPITER Message-ID: Now it is good evening. So back to Jupiter (if the next Congress and President continue with looking up and out to space.) Maybe this time with an ION powered engine and a nuclear power source. Start writing some more Sci-Fi with this in mind and lets go to Jupiter and Beyond. TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. DESTINY AWAITS THE ADVENTURE. Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington September 20, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1979) Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-9382) CONTRACT RELEASE: C04-x NASA SELECTS CONTRACTOR FOR FIRST PROMETHEUS MISSION TO JUPITER NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., selected Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., as the contractor for co-designing the proposed Prometheus Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) spacecraft. The contract award is for approximately $400 million, covering work through mid-2008. The Prometheus JIMO mission is an ambitious mission to orbit and explore three planet-sized moons, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa, of Jupiter. The moons may have vast oceans beneath their icy surfaces. A nuclear reactor would enable the mission, which would launch in the next decade. JIMO would be the first NASA mission using nuclear electric propulsion, which would enable the spacecraft to orbit each icy world to perform extensive investigations of their composition, history, and potential for sustaining life. The JIMO mission, integrated with the Vision for Space Exploration, also develops and demonstrates technologies and capabilities in direct support to implement the Vision, including space nuclear electric power systems and nuclear electric propulsion systems. "We have assembled an exceptional team of professionals to take us into the next phase of the mission. To see the mission evolve is rewarding, and I am confident a good team is in place to move us forward," said John Casani, project manager for the JIMO mission at JPL. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will work with a government team to complete the preliminary design for the spacecraft. The work includes developing hardware, software and test activities for the design of the non-nuclear portion of the spacecraft. It also includes developing the interfaces for the spacecraft, space reactor, and science instruments. The contractor is responsible for the integration of government-owned and provided technologies into the spacecraft. They are also responsible for assembly, integration, and testing of the space system in accordance with applicable government requirements. The government team will co-design the spacecraft with the contractor. NASA will supply the launch vehicle. The Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors, Washington, will own and be responsible for the space reactor. The government team includes JPL, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Glenn Research Center, Cleveland; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; and Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Also the Office of Naval Reactors, which includes Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y.; Bettis Laboratory, Pittsburgh; and supporting Department of Energy national laboratories. The mission instruments will be procured competitively via a NASA Announcement of Opportunity. Three crosscutting themes, identified by a NASA-chartered science definition team, drive the proposed JIMO investigations. The themes are: evaluate the degree subsurface oceans are present on these moons; study the chemical composition of the moons, including organic materials, and the surface processes that affect them; and scrutinize the entire Jupiter system, particularly the interactions between Jupiter, the moons' atmospheres and interiors. JIMO is managed by JPL and is part of NASA's Prometheus Program, a program studying a series of initiatives to develop power systems and technologies for space exploration in support of the Vision for Space Exploration. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the proposed JIMO mission for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Washington. For more information about the mission or NASA, visit: http://spacescience.nasa.gov/missions/prometheus.htm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jimo/index.cfm http://www.nasa.gov -end- * * * NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo at hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second automatic message will include additional information on the service. 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URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040920/dca209fd/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 20 14:56:42 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:56:42 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Space Vehicle Space Act MOU Signed with NASA Ames Research Center Message-ID: Good day. Last post may have been a bit off target. Too mind bending. Still we need to find ways to generate interest and support for going to space in a time that draws our attention elsewhere. Today's post may be a bit more uplifting. :-) Dave Lozier passed me the SpaceRef article below about SpaceDev's founding chairman and CEO, Jim Benson, recently signing a Space Act Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NASA Ames Research Center director, Dr. Scott Hubbard. Now will have to watch and see if this ends up being another research paper product or something actually flies. Hopefully if the upcoming SpaceShipOne X-Prize challenge is successful there will be enough encouraging press for the public to support these civilian efforts. Especially if NASA will help support the effort. WANT TO SEE SOME HARDWARE FLY. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15076 PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, September 20, 2004 Source: SpaceDev, Inc. SpaceDev Begins Work on ''Dream Chaser'' Space Vehicle Space Act MOU Signed with NASA Ames Research Center SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV) has begun designing a reuseable, piloted, sub-orbital space ship that could be scaled up to safely and economically transport passengers to and from low earth orbit, including the International Space Station. The name of the vehicle is the "SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM)." SpaceDev's founding chairman and CEO, Jim Benson, recently signed a Space Act Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NASA Ames Research Center director, Dr. Scott Hubbard. This non-binding MOU confirms the intention of the two parties to explore novel, hybrid propulsion based hypersonic test beds for routine human space access. The parties will explore collaborative partnerships to investigate the potential of using SpaceDev's proven hybrid propulsion and other technologies, and a low cost, private space program development approach, to establish and design new piloted small launch vehicles and flight test platforms to enable near-term, low-cost routine space access for NASA and the United States. One possibility for collaboration is the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) project, which is currently being discussed with NASA Ames. Unlike the more complex SpaceShipOne, for which SpaceDev provides critical proprietary hybrid rocket motor propulsion technologies, the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) would be crewed and take-off vertically, like most launch vehicles, and will glide back for a normal horizontal runway landing. "This project is one small step for SpaceDev, but could evolve into one giant leap for affordable, commercial human space flight," said Jim Benson. "I have been waiting for almost fifty years for commercial space flight, and have concluded that SpaceDev, through our unbroken string of successful space technology developments, now has the technical capability and know-how, along with our partners, and when fully funded, to quickly develop a safe and affordable human space flight program, beginning with sub-orbital flights in the near future, and building up to reliable orbital public space transportation hopefully by the end of this decade." "I am delighted that we will be working with SpaceDev to help meet the goals of The Vision for Space Exploration," said G. Scott Hubbard, director of NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. "Near-term, low-cost, crewed and uncrewed routine space access is a key for realizing the nation's Exploration Vision. I look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with SpaceDev to explore the technologies for a new class of exciting launch vehicles for future space exploration." snip -------------------------------------------------------------- http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2004/04_89AR.html Michael Mewhinney Sept. 20, 2004 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650/604-3937 or 650/604-9000 E-mail: Michael.Mewhinney at nasa.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- NEWS RELEASE: 04-89AR NASA, SPACEDEV TO COLLABORATE ON FUTURE SPACE TRANSPORTATION NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and SpaceDev Co., of Poway, Calif., are collaborating on developing new low-cost space launch vehicles to help achieve the goals of the nation's Vision for Space Exploration. Under the terms of a newly signed memorandum of understanding, SpaceDev, a nationally recognized leader in the development of hybrid propulsion systems, will partner with NASA to explore designs for new, small piloted launch vehicles and flight test platforms to enable near-term, low-cost, routine space access for future exploration. "I am delighted that we will be working with SpaceDev to help meet the goals of The Vision for Space Exploration," said G. Scott Hubbard, director of NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. "Near-term, low-cost, piloted and unpiloted routine space access is a key for realizing the nation's Exploration Vision. I look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with SpaceDev to explore the technologies for a new class of exciting launch vehicles for future space exploration," Hubbard said. "We are pleased to be a partner with NASA in helping the nation achieve low-cost, routine access to space," said Jim Benson, SpaceDev's founding chairman and CEO. "We believe that our expertise in hybrid propulsion technology, combined with NASA's hypersonic flight tests and the use of its world-class facilities, will provide an important new opportunity for meeting the nation's space access needs." According to the new memorandum of understanding, potential areas of collaboration may include vehicle concept analyses; hybrid propulsion systems; systems engineering; detailed design; fabrication; reentry analyses and design; thermal protection systems; information technology; vehicle health monitoring; advanced hybrid propulsion fuels; wind tunnel, arc-jet facilities and flight simulator use; and experimental design and integration. Founded in 1997, SpaceDev designed and built a new hybrid propulsion system for SpaceShipOne, the privately funded space vehicle that recently completed a successful launch in Mojave, Calif. Another flight is planned early next month. According to company officials, hybrid propulsion provides a level of safety, low costs and operational flexibility that are unmatched by conventional liquid fueled or solid rocket motors. -end- ============================================================== http://www.space.com/news/x37_darpa_040915.html NASA Transfers X-37 Project to DARPA By Brian Berger Space News Staff Writer posted: 15 September 2004 02:41 pm ET WASHINGTON - NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus said Sept. 15 the U.S. space agency would remain involved in the X-37 program, but that DARPA would now be running the show. Braukus had told Space News on Sept. 13 that the X-37 program had been transferred to another U.S. government agency but that NASA could not disclose that agency's identity for reasons of national security. Braukus said on Sept. 15 that he had since been given permission to identify DARPA as X-37's new government sponsor. snip Braukus said Scaled Composites would be involved in the X-37 approach and landing demonstrations next year, but could not say whether the Mojave-based company would be using the White Knight or some other aircraft. The B-52 aircraft that NASA normally uses for such drop tests would not be used, a decision made by the agency now in charge of the X-37 program, he said. "The cost analysis favored Scaled Composites," Braukus said. snip ============================================================== http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ News Flash: First X-Prize flight scheduled for September 29, 2004 For more information about the X-Prize flights (press inquiries, news updates, ticket information, etc.) please visit the Ansari X-Prize website. http://web1-xprize.primary.net/teams/american_scaled_composites.php http://web1-xprize.primary.net/press_room/press_releases/press.php?presstitl e=20040727 ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040920/f11a0e5d/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Sat Sep 18 12:53:23 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:53:23 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Newsletter TDF 2/2004 - A space age or a (new) stone age Message-ID: Good morning, well its Saturday. Adriano Autino has a news letter, the one just received copied below, and some web sites with many articles about where we a Earth bound society are going. You want to go to space, and some say too expensive, others why not take care of business here a home. Today some may even wonder if a car bomb might get in your way. Maslow's Hierarchy starts out at the lower level with satisfying your physiological needs. The next rung up is Security and Safety Needs. You don't get to the creative stuff until you take care of the in-between needs like belonging, self-esteem. With these taken care of you can work on Self Actualization. Now worrying about car bombs drops you right back to level one. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.rain.org/~hutch/maslow.html Maslow believed that an individual must substantially satisfy the needs at the lowest level before he or she could begin to satisfy the needs at the next higher level. Only when the needs of all lower levels were satisfied could Self-Actualization Needs begin to be satisfied. Self-actualization is the fulfillment of one's human potential, and is often the point at which an individual becomes truly creative. snip ------------------------------------------------------------- Take a look at Adriano's news letter and some of his web articles. I think we need to satisfy some of our basic needs and get on with moving up the rungs of Maslow's Hierarchy. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Newsletter TDF 2/2004 - A space age or a (new) stone age Dear Co-Planetaries, The title here above is the one of a paper, written by Marco C. Bernasconi and Arthur Woods, appeared in Space News - Oct. 2- 8, 1995. I am using it because it seems extremely appropriate to me, in describing the current situation. The upsurge in the price of oil, to nearly 50 dollars per barrel (double the middle price fixed by OPEC), involves, for the planetary economy, a "tax" of 50 billion dollars per month (600 billion per year), to be paid to the real world government: the oil monopoly. As in the 1973 big oil crisis, the different commentators disagree. The prevailing reason, for the unprecedented rise of the black gold price, is attributed by some to the current political-military situation in the Middle-East, by others to the shrinking of oil reserves thmselves. Whatever is the main reason, a lot of substantial differences exist, with regard to the 1973 crisis. That crisis was an entirely man-made crisis, which nevertheless had the effect of igniting reflection on the limited resources of this planet. The Countries of the OPEC cartel decided to raise the price of the raw oil, in two months, to 12 dollars per barrel. Besides, the 1973 oil crisis ended the period of great industrial development which followed the 1945 Bretton-Woods agreements. Historical sources state that, at that time, the United States didn't oppose the OPEC decision, considering the bigger incomes for Saudi Arabia and Iran, due to the increase of the oil price, as a kind of indirect financing for the armament of such Countries. But then the world was still split in two blocks, neither of which was interested in making the price fall, for military reasons. Today the situation is very different: one of the supposed contenders (the Al Qa'edist terrorism) seems to be driven by a philosophy of endless death; it continues to sacrifice its own young people, and its ideological objective is anything but clear. Besides, the history of such terrorism decidedly appears to have two interlinked connections - to some of the oil lobbyists, as well as to the Middle-East situation. The West seems by now to have accepted the military facts of life, and to have decided to look for other solutions, rather than the use of its own technological superiority. As if to show that lessons in civilization and humanism can come from any quarter, during these days the "Grand Ayatollah" Al Sistani deserved the title of "Grand", rendered to him by the media: he personally went, risking his own life, to the hottest point of the Iraqi conflict. He went to stop the killings, and to speak. And he has achieved, in half a day, what great armies and overwhelming military might did not manage to accomplish in many months. How many other political or religious heads will dare to do the same, and thus take the moral high ground? The occupaying powers, nevertheless, didn't learn anything, and keep on reacting to the terrorism by other terror, bombs and destruction, without saving women and children. The total blindness of such a deal should be self evident: we could achieve the favor of a people (vs. terrosim) only if we would be able to show a moral temper, a nobilty and a capability to protect the good peple and put the bad ones in conditions not to harm, things which war and destruction have nothing to do with. But the theater of the conflict, today, extends beyond the Middle-East region, though this last remains the region where fires of war and instability mostly ignite. As we comment in other articles (The first Chinese manned space mission, China in Space), a great machine has recently turned on its motors: the industrial development of the biggest Asian Countries: China and India. This machine needs fuel and raw materials, in hardly calculable quantity. In the face of such demands, the oil resources (and not only the oil ones) of the planet will really start to be scarce. And here is the second point of difference between the present crisis and that of 1973. Obviously, too, the alarm bell of 1973 could have started useful lines of development, but then the only resultant vector was that of the geocentricity, of the Ecological Movement! This Movement, facing the problem of the finiteness of terrestrial resources, simply preached the reduction of the human species and, in its most radical wings, even its extinction. The current situation also shows clearly (at last) the obsolescence of such those intellectual tendencies, which we can justly call Reductionist and anti-Human. There are, on this same planet, great populations, that are not at all afflicted by the self-destructive sense of guilt as are we post-industrial people: they in the final analysis are simply claiming their share of development and good living standards. And this, as we now finally realise, is primarily a matter of energy and raw materials. We are not empowered to grant or deny technological know-how: know-how nowadays is diffused to the East as well as the West. They can achieve in a short time the same and more than we can, because they are more motivated. This is the true challenge that the post-industrial West is facing. Beware, gentlemen; the stake is extremely high: the future of our whole civilization depends upon the answer that we will be able to give. The choices, for us Western people, are at least four: a) to fight militarily the development of the Eastern peoples; b) to wait passively, to be overcome and colonized by the new emerging political-economic power; c) to help as far as possible such development; d) to look for new spaces and new resources of development, for us and for them, beyond the borders of this planet. Left to themselves, I'm afraid that the American and European political leaderships would choose, respectively, however absurd, solutions a) and b). As has certainly happened on other occasions, the biggest problem for people who foresee great future events, is that of passing on their own foresight those who lack the same intuition. It is difficult to find useful precedents in history for the totally new. Many will shrug their shoulders in resignation: another conflict, and then? The history of civilization is studded with conflicts. This inactivity is the greatest danger, that we must culturally and politically avoid. Let's put it so: you have a very small and pretty house, one day two champions of Wrestling come to find you, they drink your whiskey, and they start to quarrel. What is your principal worry? "Please, go outside to fight..." you suggest to them, in the most prudent option. (in fact there is a real danger that they will get angry with you ). The damage that two (or more) combatants can inflict depends directly on the dimensions of the combatants themselves and on the scale of the theater of the conflict itself. Now, the contenders' sizes (East and West) are such, that, if also the contest remained at the economic-industrial level, our actual cosmic residence would not be enough, and it would result in irreparable devastation. We would face an unprecedented crisis of resources and an environmental crisis. Such crisis could be enough to set civilization back several millennia. If then the conflict degenerated to a military level (very possible, considering the political trends that still prevail), I don't see how our civilization (and perhaps also our kind) could survive. It is surely difficult to bring to their senses some drunk wrestling champions (and I apologize with the category, that I have sinisterly used for my example!). It will be a good precautionary measure to remove any "alcoholics" (i.e. any religious fundamentalisms), and even to choose our leaders more wisely. Nevertheless, are we able (as a civilization) to bet all our chances on the unlikely eventuality that some reasonable politicians will appear? History until now suggests a pessimistic view. The solution d) is therefore an imperative, and it must be pursued at any cost, in any measure. If the last resort is to be that the combatants at least left the house to pursue their quarrel, the technological and industrial possibilities of it must exist. And it could be that, faced with the abundance of resources and energy that they will find just outside their home, suddenly the contestants' drunkenness will pass, a beautiful smile will appear on their faces, and the conflict will move onto more solid (and very less bloody) ground. I will also try to discuss this and other topics, in the interview that David Livingston will make with me Sunday 3 October, in his Space Show. Due to all the above reasons, the initiative of independent and courageus people is quite essential. Therefore I look very much forward to the next september 29th, and wish the best to SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites, when they will try the first flight to qualify for the X-Prize! Their success will be a breath of hope, and fresh air, in the current heavy war-and-terrorism weather. TDF 2/2004 The summary of TDF 2/2004 is very solid; I would be attempted to add other articles, but so making this number would never issue! The today's cut therefore includes, among others, the followings articles: - A corpse is not a good client, by A. Autino - http://www.tdf.it/2004/cad_eng.htm ... It is this matter of killing that shall come to an end. In the killing, as in the torture, there's only the regression to the natural ferocity, to the bestial instincts. Once people overcome that border, they don't have respect of themselves anymore: therefore, there is not then such a great difference between the killing and the torture. Whoever really wishes to contribute educating terrestrials to democracy, will have to be stronger, but of a firstly moral strength, not only military. The awareness of who is able to measure his strength to prevent the injustices, stopping well before the killing, the mutilations, the tortures. The strength that immediately communicates to the opponents that we intend to take care of our children as well as of their children, and that we won't allow anymore anybody to kill, to torture, to make themselves to explode.... - The tyranny of oil, by A. Autino - http://www.tdf.it/2004/oil_eng.htm ... The speculative upsurge of the oil' price, in this 2004 summer, subsequently shows the extreme criticality of the energy problem. All the experts foresee an increasing demand of energy and raw resources. It begins therefore to appear, in its whole dramaticity, the problem of the finiteness of the resources of our (by now unic) planet... - The failure of the space agencies, by A. Autino - http://www.tdf.it/2004/age_eng_old.htm ... Since the Apollo mission in 1969, agencies were not able to decrease the cost to orbit of one kg terrestrial material of 1 cent; the quality standards are growing exponentially, but the space systems quality is decreasing (2 shuttles on 5 lost, Ariane 5 failures are 21%, vs. 2,6% of Ariane 4); the ScaledComposites's SpaceShipOne made the same work of NASA's X15 with only 30 millions Dollars, ... - New frontiers of tourism: the space, by Pierluigi Polignano http://www.tdf.it/2004/st_eng.htm - Shimizu Organization wants to build lunar laboratories and hotels using local raw materials. Nishimatsu Construction Corporation has planned to build a mega-resort, with the shape of three giant shells: Escargot City, snail city. Obayashi Corporation, on the contrary, is planning a self-sufficient lunar farm, able to host 10.000 people, with fields, gardens and orchards for the living. And don't forget (even if is not easy, this period) to: Aim high! 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Was looking for material on Lunar Bases and found - *************************************************** Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Papers from a NASA-sponsored, public symposium hosted by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., Oct. 29-31, 1984 edited by W.W. Mendell published by The Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston TL799.M6L83 1985 919.9'104 86-50 ISBN 0-942862-02-3 *************************************************** Which is being made available electronically by the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The ADS service has other books and reference material available as well as you will find if you try some of the Harvard links. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://ads.harvard.edu/books/lbsa/ Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Lunar Bases ... The original, primitive lunar base lies to the left of a large electromagnetic launch facility, which dominates the vista. ... ads.harvard.edu/books/lbsa/ - 4k - Cached - Similar pages Copyright ? 1986 by the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Made available electronically by the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) ------------------------------------------------------------- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1985lbsa.conf.. ..1. Title: Prologue Journal: In: Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century. Houston, TX, Lunar and Planetary Institute, edited by W. W. Mendell, 1985, p.1 Bibliographic Code: 1985lbsa.conf....1. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_browse.html ADS Browse Service ------------------------------------------------------------- http://ads.harvard.edu/books/ ADS Digital Library Welcome to the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library. Here you can browse through the books in the ADS. Following are links to the online books relating to astronomy and astrophysics which can be browsed and printed on demand. ------------------------------------------------------------- The table of contents is copied below and each section with papers has their own link so just go to the table of contents and let the server find the material. - LRK - I would suggest opening the links in the TOC page in a separate window so you can get back to the Table Of Contents page. Looks like each paper or topic opens in a frames page to let you open the pages in that section. At the top you can open the complete bibliography material which then gives you options on printing. If you ask for the whole book in pdf format it is 865 pages. You might try each topic by themselves. - LRK - Since I just found this today, have not read all 865 pages. :-) This was put together in 1985, nineteen years ago. I think I was using a DOS PC computer with four colors. :-) Pioneer 10 had left the Solar System two years before. Pioneer Venus was still in orbit around Venus. The Clementine mission would not be launched until 25 January 1994. Read with the question in mind, what could we do today with what we know now. (You might also read it with the idea of what could we be doing now if we had already launched the mission to the Moon as described in some of the papers.) hmmmmm - WONDER HOW MANY MORE PAPERS WILL BE WRITTEN BEFORE WE LAUNCH GAIN? - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://adswww.harvard.edu/ The NASA Astrophysics Data System The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. 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Strategies for a Permanent Lunar Base 57 Duke, Michael B., Mendell, Wendell W. & Roberts, Barney B. Preliminary Design of a Permanently Manned Lunar Surface Research Base 69 Hoffman, Stephen J. & Niehoff, John C. Merits of A Lunar Polar Base Location 77 Burke, James D. Nuclear Energy-Key to Lunar Development 85 Buden, David & Angelo, Joseph A., Jr. Nuclear Powerplants for Lunar Bases 99 French, J. R. TRANSPORTATION ISSUES 109 Mission and Operations Modes for Lunar Basing 111 Woodcock, Gordon R. Impact of Lunar and Planetary Missions on the Space Station 125 Babb, G. R., Davis, H. P., Phillips, P. G. & Stump, W. R. A Moon Base/Mars Base Transportation Depot 141 Keaton, Paul W. Achromatic Trajectories and the Industrial-Scale Transport of Lunar Resources 155 Heppenheimer, T. A. A Lunar-Based Propulsion System 169 Rosenberg, Sanders D. Launching Rockets and Small Satellites from the Lunar Surface 177 Anderson, K. A., Dougherty, W. M. & Pankow, D. H. LUNAR SCIENCE 187 The need for a lunar base - Answering basic questions about planetary science 189 Taylor, G. J. Geochemical and petrological sampling and studies at the first moon base 199 Haskin, L. A., Korotev, R. L., Lindstrom, D. J. & Lindstrom, M. M. A Closer Look at Lunar Volcanism from a Base on the Moon 211 Vaniman, D. T., Heiken, G. & Taylor, G. J. Advanced geologic exploration supported by a lunar base - A traverse across the Imbrium-Procellarum region of the moon 223 Cintala, M. J., Spudis, P. D. & Hawke, B. R. Search for volatiles and geologic activity from a lunar base 239 Friesen, L. J. Unmanned spaceflights needed as scientific preparation for a manned lunar base 245 Wilhelms, D. E. The next generation geophysical investigation of the moon 253 Hood, L. L., Sonett, C. P. & Rusell, C. T. Geophysics and lunar resources 265 Strangway, D. Surface Electromagnetic Exploration Geophysics Applied to the Moon 271 Ander, Mark E. SCIENCE ON THE MOON 279 Astronomical interferometry on the moon 281 Burke, B. F. A moon-earth radio interferometer 293 Burns, J. O. A very low frequency radio astronomy observatory on the moon 301 Douglas, J. N. & Smith, H. J. Lunar based gamma ray astronomy 307 Haymes, R. C. Irradiation of the moon by galactic cosmic rays and other particles 315 Adams, J. H., Jr. & Shapiro, M. M. Celestial sources of high-energy neutrinos as viewed from a lunar observatory 329 Shapiro, M. M. & Silberberg, R. A lunar neutrino detector 335 Cherry, M. & Lande, K. Neutrino Measurements on the Moon 345 Petschek, Albert G. Mass extinctions and cosmic collisions - A lunar test 349 Horz, F. LUNAR CONSTRUCTION 361 Lunar Base Design 363 Land, Peter A Surface-Assembled Superstructure Envelope System to Support Regolith Mass- Shielding for an Initial-Operational-Capability Lunar Base 375 Kaplicky, Jan & Nixon, David Concrete for Lunar Base Construction 381 Lin, T. D. Concrete and Other Cement-Based Composites for Lunar Base Construction 391 Young, J. Francis Magma, Ceramic, and Fused Adobe Structures Generated In-Situ 399 Khalili, E. Nader Lava tubes - Potential shelters for habitats 405 Horz, F. Design of Lunar-Based Facilities: The Challenge of a Lunar Observatory 413 Johnson, Stewart W. & Leonard, Ray S. Environmental Considerations and Waste Planning on the Lunar Surface 423 Briggs, Randall & Sacco, Albert, Jr. LUNAR MATERIALS AND PROCESSES 433 Toward a Spartan Scenario for Use of Lunar Materials 435 Haskin, Larry A. Mining for Lunar Base Support 445 Podnieks, E. R. & Roepke, W. W. Electrostatic Concentration of Lunar Soil Minerals 453 Agosto, William N. In Situ Rock Melting Applied to Lunar Base Construction and for Exploration Drilling and Coring on the Moon 465 Rowley, John C. & Neudecker, Joseph W. Microwave Processing of Lunar Materials: Potential Applications 479 Meek, Thomas T., Vaniman, David T., Cocks, Franklin H. & Wright, Robin A. Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Structural Components 487 Blacic, James D. Guide to using lunar soil and simulants for experimentation 497 Allton, J. H., Galindo, C., Jr. & Watts, L. A. Fractional Distillation in a Lunar Environment 507 Pettit, Donald R. Lunar Machining 519 Lewis, William OXYGEN: PRELUDE TO LUNAR INDUSTRIALIZATION 529 A Parametric Analysis of Lunar Oxygen Production 531 Simon, Michael C. Lunar Oxygen Production from Ilmenite 543 Gibson, Michael A. & Knudsen, Christian W. Oxygen Extraction from Lunar Materials: An Experimental Test of an Ilmenite Reduction Process 551 Williams, Richard J. A Carbothermal Scheme for Lunar Oxygen Production 559 Cutler, Andrew Hall & Krag, Peter Lunar regolith fines - A source of hydrogen 571 Carter, J. L. Hydrogen Recovery From Extraterrestrial Materials Using Microwave Energy 583 Tucker, D. S., Vaniman, D. T., Anderson, J. L., Clinard, F. W., Feber, R. C., Jr., Frost, H. M., Meek, T. T., Jr. & Wallace, T. C. Microbial Extraction of Hydrogen from Lunar Dust 591 White, David C. & Hirsch, Peter Hydrogen and Water Desorption on the Moon: Approximate On-Line Simulations 603 Blanford, G. E., Borgesen, P., Maurette, M., Moller, W. & Monart, B. An Analysis of Alternate Hydrogen Sources for Lunar Manufacture 611 Friedlander, Herbert N. LIFE SUPPORT AND HEALTH MAINTENANCE 621 The Evolution of CELSS for Lunar Bases 623 Macelroy, R. D., Klein, Harold P. & Averner, M. M. Wheat Farming in a Lunar Base 635 Salisbury, Frank B. & Bugbee, Bruce G. Metabolic Support for a Lunar Base 647 Sauer, R. L. Implementing Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology in a Lunar Base Environmental Control/Life Support System 653 Sedej, Melaine Meyer Radiation Transport of Cosmic Ray Nuclei in Lunar Material and Radiation Doses 663 Silberberg, R., Tsao, C. H., Adams, J. H., Jr. & Letaw, John R. Aerosol Deposition Along the Respiratory Tract at Zero Gravity: A Theoretical Study 671 Lehnert, B. E., Smith, D. M., Holland, L. M., Tillery, M. I. & Thomas, R. G. Toward the Development of a Recombinant DNA Assay System for the Detection of Genetic Change in Astronauts' Cells 679 Atchley, Susan V., Chen, David J.-C., Strniste, Gary F., Walters, Ronald A. & Moyzis, Robert K. Flow Cytometry for Health Monitoring in Space 687 Jett, James H., Martin, John C., Saunders, George C. & Stewart, Carleton C. SOCIETAL ISSUES 699 Dreams and Realities: The Future in Space 701 Logsdon, John The Budgetary Feasibility of a Lunar Base 711 Sellers, Wallace O. & Keaton, Paul W. Lunar Stations: Prospects for International Cooperation 717 Smith, Phillip M. Soviet lunar exploration - Past and future 725 Oberg, J. E. Legal Responses for Lunar Bases and Space Activities in the 21st Century 735 Moore, Amanda Lee Extraterrestrial Law and Lunar Bases: General Legal Principles and a Particular Regime Proposal (INTERLUNE) 741 Joyner, Christopher C. & Schmitt, Harrison H. Lunar Base: Learning to Live in Space 751 Finney, Ben Lessons from the Past: Toward a Long-Term Space Policy 757 Lawler, Andrew Historical Perspectives on the Moon Base-Cook and Australia 765 Jones, Eric M. & Finney, Ben R. Space Poems: Close Encounters Between the Lyric Imagination and 25 Years of NASA Space Exploration 771 Knox, Helene MARS 785 A Millennium Project-Mars 2000 787 Schmitt, Harrison H. Mars: The Next Major Goal? 795 King, Elbert A. Rationales for Early Human Missions to Phobos and Deimos 801 O'Leary, Brian The Moons of Mars: A Source of Water for Lunar Bases and LEO 809 Cordell, Bruce M. The problem of water on Mars 817 Squyres, S. W. A VISION OF LUNAR SETTLEMENT 825 Lunar Industrialization and Settlement-Birth of Polyglobal Civilization 827 Ehricke, Krafft A. EPILOGUE: Address Given at The centennial Celebration, 4 July 2076, By Leonard Vincennes, Official Historian of Luna City 857 Bova, Ben Index 863 865 pages ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040917/9e19bfa4/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 16 02:26:31 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:26:31 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Teets: America must reach for space dominance Message-ID: Good evening. When you read the history of NASA and the history of the USA efforts to go to the Moon to beat the Russians in putting a crew on the Moon, you sometimes forget that the Russians had already landed (crashed) a spacecraft on the Moon. A number of other firsts too. Now who will be first to go back? - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html Soviet Lunar Missions ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft By Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html Missions to the Moon ------------------------------------------------------------ Our first attempts used Air Force, Army, and JPL rockets. A lot of fireworks at first. - LRK - You can read an Air Force reflection about this high ground, the Moon above. See below. :-) Who will be next to land and explore? This high ground. :-) Will there be a free trade zone there? http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.html Will there be a black obelisk there? http://www.kinocite.co.uk/1/119.php 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2002/id1937.htm 2001 A Space Odyssey Will tools be in control? http://www.kubrick2001.com/2001.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/moon.html "Open the pod bay doors please Hal." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/movies/2001_space_oddity_991216.html http://www.sciflicks.com/2001/sounds.html So there you are. The Russians, America, and Japan have been to the Moon with spacecraft. Others are now on the way. Soon there will be monthly traffic. Will barb wire and Winchester rifles be needed to secure an illegal claim? (well LASER mapped sites with magnetic impulse weapons) - LRK - Are you ready? Who is paying for THIS trip? What is in the black briefcase? - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008652 http://www.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?storyID=123008652 Teets: America must reach for space dominance by Master Sgt. Scott Elliott Air Force Print News 9/15/2004 - WASHINGTON -- On the anniversary of the first man-made object reaching the moon, the Department of Defense's executive agent for space urged America to strive for dominance in space. Undersecretary of the Air Force Peter B. Teets, who also serves as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, used the occasion of a Soviet Union mission to highlight what he believes to be the three keys for the United States to achieve space dominance. "I believe that, today, it is fair to say the United States is the leading space nation in the world, but it certainly hasn't always been that way," he said Sept. 14 at the Air Force Association's 2004 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition here. "Forty-five years ago today, the Soviet probe Luna 2 reached the moon. It didn't land on the moon; it (crashed). But, it was still the first man-made object to touch the surface of another world," Mr. Teets said. That probe, launched Sept. 12, 1959, hit the moon near the Sea of Serenity, where Apollo 15 touched down 15 years later. The relation between that Soviet probe and current U.S. space supremacy lies in America's approach to space research and technology, Mr. Teets said. "At the time, the United States and the Soviet Union were taking their first faltering steps on the road to space," he said. "We called it the 'Space Race,' and it was not a foregone conclusion that we would win." The Soviets chose to "take the low road," in terms of technology, while the Americans opted for the "high road," Mr. Teets said. The United States used finely tuned, one-of-a-kind spacecraft and rockets that performed very well, but were extremely delicate, he said. "(The Soviets) took a lower-tech road ... in some ways it was like a brute-force road, with mass-produced spacecraft and rockets that were less sophisticated but were very much more operationally responsive," he said. Mr. Teets said it is a mistake to assume that one approach is always better than the other. "Even though we have superiority in many aspects of space capability, we don 't have space dominance, and we don't have space supremacy," he said. "The fact is, we need to reach for that goal. It is the ultimate high ground." Mr. Teets said the United States needs strong and enduring commitments in three areas to meet that goal: developing a professional space cadre, having a strong and well-funded industrial base, and maintaining a position at the leading edge of space technology. "The first, and unquestionably the most important, is the development and maintenance of a strong professional cadre of military and civilian government personnel," he said. "If we do that right, I believe the rest will fall into place," he said. "If we do that, we'll have professional acquirers, people who have experience in the development of leading-edge high-tech systems, extremely well-qualified and trained military officers who can operate the systems that give us such an edge in our warfighting capabilities. "There can be no doubt that we enjoy the benefits today, in major ways, of our national security space systems," Mr. Teets said. The second area of attention is the space technology industrial base, he said. "We need a strong and consistently funded industrial base able to produce quality space systems and products," Mr. Teets said. "We can't have a rollercoaster effect where we're asking our industrial partners to build up one year only to crater the next year. We can't have them developing the talented work force necessary for production of high-tech space systems, and ... the following year ask them to lay those same people off. "It's important for us to have a certain amount of consistency and constancy in our investments in important space systems," he said. Mr. Teets referred to recent problems with the acquisition system to illustrate his point: "There was a period of time ... when we let some of the industrial base start to wither. At the same [time]," he said, "people who had been involved in the space system for many years started to take retirement, so it kind of [had] a double whammy effect." The final piece needed to achieve space dominance, Mr. Teets said, is continued governmental investment in leading-edge space-system research in technology. "We are at the forefront of space technology. We need to remain there," he said. "I know certain European countries have picked up the challenge and started to invest more heavily in leading-edge technology; certainly China has shown some of the same inclinations. We need to maintain a strong and vital space system research and technology endeavor going forward. That's what will keep us on the leading edge." ============================================================== http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/on-line.html Apollo/Saturn Launius, Roger D., and J.D. Hunley, comps. An Annotated Bibliography of the Apollo Program. Monograph in Aerospace History No. 2, 1994. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollobib/cover.html Launius, Roger D. Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/cover.html Apollo 13: "Houston, we've got a problem." EP-76. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. Out of print. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/apollo13.pdf Orloff, Richard W. Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference. NASA SP-2000-4029, 2000. To purchase a paperback copy of this book contact the Government Printing Office. Order GPO Stock Number #033-000-01236-5 $40.00 GPO Order Form. This book is also available online. The online version includes all the extensive text and useful tables of the hard copy edition. The author has also made a number of corrections to the data in the hard copy edition. The online version does not include the original photos. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/SP-4029.htm Apollo Expeditions to the Moon. NASA SP-350, 1975. Out of print. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/cover.html Apollo Over the Moon: A View From Orbit (NASA SP-362, 1978) edited by Harold Masursky, G.W. Colton, and Farouk El-Baz. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/cover.htm The Apollo Program Summary Report (Document # JSC-09423, April 1975) Ertel, Ivan D., and Mary Louise Morse. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology,Volume I, Through November 7, 1962. NASA SP-4009, 1969. Out of print. Click here to view online version. Morse, Mary Louise, and Jean Kernahan Bays. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume II, November 8, 1962-September 30, 1964. NASA SP-4009, 1973. Out of print. Click here to view online version. http://history.nasa.gov/apsr/apsr.htm Brooks, Courtney G., and Ivan D. Ertel. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume III, October 1, 1964-January 20, 1966. NASA SP-4009, 1973. Out of print. Click here to view online version. Ertel, Ivan D., and Roland W. Newkirk, with Courtney G. Brooks, The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume IV, January 21, 1966-July 13, 1974. NASA SP-4009, 1978. Out of print.Click here to view online version. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm Swanson, Glen E., ed. "Before This Decade is Out..." Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program. NASA SP-4223, 1999. To purchase a copy of this book contact the Government Printing Office. Order GPO Stock Number #033-000-01216-1$38.00 GPO Order Form. Alternately, this book has also been printed by the University Press of Florida and can be ordered here as well. This book is also available online. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4223/sp4223.htm Biomedical Results of Apollo (NASA SP-368, 1975) , edited by Richard S. Johnston, Lawrence F. Dietlein, M.D., and Charles A. Berry, M.D. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-368/sp368.htm Brooks, Courtney G., James M. Grimwood, and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft. NASA SP- 4205, 1979. Out of print. This book is available online. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html Hansen, James R. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 4, 1995. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/monograph4/splash2.htm Benson, Charles D. and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations. NASA SP-4204, 1978. Out of print. This book is available online. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/cover.html Launius, Roger D. Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/cover.html Report of the Apollo 13 Review Board (a.k.a. the Cortright Commission): This is the report issued after the Apollo 13 accident which prevented the mission from landing on the moon and nearly cost the lives of the astronauts involved. Special thanks to Colin Fries and Sivram Prasad of the History Office for scanning and formatting this report for the Web. http://history.nasa.gov/ap13rb/ap13index.htm Saturn Illustrated Chronology (MHR-5, Marshall Space Flight Center, fifth edition, 1971) prepared by David S. Akens. http://history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/cover.htm Bilstein, Roger E. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles. NASA SP-4206, 1980 and 1996. This SP version is out of print, but it has been reprinted by the University Press of Florida, please see below. This book is also available online. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm What Made Apollo a Success? NASA SP-287, 1971. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-287/sp287.htm Compton, W. David. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of ApolloLunar Exploration Missions. NASA SP-4214, 1989. This book is available online. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4214/cover.html To purchase a paperback copy of this book contact the Government Printing Office. Order GPO Stock Number #033-000-01047-8$25.00 GPO Order Form ============================================================== ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040916/72355625/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Tue Sep 14 00:12:00 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:12:00 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] REQUEST FOR INFORMATION, ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM (RLEP), ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES Message-ID: Good evening. You have a month to submit your ideas to Goddard Space Flight Center. They tell you they are going to tell you, they tell you, and I told you so. - LRK - What is going to orbit the Moon in 2008? - LRK - Goddard will make the decision and there is only four years left to get it designed and built and launched. Then the data has to come back and be digested and regurgitated into some form that will help decide where we set up camp and what we need to pack for the outing. Happy camping. - LRK - Don't forget to look up - or back if you are on the Moon looking at Earth. - LRK - http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/images/space/ http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/ http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/afromspace.html -------------------------------------------------------------- * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's SKYWATCHER'S BULLETIN - September 13, 2004 * * * snip AURORA ALERT FOR MID-NORTHERN LATITUDES An active sunspot complex generated a solar flare on September 12th that produced an Earthward-directed coronal mass ejection. The solar particles arrived at Earth much earlier than anticipated, and a mid-northern (and southern) latitude aurora alert has been issued for tonight (the 13th) through to tomorrow morning (Eastern Daylight Time). It's possible that auroral activity will continue into the night of September 14-15. More details will be posted on the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch page at: http://www.spacew.com/ snip ------------------------------------------------------------- To change your address, unsubscribe from S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin, or subscribe to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin, which highlights the latest discoveries from the world's astronomical observatories, go to this address: > http://SkyandTelescope.com/shopatsky/emailsubscribe.asp -------------------------------------------------------------- SEEMS TO ME GOING TO SPACE AND GETTING TO SEE OUR BLUE MARBLE IN A NEW LIGHT WILL BE EXCITING. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== ============================================================== http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/2004/09-September/12-Sep-2004/FBO-00670372.h tm FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 12, 2004 FBO #1021 SOURCES SOUGHT A -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION, ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM (RLEP), ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES Notice Date 9/10/2004 Notice Type Sources Sought NAICS 927110 - Space Research and Technology Contracting Office NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771 ZIP Code 20771 Solicitation Number RFI-RLEP-ADV Response Due 10/12/2004 Archive Date 9/10/2005 Point of Contact Julie A. Janus, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-4931, Fax (301) 286-0341, Email jjanus at pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov - Martin B Houghton, Technical Contact, Phone (301) 286-3875, Fax (301) 286-1738, Email Martin.Houghton at nasa.gov E-Mail Address Email your questions to Julie A. Janus (jjanus at pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov) Description REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI), ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM (RLEP), ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES THIS IS *NOT* A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL, QUOTATION, OR INVITATION TO BID NOTICE. RFI Purpose: NASA/GSFC is seeking advanced technology in order to best achieve and execute the Robotic Lunar Exploration Program (RLEP). We are therefore requesting information regarding technologies, approaches and techniques for accomplishing this. While our intent may be to team with industrial partner(s), we are not bound by this RFI to do so. It is neither a Request for Proposal, nor a Request for Quotation, nor an Invitation to Bid. Therefore, this RFI is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract, nor will the Government pay for information provided in response to this RFI. Technology Advances: The traditional subsystem elements that current space system architectures embody are typically too heavy and power intensive. The extreme challenges for weight efficiency on lunar missions makes it essential that the space systems utilized in RLEP place a lower burden on system resources then the current state of the art in order that meaningful payloads can be supported. Therefore the RLEP is seeking technologies that would substantially advance space platform architectures in a manner that materially expands functional capability, adaptability, and reliability while significantly reducing power and weight as compared to current systems. The technologies sought must be of sufficient maturity that they could be readied for utilization in the early RLEP missions. This inquiry seeks information on specific, focused applications ideas, not generic technologies, which could substantially improve the efficiencies of the potential system that may be flown. Information: The NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is interested in soliciting the overall concepts, estimates of cost and development schedules, and development risk evaluations. The objectives of this RFI are: 1) to improve NASA's knowledge of industry's capabilities; 2) to improve the overall understanding of what the technology options are for RLEP; and 3) to invite industry to submit information that will allow NASA to assess the partnering opportunities that exist within industry. NASA has established a website ( http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov ) containing the latest information regarding the RLEP and its associated missions. Interested parties can visit this site to learn more about the program and how it fits into NASA's overall exploration initiative. To consolidate our planning, we request responses from industry within 30 days of the release date of this RFI, in the form of written and illustrated concepts, ideas, and descriptions of capabilities. We plan to invite formal presentations and discussions at GSFC of the more compelling responses within 45 days of the RFI issuance. Responses can be submitted via email. The subject line of the submission should be "RFI for RLEP Advanced Technology for Space Platform Architecture," and attachments should be in Microsoft WORD, POWERPOINT, or PDF format. The email text must give a point-of-contact and provide his/her name, address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address. The information is requested for planning purposes only, subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3, entitled "Solicitation for Information for Planning Purposes." It is not NASA's intent to publicly disclose vendor proprietary information obtained during this solicitation. To the full extent that it is protected pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and other laws and regulations, information identified by a respondent as "Proprietary or Confidential" will be kept confidential. It is emphasized that this RFI is for planning and information purposes only and is NOT to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contractual agreement, nor will the Government pay for information solicited. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Technical questions should be directed to: Joe Burt at (301) 286-2217 or Joe.Burt at nasa.gov and Martin Houghton at (301) 286-3875 or Martin.Houghton at nasa.gov. Procurement related questions should be directed to: Julie Janus at (301) 286-4931 or Julie.A.Janus at nasa.gov. Interested offerors shall address the requirements of this RFI in written format as described in the previous paragraphs by electronic mail to: Martin Houghton at Martin.Houghton at nasa.gov, no later than 5:00 PM EST on October 12, 2004. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office 97 format and will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=51 . It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet cite for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below. Web Link Click here for the latest information about this notice (http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51#112483) Record SN00670372-W 20040912/040910213040 (fbodaily.com) Source FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice (may not be valid after Archive Date) ============================================================== http://www.nasawatch.com/ NASA Robotic Lunar Exploration Program RFIs Issued Responses are due on 12 October 2004. NASA GSFC: "We plan to invite formal presentations and discussions at GSFC of the more compelling responses within 45 days of the RFI issuance." - Water Ice Validation Concept http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13940 - Radiation/Biology Surface Demonstration http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13941 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Ground System and Mission Operations http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13942 - Advanced Technology for Space Platform Architectures http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13943 - Background Program Information http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13939 Posted by kcowing at 10:42 PM | Permalink ============================================================== http://www.spaceref.ca/news/viewsrtype.html?id=4&sdb=nasacenters&name=Goddar d+SSTATUS REPORTS Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Advanced Technology for Space Platform Architectures (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Ground System and Mission Operations (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Radiation/Biology Surface Demonstration (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Water Ice Validation Concept (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Issues Four Robotic Lunar Exploration Program Requests for Information (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Robotic Lunar Exploration Program (RLEP) Background Program Information (Saturday, September 11, 2004) NASA Terra Satellite Image of Hurricane Ivan 10 September 2004 (Friday, September 10, 2004) NASA Presolicitation Notice: A web-based design portal for the NASA Engineering Training Program (Wednesday, September 08, 2004) SPACEWARN Bulletin 610 (Saturday, September 04, 2004) Image of Hurricane Frances by NASA SeaWIFS (Thursday, September 02, 2004) NASA Request for Information for the Space Communications Architecture Working Group (Wednesday, September 01, 2004) snip -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/public.html Public Info - sign of for some news lists. - LRK - Then you can remind me of items I missed that you think the lunar-update list should know about. - LRK - ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040913/baba846f/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Sat Sep 11 13:01:41 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:01:41 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Future Missions Considered Message-ID: Good day. I have only been watching what NASA does since 1983 after I got out of the Navy and started to support the Pioneer missions that were running out of NASA Ames Research Center. Now deep space missions run out of JPL and times are a changing. One NASA, One NASA Portal, and a new vision that is supposed to take us back to the Moon and on to Mars. Studies come and go. Slick brochures come out, and we dream. Some dreams below. I can see why some folks writing opinion pieces might be a bit skeptical. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/ What follows is a portion of the final report of a NASA summer study, conducted in 1980 by request of newly-elected President Jimmy Carter at a cost of 11.7 million dollars. The result of the study was a realistic proposal for a self-replicating automated lunar factory system, capable of exponentially increasing productive capacity and, in the long run, exploration of the entire galaxy within a reasonable timeframe. Unfortunately, the proposal was quietly declined with barely a ripple in the press. What was once conceivable with 1980's technology is now even more practical today. Even if you're just skimming through this document, the potential of this proposed system is undeniable. Please enjoy. --------------------------------------- Complete hard copies of this study are available from the National Technical Information Service. Web version last upgraded June 25, 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------- Twenty years has come and gone. Guess I will need another 20 to see more happen. -LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/04/05/robot.hubble/ Robotic missions to save Hubble proposed By Leonard David SPACE.com Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Posted: 1:11 PM EDT (1711 GMT) (SPACE.com) -- NASA is reviewing over two dozen proposals to extend the useful scientific life of the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as safely dispose of the Earth orbiting observatory at the end of its life in space. There is growing support for robotic servicing of the Hubble, but whether or not augmenting the telescope with new astronomical gear utilizing robot hardware is possible remains uncertain. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is now reviewing ideas from a variety of groups, including universities and major aerospace firms. According to NASA, Goddard has received 27 proposals ranging from a few pages to one tome of 200 pages length from a leading aerospace firm. The proposals are in response to a Goddard "Request for Information" on Hubble Space Telescope End of Mission Alternatives in February, with the NASA center receiving the proposals March 22. At present, a review of submitted ideas and discussions with proposal groups is actively underway. NASA said that the request resulted in ideas mostly from industry, but did include views from other government agencies, academia, as well as two private citizens. A spokesman said that the ideas are now being evaluated. However, while the submittals are now being reviewed, any go-ahead on a robotic servicing scheme for Hubble is far from assured. snip ============================================================== http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/prop_missions.html Planetary and Lunar Missions Under Consideration These missions are still in study or definition phases and may undergo significant changes before launch. SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) Lunar Orbiter and Lander Launch Period: 2006 Agency: ISAS, NASDA - Japan http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=SELENE -------------------------------------------------------------- Planet-C Venus Orbiter Launch Period: February, 2007 Agency: ISAS - Japan The Planet-C spacecraft is a Venus Orbiter designed to study the atmospheric dynamics of the planet, particularly the upper atmosphere super-rotation. It will also measure atmospheric temperatures and look for evidence of volcanic activity and lightning. After launch tentatively planned for February of 2007 on an M-5 booster, an Earth swingby is planned in June 2008 with arrival at Venus in September 2009. http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/index.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------- Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) Asteroid Rendezvous Launch Period: 2007 - 2010 Agency: SpaceDev The Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) is a spacecraft being built and operated by a private company, SpaceDev. The NEAP spacecraft will be a hexagonal prism with a mass of roughly 200 kg. Plans for the NEAP mission have not been finalized, but possibilities include a launch as a secondary payload on an Ariane 5 to the asteroid Nereus. Related Links http://www.spacedev.com/newsite/templates/subpage3.php?pid=191&subNav=11&sub Sel=3 -------------------------------------------------------------- ISAS Mercury Orbiter Mercury Orbiter Launch Period: August, 2009 Agency: ISAS - Japan The original plans for an ISAS Mercury Orbiter have been cancelled. There is discussion of a possibility that ISAS would collaborate with ESA on their BepiColombo Mercury mission, possibly providing the Magnetospheric Orbiter and/or other components. Related Links BepiColombo - ESA Mercury mission http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=BEPICLMBO -------------------------------------------------------------- BepiColombo Mercury Orbiter Launch Period: 2011 - 2012 Agency: ESA - European Space Agency This mission to Mercury has been given full approval as an ESA cornerstone mission. The mission as now envisioned will consist of two modules. The Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) will perform global remote sensing and radio science investigations. It will be 3-axis stabilized, nadir-pointing, and will orbit at a relatively low altitude. The Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) will carry the field, wave, and particle instruments in an eccentric orbit around Mercury. It will be an electromagnetically clean spinning spacecraft. (The Mercury Surface Element (MSE), a lander module which would have performed surface investigations of physical, optical, chemical, and mineralogical properties, has been cancelled. Interplanetary cruise is planned to be powered by a solar-electric propulsion module. The launches will be on two Soyuz-Fregat boosters, one carrying the MPO and one carrying both the MMO and MSE. Colloboration with ISAS (Japan) is being discussed. Related Links BepiColombo - More detailed information ESA BepiColombo Page http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/120391_index_0_m.html -------------------------------------------------------------- NASA has selected 13 technology organizations to study advanced technologies to fly on the New Millenium Space technology 7 project. Technologies to be studied include aerocapture, on-board autonomous and disturbance reduction systems, and solar sails. For more information, see the August 6 NASA press release. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/nm_pr_20010806.txt NASA SELECTS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS FOR FURTHER STUDY NASA's New Millennium Program, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has selected 13 technology organizations to study advanced technologies that may fly in 2004 and 2005 as part of the Space Technology 7 project. Space Technology 7 will test and validate advanced technologies that may become part of future NASA space missions. The newly-contracted studies will be completed by November. The technology concepts and providers are: snip -------------------------------------------------------------- Champollion / Deep Space 4 (Cancelled) Comet Rendezvous and Lander Launch Period: 19 April 2003 (Cancelled) Agency: NASA The Champollion / Deep Space 4 mission was cancelled due to budgetary constraints. It was designed to rendezvous and go into orbit about Comet Tempel 1, deploy a lander, and perform in-situ analysis of the comet nucleus. After launch in April 2003 on a Delta II (7925) from Cape Canaveral Air Station the spacecraft was planned to rendezvous with Tempel 1 and go into orbit about the nucleus on 22 April 2006. After four months of orbit at 100 km distance a 100 kg lander would be deployed to soft-land on the comet's surface on 22 August. A one meter long drill would have been used to collect samples of the nucleus, which was to be analyzed on-board with the results transmitted to Earth. The launch mass of the spacecraft, including propellants, was 1051 kg. The lander would also be equipped with cameras, a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, an infrared/spectrometer microscope, and a gamma-ray spectrometer for in-situ measurements. Communications would be in X-band via a 1.3 m diameter antenna at 50 kbits/s. A solar array would have provided 10 kW at a distance of 1 AU. Earlier plans to return a sample to Earth in 2010 were no longer part of the mission due to earlier budgetary considerations. Related Links Deep Space 4 / Champollion Home Page - JPL http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st4/ Due to budgetary constraints, the Space Technology 4 mission was cancelled on July 1, 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------- Rosetta Mission - ESA comet rendezvous and lander http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=2004-006A Comet Home Page http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html -------------------------------------------------------------- JPL Proposed missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/proposed_missions.cfm Proposed Missions * Mission list begins with the earliest proposed launch. Outrigger Telescopes Project First Light: 2006 The Outrigger Telescopes Project will combine the light of multiple telescopes using a technique called interferometry to search for planets around nearby stars, make images of newborn stars, and study faint, dim and distant objects beyond our galaxy. Mission home page Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Proposed Launch: 2010 If selected, this mission will observe gravitational waves from binary stars both inside and beyond our galaxy, including gravitational waves generated in the vicinity of the very massive black holes found in the centers of many galaxies. The mission will consist of three spacecraft forming an equilateral triangle while traveling in space. Mission home page Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Proposed Launch: not before 2011 This proposed mission would orbit three planet-sized moons of Jupiter -- Callisto, Ganymede and Europa -- to make extensive investigations of their makeup, their history and their potential for sustaining life. Mission home page Terrestrial Planet Finder Proposed Launch: 2014 This mission will use multiple telescopes working together to take family portraits of stars and their orbiting planets. It will also determine which planets may have the right chemistry for life. Mission home page Mission description Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory Proposed Launch: 2015 The Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory is a large cryogenic space-based telescope optimized for observations in the mid-infrared to submillimeter wavelength range. Mission home page Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth Proposed Launch: to be determined If selected, this mission will further the study of supermassive black holes by obtaining images with resolutions 3,000 times greater than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The mission will consist of a radio telescope in space operating with many radio telescopes on the ground. Mission home page -------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040911/48739b9f/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 10 21:59:27 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:59:27 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA Stardust mission to return January 2006 Message-ID: Good evening. Along the lines of needing to be parachuted for the return leg, we have until January 2006 to wait for the Stardust Mission to return. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/154526_stardust30.html Tuesday, December 30, 2003 UW astronomer leads NASA quest to capture comet dust By TOM PAULSON SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Two billion miles is a long way to go for less than an ounce of dust. snip On Jan. 15, 2006, a capsule containing the aerogel collector will detach from the spacecraft, enter the atmosphere and at 2:45 a.m. (Mountain Time) parachute down on to the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City, where it will be collected and taken to NASA for precise analysis of the particles. snip --------------------------------------------- Stardust Mission http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.html Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon. .... In order to meet up with comet Wild 2, the spacecraft will make three loops around the Sun. On the second loop, its trajectory will intersect the comet. During the meeting, Stardust will perform a variety of tasks including reporting counts of comet particles encountered by the spacecraft with the Dust Flux Monitor, and real-time analyses of the compositions of these particles and volatiles taken by the Comet and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA). Using a substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture these samples and store them for safe keep on its long journey back to Earth. This silica-based, material has been inserted within the Aerogel Collector Grid, which is similar to a large tennis racket. Not until January 2006, will Stardust and its precise cargo return by parachuting a reentry capsule weighing approximately 125 pounds to the Earth's surface. ..... --------------------------------------------- http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/cool.html Cool Facts snip 30. Stardust must endure five shocking events: launch, flyby, atmospheric entry, parachute snap, and touchdown, sustaining loads up to 100 times the force due to gravity. snip --------------------------------------------- JANUARY 2006. WILL BE IN THE DARK OF THE MORNING. HOPE THE PARACHUTE OPENS. IN CASE I FORGET, PLEASE REMIND ME TO REMIND YOU. :-) THANKS FOR LOOKING UP WITH ME. PASS IT ON. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== Stardust JPL NASA http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/ --------------------------------------------- Stardust Overview http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/ Tom Duxbury Project Manager Don Brownlee Project Principal Investigator Missions with objectives of returning cometary samples had been proposed previously but the mission concepts had not been approved. The 1994 Discovery Announcement of Opportunity (AO) opened the door for missions that could be launched at a development phase cost of less than $150 million in 1992 dollars (when Discovery program was authorized by Congress). The focused mission concept for Stardust was the brainchild of Dr. Peter Tsou. Dr. Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who would be Principal Investigator and collaborated with Dr. Peter Tsou for the last two decades in returning samples from cosmic dust and comets. Dr. Benton Clark of Lockheed Martin led the definition of a simple spacecraft and sample return capsule to accomplish the mission. snip --------------------------------------------- Stardust Mission http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.html Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon. The Stardust spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, aboard a Delta II rocket. The primary goal of Stardust is to collect dust and carbon-based samples during its closest encounter with Comet Wild 2 - pronounced "Vilt 2" after the name of its Swiss discoverer - is a rendezvous scheduled to take place in January 2004, after nearly four years of space travel. Additionally, the Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of interstellar dust, including recently discovered dust streaming into our Solar System from the direction of Sagittarius. These materials are believed to consist of ancient pre-solar interstellar grains and nebular that include remnants from the formation of the Solar System. Analysis of such fascinating celestial specks is expected to yield important insights into the evolution of the Sun its planets and possibly even the origin of life itself. In order to meet up with comet Wild 2, the spacecraft will make three loops around the Sun. On the second loop, its trajectory will intersect the comet. During the meeting, Stardust will perform a variety of tasks including reporting counts of comet particles encountered by the spacecraft with the Dust Flux Monitor, and real-time analyses of the compositions of these particles and volatiles taken by the Comet and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA). Using a substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture these samples and store them for safe keep on its long journey back to Earth. This silica-based, material has been inserted within the Aerogel Collector Grid, which is similar to a large tennis racket. Not until January 2006, will Stardust and its precise cargo return by parachuting a reentry capsule weighing approximately 125 pounds to the Earth's surface. Stardust is the fourth NASA Discovery mission to be chosen and follows on the heels of Mars Pathfinder, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, and the Lunar Prospector mission. Discovery is an ongoing program that is intended to offer the scientific community opportunities to accomplish frequent, high quality scientificinvestigations using innovative and efficient management approaches. It seeks to keep performance high and expenses low by using new technologies and strict cost caps. The Stardust Mission is a collaborative effort between NASA, university and industry partners: The Principal Investigator is Dr. Donald E. Brownlee of the University of Washington, well known for his discovery of cosmic particles in the stratosphere known as Brownlee Particles. He also co-authored the bestseller Rare Earth : Why Complex Life Is Uncommon, which puts forward a hypothesis predicting that simple, microbial life will be widespread in the universe, while complex animal or plant life will be extremely rare. Dr. Peter Tsou of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), innovator in aerogel technology serves as Deputy Investigator. The contractor for the Stardust spacecraft is Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, Colorado. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has an experienced project management team, led by Thomas C. Duxbury. In addition, JPL provided the optical navigation camera. The Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Germany provided the real-time dust composition analyzer for the spacecraft. Ames Research Center provided the heat shield. Johnson Space Center will provide the planetary materials curatorial facility where the samples can be preserved and tests conducted. University of Chicago provided the Navigation Camera. --------------------------------------------- http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft.html Key Spacecraft Characteristics SpaceProbe Deep Space Bus Advanced Lightweight Composites Silicon Solar Cell Arrays No RTGs. No RHUs Fixed High-gain Antenna, x-Band Telecommunication Body-mounted Science (no scan platforms) Simple Hydrazine Monopropellant Propulsion Streamlined, Low-cost Sample Return Capsule (SRC) snip The STARDUST mission spacecraft is derived from the SpaceProbe deep space bus developed by Lockheed Martin Astronautics. This new lightweight spacecraft incorporates components, virtually all of which are either currently operating in space or are flight qualified and manifested to fly on upcoming missions. The total weight of the spacecraft including the propellant needed for deep space maneuvers is 380 kilograms. The overall length of the main bus is 1.7 meters, about the size of an average office desk. The STARDUST spacecraft is scheduled to encounter comet Wild 2 early in 2004 and will collect samples of cometary dust and volatiles while flying through the coma at a distance of approximately 100 km on the sunlit side of the nucleus. It will then return the samples to Earth for analysis in 2006. snip Sample Return Capsule Blunt Body Entry Vehicle Clamshell Mechanism to Open the Capsule Parachute and Mortar Unit The Sample Return Capsule (SRC) is a 60-degree blunt body reentry capsule for landing the returned sample on Earth. The capsule is encased in PICA and SLA-561 ablator materials to protect the samples stowed in its interior from the heat of reentry. A parachute slows its descent to the Earth's surface to prevent damage to the precious scientific cargo of comet samples. snip Command & Data Handling RAD6000 Processor 128 MBytes Data Storage The RAD6000 is a central processing 32-bit unit embedded in the spacecraft's Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem and provides computing capability for all spacecraft subsystems, including the payload elements. Electronic cards are provided to interface instruments and subsystems to the C&DH subsystem. 128 Mbytes of data storage is provided on the processor card, although the spacecraft uses approximately 20% of this for its own internal programs. The rest of the space in the memory is used for science programs and data storage for sending back to Earth 600 megabits (Mb) of images taken by the navigation camera, 100 Mb by the Comet Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) instrument, and 16 Mb by the Dust Flux Monitor (DFM). snip Redundancy Software Fault Protection Critical Items Cross-Strapped Virtually all spacecraft subsystem components are redundant with critical items cross-strapped. The battery includes an extra pair of cells. A software fault protection system is used to protect the spacecraft from reasonable, credible faults but also has resiliency built into it so many faults not anticipated can be accommodated without taking the spacecraft down. snip ============================================================== ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040910/db5698ae/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 10 13:15:27 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:15:27 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] The Genesis Strain - as in "Andromeda " Message-ID: Good day The Genesis capsule crashed, reports to follow, opinions surface. - LRK - The following article has some, opinions that is. All things considered. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04z.html The Genesis Strain by Jeffrey F. Bell Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 10, 2004 "The Andromeda Strain" was one of the few hokey science-fiction movies that I spent money to see in a theater as a kid. It left such a weak impression in my memory banks that a month or two ago I actually watched the whole thing again on cable TV. snip My reaction after my second viewing of "The Andromeda Strain" was, "I sure hope the Genesis return capsule doesn't crash and spill its solar wind samples all over the desert, because it would remind people of this awful film, the silly novel it was based on, and the inherent danger of returning extraterrestrial materials to Earth." As it so often does these days, NASA made one of my nightmares come true. The very first US unmanned sample return mission ended in a webcast fiasco, with the RV wobbling across the clear Utah sky like a defective flying saucer and crashing with a gigantic splat. The capsule was torn open in a manner reminiscent of the "Project Scoop" vehicle in the movie. The crash site is even on Dugway Proving Ground, the principal test site for the US biodefense program. Many bad movies have been based on space missions; Genesis is the first time a real mission has copied a bad movie. snip --------------------------------------------- Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/63963main_genesisreturn1.pdf NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Genesis Sample Return Press Kit September 2004 (160KB, 41 page, PDF file - LRK -) ============================================================== http://www.orbireport.com/Members/Backlogs/ Reported Commercial Launch Backlogs Take a look to get a feel for who is launching in the heavy lift class. - LRK - ============================================================== http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/elvs/atlas5_sum.shtml Atlas V summary and other launchers on navigation side bar. - LRK - ============================================================== http://www.topology.org/comms/satprobs.html the down-side of satellites The point of this page is to show how vulnerable satellites are. Therefore they should not be relied on too much for mobile communications. snip ------------------------------------------- We probably have not been listening for all the other failures. - LRK - Genesis isn't the first and probably won't be the last. Just put another one up. Ooops, have to train another astronaut. Really want to go to Mars? Do you leave the GM quality control to the dealers garage or would you like all the nuts to be tight when the car roles off the assembly line? Remember years back spending a number of weekends with my new Chevy II back to the dealer for re-work. Space is not so forgiving, and I haven't bought another Chevy since either. - LRK - ============================================================== Some more from SpaceDaily - LRK - ----------- QUICK SPACE - NASA Tries To Salvage Solar Dust In Latest Setback http://www.spacedaily.com/news/genesis-04m.html - The Genesis Strain http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04z.html - Major Milestone For Detecting Life On Mars http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-life-04r.html - Spirit On Autopilot http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-04zzzzzzze.html - Cassini Discovers Ring And One, Possibly Two, Objects At Saturn http://www.spacedaily.com/news/cassini-04zzw.html - New Research Could Lead To Less Noise For Airplane Takeoffs, Landings http://www.spacedaily.com/news/aerospace-04s.html - Largest Window For Space Completed http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-04zv.html - Scientists Glimpse Exotic Matter In A Neutron Star http://www.spacedaily.com/news/stellar-chemistry-04k.html - Motions In Nearby Galaxy Cluster Reveal Presence Of Hidden Superstructure http://www.spacedaily.com/news/darkmatter-04h.html - Scientists Follow Doomed Matter On A Ride Around A Black Hole http://www.spacedaily.com/news/blackhole-04i.html - Arianespace Signs Two Launch Contracts With DirecTV http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04zc.html - Arianespace To Launch Galaxy 17 For PanAmSat http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04zd.html - Globecomm Awarded Contract From Afghanistan's Ministry Of Communication http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-04zzzzzzg.html snip ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040910/dfa44b8e/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 9 00:27:53 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:27:53 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Who needs Launch Pad 36A now that the last lauch has lifted off? Message-ID: Good evening. William McNally mentions that the launch of the Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 ends the need for Launch Complex 36A and that with all its history, including the launch of Pioneer 10, that maybe it would be saved as a historical site. Not sure what the status of launch pads are now after the recent storms and more to come but the torch cuts scrap easily. :-( - LRK - YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ON. ITS JUST HISTORY. ON WITH THE FUTURE. DON'T LOOK BACK. RAISE YOUR GLASS. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004b/spacestoryN0901ROCKET.h tm snip The launch Tuesday was delayed about a half-hour after engineers encountered minor problems during fuel-loading operations. The flight represented the last launch -- and a perfect record -- for Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 family of rockets. The venerable rockets chalked up a 100 percent success rate during 63 missions dating back to 1991. The flight also marked the end of operations for complex 36A, which now will be deactivated. Built in 1961, the complex served as the embarkation point for robotic missions that paved the way for the Apollo moon-landing project. NASA Pioneer and Mariner spacecraft also were launched from the historic pad on interplanetary missions through the solar system. snip --------------------------------------------- It would seem the mother nature is still in control. Museums probably will have to wait. Just getting the shuttles back to flight is probably a higher priority. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://science.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=26791 NASA Space Shuttles Spared Frances' Wrath By Irene Klotz September 7, 2004 12:38PM Fortunately, NASA's three shuttles -- Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- were not in the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building during the onslaught of Hurricane Frances. The VAB lost about 40,000 square feet of its exterior metal panels during the storm. The damage definitely will impede NASA's efforts to return the shuttle fleet to flight. snip NASA's three shuttles -- Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- were not in the VAB during the storm. The ships were housed elsewhere at Kennedy in the Orbiter Processing Facility, which seems only to have sustained minor flooding. Some shuttle hardware, including two external fuel tanks, was stored in the VAB, but primarily the building was used to shelter cars, trucks and other non-critical hardware. The immediate concern about the VAB damage concerns Hurricane Ivan, which is still well out in the Atlantic Ocean but appears on a fast track toward the Windward Islands -- and possibly the Florida east coast. "Our weather people tell us that Ivan could be at the back door of KSC as early as Saturday, so part of our priority is going to see what we can do to protect the VAB from further loss of property," Kennedy said. snip --------------------------------------------- Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== ============================================================== Pioneer Odyssey (NASA SP-349/396, revised edition, 1977) by Richard Fimmel, William Swindell, and Eric Burgess. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/sp349.htm http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/ch2.htm#26 snip Figure 2-1. The Jupiter mission needed the highest-yet launch velocity of a spacecraft, actually the highest velocity of any manmade object, over 51,500 km (32,000 miles) per hour. This was achieved with an Atlas-Centaur to which was added a third upper stage. snip ============================================================== http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/atlas2as_launch_040831.html Final Atlas 2 Rocket Orbits Classified U.S. Satellite By Tariq Malik Staff Writer posted: 31 August 2004 8:45 p.m. ET The last Atlas 2 rocket ever to fly launched skyward today, successfully delivering a U.S. reconnaissance satellite into space and ending a chapter in rocket history. snip "We look at it not so much as an end, but as a graduation," said International Launch Service (ILS) spokeswoman Fran Slimmer during a telephone interview. Based in McLean, Virginia, ILS marketed the Atlas launch for the National Reconnaissance Office. snip Active for 42 years, and the site of 69 launches, Pad 36A retires," Christiansen said during his toast. "At this point, please raise your glasses." Despite what appeared to be an inauspicious start in May of 1962 - when the first Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle F-1 exploded after liftoff - Pad 36A went on to loft a number of notable missions for NASA. In 1966, the pad saw the launch of and Atlas/Centaur vehicle that carried NASA's Surveyor 1 spacecraft to a soft landing on the moon. The launch pad was also the staging ground for Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to leave the solar system, which rode an Atlas/Centaur booster combo into space in 1972. The launch pad never saw a manned flight and turned over for use by the U.S. Air Force in the 1980s, Christiansen said. snip ============================================================== http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac167/040831pad36a.html Launch team salutes Cape's pad 36A after final liftoff BY JUSTIN RAY SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: August 31, 2004 It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system. But after 42 years of Atlas rocket launches, pad 36A saw its final blastoff Tuesday night. Following the booster's Earth-shaking climb into orbit, launch team members hunkered down in the Complex 36 Blockhouse positioned 1,400 feet away from the pad took a moment to salute the historic site. "We are ready to have a toast for Launch Complex 36A that just launched the last MA-5-based Atlas," the Lockheed Martin launch conductor said. "Man has never been launched from Complex 36, but this site is very rich with history. Back in May 1962, the first Atlas-Centaur, called F-1, launched from 36A." The initial launch ended in failure, like many others in the early days of the space program. "Several vehicles were lost as the rocketeers of the time painfully worked out the problems," launch conductor said. Another early Atlas-Centaur suffered an engine shutdown as it lifted off, causing the booster to fall back and destroy pad 36A. "That vehicle set the low-altitude record. But the people and the pad bounced back. In 1966, the world watched as Complex 36A launched Surveyor 1 and 2. The Surveyors made a soft landing on the moon. For the first time, we were all amazed to see up close the surface. "In 1969, Mariner 7 was launched to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars from Complex 36A. In 1972, Pioneer 10 was launched from Complex 36A and became the first man-made object to leave the solar system having first flown past Jupiter and the asteroid belt." When the Atlas 2 program was created in the late 1980s, the pad was overhauled to support in the new series of rockets. "The pad continued to perform, launching payloads that protect our military and our security, as well as providing communications for the world," launch conductor said. "Having been active for 42 years and 69 launches, we now retire this pad for Atlas 2. At this point, please raise your glass as a salute to the proud history of Space Launch Complex 36A." Neighboring pad 36B has one launch remaining on the schedule -- an Atlas 3 liftoff early next year. Although pad A is not suited to handle the taller Atlas 3, the complex's systems will remain operational to support the mission. "We will go into what we call a safe-and-secure on the pad A, make sure that we have the pad in a safe and secure configuration," said Adrian Laffitte, Lockheed Martin's director of Atlas launch operations at the Cape. "Pad A backs up Pad B with respect to systems and also for spares. So in order to maintain that capability, those systems that are backup to 36B or used as spares will be maintained in a ready condition. "After that, we would love -- once we launch the last Atlas 3 -- that the blockhouse be used as a museum. There is a lot of history in there. But we haven't quite gotten to that point." The Atlas 3 flight next year will be the 145th and last launch for Complex 36's two pads. Future launches will use the Atlas 5 family of rockets that fly from Complex 41. ? 2004 Pole Star Publications Ltd ============================================================== http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004b/spacestoryN0901ROCKET.h tm Sept. 1, 2004 Atlas launches on fifth try BY TODD HALVORSON FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL -- A top-secret National Reconnaissance Office spacecraft circles Earth today after rocketing off from Cape Canaveral and away from Hurricane Frances. A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket with a NROL-1 satellite on board lights launches from Cape Canaveral Air force Station on Tuesday night. Image ? 2004, Craig Rubadoux, FLORIDA TODAY With the major storm bearing down on the coast of east central Florida, the Lockheed Martin rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at7:17 p.m. Tuesday. The 15-story Atlas leaped off its launch pad at complex 36A and sped through light blue skies and wispy white clouds as it arced out across the Atlantic Ocean and headed toward orbit. Nestled in its protective nosecone: A classified National Reconnaissance Office payload. The spacecraft was deployed about73 minutes after launch. Liftoff came after four delays on four consecutive days and with Frances threatening to make landfall along Florida's east coast Saturday. Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Julie Andrews said the company was "very, very anxious" to get the Atlas 2AS and its payload off the ground. The Mobile Service Tower at complex 36A is only designed to withstand sustained winds of about 120 mph. Plowing its way through the Caribbean on Tuesday, Frances was packing winds of 135 mph and expected to intensify before hitting the Florida coast. The launch Tuesday was delayed about a half-hour after engineers encountered minor problems during fuel-loading operations. The flight represented the last launch -- and a perfect record -- for Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 family of rockets. The venerable rockets chalked up a 100 percent success rate during 63 missions dating back to 1991. The flight also marked the end of operations for complex 36A, which now will be deactivated. Built in 1961, the complex served as the embarkation point for robotic missions that paved the way for the Apollo moon-landing project. NASA Pioneer and Mariner spacecraft also were launched from the historic pad on interplanetary missions through the solar system. Next up at the Cape: An Air Force Delta 2 rocket with a military navigation satellite. Launch date: Sept. 22. Contact Halvorson at 639-0576 or thalvorson at flatoday.net ============================================================== http://www.astronautix.com/sites/capllc36.htm Launch Complex 36 Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Pads: 2. Latitude: 28.4696 N. Longitude: 80.5394 W. . Atlas Centaur LV-3C, Atlas Centaur SLV-3C, Atlas Centaur SLV-3D, Atlas G, Atlas I, Atlas II, Atlas IIA, Atlas IIAS, Atlas IIIA, Atlas IIIB. This complex was built for the Atlas/Centaur development program, and it was operated under NASA's sponsorship from that program's inception until the late 1980s. The site was built and occupied as a single launch pad complex in February 1961, but a second pad (36B) was constructed between February 1963 and July 1964. Complex 36 hosted many historic Surveyor, Mariner, Pioneer and Intelsat IV and V missions over the years. Under NASA's sponsorship, Complex 36 supported its first Fleet Satellite Communications (Fltsatcom) launch on 9 February 1978. Six more Fltsatcom missions were launched from the complex over the next decade. Following the Fltsatcom F-8 mission in late September 1989, NASA surrendered Complex 36 to the Air Force and General Dynamics for military and commercial space operations. The site was modified to handled Atlas/Centaur missions, and the first commercial Atlas II/Centaur was launched from Pad 36B on 7 December 1991. The first military Atlas II/Centaur mission was launched from Pad 36A on 11 February 1992. In all, the complex supported 118 major launches between 8 May 1962 and the end of October 1998. snip ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. 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Hollywood stunt pilots had hoped to hook the capsule's parachute in midair above Utah's west desert about 10:15 a.m. MDT. But the refrigerator-sized capsule _ holding a set of fragile disks containing billions of atoms collected from solar wind _ hit the desert floor after the chute failed to open. It wasn't immediately clear whether the cosmic samples have been destroyed. NASA officials believed the fragile disks that hold the atoms would shatter even if the capsule hit the ground with a parachute. "We're going to get the pieces out," said Roger Wiens, a payload leader for Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It's going to be a lot tougher to sort out the pieces of broken material." The impact drove the capsule halfway underground. NASA engineers feared the explosive for the parachute might still be alive and ready to fire, keeping helicopter crews at bay. "That presents a safety hazard to recovery crews," said Chris Jones, solar system exploration director for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The capsule's charged atoms _ a "billion billion" of them _ were expected to reveal clues about the origin and evolution of our solar system. "We have for years wanted to know the composition of the sun," said Don Burnett, Genesis principal investigator and a nuclear geochemist at California Institute of Technology. "In some cases we will be analyzing it one atom at a time." Genesis had been moving in tandem with Earth outside its magnetic shield on three orbits of the sun. It picked up speed rapidly as Earth's gravitational pull brought it closer before the atmosphere abruptly slowed the descent. That's when the helicopters were supposed to take over. Two helicopter pilots had replicated the retrieval in dozens of practice runs, and had five chances to snag the capsule. But they never had a chance Wednesday when the capsule's main chute failed to open. The capsule was tumbling out of control. It was supposed to be spinning at 15 revolutions a minute to slice evenly through the atmosphere, but camera images showed it tumbling instead. "There was a big pit in my stomach" when the capsule started tumbling wildly to Earth, said Roger Wiens, a physicist for Los Alamos National Laboratory, which designed the atom collector plates. "This just wasn't supposed to happen. We're going to have a lot of work picking up the pieces." The Genesis mission, launched in 2001, marks the first time NASA has collected and returned any objects from farther than the moon. Together, the charged atoms captured over 884 days on the capsule's disks of gold, sapphire, diamond and silicone are no bigger than a few grains of salt, but scientists say it would be enough to reconstruct the chemical origin of the sun and its family of planets. Assuming a safe landing, scientists said it would be at least six months before they expected to learn much from the solar wind particles. ___ On the Net: http://www.genesismission.org ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040908/938b1060/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 8 00:23:58 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:23:58 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] B612 Foundation is dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes Message-ID: Good evening. Additional info on tomorrows landing of the GENESIS space capsule. - LRK - ---------------------- Space Weather News for Sept. 7, 2004 http://spaceweather.com On Wednesday morning, Sept. 8th, NASA's Genesis space capsule will streak over Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Utah, returning samples of the solar wind to Earth. Sky watchers within 100 miles of the reentry path might be able to see the fireball in broad daylight. The best place to be is northern Nevada, where the fireball is expected to be brightest. New maps and data files just posted on Spaceweather.com may help observers locate and track the capsule. Visual observations of the event will be limited to a narrow corridor around the reentry path, but ham radio operators across a much broader area can detect the fireball--by listening. The capsule will blaze a radio-reflecting plasma trail from Oregon to Utah. The reentry offers an opportunity for meteor-burst communications. Follow the links at Spaceweather.com for more information. ---------------------- So a man made meteor, much the same as the Apollo Astronauts returning from the Moon, cometh. What do you do when you find a larger asteroid heading this way? hmmmm, go to the movies to see how to destroy it. :-) The Spaceguard detection program, undertaken by NASA in 1998 is slowly but systematically discovering the NEAs over 1 km. in diameter. The goal is to discover (and track) 90% of them by 2008. http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/pr990527.html Is anything being done to consider that some of these may hit Earth? http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/reports/spaceguard/ So glad you asked. http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html For you that live in the San Francisco Bay area here in California, consider this. - LRK - ---------------------- http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/astrogram/2004_astrograms/04_08Astrogram.pdf from page 14 - LRK -. Schweickart to speak at Foothill The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series presents Apollo 9 astronaut Russell Schweickart, giving a non-technical, illustrated talk on: 'Asteroid Deflection: Hopes and Fears' Date: Oct. 6 Time: 7 p.m. Location: The Smithwick Theater Foothill College, El Monte Road and Freeway 280, in Los Altos Hills Cost: Free and open to the public. Parking on campus costs $2. The event is co-sponsored by NASA Ames, the Foothill College Astronomy Program, the SETI Institute and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Schweickart, lunar module pilot on Apollo 9 and the first person to step outside a spacecraft without an umbilical cord, also served as Commissioner of Energy for the state of California. He was the founder and president of the Association of Space Explorers, the professional organization of astronauts and cosmonauts. Schweickart is currently chairman of the board of the B612 Foundation, dedicated to protecting the future of humanity by developing and demonstrating ways to deflect asteroids that are heading our way. He will discuss what we know about the threat of cosmic rocks and the various ways that have been suggested for saving the Earth from large asteroid impacts, including both nuclear and non-nuclear alternatives. Come early as a full house is expected for this very special program. Call the series hot-line at (650) 949-7888 for more information. set for Oct. 7 ---------------------- Some more info about Rusty Schweickart, The B612 Foundation, and Protecting Earth from Asteroids in clips below. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.well.com/~rs/rls-bio.html RUSSELL L. SCHWEICKART BIOGRAPHY ============================================================== http://www.b612foundation.org/ B612 Foundation The Earth orbits the Sun in a vast swarm of near Earth asteroids (NEAs). * The probability of an unacceptable collision in this century is ~2%. * We now have the capability to anticipate an impact and to prevent it. We need to act now... and you can help. ============================================================== http://www.wordiq.com/definition/B612_Foundation B612 Foundation ============================================================== http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/asteroid_deflection_03020 5.html In Defense of Earth: Keeping Asteroids at a Distance By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 06:00 am ET 05 February 2003 BOULDER, COLORADO -- A group of astronauts, scientists, and technologists want to engage in celestial shoving match. The winner may well be the Earth. The goal of an assembly of experts is straightforward: To significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid "in a controlled manner" by the year 2015. They have dubbed their effort the B612 Project, brought into being by what the group feels is a current lack of action to protect the Earth from the impact of near Earth asteroids (NEAs). For the immediate future, they point out, the changes are slim that our planet will be at the end of the trail for a space rock - one that would cause a highly destructive impact. Nevertheless, the upshot from a heavenly slam shot is extreme, say B612 Project officials, so much so that mitigation efforts should start now. Those involved in the B612 Project believe that by physically deflecting a representative asteroid -- one not headed toward the Earth -- is a worthwhile a trial project. Thus, a longer term, more challenging operational system can become a reality. snip ============================================================== http://www.planetarydefense.info/resources/day3.html Day 3: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Threats and Consequences Day 3 Keynote Speaker: William E. Burrows, New York University Day 3 Morning Session: Mission Design II Session Chair: Rusty Schweickart, B612 Foundation This was the second of two sessions on designing a mission to deflect a threatening NEO. Topics included a discussion of deflection techniques that "make sense," a mission design for an "all-out" mission to deflect a NEO using nuclear explosives, the B612 mission design, a mission using a mirror to ablate a NEO surface and generate a small deflection force, and the use of mass drivers for planetary defense. ============================================================== http://www.planetarydefense.info/index.html The Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids The Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids was held on February 23-26, 2004. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and The Aerospace Corporation. Experts in detection of Near Earth Objects (NEOs), in possible methods of deflecting a threatening NEO, in mission design, and in political, policy, law, and disaster preparedness came together to assess the current state of knowledge in each of these areas relative to mounting a successful deflection mission. Download Conference White Paper http://www.planetarydefense.info/resources/pdf/conference_white_paper.pdf The media associated with this presentation is best viewed with WindowsMedia Player 9 Series. ============================================================== http://www.planetarydefense.info/resources/pdf/conference_white_paper.pdf White Paper Summarizing Findings and Recommendations from the 2004 Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids 1. Overview The Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids was held from February 23 to 26, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency Orange County, Garden Grove, California. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and The Aerospace Corporation, and attended by over 140 participants (see list at end of document). The conference was held to focus on mitigating the threat to humankind posed by asteroids and comets. It is well known that there have been impacts of large Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in the past history of Earth. It is also well known that, while the probability of impact in the next month or year is small, impacts of objects large enough to seriously modify or potentially end life, as we know it, are inevitable. The conference, expected to be repeated on a periodic basis, focused on what humankind might do to deflect an approaching object. While perhaps the most broadly focused, the 2004 conference was not the first on the topic of NEOs and the threat they pose. Conclusions and recommendations from other conferences are generally consistent with those presented here. The fact that several recommendations are repeated demonstrates that progress has been slow in this area. The February 2004 conference featured a systems approach to NEO deflection, risk communication, and disaster response. Experts in detection of NEOs, in possible methods of deflecting a threatening NEO, in mission design, and in political, policy, law, and disaster preparedness came together to assess the current state of knowledge in each of these areas relative to mounting a successful deflection mission. At the conclusion of the meeting, session chairs provided summaries of principal recommendations from their sessions, and participants were invited to provide their thoughts. The conference chair, session chairs, and speakers subsequently prepared this document to summarize what they believe are consensus findings and recommendations from the conference. Names and affiliations of the primary participants in the development of this document are provided. 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Helicopters will capture the sample capsule in mid-air over Utah's salt flats. The primary location of events on Sept. 7-8 is the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) southwest of Salt Lake City. News briefings and live coverage of the mid-air capture of the capsule will be carried live on NASA TV. News media interested in covering the mission at DPG must obtain credentials for access. Schedule: -- Sept. 7-8: Genesis sample return coverage live on NASA TV, and webcast live at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/genesis/ -- Sept. 7: Pre-return status briefing at DPG, 1 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. MDT). Media must arrive at DPG NLT 9:30 a.m. MDT for access. Panelists for the briefing: -Dr. David Lindstrom, NASA Genesis program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington -Dr. Donald Burnett, principal investigator, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena -Don Sevilla, Genesis payload team leader, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) -Cliff Fleming, helicopter pilot, South Coast Helicopters, Santa Ana, Calif. -Bob Corwin, Genesis recovery team chief, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver -- Sept. 8: NASA TV commentary and live coverage of events in Utah from approximately 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT. Helicopter capture of the sample capsule is expected at approximately 12:15 p.m. EDT. After capture the capsule will be ferried to a temporary clean room and opened. A media briefing will follow at 3:30 p.m. EDT at DPG. 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Here in the USA I often see orange coated workers cleaning up trash along the road sides and we have signs up that threaten $1000 fines for throwing out trash. I would think that if we look around we will see that we are, and have been, trashing this mother Earth to quite a degree throughout history. We have built cities on our garbage dumps. We have killed forests with our acid fumes from smoke and smog generated because of the Industrial Revolution. We have even tested nuclear devices in high altitude to see if a electromagnetic impulse would disturb communications. (did for a number of days) Tends to trash the atmosphere that circulates about this Blue Marble as well. http://www.nonuclear.net/theblackoutbomb.htm http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1997_h/has197010_1.htm Enough you say. We know that. What does that have to do with going to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond? Well we have a start at trashing the Moon. We have used cars up there. We have third stage boosters up there. We have on the Moon experiment packages, power supplies, tape, foil wrappers, wrenches, spacecraft, landing stages, golf balls, as well as other countries spacecraft, and crawlers. Now we have a proposed mission to the Moon that will take your business cards and other memorabilia to the Moon for a price. Not a lot, just a canister. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994633 http://www.transorbital.net/ Lunar Prospector is there somewhere near the south pole with a vial of cremates. (small vial) In preparation for the Apollo missions there were other launches, and attempted launches, and misfires of launches. There was a lot of work to prepare the spacecraft for an entry to the Moon in a sterilized condition. Heating, and baking to the point the insulation of wires failed. Wavers were asked for and granted on a case by case basis. It is hard to make a spacecraft completely clean. You have to put up with birds in processing hangers doing their thing. So you launch with a clean spacecraft carrying chemical propellants that are often very corrosive. During the Apollo missions there were instruments placed that could listen for Moon quakes. Just to make sure you had some, follow on missions targeted booster stages to hit the Moon. Even those not hitting the Moon could be in orbit around the Sun. Apollo 12's third stage came back to the Earth - Moon system in September of 2002 to do a loop de loop and then back out to orbit the Sun. This courtesy of the Sun-Earth L1 portal. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_178.cfm So when we start sending missions to the Moon again, say once a month, there will be much more hardware going somewhere. The management of our trash needs to be a consideration. IMHO We will need to know where our boosters are going and how to safely handle them. What goes up may well come down, now or later. (just like the arrow I shot into the air, that came back to our shake roof - dad wasn't happy) - LRK - We already have plenty of space junk orbiting Earth making it a concern for new launches. Even the ISS has had to move out of the way for some orbiting junk. Every now and then a spacecraft may explode, has exploded. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9702/16/hubble/ http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts108_011215.html http://www.space.com/news/debris_plea_020517.html Even X-Prize contestants have had their troubles. ------------------ http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=9206558 "We're disappointed, but not extremely disappointed because this was the first test flight," Storm said, standing by the remnants of one of the rocket's engines. "NASA lost several rockets before they got something good." Then he sighed deeply and rubbed his smudged hands through his hair. "It's just too bad." ------------------ What about Mars? We have some rovers doing a great job and no one wants to call them junk or trash, that is until their mission is over and they are just sitting there on the red rock. There is other hardware up there too. Some really nice missions completed and some missions that just crashed. Lots of territory. Not to worry. What about terraforming Mars? Want to make it habitable for humans in 900 years or so? Should we? (If you had the money. http://www.transhumanist.com/volume4/space.htm The Political Economy of Very Large Space Projects) ----------------------------------------------- http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1020.html Summary: At the Astrobiology Science Conference on March 30, scientists and science fiction writers faced off in front of a packed audience to debate the promise and pitfalls of terraforming Mars. In part 3 of this 7-part series, David Grinspoon says we have an ethical imperative to bring a dead planet to life. snip Greg Bear: You usually talk about ethics within your own social group. And if you define someone as being outside your social group, they're also outside your ethical system, and that's what's caused so much trauma, as we seem to be unable to recognize people who look an awful lot like us as being human beings. When we go to Mars, we're actually dealing with a problem that's outside the realm of ethics and more in the realm of enlightened self-interest. We have a number of reasons for preserving Mars as it is. If there's life there, it's evolved over the last several billion years, it's got incredible solutions to incredible problems. If we just go there and willy-nilly ramp it up or tamp it down or try to remold it somehow, we're going to lose that information. So that's not to our best interest. We were talking earlier about having a pharmaceutical expedition to Mars, not just that but a chemical expedition to Mars, people coming and looking for solutions to incredible problems that could occur here on Earth and finding them on Mars. That could generate income unforeseen. snip ----------------------------------------------- It is garbage pick up tomorrow here in Tracy CA. I don't have any rug rats, (children) just the two of us, but I still generate stuff that I would like picked up at least once a week. What are you going to do with say a crew of 10 on the Moon? If you could recycle everything for the Lunar Base folks, you might be able to do the same here on Earth. (or put the other way, if you could recycle everything here on Earth, you might be able to do the same on the Moon.) Have your garbage collectors go on strike and watch the trash pile up. Long Island has a mountain of trash. Who wants it? We have gulf courses and building sites built on top of land fill. (will build to suit here in Silicon Valley) How will you manage your trash on the Moon, Mars, and Beyond? Or will you just be looking for another planet to trash? Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC1/trip.html A FIELD TRIP TO THE MOON Harrison H. 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While my chair was rocking, the speaker at Monterey was startled. An appropriate accent to the subject of risk, and just 4 times the distance from here to the Moon, the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is passing by. :-) - LRK - http://news.com.com/Calif.+earthquake+shakes+up+Web/2100-1038_3-5387495.html http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/nort hern_california/9782447.htm?1c http://www.axcessnews.com/national_092804b.shtml http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040928/APA/409280 831&cachetime=5 Reminder - Tomorrow morning - SpaceShipOne first X-Prize flight. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ snip First X-Prize flight scheduled for September 29, 2004 For information about the X-Prize flights (press inquiries, news updates, ticket information, etc.) please visit the Ansari X-Prize website. http://web1-xprize.primary.net/launch.php snip SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space "Mojave, CA: The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth's atmosphere. The successful launch demonstrated that the final frontier is now open to private enterprise." (READ MORE) http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm Multimedia: * Videos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/video.htm * Photos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/gallery/june21 -------------------------------------------------------------- SpaceShipOne will attempt the first of two flights Wednesday morning that would win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The privately managed mission is a milestone prelude to space tourism. See SPACE.com's live webcast, with streaming cockpit video! Plus reporter's updates from the Mojave Airport before, during and after the flight. Get crew and flight information now, and watch the live video webcast starting at 9 a.m. EST (6 a.m. PST) Wednesday. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_full_coverage.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ADD TO THAT, VIRGIN GALACTIC PLANS TO BUILD SPACECRAFT TO HELP DEVELOP THE SPACE TOURISM INDUSTRY BY USING SPACESHIPONE CRAFT AS A MODEL. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.virgingalactic.com/index.html http://www.virgingalactic.com/whatis.html Virgin Galactic is a company established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of developing space tourism for everybody. Virgin Galactic will own and operate privately built spaceships, modelled on the history-making SpaceShipOne craft. These spaceships will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in our history. Due to the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan, this space craft design has overcome the difficult issues of re-entry into the earth's atmosphere faced by so many designers trying to create efficient, re-usable space vehicles. We believe that it is in mankind's interest to develop our knowledge and understanding as well as access to space. Every customer of Virgin Galactic will be helping the development of a new generation of space craft. Designs for the Virgin Galactic craft are progressing on a weekly basis at Rutan's base in Mojave, California and by early 2005 the final design for the maiden Virgin Galactic ship, the VSS (Virgin SpaceShip) Enterprise, should be signed-off. What will follow will be a concerted Research and Development programme to earn the craft their qualification to carry some of the world's first scheduled space tourists. Safety is paramount. It is planned to have multiple levels of redundancy on key systems in order to achieve a very robust system in every phase of flight. Virgin's experience in aviation, adventure, luxury travel and cutting-edge design will be vital in contributing to the design of the spaceship, the smooth operation of the spaceline and creating an unforgettable experience unlike any other available to mankind. "We've always had a dream of developing a space tourism business and Paul Allen's vision, combined with Burt Rutan's technological brilliance, have brought that dream a step closer to reality. The deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by human beings a real possibility." Richard Branson ============================================================== TONIGHT - REPLAY OF THE NASA Administrator's Symposium: "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," - LRK - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html NASA Television can be seen in the continental United States on AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, Transponder 9, 3880 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, NASA TV can now be seen on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, Transponder 18, at 4060 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. The programs listed below are changes to the general NASA Television schedule. All programs subject to change without notice. All times are Eastern U.S. time. September 2004 Daily Programming 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Expedition/ISS Commentary - JSC (Updates on the ISS Mission and Expedition Crews) (Replays at 7 p.m., 11 p.m., and 7 a.m. the following day) 12 p.m. - 1 p.m - NASA TV Video File (NASA Newsfeed for Broadcast Media) (Replays at 3, 6, and 10 p.m. Also 12, 6, and 10 a.m.) **ALL PROGRAMS MAY BE PRE-EMPTED OR RESCHEDULED WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE** September September 28, Tuesday 5 p.m. - NASA Administrator's Symposium: "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Three - "Space" - AMES/HQ September 29, Wednesday 1 a.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Three - "Space" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/28/04) 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Ansari X Prize Competition from Mojave Test Flight Center - HQ (Feed of Space Ship One test flight) September 30, Thursday 8 a.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session One - "Earth" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/27/04) 1 p.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Two - "Sea" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/28/04) 5 p.m. - Replay of NASA Administrator's Symposium; "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," Session Three - "Space" - HQ (Replay/Recorded 9/28/04) snip ============================================================== Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:03:56 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: LARGE ASTEROID WILL ZOOM SAFELY PAST EARTH WEDNESDAY Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:; Gretchen Cook-Anderson Headquarters, Washington Sept. 28, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-0836) D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/393-9011) RELEASE: 04-319 LARGE ASTEROID WILL ZOOM SAFELY PAST EARTH WEDNESDAY A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT tomorrow. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between the Earth and the moon(approximately 961,000), this will be the closest approach of any known asteroid of comparable size this century. "This is the closest Toutatis will come for another 500 years, and its orbit is very well known," said Dr. Don Yeomans of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., manager of NASA's Near Earth Objects Program Office. "What this fly-by provides is an opportunity to study one of our closest solar system neighbors," he said. "While we have done radar observations on this particular asteroid before, this is the closest it has come since at least the twelfth century " said Dr. Steve Ostro, a scientist at JPL. "We will use the huge dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to refine our knowledge of its physical characteristics and its trajectory," he said. Named after an obscure Celtic and Gallic god, Toutatis, the yam-shaped space rock measures 1.92 kilometers (1.2 miles) by 2.29 kilometers (1.4 miles) by 4.6 kilometers (2.9 miles). Toutatis has one of the strangest rotation states observed in the solar system. Instead of spinning around a single axis, as do the planets and the vast majority of asteroids, it "tumbles" somewhat like a football after a botched pass. Its rotation is the result of two different types of motion with periods of 5.4 and 7.3 Earth days that combine in such a way that Toutatis's orientation, with respect to the solar system, never repeats. When the asteroid flies past Earth, it will be traveling at approximately 39,600 kilometers per hour (24,550 mph). Toutatis has not passed this close to Earth since the twelfth century, and it will not be this close again until 2562. Toutatis was discovered in 1989. Arecibo Observatory is operated by Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, with support from NASA. To view a computer model of asteroid Toutatis on the Internet, visit: http://reason.jpl.nasa.gov/~ostro/ToutatisHires.mov and http://reason.jpl.nasa.gov/~ostro/ToutatisHires.avi For more information about near Earth objects on the Internet, visit: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ For information about NASA on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. 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Will the X-Prize ring be grasped from the edge of space? - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ snip First X-Prize flight scheduled for September 29, 2004 For information about the X-Prize flights (press inquiries, news updates, ticket information, etc.) please visit the Ansari X-Prize website. http://web1-xprize.primary.net/launch.php snip SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space "Mojave, CA: The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth's atmosphere. The successful launch demonstrated that the final frontier is now open to private enterprise." (READ MORE) http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm Multimedia: * Videos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/video.htm * Photos http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/gallery/june21 -------------------------------------------------------------- We drove by on our way to Las Vegas not long ago. Just a road across the desert. Highway 58 wraps around the area. You can see some of the airplane companies from the road, both alive and dead. Hard to think this could be the next SpacePort. - LRK - -------------------------- ANSARI X PRIZE: "Launch Schedule EVENT TICKETS AND PARKING PASSES AVAILABLE ONSITE! SEE YOU IN MOJAVE! September 29th launch currently scheduled for approximately 6:00 A.M. P.S.T. Mojave Civilian Flight Test Center http://www.mojaveairport.com/ Address: Mojave Airport 1434 Flight Line Mojave, CA 93501 http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=US&addtohistory=&s earchtab=address&searchtype=address&address=1434+Flight+Line&city=Mojave&sta te=CA&zipcode=93501&search=++Search++ Scaled Composites Inc: 661-824-4541 1624 Flight Line # 78 Mojave, CA 93501, US http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=internal&addtohistory=&lati tude=RcogHLJWsnw%3d&longitude=ugCrZeXl9tOcrLg9nikbRg%3d%3d&name=Scaled%20Com posites%20Inc&countryid=250&country=US&address=1624%20Flight%20Line%20%23%20 78&city=Mojave&state=CA&zipcode=93501&phone=661%2d824%2d4541&cat=Scaled%20Co mposites&spurl=0&searchtype=GenSearch -------------------------- -------------------------- http://www.co.kern.ca.us/gsd/kgov/internettv.asp Internet Television (KGOV-Live) You can watch the current KGOV broadcast from your computer, via a feature called KGOV-Live. In order to use KGOV-Live, you must first install RealOne Player version 8 or higher on your computer. -------------------------- Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/world/9762570.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 26, 2004 'A tunnel to the moon' Next step to future will be taken in desert outpost By BOB KEEFE COX NEWS SERVICE MOJAVE, Calif. - The Mojave Airport is an unassuming collection of old runways and dusty tin buildings. Planes and parts of planes - fighter jets, crop dusters, outdated commercial airliners - sit like ghosts in a desert graveyard. The little airport has no regular passenger traffic, but it's becoming known as the hub for space travel's future. On Wednesday, the first commercial rocket ever piloted by a non-military astronaut is scheduled to take a second brief trip from Mojave to beyond the Earth's atmosphere. SpaceShipOne, as it's called, made its maiden voyage to the stars from here in June, helping reignite a worldwide interest in private space travel that has been compared to beginning of commercial flight. Rocket companies abound But the company that built SpaceShipOne, Scaled Composites Inc., is only one of several rocket designers here shooting for the stars. Not far from Scaled Composites is Xcor Aerospace Inc., which is building rocket engines it hopes to sell to commercial space companies. Also nearby is Interorbital Systems, which is offering promotional $250,000 tickets for a week in space orbit, even though its first ship isn't expected to be complete before 2006. Space Launch Corp., meanwhile, is building a rocket plane that could be used to launch small satellites. In all, nine companies are working on space-related projects at Mojave, according to airport officials. Those who have been to the airport known to pilots as "Mojo" say it really does have a lot going for it. "You never expect by looking at it that this is where the next space age is being born, but it is," said George Whitesides, executive director of the National Space Society, a Washington, D.C. group that promotes civilian space travel. "It's a very special place that I think history is going to remember." What makes the 1940s-era former naval air station 100 miles north of Los Angeles the place to be is "location, location, location," said airport manager Stuart Witt, echoing the old real estate mantra. Perfect weather for flying Edwards Air Force Base, where military flight testing has its roots, is a next-door neighbor. China Lake, where the Navy does bombing training, is not far away. Hundred-degree heat and little rainfall have limited residential development, but make for great conditions for flying. With airspace that's restricted from regular air traffic because of military flights nearby, Mojave has what Witt calls "a tunnel to the moon" where commercial rocket companies are free to try creating the next space jetliner. Already a hot spot for civilian flight testing, Mojave in June was designated by the Federal Aviation Administration as the nation's first inland "spaceport." The designation could help make it easier for companies to launch rocket ships and someday send passengers into space. The people behind Mojave's commercial space projects are an eclectic collection of space cowboys and colorful characters. Some are hard and weathered like the desert itself, while others are out-of-town billionaires who have more money than they can ever spend. SpaceShipOne's financier, for instance is Paul Allen, a Microsoft Corp. co-founder who can travel to Mojave from his Seattle-area home on any of his personal collection of airplanes. The rocket ship's creator is legendary airplane designer and engineer Burt Rutan. Interorbital Systems, on the other hand, is run by a husband-and-wife team who are trying to pay the bills by selling, along with the advance tickets to space, NASCAR-style ads on rocket ships and spacesuits and annual memberships in the Pacific Rocket Society. $10 million at stake Like Scaled Composites, some of the companies at Mojave are planning to compete for the biggest prize in commercial space rocketry. Sponsors of the Ansari X Prize promise $10 million to the owner of the first private spaceship capable of launching three people into suborbital flight on two consecutive flights within two weeks. The prize, created in an effort to jump-start commercial space travel, is modeled after aviation prizes such as the $25,000 competition that led to Charles Lindbergh's 1927 historic transatlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis." Mojave Airport's Voyager Restaurant is named after another record-setting airplane, built by Burt Rutan and flown by his brother Dick and co-pilot Jeana Yeager around the world in 1986. The nine-day trip was the first ever nonstop flight around the world without refueling. Today at the Voyager, Mojave's space junkies are talking shop over chicken wings and beer while TVs play videos of the historic flight. They bad-mouth NASA for what they say is overspending for too few accomplishments, and dream of a world when commercial space flight is as common as commercial air travel is today. "There's always space talk about who's doing what and who's going to fly the next mission," said Dick Rutan, who in addition to helping his brother also has worked as a test pilot for Xcor and other companies. "It's awful interesting being real close to all of this, but it's also fun to sit back and hear all the pronouncements versus (seeing) all the reality," he said. There have been flops at Mojave, and almost certainly there will be more. Rotary Rocket Co., for instance, tried to build a pear-shaped rocket at Mojave that would initially be lifted with a helicopter-style rotor before blasting off into space. But the company ran out of money for its Roton rocket ship. Two years ago, Xcor acquired much of its assets and technology. Failures, though, are part of the lore and nature of flight. What's important, almost anyone at Mojave will tell you, is that the spirit of flight - and now space travel - lives on despite the occasional flop. "It's the 'Field of Dreams' concept," said airport manager Whitt. "What everybody here shares in common is the attitude that it's OK to think big and take risks." -------------------------------------------------------------- ? 2004 The Sun Herald and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.sunherald.com ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040927/0407ca1e/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 24 23:49:11 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:49:11 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] ADMINISTRATOR'S SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES EXPLORATION AND RISK Message-ID: Good day. Yesterday Fred Becker asked me if the Administrators Symposium being held next Monday at Monterey CA. was open to the public. I had not heard about the symposium and the only reference I could find then was the one Fred gave me from SpaceRef.com - http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=3121 They have a Calendar of Events at - http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/ - Lots of Events - LRK - Just got back from a trip up the road and in looking at my e-mails, see one from Ames that announces the symposium. Copied them both as their formatting is a bit different and maybe you will catch something in one that you didn't see in the other. Added links in the Ames post. - LRK - Monterey is an hour south of Ames and several hours from Tracy. Have other obligations so won't try to go in person. Sounds like it is a video conference that would be viewable on the web by all of you. 5:30 EDT would be 2:30 PDT, 12:00 EDT would be 9:00 PDT. I told Fred that I have listened to Chris McKay and Penny Boston at the Mars Terraforming workshop a couple of years back. Penny works with slim in caves made by microscopic organisims that don't like oxygen. These guys eat rock. Something you could use on Mars to get some of the elements back to the surface. (no plate techtonics to up turn rock, so go eat it.) A LOT OF IDEAS ON HOW ONE MIGHT MAKE MARS HABITABLE. JUST A LOT OF MONEY AND TIME. Look at the names in the video coming up and then some of the names at this conference. - LRK - http://spot.colorado.edu/~marscase/cfm/pgm.html This is the two day Mars terraforming conference I snuck in. - LRK - http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2000/00_68AR.html This was a more recent Mars Terraforming debate held at Ames that I didn't make either. (something about driving 60 miles over the hill from Tracy to Ames.) http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/informal/features/N_Star-Studded_M ars_Debate.html See the names of the players. - LRK - http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/research.cfm More players. - LRK - http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/ Astrobiology Portal http://www.astrobio.net/ Astrobiology Magazine Interesting set of participants. I listened to Steve Squyres at Foothill College before the launch of the rovers and watched him on our cable TV about the problems with working on a mission for such a long time just to get to the launch. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/minu-trans.html I would like to hear Harrison Schmidt in person. Ron Wells, up the road at UC Berkeley, is working with him on a book and has done a lot of work on the Apollo 17 portion of the ALSJ. Thanks Ron. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/Rwells.htm One other thought about the topics and participants. I attended a conference at Ames, also a while back, that was on extremes. Those scientists that are working in our oceans and going to cold places had to put up with hardships for equipment and personnel. Since the Deep Space launching type of scientists didn't have all that many missions going, they tought it would be good to get a lot of folks together from different disciplines and share ideas. http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/extremes/ Somehow I get the feeling that these video presentations might be sort of a recap of these meetings and a way to share those ideas with the general public. If you get a chance to log on to NASA TV next Monday and Tuesday, you might see what they have produced. It looks like the general NASA TV weekly schedule has the noon time and 5:00 p.m. EDT blocked for videos and educational films. - LRK - One last note here - GOOGLE found http://www1.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/sep/HQ_n04151_risk_symposium.html While looking up a reference to Chris McKay. Logged it on the http://KelloggSerialReports.blogspot.com Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== NASA Administrator's Symposium symposium, "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars" Have you ever been into space, in a research submarine, or been a part of a remote polar research base? Whether it's exploring the depths of our oceans or reaching the top of our highest mountains, great feats often involve great risk. During a special symposium hosted by Administrator Sean O'Keefe, NASA examines the similarities between space exploration and other terrestrial expeditions with the help of some of the best known explorers in the world, including mountain climbers, deep sea explorers, scientists and science fiction writers. The discussions also will include NASA astronauts, other notable aeronautics and deep space explorers. The symposium, "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," will be carried live Sept. 27-28 on NASA TV and webcast on www.nasa.gov from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Sessions and participants: Monday, Sept. 27 - 5:30 p.m. EDT Session One - Earth Moderator: Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA's Ames Research Center (ARC), Calif. * Ed Viesturs, American High-altitude Mountaineer * Penny Boston, Director of Cave and Karst Studies, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology * Dale Andersen, Astrobiologist, Antarctic/Artic researcher, SETI Institute * Nathalie Cabrol, Planetary Geologist, ARC, SETI Institute * Bill Stone, President, Stone Aerospace * David Roberts, Writer specializing in mountain climbing, adventure, and archaeology Tuesday, Sept. 28 - 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. EDT Session Two - Sea Moderator: David Halpern, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy * John Chatterton, Professional Diver, featured in the book, Shadow Divers * Sylvia Earle, Founder and Chairman, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research * Jean Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society * Mike Gernhardt, NASA astronaut * James Cameron, Academy Award winning director, undersea explorer * Laurence Bergreen, author, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Session Three - The Stars Moderator: John Grunsfeld, NASA Chief Scientist and astronaut * Harrison Schmidt, former NASA astronaut * Shannon Lucid, NASA astronaut * Steve Squyres, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, Scientific Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission * Jim Garvin, NASA Chief Scientist for Mars and the moon * John Mather, James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center * Graham Yost, Writer/Director, From the Earth to the Moon Times and participants are subject to change. See the NASA TV schedule on the Internet for the latest updates. NASA TV is available in the continental United States on AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, Transponder 9, 3880 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, NASA TV is on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, Transponder 18, at 4060 MHz, vertical polarization, and audio at 6.8 MHz. For more information about NASA TV or to watch the events on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html Theme Date 09/27/04 - 09/28/04 Location Monterey, CA, US Web Address http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html ============================================================== MESSAGE FROM NASA HEADQUARTERS - Ames email - LRK - Point of contact: David Steitz, Public Affairs, 202/358-1730 --------------------------------------------------------- - Ames email - see if I can't add a link or two about the participants - LRK - ADMINISTRATOR'S SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES EXPLORATION AND RISK During a special symposium hosted by Administrator Sean O'Keefe, NASA will examine the similarities between space exploration and other terrestrial expeditions with the help of some of the best known explorers in the world, including mountain climbers, deep sea explorers, scientists and science fiction writers. The discussions also will include NASA astronauts, other notable aeronautics and deep space explorers. The symposium, "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars," will be carried live Sept. 27-28 on NASA HQ Channel 3 and webcast on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Times and participants are subject to change. See the NASA TV schedule on the Internet for the latest updates. SESSIONS AND PARTICIPANTS Monday, Sept. 27 - 5:30 p.m. EDT Session One: Earth Moderator: Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA's Ames Research Center http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/workshops/1996/astrobiology/speakers/mckay_ c/mckay_c_bio.html Ed Viesturs, American High-altitude Mountaineer http://www.edviesturs.com/ Penny Boston, Director of Cave and Karst Studies, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology http://www.ees.nmt.edu/boston/ Dale Andersen, Astrobiologist, Antarctic/Artic researcher, SETI Institute http://www.astrobiology.com/asc2002/abstract.html?ascid=146 Nathalie Cabrol, Planetary Geologist, ARC, SETI Institute http://pokey.arc.nasa.gov/~ncabrol/ Bill Stone, President, Stone Aerospace http://www.geo.utexas.edu/zacaton/3D_Mapping/3-D%20mapping.htm http://www.usdct.org/mapper.htm http://www.usdct.org/personnel/stone.htm http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020828minerobot0828p2.asp David Roberts, Writer specializing in mountain climbing,adventure, and archaeology http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=51 http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document4191-2.html Tuesday, Sept. 28 - 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. EDT Session Two: Sea Moderator: David Halpern, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy http://www.coaltechnologies.com/2004%20Program.htm http://www.uwa.edu.au/media/statements/2003/april/high_powered_symposium_on_ was_water_at_uwa_(30_april) http://www.usgcrp.gov/irc/members.html John Chatterton, Professional Diver, featured in the book, Shadow Divers http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-lihist053881952jul05,0,4911857.st ory http://www.bestpub.com/bookstore2.asp?Category=Wreck/TreasureDiving Sylvia Earle, Founder and Chairman, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research http://www.oceantechnology.org/board_of_directors.htm http://www.divernet.com/profs/earl1196.htm Jean Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society http://www.oceanfutures.org/jmc/bio.asp Mike Gernhardt, NASA astronaut http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/gernhard.html James Cameron, Academy Award winning director, undersea explorer http://www.astrobio.net/news/article813.html http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesArtistsC/cameron_james.html http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghosts_of_the_abyss/about.php James Cameron's company, Breakpoint Media, has prepared an edited version of the movie For All Mankind for downloading in Microsoft Windows Media. It may be found at http://www.breakpointmedia.com/. Laurence Bergreen, author, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0066211735 http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=author&authorID=955 Session Three: The Stars Moderator: John Grunsfeld, NASA Chief Scientist and astronaut http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/grunsfel.html http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_03280_Grunsfeld.html Harrison Schmidt, former NASA astronaut http://www.oasis-nss.org/articles/2002/12/apollo17-gounley.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0210/p02s02-usgn.htm http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC1/trip.html Shannon Lucid, NASA astronaut http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lucid.html http://www.space.com/news/lucid_promo_020212.html Steve Squyres, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, Scientific Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission http://astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=112 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/mission.html Jim Garvin, NASA Chief Scientist for Mars and the moon http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_N04038_rover_press_brfg.html http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/personal_pages/garvin/garvin.html John Mather, James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/hubble_future_030610.html http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/ Graham Yost, Writer/Director, From the Earth to the Moon http://www.donniewahlberg.com/mercurynews11202.htm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/ ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040924/32cee39a/attachment-0001.htm From lkellogg at mail.arc.nasa.gov Thu Sep 23 12:31:39 2004 From: lkellogg at mail.arc.nasa.gov (Larry Kellogg) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:31:39 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA * SCHOOL YEAR TWO CLASS ACTS * ROVER MISSIONS RENEWED * SHOWING IN A THEATRE NEAR YOU Message-ID: Good day. Long subject line suggested from three NASANews postings, which I have copied below. In the public eye with something longer than a sound byte, should help get folks excited about going to space. If you know of other public space related events from around the World, let me know. Will be glad to share. This going to space should be as popular as a YoYo, well today probably a cell phone or an iPod. I remember sending away with my Wheaties box top and a dime for the mysterious "Dragon's Eye" ring that glowed with green luminescence in the dark. Aaah the age of Radio. Now you will just have to put up with me on the Internet. :-) - LRK - http://historytogo.utah.gov/tuning.html What prize should I offer for going to space? - LRK - http://www.kelloggserialreports.net/ http://www.kelloggserialreports.net/LarryKelloggReports.htm Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:12:10 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: NASA BEGINS SCHOOL YEAR WITH TWO CLASS ACTS Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington September 21, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1726) RELEASE: 04-309 NASA BEGINS SCHOOL YEAR WITH TWO CLASS ACTS Two NASA education programs, to inspire the next generation of explorers, have launched for the new school year. They are open for applications and proposals. Schools from across the country are eligible to apply online for an opportunity to partner with the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) Program. NES is designed to bring mathematics, science, technology and engineering learning to educators, students and families. NASA also released a cooperative agreement notice for the informal education community, with an opportunity to compete for funding support to host focus groups for the NASA Explorer Institutes (NEI) Program. "Students participating in classroom and informal education institute activities are the discoverers, space explorers and inventors of tomorrow. Their future role is vital in order to ensure our nation's technological and space exploration goals become a reality," said Dr. Adena Williams Loston, NASA's Chief Education Officer. "These two programs personify NASA's commitment to foster learning environments that will inspire young people to understand and protect our home planet, seize opportunities to venture to the moon, Mars and new worlds beyond." Each spring, a three-year partnership is established between the agency and 50 new NASA Explorer School teams. More than 100 teams of teachers and education administrators from diverse communities from 46 states have participated. NASA invites the selected teams to work with education specialists from agency centers to spark innovative science, mathematics and technology instruction aimed at students in grades four through nine. NES teams acquire new teaching resources and technology tools using NASA's unique content, experts and other resources. The deadline for submission of NES applications is January 31, 2005. The NEI Program's focus groups assemble experts from the informal education community to assist NASA with developing engaging experiences, opportunities, materials and information for use by science centers, museums, planetariums, libraries, parks, aquaria, nature centers, botanical gardens and youth groups across the nation. NASA anticipates up to 10 NEI focus groups will be funded through this solicitation, at a maximum funding level of $50,000 per project. Proposals must be received by November 12, 2004. To view the 2005 NES application on the Internet, visit: http://explorerschools.nasa.gov For information on the cooperative agreement notice and NASA Explorer Institutes, visit: http://education.nasa.gov/divisions/informal/overview/F_path finder_explorer_institute.html For information about NASA education programs on the Internet, visit: http://education.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ======= Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:11:42 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: ROVER MISSIONS RENEWED AS MARS EMERGES FROM BEHIND SUN Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington Sept. 21, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1547) Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-6278) RELEASE: 04-307 ROVER MISSIONS RENEWED AS MARS EMERGES FROM BEHIND SUN As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working. Both rovers successfully completed their primary three-month missions on the surface of Mars in April and have already added about five months of bonus exploration during the first extension of their missions. "Spirit and Opportunity appear ready to continue their remarkable adventures," said Andrew Dantzler, solar system division director at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "We're taking advantage of that good news by adding more support for the teamwork here on Earth that's necessary for operating the rovers." Neither rover drove during a 12-day period this month, while radio transmissions were unreliable because of the sun's position between the two planets. Daily planning and commanding of rover activities recommenced Monday for Opportunity and today for Spirit. "It is a relief to get past this past couple of weeks," said Jim Erickson, project manager for both rovers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. "Not only were communications disrupted, but the rovers were also going through the worst part of Mars southern-hemisphere winter from a solar-energy standpoint." "Although Spirit and Opportunity are well past warranty, they are showing few signs of wearing out," Erickson said. "We really don't know how long they will keep working, whether days or months. We will do our best to continue getting the maximum possible benefit from these great national resources." Rovers' science team members will spend less time at JPL during the second mission extension. They are able to attend daily planning meetings by teleconferencing from their home institutions in several states and in Europe. "All 150 science team members and collaborators have been provided the tools to be able to participate remotely," said JPL's Dr. John Callas, science manager for the rover project.Workstations researchers used at JPL are at their home institutions. Planning tools include video feeds, workstation display remote viewing, and audio conferencing. Besides reducing costs, remote operations allow scientists to spend more time at home. "We get back to more normal lives, back to our families, and we still get to explore Mars every day," said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator. Another change in operations is a shift from seven days per week to five days per week from October through December. This accommodates a temporary trim of about 20 percent in the project's engineering team to about 100 members. The rovers' reduced energy supply, during the rest of the Martian winter, makes the inactive days valuable for recharging batteries. By January, the energy situation will have improved for the solar-powered rovers, provided they are still operating. The team size will rebound to support daily operations. As Mars emerges from behind the sun, Spirit is partway up the west spur of highlands called the "Columbia Hills," a drive of more than 3 kilometers (2 miles) from its landing site. Opportunity is inside stadium-size "Endurance Crater," headed toward the base of a stack of exposed rock layers in "Burns Cliff," and a potential exit route on the crater's south side. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Images and additional information about the project are available on the Web at: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov http://athena.cornell.edu For information about NASA programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ======= Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:47:32 -0400 (EDT) From: NASANews at hq.nasa.gov Subject: NASA IS SHOWING IN A THEATRE NEAR YOU Sender: owner-press-release at spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:; Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington Sept. 21, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1726) Kimberly Land Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. (Phone: 757/864-9885) Lauren Leff Regal CineMedia, Inc., New York (Phone: 212/931-8107) RELEASE: 04-304 NASA IS SHOWING IN A THEATRE NEAR YOU As moviegoers wait in line to purchase tickets at Regal Entertainment Group (REG) theatres across the country, they will also get a lesson in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as NASA becomes part of the movie preview line up. REG theatres, including Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres nationwide, have added NASA programming to their lobby-advertising venue. Through a partnership with NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) Center for Distance Learning, Hampton, Va., one-minute newsbreaks are being shown on 42-inch plasma screens nationally in REG theatre lobbies. The programming is from NASA's Kids Science News Network (KSNN). "This special relationship with REG theatres is an opportunity to show the public NASA considers education a vital part of its service for students and adults," said Ron Shaneyfelt, KSNN program manager. "The in-theatre programming gives viewers information they may not find anywhere else." Through this unique partnership, REG theatres will receive award-winning videos from KSNN. An estimated 14.4 million patrons will see NASA videos monthly in more than 400 REG theaters. REG theatres have scheduled lobby showings in September, October and December. KSNN features kids teaching science, technology, engineering, and math to other kids in an entertaining and instructional format. The newsbreaks answer commonly asked questions and engage students to research misconceptions they may have about math and science. Produced by the LaRC Office of Education, KSNN newsbreaks may be downloaded from the Web with supporting content. Each component has a background information section. Students and educators can learn about the topic from a list of related resources and Web links. The hands-on activity can be used in the classroom or at home, allowing parents to get involved with their children's education, while sharing fun and exciting content. REG is the largest motion picture exhibitor in the world. The company's theatre circuit, comprising Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres, operates 6,053 screens in 544 locations in 39 states. Regal operates approximately 17 percent of all movie screens in the U. S. including theatres in 46 of the top 50 markets and growing suburban areas. Regal CineMedia is a wholly owned subsidiary of REG focusing on the expansion and development of advertising and new uses for Regal's theatre assets, while at the same time enhancing the movie-going experience. Media are invited to attend the premiere event at Regal Greenbrier Cinemas 13, Chesapeake, Va., from noon to 2 p.m. EDT, Sept. 25, 2004. Media should contact Kimberly Land at: 757/864-9885 for details and directions. To learn more about KSNN and other distance learning programming visit: http://dlcenter.nasa.gov For information about NASA education programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.education.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov For information about REG (NYSE: RGC), Inc., visit: http://www.regmovies.com or http://www.regalcinemedia.com -end- ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Engineers (Astronauts) of the future. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- Let all the good ideas come together and start cracking Hans Kalff ------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "ESA Portal News" To: "Media:" Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:32 PM Subject: [esa_general] ESA focuses its 'Cosmic Vision' > ESA's 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025' workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris on 15-16 > September 2004, showed that Europe is richer than ever in ideas for what > should be done in space science in the coming years. > > Read more: > http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDH41XDYD_index_0.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Sell-out crowd wowed by ESOC's Long Night of the Stars 21 September 2004 "Greetings to all the people of Europe and especially tonight at the Night of the Stars at the European Space Operations Centre," boomed International Space Station crewman Mike Fincke's voice over the public address system as a listening crowd burst into applause. This live, public radio chat with orbiting astronauts was just one part of an unforgettable evening at ESA's mission control centre. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIP61XDYD_Life_0.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Space Camps help the kids too. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.spacecamp.com/ http://www.spacecamp.com/index_1.php (HTML) http://www.spacecamp.com/broadband/ (FLASH) ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.spacecamp.no/ An introduction to Space Camp Space Camp at And?ya Rocket Range was arranged for the first time in the summer of 1996. The Norwegian Association of Young Scientists initiated the idea of a summer camp with this specific subject. Today the camp is made possible by the joint efforts of And?ya Rocket Range AS and the National Centre of Space-Related Education (NAROM), in cooperation with the Norwegian Space Centre and the European Space Agency (ESA). ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.tsbvi.edu/space/ Space Camp for Students with Visual Impairments ... Celebrating 15 years!! 1990-2004. "Just because I can't see the stars, doesn't mean I can't reach for them" - Space Camp Alumni. 2005 Program Dates are Sept. ... www.tsbvi.edu/space/ - 7k - Sep 21, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.atlasaerospace.net/eng/camp.htm The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. It is also intended to induce the interest of the young generation (high school, colleges and university students) in aero-space professions, feasibility of studying at Russian Universities and Institutes, as well as in cosmonauts' training techniques and technologies on the premises of the Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.delmarvanow.com/easternshore/stories/20040828/1135107.html Flying high at space camp Director laments local students' lack of interest in program By STEPHEN FURNESS WALLOPS -- Rockets flying through the air, advanced arial spy technology, and human controlled robots -- all in a day's work. The Virginia Space Flight Academy, located at Wallops, specializes in instructing middle- and high-school students in how each facet of space technology works. Though it isn't exactly the simulated astronaut-in-training space camp, the Virginia Space Flight Academy gives youth with imagination a chance to learn about the many government operations that take place on Wallops. "We're not space camp in Huntsville -- we don't try to be," said Bob Marshall, executive director for the Virginia Space Flight Academy, of the Alabama-based offering. "But for every astronaut, there's a thousand technicians on the ground. So why not show kids some realistic career opportunities?" snip ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- FOR EVERY ASTRONAUT,THERE'S A THOUSAND TECHNICIANS ON THE GROUND. :-) SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD REASON TO GO TO SPACE TO ME. HOW MANY MORE JOBS WHEN WE HEAD TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. - LRK - WOWING KIDS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD REASON TOO. - LRK - Now if only the politicians get the vision. - LRK - Maybe they need to go read the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. - LRK - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. It includes a corrected transcript of all recorded conversations between the lunar surface crews and Houston. The Journal also contains extensive, interwoven commentary by the Editor and by ten of the twelve moonwalking astronauts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- As Hans said, "Let all the good ideas come together and start cracking" Thanks Hans. SHALL I GET A BULL HORN? DO YOU ALL HAVE YOUR FLASH CARDS? (watching a game on TV) - LRK - ALTOGETHER NOW, SPELL OUT --- TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. --- (Were we missing a few cards? Do we need to add more in the stands? Did you car pool? Tell someone about the lunar-update list and watch me jump up and down in front of the crowd. :-) Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDH41XDYD_index_0.html http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMDH41XDYD_index_2.html ESA focuses its 'Cosmic Vision' Exploring space (image) 21 September 2004 ESA's 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025' workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris on 15-16 September 2004, showed that Europe is richer than ever in ideas for what should be done in space science in the coming years. Scientists from across Europe brought together their papers outlining what they thought should be the major issues of space exploration a decade from now, on topics such as 'Tracing the origin of the Solar System', 'The evolving violent Universe' and 'Other worlds and life in the Universe'. This workshop was a major step forward in developing the vision of the future for Europe's space science that will be presented by ESA's Science Directorate next spring. ESA's working groups are also working to identify the technology challenges, with the help of the ESA Advanced Concepts office. Following endorsement by ESA's Science Programme Committee in February 2005, the 'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025' document will be produced, laying out the targets for European space science for the decade 2015-2025. Subsequently, once the financial framework is known, the European scientific community will be called upon to produce a plan, including concrete missions and mission scenarios, which will capture as much as possible of the range of scientific themes targeted. ESA's Director of Science, Prof. David Southwood, said: "Europe's funding for space science has always been substantially less than the US but there can be little doubt from the last two days that Europe can claim intellectual parity and, with the right funding, can push back any frontier." More about... * Gaia overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120377_index_0_m.html) * BepiColombo overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120391_index_0_m.html) * JWST overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120370_index_0_m.html) * XEUS overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120369_index_0_m.html) Related articles * Plans for the future (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMF9M1PGQD_index_0.html) * IAA's vision for the next steps in exploring deep space (http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQY5M26WD_index_0.html) * How a mission is chosen (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMTV1T1VED_index_0.html) Related links * More on Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 (http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35857) ============================================================== http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIP61XDYD_Life_0.html http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIP61XDYD_Life_2.html Sell-out crowd wowed by ESOC's Long Night of the Stars A young visitor releases a mock weather balloon (image) 21 September 2004 "Greetings to all the people of Europe and especially tonight at the Night of the Stars at the European Space Operations Centre," boomed International Space Station crewman Mike Fincke's voice over the public address system as a listening crowd burst into applause. This live, public radio chat with orbiting astronauts was just one part of an unforgettable evening at ESA's mission control centre. As the astronauts spoke, visitors to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) glimpsed their home in space, the International Space Station (ISS), which was flying at an altitude of 360 kilometres over Darmstadt, Germany, at 20:54 local time on Saturday, 18 September 2004. The visitors had registered to attend ESOC's open house, part of the Long Night of the Stars ("Lange Nacht der Sterne") event involving 170 planetaria, observatories, astronomical organizations, museums, companies and scientific institutes in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The public radio discussion with the ISS astronauts, which lasted about five minutes as the station sped overhead, was just one highlight of the evening, which saw over 3,000 people welcomed to ESOC. First ESOC open house in 25 years As lead ESA organization supporting Long Night, ESOC communications staff organized the evening with strong support by volunteers from all engineering and mission teams; the result was a spectacular series of activities staged for five separate public groups that entered every 90 minutes between 18:00 and 1:30. The event was ESOC's first major open-door event in 25 years. The ESOC portion of The Long Night of the Stars was given wide pre-publicity by German press, radio and web media, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Hessische Radio. Some media ran contests where readers could win ESOC Long Night tickets, which - once sold out - even began to appear for sale on eBay. Amateur astronomer helps ESOC guests view the Sun (image) Comprised of more than 500 visitors each, the groups were guided in turn through the Main Control Room and several mission-specific Dedicated Control Rooms, viewed the Rosetta and Cassini-Huygens test models and could attend multimedia presentations given by engineering staff focussing on ESOC, the Earth, the solar system and the universe. The presentations highlighted ESOC's role in controlling and operating missions that gather valuable data related to Earth observation, the environment and navigation or that expand scientific knowledge by visiting other worlds. The presentations sparked lively questions and discussion from the audience, including on whether drivers will have to "purchase new cars" in order to make use of Galileo's upcoming highly accurate navigation services (short answer: No). In another presentation, Michael Schmidt, from the Integral mission team, explained to audiences how the new Vega launcher is intended to serve as a "very cost-effective" way to get satellites into space. Outside, visitors could view planets, stars and galaxies through a dozen telescopes set up by Darmstadt's "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Astronomie und Weltraumtechnik" (AAW), a local amateur astronomy club. The evening was perfect for viewing the setting sun (through heavily shielded lenses) and once night fell, the skies remained almost crystal clear. On such evenings, up to 10,000 galaxies can be seen with a typical amateur telescope according to Eric von den Heyden, 35, one of 30 people from the AAW who supported the event. Visitors lined up for 15 minutes at a time to view astronomical objects including the M87 gas nebula, located some 2,000 light years away. Children celebrating 10th birthday party at Long Night of the Stars (image) Young space fans laugh while learning Another highlight of the evening was the Children's Programme, an experiential play space designed to stimulate creativity and teach young visitors about space science. Children could scribble in an ESA colouring book, build paper models of Ariane launchers from paper, view 3-dimensional images of Mars' surface, and watch videos highlighting space exploration activities. There was also a live countdown and launch (of a compressed air rocket) and all young visitors received an official participation certificate and button. Space fans of all ages could also release mock weather balloons with an address card attached; the one found furthest from ESOC in the next few weeks will garner a prize for both sender and finder. After the tour, visitors were led to the ESOC cafeteria which had been converted into a showroom and information centre, with tables set up to spotlight careers at ESA and to distribute posters and other ESOC promotional items; the Space Shop was also offering a great selection of ESA- and ESOC-branded goods and souvenirs. Judging by the persistent crowds, space souvenirs are evidently in high demand. ISS amateur radio call grabs spotlight The highlight of the evening for many was the public amateur radio call with the ISS crew participating from 360 kilometres above. After answering questions on a typical day aboard the ISS (scientific experiments and on-going maintenance) and what the crew do for relaxation (call their families and watch DVDs), Astronaut Fincke wished ESOC visitors "A special goodnight" before the station orbited out of line-of-sight radio range. He also urged listeners to "Think about other humans and our future together." Editor's Note: An initiative of Germany's Stern magazine, Long Night of the Stars aimed to boost public support and understanding of space science, astronomy, and space-related research, education and industry. The Long Night was supported by the European Space Agency, as well as Germany's Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), automaker Mercedes Benz, the German Space Agency (DLR), the European Southern Observatory and the Association of Friends of the Stars (VdS). Related news * Long Night of the Astronauts (http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMK281XDYD_astronauts_0.html) * Long Night of the Stars (German language) (http://www.Lange-Nacht-der-Sterne.de) * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German language) (http://www.faz.net/s/RubABE881A6669742C2A5EBCB5D50D7EBEE/Doc~E40FFFBBF682F4 93295549F0DBA17679E~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html#top) * S?dwestrundfunk (German language) (http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/ts/oid3625956_mod1.html) * Yahoo! Nachrichten (German language) (http://de.news.yahoo.com/040919/336/47obi.html) Related links * ESOC-ISS crew radio call (MP3; 8.5 MB) (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/ARISS_ESOC_040918.mp3) * ISS video tour (WMV; 152 MB) (http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv) * Ariane 5 cutout model (PDF) (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/Ariane5EvoluationPaper.pdf) ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040922/ffdc13b5/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 22 01:08:37 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:08:37 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Space Stations and Manned Spaceflight in the 1980s and 90s - by Marcus Lindroos Message-ID: Good evening. I mentioned before that you Sci-Fi writers should fire up the quill pen and give us some visions to think about. Larry Klaes sent me the link below with the comment, "Hi Larry - you probably know about this web site, but just in case..." Well I hadn't seen the site and am finding it very interesting. Thanks Larry K. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://wwwabo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/sld001.htm -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/ Space Stations and Manned Spaceflight in the 1980s and 90s 05-Apr-2002 -------------------------------------------------------------- This is from Marcus Lindroos' web site in Finland. He has a number of interesting pages besides this history of the ISS. What comes to mind as I look a the many beautiful images is that we seem to have been writing wishful fiction for some time now as much of the ideas for the ISS have not come about. When I got out of the Navy in 1983 and walked around the bottom of Moffett Field to start work with Bendix Field Engineering, the walls in the building had large posters of what the ISS might be. These continued to change over time and now we are still putting the shell together. There were grand plans to do many things in space but history doesn't always play out as the artists portray. When you look at slides 1-99, with all the artwork and Marcus' write ups, you will note that we have spent a lot of money on proposals that got dropped. Many, many studies, with lots of good information, that cost a lot of money, that later were not acted upon. I think what has been lacking has been the support or continued support from congress, the administrations that change and disprove earlier plans, and the people that have forgotten the Tang {Tm} ads and meals in squeeze tubes. http://www.oldtimecandy.com/space-food-sticks.htm Now once again we are presented with a grand vision which I fear history will walk on unless enough voices are heard to clarify and motivate. http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html I suppose I am as much at fault as anyone. I am writing this, watching a ball game on cable and trying to improve my use of the written Thai language for next Sunday class. At the same time, those that walked on the Moon are not getting any younger. Some of you have been attending space universities. Lets hope more find the dream exciting enough to focus and make it happen. I'll help support from the bleachers. http://www.isunet.edu/about_us/what_is_isu.htm Do you want to come and cheer with me? Bring a friend. Who knows, they might even want to sign up for this lunar-update list and help me make some noise. :-) Thanks for looking up with me. :-) TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. DESTINY AWAITS THE ADVENTURE. Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Marcus Lindroos http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/welcome.html http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Space.htm SPACE I have been interested in space exploration since I was in kindergarten, but only became a true "space buff" in the mid-1990s. Before that, science fiction was more interesting but now I actually belong to the tiny minority who regards past, current & future space plans as more fascinating than Star Wars or Star Trek. Besides, none of it will happen unless the "real" space program manages to explore and conquer the other worlds of the solar system. This won't be easy...I will show two slides that I've prepared for a space history book/webside project of mine. The first picture shows the predicted rate of progress in 1975 while the second lists the actual milestones in 1980-2000! NASA's recent "Space Exploration Initiative" plan from 1989 is as dead as a doornail; click here for a list of projected milestones for 1990-2010, and here for the AD 2010-2029 timeline. Looks like we will have to set our sights considerably lower than that...e.g. the 1993 General Dynamics "Early Lunar Access" plan from 1993 would be far less expensive. snip -------------------------------------------------------------- Having recently completed my MSc thesis for Space Systems Finland Ltd. http://www.ssf.fi/ ("Software Quality for Space Applications"), I am now working part-time for my university while pursuing several projects in my spare time... I am preparing an illustrated data book on the International Space Station and other manned spaceflight projects in 1984-1998. http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/ There will eventually be similar articles on the Space Shuttle and future missions to the Moon and Mars as well. I have also got some freelance space market work (space tourism and entertainment etc.) which I need to look at as well. My future career plans are open. Finally, I really enjoy space history, including "alternative" projects that never happened. I wrote an essay on the history of the manned Soviet lunar landing program (1962-74), a project that actually was regarded as highly secret until the advent of glasnost and perestroika in 1988. The article (which was written in 1996) is actually slightly out of date now. Mark Wade's ENCYCLOPEDIA ASTRONAUTICA http://www.astronautix.com/ is the Internet source for this kind of material, and I have provided some data for Mark as well. David Portree's "Romance to Reality" Moon/Mars website http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/ is also very good. For current projects and space news, my friend Joe Hopkins is doing a great job for Andrews Space & Technology http://www.spaceandtech.com/index_current.html -- check this website for the latest news. snip -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/ http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/sld001.htm ============================================================== http://www.prnewswire.com/ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-21 -2004/0002255997&EDATE= SpaceX Selected for Responsive Space Launch Demonstration Under DARPA Falcon Program EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been awarded $8M by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Air Force to demonstrate highly responsive, affordable launch capability. This supports broader interest by the Defense Department and Air Force in a launch capability that can rapidly add satellite coverage when needed. The demonstration will take place next summer with the objective of cutting on pad processing time by a factor of two from the standard commercial Falcon I launcher, which was developed with private funding. The SpaceX Falcon I rocket, whose name precedes the DARPA FALCON program, was named after the Star Wars Millennium Falcon(TM). "With this program, the Department of Defense is continuing a tradition of supporting new American space launch capabilities," said Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. "We are honored to be selected by DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. We will work hard to exceed their expectations." SpaceX now has three launches of Falcon I and one launch of Falcon V under contract. First launch of Falcon I will carry the TacSat-1 satellite to a 500km orbit from the SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base and is scheduled to occur between the end of 2004 and early 2005. About SpaceX SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten. Located in El Segundo, California, the company was founded by Elon Musk in June 2002. SpaceX is the third company founded by Mr. Musk. Previously he co-founded and was the largest shareholder of PayPal (formerly X.com), the world's leading electronic payment system, which sold to online auction giant eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. More information about SpaceX can be found at SpaceX.com. SOURCE Space Exploration Technologies Corporation Web Site: http://www.spacex.com -------------------------------------------------------------- More news from PR Newswire... 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URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040922/c68da5e1/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 20 23:15:21 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:15:21 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA SELECTS CONTRACTOR FOR FIRST PROMETHEUS MISSION TO JUPITER Message-ID: Now it is good evening. So back to Jupiter (if the next Congress and President continue with looking up and out to space.) Maybe this time with an ION powered engine and a nuclear power source. Start writing some more Sci-Fi with this in mind and lets go to Jupiter and Beyond. TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. DESTINY AWAITS THE ADVENTURE. Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington September 20, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1979) Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-9382) CONTRACT RELEASE: C04-x NASA SELECTS CONTRACTOR FOR FIRST PROMETHEUS MISSION TO JUPITER NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., selected Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., as the contractor for co-designing the proposed Prometheus Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) spacecraft. The contract award is for approximately $400 million, covering work through mid-2008. The Prometheus JIMO mission is an ambitious mission to orbit and explore three planet-sized moons, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa, of Jupiter. The moons may have vast oceans beneath their icy surfaces. A nuclear reactor would enable the mission, which would launch in the next decade. JIMO would be the first NASA mission using nuclear electric propulsion, which would enable the spacecraft to orbit each icy world to perform extensive investigations of their composition, history, and potential for sustaining life. The JIMO mission, integrated with the Vision for Space Exploration, also develops and demonstrates technologies and capabilities in direct support to implement the Vision, including space nuclear electric power systems and nuclear electric propulsion systems. "We have assembled an exceptional team of professionals to take us into the next phase of the mission. To see the mission evolve is rewarding, and I am confident a good team is in place to move us forward," said John Casani, project manager for the JIMO mission at JPL. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will work with a government team to complete the preliminary design for the spacecraft. The work includes developing hardware, software and test activities for the design of the non-nuclear portion of the spacecraft. It also includes developing the interfaces for the spacecraft, space reactor, and science instruments. The contractor is responsible for the integration of government-owned and provided technologies into the spacecraft. They are also responsible for assembly, integration, and testing of the space system in accordance with applicable government requirements. The government team will co-design the spacecraft with the contractor. NASA will supply the launch vehicle. The Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors, Washington, will own and be responsible for the space reactor. The government team includes JPL, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Glenn Research Center, Cleveland; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; and Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Also the Office of Naval Reactors, which includes Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y.; Bettis Laboratory, Pittsburgh; and supporting Department of Energy national laboratories. The mission instruments will be procured competitively via a NASA Announcement of Opportunity. Three crosscutting themes, identified by a NASA-chartered science definition team, drive the proposed JIMO investigations. The themes are: evaluate the degree subsurface oceans are present on these moons; study the chemical composition of the moons, including organic materials, and the surface processes that affect them; and scrutinize the entire Jupiter system, particularly the interactions between Jupiter, the moons' atmospheres and interiors. JIMO is managed by JPL and is part of NASA's Prometheus Program, a program studying a series of initiatives to develop power systems and technologies for space exploration in support of the Vision for Space Exploration. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the proposed JIMO mission for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Washington. For more information about the mission or NASA, visit: http://spacescience.nasa.gov/missions/prometheus.htm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jimo/index.cfm http://www.nasa.gov -end- * * * NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo at hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second automatic message will include additional information on the service. 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URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040920/dca209fd/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 20 14:56:42 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:56:42 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Space Vehicle Space Act MOU Signed with NASA Ames Research Center Message-ID: Good day. Last post may have been a bit off target. Too mind bending. Still we need to find ways to generate interest and support for going to space in a time that draws our attention elsewhere. Today's post may be a bit more uplifting. :-) Dave Lozier passed me the SpaceRef article below about SpaceDev's founding chairman and CEO, Jim Benson, recently signing a Space Act Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NASA Ames Research Center director, Dr. Scott Hubbard. Now will have to watch and see if this ends up being another research paper product or something actually flies. Hopefully if the upcoming SpaceShipOne X-Prize challenge is successful there will be enough encouraging press for the public to support these civilian efforts. Especially if NASA will help support the effort. WANT TO SEE SOME HARDWARE FLY. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15076 PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, September 20, 2004 Source: SpaceDev, Inc. SpaceDev Begins Work on ''Dream Chaser'' Space Vehicle Space Act MOU Signed with NASA Ames Research Center SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV) has begun designing a reuseable, piloted, sub-orbital space ship that could be scaled up to safely and economically transport passengers to and from low earth orbit, including the International Space Station. The name of the vehicle is the "SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM)." SpaceDev's founding chairman and CEO, Jim Benson, recently signed a Space Act Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NASA Ames Research Center director, Dr. Scott Hubbard. This non-binding MOU confirms the intention of the two parties to explore novel, hybrid propulsion based hypersonic test beds for routine human space access. The parties will explore collaborative partnerships to investigate the potential of using SpaceDev's proven hybrid propulsion and other technologies, and a low cost, private space program development approach, to establish and design new piloted small launch vehicles and flight test platforms to enable near-term, low-cost routine space access for NASA and the United States. One possibility for collaboration is the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) project, which is currently being discussed with NASA Ames. Unlike the more complex SpaceShipOne, for which SpaceDev provides critical proprietary hybrid rocket motor propulsion technologies, the SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) would be crewed and take-off vertically, like most launch vehicles, and will glide back for a normal horizontal runway landing. "This project is one small step for SpaceDev, but could evolve into one giant leap for affordable, commercial human space flight," said Jim Benson. "I have been waiting for almost fifty years for commercial space flight, and have concluded that SpaceDev, through our unbroken string of successful space technology developments, now has the technical capability and know-how, along with our partners, and when fully funded, to quickly develop a safe and affordable human space flight program, beginning with sub-orbital flights in the near future, and building up to reliable orbital public space transportation hopefully by the end of this decade." "I am delighted that we will be working with SpaceDev to help meet the goals of The Vision for Space Exploration," said G. Scott Hubbard, director of NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. "Near-term, low-cost, crewed and uncrewed routine space access is a key for realizing the nation's Exploration Vision. I look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with SpaceDev to explore the technologies for a new class of exciting launch vehicles for future space exploration." snip -------------------------------------------------------------- http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2004/04_89AR.html Michael Mewhinney Sept. 20, 2004 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650/604-3937 or 650/604-9000 E-mail: Michael.Mewhinney at nasa.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- NEWS RELEASE: 04-89AR NASA, SPACEDEV TO COLLABORATE ON FUTURE SPACE TRANSPORTATION NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and SpaceDev Co., of Poway, Calif., are collaborating on developing new low-cost space launch vehicles to help achieve the goals of the nation's Vision for Space Exploration. Under the terms of a newly signed memorandum of understanding, SpaceDev, a nationally recognized leader in the development of hybrid propulsion systems, will partner with NASA to explore designs for new, small piloted launch vehicles and flight test platforms to enable near-term, low-cost, routine space access for future exploration. "I am delighted that we will be working with SpaceDev to help meet the goals of The Vision for Space Exploration," said G. Scott Hubbard, director of NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. "Near-term, low-cost, piloted and unpiloted routine space access is a key for realizing the nation's Exploration Vision. I look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with SpaceDev to explore the technologies for a new class of exciting launch vehicles for future space exploration," Hubbard said. "We are pleased to be a partner with NASA in helping the nation achieve low-cost, routine access to space," said Jim Benson, SpaceDev's founding chairman and CEO. "We believe that our expertise in hybrid propulsion technology, combined with NASA's hypersonic flight tests and the use of its world-class facilities, will provide an important new opportunity for meeting the nation's space access needs." According to the new memorandum of understanding, potential areas of collaboration may include vehicle concept analyses; hybrid propulsion systems; systems engineering; detailed design; fabrication; reentry analyses and design; thermal protection systems; information technology; vehicle health monitoring; advanced hybrid propulsion fuels; wind tunnel, arc-jet facilities and flight simulator use; and experimental design and integration. Founded in 1997, SpaceDev designed and built a new hybrid propulsion system for SpaceShipOne, the privately funded space vehicle that recently completed a successful launch in Mojave, Calif. Another flight is planned early next month. According to company officials, hybrid propulsion provides a level of safety, low costs and operational flexibility that are unmatched by conventional liquid fueled or solid rocket motors. -end- ============================================================== http://www.space.com/news/x37_darpa_040915.html NASA Transfers X-37 Project to DARPA By Brian Berger Space News Staff Writer posted: 15 September 2004 02:41 pm ET WASHINGTON - NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus said Sept. 15 the U.S. space agency would remain involved in the X-37 program, but that DARPA would now be running the show. Braukus had told Space News on Sept. 13 that the X-37 program had been transferred to another U.S. government agency but that NASA could not disclose that agency's identity for reasons of national security. Braukus said on Sept. 15 that he had since been given permission to identify DARPA as X-37's new government sponsor. snip Braukus said Scaled Composites would be involved in the X-37 approach and landing demonstrations next year, but could not say whether the Mojave-based company would be using the White Knight or some other aircraft. The B-52 aircraft that NASA normally uses for such drop tests would not be used, a decision made by the agency now in charge of the X-37 program, he said. "The cost analysis favored Scaled Composites," Braukus said. snip ============================================================== http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ News Flash: First X-Prize flight scheduled for September 29, 2004 For more information about the X-Prize flights (press inquiries, news updates, ticket information, etc.) please visit the Ansari X-Prize website. http://web1-xprize.primary.net/teams/american_scaled_composites.php http://web1-xprize.primary.net/press_room/press_releases/press.php?presstitl e=20040727 ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040920/f11a0e5d/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Sat Sep 18 12:53:23 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:53:23 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Newsletter TDF 2/2004 - A space age or a (new) stone age Message-ID: Good morning, well its Saturday. Adriano Autino has a news letter, the one just received copied below, and some web sites with many articles about where we a Earth bound society are going. You want to go to space, and some say too expensive, others why not take care of business here a home. Today some may even wonder if a car bomb might get in your way. Maslow's Hierarchy starts out at the lower level with satisfying your physiological needs. The next rung up is Security and Safety Needs. You don't get to the creative stuff until you take care of the in-between needs like belonging, self-esteem. With these taken care of you can work on Self Actualization. Now worrying about car bombs drops you right back to level one. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.rain.org/~hutch/maslow.html Maslow believed that an individual must substantially satisfy the needs at the lowest level before he or she could begin to satisfy the needs at the next higher level. Only when the needs of all lower levels were satisfied could Self-Actualization Needs begin to be satisfied. Self-actualization is the fulfillment of one's human potential, and is often the point at which an individual becomes truly creative. snip ------------------------------------------------------------- Take a look at Adriano's news letter and some of his web articles. I think we need to satisfy some of our basic needs and get on with moving up the rungs of Maslow's Hierarchy. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ ============================================================== Newsletter TDF 2/2004 - A space age or a (new) stone age Dear Co-Planetaries, The title here above is the one of a paper, written by Marco C. Bernasconi and Arthur Woods, appeared in Space News - Oct. 2- 8, 1995. I am using it because it seems extremely appropriate to me, in describing the current situation. The upsurge in the price of oil, to nearly 50 dollars per barrel (double the middle price fixed by OPEC), involves, for the planetary economy, a "tax" of 50 billion dollars per month (600 billion per year), to be paid to the real world government: the oil monopoly. As in the 1973 big oil crisis, the different commentators disagree. The prevailing reason, for the unprecedented rise of the black gold price, is attributed by some to the current political-military situation in the Middle-East, by others to the shrinking of oil reserves thmselves. Whatever is the main reason, a lot of substantial differences exist, with regard to the 1973 crisis. That crisis was an entirely man-made crisis, which nevertheless had the effect of igniting reflection on the limited resources of this planet. The Countries of the OPEC cartel decided to raise the price of the raw oil, in two months, to 12 dollars per barrel. Besides, the 1973 oil crisis ended the period of great industrial development which followed the 1945 Bretton-Woods agreements. Historical sources state that, at that time, the United States didn't oppose the OPEC decision, considering the bigger incomes for Saudi Arabia and Iran, due to the increase of the oil price, as a kind of indirect financing for the armament of such Countries. But then the world was still split in two blocks, neither of which was interested in making the price fall, for military reasons. Today the situation is very different: one of the supposed contenders (the Al Qa'edist terrorism) seems to be driven by a philosophy of endless death; it continues to sacrifice its own young people, and its ideological objective is anything but clear. Besides, the history of such terrorism decidedly appears to have two interlinked connections - to some of the oil lobbyists, as well as to the Middle-East situation. The West seems by now to have accepted the military facts of life, and to have decided to look for other solutions, rather than the use of its own technological superiority. As if to show that lessons in civilization and humanism can come from any quarter, during these days the "Grand Ayatollah" Al Sistani deserved the title of "Grand", rendered to him by the media: he personally went, risking his own life, to the hottest point of the Iraqi conflict. He went to stop the killings, and to speak. And he has achieved, in half a day, what great armies and overwhelming military might did not manage to accomplish in many months. How many other political or religious heads will dare to do the same, and thus take the moral high ground? The occupaying powers, nevertheless, didn't learn anything, and keep on reacting to the terrorism by other terror, bombs and destruction, without saving women and children. The total blindness of such a deal should be self evident: we could achieve the favor of a people (vs. terrosim) only if we would be able to show a moral temper, a nobilty and a capability to protect the good peple and put the bad ones in conditions not to harm, things which war and destruction have nothing to do with. But the theater of the conflict, today, extends beyond the Middle-East region, though this last remains the region where fires of war and instability mostly ignite. As we comment in other articles (The first Chinese manned space mission, China in Space), a great machine has recently turned on its motors: the industrial development of the biggest Asian Countries: China and India. This machine needs fuel and raw materials, in hardly calculable quantity. In the face of such demands, the oil resources (and not only the oil ones) of the planet will really start to be scarce. And here is the second point of difference between the present crisis and that of 1973. Obviously, too, the alarm bell of 1973 could have started useful lines of development, but then the only resultant vector was that of the geocentricity, of the Ecological Movement! This Movement, facing the problem of the finiteness of terrestrial resources, simply preached the reduction of the human species and, in its most radical wings, even its extinction. The current situation also shows clearly (at last) the obsolescence of such those intellectual tendencies, which we can justly call Reductionist and anti-Human. There are, on this same planet, great populations, that are not at all afflicted by the self-destructive sense of guilt as are we post-industrial people: they in the final analysis are simply claiming their share of development and good living standards. And this, as we now finally realise, is primarily a matter of energy and raw materials. We are not empowered to grant or deny technological know-how: know-how nowadays is diffused to the East as well as the West. They can achieve in a short time the same and more than we can, because they are more motivated. This is the true challenge that the post-industrial West is facing. Beware, gentlemen; the stake is extremely high: the future of our whole civilization depends upon the answer that we will be able to give. The choices, for us Western people, are at least four: a) to fight militarily the development of the Eastern peoples; b) to wait passively, to be overcome and colonized by the new emerging political-economic power; c) to help as far as possible such development; d) to look for new spaces and new resources of development, for us and for them, beyond the borders of this planet. Left to themselves, I'm afraid that the American and European political leaderships would choose, respectively, however absurd, solutions a) and b). As has certainly happened on other occasions, the biggest problem for people who foresee great future events, is that of passing on their own foresight those who lack the same intuition. It is difficult to find useful precedents in history for the totally new. Many will shrug their shoulders in resignation: another conflict, and then? The history of civilization is studded with conflicts. This inactivity is the greatest danger, that we must culturally and politically avoid. Let's put it so: you have a very small and pretty house, one day two champions of Wrestling come to find you, they drink your whiskey, and they start to quarrel. What is your principal worry? "Please, go outside to fight..." you suggest to them, in the most prudent option. (in fact there is a real danger that they will get angry with you ). The damage that two (or more) combatants can inflict depends directly on the dimensions of the combatants themselves and on the scale of the theater of the conflict itself. Now, the contenders' sizes (East and West) are such, that, if also the contest remained at the economic-industrial level, our actual cosmic residence would not be enough, and it would result in irreparable devastation. We would face an unprecedented crisis of resources and an environmental crisis. Such crisis could be enough to set civilization back several millennia. If then the conflict degenerated to a military level (very possible, considering the political trends that still prevail), I don't see how our civilization (and perhaps also our kind) could survive. It is surely difficult to bring to their senses some drunk wrestling champions (and I apologize with the category, that I have sinisterly used for my example!). It will be a good precautionary measure to remove any "alcoholics" (i.e. any religious fundamentalisms), and even to choose our leaders more wisely. Nevertheless, are we able (as a civilization) to bet all our chances on the unlikely eventuality that some reasonable politicians will appear? History until now suggests a pessimistic view. The solution d) is therefore an imperative, and it must be pursued at any cost, in any measure. If the last resort is to be that the combatants at least left the house to pursue their quarrel, the technological and industrial possibilities of it must exist. And it could be that, faced with the abundance of resources and energy that they will find just outside their home, suddenly the contestants' drunkenness will pass, a beautiful smile will appear on their faces, and the conflict will move onto more solid (and very less bloody) ground. I will also try to discuss this and other topics, in the interview that David Livingston will make with me Sunday 3 October, in his Space Show. Due to all the above reasons, the initiative of independent and courageus people is quite essential. Therefore I look very much forward to the next september 29th, and wish the best to SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites, when they will try the first flight to qualify for the X-Prize! Their success will be a breath of hope, and fresh air, in the current heavy war-and-terrorism weather. TDF 2/2004 The summary of TDF 2/2004 is very solid; I would be attempted to add other articles, but so making this number would never issue! The today's cut therefore includes, among others, the followings articles: - A corpse is not a good client, by A. Autino - http://www.tdf.it/2004/cad_eng.htm ... It is this matter of killing that shall come to an end. In the killing, as in the torture, there's only the regression to the natural ferocity, to the bestial instincts. Once people overcome that border, they don't have respect of themselves anymore: therefore, there is not then such a great difference between the killing and the torture. Whoever really wishes to contribute educating terrestrials to democracy, will have to be stronger, but of a firstly moral strength, not only military. The awareness of who is able to measure his strength to prevent the injustices, stopping well before the killing, the mutilations, the tortures. The strength that immediately communicates to the opponents that we intend to take care of our children as well as of their children, and that we won't allow anymore anybody to kill, to torture, to make themselves to explode.... - The tyranny of oil, by A. Autino - http://www.tdf.it/2004/oil_eng.htm ... The speculative upsurge of the oil' price, in this 2004 summer, subsequently shows the extreme criticality of the energy problem. All the experts foresee an increasing demand of energy and raw resources. It begins therefore to appear, in its whole dramaticity, the problem of the finiteness of the resources of our (by now unic) planet... - The failure of the space agencies, by A. Autino - http://www.tdf.it/2004/age_eng_old.htm ... Since the Apollo mission in 1969, agencies were not able to decrease the cost to orbit of one kg terrestrial material of 1 cent; the quality standards are growing exponentially, but the space systems quality is decreasing (2 shuttles on 5 lost, Ariane 5 failures are 21%, vs. 2,6% of Ariane 4); the ScaledComposites's SpaceShipOne made the same work of NASA's X15 with only 30 millions Dollars, ... - New frontiers of tourism: the space, by Pierluigi Polignano http://www.tdf.it/2004/st_eng.htm - Shimizu Organization wants to build lunar laboratories and hotels using local raw materials. Nishimatsu Construction Corporation has planned to build a mega-resort, with the shape of three giant shells: Escargot City, snail city. Obayashi Corporation, on the contrary, is planning a self-sufficient lunar farm, able to host 10.000 people, with fields, gardens and orchards for the living. And don't forget (even if is not easy, this period) to: Aim high! 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Was looking for material on Lunar Bases and found - *************************************************** Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Papers from a NASA-sponsored, public symposium hosted by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., Oct. 29-31, 1984 edited by W.W. Mendell published by The Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston TL799.M6L83 1985 919.9'104 86-50 ISBN 0-942862-02-3 *************************************************** Which is being made available electronically by the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The ADS service has other books and reference material available as well as you will find if you try some of the Harvard links. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://ads.harvard.edu/books/lbsa/ Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Lunar Bases ... The original, primitive lunar base lies to the left of a large electromagnetic launch facility, which dominates the vista. ... ads.harvard.edu/books/lbsa/ - 4k - Cached - Similar pages Copyright ? 1986 by the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Made available electronically by the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) ------------------------------------------------------------- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1985lbsa.conf.. ..1. Title: Prologue Journal: In: Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century. Houston, TX, Lunar and Planetary Institute, edited by W. W. Mendell, 1985, p.1 Bibliographic Code: 1985lbsa.conf....1. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_browse.html ADS Browse Service ------------------------------------------------------------- http://ads.harvard.edu/books/ ADS Digital Library Welcome to the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library. Here you can browse through the books in the ADS. Following are links to the online books relating to astronomy and astrophysics which can be browsed and printed on demand. ------------------------------------------------------------- The table of contents is copied below and each section with papers has their own link so just go to the table of contents and let the server find the material. - LRK - I would suggest opening the links in the TOC page in a separate window so you can get back to the Table Of Contents page. Looks like each paper or topic opens in a frames page to let you open the pages in that section. At the top you can open the complete bibliography material which then gives you options on printing. If you ask for the whole book in pdf format it is 865 pages. You might try each topic by themselves. - LRK - Since I just found this today, have not read all 865 pages. :-) This was put together in 1985, nineteen years ago. I think I was using a DOS PC computer with four colors. :-) Pioneer 10 had left the Solar System two years before. Pioneer Venus was still in orbit around Venus. The Clementine mission would not be launched until 25 January 1994. Read with the question in mind, what could we do today with what we know now. (You might also read it with the idea of what could we be doing now if we had already launched the mission to the Moon as described in some of the papers.) hmmmmm - WONDER HOW MANY MORE PAPERS WILL BE WRITTEN BEFORE WE LAUNCH GAIN? - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://adswww.harvard.edu/ The NASA Astrophysics Data System The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. 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Strategies for a Permanent Lunar Base 57 Duke, Michael B., Mendell, Wendell W. & Roberts, Barney B. Preliminary Design of a Permanently Manned Lunar Surface Research Base 69 Hoffman, Stephen J. & Niehoff, John C. Merits of A Lunar Polar Base Location 77 Burke, James D. Nuclear Energy-Key to Lunar Development 85 Buden, David & Angelo, Joseph A., Jr. Nuclear Powerplants for Lunar Bases 99 French, J. R. TRANSPORTATION ISSUES 109 Mission and Operations Modes for Lunar Basing 111 Woodcock, Gordon R. Impact of Lunar and Planetary Missions on the Space Station 125 Babb, G. R., Davis, H. P., Phillips, P. G. & Stump, W. R. A Moon Base/Mars Base Transportation Depot 141 Keaton, Paul W. Achromatic Trajectories and the Industrial-Scale Transport of Lunar Resources 155 Heppenheimer, T. A. A Lunar-Based Propulsion System 169 Rosenberg, Sanders D. Launching Rockets and Small Satellites from the Lunar Surface 177 Anderson, K. A., Dougherty, W. M. & Pankow, D. H. LUNAR SCIENCE 187 The need for a lunar base - Answering basic questions about planetary science 189 Taylor, G. J. Geochemical and petrological sampling and studies at the first moon base 199 Haskin, L. A., Korotev, R. L., Lindstrom, D. J. & Lindstrom, M. M. A Closer Look at Lunar Volcanism from a Base on the Moon 211 Vaniman, D. T., Heiken, G. & Taylor, G. J. Advanced geologic exploration supported by a lunar base - A traverse across the Imbrium-Procellarum region of the moon 223 Cintala, M. J., Spudis, P. D. & Hawke, B. R. Search for volatiles and geologic activity from a lunar base 239 Friesen, L. J. Unmanned spaceflights needed as scientific preparation for a manned lunar base 245 Wilhelms, D. E. The next generation geophysical investigation of the moon 253 Hood, L. L., Sonett, C. P. & Rusell, C. T. Geophysics and lunar resources 265 Strangway, D. Surface Electromagnetic Exploration Geophysics Applied to the Moon 271 Ander, Mark E. SCIENCE ON THE MOON 279 Astronomical interferometry on the moon 281 Burke, B. F. A moon-earth radio interferometer 293 Burns, J. O. A very low frequency radio astronomy observatory on the moon 301 Douglas, J. N. & Smith, H. J. Lunar based gamma ray astronomy 307 Haymes, R. C. Irradiation of the moon by galactic cosmic rays and other particles 315 Adams, J. H., Jr. & Shapiro, M. M. Celestial sources of high-energy neutrinos as viewed from a lunar observatory 329 Shapiro, M. M. & Silberberg, R. A lunar neutrino detector 335 Cherry, M. & Lande, K. Neutrino Measurements on the Moon 345 Petschek, Albert G. Mass extinctions and cosmic collisions - A lunar test 349 Horz, F. LUNAR CONSTRUCTION 361 Lunar Base Design 363 Land, Peter A Surface-Assembled Superstructure Envelope System to Support Regolith Mass- Shielding for an Initial-Operational-Capability Lunar Base 375 Kaplicky, Jan & Nixon, David Concrete for Lunar Base Construction 381 Lin, T. D. Concrete and Other Cement-Based Composites for Lunar Base Construction 391 Young, J. Francis Magma, Ceramic, and Fused Adobe Structures Generated In-Situ 399 Khalili, E. Nader Lava tubes - Potential shelters for habitats 405 Horz, F. Design of Lunar-Based Facilities: The Challenge of a Lunar Observatory 413 Johnson, Stewart W. & Leonard, Ray S. Environmental Considerations and Waste Planning on the Lunar Surface 423 Briggs, Randall & Sacco, Albert, Jr. LUNAR MATERIALS AND PROCESSES 433 Toward a Spartan Scenario for Use of Lunar Materials 435 Haskin, Larry A. Mining for Lunar Base Support 445 Podnieks, E. R. & Roepke, W. W. Electrostatic Concentration of Lunar Soil Minerals 453 Agosto, William N. In Situ Rock Melting Applied to Lunar Base Construction and for Exploration Drilling and Coring on the Moon 465 Rowley, John C. & Neudecker, Joseph W. Microwave Processing of Lunar Materials: Potential Applications 479 Meek, Thomas T., Vaniman, David T., Cocks, Franklin H. & Wright, Robin A. Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Structural Components 487 Blacic, James D. Guide to using lunar soil and simulants for experimentation 497 Allton, J. H., Galindo, C., Jr. & Watts, L. A. Fractional Distillation in a Lunar Environment 507 Pettit, Donald R. Lunar Machining 519 Lewis, William OXYGEN: PRELUDE TO LUNAR INDUSTRIALIZATION 529 A Parametric Analysis of Lunar Oxygen Production 531 Simon, Michael C. Lunar Oxygen Production from Ilmenite 543 Gibson, Michael A. & Knudsen, Christian W. Oxygen Extraction from Lunar Materials: An Experimental Test of an Ilmenite Reduction Process 551 Williams, Richard J. A Carbothermal Scheme for Lunar Oxygen Production 559 Cutler, Andrew Hall & Krag, Peter Lunar regolith fines - A source of hydrogen 571 Carter, J. L. Hydrogen Recovery From Extraterrestrial Materials Using Microwave Energy 583 Tucker, D. S., Vaniman, D. T., Anderson, J. L., Clinard, F. W., Feber, R. C., Jr., Frost, H. M., Meek, T. T., Jr. & Wallace, T. C. Microbial Extraction of Hydrogen from Lunar Dust 591 White, David C. & Hirsch, Peter Hydrogen and Water Desorption on the Moon: Approximate On-Line Simulations 603 Blanford, G. E., Borgesen, P., Maurette, M., Moller, W. & Monart, B. An Analysis of Alternate Hydrogen Sources for Lunar Manufacture 611 Friedlander, Herbert N. LIFE SUPPORT AND HEALTH MAINTENANCE 621 The Evolution of CELSS for Lunar Bases 623 Macelroy, R. D., Klein, Harold P. & Averner, M. M. Wheat Farming in a Lunar Base 635 Salisbury, Frank B. & Bugbee, Bruce G. Metabolic Support for a Lunar Base 647 Sauer, R. L. Implementing Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology in a Lunar Base Environmental Control/Life Support System 653 Sedej, Melaine Meyer Radiation Transport of Cosmic Ray Nuclei in Lunar Material and Radiation Doses 663 Silberberg, R., Tsao, C. H., Adams, J. H., Jr. & Letaw, John R. Aerosol Deposition Along the Respiratory Tract at Zero Gravity: A Theoretical Study 671 Lehnert, B. E., Smith, D. M., Holland, L. M., Tillery, M. I. & Thomas, R. G. Toward the Development of a Recombinant DNA Assay System for the Detection of Genetic Change in Astronauts' Cells 679 Atchley, Susan V., Chen, David J.-C., Strniste, Gary F., Walters, Ronald A. & Moyzis, Robert K. Flow Cytometry for Health Monitoring in Space 687 Jett, James H., Martin, John C., Saunders, George C. & Stewart, Carleton C. SOCIETAL ISSUES 699 Dreams and Realities: The Future in Space 701 Logsdon, John The Budgetary Feasibility of a Lunar Base 711 Sellers, Wallace O. & Keaton, Paul W. Lunar Stations: Prospects for International Cooperation 717 Smith, Phillip M. Soviet lunar exploration - Past and future 725 Oberg, J. E. Legal Responses for Lunar Bases and Space Activities in the 21st Century 735 Moore, Amanda Lee Extraterrestrial Law and Lunar Bases: General Legal Principles and a Particular Regime Proposal (INTERLUNE) 741 Joyner, Christopher C. & Schmitt, Harrison H. Lunar Base: Learning to Live in Space 751 Finney, Ben Lessons from the Past: Toward a Long-Term Space Policy 757 Lawler, Andrew Historical Perspectives on the Moon Base-Cook and Australia 765 Jones, Eric M. & Finney, Ben R. Space Poems: Close Encounters Between the Lyric Imagination and 25 Years of NASA Space Exploration 771 Knox, Helene MARS 785 A Millennium Project-Mars 2000 787 Schmitt, Harrison H. Mars: The Next Major Goal? 795 King, Elbert A. Rationales for Early Human Missions to Phobos and Deimos 801 O'Leary, Brian The Moons of Mars: A Source of Water for Lunar Bases and LEO 809 Cordell, Bruce M. The problem of water on Mars 817 Squyres, S. W. A VISION OF LUNAR SETTLEMENT 825 Lunar Industrialization and Settlement-Birth of Polyglobal Civilization 827 Ehricke, Krafft A. EPILOGUE: Address Given at The centennial Celebration, 4 July 2076, By Leonard Vincennes, Official Historian of Luna City 857 Bova, Ben Index 863 865 pages ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040917/9e19bfa4/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 16 02:26:31 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:26:31 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Teets: America must reach for space dominance Message-ID: Good evening. When you read the history of NASA and the history of the USA efforts to go to the Moon to beat the Russians in putting a crew on the Moon, you sometimes forget that the Russians had already landed (crashed) a spacecraft on the Moon. A number of other firsts too. Now who will be first to go back? - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html Soviet Lunar Missions ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft By Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html Missions to the Moon ------------------------------------------------------------ Our first attempts used Air Force, Army, and JPL rockets. A lot of fireworks at first. - LRK - You can read an Air Force reflection about this high ground, the Moon above. See below. :-) Who will be next to land and explore? This high ground. :-) Will there be a free trade zone there? http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.html Will there be a black obelisk there? http://www.kinocite.co.uk/1/119.php 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2002/id1937.htm 2001 A Space Odyssey Will tools be in control? http://www.kubrick2001.com/2001.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/moon.html "Open the pod bay doors please Hal." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/movies/2001_space_oddity_991216.html http://www.sciflicks.com/2001/sounds.html So there you are. The Russians, America, and Japan have been to the Moon with spacecraft. Others are now on the way. Soon there will be monthly traffic. Will barb wire and Winchester rifles be needed to secure an illegal claim? (well LASER mapped sites with magnetic impulse weapons) - LRK - Are you ready? Who is paying for THIS trip? What is in the black briefcase? - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008652 http://www.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?storyID=123008652 Teets: America must reach for space dominance by Master Sgt. Scott Elliott Air Force Print News 9/15/2004 - WASHINGTON -- On the anniversary of the first man-made object reaching the moon, the Department of Defense's executive agent for space urged America to strive for dominance in space. Undersecretary of the Air Force Peter B. Teets, who also serves as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, used the occasion of a Soviet Union mission to highlight what he believes to be the three keys for the United States to achieve space dominance. "I believe that, today, it is fair to say the United States is the leading space nation in the world, but it certainly hasn't always been that way," he said Sept. 14 at the Air Force Association's 2004 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition here. "Forty-five years ago today, the Soviet probe Luna 2 reached the moon. It didn't land on the moon; it (crashed). But, it was still the first man-made object to touch the surface of another world," Mr. Teets said. That probe, launched Sept. 12, 1959, hit the moon near the Sea of Serenity, where Apollo 15 touched down 15 years later. The relation between that Soviet probe and current U.S. space supremacy lies in America's approach to space research and technology, Mr. Teets said. "At the time, the United States and the Soviet Union were taking their first faltering steps on the road to space," he said. "We called it the 'Space Race,' and it was not a foregone conclusion that we would win." The Soviets chose to "take the low road," in terms of technology, while the Americans opted for the "high road," Mr. Teets said. The United States used finely tuned, one-of-a-kind spacecraft and rockets that performed very well, but were extremely delicate, he said. "(The Soviets) took a lower-tech road ... in some ways it was like a brute-force road, with mass-produced spacecraft and rockets that were less sophisticated but were very much more operationally responsive," he said. Mr. Teets said it is a mistake to assume that one approach is always better than the other. "Even though we have superiority in many aspects of space capability, we don 't have space dominance, and we don't have space supremacy," he said. "The fact is, we need to reach for that goal. It is the ultimate high ground." Mr. Teets said the United States needs strong and enduring commitments in three areas to meet that goal: developing a professional space cadre, having a strong and well-funded industrial base, and maintaining a position at the leading edge of space technology. "The first, and unquestionably the most important, is the development and maintenance of a strong professional cadre of military and civilian government personnel," he said. "If we do that right, I believe the rest will fall into place," he said. "If we do that, we'll have professional acquirers, people who have experience in the development of leading-edge high-tech systems, extremely well-qualified and trained military officers who can operate the systems that give us such an edge in our warfighting capabilities. "There can be no doubt that we enjoy the benefits today, in major ways, of our national security space systems," Mr. Teets said. The second area of attention is the space technology industrial base, he said. "We need a strong and consistently funded industrial base able to produce quality space systems and products," Mr. Teets said. "We can't have a rollercoaster effect where we're asking our industrial partners to build up one year only to crater the next year. We can't have them developing the talented work force necessary for production of high-tech space systems, and ... the following year ask them to lay those same people off. "It's important for us to have a certain amount of consistency and constancy in our investments in important space systems," he said. Mr. Teets referred to recent problems with the acquisition system to illustrate his point: "There was a period of time ... when we let some of the industrial base start to wither. At the same [time]," he said, "people who had been involved in the space system for many years started to take retirement, so it kind of [had] a double whammy effect." The final piece needed to achieve space dominance, Mr. Teets said, is continued governmental investment in leading-edge space-system research in technology. "We are at the forefront of space technology. We need to remain there," he said. "I know certain European countries have picked up the challenge and started to invest more heavily in leading-edge technology; certainly China has shown some of the same inclinations. We need to maintain a strong and vital space system research and technology endeavor going forward. That's what will keep us on the leading edge." ============================================================== http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/on-line.html Apollo/Saturn Launius, Roger D., and J.D. Hunley, comps. An Annotated Bibliography of the Apollo Program. Monograph in Aerospace History No. 2, 1994. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollobib/cover.html Launius, Roger D. Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/cover.html Apollo 13: "Houston, we've got a problem." EP-76. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. Out of print. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/apollo13.pdf Orloff, Richard W. Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference. NASA SP-2000-4029, 2000. To purchase a paperback copy of this book contact the Government Printing Office. Order GPO Stock Number #033-000-01236-5 $40.00 GPO Order Form. This book is also available online. The online version includes all the extensive text and useful tables of the hard copy edition. The author has also made a number of corrections to the data in the hard copy edition. The online version does not include the original photos. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/SP-4029.htm Apollo Expeditions to the Moon. NASA SP-350, 1975. Out of print. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/cover.html Apollo Over the Moon: A View From Orbit (NASA SP-362, 1978) edited by Harold Masursky, G.W. Colton, and Farouk El-Baz. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/cover.htm The Apollo Program Summary Report (Document # JSC-09423, April 1975) Ertel, Ivan D., and Mary Louise Morse. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology,Volume I, Through November 7, 1962. NASA SP-4009, 1969. Out of print. Click here to view online version. Morse, Mary Louise, and Jean Kernahan Bays. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume II, November 8, 1962-September 30, 1964. NASA SP-4009, 1973. Out of print. Click here to view online version. http://history.nasa.gov/apsr/apsr.htm Brooks, Courtney G., and Ivan D. Ertel. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume III, October 1, 1964-January 20, 1966. NASA SP-4009, 1973. Out of print. Click here to view online version. Ertel, Ivan D., and Roland W. Newkirk, with Courtney G. Brooks, The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume IV, January 21, 1966-July 13, 1974. NASA SP-4009, 1978. Out of print.Click here to view online version. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm Swanson, Glen E., ed. "Before This Decade is Out..." Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program. NASA SP-4223, 1999. To purchase a copy of this book contact the Government Printing Office. Order GPO Stock Number #033-000-01216-1$38.00 GPO Order Form. Alternately, this book has also been printed by the University Press of Florida and can be ordered here as well. This book is also available online. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4223/sp4223.htm Biomedical Results of Apollo (NASA SP-368, 1975) , edited by Richard S. Johnston, Lawrence F. Dietlein, M.D., and Charles A. Berry, M.D. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-368/sp368.htm Brooks, Courtney G., James M. Grimwood, and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft. NASA SP- 4205, 1979. Out of print. This book is available online. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html Hansen, James R. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 4, 1995. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/monograph4/splash2.htm Benson, Charles D. and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations. NASA SP-4204, 1978. Out of print. This book is available online. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/cover.html Launius, Roger D. Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994. This monograph is available online. Click here to view monograph. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/cover.html Report of the Apollo 13 Review Board (a.k.a. the Cortright Commission): This is the report issued after the Apollo 13 accident which prevented the mission from landing on the moon and nearly cost the lives of the astronauts involved. Special thanks to Colin Fries and Sivram Prasad of the History Office for scanning and formatting this report for the Web. http://history.nasa.gov/ap13rb/ap13index.htm Saturn Illustrated Chronology (MHR-5, Marshall Space Flight Center, fifth edition, 1971) prepared by David S. Akens. http://history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/cover.htm Bilstein, Roger E. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles. NASA SP-4206, 1980 and 1996. This SP version is out of print, but it has been reprinted by the University Press of Florida, please see below. This book is also available online. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm What Made Apollo a Success? NASA SP-287, 1971. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-287/sp287.htm Compton, W. David. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of ApolloLunar Exploration Missions. NASA SP-4214, 1989. 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Happy camping. - LRK - Don't forget to look up - or back if you are on the Moon looking at Earth. - LRK - http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/images/space/ http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/ http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/afromspace.html -------------------------------------------------------------- * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's SKYWATCHER'S BULLETIN - September 13, 2004 * * * snip AURORA ALERT FOR MID-NORTHERN LATITUDES An active sunspot complex generated a solar flare on September 12th that produced an Earthward-directed coronal mass ejection. The solar particles arrived at Earth much earlier than anticipated, and a mid-northern (and southern) latitude aurora alert has been issued for tonight (the 13th) through to tomorrow morning (Eastern Daylight Time). It's possible that auroral activity will continue into the night of September 14-15. More details will be posted on the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch page at: http://www.spacew.com/ snip ------------------------------------------------------------- To change your address, unsubscribe from S&T's Skywatcher's Bulletin, or subscribe to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin, which highlights the latest discoveries from the world's astronomical observatories, go to this address: > http://SkyandTelescope.com/shopatsky/emailsubscribe.asp -------------------------------------------------------------- SEEMS TO ME GOING TO SPACE AND GETTING TO SEE OUR BLUE MARBLE IN A NEW LIGHT WILL BE EXCITING. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== ============================================================== http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/2004/09-September/12-Sep-2004/FBO-00670372.h tm FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 12, 2004 FBO #1021 SOURCES SOUGHT A -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION, ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM (RLEP), ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES Notice Date 9/10/2004 Notice Type Sources Sought NAICS 927110 - Space Research and Technology Contracting Office NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771 ZIP Code 20771 Solicitation Number RFI-RLEP-ADV Response Due 10/12/2004 Archive Date 9/10/2005 Point of Contact Julie A. Janus, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-4931, Fax (301) 286-0341, Email jjanus at pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov - Martin B Houghton, Technical Contact, Phone (301) 286-3875, Fax (301) 286-1738, Email Martin.Houghton at nasa.gov E-Mail Address Email your questions to Julie A. Janus (jjanus at pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov) Description REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI), ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM (RLEP), ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES THIS IS *NOT* A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL, QUOTATION, OR INVITATION TO BID NOTICE. RFI Purpose: NASA/GSFC is seeking advanced technology in order to best achieve and execute the Robotic Lunar Exploration Program (RLEP). We are therefore requesting information regarding technologies, approaches and techniques for accomplishing this. While our intent may be to team with industrial partner(s), we are not bound by this RFI to do so. It is neither a Request for Proposal, nor a Request for Quotation, nor an Invitation to Bid. Therefore, this RFI is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract, nor will the Government pay for information provided in response to this RFI. Technology Advances: The traditional subsystem elements that current space system architectures embody are typically too heavy and power intensive. The extreme challenges for weight efficiency on lunar missions makes it essential that the space systems utilized in RLEP place a lower burden on system resources then the current state of the art in order that meaningful payloads can be supported. Therefore the RLEP is seeking technologies that would substantially advance space platform architectures in a manner that materially expands functional capability, adaptability, and reliability while significantly reducing power and weight as compared to current systems. The technologies sought must be of sufficient maturity that they could be readied for utilization in the early RLEP missions. This inquiry seeks information on specific, focused applications ideas, not generic technologies, which could substantially improve the efficiencies of the potential system that may be flown. Information: The NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is interested in soliciting the overall concepts, estimates of cost and development schedules, and development risk evaluations. The objectives of this RFI are: 1) to improve NASA's knowledge of industry's capabilities; 2) to improve the overall understanding of what the technology options are for RLEP; and 3) to invite industry to submit information that will allow NASA to assess the partnering opportunities that exist within industry. NASA has established a website ( http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov ) containing the latest information regarding the RLEP and its associated missions. Interested parties can visit this site to learn more about the program and how it fits into NASA's overall exploration initiative. To consolidate our planning, we request responses from industry within 30 days of the release date of this RFI, in the form of written and illustrated concepts, ideas, and descriptions of capabilities. We plan to invite formal presentations and discussions at GSFC of the more compelling responses within 45 days of the RFI issuance. Responses can be submitted via email. The subject line of the submission should be "RFI for RLEP Advanced Technology for Space Platform Architecture," and attachments should be in Microsoft WORD, POWERPOINT, or PDF format. The email text must give a point-of-contact and provide his/her name, address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address. The information is requested for planning purposes only, subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3, entitled "Solicitation for Information for Planning Purposes." It is not NASA's intent to publicly disclose vendor proprietary information obtained during this solicitation. To the full extent that it is protected pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and other laws and regulations, information identified by a respondent as "Proprietary or Confidential" will be kept confidential. It is emphasized that this RFI is for planning and information purposes only and is NOT to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contractual agreement, nor will the Government pay for information solicited. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Technical questions should be directed to: Joe Burt at (301) 286-2217 or Joe.Burt at nasa.gov and Martin Houghton at (301) 286-3875 or Martin.Houghton at nasa.gov. Procurement related questions should be directed to: Julie Janus at (301) 286-4931 or Julie.A.Janus at nasa.gov. Interested offerors shall address the requirements of this RFI in written format as described in the previous paragraphs by electronic mail to: Martin Houghton at Martin.Houghton at nasa.gov, no later than 5:00 PM EST on October 12, 2004. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office 97 format and will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=51 . It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet cite for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below. Web Link Click here for the latest information about this notice (http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51#112483) Record SN00670372-W 20040912/040910213040 (fbodaily.com) Source FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice (may not be valid after Archive Date) ============================================================== http://www.nasawatch.com/ NASA Robotic Lunar Exploration Program RFIs Issued Responses are due on 12 October 2004. NASA GSFC: "We plan to invite formal presentations and discussions at GSFC of the more compelling responses within 45 days of the RFI issuance." - Water Ice Validation Concept http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13940 - Radiation/Biology Surface Demonstration http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13941 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Ground System and Mission Operations http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13942 - Advanced Technology for Space Platform Architectures http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13943 - Background Program Information http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13939 Posted by kcowing at 10:42 PM | Permalink ============================================================== http://www.spaceref.ca/news/viewsrtype.html?id=4&sdb=nasacenters&name=Goddar d+SSTATUS REPORTS Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Advanced Technology for Space Platform Architectures (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Ground System and Mission Operations (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Radiation/Biology Surface Demonstration (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Request for Information: Robotic Lunar Exploration Program - Water Ice Validation Concept (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Issues Four Robotic Lunar Exploration Program Requests for Information (Sunday, September 12, 2004) NASA Robotic Lunar Exploration Program (RLEP) Background Program Information (Saturday, September 11, 2004) NASA Terra Satellite Image of Hurricane Ivan 10 September 2004 (Friday, September 10, 2004) NASA Presolicitation Notice: A web-based design portal for the NASA Engineering Training Program (Wednesday, September 08, 2004) SPACEWARN Bulletin 610 (Saturday, September 04, 2004) Image of Hurricane Frances by NASA SeaWIFS (Thursday, September 02, 2004) NASA Request for Information for the Space Communications Architecture Working Group (Wednesday, September 01, 2004) snip -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/public.html Public Info - sign of for some news lists. - LRK - Then you can remind me of items I missed that you think the lunar-update list should know about. - LRK - ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040913/baba846f/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Sat Sep 11 13:01:41 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:01:41 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Future Missions Considered Message-ID: Good day. I have only been watching what NASA does since 1983 after I got out of the Navy and started to support the Pioneer missions that were running out of NASA Ames Research Center. Now deep space missions run out of JPL and times are a changing. One NASA, One NASA Portal, and a new vision that is supposed to take us back to the Moon and on to Mars. Studies come and go. Slick brochures come out, and we dream. Some dreams below. I can see why some folks writing opinion pieces might be a bit skeptical. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/ What follows is a portion of the final report of a NASA summer study, conducted in 1980 by request of newly-elected President Jimmy Carter at a cost of 11.7 million dollars. The result of the study was a realistic proposal for a self-replicating automated lunar factory system, capable of exponentially increasing productive capacity and, in the long run, exploration of the entire galaxy within a reasonable timeframe. Unfortunately, the proposal was quietly declined with barely a ripple in the press. What was once conceivable with 1980's technology is now even more practical today. Even if you're just skimming through this document, the potential of this proposed system is undeniable. Please enjoy. --------------------------------------- Complete hard copies of this study are available from the National Technical Information Service. Web version last upgraded June 25, 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------- Twenty years has come and gone. Guess I will need another 20 to see more happen. -LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/04/05/robot.hubble/ Robotic missions to save Hubble proposed By Leonard David SPACE.com Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Posted: 1:11 PM EDT (1711 GMT) (SPACE.com) -- NASA is reviewing over two dozen proposals to extend the useful scientific life of the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as safely dispose of the Earth orbiting observatory at the end of its life in space. There is growing support for robotic servicing of the Hubble, but whether or not augmenting the telescope with new astronomical gear utilizing robot hardware is possible remains uncertain. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is now reviewing ideas from a variety of groups, including universities and major aerospace firms. According to NASA, Goddard has received 27 proposals ranging from a few pages to one tome of 200 pages length from a leading aerospace firm. The proposals are in response to a Goddard "Request for Information" on Hubble Space Telescope End of Mission Alternatives in February, with the NASA center receiving the proposals March 22. At present, a review of submitted ideas and discussions with proposal groups is actively underway. NASA said that the request resulted in ideas mostly from industry, but did include views from other government agencies, academia, as well as two private citizens. A spokesman said that the ideas are now being evaluated. However, while the submittals are now being reviewed, any go-ahead on a robotic servicing scheme for Hubble is far from assured. snip ============================================================== http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/prop_missions.html Planetary and Lunar Missions Under Consideration These missions are still in study or definition phases and may undergo significant changes before launch. SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) Lunar Orbiter and Lander Launch Period: 2006 Agency: ISAS, NASDA - Japan http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=SELENE -------------------------------------------------------------- Planet-C Venus Orbiter Launch Period: February, 2007 Agency: ISAS - Japan The Planet-C spacecraft is a Venus Orbiter designed to study the atmospheric dynamics of the planet, particularly the upper atmosphere super-rotation. It will also measure atmospheric temperatures and look for evidence of volcanic activity and lightning. After launch tentatively planned for February of 2007 on an M-5 booster, an Earth swingby is planned in June 2008 with arrival at Venus in September 2009. http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/index.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------- Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) Asteroid Rendezvous Launch Period: 2007 - 2010 Agency: SpaceDev The Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) is a spacecraft being built and operated by a private company, SpaceDev. The NEAP spacecraft will be a hexagonal prism with a mass of roughly 200 kg. Plans for the NEAP mission have not been finalized, but possibilities include a launch as a secondary payload on an Ariane 5 to the asteroid Nereus. Related Links http://www.spacedev.com/newsite/templates/subpage3.php?pid=191&subNav=11&sub Sel=3 -------------------------------------------------------------- ISAS Mercury Orbiter Mercury Orbiter Launch Period: August, 2009 Agency: ISAS - Japan The original plans for an ISAS Mercury Orbiter have been cancelled. There is discussion of a possibility that ISAS would collaborate with ESA on their BepiColombo Mercury mission, possibly providing the Magnetospheric Orbiter and/or other components. Related Links BepiColombo - ESA Mercury mission http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=BEPICLMBO -------------------------------------------------------------- BepiColombo Mercury Orbiter Launch Period: 2011 - 2012 Agency: ESA - European Space Agency This mission to Mercury has been given full approval as an ESA cornerstone mission. The mission as now envisioned will consist of two modules. The Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) will perform global remote sensing and radio science investigations. It will be 3-axis stabilized, nadir-pointing, and will orbit at a relatively low altitude. The Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) will carry the field, wave, and particle instruments in an eccentric orbit around Mercury. It will be an electromagnetically clean spinning spacecraft. (The Mercury Surface Element (MSE), a lander module which would have performed surface investigations of physical, optical, chemical, and mineralogical properties, has been cancelled. Interplanetary cruise is planned to be powered by a solar-electric propulsion module. The launches will be on two Soyuz-Fregat boosters, one carrying the MPO and one carrying both the MMO and MSE. Colloboration with ISAS (Japan) is being discussed. Related Links BepiColombo - More detailed information ESA BepiColombo Page http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/120391_index_0_m.html -------------------------------------------------------------- NASA has selected 13 technology organizations to study advanced technologies to fly on the New Millenium Space technology 7 project. Technologies to be studied include aerocapture, on-board autonomous and disturbance reduction systems, and solar sails. For more information, see the August 6 NASA press release. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/nm_pr_20010806.txt NASA SELECTS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS FOR FURTHER STUDY NASA's New Millennium Program, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has selected 13 technology organizations to study advanced technologies that may fly in 2004 and 2005 as part of the Space Technology 7 project. Space Technology 7 will test and validate advanced technologies that may become part of future NASA space missions. The newly-contracted studies will be completed by November. The technology concepts and providers are: snip -------------------------------------------------------------- Champollion / Deep Space 4 (Cancelled) Comet Rendezvous and Lander Launch Period: 19 April 2003 (Cancelled) Agency: NASA The Champollion / Deep Space 4 mission was cancelled due to budgetary constraints. It was designed to rendezvous and go into orbit about Comet Tempel 1, deploy a lander, and perform in-situ analysis of the comet nucleus. After launch in April 2003 on a Delta II (7925) from Cape Canaveral Air Station the spacecraft was planned to rendezvous with Tempel 1 and go into orbit about the nucleus on 22 April 2006. After four months of orbit at 100 km distance a 100 kg lander would be deployed to soft-land on the comet's surface on 22 August. A one meter long drill would have been used to collect samples of the nucleus, which was to be analyzed on-board with the results transmitted to Earth. The launch mass of the spacecraft, including propellants, was 1051 kg. The lander would also be equipped with cameras, a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, an infrared/spectrometer microscope, and a gamma-ray spectrometer for in-situ measurements. Communications would be in X-band via a 1.3 m diameter antenna at 50 kbits/s. A solar array would have provided 10 kW at a distance of 1 AU. Earlier plans to return a sample to Earth in 2010 were no longer part of the mission due to earlier budgetary considerations. Related Links Deep Space 4 / Champollion Home Page - JPL http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st4/ Due to budgetary constraints, the Space Technology 4 mission was cancelled on July 1, 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------- Rosetta Mission - ESA comet rendezvous and lander http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=2004-006A Comet Home Page http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html -------------------------------------------------------------- JPL Proposed missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/proposed_missions.cfm Proposed Missions * Mission list begins with the earliest proposed launch. Outrigger Telescopes Project First Light: 2006 The Outrigger Telescopes Project will combine the light of multiple telescopes using a technique called interferometry to search for planets around nearby stars, make images of newborn stars, and study faint, dim and distant objects beyond our galaxy. Mission home page Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Proposed Launch: 2010 If selected, this mission will observe gravitational waves from binary stars both inside and beyond our galaxy, including gravitational waves generated in the vicinity of the very massive black holes found in the centers of many galaxies. The mission will consist of three spacecraft forming an equilateral triangle while traveling in space. Mission home page Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Proposed Launch: not before 2011 This proposed mission would orbit three planet-sized moons of Jupiter -- Callisto, Ganymede and Europa -- to make extensive investigations of their makeup, their history and their potential for sustaining life. Mission home page Terrestrial Planet Finder Proposed Launch: 2014 This mission will use multiple telescopes working together to take family portraits of stars and their orbiting planets. It will also determine which planets may have the right chemistry for life. Mission home page Mission description Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory Proposed Launch: 2015 The Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory is a large cryogenic space-based telescope optimized for observations in the mid-infrared to submillimeter wavelength range. Mission home page Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth Proposed Launch: to be determined If selected, this mission will further the study of supermassive black holes by obtaining images with resolutions 3,000 times greater than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The mission will consist of a radio telescope in space operating with many radio telescopes on the ground. Mission home page -------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040911/48739b9f/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 10 21:59:27 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:59:27 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA Stardust mission to return January 2006 Message-ID: Good evening. Along the lines of needing to be parachuted for the return leg, we have until January 2006 to wait for the Stardust Mission to return. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/154526_stardust30.html Tuesday, December 30, 2003 UW astronomer leads NASA quest to capture comet dust By TOM PAULSON SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Two billion miles is a long way to go for less than an ounce of dust. snip On Jan. 15, 2006, a capsule containing the aerogel collector will detach from the spacecraft, enter the atmosphere and at 2:45 a.m. (Mountain Time) parachute down on to the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City, where it will be collected and taken to NASA for precise analysis of the particles. snip --------------------------------------------- Stardust Mission http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.html Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon. .... In order to meet up with comet Wild 2, the spacecraft will make three loops around the Sun. On the second loop, its trajectory will intersect the comet. During the meeting, Stardust will perform a variety of tasks including reporting counts of comet particles encountered by the spacecraft with the Dust Flux Monitor, and real-time analyses of the compositions of these particles and volatiles taken by the Comet and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA). Using a substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture these samples and store them for safe keep on its long journey back to Earth. This silica-based, material has been inserted within the Aerogel Collector Grid, which is similar to a large tennis racket. Not until January 2006, will Stardust and its precise cargo return by parachuting a reentry capsule weighing approximately 125 pounds to the Earth's surface. ..... --------------------------------------------- http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/cool.html Cool Facts snip 30. Stardust must endure five shocking events: launch, flyby, atmospheric entry, parachute snap, and touchdown, sustaining loads up to 100 times the force due to gravity. snip --------------------------------------------- JANUARY 2006. WILL BE IN THE DARK OF THE MORNING. HOPE THE PARACHUTE OPENS. IN CASE I FORGET, PLEASE REMIND ME TO REMIND YOU. :-) THANKS FOR LOOKING UP WITH ME. PASS IT ON. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== Stardust JPL NASA http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/ --------------------------------------------- Stardust Overview http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/ Tom Duxbury Project Manager Don Brownlee Project Principal Investigator Missions with objectives of returning cometary samples had been proposed previously but the mission concepts had not been approved. The 1994 Discovery Announcement of Opportunity (AO) opened the door for missions that could be launched at a development phase cost of less than $150 million in 1992 dollars (when Discovery program was authorized by Congress). The focused mission concept for Stardust was the brainchild of Dr. Peter Tsou. Dr. Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who would be Principal Investigator and collaborated with Dr. Peter Tsou for the last two decades in returning samples from cosmic dust and comets. Dr. Benton Clark of Lockheed Martin led the definition of a simple spacecraft and sample return capsule to accomplish the mission. snip --------------------------------------------- Stardust Mission http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.html Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon. The Stardust spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, aboard a Delta II rocket. The primary goal of Stardust is to collect dust and carbon-based samples during its closest encounter with Comet Wild 2 - pronounced "Vilt 2" after the name of its Swiss discoverer - is a rendezvous scheduled to take place in January 2004, after nearly four years of space travel. Additionally, the Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of interstellar dust, including recently discovered dust streaming into our Solar System from the direction of Sagittarius. These materials are believed to consist of ancient pre-solar interstellar grains and nebular that include remnants from the formation of the Solar System. Analysis of such fascinating celestial specks is expected to yield important insights into the evolution of the Sun its planets and possibly even the origin of life itself. In order to meet up with comet Wild 2, the spacecraft will make three loops around the Sun. On the second loop, its trajectory will intersect the comet. During the meeting, Stardust will perform a variety of tasks including reporting counts of comet particles encountered by the spacecraft with the Dust Flux Monitor, and real-time analyses of the compositions of these particles and volatiles taken by the Comet and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA). Using a substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture these samples and store them for safe keep on its long journey back to Earth. This silica-based, material has been inserted within the Aerogel Collector Grid, which is similar to a large tennis racket. Not until January 2006, will Stardust and its precise cargo return by parachuting a reentry capsule weighing approximately 125 pounds to the Earth's surface. Stardust is the fourth NASA Discovery mission to be chosen and follows on the heels of Mars Pathfinder, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, and the Lunar Prospector mission. Discovery is an ongoing program that is intended to offer the scientific community opportunities to accomplish frequent, high quality scientificinvestigations using innovative and efficient management approaches. It seeks to keep performance high and expenses low by using new technologies and strict cost caps. The Stardust Mission is a collaborative effort between NASA, university and industry partners: The Principal Investigator is Dr. Donald E. Brownlee of the University of Washington, well known for his discovery of cosmic particles in the stratosphere known as Brownlee Particles. He also co-authored the bestseller Rare Earth : Why Complex Life Is Uncommon, which puts forward a hypothesis predicting that simple, microbial life will be widespread in the universe, while complex animal or plant life will be extremely rare. Dr. Peter Tsou of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), innovator in aerogel technology serves as Deputy Investigator. The contractor for the Stardust spacecraft is Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, Colorado. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has an experienced project management team, led by Thomas C. Duxbury. In addition, JPL provided the optical navigation camera. The Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Germany provided the real-time dust composition analyzer for the spacecraft. Ames Research Center provided the heat shield. Johnson Space Center will provide the planetary materials curatorial facility where the samples can be preserved and tests conducted. University of Chicago provided the Navigation Camera. --------------------------------------------- http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft.html Key Spacecraft Characteristics SpaceProbe Deep Space Bus Advanced Lightweight Composites Silicon Solar Cell Arrays No RTGs. No RHUs Fixed High-gain Antenna, x-Band Telecommunication Body-mounted Science (no scan platforms) Simple Hydrazine Monopropellant Propulsion Streamlined, Low-cost Sample Return Capsule (SRC) snip The STARDUST mission spacecraft is derived from the SpaceProbe deep space bus developed by Lockheed Martin Astronautics. This new lightweight spacecraft incorporates components, virtually all of which are either currently operating in space or are flight qualified and manifested to fly on upcoming missions. The total weight of the spacecraft including the propellant needed for deep space maneuvers is 380 kilograms. The overall length of the main bus is 1.7 meters, about the size of an average office desk. The STARDUST spacecraft is scheduled to encounter comet Wild 2 early in 2004 and will collect samples of cometary dust and volatiles while flying through the coma at a distance of approximately 100 km on the sunlit side of the nucleus. It will then return the samples to Earth for analysis in 2006. snip Sample Return Capsule Blunt Body Entry Vehicle Clamshell Mechanism to Open the Capsule Parachute and Mortar Unit The Sample Return Capsule (SRC) is a 60-degree blunt body reentry capsule for landing the returned sample on Earth. The capsule is encased in PICA and SLA-561 ablator materials to protect the samples stowed in its interior from the heat of reentry. A parachute slows its descent to the Earth's surface to prevent damage to the precious scientific cargo of comet samples. snip Command & Data Handling RAD6000 Processor 128 MBytes Data Storage The RAD6000 is a central processing 32-bit unit embedded in the spacecraft's Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem and provides computing capability for all spacecraft subsystems, including the payload elements. Electronic cards are provided to interface instruments and subsystems to the C&DH subsystem. 128 Mbytes of data storage is provided on the processor card, although the spacecraft uses approximately 20% of this for its own internal programs. The rest of the space in the memory is used for science programs and data storage for sending back to Earth 600 megabits (Mb) of images taken by the navigation camera, 100 Mb by the Comet Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) instrument, and 16 Mb by the Dust Flux Monitor (DFM). snip Redundancy Software Fault Protection Critical Items Cross-Strapped Virtually all spacecraft subsystem components are redundant with critical items cross-strapped. The battery includes an extra pair of cells. A software fault protection system is used to protect the spacecraft from reasonable, credible faults but also has resiliency built into it so many faults not anticipated can be accommodated without taking the spacecraft down. snip ============================================================== ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040910/db5698ae/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 10 13:15:27 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:15:27 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] The Genesis Strain - as in "Andromeda " Message-ID: Good day The Genesis capsule crashed, reports to follow, opinions surface. - LRK - The following article has some, opinions that is. All things considered. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04z.html The Genesis Strain by Jeffrey F. Bell Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 10, 2004 "The Andromeda Strain" was one of the few hokey science-fiction movies that I spent money to see in a theater as a kid. It left such a weak impression in my memory banks that a month or two ago I actually watched the whole thing again on cable TV. snip My reaction after my second viewing of "The Andromeda Strain" was, "I sure hope the Genesis return capsule doesn't crash and spill its solar wind samples all over the desert, because it would remind people of this awful film, the silly novel it was based on, and the inherent danger of returning extraterrestrial materials to Earth." As it so often does these days, NASA made one of my nightmares come true. The very first US unmanned sample return mission ended in a webcast fiasco, with the RV wobbling across the clear Utah sky like a defective flying saucer and crashing with a gigantic splat. The capsule was torn open in a manner reminiscent of the "Project Scoop" vehicle in the movie. The crash site is even on Dugway Proving Ground, the principal test site for the US biodefense program. Many bad movies have been based on space missions; Genesis is the first time a real mission has copied a bad movie. snip --------------------------------------------- Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/63963main_genesisreturn1.pdf NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Genesis Sample Return Press Kit September 2004 (160KB, 41 page, PDF file - LRK -) ============================================================== http://www.orbireport.com/Members/Backlogs/ Reported Commercial Launch Backlogs Take a look to get a feel for who is launching in the heavy lift class. - LRK - ============================================================== http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/elvs/atlas5_sum.shtml Atlas V summary and other launchers on navigation side bar. - LRK - ============================================================== http://www.topology.org/comms/satprobs.html the down-side of satellites The point of this page is to show how vulnerable satellites are. Therefore they should not be relied on too much for mobile communications. snip ------------------------------------------- We probably have not been listening for all the other failures. - LRK - Genesis isn't the first and probably won't be the last. Just put another one up. Ooops, have to train another astronaut. Really want to go to Mars? Do you leave the GM quality control to the dealers garage or would you like all the nuts to be tight when the car roles off the assembly line? Remember years back spending a number of weekends with my new Chevy II back to the dealer for re-work. Space is not so forgiving, and I haven't bought another Chevy since either. - LRK - ============================================================== Some more from SpaceDaily - LRK - ----------- QUICK SPACE - NASA Tries To Salvage Solar Dust In Latest Setback http://www.spacedaily.com/news/genesis-04m.html - The Genesis Strain http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04z.html - Major Milestone For Detecting Life On Mars http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-life-04r.html - Spirit On Autopilot http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-04zzzzzzze.html - Cassini Discovers Ring And One, Possibly Two, Objects At Saturn http://www.spacedaily.com/news/cassini-04zzw.html - New Research Could Lead To Less Noise For Airplane Takeoffs, Landings http://www.spacedaily.com/news/aerospace-04s.html - Largest Window For Space Completed http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-04zv.html - Scientists Glimpse Exotic Matter In A Neutron Star http://www.spacedaily.com/news/stellar-chemistry-04k.html - Motions In Nearby Galaxy Cluster Reveal Presence Of Hidden Superstructure http://www.spacedaily.com/news/darkmatter-04h.html - Scientists Follow Doomed Matter On A Ride Around A Black Hole http://www.spacedaily.com/news/blackhole-04i.html - Arianespace Signs Two Launch Contracts With DirecTV http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04zc.html - Arianespace To Launch Galaxy 17 For PanAmSat http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04zd.html - Globecomm Awarded Contract From Afghanistan's Ministry Of Communication http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-04zzzzzzg.html snip ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of your message, put: unsubscribe lunar-update -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040910/dfa44b8e/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 9 00:27:53 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:27:53 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Who needs Launch Pad 36A now that the last lauch has lifted off? Message-ID: Good evening. William McNally mentions that the launch of the Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 ends the need for Launch Complex 36A and that with all its history, including the launch of Pioneer 10, that maybe it would be saved as a historical site. Not sure what the status of launch pads are now after the recent storms and more to come but the torch cuts scrap easily. :-( - LRK - YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ON. ITS JUST HISTORY. ON WITH THE FUTURE. DON'T LOOK BACK. RAISE YOUR GLASS. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004b/spacestoryN0901ROCKET.h tm snip The launch Tuesday was delayed about a half-hour after engineers encountered minor problems during fuel-loading operations. The flight represented the last launch -- and a perfect record -- for Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 family of rockets. The venerable rockets chalked up a 100 percent success rate during 63 missions dating back to 1991. The flight also marked the end of operations for complex 36A, which now will be deactivated. Built in 1961, the complex served as the embarkation point for robotic missions that paved the way for the Apollo moon-landing project. NASA Pioneer and Mariner spacecraft also were launched from the historic pad on interplanetary missions through the solar system. snip --------------------------------------------- It would seem the mother nature is still in control. Museums probably will have to wait. Just getting the shuttles back to flight is probably a higher priority. - LRK - --------------------------------------------- http://science.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=26791 NASA Space Shuttles Spared Frances' Wrath By Irene Klotz September 7, 2004 12:38PM Fortunately, NASA's three shuttles -- Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- were not in the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building during the onslaught of Hurricane Frances. The VAB lost about 40,000 square feet of its exterior metal panels during the storm. The damage definitely will impede NASA's efforts to return the shuttle fleet to flight. snip NASA's three shuttles -- Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- were not in the VAB during the storm. The ships were housed elsewhere at Kennedy in the Orbiter Processing Facility, which seems only to have sustained minor flooding. Some shuttle hardware, including two external fuel tanks, was stored in the VAB, but primarily the building was used to shelter cars, trucks and other non-critical hardware. The immediate concern about the VAB damage concerns Hurricane Ivan, which is still well out in the Atlantic Ocean but appears on a fast track toward the Windward Islands -- and possibly the Florida east coast. "Our weather people tell us that Ivan could be at the back door of KSC as early as Saturday, so part of our priority is going to see what we can do to protect the VAB from further loss of property," Kennedy said. snip --------------------------------------------- Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== ============================================================== Pioneer Odyssey (NASA SP-349/396, revised edition, 1977) by Richard Fimmel, William Swindell, and Eric Burgess. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/sp349.htm http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/ch2.htm#26 snip Figure 2-1. The Jupiter mission needed the highest-yet launch velocity of a spacecraft, actually the highest velocity of any manmade object, over 51,500 km (32,000 miles) per hour. This was achieved with an Atlas-Centaur to which was added a third upper stage. snip ============================================================== http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/atlas2as_launch_040831.html Final Atlas 2 Rocket Orbits Classified U.S. Satellite By Tariq Malik Staff Writer posted: 31 August 2004 8:45 p.m. ET The last Atlas 2 rocket ever to fly launched skyward today, successfully delivering a U.S. reconnaissance satellite into space and ending a chapter in rocket history. snip "We look at it not so much as an end, but as a graduation," said International Launch Service (ILS) spokeswoman Fran Slimmer during a telephone interview. Based in McLean, Virginia, ILS marketed the Atlas launch for the National Reconnaissance Office. snip Active for 42 years, and the site of 69 launches, Pad 36A retires," Christiansen said during his toast. "At this point, please raise your glasses." Despite what appeared to be an inauspicious start in May of 1962 - when the first Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle F-1 exploded after liftoff - Pad 36A went on to loft a number of notable missions for NASA. In 1966, the pad saw the launch of and Atlas/Centaur vehicle that carried NASA's Surveyor 1 spacecraft to a soft landing on the moon. The launch pad was also the staging ground for Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to leave the solar system, which rode an Atlas/Centaur booster combo into space in 1972. The launch pad never saw a manned flight and turned over for use by the U.S. Air Force in the 1980s, Christiansen said. snip ============================================================== http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac167/040831pad36a.html Launch team salutes Cape's pad 36A after final liftoff BY JUSTIN RAY SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: August 31, 2004 It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system. But after 42 years of Atlas rocket launches, pad 36A saw its final blastoff Tuesday night. Following the booster's Earth-shaking climb into orbit, launch team members hunkered down in the Complex 36 Blockhouse positioned 1,400 feet away from the pad took a moment to salute the historic site. "We are ready to have a toast for Launch Complex 36A that just launched the last MA-5-based Atlas," the Lockheed Martin launch conductor said. "Man has never been launched from Complex 36, but this site is very rich with history. Back in May 1962, the first Atlas-Centaur, called F-1, launched from 36A." The initial launch ended in failure, like many others in the early days of the space program. "Several vehicles were lost as the rocketeers of the time painfully worked out the problems," launch conductor said. Another early Atlas-Centaur suffered an engine shutdown as it lifted off, causing the booster to fall back and destroy pad 36A. "That vehicle set the low-altitude record. But the people and the pad bounced back. In 1966, the world watched as Complex 36A launched Surveyor 1 and 2. The Surveyors made a soft landing on the moon. For the first time, we were all amazed to see up close the surface. "In 1969, Mariner 7 was launched to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars from Complex 36A. In 1972, Pioneer 10 was launched from Complex 36A and became the first man-made object to leave the solar system having first flown past Jupiter and the asteroid belt." When the Atlas 2 program was created in the late 1980s, the pad was overhauled to support in the new series of rockets. "The pad continued to perform, launching payloads that protect our military and our security, as well as providing communications for the world," launch conductor said. "Having been active for 42 years and 69 launches, we now retire this pad for Atlas 2. At this point, please raise your glass as a salute to the proud history of Space Launch Complex 36A." Neighboring pad 36B has one launch remaining on the schedule -- an Atlas 3 liftoff early next year. Although pad A is not suited to handle the taller Atlas 3, the complex's systems will remain operational to support the mission. "We will go into what we call a safe-and-secure on the pad A, make sure that we have the pad in a safe and secure configuration," said Adrian Laffitte, Lockheed Martin's director of Atlas launch operations at the Cape. "Pad A backs up Pad B with respect to systems and also for spares. So in order to maintain that capability, those systems that are backup to 36B or used as spares will be maintained in a ready condition. "After that, we would love -- once we launch the last Atlas 3 -- that the blockhouse be used as a museum. There is a lot of history in there. But we haven't quite gotten to that point." The Atlas 3 flight next year will be the 145th and last launch for Complex 36's two pads. Future launches will use the Atlas 5 family of rockets that fly from Complex 41. ? 2004 Pole Star Publications Ltd ============================================================== http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004b/spacestoryN0901ROCKET.h tm Sept. 1, 2004 Atlas launches on fifth try BY TODD HALVORSON FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL -- A top-secret National Reconnaissance Office spacecraft circles Earth today after rocketing off from Cape Canaveral and away from Hurricane Frances. A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket with a NROL-1 satellite on board lights launches from Cape Canaveral Air force Station on Tuesday night. Image ? 2004, Craig Rubadoux, FLORIDA TODAY With the major storm bearing down on the coast of east central Florida, the Lockheed Martin rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at7:17 p.m. Tuesday. The 15-story Atlas leaped off its launch pad at complex 36A and sped through light blue skies and wispy white clouds as it arced out across the Atlantic Ocean and headed toward orbit. Nestled in its protective nosecone: A classified National Reconnaissance Office payload. The spacecraft was deployed about73 minutes after launch. Liftoff came after four delays on four consecutive days and with Frances threatening to make landfall along Florida's east coast Saturday. Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Julie Andrews said the company was "very, very anxious" to get the Atlas 2AS and its payload off the ground. The Mobile Service Tower at complex 36A is only designed to withstand sustained winds of about 120 mph. Plowing its way through the Caribbean on Tuesday, Frances was packing winds of 135 mph and expected to intensify before hitting the Florida coast. The launch Tuesday was delayed about a half-hour after engineers encountered minor problems during fuel-loading operations. The flight represented the last launch -- and a perfect record -- for Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 family of rockets. The venerable rockets chalked up a 100 percent success rate during 63 missions dating back to 1991. The flight also marked the end of operations for complex 36A, which now will be deactivated. Built in 1961, the complex served as the embarkation point for robotic missions that paved the way for the Apollo moon-landing project. NASA Pioneer and Mariner spacecraft also were launched from the historic pad on interplanetary missions through the solar system. Next up at the Cape: An Air Force Delta 2 rocket with a military navigation satellite. Launch date: Sept. 22. Contact Halvorson at 639-0576 or thalvorson at flatoday.net ============================================================== http://www.astronautix.com/sites/capllc36.htm Launch Complex 36 Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Pads: 2. Latitude: 28.4696 N. Longitude: 80.5394 W. . Atlas Centaur LV-3C, Atlas Centaur SLV-3C, Atlas Centaur SLV-3D, Atlas G, Atlas I, Atlas II, Atlas IIA, Atlas IIAS, Atlas IIIA, Atlas IIIB. This complex was built for the Atlas/Centaur development program, and it was operated under NASA's sponsorship from that program's inception until the late 1980s. The site was built and occupied as a single launch pad complex in February 1961, but a second pad (36B) was constructed between February 1963 and July 1964. Complex 36 hosted many historic Surveyor, Mariner, Pioneer and Intelsat IV and V missions over the years. Under NASA's sponsorship, Complex 36 supported its first Fleet Satellite Communications (Fltsatcom) launch on 9 February 1978. Six more Fltsatcom missions were launched from the complex over the next decade. Following the Fltsatcom F-8 mission in late September 1989, NASA surrendered Complex 36 to the Air Force and General Dynamics for military and commercial space operations. The site was modified to handled Atlas/Centaur missions, and the first commercial Atlas II/Centaur was launched from Pad 36B on 7 December 1991. The first military Atlas II/Centaur mission was launched from Pad 36A on 11 February 1992. In all, the complex supported 118 major launches between 8 May 1962 and the end of October 1998. snip ============================================================== If you know of someone that would like to look up with you, and join the lunar-update list, have them send an e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. In the body of their message, put: subscribe lunar-update or just have them drop me a line and I will add them. mailto:larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Larry http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ - This list was forwarded using Majordomo at Altair Engineering, Inc. To unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail to majordomo at altair.com. 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Hollywood stunt pilots had hoped to hook the capsule's parachute in midair above Utah's west desert about 10:15 a.m. MDT. But the refrigerator-sized capsule _ holding a set of fragile disks containing billions of atoms collected from solar wind _ hit the desert floor after the chute failed to open. It wasn't immediately clear whether the cosmic samples have been destroyed. NASA officials believed the fragile disks that hold the atoms would shatter even if the capsule hit the ground with a parachute. "We're going to get the pieces out," said Roger Wiens, a payload leader for Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It's going to be a lot tougher to sort out the pieces of broken material." The impact drove the capsule halfway underground. NASA engineers feared the explosive for the parachute might still be alive and ready to fire, keeping helicopter crews at bay. "That presents a safety hazard to recovery crews," said Chris Jones, solar system exploration director for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The capsule's charged atoms _ a "billion billion" of them _ were expected to reveal clues about the origin and evolution of our solar system. "We have for years wanted to know the composition of the sun," said Don Burnett, Genesis principal investigator and a nuclear geochemist at California Institute of Technology. "In some cases we will be analyzing it one atom at a time." Genesis had been moving in tandem with Earth outside its magnetic shield on three orbits of the sun. It picked up speed rapidly as Earth's gravitational pull brought it closer before the atmosphere abruptly slowed the descent. That's when the helicopters were supposed to take over. Two helicopter pilots had replicated the retrieval in dozens of practice runs, and had five chances to snag the capsule. But they never had a chance Wednesday when the capsule's main chute failed to open. The capsule was tumbling out of control. It was supposed to be spinning at 15 revolutions a minute to slice evenly through the atmosphere, but camera images showed it tumbling instead. "There was a big pit in my stomach" when the capsule started tumbling wildly to Earth, said Roger Wiens, a physicist for Los Alamos National Laboratory, which designed the atom collector plates. "This just wasn't supposed to happen. We're going to have a lot of work picking up the pieces." The Genesis mission, launched in 2001, marks the first time NASA has collected and returned any objects from farther than the moon. Together, the charged atoms captured over 884 days on the capsule's disks of gold, sapphire, diamond and silicone are no bigger than a few grains of salt, but scientists say it would be enough to reconstruct the chemical origin of the sun and its family of planets. 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URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040908/938b1060/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 8 00:23:58 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:23:58 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] B612 Foundation is dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes Message-ID: Good evening. Additional info on tomorrows landing of the GENESIS space capsule. - LRK - ---------------------- Space Weather News for Sept. 7, 2004 http://spaceweather.com On Wednesday morning, Sept. 8th, NASA's Genesis space capsule will streak over Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Utah, returning samples of the solar wind to Earth. Sky watchers within 100 miles of the reentry path might be able to see the fireball in broad daylight. The best place to be is northern Nevada, where the fireball is expected to be brightest. New maps and data files just posted on Spaceweather.com may help observers locate and track the capsule. Visual observations of the event will be limited to a narrow corridor around the reentry path, but ham radio operators across a much broader area can detect the fireball--by listening. The capsule will blaze a radio-reflecting plasma trail from Oregon to Utah. The reentry offers an opportunity for meteor-burst communications. Follow the links at Spaceweather.com for more information. ---------------------- So a man made meteor, much the same as the Apollo Astronauts returning from the Moon, cometh. What do you do when you find a larger asteroid heading this way? hmmmm, go to the movies to see how to destroy it. :-) The Spaceguard detection program, undertaken by NASA in 1998 is slowly but systematically discovering the NEAs over 1 km. in diameter. The goal is to discover (and track) 90% of them by 2008. http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/pr990527.html Is anything being done to consider that some of these may hit Earth? http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/reports/spaceguard/ So glad you asked. http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html For you that live in the San Francisco Bay area here in California, consider this. - LRK - ---------------------- http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/astrogram/2004_astrograms/04_08Astrogram.pdf from page 14 - LRK -. Schweickart to speak at Foothill The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series presents Apollo 9 astronaut Russell Schweickart, giving a non-technical, illustrated talk on: 'Asteroid Deflection: Hopes and Fears' Date: Oct. 6 Time: 7 p.m. Location: The Smithwick Theater Foothill College, El Monte Road and Freeway 280, in Los Altos Hills Cost: Free and open to the public. Parking on campus costs $2. The event is co-sponsored by NASA Ames, the Foothill College Astronomy Program, the SETI Institute and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Schweickart, lunar module pilot on Apollo 9 and the first person to step outside a spacecraft without an umbilical cord, also served as Commissioner of Energy for the state of California. He was the founder and president of the Association of Space Explorers, the professional organization of astronauts and cosmonauts. Schweickart is currently chairman of the board of the B612 Foundation, dedicated to protecting the future of humanity by developing and demonstrating ways to deflect asteroids that are heading our way. He will discuss what we know about the threat of cosmic rocks and the various ways that have been suggested for saving the Earth from large asteroid impacts, including both nuclear and non-nuclear alternatives. Come early as a full house is expected for this very special program. Call the series hot-line at (650) 949-7888 for more information. set for Oct. 7 ---------------------- Some more info about Rusty Schweickart, The B612 Foundation, and Protecting Earth from Asteroids in clips below. - LRK - Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html ============================================================== http://www.well.com/~rs/rls-bio.html RUSSELL L. SCHWEICKART BIOGRAPHY ============================================================== http://www.b612foundation.org/ B612 Foundation The Earth orbits the Sun in a vast swarm of near Earth asteroids (NEAs). * The probability of an unacceptable collision in this century is ~2%. * We now have the capability to anticipate an impact and to prevent it. We need to act now... and you can help. ============================================================== http://www.wordiq.com/definition/B612_Foundation B612 Foundation ============================================================== http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/asteroid_deflection_03020 5.html In Defense of Earth: Keeping Asteroids at a Distance By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 06:00 am ET 05 February 2003 BOULDER, COLORADO -- A group of astronauts, scientists, and technologists want to engage in celestial shoving match. The winner may well be the Earth. The goal of an assembly of experts is straightforward: To significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid "in a controlled manner" by the year 2015. They have dubbed their effort the B612 Project, brought into being by what the group feels is a current lack of action to protect the Earth from the impact of near Earth asteroids (NEAs). For the immediate future, they point out, the changes are slim that our planet will be at the end of the trail for a space rock - one that would cause a highly destructive impact. Nevertheless, the upshot from a heavenly slam shot is extreme, say B612 Project officials, so much so that mitigation efforts should start now. Those involved in the B612 Project believe that by physically deflecting a representative asteroid -- one not headed toward the Earth -- is a worthwhile a trial project. Thus, a longer term, more challenging operational system can become a reality. snip ============================================================== http://www.planetarydefense.info/resources/day3.html Day 3: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Threats and Consequences Day 3 Keynote Speaker: William E. Burrows, New York University Day 3 Morning Session: Mission Design II Session Chair: Rusty Schweickart, B612 Foundation This was the second of two sessions on designing a mission to deflect a threatening NEO. Topics included a discussion of deflection techniques that "make sense," a mission design for an "all-out" mission to deflect a NEO using nuclear explosives, the B612 mission design, a mission using a mirror to ablate a NEO surface and generate a small deflection force, and the use of mass drivers for planetary defense. ============================================================== http://www.planetarydefense.info/index.html The Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids The Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids was held on February 23-26, 2004. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and The Aerospace Corporation. Experts in detection of Near Earth Objects (NEOs), in possible methods of deflecting a threatening NEO, in mission design, and in political, policy, law, and disaster preparedness came together to assess the current state of knowledge in each of these areas relative to mounting a successful deflection mission. Download Conference White Paper http://www.planetarydefense.info/resources/pdf/conference_white_paper.pdf The media associated with this presentation is best viewed with WindowsMedia Player 9 Series. ============================================================== http://www.planetarydefense.info/resources/pdf/conference_white_paper.pdf White Paper Summarizing Findings and Recommendations from the 2004 Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids 1. Overview The Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids was held from February 23 to 26, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency Orange County, Garden Grove, California. The meeting was sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and The Aerospace Corporation, and attended by over 140 participants (see list at end of document). The conference was held to focus on mitigating the threat to humankind posed by asteroids and comets. It is well known that there have been impacts of large Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in the past history of Earth. It is also well known that, while the probability of impact in the next month or year is small, impacts of objects large enough to seriously modify or potentially end life, as we know it, are inevitable. The conference, expected to be repeated on a periodic basis, focused on what humankind might do to deflect an approaching object. While perhaps the most broadly focused, the 2004 conference was not the first on the topic of NEOs and the threat they pose. Conclusions and recommendations from other conferences are generally consistent with those presented here. The fact that several recommendations are repeated demonstrates that progress has been slow in this area. The February 2004 conference featured a systems approach to NEO deflection, risk communication, and disaster response. Experts in detection of NEOs, in possible methods of deflecting a threatening NEO, in mission design, and in political, policy, law, and disaster preparedness came together to assess the current state of knowledge in each of these areas relative to mounting a successful deflection mission. At the conclusion of the meeting, session chairs provided summaries of principal recommendations from their sessions, and participants were invited to provide their thoughts. The conference chair, session chairs, and speakers subsequently prepared this document to summarize what they believe are consensus findings and recommendations from the conference. Names and affiliations of the primary participants in the development of this document are provided. 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URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20040907/a73e3bc7/attachment-0001.htm From larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 1 02:06:46 2004 From: larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net (larry.kellogg) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:06:46 -0500 Subject: [lunar-update] Looking for another planet to trash? Message-ID: Good evening. One left when I mentioned toilets and politics. Will see how many of you leave if I say something about trashing planets and greed. - LRK - Having spent a month in Thailand and a week of reading the Bangkok Post newspaper from font to back, and back to front, let me look at what one country is concerned about. One of the articles was about the need to clean up the plastic sacks strewn about the country side. Plastic sacks are used by road side venders to hold crushed ice and beverages, whipped around a straw with a rubber band, and offered to thirsty bus riders. (for a price) Once emptied, the sacks are easily thrown out the bus window. Here in the USA I often see orange coated workers cleaning up trash along the road sides and we have signs up that threaten $1000 fines for throwing out trash. I would think that if we look around we will see that we are, and have been, trashing this mother Earth to quite a degree throughout history. We have built cities on our garbage dumps. We have killed forests with our acid fumes from smoke and smog generated because of the Industrial Revolution. We have even tested nuclear devices in high altitude to see if a electromagnetic impulse would disturb communications. (did for a number of days) Tends to trash the atmosphere that circulates about this Blue Marble as well. http://www.nonuclear.net/theblackoutbomb.htm http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1997_h/has197010_1.htm Enough you say. We know that. What does that have to do with going to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond? Well we have a start at trashing the Moon. We have used cars up there. We have third stage boosters up there. We have on the Moon experiment packages, power supplies, tape, foil wrappers, wrenches, spacecraft, landing stages, golf balls, as well as other countries spacecraft, and crawlers. Now we have a proposed mission to the Moon that will take your business cards and other memorabilia to the Moon for a price. Not a lot, just a canister. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994633 http://www.transorbital.net/ Lunar Prospector is there somewhere near the south pole with a vial of cremates. (small vial) In preparation for the Apollo missions there were other launches, and attempted launches, and misfires of launches. There was a lot of work to prepare the spacecraft for an entry to the Moon in a sterilized condition. Heating, and baking to the point the insulation of wires failed. Wavers were asked for and granted on a case by case basis. It is hard to make a spacecraft completely clean. You have to put up with birds in processing hangers doing their thing. So you launch with a clean spacecraft carrying chemical propellants that are often very corrosive. During the Apollo missions there were instruments placed that could listen for Moon quakes. Just to make sure you had some, follow on missions targeted booster stages to hit the Moon. Even those not hitting the Moon could be in orbit around the Sun. Apollo 12's third stage came back to the Earth - Moon system in September of 2002 to do a loop de loop and then back out to orbit the Sun. This courtesy of the Sun-Earth L1 portal. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_178.cfm So when we start sending missions to the Moon again, say once a month, there will be much more hardware going somewhere. The management of our trash needs to be a consideration. IMHO We will need to know where our boosters are going and how to safely handle them. What goes up may well come down, now or later. (just like the arrow I shot into the air, that came back to our shake roof - dad wasn't happy) - LRK - We already have plenty of space junk orbiting Earth making it a concern for new launches. Even the ISS has had to move out of the way for some orbiting junk. Every now and then a spacecraft may explode, has exploded. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9702/16/hubble/ http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts108_011215.html http://www.space.com/news/debris_plea_020517.html Even X-Prize contestants have had their troubles. ------------------ http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=9206558 "We're disappointed, but not extremely disappointed because this was the first test flight," Storm said, standing by the remnants of one of the rocket's engines. "NASA lost several rockets before they got something good." Then he sighed deeply and rubbed his smudged hands through his hair. "It's just too bad." ------------------ What about Mars? We have some rovers doing a great job and no one wants to call them junk or trash, that is until their mission is over and they are just sitting there on the red rock. There is other hardware up there too. Some really nice missions completed and some missions that just crashed. Lots of territory. Not to worry. What about terraforming Mars? Want to make it habitable for humans in 900 years or so? Should we? (If you had the money. http://www.transhumanist.com/volume4/space.htm The Political Economy of Very Large Space Projects) ----------------------------------------------- http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1020.html Summary: At the Astrobiology Science Conference on March 30, scientists and science fiction writers faced off in front of a packed audience to debate the promise and pitfalls of terraforming Mars. In part 3 of this 7-part series, David Grinspoon says we have an ethical imperative to bring a dead planet to life. snip Greg Bear: You usually talk about ethics within your own social group. And if you define someone as being outside your social group, they're also outside your ethical system, and that's what's caused so much trauma, as we seem to be unable to recognize people who look an awful lot like us as being human beings. When we go to Mars, we're actually dealing with a problem that's outside the realm of ethics and more in the realm of enlightened self-interest. We have a number of reasons for preserving Mars as it is. If there's life there, it's evolved over the last several billion years, it's got incredible solutions to incredible problems. If we just go there and willy-nilly ramp it up or tamp it down or try to remold it somehow, we're going to lose that information. So that's not to our best interest. We were talking earlier about having a pharmaceutical expedition to Mars, not just that but a chemical expedition to Mars, people coming and looking for solutions to incredible problems that could occur here on Earth and finding them on Mars. That could generate income unforeseen. snip ----------------------------------------------- It is garbage pick up tomorrow here in Tracy CA. I don't have any rug rats, (children) just the two of us, but I still generate stuff that I would like picked up at least once a week. What are you going to do with say a crew of 10 on the Moon? If you could recycle everything for the Lunar Base folks, you might be able to do the same here on Earth. (or put the other way, if you could recycle everything here on Earth, you might be able to do the same on the Moon.) Have your garbage collectors go on strike and watch the trash pile up. Long Island has a mountain of trash. Who wants it? We have gulf courses and building sites built on top of land fill. (will build to suit here in Silicon Valley) How will you manage your trash on the Moon, Mars, and Beyond? Or will you just be looking for another planet to trash? Larry Russell Kellogg http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/index.html http://www.larryrussellkellogg.net/links.html http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC1/trip.html A FIELD TRIP TO THE MOON Harrison H. 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