From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Fri Feb 2 20:39:26 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:39:26 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] 181 Things To Do On The Moon Message-ID: <000601c74734$25b29300$6501a8c0@LRKLUNARUPDATE> 181 Things To Do On The Moon http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/02feb_181.htm?list965414 Did you see this today? Are you on the Science at NASA list? If not, maybe sign up. - LRK - http://science.nasa.gov/news/subscribe.asp I hope some of our legislatures that are diverting funds will wake up. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Science News for February 2, 2007 If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has released a list of 181 good ideas. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/02feb_181.htm?list965414 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml -------------------------------------------------------------- The full list in a 48 page PDF file. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/163560main_LunarExplorationObjectives.pdf Lunar Exploration Objectives Version 1, released December 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== If you go to the URL below there are also some images. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/02feb_181.htm?list965414 181 Things To Do On The Moon 02.02.2007 February 2, 2007: If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas. Ever since the end of the Apollo program, "folks around the world have been thinking about returning to the moon, and what they would like to do there," says Jeff Volosin, strategy development lead for NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Now, NASA is going back; the agency plans to send astronauts to the Moon no later than 2020. "So we consulted more than 1,000 people from businesses, academia and 13 international space agencies to come up with a master list of 181 potential lunar objectives." The moon would also be an excellent place to study the high-energy particles of the solar wind, as well as cosmic rays from deep space. Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere deflect many of these particles, so even satellites in low-Earth orbit can't observe them all. The moon has virtually no atmosphere, and it spends most of its 28-day orbit outside of Earth's magnetosphere. Detectors placed on the moon could get a complete profile of solar particles, which reveal processes going on inside the sun, as well as galactic cosmic radiation from distant black holes and supernovas. Bonus: These particles are trapped by lunar regolith, the layer of crushed rock and dust covering the moon's surface. This means that lunar regolith contains a historical record of solar output: core samples could tell us about changes in solar output over billions of years. "We believe that the moon's preservation of this solar record is unique and can provide us with insights on how past fluctuations in the solar output have affected, for example, the history of life on Earth," says Volosin. In particular, it could shed light on the extent to which solar variability and galactic cosmic radiation influence climate change. But the moon would be far more than just a platform for scientific instruments gazing into space. The moon itself is a scientific gold mine, a nearby example of planetary formation largely unaltered by the passage of time. Some scientists call it "a fossil world." The moon is a small, non-dynamic planetary body and its interior state is largely preserved since the early days of solar system history. Studying its interior would tell scientists a lot about how a planet's internal layers separate and solidify during planetary formation. Even something as simple as establishing the dates when various craters on the moon were formed can provide us with a unique picture of how the flux of meteoroids in the vicinity of Earth has changed over time. (For more information see Science at NASA's "The Moon is a Harsh Witness.") This impact history is lost on Earth by the constant renewal of the crust but on the moon it is intact, rich with clues to periods in the past when an increase in bombardment may have affected the climatic history of Earth and even the evolution of life. Science accounts for only about a third of the 181 objectives, however. More than half of the list deals with the many challenges of learning to live on an alien world: everything from keeping astronauts safe from radiation and micrometeors to setting up power and communications systems to growing food in the airless, arid lunar environment. "We want to learn how to live off the land and not depend so much on supplies from Earth," says Tony Lavoie, leader of NASA's Lunar Architecture Team (Phase 1) at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Astronauts would face the same problems on a manned mission to Mars, so much of the experience gained on the moon would carry over when NASA eventually sends people to the Red Planet. The moon could also provide some creative commercial opportunities: lunar power from solar cells, protected data archives, mining of lunar metals, and research under conditions of low gravity and high vacuum, to name a few. In fact, mining the moon may eventually yield rocket propellant that could be sold to commercial satellite operators to access and service their satellite assets in Earth orbit. Beyond charging space tourists for a chance to visit the moon, lunar entrepreneurs might host special television events from the moon to boost publicity, or place a remote-controlled rover on the moon. People back on Earth could pay to take turns controlling the rover from their Internet-connected computers, letting them take a virtual drive across the moon's crater-pocked surface. In short, let your imagination be your guide! Not all of the ideas on the list will necessarily happen. From the master list of 181, NASA currently is selecting the a smaller number of high priority goals for its initial return to the moon. Other goals could be considered by other space agencies or private entrepreneurs who have an interest in exploring the moon. NASA continues to receive input from scientists at space agencies and universities around the world, the list itself is still evolving and expanding. There's a lot to do on the moon. See for yourself: complete list. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/163560main_LunarExplorationObjectives.pdf Author: Patrick L. Barry | Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science at NASA ============================================================== http://www.nasa.gov/home/ http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/index.html Snip ALERTS Associate Administrators Discuss Budget Details Beginnng at 2:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 5, NASA's mission directorate associate administrators will be available by telephone to discuss the Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal's impact on their specific areas. + Read More http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/jan/HQ_M07015_AA_budget.html NASA Announces FY 08 Budget Press Conference NASA Administrator Michael Griffin briefs the media about the agency's Fiscal Year 2008 budget at 1 p.m. EST, Monday, Feb. 5. + Read More http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/jan/HQ_M07014_FY08_Budget_Advisory.html NASA to Highlight Next Space Station Component On Tuesday, Feb 6, at 10:30 a.m. EST, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will showcase the next element to be added to the International Space Station. + Read More http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/feb/HQ_M0716_ISS_Hardware.html +View Archives http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/Media_Alerts_Collection_archi ve_1.html Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sat Feb 3 12:53:52 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:53:52 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA MOON-IMPACTOR MISSION PASSES MAJOR REVIEW Message-ID: <000301c747bc$4655f290$6501a8c0@LRKLUNARUPDATE> NASA MOON-IMPACTOR MISSION PASSES MAJOR REVIEW http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2007/07_04AR.html One step at a time, a mission plan progresses. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/ I hope there is a coordinated effort with other nations sending instruments to the Moon. - LRK - http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/selene/index.shtml The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) plans to launch SELENE(SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) on-board H-IIA Launch Vehicle from Tanegashima Space Center in 2007(FY). http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/03/content_5562198.htm Moon shots: China, Japan in '07; U.S., India in '08 http://www.europlanet-eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&It emid=30 Chandraayan-1 is the first Indian mission to the Moon. It will map the Moon in visible, infrared and X-ray wavelengths to determine the chemistry and mineralogy of the lunar surface. It will also look for surface and sub-surface water ice. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060908144658.htm ource: Washington University In St. Louis Date: September 18, 2006 U.S., Chinese Researchers To Collaborate On China's Moon Missions Science Daily - Amid a bevy of international space exploration missions to the Moon, the Washington University Department of Earth and Planetary Science in Arts & Sciences and ShanDong University at WeiHai (SDU at WH) in Mainland China have agreed to cooperate on scientific research and joint training of students in the two institutions. The agreement comes less than a year away from the planned launch of Chang'E-1, the Chinese lunar probe project, in April, 2007. The goals of China's Chang'E-1 project are first to place a satellite into orbit around the Moon in 2007; then to land an unmanned vehicle on the Moon by 2010; and to collect samples of lunar soil with an unmanned vehicle by 2020. The spacecraft carries five instruments to image and measure different features of the Moon. Within two years, three additional missions from the United States, India and Japan will generate a furious flurry of data that will keep space scientists enthralled for the better part of the next decade. The Japanese Selene mission is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2007, the Indian Chandrayan-1 in late 2007 or early 2008, and the United States' Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for October 2008. Snip -------------------------------------------------------------- Those with eyes to see, let them see, and those that have funds, let them fund. Tell your governmental representative that you too would like to see some Lunar activity. Make it so! Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Following from NASA News hqnews-subscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov - LRK - Also at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2007/07_04AR.html RELEASE: 07_04AR NASA Moon-Impactor Mission Passes Major Review -------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 2, 2007 Beth Dickey/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/5241 John Bluck Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5026/9000 RELEASE: 07-21 NASA MOON-IMPACTOR MISSION PASSES MAJOR REVIEW WASHINGTON - NASA's drive to return astronauts to the moon and later probe deeper into space achieved a key milestone recently when agency officials approved critical elements of a moon impact mission scheduled to launch in October 2008. NASA's unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, will strike the moon near its south pole in January 2009. It will search for water and other materials that astronauts could use at a future lunar outpost. Scott Horowitz, associate administrator of the agency's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, led a confirmation review panel that recently approved the detailed plans, instrument suite, budget and risk factor analysis for the satellite. NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., manages the mission. The mission is valued at $79 million, excluding launch costs. The mission will help NASA gain a new foothold on the moon and prepare for new journeys to Mars and beyond. The confirmation review authorized continuation of the lunar impactor project and set its cost and schedule. Another mission milestone, the critical design review, is scheduled for late February. That review will examine the detailed Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite system design. After a successful critical design review, the project team will assemble the spacecraft and its instruments. "The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite project represents an efficient way of doing business by being cost capped, schedule constrained and risk tolerant," said Daniel Andrews, project manager at Ames for the lunar impactor mission. The lunar impactor will share a rocket ride into space with a second satellite, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. After the orbiter separates from the Atlas V launch vehicle for its own mission, the LCROSS will use the spent Centaur upper stage of the rocket as a 4,400-pound lunar impactor, targeting a permanently shadowed crater near the lunar South Pole. According to scientists, the Centaur's collision with the moon will excavate about 220 tons of material from the lunar surface. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will observe the plume of material with a suite of six instruments to look for water ice and examine lunar soil. The satellite will fly through the plume, also impacting the lunar surface. That second impact will be observed from Earth. The prime contractor for the satellite is Northrop Grumman Space Technologies of Redondo Beach, Calif. For information about the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite on the Web, visit: http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov For information about NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov -------------------------------------------------------------- Also at: http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-defense/20070202/AQF01502022007-1.html ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Thu Feb 8 20:11:34 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:11:34 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] Arthur C. Clarke EGOGRAM 2007 Message-ID: <003c01c74be7$3e7349e0$6501a8c0@LRKLUNARUPDATE> Arthur C. Clarke EGOGRAM 2007 Jeroen Lapre sent Arthur C. Clarke's EGOGRAM 2007 to some of us and I asked if it would be ok to post to the lunar-update list and he got permission for me to do so and I have put it below. I still have vivid memories of seeing the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey that was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) http://www.palantir.net/2001/sounds.html Well we are past the year 2001 and no Moon Base yet. Hope that changes in the future. Jaroen is working on a short film that is one of Sir Arthur Clarke's stories, Maelstrom II. http://maelstrom2themovie.com/ http://home.comcast.net/~jeroen-lapre/ArthurCClarke/MaelstromII/MaelstromII. html Maybe some of you are working on stories that use our Moon as a backdrop. Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsltr.: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Dear Jeroen, Sir Arthur has no objections to either request. We are aware that Egograms are widely circulated, and sometimes posted on the web. Thanks for asking first. Best wishes, Nalaka Gunawardene -------------------------------------------------------------- EGOGRAM 2007 Friends, Earthlings, ETs -- lend me your sensory organs! I send you greetings and good wishes at the beginning of another year. I?ll be celebrating (?) my 90th birthday in December ? a few weeks after the Space Age completes its first half century. When the late and unlamented Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, it took only about five minutes for the world to realise what had happened. And although I had been writing and speaking about space travel for years, the moment is still frozen in my own memory: I was in Barcelona attending the 8th International Astronautical Congress. We had retired to our hotel rooms after a busy day of presentations when the news broke -- I was awakened by reporters seeking comments on the Soviet feat. Our theories and speculations had suddenly become reality! Notwithstanding the remarkable accomplishments during the past 50 years, I believe that the Golden Age of space travel is still ahead of us. Before the current decade is out, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing sub-orbital flights aboard privately funded passenger vehicles, built by a new generation of engineer-entrepreneurs with an unstoppable passion for space (I?m hoping I could still make such a journey myself). And over the next 50 years, thousands of people will gain access to the orbital realm ? and then, to the Moon and beyond. During 2006, I followed with interest the emergence of this new breed of ?Citizen Astronauts? and private space enterprise. I am very encouraged by the wide-spread acceptance of the Space Elevator, which can make space transport cheap and affordable to ordinary people. This daring engineering concept, which I popularised in The Fountains of Paradise (1978), is now taken very seriously, with space agencies and entrepreneurs investing money and effort in developing prototypes. A dozen of these parties competed for the NASA-sponsored, US$ 150,000 X Prize Cup which took place in October 2006 at the Las Cruces International Airport, New Mexico. The Arthur Clarke Foundation continues to recognise and cheer-lead men and women who blaze new trails to space. A few days before the X Prize Cup competition, my old friend Walter Cronkite received the Foundation?s Lifetime Achievement Award. I have known Walter for over half a century, and my commentary with him during the heady days of the Apollo Moon landings now belongs to another era. A space ?pathfinder? of the Twenty First Century, Bob Bigelow, was presented the Arthur C. Clarke Innovator Award for his work in the development of space habitats. With the successful launch of Bigelow Aerospace?s Genesis 1, Bob is leading the way for private individuals willing to advance space exploration with minimum reliance on government programmes. Meanwhile, planning and fund-raising work continued for the Arthur C Clarke Centre "to investigate the reach and impact of human imagination", to be set up in partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Objective: to identify young people with robust imagination, to help their parents and teachers make the most of that talent, and to accord imagination as much regard as high academic grades in the classroom - anywhere in the world. The Board members of the Clarke Foundation, led by its indefatigable Chairman Tedson Meyers, have taken on the challenge of raising US$ 70 million for this project. I?m hopeful that the billion dollar communications satellite industry I founded 60 years ago with my Wireless World paper (October 1945), for which I received the astronomical sum of ?15, will be partners in this endeavour. I?ve only been able to make a few encouraging noises from the sidelines for these and other worthy projects as I?m now very limited in time and energy owing to Post Polio. But I?m happy to report that my health remains stable, and I?m in no discomfort or pain. Being completely wheel-chaired helps to concentrate on my reading and writing ? which I can once again engage in, with the second cataract operation restoring my eyesight. During the year, I wrote a number of short articles, book reviews and commentaries for a variety of print and online outlets. I also did a few carefully chosen media interviews, and filmed several video greetings to important scientific or literary gatherings in different parts of the world. I was particularly glad to find a co-author to complete my last novel, The Last Theorem, which remained half-written for a couple of years. I had mapped out the entire story, but then found I didn?t have the energy to work on the balance text. Accomplished American writer Frederik Pohl has now taken up the challenge. Meanwhile, co-author Stephen Baxter has completed First-born, the third novel in our collaborative Time Odyssey series, to be published in 2007. Members of my adopted family -- Hector, Valerie, Cherene, Tamara and Melinda Ekanayake -- are keeping well. Hector has been looking after me since 1956, and with his wife Valerie, has made a home for me at 25, Barnes Place, Colombo. Hector continued to rebuild the diving operation that was wiped out by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004. Sri Lanka?s tourist sector, still recovering from the mega-disaster, weathered a further crisis as the long-drawn civil conflict ignited again after more than three years of relative peace and quiet. I remain hopeful that a lasting solution would be worked out by the various national and international players engaged in the peace process. I?m still missing and mourning my beloved Chihuahua Pepsi, who left us more than a year ago. I?ve just heard that dogs aren?t allowed in Heaven, so I?m not going there. Brother Fred, Chris Howse, Angie Edwards and Navam Tambayah look after my affairs in England. My agents David Higham Associates (www.davidhigham.co.uk) and Scovil, Chichak & Galen Literary Agency (www.scglit.com) deal with rapacious editors and media executives. They both follow my general directive: No reasonable offer will even be considered. I am well supported by my staff and take this opportunity to thank them all: Executive Officer: Nalaka Gunawardene Personal Assistant: Rohan De Silva Secretary: Dottie Weerasooriya Valets: Titus, Saman, Chandra, Sunil Drivers: Lalith & Anthony Domestic Staff: Kesavan, Jayasiri & Mallika Gardener: Jagath Let me end with an extract from my tribute to Star Trek on its 40th anniversary ? this message is more relevant today than when the series first aired in the heady days of Apollo: ?Appearing at such a time in human history, Star Trek popularised much more than the vision of a space-faring civilisation. In episode after episode, it promoted the then unpopular ideals of tolerance for differing cultures and respect for life in all forms ? without preaching, and always with a saving sense of humour.? Full essay available at: http://startrek40.blogspot.com/2006/09/forty-years-of-star-trek-by-arthur-c_ 07.html Colombo, Sri Lanka 28 January 2007 Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg at sbcglobal.net) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From veraafernandes at yahoo.com Fri Feb 9 05:20:10 2007 From: veraafernandes at yahoo.com (Vera Assis Fernandes) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:20:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [lunar-update] Arthur C. Clarke EGOGRAM 2007 In-Reply-To: <003c01c74be7$3e7349e0$6501a8c0@LRKLUNARUPDATE> Message-ID: <613753.38922.qm@web32105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear All!! > Well we are past the year 2001 and no Moon Base yet. > Hope that changes in the future. Thankfully!! Vera ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Wed Feb 14 23:54:28 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:54:28 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] What is the view you want to see on the Moon? Message-ID: <45D3E784.5080906@gmail.com> What is the view you want to see on the Moon? I have been engrossed in working with the Firefox 2 browser and customizing it with the many Add-ons that are available. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ All of this with the intent improving searches and finding interesting material about going back to the Moon. Did you ever feel like you were connected with a flow of thought that encircled the whole World? I have been been listening and bouncing ideas about how to portray a Lunar experience and then you get the same from a different source. I recently looked at the following link and just this moment got the same from Larry Klaes. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://home.earthlink.net/~alprojects/2001/ Ever wish you could explore the worlds in the movie /2001: A Space Odyssey/? Now you can, in 3D! These models were created in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language). Sit inside the Orion III cockpit and watch the *moving navigation displays* as you rendezvous with Space Station Five. Also, walk inside the Space Station Five hotel lobby! Get a close look at the Discovery spacecraft; click on the pod bay doors to open them. Sit inside a *Space Pod* and fly it around the Discovery. Snip -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you participate in MMORPG massive multiplayer online 3D games? http://www.maidmarian.com/ Then maybe this would be of interest. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.maidmarian.com/MOONBASE.htm MOONBASE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If VRML is not your thing, maybe Videos are. This medium seems to be coming alive with higher bandwidth users. Chip Proser has a number of videos posted about why he thinks we should go back to the Moon. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698734/ http://www.thespacereview.com/article/445/1 Here are 14 found at Grouper. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://grouper.com/Members/Profile/SharedVideo.aspx?id=1761950 Moon Rush, Asteroid Danger to Earth, Tranquility Dome - Moon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Following from NASA Science News - LRK - http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12feb_lunareclipse.htm Lunar Eclipse and http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/14feb_school.htm The Moon is a School for Exploration 02.14.2007 ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Fri Feb 16 14:39:52 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:39:52 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA MARKS 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICANS IN ORBIT Message-ID: <45D60888.3080302@gmail.com> NASA MARKS 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICANS IN ORBIT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/feb/HQ_M0725_Mercury_Anniversary.html WASHINGTON - NASA commemorates the 45th anniversary of Americans in orbit with a special multimedia salute to the original Mercury astronauts and new interviews with Sen. John Glenn, Scott Carpenter and Walter Schirra. [See below] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It doesn't seem like we have been in orbit this long, but then time marches on and we aren't back to the Moon yet. - LRK - There is more NASA News at the link below. - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/index.html Snip 02.16.07 - NASA Commercial Space Partners Complete Milestones NASA Commercial Space Partners Complete Milestones HOUSTON - Two companies that are receiving NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services funds achieved significant milestones this month in their efforts to develop and demonstrate space cargo launch and delivery systems. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) completed a preliminary design review for its first orbital demonstration mission. Rocketplane Kistler completed a system requirements review for its cargo services system. The two companies want to offer commercial delivery services for cargo, and possibly crews, to the International Space Station in the future. In August 2006, NASA and the companies signed Space Act Agreements that established a series of milestones and criteria for assessing progress toward their individual goals. "These milestones demonstrate genuine progress toward a new way of doing business for NASA and pave the way for the commercial purchase of transportation services needed to maintain the International Space Station," said Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of the Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. "If these companies can continue this rapid pace, the first demonstration launches are right around the corner." Snip + Read More http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/feb/HQ_0746_COTS_milestones.html Snip 02.15.07 - Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Pad, Crew Ready for Countdown Test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? The space shuttle Atlantis arrived at its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 3:09 p.m. EST on top of the giant vehicle known as the crawler transporter. The next milestone for the upcoming mission, STS-117, is a full launch dress rehearsal as the six-member crew prepares to continue building the International Space Station. The crawler transporter began carrying Atlantis out of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building at 8:19 a.m. It traveled just under 1 mph during the 3.4 mile journey. While at the pad, the shuttle will undergo final testing, payload installation and a "hot fire" test of auxiliary power units. When testing is completed, the rotating service structure will be moved around the vehicle for protection. Snip + Read More http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/feb/HQ_M0724_117_tcdt.html Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Following from NASA News - LRK - http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/feb/HQ_M0725_Mercury_Anniversary.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 16, 2007 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 RELEASE: 07-45 NASA MARKS 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICANS IN ORBIT WASHINGTON - NASA commemorates the 45th anniversary of Americans in orbit with a special multimedia salute to the original Mercury astronauts and new interviews with Sen. John Glenn, Scott Carpenter and Walter Schirra. On Feb. 20, 1962, an Atlas rocket successfully carried Glenn and the hopes of an entire nation into orbit aboard Friendship 7, a flight that ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. "Glenn's achievement came at a time when there were many unknowns about the ability of humans to survive in space," said NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale. Glenn was soon followed into orbit by colleagues Carpenter, Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights, and Donald "Deke" Slayton was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. NASA remembers the achievements of its first generation of explorers through special programming and interviews on NASA Television and an extraordinary interactive feature on the agency's Internet site, www.nasa.gov, beginning at noon EST, Friday. A half-hour program that highlights the achievements of Mercury and the 45th anniversary of Americans in orbit will be broadcast on NASA TV. Extended interviews with surviving Mercury astronauts Glenn, Carpenter and Schirra also will be available on NASA TV's Video File feeds for media organizations, as will a special message from the Expedition 14 crew orbiting Earth on board the International Space Station. The interactive Internet feature is hosted by NASA astronaut Carl Walz and will offer a rare virtual look inside Glenn's Mercury spacecraft, which is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Images from a rare photo shoot inside the tiny Friendship 7 capsule provides a 360-degree tour of the spacecraft. Plus, users can select the questions answered by veteran space explorers Glenn, Carpenter and Schirra. To experience the 45th anniversary of Americans in Orbit multimedia feature, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mercury For more information about NASA TV programming, Video File feed times, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sun Feb 18 23:40:53 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:40:53 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] This Week in The Space Review - 2007 February 19 Message-ID: <45D92A55.3030201@gmail.com> This Week in The Space Review - 2007 February 19 http://www.thespacereview.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is The Space Review? The Space Review is an online publication devoted to in-depth articles, commentary, and reviews regarding all aspects of space exploration: science, technology, policy, business, and more. http://www.thespacereview.com/about.html Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In case you do not subscribe to "The Space Review" I thought I would pass the links just received. Hopefully you find material of interest in the many stories Jeff Foust has presented. Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== The Space Review by Jeff Foust - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another voice in the wilderness A cut in NASA?s final 2007 budget may put the development schedule of the Orion spacecraft and Ares 1 launcher in jeopardy. Stephen Metschan says that now is the time to reconsider NASA?s current plan if the US is serious about returning humans to the Moon. Monday, February 19, 2007 Space tourism and carbon dioxide emissions The suborbital space tourism industry is emerging at the same time as concerns about greenhouse gas emissions grow. Steven Fawkes believes that tourism companies must carefully address this issue or risk incurring the wrath of environmental activists and government regulators. Monday, February 19, 2007 Past futures One of the biggest questions about the emerging commercial space industry is how new companies plan to make money. Bob Clarebrough suggests that the best way to answer the question is to look at how previous industries and modes of transportation answered the same question. Monday, February 19, 2007 Little red lies Hollywood is planning a remake of /Capricorn One/, the infamous 1970s movie about a faked mission to Mars. Dwayne Day reviews the original movie and how different a remake might be given the developments of society and moviemaking technology over the last 30 years. Monday, February 19, 2007 The other side of the Fermi paradox The Fermi paradox, the absence of extraterrestrial evidence despite the size and age of the galaxy, is central to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Michael Huang argues that the Fermi paradox could also chart the future of human civilization. Monday, February 19, 2007 Review: Into the Black The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has emerged as the preeminent center for conducting robotic space science and exploration missions. Taylor Dinerman reviews a new book that offers a history of JPL over the last three decades. Monday, February 19, 2007 Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as any other questions, comments, or suggestions about The Space Review. We're also actively soliciting articles to publish in future issues, so if you have an article or article idea that you think would be of interest, please email me. Until next week, Jeff Foust Editor, The Space Review jeff at thespacereview.com ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Tue Feb 20 13:10:56 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:10:56 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] Pioneer web site off line - problem or changes? Message-ID: <45DB39B0.4090302@gmail.com> Good day Lawrence. (and Dave, Glenn) I notice that the Space Projects web site is not found. http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html Just wondering if this is permanent or some glitch in the system. Has been off line a couple of days now that I have checked. Not sure when last seen as I don't go there all that often but was up when I was looking at finding answers for the San Jose student. If Ames has changed the address it will break a lot of references to it. ----------- *Pioneer* Home Page: Describes the missions of *Pioneer 10*, *Pioneer* *...* _Space Exploration_ *PIONEER 10* SPACECRAFT SENDS LAST SIGNAL After more than 30 years, *...* of Texas McDonald Observatory on 2 March 2002 - the 30th anniversary of its *launch*. *...* spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/*pioneer*/PNhome.html - 13k --------- http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/sp349.htm http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/ch2.htm#25 ---------- Maybe after 35 years they just want us to go away. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10 I am guessing that all the other information on the "spaceprojects" URL being nolonger meaningfull, someone decided to clean things up by just making it go away. I wanted to clean that up but was being rifted as we got the web site moved from N244 to the Ames servers. I see the Lunar Prospector web site still works and I thought they were both on the same server. http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/ March 2 is just around the corner. Not a very appropriate time to be changing things. IMHO Larry Kellogg http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://news.altair.com/pipermail/lunar-update/attachments/20070220/4a2a17a7/attachment.htm From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Tue Feb 20 13:53:58 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:53:58 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] Pioneer 10 - Launched March 2 1972 Message-ID: <45DB43C6.4040703@gmail.com> Pioneer 10 - Launched March 2 1972 In a few weeks it will be 35 years since the launch of Pioneer 10 and at that time the fastest object to leave Earth. As you may have noticed, I put the wrong address in the "To:" box and you got my question to Dr. Lawrence Lasher at Ames about the Pioneer web site being off-line. Will be interesting to see why the web site is down. The Pioneer information used to be on a server in the building where the Pioneer Operations had been and that is all changed now. I got the Space Projects web information moved from the N244 building over to the Ames servers to keep the historical information available but there was a lot of old Space Projects information there as well and that division no longer exists in the present Ames structure. I had hoped that they same long URL would be used as a lot of links will break if you change the naming. At the moment this link doesn't work. (http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects) Google will certainly find you a lot of other links about the Pioneer 10 mission so all will not be lost if the site does not come back but I feel like part of me has been erased. The old photo is just getting a bit more faded. :-( Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/sp349.htm National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Office SP-349/396 PIONEER ODYSSEY Revised Edition Richard O. Fimmel Pioneer Project Ames Research Center William Swindell Optical Sciences Laboratory University of Arizona Eric Burgess Science writer Prepared at Ames Research Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Office Washington, D.C., 1977 Table of Contents ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Wed Feb 21 15:50:31 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:50:31 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] Pioneer 10 - Missing web site moving to NASA's ONE PORTAL Message-ID: <45DCB097.60005@gmail.com> Pioneer 10 - Missing web site moving to NASA's ONE PORTAL At the moment this link doesn't work. (http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects) Information from Dr. Lawrence Lasher indicates that the Pioneer 10 information on the NASA Ames server is moving to NASA's ONE PORTAL. That means there will indeed be a different URL and any use of the old links will break. Yesterday G?rald Cloutier sent me a list of the whole web site but I think these are the one you would need for the Pioneer information. - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: THIS LOOKS LIKE 2005 SNAP --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://web.archive.org/web/20060222095707/spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060223072628/spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060130100401/spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PN10&11.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060202124536/spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNStat.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060204190754/spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhist.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060206090452/spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Lasher said he would give me the new URL when the material is posted and I will pass that to you when I get it. When we get it you can all pass along to anyone with a reference to the old URL so they can update to the new one. - LRK - Ron Wells passed this as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I just did a search at: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php with the URL: http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html and I got the page, and the links all work!@!! or at least the first one did. Ron --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== An example of the link that will break with the ONE PORTAL - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1972-012A Pioneer 10 *NSSDC ID: *1972-012A Description This mission was the first to be sent to the outer solar system and the first to investigate the planet Jupiter, after which it followed an escape trajectory from the solar system. The spacecraft achieved its closest approach to Jupiter on December 3, 1973, when it reached approximately 2.8 Jovian radii (about 200,000 km). As of Jan. 1, 1997 Pioneer 10 was at about 67 AU from the Sun near the ecliptic plane and heading outward from the Sun at 2.6 AU/year and downstream through the heliomagnetosphere towards the tail region and interstellar space. This solar system escape direction is unique because the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft (and the now terminated Pioneer 11 spacecraft mission) are heading in the opposite direction towards the nose of the heliosphere in the upstream direction relative to the inflowing interstellar gas. The spacecraft is heading generally towards the red star Aldebaran, which forms the eye of Taurus (The Bull). The journey over a distance of 68 light years to Aldebaran will require about two million years to complete. Routine tracking and project data processing operatations were terminated on March 31, 1997 for budget reasons. Occasional tracking continued later under support of the Lunar Prospector project at NASA Ames Research Center with retrieval of energetic particle and radio science data. The last successful data acquisitions through NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) occurred on March 3, 2002, the 30th anniversary of Pioneer 10's launch date, and on April 27, 2002. The spacecraft signal was last detected on Jan. 23, 2003 after an uplink was transmitted to turn off the last operational experiment, the Geiger Tube Telescope (GTT), but lock-on to the sub-carrier signal for data downlink was not achieved. No signal at all was detected during a final attempt on Feb. 6-7, 2003. Pioneer Project staff at NASA Ames then concluded that the spacecraft power level had fallen below that needed to power the onboard transmitter, so no further attempts would be made. The history of the Pioneer 10 tracking status is available from the web site of the former Pioneer Project at the following location: http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html Fifteen experiments were carried to study the interplanetary and planetary magnetic fields; solar wind parameters; cosmic rays; transition region of the heliosphere; neutral hydrogen abundance; distribution, size, mass, flux, and velocity of dust particles; Jovian aurorae; Jovian radio waves; atmosphere of Jupiter and some of its satellites, particularly Io; and to photograph Jupiter and its satellites. Instruments carried for these experiments were magnetometer, plasma analyzer, charged particle detector, ionizing detector, non-imaging telescopes with overlapping fields of view to detect sunlight reflected from passing meteoroids, sealed pressurized cells of argon and nitrogen gas for measuring the penetration of meteoroids, UV photometer, IR radiometer, and an imaging photopolarimeter, which produced photographs and measured polarization. Further scientific information was obtained from the tracking and occultation data. Snip* * ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Wed Feb 21 19:11:05 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:11:05 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] NASA, Virgin Galactic to Explore Future cooperation Message-ID: <45DCDF99.2060300@gmail.com> NASA, Virgin Galactic to Explore Future cooperation --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21958 MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for spaceships, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling five or more times the speed of sound. Under the terms of the memorandum, NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley, and Virgin Galactic LLC, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, will explore possible collaborations in several technical areas employing capabilities and facilities of NASA's Ames Research Center. Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------- Do I feel the wind changing? Will have to watch this. - LRK - Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html 02.21.07 - NASA, Virgin Galactic, to Explore Future Cooperation NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for spaceships, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling five or more times the speed of sound. + Read More http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2007/07_06AR.html + View Photo http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2007/virgingalactic_feat.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Snip ?This understanding with Virgin Galactic affords NASA an opportunity to work with an emerging company in the commercial human space transportation industry to support the agency?s exploration, science and aeronautics mission goals,? said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames Research Center. ?Our location in California?s Silicon Valley provides a dynamic research and development platform for future potential collaborations with other such companies in support of a robust commercial space industry.? ?We are excited to be working with NASA and look forward to future collaborations in exploration and space travel,? said Alex Tai, vice president of operations for Virgin Galactic. The agreement with Virgin Galactic was negotiated through NASA?s Space Portal, a newly formed organization in the NASA Research Park at Ames, which seeks to engage new opportunities for NASA to promote the development of the commercial space economy. ?This new type of private-public partnership can benefit the agency while helping to foster a new industry,? said Dan Coughlin, NASA?s lead for the Virgin Galactic agreement. The memorandum of understanding will be in effect for two years and stipulates that neither NASA nor Virgin Galactic will be required to pay any fees or provide funds to support the areas of possible collaboration. ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sat Feb 24 22:57:35 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:57:35 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] SPACE QUOTES TO PONDER Message-ID: <45E1092F.8040207@gmail.com> SPACE QUOTES TO PONDER --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.spacequotes.com/ *What famous people (and some not famous) have said about why humankind must expand into space: ** ** * */To survive /* */To preserve Earth /* */To eliminate war /* */To grow /* */Time is running out... /* */To evolve /* */...To achieve the goal visionaries have foreseen /* * * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Just one from each topic, there many more. - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */To survive /* *"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds." Carl Sagan, /Pale Blue Dot,/ 1994 *Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */To preserve Earth /* *"Many of the problems that we have today may not have solutions on Earth. The solutions may lie only in leaving the planet behind. There's no way we can avoid tearing up the countryside for ores, for fuel, for raw materials here on Earth--short of everybody dying off." Keith and Carolyn Henson in /Worlds Beyond,/ ed. New Dimensions Foundation, 1978* Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */To eliminate war /**"It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself." Gerard O'Neill, Foreword to /The Overview Effect/ by Frank White, 1981* */ /*Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */To grow /**"The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'" Gerard O'Neill, testimony before a congressional committee, 1978* */ /*Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */Time is running out... /**"A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation." Ben Bova, /The High Road/, 1981* */ /* Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */To evolve /**"It may be that the venture into space is the product of biological determinism which impels us to explore a new environment when we are technologically ready." Richard S. Lewis, /Appointment on the Moon/, 1968* */ /*Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */...To achieve the goal visionaries have foreseen /* *"As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse." Johannes Kepler, letter to Galileo, 1610* Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sun Feb 25 17:46:07 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:46:07 -0800 Subject: [lunar-update] Jonathan's Space Report - Latest Issue - No. 577 Message-ID: <45E211AF.2060802@gmail.com> Jonathan's Space Report - Latest Issue No. 577 http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html The Space Report ("JSR") is issued about twice a month. It describes all space launches, including both piloted missions and automated satellites. Back issues are available online . To receive the JSR each week by direct email, send a message to majordomo at host.planet4589.org, with a blank subject line and message body containing the single line "subscribe jsr". Feel free to reproduce the JSR as long as you're not doing it for profit. If you are doing so regularly, please inform Jonathan by email. Comments, suggestions, and corrections are encouraged. You can mail Jonathan McDowell at *jcm at host.planet4589.org*. Snip --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan's Space Report has some interesting information about the ISS activity. Some may not be interested in what goes on at the ISS but it may well be representative of the type of information you would get back from a Lunar Base. Is this what you want to hear about, sitting Earth bound? Iran shot a rocket into the air, do I care? As a kid I shot an arrow into the air and it came to land on the roof of our house. My dad cared where I shot and arrow and I suppose those around the world would be interested where rockets fired into the air, land. Maybe why they were fired into the air as well. Some rockets don't fall to Earth, they cause satellites to break up and make for a lot of debris. As more and more rockets carry loads to space, flying through shrapnel will continue to be a concern. Loads that don't make it to a proper orbit, still fueled, are a potential problem as well. We are reminded by Jonathan of a recent example. Also note that Japan used their H2A rocket. I hope you don't mind my copying Jonathan's Report below. Thanks for looking up with me. Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Jonathan's Space Report No. 577 2007 Feb 25, Somerville, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- Lopez-Alegria, Williams and Tyurin continue on ISS as Expedition 14. LA and Williams began another EVA on Feb 4. The Quest airlock was depressurized and the hatch opened at 1336 UTC. The spacewalkers completed reconfiguration of the ammonia cooling system, retracted the aft radiator on the P6 truss, and began installation of cables that will allow a docked Shuttle to get electrical power from the ISS solar arrays. The astronauts returned to the airlock at 2025 UTC and closed the hatch at 2033 UTC. The airlock was repressurized at 2049 UTC. On Feb 8 at 1322 UTC Quest was again depressurized, with hatch open at 1324 UTC. Suni Williams emerged at 1332 UTC with LA exiting the lock at 1340 UTC. They went to the CETA carts on the truss, and took them to the P3 truss segment where two small and two large thermal covers were removed and stuffed into bags. The two bags, each about 9 kg and perhaps 0.5m across, were jettisoned at 1536 and 1542 UTC. After deploying cargo attachment adapters on P3, and preparing the P5 truss for its connection to P6 later in the year, the astronauts went to the PMA-2 docking port outside the Destiny lab to install the remaining SSPTS cables for supplying visiting Shuttles with electrical power. The hatch was closed at 2002 UTC and the airlock was repressurized at 2006 UTC. On Feb 22 Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin made a spacewalk from the Pirs airlock wearing spacesuits Orlan M-25 and M-27. The airlock was depressurized by around 1005 UTC, and the hatch was opened at 1027 UTC; egress was at 1045-1049 UTC; the Progress antenna was freed using cutting tools by about 1245 UTC; at 1407 UTC, having left the aft end of Zvezda, the astronauts jettisoned two cleaning towels used to protect against thruster fuel contamination. After other minor inspection and hardware installation tasks, they re-entered the Pirs airlock at 1622-1627 UTC and closed the hatch at 1645 UTC, with repressurizaton at 1649 UTC. Thanks to Andrey Krasil'nikov for help with some of the EVA times in this report. Atlantis is now on the pad at KSC, being prepared for launch on mission STS-117. Iranian sounding rocket (not satellite) -------------------------------------- On Feb 25 the Iranian Aerospace Research Institute announced the launch of a 'space system' called 'Kavesh' (search). The Iranian news agency talks about launching a rocket into space. At first it wasn't entirely clear whether this reflected a successful orbital launch but a later clarification established that it was a sounding rocket test. The rocket has a maximum apogee of 150 km. Iran has launched missiles to that height in the past, so what's new here is that it's a quasi-civilian research payload, possibly testing systems for a later satellite launch. It is not clear when the launch took place, what the name of the launch vehicle is (possibly based on the Shahab-3 ('Meteor') missile, itself derived from the North Korean Nodong) or what the launch site was (perhaps the Shahroud missile test base at about 36.4N 55.0E; there is also reportedly a test site at Qom, 34.7N 50.9E and one at Dasht-E-Kabir, 32.8N 51.9E; all these locations are uncertain). The Iranian Aerospace Research Institute is based in Tehran and is, I believe, conducting the launch under the auspices of the Iranian National Space Agency formed in 2003 as part of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Rosetta and New Horizons ------------------------ The European comet probe Rosetta made a 250 km flyby of Mars at 0157 UTC on Feb 25. The probe will arrive at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014; it was launched in Mar 2004 and made an Earth flyby in Mar 2005. As Rosetta leaves the Mars gravitational sphere of influence it enters a 0.78 x 1.59 AU solar orbit inclined 1.9 deg to the ecliptic, setting it up for another Earth flyby in November. Pluto New Horizons makes its closest approach to Jupiter on Feb 28 at 0541 UTC, at a distance of 2.305 million km just outside the orbit of Callisto; the inert Star 48 third stage of the New Horizons launch flies past Jupiter at 2.8 million km at 0144 UTC the same day. New Horizons' Centaur AV-010 second stage has been left far behind, meandering through the asteroid belt 2.8 AU from the Sun. Beidou ------ China launched a navigation satellite towards geostationary orbit on Feb 2. The CZ-3A rocket put the fourth Beidou payload in a 192 x 41772 km x 25.0 deg supersynchronous transfer orbit. As of Feb 24, the Beidou satellite - reportedly the first of a new generation - remained in this transfer orbit and had not moved to geostationary, suggesting the possibility that it may have failed. FY-1C ----- 710 pieces of debris were cataloged from the previous record debris event, an accidental fragmentation of the Pegasus/HAPS rocket stage from the 1994-029 launch. As of Feb 20, 786 pieces had been cataloged from the destruction of the Chinese FY-1C satellite in a space weapons test, breaking the record and officially making the FY-1C destruction the worst orbital debris event since the formation of the Moon. By Feb 25 the number had reached 916 pieces. The accidental explosion on Feb 19 of the Arabsat-4 Briz upper stage 2006-06B, stranded in orbit in 2006 with tonnes of propellant left on board, is thought to have generated hundreds more debris objects, none of which have yet been cataloged. HST --- Failure of the Hubble Space Telescope's ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys) is a major blow to space astronomy: ACS was being used for about 80 percent of observations, although some programs can be switched to the less capable WFPC-2 camera. One of ACS's three sub-cameras has been recovered - the ultraviolet SBC (Solar Blind Channel) camera is now operable again, but the main visible-light imagers are thought to be lost for good. THEMIS ------ NASA's THEMIS mission was launched on Feb 17 by United Launch Alliance using a Boeing Delta 7925-10C vehicle. The Delta 7925 rocket entered a 182 x 563 km x 28.5 deg initial orbit; the second burn of the second stage moved it to a 518 x 1528 km x 26.6 deg orbit. The third stage then spun up, separated and fired to go to a 469 x 87337 km x 16.0 deg orbit. After a five minute coast, two despin weights were unreeled and then the five THEMIS probes were separated. The second stage later made a third burn to lower its orbit to 184 x 1510 km x 22.1 deg, ensuring a short orbital life for this stage. The THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) probes, built by Swales Aerospace, are 76 kg dry, 125 kg fully fuelled, and 0.8m across with booms spanning 40.2 m. They carry four 4.4N orbit adjust thrusters and will end up in a variety of high apogee orbits, measuring particles and fields to study magnetospheric storms. The mission is a NASA MIDEX Explorer led by UC Berkeley. IGS --- Japan launched two spy satellites on Feb 24, the Information Gathering Satellite Radar-2 and the IGS Optical-3 Verification Satellite. Earlier IGS satellites were placed in 490 km sun-synchronous orbits. Optical-1 and Radar-1 were launched in Mar 2003; two satellites lost in a Nov 2003 launch failure would have been Optical-2 and Radar-2 on reaching orbit - I'll call them Optical-2a and Radar-2a although those are not official names. In an effort to recover quickly, a second Optical-2 was launched on its own in Sep 2006 while the new Radar-2 was still being completed. The Optical-3 Verification Satellite is an experimental second-generation optical imaging craft that hitched a ride with Radar-2; I'll unofficially call it Optical-3V for short (it's not 100 percent clear from translations that the Verification qualifier applies to just the Optical satellite, but that seems to be the balance of evidence). The H2A rocket serial number F-12 used the 2024 version with two large and four small strapons, and the 4/4D-LC fairing which releases into orbit the upper satellite adapter and two side lower fairing panels as well as the two payloads. Table of Recent Launches ----------------------- Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Jan 10 0416 Cartosat-2 ) PSLV Sriharikota LP1 Imaging 01B SRE-1 ) Tech 01C LAPAN Tubsat) Imaging 01A Pehuensat ) Comms 01D Jan 18 0212 Progress M-59 Soyuz-U Baykonur LC1 Cargo 02A Jan 30 2322 NSS 8 Zenit-3SL SL Odyssey, POR Comms F01 Feb 2 1628 Beidou 2A Chang Zheng 3A Xichang Navigation 03A Feb 17 2301 THEMIS P1 ) Delta 7925 Canaveral SLC17B Science 04A THEMIS P2 ) Science 04B THEMIS P3 ) Science 04C THEMIS P4 ) Science 04D THEMIS P5 ) Science 04E Feb 24 0441 IGS Radar-2 ) H-2A 2024 Tanegashima YLP1 Radar 05A IGS Optical-3V ) Imaging 05B .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Somerville MA 02143 | inter : jcm at host.planet4589.org | | USA | jcm at cfa.harvard.edu | | | | JSR: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html | | Back issues: http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back | | Subscribe/unsub: mail majordomo at host.planet4589.org, (un)subscribe jsr | '-------------------------------------------------------------------------' Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. 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