Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Sun, 21 Jan 90 01:37:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sun, 21 Jan 90 01:36:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #449 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 449 Today's Topics: Payload Status for 01/17/90 (Forwarded) NASA announces Payload Specialists for Spacelab IML-1 mission (Forwarded) Re: NASA Funding Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD NASA Headline News - 01/19/90 (Forwarded) Payload Specialist Selected for Spacelab Mission (Forwarded) Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 20 Jan 90 02:08:01 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 01/17/90 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 01-17-90 - STS-31R HST (at VPF) - SI/C&DH installation was completed. This was followed by IPCU interface power troubleshooting prior to the start of HST functional testing which began on second shift last night. Functional testing is to run continuously through to Friday. ECS system is up and running in support of HST testing. - STS-32R SYNCOM (at Pad A) - Final planning for download of LDEF and SYNCOM ASE continues. - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at O&C) - IPR work off and T-O signal testing were accomplished yesterday. Plan to pick back up with power up interface verification testing today. - STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) - MVAC familiarization and training began yesterday and will continue throughout this week. Pyrell foam replacement continues. Rack 4 ICRS reconfiguration was completed. - STS-42 IML (at O&C) - Rack 9 & 11 clevis drilling and reinforcement was completed. Rack 3 & 4 to be worked today. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jan 90 02:10:31 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA announces Payload Specialists for Spacelab IML-1 mission (Forwarded) Charles Redmond Headquarters, Washington, D.C. January 19, 1990 Debra Rahn Headquarters, Washington, D.C. RELEASE: 90-9 NASA ANNOUNCES PAYLOAD SPECIALISTS FOR SPACELAB IML-1 MISSION NASA today announced, after consultation with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), that Dr. Ulf D. Merbold, ESA, and Dr. Roberta L. Bondar, CSA, have been designated as the prime flight payload specialists for the first International Microgravity Laboratory mission (IML-1) aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia currently scheduled for launch in December 1990. Dr. Kenneth E. Money, CSA, and Dr. Roger K. Crouch, NASA Headquarters, have been selected as the backup payload specialists. Dr. Money and Dr. Crouch will be principle communicators with the laboratory during the mission from the Payload Operations Control Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. They also will train for the payload mission such that they could substitute for Dr. Bondar and Dr. Merbold should they be unable to fly the mission. These Payload Specialist designations were made based on recommendations of the IML-1 Investigators Working Group. IML-1 is the first of a series of microgravity investigations using the Spacelab module. An international team consisting of over 200 investigators from more than a dozen countries will focus on materials and life sciences, two disciplines needing crew participation and access to reduced gravity. IML-1 will use the Spacelab long module and is a dedicated microgravity mission. The investigations will use four life sciences experiment facilities, designed for multiple experiments, including biorack, gravitational plant physiology facility, microgravity vestibular investigations and space physiology experiments. Six materials experiment facilities also will be used, including fluid experiment system, vapor crystal growth system, mercury-iodide crystal growth system, organic crystal growth facility, the critical point facility and protein crystal growth facilities. These multi-experiment facilities have been built by the U.S., European, Canadian and Japanese investigators and organizations. In addition to the experiments which require these multiuser facilities, two other life science and three other materials science experiments with unique hardware will fly aboard IML-1. Columbia will fly in a 165 nautical mile-high, 28.5 degree orbit. Mission duration is planned for 9 days. A 10th day will be flown if flight resources allow. The orbiter will fly in a "gravity gradient" attitude (tail toward Earth) thereby producing the least gravitational disturbances on the Spacelab during the mission flight duration. The crew will consist of the two payload specialists and two payload-oriented mission specialists, Dr. Mary L. Cleave and Dr. Norman E. Thagard; Mission Commander, Colonel Ronald J. Grabe, USAF; Pilot, Stephan S. Oswald; and a 3rd general mission specialist, William F. Readdy. The IML series is intended as an ongoing international research program in materials and life sciences in a microgravity environment. The program is managed by NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications' Flight Systems Division, Washington, D.C. Wayne Richie is the IML-1 Program Manager and Dr. Ronald White, Life Sciences Division, is the Program Scientist. The IML-1 Mission Manager is Robert McBrayer and the Mission Scientist is Dr. Robert Snyder, both from the Marshall Space Flight Center. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 19:47:13 GMT From: van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!cpsc!rossd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (David Ross) Subject: Re: NASA Funding In article <5A0110121F340076-MTABWIDENER*DXANDY@widener> DXANDY@WIDENER.BITNET writes: > > Please excuse me if this topic has been discussed previously, or it falls >into the catagory of "too stupid to consider". 'Sallright... Most of the stuff we read in the news already falls into that category. > If NASA were to enter the >world of advertising, if only in a small way, surely it would be able to >bring in several millions of dollars. For example, if the ET were to act as >huge billboard, I am sure that a company such as Coca Cola would pay massive >amounts to have it painted like a giant Coke can. A while back, the Soviets, who were desparately seeking cash, announced that they would be selling advertising space on their launch vehicles and cosmonauts, and would be willing to sell footage of products being used in space. -D David C. Ross | "If I spill soapy water on the floor, U of Calgary | is it dirty, or is it clean?" ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 90 03:58:58 GMT From: snorkelwacker!usc!polyslo!mhuang@bloom-beacon.mit.edu ( * * * Hunter * * * ) Subject: Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD In article <1518.25b8070a@vaxa.uwa.oz> g_ahrendt@vaxa.uwa.oz (Gunter Ahrendt) writes: >Please the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird is not the fastest/highest flying plane, >the MiG-25 E.226 Foxbat can fly approx. 30% higher and the North American >X-15A-2 300% higher and 100% faster. Even though take-off is not achieved under >it's own power this does not make it any less remarkable. In regards to the actual record, much data concerning the SR-71 Blackbird still remains classified, including the maximum speed and altitude. However, the DoD has acknowledged that the SR-71 is a Mach 3+ capable aircraft and the maximum attainable altitude is over 80,000+ feet. #==============================================================================# |\_/| {O o} Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack! Pfft! ( " ) (Bill the Cat lives.) U Admiral Michael "Hunter" Huang +---------------------------------------------+ mhuang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU | * * * * * * S T A R T R E K * * * * * * | USS Ticonderoga | * * * * * * L I V E S ! ! ! * * * * * * | NCC-1736 +---------------------------------------------+ #==============================================================================# ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 17:34:57 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: NASA Headline News - 01/19/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, January 19, 1990 Audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Friday, January 19.... The crew of the STS-32 space shuttle mission will remain in earth orbit one more day. The delay was forced by predicted ground fog at Edwards Air Force Base. The extension makes the STS-32 mission the longest duration flight in shuttle history. Landing is now scheduled for approximately 3:00 A.M., Eastern time, Saturday. The deorbit burn is scheduled for 1:54 A.M., with NASA Select TV coverage of pre-landing and landing activities beginning at 12:30 A.M. After learning of the delay, crew members set up an echocardiograph device that generates images of the heart and other soft body tissues. In addition...Commander Dan Brandenstein and pilot Jim Wetherbee will conduct photograpy activities and exercise on the treadmill today. A segment of the right hand solid rocket booster slated for use on the STS-31 Discovery mission will be replaced. That decision was made yesterday by NASA and Thiokol Corporation officials. The change is being made because data doesn't show definitely that a required leak check on a nozzle internal joint was properly accomplished. Launch of the Discovery...carrying the Hubble Space Telescope...had been scheduled for late March. The Washington Post reports the delay could be about two weeks. Also at the Cape...the orbiter Atlantis is scheduled to be rolled over to the vehicle assembly building about noon today. Aerospace Daily says recommendations on the early direction of the Moon and Mars space initiatives will be sent to President George Bush in two to three weeks. National Space Council director Mark Albrecht told the Daily, Thursday, some key decisions will be made in the next 30 days relating to the early direction of the program, its thrust and decisions relating to international cooperation. And...two prime flight payload specialists have been named for the International Microgravity mission aboard the orbiter Columbia now scheduled for December 1990. Dr. Ulf Merbold of the European Space Agency and Dr. Roberta Bondar of the Canadian Space Agency will carry out a wide variety of experiments in the spacelab module. Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 301-355 | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Dr. | Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 17:26:50 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Payload Specialist Selected for Spacelab Mission (Forwarded) RELEASE: 90-9 NASA ANNOUNCES PAYLOAD SPECIALISTS FOR SPACELAB IML-l MISSION NASA today announced, after consultation with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), that Dr. Ulf D. Merbold, ESA, and Dr. Roberta L. Bondar, CSA, have been designated as the prime flight payload specialists for the first International Microgravity Laboratory mission (IML-l) aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia currently scheduled for launch in December l990. Dr. Kenneth E. Money, CSA, and Dr. Roger K. Crouch, NASA Headquarters, have been selected as the backup payload specialists. Dr. Money and Dr. Crouch will be principle communicators with the laboratory during the mission from the Payload Operations Control Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. They also will train for the payload mission such that they could substitute for Dr. Bondar and Dr. Merbold should they be unable to fly the mission. These Payload Specialist designations were made based on recommendations of the IML-l Investigators Working Group. IML-l is the first of a series of microgravity investigations using the Spacelab module. An international team consisting of over 200 investigators from more than a dozen countries will focus on materials and life sciences, two disciplines needing crew participation and access to reduced gravity. IML-l will use the Spacelab long module and is a dedicated microgravity mission. The investigations will use four life sciences experiment facilities, designed for multiple experiments, including biorack, gravitational plant physiology facility, microgravity vestibular investigations and space physiology experiments. Six materials experiment facilities also will be used, including fluid experiment system, vapor crystal growth system, mercury-iodide crystal growth system, organic crystal growth facility, the critical point facility and protein crystal growth facilities. These multi-experiment facilities have been built by the U.S., European, Canadian and Japanese investigators and organizations. In addition to the experiments which require these multiuser facilities, two other life science and three other materials science experiments with unique hardware will fly aboard IML-l. Columbia will fly in a l65 nautical mile-high, 28.5 degree orbit. Mission duration is planned for 9 days. A l0th day will be flown if flight resources allow. The orbiter will fly in a "gravity gradient" attitude (tail toward Earth) thereby producing the least gravitational disturbances on the Spacelab during the mission flight duration. The crew will consist of the two payload specialists and two payload-oriented mission specialists, Dr. Mary L. Cleave and Dr. Norman E. Thagard; Mission Commander, Colonel Ronald J. Grabe, USAF; Pilot, Stephan S. Oswald; and a 3rd general mission specialist, William F. Readdy. The IML series is intended as an ongoing international research program in materials and life sciences in a microgravity environment. The program is managed by NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications' Flight Systems Division, Washington, D.C. Wayne Richie is the IML-l Program Manager and Dr. Ronald White, Life Sciences Division, is the Program Scientist. The IML-l Mission Manager is Robert McBrayer and the Mission Scientist is Dr. Robert Snyder, both from the Marshall Space Flight Center. Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 301-355 | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Dr. | Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 90 22:36:58 GMT From: uhccux!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vaxa!g_ahrendt@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Gunter Ahrendt) Subject: Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD Please the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird is not the fastest/highest flying plane, the MiG-25 E.226 Foxbat can fly approx. 30% higher and the North American X-15A-2 300% higher and 100% faster. Even though take-off is not achieved under it's own power this does not make it any less remarkable. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jan 90 03:02:29 GMT From: att!watmath!watserv1!utgpu!utzoo!henry@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: SR-71 BLACKBIRD In article <1518.25b8070a@vaxa.uwa.oz> g_ahrendt@vaxa.uwa.oz (Gunter Ahrendt) writes: >Please the Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird is not the fastest/highest flying plane, >the MiG-25 E.226 Foxbat can fly approx. 30% higher and the North American >X-15A-2 300% higher and 100% faster. Even though take-off is not achieved under >it's own power this does not make it any less remarkable. The Blackbird's altitude capability is pretty definitely much higher than the records it has actually set, and almost certainly considerably exceeds that of the Foxbat. (We're talking sustained altitude here, not zoom climbs.) If one allows craft that drop pieces on the way up (in the way that the X-15s dropped a B-52 :-) and the X-15A-2 dropped external tanks), then the X-15A-2 is nowhere near the record holder for either speed or altitude. The Apollo spacecraft holds the record, with Gemini second and the shuttle orbiter third. (Before you complain that Apollo and Gemini were not aircraft, they were in fact lifting bodies at hypersonic speed, and used their lift to fly fairly complicated reentry trajectories.) International rules for aircraft records forbid dropping anything except human waste. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #449 *******************