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, 11 Mar 90 02:10:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sun, 11 Mar 90 02:10:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #137 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 137 Today's Topics: Re: Challenger Last Words Re: SR-71 Record Flight Information ASTRO-1 showing to be held March 13 at KSC (Forwarded) Re: space news from Jan 22 AW&ST Skulls in Space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 10 Mar 90 05:16:56 GMT From: cs.umn.edu!meccts!viper!dave@ub.d.umn.edu (David Messer) Subject: Re: Challenger Last Words In article <23146@usc.edu> robiner@iris.usc.edu (Steve Robiner) writes: >Does anyone out there know if the last minutes of the Challenger >flight recorder were ever released. Yes, the last words recorded were: "No, I wanted a BUD Light!" :-) -- Remember Tiananmen Square. | David Messer dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or- | Lynx Data Systems ...!bungia!viper!dave ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 90 15:07:12 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!pkap_ltd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Peter Kapner) Subject: Re: SR-71 Record Flight Information In article <1990Mar10.005557.20967@csuchico.edu> ian@cscihp.UUCP (Ian Kluft) writes: |In article <1990Mar9.201411.18367@cs.umn.edu> gardiner@cs.umn.edu (David Gardiner) writes: ||Now that the SR-71 is retired, have the true performance specs been ||declassified? Are the published performance specs anywhere near its ||actual capabilities? | |Probably not for a while. Especially not if there's a secret replacement for |it hiding in hangars at various AFB's. Interesting notion. What does everyone think? *Is* there a mach 4 bird hidden deep in some hanger just waiting to come out and reconnoiter at 100,000 feet? -- ============================================================================== Peter M. Kapner: New Yorker, Racquetball player, televangelist (pkap_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 90 19:00:23 GMT From: ames.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: ASTRO-1 showing to be held March 13 at KSC (Forwarded) Patricia Phillips March 9, 1990 KSC Release No. 36-90 Note to Editors and News Directors: ASTRO-1 SHOWING TO BE HELD MAR. 13 AT KSC ASTRO-1, the primary payload for the STS-35 mission in May, will be the topic of a photo opportunity and informal press briefing Tuesday, March 13. The showing will be held at 1 p.m. at the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building in KSC's Industrial Area. ASTRO-1 is being prepared in the O&C high bay for transfer to the Orbiter Processing Facility at Launch Complex 39 for in- stallation in Columbia's payload bay. Glenn Snyder, NASA ASTRO payload manager at KSC, will be on hand at the O&C to answer questions during the showing. ASTRO-1 is the first horizontal payload to be flown since resumption of Space Shuttle flights in 1988. During the nine-day mission, scheduled to begin with a night launch on May 9, ASTRO-1 will be used to study faint astronomical objects such as quasars, active galactic nuclei, and normal galaxies in the far ultraviolet spectral region; observe ultraviolet wavelength imaging of faint objects such as hot stars and galaxies; study the polarization of such objects; and measure the amount of energy of x-ray emissions from active galaxies and other celestial objects. Consisting of four separate, yet complementary, optical in- struments, ASTRO-1 includes: three ultraviolet telescopes aligned to each other on a single pointing system on two Spacelab pallets and an x-ray telescope mounted on a two-axis pointing system secured by a special support structure. These four instruments are capable of performing independent or simultaneous observa- tions of selected targets. Transportation to the showing will leave from the Launch Complex 39 News Center at 12:30 p.m. Media without permanent credentials should call 407/867-2468 to arrange for badging by no later than noon March 12. Prior to entering the O&C, media should tether eyeglasses and camera gear, and remove loose articles from pockets. A mini- mum amount of gear should be carried. All those participating should wear flat, enclosed shoes. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 90 23:47:30 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: space news from Jan 22 AW&ST In article mikemc@mustang.ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com (Mike McManus) writes: >> One minor incident occurred late in the mission, when radio interference >> slightly scrambled a state-vector update command sent up from the ground, >> and Columbia began rotating slowly (peak rate about 0.5 RPM)... > >I remain amazed, as I was when something similar happened on the last mission, >... This was the last mission, actually -- remember that my AW&ST summaries are typically about a month behind real time. Note the name of the orbiter. -- MSDOS, abbrev: Maybe SomeDay | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology an Operating System. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 90 01:16:00 PDT From: "SSD::COBBHS" Subject: Skulls in Space To: "space+" I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 10-Mar-1990 00:47 PST From: HENRY S. COBB, 1LT. COBBHS Dept: CLFP Tel No: 643-2504 TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[SPACE+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU] ) Subject: Skulls in Space Heads up! Human skulls found in outer space! No, really. I have seen a copy of an article by Craig Covault slated to appear in next Monday's _Aviation Leak_. It seems that some investigators wanted to check out the radiation doses that astronaut brains are getting in the crew cabin. They reportedly took a (presumably cleaned) skull from a cadaver, inserted passive radiation detectors embedded in a brain-like plastic, and covered the whole thing with a skin-like plastic. _Av Leak_ reports that this contraption flew on the most recent (military) shuttle mission, and on STS-28 (also military). "I can neither confirm nor deny this report." _Av Leak_ says it is scheduled to fly again on the upcoming HST mission. It should be the highest to date, meaning a more severe radiation dose. From the size, the skull is presumed to be female. The experimenters say that it came from an individual (identity unknown) who donated her (?) body to science. The experimenters are planning to fly a human torso, similarly instrumented, sometime in the future. Whatcha wanna bet that Geraldo Rivera and the National Enquirer suddenly rediscover our boring old space program? "Satanism in Orbit!!!..." I know how to do a smiley-face on the net :-), but how do you do a wry grin? --- Stu Cobb COBBHS @ AFSC-SSD.AF.MIL ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #137 *******************