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 ; Mon, 12 Nov 1990 02:40:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 02:39:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #535 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 535 Today's Topics: Re: LLNL Astronaut Delivery (was Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station) Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90 SUN Astro Software Re: LLNL Astronaut Delivery (was Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station) Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations Galileo question NASA Headline News for 11/06/90 (Forwarded) Soyuz mission TM9 summary Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription notices, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Nov 90 15:40:22 GMT From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu!v071pzp4@ucsd.edu (Craig L Cole) Subject: Re: LLNL Astronaut Delivery (was Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station) In article <2666@polari.UUCP>, crad@polari.UUCP (Charles Radley) writes... > > >>How *is* LLNL planning to get astronauts up to the station? >+Put a capsule on a Delta. Is LNLL sure the Delta can be made man-rated? Cheaply? Just throwing a capsule on top of a Delta doesn't sound particularly safe. I know Delta has a great launch record, but I doubt it was ever designed for manned-flight. Craig Cole V071PZP4@UBVMS.BITNET V071PZP4@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 90 16:27:30 GMT From: usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@ucsd.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 11/02/90 In article <1990Nov5.184601.9529@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) writes: >>Probably because Ulysses is a European project ... > >Ulysses is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency... Oh yes, I forgot. When a project is done by NASA with modest ESA involvement, it's a US project (e.g. HST), but when it's done by ESA with modest NASA involvement, it's a joint project. :-) :-) ISPM would have been a joint project. Ulysses is a European project with minor NASA participation. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 02:01:12 MST From: Dan Charrois Subject: SUN Astro Software I am wondering if anyone is aware of an anonymous ftp site which supports Astronomy software for a Sun or Sparcstation. I am currently interested in anything astronomy-related that can be compiled on one of these machines. (or where an executable code can be ported over) Thanks for your help. Dan Charrois ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 08:42:34 -0500 From: "Allen W. Sherzer" Subject: Re: LLNL Astronaut Delivery (was Re: You Can't Expect a Space Station) Newsgroups: sci.space Cc: In article <2666@polari.UUCP>: >Soyuz is not available, Yes it is. I spoke with a vice president of Space Commerce Inc. recently. He told me that for $50M he would deliver you a Soyuz. I'm sure you could also get a quanity discount. >how can LLNL have it in their plan? They don't as far as I know. I am only demonstrating that it can be done. >A capsule of $ 200 M is inadequate, as a minimum a Gemini type vehicle >is required which is more like $ 2 - 3 B. You have yet to justify that number in any way. Why won't ACRV work? Also, for $2 to 3 billion (assuming your numbers are correct) you could build and launch ~5 Earth Stations. If the first one fails, the second one will. This second one will be built and launched for less than the cost of ONE shuttle flight. >Remember you need long >duration EVA, it may take a couple of weeks to get a failed LLNL >fully deployed. Or it might not. Skylab didn't need two weeks. > If we had access to Soyuz and Soviet technology, the cheapest >approach would be to scrap LLNL and use Mir. Mir does not provide artificial gravity. It is also not clear that the Soviets would sell it (after all, it is starting to show a profit). Allen -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Allen W. Sherzer| I had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209. Renovation | | aws@iti.org | programs, spare parts for 25 years. Who cares if it | | | works or not? - Dick Jones, VP OCP Security Concepts | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 08:47:10 -0500 From: "Allen W. Sherzer" Subject: Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations Newsgroups: sci.space Cc: In article <2667@polari.UUCP>: >As far as I can tell, Freedom will never be completly integrated on >the ground. You are going to take a first of its kind system the size of Freedom and do its first integration *AND* integration testing is space? And you think LLNL is risky? Doesn't that scare the hell out of you? (It would me). Allen -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Allen W. Sherzer| I had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209. Renovation | | aws@iti.org | programs, spare parts for 25 years. Who cares if it | | | works or not? - Dick Jones, VP OCP Security Concepts | ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 90 18:47:56 GMT From: emanon!arromdee@umd5.umd.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) Subject: Galileo question I know I asked this some time back, but I wonder if anything more de- finite has been decided. And I don't think this is in a "frequently asked questions" posting. And... Aw heck, forget the disclaimers.... What is Galileo going to be doing so far as taking pictures of the Earth and Moon goes? Also, I recall that Galileo took some pictures at Venus. When do they get transmitted? (I recall that something was done to get some of the data back a bit early. If this includes pictures, where can I find them?) -- "Thinking small-minded is when you see your bus on the other side of the street and wish you could teleport across to catch it." Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm; INTERNET: arromdee@cs.jhu.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 90 19:32:27 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 11/06/90 (Forwarded) Headline News Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters Tuesday, November 6, 1990 Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788 This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, November 6, 1990 At the Kennedy Space Center, work to prepare Atlantis for the STS-38 DoD flight continues. Workers will install the two contingency space suits in Atlantis tomorrow. The external tank will also be purged tomorrow. Aft compartment closeout activities also continue. On Columbia, the helium signature leak test of the main propulsion system oxygen side went well yesterday. Columbia's number one auxiliary power unit is being replaced today. The replacement APU will be hot fired next week. Discovery's heat shield is being removed today in preparation for removal, on Friday, of the three main engines. Other work today on Discovery includes electronics and crew compartment systems checks. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * New Hubble Space Telescope photographs will be released today at 1:00 pm EST. The photos are of the Orion nebula and include images of features of the nebula never seen before. This is one of the richest star birthing regions in our local neighborhood, and has been of interest to astronomers for centuries. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * During the deployment of Ulysses' 24.3-foot axial boom on Sunday, Jet Propulsion Laboratory flight controllers noticed a slight wobble in the spacecraft's spin axis. The JPL team expected some slight perturbation, but is investigating this situation. The motion does not affect Ulysses operations nor the communications link with Earth. Instrument turn-on and check-out activities continue with no anomalies. Ulysses is now about 18 million miles from Earth and moving outward from the Sun at a velocity of nearly 88,000 miles per hour. NASA Select TV Feature Presentation Thursday, NASA Select TV will transmit a special NASA Production featuring highlights from the recent Eisenhower Symposium "Look to the Future." The symposium was co- sponsored by the Eisenhower Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. The Select TV program features opening remarks by Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the former President, and includes speeches by Adm. Richard Truly, Father Theodore Hesburgh (Notre Dame University President Emeritus), and Dr. James Snelling (University of Maryland Distinguished Professor.) Dr. William Lenoir will hold another monthly space flight press briefing tomorrow at 3:00 pm EST, in room 531, Building 10-B. Shuttle chief Robert Crippen and space station chief Richard Kohrs will also participate. The briefing is on the television conference system and will not be broadcast on NASA Select TV. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Arnold Aldrich yesterday announced an organizational change at two West Coast NASA facilities. Ames Flight Research Center has a new Deputy Center Director, Kenneth Szalai, who will be located at the Dryden Flight Research Facility and serve as Director of the Dryden operation. Aldrich said this change will let NASA take full advantage of Ames institutional capabilities, and will enhance recognition for the unique flight-test programs conducted at Dryden. Szalai, who had been Dryden chief of research engineering, will assume the Dryden duties from Martin Knutson, who will return to Ames to direct flight operations there. Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. **indicates a live program. Tuesday, 11/6/90 12:00 pm "Why a Graduate Degree in Science and Engineering," a NASA Production. 6:00 pm Repeat of "Why a Graduate Degree in Science and Engineering." Wednesday, 11/7/90 1:15 pm **Magellan-at-Venus report from JPL. Thursday, 11/8/90 11:30 am NASA Update will be transmitted. 12:00 pm Videotape playback of "Look to the Future" symposium highlights. All events and times may change without notice. This report is filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 pm, EDT. It is a service of Internal Communications Branch at NASA Headquarters. Contact: CREDMOND on NASAmail or at 202/453-8425. NASA Select TV: Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 90 19:21:18 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!ccserver!zmapj36@uunet.uu.net (M.S.Bennett Supvs= Prof Pendry) Subject: Soyuz mission TM9 summary The Soyuz TM-9 Mission Ends. by Neville Kidger The troubled mission of Soviet cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Aleksandr Balandin ended with a safe landing in Kazakhstan at 7:35 GMT on August 9th. Despite fears in the Soviet and western press the Soyuz TM-9 landed without incident after the cosmonauts had conducted an EVA on July 17th to secure two of three loose thermal blankets which had become partially detached during the spacecraft's launch on February 11th. The third blanket was left floating loose after it was found to have been too badly damaged to secure. The loose blankets had been considered a potential hazard during the spacecraft's preparations for re-entry and were secured for this reason. In addition the cosmonauts ensured that the unintended prolonged exposure to space vacuum and radiation had not adversely sffected the explosive bolts which are used to separate the Soyuz descent module from the engine section after retrofire. However, at the close of the July 17th EVA the cosmonauts encountered difficulties in securing the hatch of the Kvant-2 module through which they had exited into open space. The men were forced to depressurise Kvant-2's second, scientific, section and enter it before they were able to repressurise and end the EVA after a Soviet record duration of seven hours. Soviet reporters made no secret that the cosmonaut's lives were threatened during the return to Kvant-2 due to the build up of carbon dioxide in their suits. While the men were able to replenish their oxygen supply they were unable to exchange canisters of lithium hydroxide in the life-support system of their EVA suits. The lithium hydroxide removes the exhaled carbon dioxide from the suit's atmospheres. During a second EVA,on July 26th, Solovyov and Balandin were able to secure the hatch of the Kvant-2 module after determining that a hinge had buckled. At the time of writing the blame for the incident was being laid on the cosmonauts for breaching the regulations governing the opening of the hatch - at least by the deputy designer of the Salyut design beureau where the module was designed and constructed. The charge is that Solovyov and Balandin did not wait for the internal pressure of the Kvant-2 airlock to reach zero before opening the hatch. This lead the hatch to being forced open into the space vacuum. Despite the fact that the cosmonauts managed to secure the hatch during their second EVA, yet another EVA will need to be conducted by Mir's current crew of Gennadi Manakov and Gennadi Strekalov. This pair will replace a hinge on the hatch door to enable it to be used as intended. One Soviet commentator has compared the current state of the hatch to that of a boarded-up door ! The expedition of Solovyov and Balandinwas notable for another couple of reasons as well as their Soyuz TM-9 EVAs and subsequent problems. The men were the first to witness the birth, in space, of Japanese quails from their eggs in a Czechoslovak-made incubator contained in the Kvant-2 module. Unfortunately, the chicks grew weak and unable to feed them- selves in their weightless environment, and the descision was made to put them to sleep. The other major aspect of the cosmonaut's activities in orbit related to their attempts to secure a profit from their work in space. At the time of their launch, the cosmonauts were said to be ready to recoup the cost of the mission (80 million Roubles) and even earn a further 25 million Roubles from their Earth observations and materials processing work on the Kristall module which was to be launched in April. But the Kristall launch was delayed to May 31st and then the docking was further delayed to June 10th because of thruster problems. The late start tousing the large module's five processing units to produce semi-conductor crystals and biotechnical materials meant that the estimate of profit which could be expected to be made from the flight was reduced to 13 million Roubles. The head of the Soviet space agency Glavkosmos has said, however, that the profits are "hypothetical". He revealed that money still had to be transferred into the account of Glavkosmos and the amount to be recouped was based upon the selling price of the Earth photographs that the men had taken ($1,000 each) and in the value of crystals processed in space (R500,000 each). The current crew of Manakov and Strekalov are to continue the processing and observations and Glavkosmos expects their flight to recoup about the same amount as the previous one. The Soviets have revealed that the amount of money allocated for 1990's manned space programmes is 220 million Roubles and one Soviet commentator has called for a serious explanation of the amount. But from the next launch to Mir of a manned crew - planned for December 2nd this year - part of the costs of each flight will be recouped by the paying presence of a foreign cosmonaut. The first to go will be a reporter-cosmonaut from a Japanese TV station TBS. He or she will accompany two cosmonauts to Mir and will return with Manakov and Strekalov after an eight-day mission. The reporter will make TV and radio broadcasts from the complex during the approximately six days aboard. The two candidates are a 40-year old male who used to smoke 80 cigarettes a day and a 25-year old camerawoman. Next up, in May 1991 should be Britain'sJuno mission, but the continuing quest to find sponsors for the mission may mean that Tim Mace or Helen Sharman may have to wait for their flight or even find it cancelled. The following year should see missions including cosmonaut representatives from Austria, France [for the third time ed.], West Germany and Spain. -- /------ ------- -----\ /------ | ====================== | | | | \ | | M. Sean Bennett | \-----\ |---- | | \-----\ | UKSEDS TECH.OFF. | | | | / | | Janet:SEDS@CC.IC.AC.UK | ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #535 *******************