Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Cradle-Exploring-Frontiers-Beyond/dp/0894807706/
by William K. Hartmann, Ron Miller, Pamela Lee
Well I think I found the book I had copied pages out of that dates back to 1984.
What had caught my eye was the many paintings of scenes on the Moon
with human figures portrayed.
Since what I have here is only a black and white copy I thought I
would order the book.
I see that William K. Hartmann is an astronomer, writer, and painter.
You can see some of his works on-line.
- LRK -
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http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/
Bill Hartmann's Home Page
My creative work in the last few years has been divided among three
areas: scientific research at PSI, my paintings, and my writing. I am
currently on the imaging team of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission.
My paintings include astronomical scenes (used for magazines, book
covers, etc.) and my writing includes popular science books and two
recent novels. You can explore all these efforts in more detail by
clicking on the listings below
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http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/planets.html
http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/painting.html
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Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
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http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/opc.html
William K. Hartmann's
Comprehensive Online Painting Catalog
[A lot of pictures in this index so takes a while to load - LRK -]
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Full Catalog from newest to oldest - loading - LRK -
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http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/pic-cat/preview.html
WILLIAM K. HARTMANN'S
Comprehensive Online Painting
Gallery
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My oh my, latest one, #639, May 2006, Our Place On Mars. - LRK -
#72, May 1978, Collision of Planetesimal and Earth
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Global Satellite Communications Technology and Systems (1998)
<http://www.wtec.org/loyola/satcom2/toc.htm>
Good day - Laptop power on switch - failed the "Power On" test. No laptop.
While digging through a stack of material to find the service contract for the laptop repair, found a lot of interesting material to look over and think about. Looking at the dates on some of the papers I began to wonder how things might have changed since they were written
Below is a chapter on launch systems that was written in December of 1998. That is only eight years ago. The paragraph following the one I copied below starts out with the sentence, "Considerable change has occurred since the last report." If you read the chapter, and maybe the whole report, think about what has changed since this was written and then look into the future and consider what will need to happen to get us back to the Moon.
- LRK -
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http://www.wtec.org/loyola/satcom2/04_03.htm
LAUNCH SYSTEMS
Introduction
The increased use of commercial satellites to meet the burgeoning worldwide market for telecommunications has placed increased demands on the launch service industry. The capacity of this industry will not be adequate to meet the needs of all the proposals for new satellites. Even though not all the proposals will get to the marketplace, there appears to be a shortage of launch capacity. In addition, this industry has new challenges to meet. In contrast to the past when most of the commercial satellites were placed into GEO, new satellites will also be placed into LEO and MEO. These latter orbits will be used by constellations of satellites requiring the launch of numerous satellites at a time and the launch of satellites to replace failed satellites, with little lead time. In addition, there is considerable pressure on the launch industry to make a considerable decrease in the price of entrance into space as well as to increase the reliability of the launches, a point that has been watched with considerable interest by the investment banking community.
Considerable change has occurred since the last report. This is no longer an industry where the need for government and military launches exceeds that of the commercial world. Private investment in new or improved launch systems has increased and may now be even greater than that of governments. To meet the increasing demand for launches, U.S. corporations have acquired launch service capability from other nations and booked launches considerably in advance of their need, just to improve their own position in this competitive growth market. In
addition, new launch vehicles are being developed to increase the capacity of the industry and to reduce costs. While much has been done to increase the lift capability of the launch vehicles, little progress has occurred in making significant decreases in the cost of launches.
The added lift capability is needed to meet the demands for heavier commercial spacecraft and the need to launch more than one satellite at a time. This latter capability is especially important for the launch and subsequent insertion of numerous satellites into the multi-satellite LEO and MEO orbits. The purpose of this section is to highlight the changes in this industry that have occurred in the five years since the last report.
Snip
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You might also like to take a look at the reports archive page.
- LRK -
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Study reports completed by WTEC Inc.
http://www.wtec.org/reports.htm
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This one is about the development of robotics and you might like to look at what they have to say about robots in space.
- LRK -
http://www.wtec.org/robotics/welcome.htm
Assessment of International Research and Development in Robotics
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http://www.wtec.org/robotics/report/03-Space.pdf
CHAPTER 3
SPACE ROBOTICS
Brian Wilcox, Robert Ambrose, Vijay Kumar
WHAT IS SPACE ROBOTICS?
Space robotics is the development of general purpose machines that are capable of surviving (for a time, at least) the rigors of the space environment, and performing exploration, assembly, construction, maintenance, servicing or other tasks that may or may not have been fully understood at the time of the design of the robot. Humans control space robots from either a “local” control console (e.g. with essentially zero speed-of-light delay, as in the case of the Space Shuttle robot arm (Figure 3.1) controlled by astronauts inside the pressurized cabin) or “remotely” (e.g. with non-negligible speed-of-light delays, as in the case of the Mars Exploration Rovers (Figure 3.2) controlled from human operators on Earth). Space robots are generally
designed to do multiple tasks, including unanticipated tasks, within a broad sphere of competence (e.g. payload deployment, retrieval, or inspection; planetary exploration).
Snip
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I think I will go read some of these. Have one I wrote 1984 on titled, "RETURN TO THE MOON". Wonder what we were thinking back in 1984. That is only 22 years. You aren't in a hurry to get back to the Moon are you?
Not the same as what I have in hand, but you get the picture.
- LRK -
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http://www.astronautix.com/craft/jsce1984.htm
/Class/: Manned. /Type/: Lunar Base. /Nation/: USA. /Agency/: NASA JSC.
In 1984 a Johnson Space Center team lad by Barney Roberts took NASA's first look at a return to the moon after the shuttle was in service. It anticipated later studies in using NASA's planned infrastructure - the shuttle, a shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle, space station, and orbital transfer vehicle to build a permanent 18-crew moon base in 2005-2015.
Snip
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Stay tuned and see what is proposed on December 4. (See 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
Newsltr.: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
==============================================================
THE DAY IN SPACE
__________________
In today's space news from SpaceRef:
-- NASA Exploration Strategy and Lunar Architecture Briefing
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21364
"NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and senior executives from the Exploration Systems
Mission Directorate will host a press conference at 1 p.m. CST Monday, Dec. 4, to announce the
agency's global exploration strategy and lunar architecture."
-- Save Centennial Challenges - Space Leaders Call on Congress to Restore Funding
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21363
"The Space Exploration Alliance, the Space Frontier Foundation, and the X Prize Foundation have come together to call on Congress to support and expand Centennial Challenges, NASA's space prize program."
-- Stephen Hawking to Receive Medal Flown on Space Shuttle
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21367
"Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is being honored with the world's oldest award for scientific achievement, with a special high-altitude assist from NASA."
-- American Astronomical Society Releases Statement on the NSF Astronomy
Senior Review
Report
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21366
"The American Astronomical Society, the largest professional organization for research
astronomers in the United States has issued a statement on the recently released National
Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences Senior Review report. The report, entitled
"From the Ground Up: Balancing the NSF Astronomy Program" was completed on October 22,
2006."
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
<http://www.wtec.org/loyola/satcom2/toc.htm>
Good day - Laptop power on switch - failed the "Power On" test. No laptop.
While digging through a stack of material to find the service contract for the laptop repair, found a lot of interesting material to look over and think about. Looking at the dates on some of the papers I began to wonder how things might have changed since they were written
Below is a chapter on launch systems that was written in December of 1998. That is only eight years ago. The paragraph following the one I copied below starts out with the sentence, "Considerable change has occurred since the last report." If you read the chapter, and maybe the whole report, think about what has changed since this was written and then look into the future and consider what will need to happen to get us back to the Moon.
- LRK -
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http://www.wtec.org/loyola/satcom2/04_03.htm
LAUNCH SYSTEMS
Introduction
The increased use of commercial satellites to meet the burgeoning worldwide market for telecommunications has placed increased demands on the launch service industry. The capacity of this industry will not be adequate to meet the needs of all the proposals for new satellites. Even though not all the proposals will get to the marketplace, there appears to be a shortage of launch capacity. In addition, this industry has new challenges to meet. In contrast to the past when most of the commercial satellites were placed into GEO, new satellites will also be placed into LEO and MEO. These latter orbits will be used by constellations of satellites requiring the launch of numerous satellites at a time and the launch of satellites to replace failed satellites, with little lead time. In addition, there is considerable pressure on the launch industry to make a considerable decrease in the price of entrance into space as well as to increase the reliability of the launches, a point that has been watched with considerable interest by the investment banking community.
Considerable change has occurred since the last report. This is no longer an industry where the need for government and military launches exceeds that of the commercial world. Private investment in new or improved launch systems has increased and may now be even greater than that of governments. To meet the increasing demand for launches, U.S. corporations have acquired launch service capability from other nations and booked launches considerably in advance of their need, just to improve their own position in this competitive growth market. In
addition, new launch vehicles are being developed to increase the capacity of the industry and to reduce costs. While much has been done to increase the lift capability of the launch vehicles, little progress has occurred in making significant decreases in the cost of launches.
The added lift capability is needed to meet the demands for heavier commercial spacecraft and the need to launch more than one satellite at a time. This latter capability is especially important for the launch and subsequent insertion of numerous satellites into the multi-satellite LEO and MEO orbits. The purpose of this section is to highlight the changes in this industry that have occurred in the five years since the last report.
Snip
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You might also like to take a look at the reports archive page.
- LRK -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Study reports completed by WTEC Inc.
http://www.wtec.org/reports.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This one is about the development of robotics and you might like to look at what they have to say about robots in space.
- LRK -
http://www.wtec.org/robotics/welcome.htm
Assessment of International Research and Development in Robotics
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.wtec.org/robotics/report/03-Space.pdf
CHAPTER 3
SPACE ROBOTICS
Brian Wilcox, Robert Ambrose, Vijay Kumar
WHAT IS SPACE ROBOTICS?
Space robotics is the development of general purpose machines that are capable of surviving (for a time, at least) the rigors of the space environment, and performing exploration, assembly, construction, maintenance, servicing or other tasks that may or may not have been fully understood at the time of the design of the robot. Humans control space robots from either a “local” control console (e.g. with essentially zero speed-of-light delay, as in the case of the Space Shuttle robot arm (Figure 3.1) controlled by astronauts inside the pressurized cabin) or “remotely” (e.g. with non-negligible speed-of-light delays, as in the case of the Mars Exploration Rovers (Figure 3.2) controlled from human operators on Earth). Space robots are generally
designed to do multiple tasks, including unanticipated tasks, within a broad sphere of competence (e.g. payload deployment, retrieval, or inspection; planetary exploration).
Snip
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I think I will go read some of these. Have one I wrote 1984 on titled, "RETURN TO THE MOON". Wonder what we were thinking back in 1984. That is only 22 years. You aren't in a hurry to get back to the Moon are you?
Not the same as what I have in hand, but you get the picture.
- LRK -
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http://www.astronautix.com/craft/jsce1984.htm
/Class/: Manned. /Type/: Lunar Base. /Nation/: USA. /Agency/: NASA JSC.
In 1984 a Johnson Space Center team lad by Barney Roberts took NASA's first look at a return to the moon after the shuttle was in service. It anticipated later studies in using NASA's planned infrastructure - the shuttle, a shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle, space station, and orbital transfer vehicle to build a permanent 18-crew moon base in 2005-2015.
Snip
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Stay tuned and see what is proposed on December 4. (See 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
Newsltr.: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
==============================================================
THE DAY IN SPACE
__________________
In today's space news from SpaceRef:
-- NASA Exploration Strategy and Lunar Architecture Briefing
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21364
"NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and senior executives from the Exploration Systems
Mission Directorate will host a press conference at 1 p.m. CST Monday, Dec. 4, to announce the
agency's global exploration strategy and lunar architecture."
-- Save Centennial Challenges - Space Leaders Call on Congress to Restore Funding
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21363
"The Space Exploration Alliance, the Space Frontier Foundation, and the X Prize Foundation have come together to call on Congress to support and expand Centennial Challenges, NASA's space prize program."
-- Stephen Hawking to Receive Medal Flown on Space Shuttle
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21367
"Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is being honored with the world's oldest award for scientific achievement, with a special high-altitude assist from NASA."
-- American Astronomical Society Releases Statement on the NSF Astronomy
Senior Review
Report
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=21366
"The American Astronomical Society, the largest professional organization for research
astronomers in the United States has issued a statement on the recently released National
Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences Senior Review report. The report, entitled
"From the Ground Up: Balancing the NSF Astronomy Program" was completed on October 22,
2006."
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Friday, November 24, 2006
Interplanetary Communication : Lunokhod Images
Larry Klaes passed the following and I must share.
Thanks Larry for keeping us posted.
- LRK -
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>Hi Walden2,
>
>A message has been posted in the forum on Interplanetary Communication
>that you asked us to keep an eye on.
>
>To view and/or reply to the post then click on the link below : -
> http://www.MentalLandscape.com//forum_posts.asp?TID=115&PID=457#457
>
Snip
> _____
>
>Forum: Photographs
>Topic: Lunokhod Images
>Posted By: DonPMitchell
>
>Wow, I actually found a new Lunokhod panorama today. The catalog is
>still far from complete, given the reported numbers of images returned.
>But I seem to have just about all that have ever been published.
>
> http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Luna17_Horz35.jpg
>
>Maybe I should offer cash prizes for new images. :-)
>
>
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There are many images here so enjoy.
- LRK -
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http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm
Soviet Moon Images
Russian probes returned the first images of the Lunar far side and the first images from the Lunar surface. While a manned landing was never accomplished, the final phase of Soviet exploration included a number of impressive robotic missions, returning samples and roving the surface.
Snip
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I would like to see some more of our nearest neighbor.
The adventure has just begun.
Keep us posted.
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
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
Lunokhod programme
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lunokhod (Russian for "Moon walker") 1 and 2 were a pair of unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union. They were in operation conterminously with the Zond series of flyby missions. The Lunokhod missions were primarily designed to explore the surface and return pictures. This complemented the Luna series of missions that were intended to be sample return missions and orbiters. They were designed by NPO Lavochkin.
Snip
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http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/luna_21.htm
LUNA 21/LUNOKHOD 2
The Russian lunar space probe lander/rover was active in le Monnier (upper left), a flooded crater with a very dark floor which forms a small bay in Mare Serenitatis. Le Monnier is 61 km wide and 2400 meters deep and straddles both Sections 25 and 24.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Larry Klaes passed the following and I must share.
Thanks Larry for keeping us posted.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------
>Hi Walden2,
>
>A message has been posted in the forum on Interplanetary Communication
>that you asked us to keep an eye on.
>
>To view and/or reply to the post then click on the link below : -
> http://www.MentalLandscape.com//forum_posts.asp?TID=115&PID=457#457
>
Snip
> _____
>
>Forum: Photographs
>Topic: Lunokhod Images
>Posted By: DonPMitchell
>
>Wow, I actually found a new Lunokhod panorama today. The catalog is
>still far from complete, given the reported numbers of images returned.
>But I seem to have just about all that have ever been published.
>
> http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Luna17_Horz35.jpg
>
>Maybe I should offer cash prizes for new images. :-)
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------
There are many images here so enjoy.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm
Soviet Moon Images
Russian probes returned the first images of the Lunar far side and the first images from the Lunar surface. While a manned landing was never accomplished, the final phase of Soviet exploration included a number of impressive robotic missions, returning samples and roving the surface.
Snip
--------------------------------------------------------------
I would like to see some more of our nearest neighbor.
The adventure has just begun.
Keep us posted.
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
==============================================================
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
Lunokhod programme
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lunokhod (Russian for "Moon walker") 1 and 2 were a pair of unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union. They were in operation conterminously with the Zond series of flyby missions. The Lunokhod missions were primarily designed to explore the surface and return pictures. This complemented the Luna series of missions that were intended to be sample return missions and orbiters. They were designed by NPO Lavochkin.
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/luna_21.htm
LUNA 21/LUNOKHOD 2
The Russian lunar space probe lander/rover was active in le Monnier (upper left), a flooded crater with a very dark floor which forms a small bay in Mare Serenitatis. Le Monnier is 61 km wide and 2400 meters deep and straddles both Sections 25 and 24.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW) And in Germany - Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories
We are working on Thanksgiving weekend here in the USA but there are other things going on. Canada looks up and maybe we will get to look down too.
- LRK -
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http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/events/2006/csaw.asp
Introduction
To support planning for Canada's participation in future space astronomy missions by developing science priorities and generating ideas for future space instruments and missions, the Canadian Space Agency will host the first Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW) on Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24, 2006, at the John H. Chapman Space Centre in Longueuil, Quebec.
Recent successes for Canadian contributions to international satellite missions such as ODIN, VSOP, and FUSE, and balloon-borne experiments such as BLAST, and Canada's own astronomy satellite, the highly successful MOST telescope, have made this a fertile period in space astronomy in Canada. The future promises to be just as exciting, with guaranteed access to international space observatories such as JWST, Herschel, Planck, and ASTROSAT through active participation by Canadian astronomers and industry partners.
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And in Germany -
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http://www.astron.nl/moon/
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP
Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II Bremen, November 23-24, 2006 sponsored by EADS and ASTRON
Scope of the workshop
This is the second workshop on the prospect of Lunar observatories, following the March 2005 workshop.
http://www.astron.nl/p/lunar_observatories.htm
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Hünefeldstraße 1
28199 Bremen
Germany
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Keep us posted.
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
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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0611
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# Nov 23 - Asteroid 1381 Danubia Occults HIP 57681 (7.9 Magnitude Star)
# Nov 23 - Asteroid 2003 YO1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.046 AU)
# Nov 23 - Asteroid 17078 Sellers Closest Approach To Earth (1.834 AU)
# Nov 23-24 - Workshop: Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II, Bremen, Germany
# Nov 23-24 - Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop: Creating Ideas for the Next Decade, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada Snip
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http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/events/2006/csaw.asp
Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW)
When: November 23 – 24, 2006
Where: Canadian Space Agency
John H. Chapman Space Centre
6767 Route de l'Aéroport
Saint-Hubert, Quebec J3Y 8Y9
Telephone: (450) 926-4800
Introduction
To support planning for Canada's participation in future space astronomy missions by developing science priorities and generating ideas for future space instruments and missions, the Canadian Space Agency will host the first Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW) on Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24, 2006, at the John H. Chapman Space Centre in Longueuil, Quebec.
Recent successes for Canadian contributions to international satellite missions such as ODIN, VSOP, and FUSE, and balloon-borne experiments such as BLAST, and Canada's own astronomy satellite, the highly successful MOST telescope, have made this a fertile period in space astronomy in Canada. The future promises to be just as exciting, with guaranteed access to international space observatories such as JWST, Herschel, Planck, and ASTROSAT through active participation by Canadian astronomers and industry partners.
Program Overview
The purpose of the first Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop is to provide a forum for astronomers, engineers, and students to exchange information, identify emerging needs and opportunities and to begin defining specific ideas for Space Astronomy missions to be carried out by the Canadian astronomical community during the next decade. This will be done in a workshop-style environment geared to facilitate discussions and to help foster the creation of teams around resulting concepts, and the participation of our international colleagues in this exercise is encouraged. The Canadian Space Agency and its partners will use the outcome of the workshop to initiate the definition of a long-term plan to promote the study and observation of the Universe from space and to establish future priorities of the Canadian Space Astronomy program.
The program is planned to comprise a mix of plenary sessions, invited talks, posters and breakout sessions. The structure and topics of the breakout sessions will take into account the nature of the ideas submitted by the astronomical community through the Call for Ideas associated with this workshop, which will help determine the final program. A dedicated poster session is also being planned, which will allow authors the opportunity to highlight current research results, describe current or near-term missions, elaborate concepts for future missions, and detail their scientific rationale.
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CANADIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
http://www.casca.ca/indexeng.html
http://www.casca.ca/indexfr.html
http://www.casca.ca/ecass/issues/2006-ss/soapbox/prez/prez.html
>From the new President ...
Up the down staircase. Do you ever get the urge when standing at the bottom of a down-bound escalator, to make a headlong rush to the top? If yes, then perhaps you are suited to a career in modern astronomy! With the growing advances world-wide, it seems that one has to run just to stand still, and it takes a mad dash to re-emerge at the top. The older one gets, the more immobilizing can be the “what ifs” borne from experience. Will my way be blocked by some down-bound traffic? What if I fatigue half-way up? Even if I reach the top, is there a support system (maybe an ambulance!) for me? To succeed, each one of us needs to keep some of the madness that comes with youthful enthusiasm, and we need to foster a new generation with the confidence to make the dash as we pass the torch. There are some indications that I am no longer youthful, but I am still perhaps sufficiently mad and unencumbered to be of some use as the CASCA President. I certainly believe passionately that ours is a great science for humanity,
in which Canada can show leadership and excel.
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http://www.astron.nl/moon/
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP
Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II Bremen, November 23-24, 2006 sponsored by EADS and ASTRON
Scope of the workshop
This is the second workshop on the prospect of Lunar observatories, following the March 2005 workshop.
http://www.astron.nl/p/lunar_observatories.htm
The main goal of the workshop is to provide timely input in the programmatic discussion in preparation to the ESA Ministerial Council in 2008. This workshop is aimed both at informing the community about the current status of a European lunar observatory, and to solicit input from the community for the science – specifically related to astronomy and astrophysics – that could and should be done from the moon. Topics that have been discussed in the past range from low-frequency radio observatories to submm-wave, infrared, optical, or X-ray telescopes and particle detectors. Synergies with other experiments, e.g. with a network of seismic sensors or other detectors spread over a part of the lunar surface have also been considered.
Nonetheless new ideas are still welcome.
Snip
Hünefeldstraße 1
28199 Bremen
Germany
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
We are working on Thanksgiving weekend here in the USA but there are other things going on. Canada looks up and maybe we will get to look down too.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/events/2006/csaw.asp
Introduction
To support planning for Canada's participation in future space astronomy missions by developing science priorities and generating ideas for future space instruments and missions, the Canadian Space Agency will host the first Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW) on Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24, 2006, at the John H. Chapman Space Centre in Longueuil, Quebec.
Recent successes for Canadian contributions to international satellite missions such as ODIN, VSOP, and FUSE, and balloon-borne experiments such as BLAST, and Canada's own astronomy satellite, the highly successful MOST telescope, have made this a fertile period in space astronomy in Canada. The future promises to be just as exciting, with guaranteed access to international space observatories such as JWST, Herschel, Planck, and ASTROSAT through active participation by Canadian astronomers and industry partners.
Snip
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And in Germany -
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http://www.astron.nl/moon/
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP
Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II Bremen, November 23-24, 2006 sponsored by EADS and ASTRON
Scope of the workshop
This is the second workshop on the prospect of Lunar observatories, following the March 2005 workshop.
http://www.astron.nl/p/lunar_observatories.htm
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Hünefeldstraße 1
28199 Bremen
Germany
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Keep us posted.
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
==============================================================
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0611
Snip
# Nov 23 - Asteroid 1381 Danubia Occults HIP 57681 (7.9 Magnitude Star)
# Nov 23 - Asteroid 2003 YO1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.046 AU)
# Nov 23 - Asteroid 17078 Sellers Closest Approach To Earth (1.834 AU)
# Nov 23-24 - Workshop: Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II, Bremen, Germany
# Nov 23-24 - Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop: Creating Ideas for the Next Decade, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada Snip
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http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/events/2006/csaw.asp
Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW)
When: November 23 – 24, 2006
Where: Canadian Space Agency
John H. Chapman Space Centre
6767 Route de l'Aéroport
Saint-Hubert, Quebec J3Y 8Y9
Telephone: (450) 926-4800
Introduction
To support planning for Canada's participation in future space astronomy missions by developing science priorities and generating ideas for future space instruments and missions, the Canadian Space Agency will host the first Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop (CSAW) on Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24, 2006, at the John H. Chapman Space Centre in Longueuil, Quebec.
Recent successes for Canadian contributions to international satellite missions such as ODIN, VSOP, and FUSE, and balloon-borne experiments such as BLAST, and Canada's own astronomy satellite, the highly successful MOST telescope, have made this a fertile period in space astronomy in Canada. The future promises to be just as exciting, with guaranteed access to international space observatories such as JWST, Herschel, Planck, and ASTROSAT through active participation by Canadian astronomers and industry partners.
Program Overview
The purpose of the first Canadian Space Astronomy Workshop is to provide a forum for astronomers, engineers, and students to exchange information, identify emerging needs and opportunities and to begin defining specific ideas for Space Astronomy missions to be carried out by the Canadian astronomical community during the next decade. This will be done in a workshop-style environment geared to facilitate discussions and to help foster the creation of teams around resulting concepts, and the participation of our international colleagues in this exercise is encouraged. The Canadian Space Agency and its partners will use the outcome of the workshop to initiate the definition of a long-term plan to promote the study and observation of the Universe from space and to establish future priorities of the Canadian Space Astronomy program.
The program is planned to comprise a mix of plenary sessions, invited talks, posters and breakout sessions. The structure and topics of the breakout sessions will take into account the nature of the ideas submitted by the astronomical community through the Call for Ideas associated with this workshop, which will help determine the final program. A dedicated poster session is also being planned, which will allow authors the opportunity to highlight current research results, describe current or near-term missions, elaborate concepts for future missions, and detail their scientific rationale.
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CANADIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
http://www.casca.ca/indexeng.html
http://www.casca.ca/indexfr.html
http://www.casca.ca/ecass/issues/2006-ss/soapbox/prez/prez.html
>From the new President ...
Up the down staircase. Do you ever get the urge when standing at the bottom of a down-bound escalator, to make a headlong rush to the top? If yes, then perhaps you are suited to a career in modern astronomy! With the growing advances world-wide, it seems that one has to run just to stand still, and it takes a mad dash to re-emerge at the top. The older one gets, the more immobilizing can be the “what ifs” borne from experience. Will my way be blocked by some down-bound traffic? What if I fatigue half-way up? Even if I reach the top, is there a support system (maybe an ambulance!) for me? To succeed, each one of us needs to keep some of the madness that comes with youthful enthusiasm, and we need to foster a new generation with the confidence to make the dash as we pass the torch. There are some indications that I am no longer youthful, but I am still perhaps sufficiently mad and unencumbered to be of some use as the CASCA President. I certainly believe passionately that ours is a great science for humanity,
in which Canada can show leadership and excel.
Snip
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http://www.astron.nl/moon/
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP
Towards a European Infrastructure for Lunar Observatories II Bremen, November 23-24, 2006 sponsored by EADS and ASTRON
Scope of the workshop
This is the second workshop on the prospect of Lunar observatories, following the March 2005 workshop.
http://www.astron.nl/p/lunar_observatories.htm
The main goal of the workshop is to provide timely input in the programmatic discussion in preparation to the ESA Ministerial Council in 2008. This workshop is aimed both at informing the community about the current status of a European lunar observatory, and to solicit input from the community for the science – specifically related to astronomy and astrophysics – that could and should be done from the moon. Topics that have been discussed in the past range from low-frequency radio observatories to submm-wave, infrared, optical, or X-ray telescopes and particle detectors. Synergies with other experiments, e.g. with a network of seismic sensors or other detectors spread over a part of the lunar surface have also been considered.
Nonetheless new ideas are still welcome.
Snip
Hünefeldstraße 1
28199 Bremen
Germany
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Asteroid 2006 WV - Whisssh - Wave bye-bye - 0.9 lunar distances - Nov. 21st.
A 13 meter rock, discovered 17 November 2006, reported 19 November 2006, flying by 21 November 2006. Oh Oh OH.
Easy come, easy go, unless that had been dead on. Hmmmmm.
- LRK -
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http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2006wv
2006 WV
Current assessments: NEODyS [backup] & JPL NEOPO
Diameter: 13 meters (JPL estimate)
JPL: Orbit Viewer NEODyS: object home page [backup] & observations
[backup]
Circulars: MPEC 2006-W24
Notes: 2006 WV was discovered on 17 Nov. 2006 by the Catalina Sky Survey and was announced two days later, which is when NEODyS and JPL posted it as an impact risk.
JPL reports this object will pass Earth at 0.9 lunar distances (LD) on Nov.
21st.
Packed designation: K06W00V
Snip
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What else has recently been discovered?
- LRK -
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http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
Near Earth Object Program
The following table lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.
Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results immediately published here, except in unusual cases where an IAU Technical Review is underway. For more information on impact monitoring and risk assessment see our Impact Risk Introduction and Frequently Asked Impact Risk Questions.
It is normal that, as additional observations become available, objects will disappear from this table whenever there are no longer any potential impact detections. For this reason we maintain a list of removed objects with the date of removal.
Where is 1950 DA?
121 NEAs: Last Updated Nov 21, 2006
Sort by Palermo Scale (cum.) or by Object Designation
Recently Observed Objects
(within past 60 days)
Snip
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Any of you see it go by?
We see these bits of rock, often after they go by, then figure out how close they were.
Zip zip there you are right among the zip-top bags.
- LRK -
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/143766,CST-NWS-qt21.article
Quart-sized zip-top bags fix everything
November 21, 2006
BY ZAY N. SMITH Sun-Times Columnist
News Item: "Airlines say they're prepared for an onslaught of Thanksgiving travelers who may not know that big bottles of shampoo, mouthwash and hair spray are banned from. . . ."
And remember, even as you are struggling with the new carry-on rules and being patted down, even at that moment, the Department of Homeland Security is allowing uninspected cargo onto your airplane.
Missed us by that much
The latest asteroid to be discovered four days after a near miss with Earth is Asteroid 2006WP1, which, it was discovered on Monday, had passed between the Earth and moon last Thursday.
Asteroid 2006WP1 is not to be confused with Asteroid 2006 WV, which, QT reported on Monday, was discovered Sunday just as it approach for a near miss with Earth sometime today, if NASA's calculations are correct.
And you were worried? NASA is on top of these things.
License to fish, drive ...
Snip
--------------------------------------------------------------
I bet you weren't worried, I bet you didn't even know we had a couple of near misses.
Was that thunder I just heard, or a sonic boom of an incoming ....
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
==============================================================
[If I hadn't looked at JPL's Space Calendar I would not have known a rock was passing by.
- LRK -]
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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0611
Snip
# Nov 21 - New[Nov 19] Asteroid 2006 WV Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 2002 XY38 Near-Venus Flyby (0.028 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 2001 WV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
# Nov 21 - New[Nov 17] Asteroid 2006 VP13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.702 AU)
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http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2006wa3
Consolidated Risk Tables
for objects under recent observation & active risk analysis Sources last checked at 0107 UTC on 22 November 2006
Risk monitoring Web sites were last checked at 0107 UTC, 22 Nov. 2006 (6:07pm at A/CC).
-- All "time UTC date" header notations are for when information was recorded by A/CC.
0107 UTC 22 Nov.
* JPL has posted 2006 WA3 as a risk.
2225 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has reposted 2006 SU49 as a risk.
* 2006 WA3 MPEC 2006-W46 dated "2006 Nov. 21, 22:21 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WA3 at 2006 Nov. 18.26436 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS), which observed it at Nov. 18.26-29, 18.34-37, 19.23-29, and 21.17-20. It was also observed from the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Nov. 21.11-12) and Farpoint Obs. (Nov. 21.14-18).
2102 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has posted 2006 WS1 as a risk.
1959 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has posted 2006 WP1 as a risk.
1726 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has posted 2006 WX1 as a risk.
1618 UTC 21 Nov.
* JPL has updated its 2006 SU49 risk assessment.
* NEODyS has removed 2006 UR216 as a risk.
* JPL has updated its 2006 WV risk assessment.
* JPL has removed 2006 WX as a risk.
* DOU MPEC 2006-W43 dated "2006 Nov. 21, 07:24 UT" reports observation of
-- 2006 SU49 from Spacewatch 1.8m (Nov. 20.07-08)
-- 2006 UR216 from MLS (Nov. 20.46-47)
-- 2006 WV from LINEAR (Nov. 18.28-32), Robert Hutsebaut via RAS Obs.
(Nov. 20.42), and Great Shefford Obs. (Nov. 20.88 & 21.10)
-- 2006 WX from Faulkes Telescope North education program (Nov. 20.45)
0520 UTC 21 Nov.
* JPL has posted 2006 WP1 as a risk.
* JPL has posted 2006 WX1 as a risk.
2134 UTC 20 Nov.
* 2006 WP1 MPEC 2006-W33 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 19:36 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WP1 at 2006 Nov. 18.29615 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS), which observed it at Nov. 18.30-32, 18.38-40, and 19.30-32. It was also observed from Great Shefford Obs. (Nov. 19.07-09) and the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Nov. 19.45-46).
* 2006 WS1 MPEC 2006-W36 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 19:55 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WS1 at 2006 Nov. 19.05865 by the MLS, which observed it at Nov. 19.06-11 and 20.16-19. It was also observed from Farpoint Obs. (Nov.
20.10-12).
* 2006 WX1 MPEC 2006-W41 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 20:36 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WX1 at 2006 Nov. 19.46485 by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), which observed it at Nov. 19.46-48 and 20.50-51. It was also observed from Sandlot Obs. (Nov. 20.36-38) and MLS (Nov. 20.41-43).
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http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/sormano/sael.html
Sormano Astronomical Observatory: Small Asteroids Encounters List
Last update: November 21, 2006
Computations by: Piero Sicoli , Francesco Manca (sormano@tin.it).
Small Asteroids Encounters List
This list includes small asteroids ( H > 22 ) having an Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) distance lower than 0.015 A.U, and is a complement of the ( MBPL )Minor Body Priority List for objects of smaller size. Circumstances of the encounter with our planet are closer in time to the epoch of available observations and are reported in italic and within. Moreover closest approaches for three centuries are computed only for objects having orbital elements with the uncertainty number U lower or equal to 5. For information about the U parameter adopted by the Minor Planet Center see MPC 24597 and the related page about the U value.
For the most interesting close encounters (depending on MOID, U parameter, nominal distance, propagation of the error etc.) the future minimum (min) and maximum (max) miss distances in AU are computed using the OrbFit Software Package. These values, based on a 3-sigma uncertainty confidence level, are reported at the left of the nominal result and a symbol " r "
means that available radar observations have been included in the orbital solution.
For all the entries, Earth MOID (software by F. Manca, G. Matarazzo, P.
Sicoli , Sormano Observatory ) and encounter parameters (software by A.
Testa, Sormano Observatory) are computed again at each orbit update.
The list, in connection with The Spaceguard Foundation, could be a support for observing and research plans.
Snip
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http://spaceguard.esa.int/SGF/
The Spaceguard Foundation home page
Welcome to the home page of the Spaceguard Foundation, an association aimed at the protection of the Earth environment against the bombardment of objects of the solar system (comets and asteroids). According to the foundation by-laws:
... the Association is therefore an entity eminently oriented within the most general framework of scientific research and shall pursue the following
purposes:
* to promote and co-ordinate activities for the discovery, pursuit
(follow-up) and orbital calculation of the NEO at an international level;
* to promote study activities - at theoretical, observational and experimental levels - of the physical-mineralogical characteristics of the minor bodies of the solar system, with particular attention to the NEO;
* to promote and co-ordinate a ground network (the Spaceguard System), backed up by possible satellite network, for the discovery observations and for astrometric and physical follow-up.
The Spaceguard Foundation has been officially set-up on March 26, 1996, in Rome. It is presently hosted by the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale of italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, although this is probably only a temporary settlement; its E-mail address is spaceguard@rm.iasf.cnr.it
Please note that the present WWW pages are under construction and still at a preliminary stage: for any problem please refer to Giovanni Valsecchi
(giovanni@rm.iasf.cnr.it): any help, comment and proposal will be highly appreciated!
Snip
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http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/index.html
Asteroids
If the dinosaurs had a space program,
they would still be here.
As an example of the economic value of space resources, let's consider the smallest known M-type asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid known as 3554 Amun (two kilometers in diameter): The iron and nickel in Amun have a market value of about $8,000 billion, the cobalt content adds another $6,000 billion, and the platinum-group metals add another $6,000 billion.
- John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky.
There are two things you need to know about asteroids:
* Asteroids can make us extinct (the threat).
* Asteroids can make us rich and provide homes for trillions of people (the promise).
Snip
[Check out the changes at http://www.nss.org/settlement/]
- LRK -
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
A 13 meter rock, discovered 17 November 2006, reported 19 November 2006, flying by 21 November 2006. Oh Oh OH.
Easy come, easy go, unless that had been dead on. Hmmmmm.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2006wv
2006 WV
Current assessments: NEODyS [backup] & JPL NEOPO
Diameter: 13 meters (JPL estimate)
JPL: Orbit Viewer NEODyS: object home page [backup] & observations
[backup]
Circulars: MPEC 2006-W24
Notes: 2006 WV was discovered on 17 Nov. 2006 by the Catalina Sky Survey and was announced two days later, which is when NEODyS and JPL posted it as an impact risk.
JPL reports this object will pass Earth at 0.9 lunar distances (LD) on Nov.
21st.
Packed designation: K06W00V
Snip
--------------------------------------------------------------
What else has recently been discovered?
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
Near Earth Object Program
The following table lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.
Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results immediately published here, except in unusual cases where an IAU Technical Review is underway. For more information on impact monitoring and risk assessment see our Impact Risk Introduction and Frequently Asked Impact Risk Questions.
It is normal that, as additional observations become available, objects will disappear from this table whenever there are no longer any potential impact detections. For this reason we maintain a list of removed objects with the date of removal.
Where is 1950 DA?
121 NEAs: Last Updated Nov 21, 2006
Sort by Palermo Scale (cum.) or by Object Designation
Recently Observed Objects
(within past 60 days)
Snip
--------------------------------------------------------------
Any of you see it go by?
We see these bits of rock, often after they go by, then figure out how close they were.
Zip zip there you are right among the zip-top bags.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/143766,CST-NWS-qt21.article
Quart-sized zip-top bags fix everything
November 21, 2006
BY ZAY N. SMITH Sun-Times Columnist
News Item: "Airlines say they're prepared for an onslaught of Thanksgiving travelers who may not know that big bottles of shampoo, mouthwash and hair spray are banned from. . . ."
And remember, even as you are struggling with the new carry-on rules and being patted down, even at that moment, the Department of Homeland Security is allowing uninspected cargo onto your airplane.
Missed us by that much
The latest asteroid to be discovered four days after a near miss with Earth is Asteroid 2006WP1, which, it was discovered on Monday, had passed between the Earth and moon last Thursday.
Asteroid 2006WP1 is not to be confused with Asteroid 2006 WV, which, QT reported on Monday, was discovered Sunday just as it approach for a near miss with Earth sometime today, if NASA's calculations are correct.
And you were worried? NASA is on top of these things.
License to fish, drive ...
Snip
--------------------------------------------------------------
I bet you weren't worried, I bet you didn't even know we had a couple of near misses.
Was that thunder I just heard, or a sonic boom of an incoming ....
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
==============================================================
[If I hadn't looked at JPL's Space Calendar I would not have known a rock was passing by.
- LRK -]
--------------------------------------------------------------
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0611
Snip
# Nov 21 - New[Nov 19] Asteroid 2006 WV Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 2002 XY38 Near-Venus Flyby (0.028 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 2001 WV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
# Nov 21 - New[Nov 17] Asteroid 2006 VP13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.702 AU)
Snip
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http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2006wa3
Consolidated Risk Tables
for objects under recent observation & active risk analysis Sources last checked at 0107 UTC on 22 November 2006
Risk monitoring Web sites were last checked at 0107 UTC, 22 Nov. 2006 (6:07pm at A/CC).
-- All "time UTC date" header notations are for when information was recorded by A/CC.
0107 UTC 22 Nov.
* JPL has posted 2006 WA3 as a risk.
2225 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has reposted 2006 SU49 as a risk.
* 2006 WA3 MPEC 2006-W46 dated "2006 Nov. 21, 22:21 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WA3 at 2006 Nov. 18.26436 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS), which observed it at Nov. 18.26-29, 18.34-37, 19.23-29, and 21.17-20. It was also observed from the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Nov. 21.11-12) and Farpoint Obs. (Nov. 21.14-18).
2102 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has posted 2006 WS1 as a risk.
1959 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has posted 2006 WP1 as a risk.
1726 UTC 21 Nov.
* NEODyS has posted 2006 WX1 as a risk.
1618 UTC 21 Nov.
* JPL has updated its 2006 SU49 risk assessment.
* NEODyS has removed 2006 UR216 as a risk.
* JPL has updated its 2006 WV risk assessment.
* JPL has removed 2006 WX as a risk.
* DOU MPEC 2006-W43 dated "2006 Nov. 21, 07:24 UT" reports observation of
-- 2006 SU49 from Spacewatch 1.8m (Nov. 20.07-08)
-- 2006 UR216 from MLS (Nov. 20.46-47)
-- 2006 WV from LINEAR (Nov. 18.28-32), Robert Hutsebaut via RAS Obs.
(Nov. 20.42), and Great Shefford Obs. (Nov. 20.88 & 21.10)
-- 2006 WX from Faulkes Telescope North education program (Nov. 20.45)
0520 UTC 21 Nov.
* JPL has posted 2006 WP1 as a risk.
* JPL has posted 2006 WX1 as a risk.
2134 UTC 20 Nov.
* 2006 WP1 MPEC 2006-W33 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 19:36 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WP1 at 2006 Nov. 18.29615 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS), which observed it at Nov. 18.30-32, 18.38-40, and 19.30-32. It was also observed from Great Shefford Obs. (Nov. 19.07-09) and the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Nov. 19.45-46).
* 2006 WS1 MPEC 2006-W36 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 19:55 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WS1 at 2006 Nov. 19.05865 by the MLS, which observed it at Nov. 19.06-11 and 20.16-19. It was also observed from Farpoint Obs. (Nov.
20.10-12).
* 2006 WX1 MPEC 2006-W41 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 20:36 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WX1 at 2006 Nov. 19.46485 by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), which observed it at Nov. 19.46-48 and 20.50-51. It was also observed from Sandlot Obs. (Nov. 20.36-38) and MLS (Nov. 20.41-43).
Snip
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http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/sormano/sael.html
Sormano Astronomical Observatory: Small Asteroids Encounters List
Last update: November 21, 2006
Computations by: Piero Sicoli , Francesco Manca (sormano@tin.it).
Small Asteroids Encounters List
This list includes small asteroids ( H > 22 ) having an Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) distance lower than 0.015 A.U, and is a complement of the ( MBPL )Minor Body Priority List for objects of smaller size. Circumstances of the encounter with our planet are closer in time to the epoch of available observations and are reported in italic and within
For the most interesting close encounters (depending on MOID, U parameter, nominal distance, propagation of the error etc.) the future minimum (min) and maximum (max) miss distances in AU are computed using the OrbFit Software Package. These values, based on a 3-sigma uncertainty confidence level, are reported at the left of the nominal result and a symbol " r "
means that available radar observations have been included in the orbital solution.
For all the entries, Earth MOID (software by F. Manca, G. Matarazzo, P.
Sicoli , Sormano Observatory ) and encounter parameters (software by A.
Testa, Sormano Observatory) are computed again at each orbit update.
The list, in connection with The Spaceguard Foundation, could be a support for observing and research plans.
Snip
==============================================================
http://spaceguard.esa.int/SGF/
The Spaceguard Foundation home page
Welcome to the home page of the Spaceguard Foundation, an association aimed at the protection of the Earth environment against the bombardment of objects of the solar system (comets and asteroids). According to the foundation by-laws:
... the Association is therefore an entity eminently oriented within the most general framework of scientific research and shall pursue the following
purposes:
* to promote and co-ordinate activities for the discovery, pursuit
(follow-up) and orbital calculation of the NEO at an international level;
* to promote study activities - at theoretical, observational and experimental levels - of the physical-mineralogical characteristics of the minor bodies of the solar system, with particular attention to the NEO;
* to promote and co-ordinate a ground network (the Spaceguard System), backed up by possible satellite network, for the discovery observations and for astrometric and physical follow-up.
The Spaceguard Foundation has been officially set-up on March 26, 1996, in Rome. It is presently hosted by the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale of italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, although this is probably only a temporary settlement; its E-mail address is spaceguard@rm.iasf.cnr.it
Please note that the present WWW pages are under construction and still at a preliminary stage: for any problem please refer to Giovanni Valsecchi
(giovanni@rm.iasf.cnr.it): any help, comment and proposal will be highly appreciated!
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/index.html
Asteroids
If the dinosaurs had a space program,
they would still be here.
As an example of the economic value of space resources, let's consider the smallest known M-type asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid known as 3554 Amun (two kilometers in diameter): The iron and nickel in Amun have a market value of about $8,000 billion, the cobalt content adds another $6,000 billion, and the platinum-group metals add another $6,000 billion.
- John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky.
There are two things you need to know about asteroids:
* Asteroids can make us extinct (the threat).
* Asteroids can make us rich and provide homes for trillions of people (the promise).
Snip
[Check out the changes at http://www.nss.org/settlement/]
- LRK -
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Would you like to see an Astronaut go to an Asteroid? - Have you seen this?
Bob asked me ---
-------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Kellogg:
Did you see this article?
Bob MacBird
Conroe, Texas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1950258,00.html
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I had not, and proceeded to bend Bob's ear about some questions I had with the article as it stated that Dr. Chris McKay was a deputy scientist in the Constellation science office at the NASA Johnson Space Center.
Maybe so, but there is a David McKay at JSC and I know a Chris McKay that works at NASA Ames Research Center, so I wondered if Chris was also now at JSC too. Things have changed around at Ames since I left and for all I know Chris could be working at JSC or at Ames or both.
That sent me off looking to see what I could find about what was happening at Ames and whether Chris was now at JSC.
I found a Space.com link and it reads better but still left questions.
- LRK -
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http://www.space.com/news/061116_asteroid_nasa.html
NASA Studies Manned Asteroid Mission
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 16 November 2006
06:32 am ET
NASA is appraising a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid-gauging the scientific merit of the endeavor while testing out spacecraft gear, as well as mastering techniques that could prove useful if a space rock ever took aim for our planet.
Space agency teams are looking into use of Constellation hardware for a human Near-Earth Object (NEO) mission-an effort underway at NASA's Ames Research. Another study is delving into use of Constellation components to support an automated Mars sample return mission. That study is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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"A human mission to a near Earth asteroid would be scientifically worthwhile," said Chris McKay, deputy scientist in the Constellation science office at the NASA Johnson Space Center. "It could be part of an overall program of understanding these objects. Also, it would be useful, instrumentally, in terms of understanding the threat they pose to the Earth."
Stationed at NASA's Ames Research Center located in California's Silicon Valley, McKay told SPACE.com that work is underway to evaluate the science enabled by sending crews to asteroids, and to judge how best to assure safe and efficient exploration.
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Hmmm, Chis Mckay at Johnson Space Center in Texas, and at Ames in Silicon Valley California. I know Chris is tall and lanky but ....
The headlines are a little different in the Guardian article.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1950258,00.html
Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid and gently nudge it from path to Earth
. Nasa evokes Hollywood in effort to avoid catastrophe
. Mission would bridge gap between moon and Mars
David Adam
Friday November 17, 2006
The Guardian
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth and mankind is poised to go the way of the dinosaurs.
To save the day, Nasa now plans to go where only Bruce Willis has gone before. The US space agency is drawing up plans to land an astronaut on an asteroid hurtling through space at more than 30,000 mph. It wants to know whether humans could master techniques needed to deflect such a doomsday object when it is eventually identified. The proposals are at an early stage, and a spacecraft needed just to send an astronaut that far into space exists only on the drawing board, but they are deadly serious. A smallish asteroid called Apophis has already been identified as a possible threat to Earth in 2036.
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Uumm, You may want to read both articles and then an interview with Simon "Pete" Warden the new Director at Ames Research Center.
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http://www.nasatech.com/NEWS/Oct06/who_1006.html
Dr. Simon "Pete" Worden
Center Director, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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Another example is the Virtual Environment Interface for Remote Inspection.
This is one of the concepts that Dr. Steve Ellis here at Ames is studying, and this has a number of applications, particularly telesurgery, control of unmanned aerial vehicles, and more issues related to air traffic control. These are the kinds of efforts that are coming out of a lot of the space-related applications that NASA does with regard to day-to-day life here on Earth. One thing that has not been fully defined that the agency is heavily involved in developing is what we're going to do about Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) or asteroids. This is an area that Congress mandated NASA take a good look at, particularly the detection and characterization of potentially threatening, small NEOs. These are objects that are down to 100 meters in size that hit the planet every so often, and the last one we know of that hit, in 1908, had the force of several megatons and flattened a forest in Siberia at Tunguska. We are very deeply involved here at Ames, along with some of the other centers, in supporting studies at NASA Headquarters as to how we might meet this issue. And indeed, in the end, NASA has been asked that if we detect one of these things, what should we do about mitigating it? This is an exciting effort-I think it is about as exciting as you can get, trying to figure out how to play cosmic two-shot billiards.
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Also a more sober statement that the Constellation Program Milestone Review has been completed.
- LRK -
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061116/dcth044.html?.v=68
NASA Completes Milestone Review of Next Human Spacecraft System Thursday November 16, 1:47 pm ET Snip
Once the project-level reviews are complete, the Constellation Program will hold another full review to reconcile the baseline from this first review with any updates from the project reviews. A lunar architecture systems review of equipment associated with surface exploration and science activities on the moon is expected in the spring of 2009.
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Talk about Asteroids, talk about Mars, talk about going to the Stars, but first to the Moon Please, the money is in a squeeze.
Maybe one of you can tell me if Dr. Christopher McKay still works at NASA Ames Research Center. I can still find a phone number for him there. :-)
Maybe will just CC him on this post.
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
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[Google News is good at telling you the last links you were just at.
Altogether the search found 27 articles and listed 13 here. - LRK -
You might look at the headlines and even see how the articles are twisted.
I hope Chris McKay knows where he works, maybe both at Ames and JSC.
- LRK -
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1111267739
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http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/18/stories/2006111801432200.htm
Getting set to deflect asteroids that may one day head for the ...
Hindu, India - 22 hours ago
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with the ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1950167,00.html
Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Nov 16, 2006
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth ...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061116/dcth044.html?.v=68
NASA Completes Milestone Review of Next Human Spacecraft System Yahoo! News (press release) - Nov 16, 2006 WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has completed a milestone first review of all systems for the Orion spacecraft and the Ares I and Ares V rockets. ...
http://www.space.com/news/061116_asteroid_nasa.html
NASA Studies Manned Asteroid Mission
Space.com - Nov 16, 2006
By Leonard David. NASA is appraising a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid-gauging the scientific merit of the endeavor while ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750600/
NASA studies sending crew to asteroid
MSNBC - Nov 16, 2006
By Leonard David. NASA is appraising a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid - gauging the scientific merit of the endeavor while ...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10589.html
NASA mulling possible manned asteroid landing Earthtimes.org - Nov 17, 2006 CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA officials are mulling the possibility of dispatching a manned mission to an asteroid sometime soon. Teams ...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23374864-details/'Armageddon'+asteroid-busting+mission+may+lift+off+for+real/article.do
'Armageddon' asteroid-busting mission may lift off for real This is London, UK - Nov 17, 2006 Hollywood got there first, with the Bruce Willis film Armageddon. But now Nasa is drawing up its own emergency plans for what to ...
http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=58373&CFID=9365213&CFTOKEN=74900031
Nasa Searches for 'Bruce Willis'
ShortNews.com, Germany - Nov 16, 2006
In 2036, experts claim, an asteroid named Apophis might strike the earth and cause global disaster. Nasa's solution: move the rock ...
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.titleStory&sp=l63093
Wanted: Man To Land On Killer Asteroid And Gently Nudge From Path ...
AND, South Africa - Nov 16, 2006
By (AND) - www.andnetwork.com. It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic ...
NASA Might Send Astronauts To An Asteroid
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005541529
All Headline News - Nov 16, 2006
Cape Canaveral, FL (AHN) - NASA officials are thinking about sending astronauts to a big rock sometime soon. The trip would be to an asteroid near Earth. ...
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1456222
NASA Proposes Manned Asteroid Mission
Slashdot - Nov 16, 2006
eldavojohn writes "NASA has proposed a manned asteroid mission to a near earth object. They mention this being viewed as a "gap-filler ...
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200611171150.htm
NASA explores ways of deflecting asteroid strikes Hindu, India - Nov 16, 2006 By David Adam. NASA evokes Hollywood in effort to avoid catastrophe in a mission that would bridge gap between moon and Mars. It ...
http://presszoom.com/story_121330.html
NASA Completes Milestone Review of Next Human Spacecraft System PressZoom (press release), Netherlands - 23 hours ago NASA has completed a milestone first review of all systems for the Orion spacecraft and the Ares I and Ares V rockets. The review ...
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Bob asked me ---
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Mr. Kellogg:
Did you see this article?
Bob MacBird
Conroe, Texas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1950258,00.html
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I had not, and proceeded to bend Bob's ear about some questions I had with the article as it stated that Dr. Chris McKay was a deputy scientist in the Constellation science office at the NASA Johnson Space Center.
Maybe so, but there is a David McKay at JSC and I know a Chris McKay that works at NASA Ames Research Center, so I wondered if Chris was also now at JSC too. Things have changed around at Ames since I left and for all I know Chris could be working at JSC or at Ames or both.
That sent me off looking to see what I could find about what was happening at Ames and whether Chris was now at JSC.
I found a Space.com link and it reads better but still left questions.
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http://www.space.com/news/061116_asteroid_nasa.html
NASA Studies Manned Asteroid Mission
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 16 November 2006
06:32 am ET
NASA is appraising a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid-gauging the scientific merit of the endeavor while testing out spacecraft gear, as well as mastering techniques that could prove useful if a space rock ever took aim for our planet.
Space agency teams are looking into use of Constellation hardware for a human Near-Earth Object (NEO) mission-an effort underway at NASA's Ames Research. Another study is delving into use of Constellation components to support an automated Mars sample return mission. That study is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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"A human mission to a near Earth asteroid would be scientifically worthwhile," said Chris McKay, deputy scientist in the Constellation science office at the NASA Johnson Space Center. "It could be part of an overall program of understanding these objects. Also, it would be useful, instrumentally, in terms of understanding the threat they pose to the Earth."
Stationed at NASA's Ames Research Center located in California's Silicon Valley, McKay told SPACE.com that work is underway to evaluate the science enabled by sending crews to asteroids, and to judge how best to assure safe and efficient exploration.
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Hmmm, Chis Mckay at Johnson Space Center in Texas, and at Ames in Silicon Valley California. I know Chris is tall and lanky but ....
The headlines are a little different in the Guardian article.
- LRK -
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1950258,00.html
Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid and gently nudge it from path to Earth
. Nasa evokes Hollywood in effort to avoid catastrophe
. Mission would bridge gap between moon and Mars
David Adam
Friday November 17, 2006
The Guardian
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth and mankind is poised to go the way of the dinosaurs.
To save the day, Nasa now plans to go where only Bruce Willis has gone before. The US space agency is drawing up plans to land an astronaut on an asteroid hurtling through space at more than 30,000 mph. It wants to know whether humans could master techniques needed to deflect such a doomsday object when it is eventually identified. The proposals are at an early stage, and a spacecraft needed just to send an astronaut that far into space exists only on the drawing board, but they are deadly serious. A smallish asteroid called Apophis has already been identified as a possible threat to Earth in 2036.
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Uumm, You may want to read both articles and then an interview with Simon "Pete" Warden the new Director at Ames Research Center.
- LRK -
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http://www.nasatech.com/NEWS/Oct06/who_1006.html
Dr. Simon "Pete" Worden
Center Director, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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Another example is the Virtual Environment Interface for Remote Inspection.
This is one of the concepts that Dr. Steve Ellis here at Ames is studying, and this has a number of applications, particularly telesurgery, control of unmanned aerial vehicles, and more issues related to air traffic control. These are the kinds of efforts that are coming out of a lot of the space-related applications that NASA does with regard to day-to-day life here on Earth. One thing that has not been fully defined that the agency is heavily involved in developing is what we're going to do about Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) or asteroids. This is an area that Congress mandated NASA take a good look at, particularly the detection and characterization of potentially threatening, small NEOs. These are objects that are down to 100 meters in size that hit the planet every so often, and the last one we know of that hit, in 1908, had the force of several megatons and flattened a forest in Siberia at Tunguska. We are very deeply involved here at Ames, along with some of the other centers, in supporting studies at NASA Headquarters as to how we might meet this issue. And indeed, in the end, NASA has been asked that if we detect one of these things, what should we do about mitigating it? This is an exciting effort-I think it is about as exciting as you can get, trying to figure out how to play cosmic two-shot billiards.
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Also a more sober statement that the Constellation Program Milestone Review has been completed.
- LRK -
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061116/dcth044.html?.v=68
NASA Completes Milestone Review of Next Human Spacecraft System Thursday November 16, 1:47 pm ET Snip
Once the project-level reviews are complete, the Constellation Program will hold another full review to reconcile the baseline from this first review with any updates from the project reviews. A lunar architecture systems review of equipment associated with surface exploration and science activities on the moon is expected in the spring of 2009.
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Talk about Asteroids, talk about Mars, talk about going to the Stars, but first to the Moon Please, the money is in a squeeze.
Maybe one of you can tell me if Dr. Christopher McKay still works at NASA Ames Research Center. I can still find a phone number for him there. :-)
Maybe will just CC him on this post.
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
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[Google News is good at telling you the last links you were just at.
Altogether the search found 27 articles and listed 13 here. - LRK -
You might look at the headlines and even see how the articles are twisted.
I hope Chris McKay knows where he works, maybe both at Ames and JSC.
- LRK -
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1111267739
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http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/18/stories/2006111801432200.htm
Getting set to deflect asteroids that may one day head for the ...
Hindu, India - 22 hours ago
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with the ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1950167,00.html
Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Nov 16, 2006
It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth ...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061116/dcth044.html?.v=68
NASA Completes Milestone Review of Next Human Spacecraft System Yahoo! News (press release) - Nov 16, 2006 WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has completed a milestone first review of all systems for the Orion spacecraft and the Ares I and Ares V rockets. ...
http://www.space.com/news/061116_asteroid_nasa.html
NASA Studies Manned Asteroid Mission
Space.com - Nov 16, 2006
By Leonard David. NASA is appraising a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid-gauging the scientific merit of the endeavor while ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750600/
NASA studies sending crew to asteroid
MSNBC - Nov 16, 2006
By Leonard David. NASA is appraising a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid - gauging the scientific merit of the endeavor while ...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10589.html
NASA mulling possible manned asteroid landing Earthtimes.org - Nov 17, 2006 CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA officials are mulling the possibility of dispatching a manned mission to an asteroid sometime soon. Teams ...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23374864-details/'Armageddon'+asteroid-busting+mission+may+lift+off+for+real/article.do
'Armageddon' asteroid-busting mission may lift off for real This is London, UK - Nov 17, 2006 Hollywood got there first, with the Bruce Willis film Armageddon. But now Nasa is drawing up its own emergency plans for what to ...
http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=58373&CFID=9365213&CFTOKEN=74900031
Nasa Searches for 'Bruce Willis'
ShortNews.com, Germany - Nov 16, 2006
In 2036, experts claim, an asteroid named Apophis might strike the earth and cause global disaster. Nasa's solution: move the rock ...
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.titleStory&sp=l63093
Wanted: Man To Land On Killer Asteroid And Gently Nudge From Path ...
AND, South Africa - Nov 16, 2006
By (AND) - www.andnetwork.com. It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A huge asteroid is on a catastrophic ...
NASA Might Send Astronauts To An Asteroid
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005541529
All Headline News - Nov 16, 2006
Cape Canaveral, FL (AHN) - NASA officials are thinking about sending astronauts to a big rock sometime soon. The trip would be to an asteroid near Earth. ...
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1456222
NASA Proposes Manned Asteroid Mission
Slashdot - Nov 16, 2006
eldavojohn writes "NASA has proposed a manned asteroid mission to a near earth object. They mention this being viewed as a "gap-filler ...
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200611171150.htm
NASA explores ways of deflecting asteroid strikes Hindu, India - Nov 16, 2006 By David Adam. NASA evokes Hollywood in effort to avoid catastrophe in a mission that would bridge gap between moon and Mars. It ...
http://presszoom.com/story_121330.html
NASA Completes Milestone Review of Next Human Spacecraft System PressZoom (press release), Netherlands - 23 hours ago NASA has completed a milestone first review of all systems for the Orion spacecraft and the Ares I and Ares V rockets. The review ...
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Friday, November 17, 2006
Leonids and Project Constellation
Something for now and hopefully something for later; lights in the sky this weekend and to light the sky when we go back to the Moon.
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Space Weather News for Nov. 17, 2006
http://spaceweather.com
Every year in mid-November, Earth glides through a veritable minefield of comet dust clouds. The source of the debris is Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. This weekend Earth will graze one of those clouds, producing a mild outburst of Leonid meteors.
If forecasters are correct, the outburst will peak around 0445 UT on Sunday, Nov. 19th (11:45 p.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 18th). The timing favors observers in western Europe, Brazil and the Atlantic coast of North America, who could see as many as 100 meteors per hour. Dark skies are strongly recommended.
Please visit http://spaceweather.com for sky maps and more information--including links to a meteor radar where you can listen to the Leonids.
http://spaceweather.com/images2006/19nov06/skymap_north.gif
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Constellation
Project Constellation
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Project Constellation is NASA's current plan for space exploration.
It consists of a family of new spacecraft, launchers and associated hardware that allow for a variety of missions, from Space Station resupply, to lunar landings. Most of the Constellation hardware is based on systems originally developed for the Space Shuttle, although the key hardware, the Orion Spacecraft (formerly known as the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" or CEV), is heavily influenced by the earlier Apollo Spacecraft, using a two-part crew and service module system.
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More links below.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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http://www.arm.ac.uk/leonid/
The Leonid Meteors
Predicting the most spectacular meteor storms is now a remarkably exact science, with some excellent Leonid displays happening in recent years, for observers in the right parts of the world. These predictions involve the accurate modelling of dust trails within the Leonid stream.
Leonid outburst in 2006
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2006 LEONID FORECASTING
The 2006 Leonids will show a dust trail encounter with the 1932-dust trail of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, as well as the possible return of the Filament component. David Asher's original prediction put the peak time at 04:45 UT on November 19, with a peak rate of about 100 per hour, visible from western Europe and western Africa. Peak time of the Filament component is uncertain.
The traditional maximum of the annual Leonid shower is earlier on November 17, around 16:45 UT, well placed for the western USA (early morning of November 18 local time). More information:
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The Leonids
Leonids Made Simple
Leonid Main . Introduction . Observing . Predictions History . Photos . Artwork . Links . Leonid MAC '99 Snip
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http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/
Meteor Showers and Viewing Tips
2006 Meteor Showers
The next meteor shower is the Leonids on November 17-20.
Name Date of Peak Moon Phase
Quadrantids January 3 Evening crescent
Lyrids April 22 Morning crescent
Eta Aquarids May 6 Past first quarter
Delta Aquarids July 28 Evening crescent
Perseids August 12 Almost full
Orionids October 21 New Moon
Leonids November 17 New Moon
Geminids December 14 Morning crescent
What are meteor showers?
An increase in the number of meteors at a particular time of year is called a meteor shower.
Comets shed the debris that becomes most meteor showers. As comets orbit the Sun, they shed an icy, dusty debris stream along the comet's orbit. If Earth travels through this stream, we will see a meteor shower. Depending on where Earth and the stream meet, meteors appear to fall from a particular place in the sky, maybe within the neighborhood of a constellation.
Meteor showers are named by the constellation from which meteors appear to fall, a spot in the sky astronomers call the radiant. For instance, the radiant for the Leonid meteor shower is located in the constellation Leo.
The Perseid meteor shower is so named because meteors appear to fall from a point in the constellation Perseus.
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http://www.martiansoil.com/archives/cat_project_constellation.php
January 24, 2006
True Names
Alan Boyle (writing at MSNBC.com) reports on names that sources say will be used in the vehicles of Project Constellation. The launch vehicles will be called Ares, with the Crew Launch Vehicle or "Stick" will be the Ares I, the heavy-lift version or "Magnum" will be the Ares 5. The CEV's Apollo-like capsule and service module will be called Antares and the lunar lander will be called Artemis.
(With thanks to Mark Whittington at Curmudgeon's Corner.)
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Code T
Office of Exploration Systems Enterprise Project Constellation Work Breakdown Structure
[38 page PDF file of what constitutes the Project Constellation - LRK -]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Constellation
Project Constellation
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Project Constellation is NASA's current plan for space exploration.
It consists of a family of new spacecraft, launchers and associated hardware that allow for a variety of missions, from Space Station resupply, to lunar landings. Most of the Constellation hardware is based on systems originally developed for the Space Shuttle, although the key hardware, the Orion Spacecraft (formerly known as the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" or CEV), is heavily influenced by the earlier Apollo Spacecraft, using a two-part crew and service module system.
The new transportations system, which uses both an Earth Orbit Rendezvous and a Lunar Orbit Rendezvous technique, can be broken down into three parts:
The Orion Crew & Service Modules, the Lunar Surface Access Module, and the Earth Departure Stage. The rockets to be used for launching of the different components consist of the unmanned Ares V (for launch of the Earth Departure Stage and either the LSAM or cargo), and the manned Ares I for launch of the Orion Spacecraft.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/index.html
The new crew spacecraft will have more volume than the Apollo capsules, reducing development time, boosting stability, and permitting safe travel for up to six crewmembers.
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers.
The Orion crew capsule will carry astronauts back to the moon and later to Mars. The first flight with astronauts aboard is planned for no later than 2014. Orion's first flight to the moon is planned for no later than 2020.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/orion_contract.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29
Orion (spacecraft)
Orion is a manned spacecraft currently under development by the United States. Prior to receiving its current name Orion was known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). The new spacecraft will replace the current Space Shuttle fleet after the shuttles are retired in 2010, and will be launched from Kennedy Space Center on the new Ares I crew launch vehicle. Orion will initially handle logistic flights to the International Space Station, but will be a key component for future missions to the Moon and Mars after 2015.
Together with the Earth Departure Stage (EDS), the Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM), and the Ares I and Ares V Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicles (SDLV), Orion is one of the elements of NASA's Project Constellation. [1] Snip
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Surface_Access_Module
Lunar Surface Access Module
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
The Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM) is the planned American moon landing vehicle that will allow astronauts to land there around 2020 as part of NASA's Project Constellation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Departure_Stage
Earth Departure Stage
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ares V Earth Departure Stage (EDS) is the high-energy cryogenic upper stage of NASA's proposed new Ares V launch vehicle. Its purpose is to provide propulsion for the Orion spacecraft as part of Project Constellation operations in Earth orbit, near-Earth space, and beyond. Unlike the S-IVB stage of the earlier Saturn V launcher, which had to propel the entire Apollo spacecraft (i.e. both the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar
Module) into both a low Earth "parking" orbit and then again to the Moon, the EDS will boost only the Orion spacecraft's Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM) into space; the Orion CSM stack will be launched separately atop an Ares I launch vehicle and will link up with the EDS/LSAM on orbit, a method of known as Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR), a technique considered by NASA and Dr. Wernher von Braun for the Apollo program in the early stages of planning, but was dropped in favor of the lunar orbit rendezvous approach.
Once all vehicle components are properly configured, the EDS will restart and propel the complete Orion spacecraft to Earth escape velocity for transits to lunar orbit and other destinations.
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NASA's Ares rockets, named for the Greek god associated with Mars, will return humans to the moon and later take them to Mars and other destinations.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14594789/
Lockheed Martin to build future moonship Team chosen over Northrop Grumman, Boeing for $3.9 billion Orion project
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
Updated: 9:05 a.m. MT Sept 1, 2006
Lockheed Martin on Thursday won NASA's multibillion-dollar nod to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle, a spaceship with a look and a mission that echoes the space agency's giant leap to the moon in the 1960s.
The announcement kicks off an effort to produce spacecraft that would replace NASA's fleet of space shuttles, due for retirement in 2010. NASA's timetable calls for the cone-shaped Orion ships to bring cargo or up to six crew members to the international space station by 2014, and carry up to four astronauts to the moon and back by 2020.
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=17675&rsbci=21&fti=0&ti=0&sc=400
Orion Crew Vehicle
The Orion program will provide a state-of-the-art human space flight system capable of safely transferring astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), the Moon, Mars and other destinations beyond low earth orbit (LEO).
Utilizing a safe, affordable, staged approach to accomplishing these missions, the Lockheed Martin Orion Team is focused on providing NASA the capability to return to the Moon by the middle of the next decade with a low risk, high confidence program plan.
The Lockheed Martin Orion team -- Lockheed Martin, United Space Alliance, Honeywell, Hamilton Sundstrand, and Orbital -- brings to bear the nation's premier human space flight and exploration expertise in the development of NASA's next generation crew transportation system. Our collective expertise spanning five decades in large-scale systems integration, planetary exploration, human space flight systems and operations, launch vehicles, military aircraft, and autonomous flight systems provides a critical foundation for NASA's vision for space exploration. NASA will fly out the remaining Space Shuttle missions through 2010 as it completes the International Space Station and other missions that will utilize the Space Shuttle. Then an exciting new chapter in space exploration will begin as the Orion crew vehicle begins its missions to the International Space Station and ventures forth to return human explorers to the moon with a bold new mission of exploration as we prepare for human missions to Mars. Our state-of-the-art capsule concept provides a solution that is highly extensible for those future missions. This 21st century spacecraft design:
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fnec&ti=106
Lockheed Martin
VIDEO GALLERY
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&prfr=false&ci=16800&sc=400&rsbci=16800&rsbi=
Lockheed Martin Photo Gallery
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Something for now and hopefully something for later; lights in the sky this weekend and to light the sky when we go back to the Moon.
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Space Weather News for Nov. 17, 2006
http://spaceweather.com
Every year in mid-November, Earth glides through a veritable minefield of comet dust clouds. The source of the debris is Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. This weekend Earth will graze one of those clouds, producing a mild outburst of Leonid meteors.
If forecasters are correct, the outburst will peak around 0445 UT on Sunday, Nov. 19th (11:45 p.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 18th). The timing favors observers in western Europe, Brazil and the Atlantic coast of North America, who could see as many as 100 meteors per hour. Dark skies are strongly recommended.
Please visit http://spaceweather.com for sky maps and more information--including links to a meteor radar where you can listen to the Leonids.
http://spaceweather.com/images2006/19nov06/skymap_north.gif
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Project Constellation is NASA's current plan for space exploration.
Keep pushing to see that it happens.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Constellation
Project Constellation
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Project Constellation is NASA's current plan for space exploration.
It consists of a family of new spacecraft, launchers and associated hardware that allow for a variety of missions, from Space Station resupply, to lunar landings. Most of the Constellation hardware is based on systems originally developed for the Space Shuttle, although the key hardware, the Orion Spacecraft (formerly known as the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" or CEV), is heavily influenced by the earlier Apollo Spacecraft, using a two-part crew and service module system.
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More links 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
Newsltr.: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
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http://www.arm.ac.uk/leonid/
The Leonid Meteors
Predicting the most spectacular meteor storms is now a remarkably exact science, with some excellent Leonid displays happening in recent years, for observers in the right parts of the world. These predictions involve the accurate modelling of dust trails within the Leonid stream.
Leonid outburst in 2006
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http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/
2006 LEONID FORECASTING
The 2006 Leonids will show a dust trail encounter with the 1932-dust trail of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, as well as the possible return of the Filament component. David Asher's original prediction put the peak time at 04:45 UT on November 19, with a peak rate of about 100 per hour, visible from western Europe and western Africa. Peak time of the Filament component is uncertain.
The traditional maximum of the annual Leonid shower is earlier on November 17, around 16:45 UT, well placed for the western USA (early morning of November 18 local time). More information:
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http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/leonids.html
The Leonids
Leonids Made Simple
Leonid Main . Introduction . Observing . Predictions History . Photos . Artwork . Links . Leonid MAC '99 Snip
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http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/
Meteor Showers and Viewing Tips
2006 Meteor Showers
The next meteor shower is the Leonids on November 17-20.
Name Date of Peak Moon Phase
Quadrantids January 3 Evening crescent
Lyrids April 22 Morning crescent
Eta Aquarids May 6 Past first quarter
Delta Aquarids July 28 Evening crescent
Perseids August 12 Almost full
Orionids October 21 New Moon
Leonids November 17 New Moon
Geminids December 14 Morning crescent
What are meteor showers?
An increase in the number of meteors at a particular time of year is called a meteor shower.
Comets shed the debris that becomes most meteor showers. As comets orbit the Sun, they shed an icy, dusty debris stream along the comet's orbit. If Earth travels through this stream, we will see a meteor shower. Depending on where Earth and the stream meet, meteors appear to fall from a particular place in the sky, maybe within the neighborhood of a constellation.
Meteor showers are named by the constellation from which meteors appear to fall, a spot in the sky astronomers call the radiant. For instance, the radiant for the Leonid meteor shower is located in the constellation Leo.
The Perseid meteor shower is so named because meteors appear to fall from a point in the constellation Perseus.
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http://www.martiansoil.com/archives/cat_project_constellation.php
January 24, 2006
True Names
Alan Boyle (writing at MSNBC.com) reports on names that sources say will be used in the vehicles of Project Constellation. The launch vehicles will be called Ares, with the Crew Launch Vehicle or "Stick" will be the Ares I, the heavy-lift version or "Magnum" will be the Ares 5. The CEV's Apollo-like capsule and service module will be called Antares and the lunar lander will be called Artemis.
(With thanks to Mark Whittington at Curmudgeon's Corner.)
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http://exploration.nasa.gov/documents/project_constellation_wbs.pdf
Code T
Office of Exploration Systems Enterprise Project Constellation Work Breakdown Structure
[38 page PDF file of what constitutes the Project Constellation - LRK -]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Constellation
Project Constellation
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Project Constellation is NASA's current plan for space exploration.
It consists of a family of new spacecraft, launchers and associated hardware that allow for a variety of missions, from Space Station resupply, to lunar landings. Most of the Constellation hardware is based on systems originally developed for the Space Shuttle, although the key hardware, the Orion Spacecraft (formerly known as the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" or CEV), is heavily influenced by the earlier Apollo Spacecraft, using a two-part crew and service module system.
The new transportations system, which uses both an Earth Orbit Rendezvous and a Lunar Orbit Rendezvous technique, can be broken down into three parts:
The Orion Crew & Service Modules, the Lunar Surface Access Module, and the Earth Departure Stage. The rockets to be used for launching of the different components consist of the unmanned Ares V (for launch of the Earth Departure Stage and either the LSAM or cargo), and the manned Ares I for launch of the Orion Spacecraft.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/index.html
The new crew spacecraft will have more volume than the Apollo capsules, reducing development time, boosting stability, and permitting safe travel for up to six crewmembers.
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers.
The Orion crew capsule will carry astronauts back to the moon and later to Mars. The first flight with astronauts aboard is planned for no later than 2014. Orion's first flight to the moon is planned for no later than 2020.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/orion_contract.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29
Orion (spacecraft)
Orion is a manned spacecraft currently under development by the United States. Prior to receiving its current name Orion was known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). The new spacecraft will replace the current Space Shuttle fleet after the shuttles are retired in 2010, and will be launched from Kennedy Space Center on the new Ares I crew launch vehicle. Orion will initially handle logistic flights to the International Space Station, but will be a key component for future missions to the Moon and Mars after 2015.
Together with the Earth Departure Stage (EDS), the Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM), and the Ares I and Ares V Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicles (SDLV), Orion is one of the elements of NASA's Project Constellation. [1] Snip
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Surface_Access_Module
Lunar Surface Access Module
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
The Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM) is the planned American moon landing vehicle that will allow astronauts to land there around 2020 as part of NASA's Project Constellation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Departure_Stage
Earth Departure Stage
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
The Ares V Earth Departure Stage (EDS) is the high-energy cryogenic upper stage of NASA's proposed new Ares V launch vehicle. Its purpose is to provide propulsion for the Orion spacecraft as part of Project Constellation operations in Earth orbit, near-Earth space, and beyond. Unlike the S-IVB stage of the earlier Saturn V launcher, which had to propel the entire Apollo spacecraft (i.e. both the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar
Module) into both a low Earth "parking" orbit and then again to the Moon, the EDS will boost only the Orion spacecraft's Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM) into space; the Orion CSM stack will be launched separately atop an Ares I launch vehicle and will link up with the EDS/LSAM on orbit, a method of known as Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR), a technique considered by NASA and Dr. Wernher von Braun for the Apollo program in the early stages of planning, but was dropped in favor of the lunar orbit rendezvous approach.
Once all vehicle components are properly configured, the EDS will restart and propel the complete Orion spacecraft to Earth escape velocity for transits to lunar orbit and other destinations.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/index.html
NASA's Ares rockets, named for the Greek god associated with Mars, will return humans to the moon and later take them to Mars and other destinations.
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http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/154047main_Ares_V_Labeled.jpg
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14594789/
Lockheed Martin to build future moonship Team chosen over Northrop Grumman, Boeing for $3.9 billion Orion project
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
Updated: 9:05 a.m. MT Sept 1, 2006
Lockheed Martin on Thursday won NASA's multibillion-dollar nod to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle, a spaceship with a look and a mission that echoes the space agency's giant leap to the moon in the 1960s.
The announcement kicks off an effort to produce spacecraft that would replace NASA's fleet of space shuttles, due for retirement in 2010. NASA's timetable calls for the cone-shaped Orion ships to bring cargo or up to six crew members to the international space station by 2014, and carry up to four astronauts to the moon and back by 2020.
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=17675&rsbci=21&fti=0&ti=0&sc=400
Orion Crew Vehicle
The Orion program will provide a state-of-the-art human space flight system capable of safely transferring astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), the Moon, Mars and other destinations beyond low earth orbit (LEO).
Utilizing a safe, affordable, staged approach to accomplishing these missions, the Lockheed Martin Orion Team is focused on providing NASA the capability to return to the Moon by the middle of the next decade with a low risk, high confidence program plan.
The Lockheed Martin Orion team -- Lockheed Martin, United Space Alliance, Honeywell, Hamilton Sundstrand, and Orbital -- brings to bear the nation's premier human space flight and exploration expertise in the development of NASA's next generation crew transportation system. Our collective expertise spanning five decades in large-scale systems integration, planetary exploration, human space flight systems and operations, launch vehicles, military aircraft, and autonomous flight systems provides a critical foundation for NASA's vision for space exploration. NASA will fly out the remaining Space Shuttle missions through 2010 as it completes the International Space Station and other missions that will utilize the Space Shuttle. Then an exciting new chapter in space exploration will begin as the Orion crew vehicle begins its missions to the International Space Station and ventures forth to return human explorers to the moon with a bold new mission of exploration as we prepare for human missions to Mars. Our state-of-the-art capsule concept provides a solution that is highly extensible for those future missions. This 21st century spacecraft design:
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fnec&ti=106
Lockheed Martin
VIDEO GALLERY
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&prfr=false&ci=16800&sc=400&rsbci=16800&rsbi=
Lockheed Martin Photo Gallery
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly - Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
(NASA SP-2006-4535)
Dan Lasley sent me a note on a forth coming monograph about the LLRV. I have yet to find it at the Dryden History site, so do keep an eye out for it (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/index.html).
Landing on the Moon with no air resistance (vacuum) and with a pull of only
1/6 th what would be felt on Earth makes for an interesting training exercise.
How do you go about training for landing on the Moon while still here on Earth?
I built an air cushion cart for a 500 pound cruise box so my supply person could move the box of electronic equipment from an airplane into the supply room using a vacuum cleaner on blow. It was just a plastic pillow made out of bubble wrap inside a 2 x 4, plywood box frame with pin holes poked in the bottom side. When you filled the pillow with air from a vacuum cleaner blowing into it, the escaping air underneath would let you slide the heavy box over the floor.
If you took the box off and stood on the platform, the pillow would balloon up and you could attempt to slide around the shop in thrust vector mode.
Not done too many times as I tended to destroy the shop. :-)
Now think of a metal bed frame with a jet engine blowing down and you sitting in the bed trying to fly this bed in a controlled fashion to a save landing.
There are some links below to some info on the LLRV that was flown out of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
I should think that a monograph entitled, "Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly - Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (NASA SP-2006-4535)" should be an interesting read.
- LRK -
Until then - some links - see here and below - LRK -
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http://area51specialprojects.com/llrv.html
LUNAR LANDING RESEARACH VEHICLE
By: T.D. Barnes - NASA Contractor - 1060s Snip
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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
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Larry,
Thought you'd like to see this. If you haven't heard of NASA's monographs, you can get them for the price of postage ($3 or so). I have a couple (one on analog computing, one on the X-15); both are excellent.
Dan
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>From: owner-history@lists.hq.nasa.gov >On Behalf Of Garber, Stephen J.
(HQ-ND020)
>Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:34 AM
>To: history@lists.hq.nasa.gov
>Subject: NASA History Division internship opportunity and new
>publication
The NASA History Division is looking for interns for the winter/spring 2007 semester. More information is at http://history.nasa.gov/interncall.htm
on-line. The deadline for applications is December 22. Please forward this information to any interested students.
We are also pleased to announce a new monograph.
Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly: The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (NASA
SP-2006-4535) by Gene J. Matranga, C. Wayne Ottinger, Calvin R.
Jarvis, with D. Christian Gelzer is Monograph in Aerospace History #35.
With a foreword by Neil Armstrong explaining the importance of the LLRV, this monograph tells the fascinating story of how engineers, largely at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, developed a vehicle to touch down on the Moon. These engineers faced remarkable challenges, considering that the Moon has no atmosphere (to support winged flight), one-sixth of the Earth's gravity, and obviously no existing physical guiding infrastructure for pilots such as beacon lights or landing strips. An electronic version of this monograph should be available soon through the Dryden History site (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/index.html ). Hard copies of this monograph may be requested through NASA Dryden (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/about/contact_us.html ) as well.
Stephen Garber
NASA History Division
Mail Suite CO72, Room 7U82
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
202-358-4382 or 202-358-2866 fax
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THANKS DAN, DON'T SEE IT THERE YET BUT SEE SOME OTHER LINKS ABOUT THE LLRV BELOW. - LRK -
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Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us.
A number of people (including Ezra Kotcher with the Army Air Forces [AAF] at Wright Field in Ohio, John Stack at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics [NACA] in Virginia,...
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88795main_Thompson.pdf - 1.2MB ==============================================================
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/LLRV/index.html
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV)
Photo Collection
http://www1.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/LLRV/HTML/index.html
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLRV
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle or LLRV was an Apollo Project era program to build a simulator for the Moon landings. The LLRVs, humorously referred to as flying bedsteads (see also Flying bedstead), were used by the FRC, now known as the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's low gravity environment.
Success of the two LLRVs led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTVs) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, predecessor of NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-026-DFRC.html
FACT SHEETS
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
The LLRVs, humorously referred to as "flying bedsteads," were created by a predecessor of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment. (Dryden was known as NASA's Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.)
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Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
FS-2002-09-026-DFRC
The LLRVs, humorously referred to as “flying bedsteads,” were created by a predecessor of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon’s airless environment. (Dryden was known as NASA’s Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.)
Success of the LLRVs led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTVs) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, predecessor of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong — first human to step onto the moon’s surface — said the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRVs and LLTVs.
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/about/Organizations/Technology/Facts/TF-2004-08-DFRC.html
FACT SHEETS
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
Contributions to the nation's early space program by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center can be measured in several engineering disciplines, but none are as significant as the two Lunar Landing Research Vehicles (LLRV) created and flown by the Center in the 1960s.
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Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
TF-2004-08 DFRC
Contributions to the nation's early space program by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center can be measured in several engineering disciplines, but none are as significant as the two Lunar Landing Research Vehicles (LLRV) created and flown by the Center in the 1960s.
The spider-like LLRVs were used to develop control and landing techniques needed by Apollo astronauts to safely land lunar modules (LM) on the moon where there is no air to support a winged vehicle, and where gravity is only onesixth that of Earth.
Dryden's two LLRVs were prototypes for a pair of Lunar Landing Training ehicles (LLTVs) flown by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center (later renamed the Johnson
Space Center) in Houston, Tex.
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http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Movie/LLRV/index.html
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
Movie Collection
The primary focus of the NASA space program during the 1960's was on the goal of safely landing astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade. It was a mammoth undertaking that involved all of the NASA centers. Dryden Flight Research Center made a number of contributions to the NASA space program during the 1960's.
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http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17-lltv.html
Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal
Utility of the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle
Commentary Copyright © 1995 by Eric M. Jones.
All rights reserved.
Last revised 6 April 2006
The following discussion is largely derived from my 1991 discussions with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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(NASA SP-2006-4535)
Dan Lasley sent me a note on a forth coming monograph about the LLRV. I have yet to find it at the Dryden History site, so do keep an eye out for it (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/index.html).
Landing on the Moon with no air resistance (vacuum) and with a pull of only
1/6 th what would be felt on Earth makes for an interesting training exercise.
How do you go about training for landing on the Moon while still here on Earth?
I built an air cushion cart for a 500 pound cruise box so my supply person could move the box of electronic equipment from an airplane into the supply room using a vacuum cleaner on blow. It was just a plastic pillow made out of bubble wrap inside a 2 x 4, plywood box frame with pin holes poked in the bottom side. When you filled the pillow with air from a vacuum cleaner blowing into it, the escaping air underneath would let you slide the heavy box over the floor.
If you took the box off and stood on the platform, the pillow would balloon up and you could attempt to slide around the shop in thrust vector mode.
Not done too many times as I tended to destroy the shop. :-)
Now think of a metal bed frame with a jet engine blowing down and you sitting in the bed trying to fly this bed in a controlled fashion to a save landing.
There are some links below to some info on the LLRV that was flown out of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
I should think that a monograph entitled, "Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly - Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (NASA SP-2006-4535)" should be an interesting read.
- LRK -
Until then - some links - see here and below - LRK -
-------------------------------------------------------------
http://area51specialprojects.com/llrv.html
LUNAR LANDING RESEARACH VEHICLE
By: T.D. Barnes - NASA Contractor - 1060s 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
Newsltr.: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
==============================================================
Larry,
Thought you'd like to see this. If you haven't heard of NASA's monographs, you can get them for the price of postage ($3 or so). I have a couple (one on analog computing, one on the X-15); both are excellent.
Dan
--------------------------------------------------------------
>From: owner-history@lists.hq.nasa.gov >On Behalf Of Garber, Stephen J.
(HQ-ND020)
>Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:34 AM
>To: history@lists.hq.nasa.gov
>Subject: NASA History Division internship opportunity and new
>publication
The NASA History Division is looking for interns for the winter/spring 2007 semester. More information is at http://history.nasa.gov/interncall.htm
on-line. The deadline for applications is December 22. Please forward this information to any interested students.
We are also pleased to announce a new monograph.
Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly: The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (NASA
SP-2006-4535) by Gene J. Matranga, C. Wayne Ottinger, Calvin R.
Jarvis, with D. Christian Gelzer is Monograph in Aerospace History #35.
With a foreword by Neil Armstrong explaining the importance of the LLRV, this monograph tells the fascinating story of how engineers, largely at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, developed a vehicle to touch down on the Moon. These engineers faced remarkable challenges, considering that the Moon has no atmosphere (to support winged flight), one-sixth of the Earth's gravity, and obviously no existing physical guiding infrastructure for pilots such as beacon lights or landing strips. An electronic version of this monograph should be available soon through the Dryden History site (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/index.html ). Hard copies of this monograph may be requested through NASA Dryden (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/about/contact_us.html ) as well.
Stephen Garber
NASA History Division
Mail Suite CO72, Room 7U82
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
202-358-4382 or 202-358-2866 fax
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THANKS DAN, DON'T SEE IT THERE YET BUT SEE SOME OTHER LINKS ABOUT THE LLRV BELOW. - LRK -
==============================================================
Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us.
A number of people (including Ezra Kotcher with the Army Air Forces [AAF] at Wright Field in Ohio, John Stack at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics [NACA] in Virginia,...
21 Nov 04
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88795main_Thompson.pdf - 1.2MB ==============================================================
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/LLRV/index.html
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV)
Photo Collection
http://www1.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/LLRV/HTML/index.html
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLRV
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle or LLRV was an Apollo Project era program to build a simulator for the Moon landings. The LLRVs, humorously referred to as flying bedsteads (see also Flying bedstead), were used by the FRC, now known as the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's low gravity environment.
Success of the two LLRVs led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTVs) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, predecessor of NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
The LLRVs, humorously referred to as "flying bedsteads," were created by a predecessor of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment. (Dryden was known as NASA's Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.)
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Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
FS-2002-09-026-DFRC
The LLRVs, humorously referred to as “flying bedsteads,” were created by a predecessor of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon’s airless environment. (Dryden was known as NASA’s Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.)
Success of the LLRVs led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTVs) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, predecessor of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong — first human to step onto the moon’s surface — said the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRVs and LLTVs.
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FACT SHEETS
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
Contributions to the nation's early space program by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center can be measured in several engineering disciplines, but none are as significant as the two Lunar Landing Research Vehicles (LLRV) created and flown by the Center in the 1960s.
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Contributions to the nation's early space program by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center can be measured in several engineering disciplines, but none are as significant as the two Lunar Landing Research Vehicles (LLRV) created and flown by the Center in the 1960s.
The spider-like LLRVs were used to develop control and landing techniques needed by Apollo astronauts to safely land lunar modules (LM) on the moon where there is no air to support a winged vehicle, and where gravity is only onesixth that of Earth.
Dryden's two LLRVs were prototypes for a pair of Lunar Landing Training ehicles (LLTVs) flown by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center (later renamed the Johnson
Space Center) in Houston, Tex.
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http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Movie/LLRV/index.html
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
Movie Collection
The primary focus of the NASA space program during the 1960's was on the goal of safely landing astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade. It was a mammoth undertaking that involved all of the NASA centers. Dryden Flight Research Center made a number of contributions to the NASA space program during the 1960's.
For example, the X-15 rocket plane pioneered flight controls used in space, the Paresev studied the concept of paraglider landings for a space vehicle, and the lifting bodies explored the use of wingless spacecraft that could glide to a precise landing; but it was the tiny, Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) that had the most direct impact on the Apollo missions to the Moon.
All of the time and expense lavished upon the Apollo lunar missions ultimately hinged upon the last few minutes before the lander touched the lunar surface. This was a daunting fact when the program began in 1961. The first landing would be an entirely new experience for any astronaut, and it had to be perfect. NASA chose three approaches for lunar landing training: (1) An electronic flight simulator, (2) an outdoor, lunar-landing-type vehicle that "flew" suspended from a large gantry and employed hydrogen-peroxide powered attitude-control and thruster rockets as well as a cable system for control, and (3) the free-flying training vehicles, which evolved from the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle.
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http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17-lltv.html
Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal
Utility of the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle
Commentary Copyright © 1995 by Eric M. Jones.
All rights reserved.
Last revised 6 April 2006
The following discussion is largely derived from my 1991 discussions with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt.
Schmitt - "As I recall, everybody was eventually supposed to go through LLTV training, but they were barely able to qualify all of the Commanders. All of us did get helicopter training as a precursor to the LLTV."
Cernan - "The reasoning behind giving only Commanders LLTV training, as best I can remember, was a combination of time, cost, and, quite frankly, safety. All the lunar module pilots wanted to fly the LLTV, strictly from a piloting point of view. When I was a lunar module pilot, I wanted to fly it. But, because we didn't have plans to land on Apollo 10, there wasn't any point in either Tom Stafford or I training in the LLTV; and, even for the actual landing missions, quite frankly, there was no need for LMP LLTV training. It would have been nice gravy to put on a chicken fried steak if the LMPs could have flown it as well as the Commanders; but, in reality, there was no need. There were two people to train for each flight anyway: the Commander and the Back-up Commander; and that pretty much took up all the time that was available. There were also some very real safety issues. We started out with four training vehicles, I believe, and we ended up with one. Joe Algranti (a NASA test pilot) ejected out of the first one. He was heading our aircraft operation before Neil ever flew the LLTV. And then two other people had to eject. So I was the last to fly the last one. It was a very unstable vehicle."
In all, Bell Aerosystems, Buffalo, NY built five LM trainers of this type for NASA. Two were an early version called the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle ( LLRV ). Neil Armstrong was flying LLRV-1 on May 6, 1968 when it went out of control. He ejected safely and the vehicle crashed. A later version was called the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle or LLTV and three were built. Two of these were lost in crashes on December 8, 1968 (LLTV-1 piloted by Algranti) and January 29, 1971 (piloted by Stuart M. Present). Both pilots ejected safely. The LLTV was a more accurate LM simulator and Gene is correct in saying that only one (NASA vehicle 952) was available for Apollo 17 training.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Building a Lunar Settlement?
Put yourself on the Moon and consider what you need to build a Lunar Settlement.
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http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/activity_04.html
Building a Lunar Settlement
About this Activity
In this activity you'll learn what is needed sustain human life on the moon.
Many of the things that we take for granted are unavailable in the harsh lunar environment. You and your family will build a model lunar settlement that provides all the necessities for healthy and happy human inhabitants.
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What will you decorate your walls with?
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http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/art/moonbow1.htm
Art in a Lunar Settlement - Some Relevant Assumptions
by Peter Kokh
It seems reasonable to assume that once economic activity justifies an honest-to-goodness settlement on the Moon, those choosing to make this barren raw world their adopted homeland will be able to freely import familiar art and craft materials from Earth with which to express themselves and humanize their habitat space. Settlers will be engaged in the production of exports (helium-3 for future fusion plants, construction materials with which to build bigger, less costly facilities in space: research stations, factories, tourist resorts, solar power satellites, etc.; agricultural products for use in such facilities; and more). These exports and others will be their sole coin with which to pay for imports: items necessary for the construction and support of the settlement that they cannot, or at least not yet, make for themselves.
The Moon is rich with elements from which to make building materials. Lunar oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, titanium, magnesium, and calcium comprise most of the crust. Other elements are to be found in less abundance. But the above will suffice to make useful metal alloys, glass, fiberglass, glass composites, ceramics, and even lunar concrete - as well as free oxygen for air, fuel, and water production. An early read of the data from this Spring's Clementine lunar polar orbiter suggests that there are water ice-reserves in permanently shadowed polar craters (permashade). Until all the data has been analyzed, we cannot be confident of this "eureka". And even if confirmation is forthcoming, it may require further analysis, perhaps ground-truth missions, to determine if this resource exists in economically recoverable quantities. If fortune smiles, the prospects for a self-sufficient lunar settlement will rise considerably.
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http://www.galaxymaine.com/SA/SA2f.htm#lunar
Building a Lunar Settlement
Objectives and State of Maine Learning Results Performance Indicators:
Learners will be able to recognize (brainstorm) needs for human survival in space. (3-4. Science and Technology. K. #6.) Learners will be able to design and build a model lunar settlement. (3-4.
Science and Technology. J. #4, L. #4.) (5-8. Science and Technology. L. #4.) Learners will be able to communicate their design concepts and ideas with other students. (3-4. Science and Technology. L. #7.) (5-8. Science and Technology. L. #6.)
The General Idea: Here is a chance for you to use up some of those interesting scraps and snips of things that most people throw away, but could make perfect components for a model lunar settlement. In this activity, students first think of everything they would need to survive for years on a lunar settlement, and then design and build a model of such a settlement from various easy to find parts.
This activity can take on different meanings to different age groups. For older students, the question of what is necessary to survive in space can have special significance, since they soon may be candidates for space missions themselves. For younger students, this activity is more of an open ended creative process of building a home on the moon.
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Questions? Check out the FAQ below and then check the navigation links on the left.
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http://www.space-frontier.org/PROJECTS/Moon/faqs.html
A PROJECT OF THE SPACE FRONTIER FOUNDATION
RETURN TO THE MOON
THIS TIME WE STAY
Frequently Asked Question
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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
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/361069.cms
'Time is right to put an Indian in space'
[ 8 Nov, 2006 0059hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
BANGALORE/MUMBAI: India's top scientists gathered under one roof on Tuesday to laud the fact that the country was ready to put an Indian in space by
2014 and perhaps one on the moon six years later.
About 80 scientists from across the country gave the green signal to the manned space mission at a meeting organised by Indian Space Research Organisation at its headquarters. Scientists, expressing appreciation for Isro's four-year study on the issue, were unanimous in suggesting that "time is appropriate" for India to undertake a manned mission to space. Among those who took part in the day-long deliberations was India's first cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma, who flew in a Russian rocket in April 1984. He spent eight days in a Russian space station.
"At the end of the meeting the opinion was unanimous that India should launch a manned space flight," an Isro spokesperson told TOI. The decision will now be formally ratified by the Centre, as was done in the case of the unmanned Indian lunar mission.
This much-awaited lift off of India's first manned space flight will be from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Isro subsequently plans to put a man on the Moon by 2020, four years before China. "In the manned mission to space, we are just looking at reaching space and back. There is no proposal about the Moon now," an Isro official said.
The scientists' approval for this ambitious Rs 10,000-crore project, which will be spread over eight years, assumes significance in the context of Pakistan and Malaysia sending people into space. In fact Malaysia has not ruled out the possibility of one of its astronauts of going to the Moon by 2020.
China has embarked on manned space flights and is also exploring the possibility of setting up a permanent lunar settlement. The feeling was that India with its excellent capabilities in the space sector should not be left out.
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Thanks much for your opinion Donald.
May I share it with the lunar-update list?
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:05 PM
> To: Larry Kellogg
> Subject: Re: [lunar-update] Space Vision 2006 - November 9 - 12, 2006
> - University of Central Florida
>
Good afternoon, Larry,
Here's my opinion of what the change in power means, adapted from some things I've written in Jeff Foust's spacepolitics.com.
I may be over-optimistic, but I think it very unlikely a Democratic Congress would actively oppose the VSE. First, it will be at or near the bottom of their list of priorities. Second, NASA under Dr. Griffin has done a masterful job of spreading the contractor wealth -- being against the VSE is likely to mean being against jobs in your state. Third, as recent votes in Congress have demonstrated (somewhat to my surprise, it must be said), support for something like the VSE (if not the VSE itself) is bi-partisan: many younger Democratic politicians are not ideologically opposed to human spaceflight. Fourth, as Republican advertisements have been pointing out, the Democratic Congressional leadership is likely to be from the San Francisco area, and it is often forgotten that we do have a major presence in the space industry -- NASA Ames, Loral Space, and Lockheed Martin are all headquartered here, as are more than our share of second and third tier subcontractors. Two of the nation's remaining commercial satellite factories are here. San Francisco area politicians (if not Nancy Perlosi herself) are aware of and often supportive of spaceflight issues. Likewise, New York is likely to have new power, and there are a surprising number of aerospace contractors in that city, as well as in the State.
I do expect a different tone, and automated space science may fare better under a Democratic Congress. But no Democratic Congress is likely to retreat entirely from human spaceflight, and, given that, there are not a lot of clear -- and politically and financially acceptable -- alternatives to something like the VSE. The VSE after all was designed to find a way forward in human spaceflight with a minimum up-front investment, and while Dr. Griffin has backed off from that to some degree by building new medium class launch vehicles, it is still far cheaper than most of the obvious alternatives. By the time the Democrats actually get around to addressing the issue, the VSE is likely to be pretty firmly entrenched. Viewed as a jobs program, it may even get more positive attention than it has under Mr. Bush.
I think our biggest ally in this is simple conservatism (with a small "c"). Relatively few politicians in either party are actively opposed to human spaceflight, and some of those that are cannot be seen to back down in the face of China (and, in a few years, India) joining the "club." Combined with that, and more importantly, the Democrats have much bigger fish to fry. My prediction is that, unless there is a major change in the non-political arena (e.g., the VSE runs into serious technical or managerial problems or there is another Shuttle accident or, lest we forget, someone gets killed building the Space Station), the VSE will slide beneath the radar. Even if one of those things happen, the nation has a history of rallying behind the project of the day, and the result might even be a net (political) gain -- as was the loss of Columbia. The ball really is in Dr. Griffin's court now to make the execution of the VSE as smooth and invisible as possible.
Wish him luck because he's going to need it.
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051101faessay84604/melvin-r-laird/iraq-learning-the-lessons-of-vietnam.html
Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam
Melvin R. Laird
>From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005
Summary: During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of
defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the
South's ability to defend itself. The result was a success -- until Congress
snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally
in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time
finish the job properly.
MELVIN R. LAIRD was Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973, Counselor to the
President for Domestic Affairs from 1973 to 1974, and a member of the House
of Representatives from 1952 to 1969. He currently serves as Senior
Counselor for National and International Affairs at the Reader's Digest
Association.
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 on the assumption that he had a plan to
end the Vietnam War. He didn't have any such plan, and my job as his first
secretary of defense was to remedy that -- quickly. The only stated plan was
wording I had suggested for the 1968 Republican platform, saying it was time
to de-Americanize the war. Today, nearly 37 years after Nixon took office as
president and I left Congress to join his cabinet, getting out of a war is
still dicier than getting into one, as President George W. Bush can attest.
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The above is offered for consideration as the U.S.A. Congress changes and we
look at where the money is going. I hope we continue to look towards going
towards the Moon but we will have to consider obligations already accepted.
- LRK -
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
Put yourself on the Moon and consider what you need to build a Lunar Settlement.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/activity_04.html
Building a Lunar Settlement
About this Activity
In this activity you'll learn what is needed sustain human life on the moon.
Many of the things that we take for granted are unavailable in the harsh lunar environment. You and your family will build a model lunar settlement that provides all the necessities for healthy and happy human inhabitants.
Snip
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What will you decorate your walls with?
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/art/moonbow1.htm
Art in a Lunar Settlement - Some Relevant Assumptions
by Peter Kokh
It seems reasonable to assume that once economic activity justifies an honest-to-goodness settlement on the Moon, those choosing to make this barren raw world their adopted homeland will be able to freely import familiar art and craft materials from Earth with which to express themselves and humanize their habitat space. Settlers will be engaged in the production of exports (helium-3 for future fusion plants, construction materials with which to build bigger, less costly facilities in space: research stations, factories, tourist resorts, solar power satellites, etc.; agricultural products for use in such facilities; and more). These exports and others will be their sole coin with which to pay for imports: items necessary for the construction and support of the settlement that they cannot, or at least not yet, make for themselves.
The Moon is rich with elements from which to make building materials. Lunar oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, titanium, magnesium, and calcium comprise most of the crust. Other elements are to be found in less abundance. But the above will suffice to make useful metal alloys, glass, fiberglass, glass composites, ceramics, and even lunar concrete - as well as free oxygen for air, fuel, and water production. An early read of the data from this Spring's Clementine lunar polar orbiter suggests that there are water ice-reserves in permanently shadowed polar craters (permashade). Until all the data has been analyzed, we cannot be confident of this "eureka". And even if confirmation is forthcoming, it may require further analysis, perhaps ground-truth missions, to determine if this resource exists in economically recoverable quantities. If fortune smiles, the prospects for a self-sufficient lunar settlement will rise considerably.
Snip
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Some are practicing by participating in learning activities.
- LRK -
--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.galaxymaine.com/SA/SA2f.htm#lunar
Building a Lunar Settlement
Objectives and State of Maine Learning Results Performance Indicators:
Learners will be able to recognize (brainstorm) needs for human survival in space. (3-4. Science and Technology. K. #6.) Learners will be able to design and build a model lunar settlement. (3-4.
Science and Technology. J. #4, L. #4.) (5-8. Science and Technology. L. #4.) Learners will be able to communicate their design concepts and ideas with other students. (3-4. Science and Technology. L. #7.) (5-8. Science and Technology. L. #6.)
The General Idea: Here is a chance for you to use up some of those interesting scraps and snips of things that most people throw away, but could make perfect components for a model lunar settlement. In this activity, students first think of everything they would need to survive for years on a lunar settlement, and then design and build a model of such a settlement from various easy to find parts.
This activity can take on different meanings to different age groups. For older students, the question of what is necessary to survive in space can have special significance, since they soon may be candidates for space missions themselves. For younger students, this activity is more of an open ended creative process of building a home on the moon.
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Questions? Check out the FAQ below and then check the navigation links on the left.
- LRK -
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http://www.space-frontier.org/PROJECTS/Moon/faqs.html
A PROJECT OF THE SPACE FRONTIER FOUNDATION
RETURN TO THE MOON
THIS TIME WE STAY
Frequently Asked Question
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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
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/361069.cms
'Time is right to put an Indian in space'
[ 8 Nov, 2006 0059hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
BANGALORE/MUMBAI: India's top scientists gathered under one roof on Tuesday to laud the fact that the country was ready to put an Indian in space by
2014 and perhaps one on the moon six years later.
About 80 scientists from across the country gave the green signal to the manned space mission at a meeting organised by Indian Space Research Organisation at its headquarters. Scientists, expressing appreciation for Isro's four-year study on the issue, were unanimous in suggesting that "time is appropriate" for India to undertake a manned mission to space. Among those who took part in the day-long deliberations was India's first cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma, who flew in a Russian rocket in April 1984. He spent eight days in a Russian space station.
"At the end of the meeting the opinion was unanimous that India should launch a manned space flight," an Isro spokesperson told TOI. The decision will now be formally ratified by the Centre, as was done in the case of the unmanned Indian lunar mission.
This much-awaited lift off of India's first manned space flight will be from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Isro subsequently plans to put a man on the Moon by 2020, four years before China. "In the manned mission to space, we are just looking at reaching space and back. There is no proposal about the Moon now," an Isro official said.
The scientists' approval for this ambitious Rs 10,000-crore project, which will be spread over eight years, assumes significance in the context of Pakistan and Malaysia sending people into space. In fact Malaysia has not ruled out the possibility of one of its astronauts of going to the Moon by 2020.
China has embarked on manned space flights and is also exploring the possibility of setting up a permanent lunar settlement. The feeling was that India with its excellent capabilities in the space sector should not be left out.
==============================================================
Thanks much for your opinion Donald.
May I share it with the lunar-update list?
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:05 PM
> To: Larry Kellogg
> Subject: Re: [lunar-update] Space Vision 2006 - November 9 - 12, 2006
> - University of Central Florida
>
Good afternoon, Larry,
Here's my opinion of what the change in power means, adapted from some things I've written in Jeff Foust's spacepolitics.com.
I may be over-optimistic, but I think it very unlikely a Democratic Congress would actively oppose the VSE. First, it will be at or near the bottom of their list of priorities. Second, NASA under Dr. Griffin has done a masterful job of spreading the contractor wealth -- being against the VSE is likely to mean being against jobs in your state. Third, as recent votes in Congress have demonstrated (somewhat to my surprise, it must be said), support for something like the VSE (if not the VSE itself) is bi-partisan: many younger Democratic politicians are not ideologically opposed to human spaceflight. Fourth, as Republican advertisements have been pointing out, the Democratic Congressional leadership is likely to be from the San Francisco area, and it is often forgotten that we do have a major presence in the space industry -- NASA Ames, Loral Space, and Lockheed Martin are all headquartered here, as are more than our share of second and third tier subcontractors. Two of the nation's remaining commercial satellite factories are here. San Francisco area politicians (if not Nancy Perlosi herself) are aware of and often supportive of spaceflight issues. Likewise, New York is likely to have new power, and there are a surprising number of aerospace contractors in that city, as well as in the State.
I do expect a different tone, and automated space science may fare better under a Democratic Congress. But no Democratic Congress is likely to retreat entirely from human spaceflight, and, given that, there are not a lot of clear -- and politically and financially acceptable -- alternatives to something like the VSE. The VSE after all was designed to find a way forward in human spaceflight with a minimum up-front investment, and while Dr. Griffin has backed off from that to some degree by building new medium class launch vehicles, it is still far cheaper than most of the obvious alternatives. By the time the Democrats actually get around to addressing the issue, the VSE is likely to be pretty firmly entrenched. Viewed as a jobs program, it may even get more positive attention than it has under Mr. Bush.
I think our biggest ally in this is simple conservatism (with a small "c"). Relatively few politicians in either party are actively opposed to human spaceflight, and some of those that are cannot be seen to back down in the face of China (and, in a few years, India) joining the "club." Combined with that, and more importantly, the Democrats have much bigger fish to fry. My prediction is that, unless there is a major change in the non-political arena (e.g., the VSE runs into serious technical or managerial problems or there is another Shuttle accident or, lest we forget, someone gets killed building the Space Station), the VSE will slide beneath the radar. Even if one of those things happen, the nation has a history of rallying behind the project of the day, and the result might even be a net (political) gain -- as was the loss of Columbia. The ball really is in Dr. Griffin's court now to make the execution of the VSE as smooth and invisible as possible.
Wish him luck because he's going to need it.
==============================================================
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051101faessay84604/melvin-r-laird/iraq-learning-the-lessons-of-vietnam.html
Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam
Melvin R. Laird
>From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005
Summary: During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of
defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the
South's ability to defend itself. The result was a success -- until Congress
snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally
in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time
finish the job properly.
MELVIN R. LAIRD was Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973, Counselor to the
President for Domestic Affairs from 1973 to 1974, and a member of the House
of Representatives from 1952 to 1969. He currently serves as Senior
Counselor for National and International Affairs at the Reader's Digest
Association.
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 on the assumption that he had a plan to
end the Vietnam War. He didn't have any such plan, and my job as his first
secretary of defense was to remedy that -- quickly. The only stated plan was
wording I had suggested for the 1968 Republican platform, saying it was time
to de-Americanize the war. Today, nearly 37 years after Nixon took office as
president and I left Congress to join his cabinet, getting out of a war is
still dicier than getting into one, as President George W. Bush can attest.
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The above is offered for consideration as the U.S.A. Congress changes and we
look at where the money is going. I hope we continue to look towards going
towards the Moon but we will have to consider obligations already accepted.
- LRK -
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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