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http://www.ipp.nasa.gov/cc/cc_challenges.htm
The Astronaut Glove Challenge is designed to promote the development of
glove joint technology, resulting in a highly dexterous and flexible glove that
can be used by astronauts over long periods of time for space or planetary
surface excursions.
The Astronaut Glove Challenge will be conducted by Volanz
Aerospace/Spaceflight America in a format that brings all competitors to a
single location for a "head to head" competition. Each team will be required to
perform a variety of tasks with their gloves and will be scored on the glove
performance.
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Back in July of 2005 a challenge was issued to design a better space glove.
When you pressurize your space suit your gloves want to become balloons.
Bending your fingers or extending them can wear on your fingernails and tire you
out.
Coming up we will see who might be a winner of this competition.
We see in Science Fiction our space troopers wearing skin like exoskeletons that
respond to your request for action.
Maybe someone will come up with a smart glove that will curl and extend the
fingers at the slightest urging.
Would be nice to be able to hold onto your geologist hammer while picking at a
nice lunar sample.
It wasn't fun for Geologist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt.
==============================================================
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.halo.html
Snip
/[The J-mission crews (Apollos 15, 16, and 17) each did three 7-hour
EVAs and experienced not only fatigue and soreness in the hands and
forearms but also varying degrees of abrasion and damage, particularly
to the ends of the fingers and to the fingernails. Jack Schmitt and
others, for example, had their fingernails lift off the quick as a
result of repeated contact with the inside of the gloves as he pushed
his fingers forward.]
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Now where did I put my memory metal, muscle enhanced, smart gloves?
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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http://www.ipp.nasa.gov/cc/
April 27, 2007
David E. Steitz/Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
Alan Hayes
Volanz Aerospace, Inc., Owings, Md.
202-498-6804
MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-43 Corrected
NASA'S CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE FOR IMPROVED ASTRONAUT GLOVES SET
WASHINGTON - On Wednesday and Thursday, May 2-3, teams from around the
nation will compete for a total of $250,000 from NASA for an improved
astronaut glove design. The Astronaut Glove Challenge, one of NASA's
seven Centennial Challenges, will take place at the New England Air
Museum at Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Conn. The
competition is free and open to media and the public. It begins May 2
from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. EDT and continues May 3 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
NASA is offering a total of $200,000 for the team that can design and
manufacture the best astronaut glove that exceeds minimum
requirements. An additional $50,000 goes to the team that best
demonstrates Mechanical Counter Pressure gloves.
An astronaut's gloves are among the most critical pieces of the
spacesuit. After an extended time of work using the current gloves,
astronauts' hands have bled and been bruised, and fingernails have
been damaged. This competition seeks new glove joint technologies
that make the astronauts' jobs easier, more comfortable and safer
with stronger gloves that increase flexibility and dexterity.
At no cost to NASA, Volanz Aerospace, Inc., Owings, Md., is
administering the challenge. Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks,
Conn., and ILC Dover, Frederica, Del., are sponsors of the contest.
Centennial Challenges, an element of NASA's Innovative Partnerships
Program, promotes technical innovation through prize competitions to
make revolutionary advances to support the Vision for Space
Exploration and NASA goals. For more information about the Innovative
Partnerships Program and Centennial Challenges, visit:
http://www.ipp.nasa.gov/cc
For more information about NASA and other agency programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/jul/HQ_E05189_Astronaut_glove_challenge.html
Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1979/5241)
Alan Hayes
Volanz Aerospace Inc/Spaceflight America
(Phone: 301/812-0450)
July 22, 2005
RELEASE: 05-189
NASA Announces New Centennial Challenge
NASA, in collaboration with the Volanz Aerospace Inc./Spaceflight
America (Volanz), today announced a new Centennial Challenges prize
competition.
The Astronaut Glove Challenge award will go to the team that can design
and manufacture the best performing glove within competition parameters.
The $250,000 purse will be awarded at a competition scheduled for
November 2006, when competing teams test their glove designs against
each other.
For the Challenge, teams must develop the bladder-restraint portion of
an astronaut glove that is strong, easy on the hands, and gives the
operator a high degree of dexterity.
"Reducing space suit glove fatigue is a critical technological goal
that, if successful, would have an important impact on astronaut
performance and mission planning," said NASA's acting Associate
Administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, Douglas
Cooke.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
Friday, April 27, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
AGC - Apollo Guidance Computer
A question was asked, "What is AGC?"
Well having worked with communication equipment I probably would have answered, "Automatic Gain Control", but the question was in reference to the Apollo Moon Landings.
A better answer would then be , "AGC - Apollo Guidance Computer."
Pause......
What is an "Apollo Guidance Computer?"
Something that warns you when it is overloaded with data from the RADAR Altimeter when you are trying to land on the Moon.
- LRK -
----------------------------------------------------------
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11tcdb.html*
The Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing July 31st 1969*
Snip
*Aldrin*
There are no discrepancies noted in any of the systems that were checked throughout the first 4 minutes. The RCS was surprisingly high in its quantity indications. The supercritical did tend to rise a little bit after ignition and then it started back down again. I don't recall the maximum value that it reached. I guess the first indications that we had of anything going wrong was probably around 5 minutes, when we first started getting program alarm activities.
*Armstrong*
We probably ought to say that we did have one program alarm prior to this; sometime prior to ignition, that had the radar in the wrong spot. In any case, as I remember, we had a 500 series alarm that said that the radar was out of position, which I don't have any way of accounting for. Certainly the switches were in the right positions. They hadn't been changed since prelaunch. But we did, in fact, go to the descent position on the antenna and leave it there for a half a minute or so, and then go back to AUTO and that cleared the alarm. After 5 minutes into descent, we started getting this series of program alarms; generally of the series that indicated that the computer was being overloaded. Normally, in this time period, that is, from P64 onward, we'd be evaluating the landing site and checking our position and starting LPD activity. However, the concern here was not with the landing area we were going into, but rather whether we could continue at all. Consequently, our attention was directed toward clearing the program alarms, keeping the machine flying, and assuring ourselves that control was adequate to continue without requiring an abort. Most of the attention was directed inside the cockpit during this time period and in my view this would account for our inability to study the landing site in final landing location during final descent. It wasn't until we got below 2000 feet that we were actually able to look out and view the landing area.
Snip
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Alright, that wasn't fare.
Check out the information at Wikipedia link.
- LRK -
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Apollo Guidance Computer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The *Apollo Guidance Computer* (*AGC*) was the first recognizably modern embedded system
Snip
Check the External links section near the bottom of the page as well. - LRK -
----------------------------------------------------------
I watched a show on TV this week where they showed the ladies doing the wiring on the computer modules. To hard-wire the logic, two ladies worked together, one person on the front, one at the back, with a tape controlled indexer that positioned a ring to put a needle through that pulled the wire through. After looping around the correct post the ring was indexed again for the lady on the receiving side to pass the needle back through the next spot to the person on the front side. After the wire lacing was done, the wires were stripped of insulation at the posts and spot welded. Then the whole module was run through a logic tester to check for the correct response.
This was back at the beginning of integrated circuits with only a few transistors on each chip.
I have module from a UNIVAC Digital Trainer I got to resurrect from surplus back in the early 70's and these little modules had only two NOR gates made from two transistors, some resisters and some diodes.
Many of these modules were put in a line to make up a register for holding instruction words. I gave the trainer back to surplus when I left the training command but kept one of the modules. Here is a web shot of the module.
- LRK -
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html
Example of an oldie.
- LRK -
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://archive.computerhistory.org/search/
Search for "APG" or Apollo Guidance Computer.
Should show some of the logic modules.
- LRK -
Snip
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http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/view.php?s=refs&id=223&PHPSESSID=23990d493c9ac123ddc1b5ccd9aa65b2
*Title:* Fairchild Micrologic in the Apollo Guidance Computer
*Author:* Eldon Hall, et al.
*Created:* 1965 ca.
*Publisher:* Various
*Cataloguer:*
*Copyright:*
Snip
*Reference:* The decision by MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory in 1962, to design the Apollo Guidance Computer using integrated circuit logic devices was critical to the AGC success and a key moment in the history of computing.
Eldon Hall's book "Journey to the Moon" recounts this decision process:
"Journey to the Moon:The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer" (1996)
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast) ISBN:156347185X
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/156347185X/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-5159419-4410516#reader-link
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1716.pdf
A Case History of the ACG Logic Integrated Circuits
http://www.klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1716.pdf
This pdf is a case history of the integrated circuit used for the logic in the Apollo Guidance Circuit written by Eldon Hall in December 1965. Achieving the required goals of low weight, volume, and power coupled with extreme high reliability necessitated the use of one single, simple integrated circuit for all logic functions. A brief description of the evolution of the computer design is given along with a general discussion of some of the engineering and design problems which arise with the use of a standardized semiconductor monolithic integrated circuit.
Note: The f i r s t prototype computer was operating in July 1963 with the Raytheon built flight computer operating in January 1964.
The page notes that MIT/IL had placed an order with Texas Instruments for 64 ICs at $1000 each in 1959. They were the Kilby mesa process Solid Logic devices. That TI order was not delivered until late 1962. The document also shows copies of purchase orders placed with TI, Westinghouse, Transitron and Motorola for alternate source devices.
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.klabs.org/richcontent/Misc_Content/AGC_And_History/PartsAnalysis/PartsAnalysis.htm
NASA Office of Logic Design
A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space
flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apollo Guidance Computer
Block 2 Parts Analysis
Snip
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You may find reading the comments under this post interesting and informative. - LRK -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=1422
Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
Snip
I was reading JayUtah's post (CosmicDaves 32 Questions) regarding AGC code, and in my desperate impatience to see some, did some Google work. I drummed up the following link:
http://verdade.no.sapo.pt/moon/landing_hoax.html
Lists some info regarding the AGC, and also has a (rather scruffy) Jpeg of a tiny portion of code. This appears to be part of a larger hoax site I've not seen before, and discusses other conspirasist (sp?) theories. Unfortunately I cant find a way back to a 'main' page [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img]
Jay, please post any code you can! If anyone else has more info regarding the computer systems used, please post here also...
Cheers,
widoxm
Snip
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
Well having worked with communication equipment I probably would have answered, "Automatic Gain Control", but the question was in reference to the Apollo Moon Landings.
A better answer would then be , "AGC - Apollo Guidance Computer."
Pause......
What is an "Apollo Guidance Computer?"
Something that warns you when it is overloaded with data from the RADAR Altimeter when you are trying to land on the Moon.
- LRK -
----------------------------------------------------------
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11tcdb.html*
The Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing July 31st 1969*
Snip
*Aldrin*
There are no discrepancies noted in any of the systems that were checked throughout the first 4 minutes. The RCS was surprisingly high in its quantity indications. The supercritical did tend to rise a little bit after ignition and then it started back down again. I don't recall the maximum value that it reached. I guess the first indications that we had of anything going wrong was probably around 5 minutes, when we first started getting program alarm activities.
*Armstrong*
We probably ought to say that we did have one program alarm prior to this; sometime prior to ignition, that had the radar in the wrong spot. In any case, as I remember, we had a 500 series alarm that said that the radar was out of position, which I don't have any way of accounting for. Certainly the switches were in the right positions. They hadn't been changed since prelaunch. But we did, in fact, go to the descent position on the antenna and leave it there for a half a minute or so, and then go back to AUTO and that cleared the alarm. After 5 minutes into descent, we started getting this series of program alarms; generally of the series that indicated that the computer was being overloaded. Normally, in this time period, that is, from P64 onward, we'd be evaluating the landing site and checking our position and starting LPD activity. However, the concern here was not with the landing area we were going into, but rather whether we could continue at all. Consequently, our attention was directed toward clearing the program alarms, keeping the machine flying, and assuring ourselves that control was adequate to continue without requiring an abort. Most of the attention was directed inside the cockpit during this time period and in my view this would account for our inability to study the landing site in final landing location during final descent. It wasn't until we got below 2000 feet that we were actually able to look out and view the landing area.
Snip
----------------------------------------------------------
Alright, that wasn't fare.
Check out the information at Wikipedia link.
- LRK -
----------------------------------------------------------
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Apollo Guidance Computer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The *Apollo Guidance Computer* (*AGC*) was the first recognizably modern embedded system
Snip
Check the External links section near the bottom of the page as well. - LRK -
----------------------------------------------------------
I watched a show on TV this week where they showed the ladies doing the wiring on the computer modules. To hard-wire the logic, two ladies worked together, one person on the front, one at the back, with a tape controlled indexer that positioned a ring to put a needle through that pulled the wire through. After looping around the correct post the ring was indexed again for the lady on the receiving side to pass the needle back through the next spot to the person on the front side. After the wire lacing was done, the wires were stripped of insulation at the posts and spot welded. Then the whole module was run through a logic tester to check for the correct response.
This was back at the beginning of integrated circuits with only a few transistors on each chip.
I have module from a UNIVAC Digital Trainer I got to resurrect from surplus back in the early 70's and these little modules had only two NOR gates made from two transistors, some resisters and some diodes.
Many of these modules were put in a line to make up a register for holding instruction words. I gave the trainer back to surplus when I left the training command but kept one of the modules. Here is a web shot of the module.
- LRK -
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html
Example of an oldie.
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
==============================================================
http://archive.computerhistory.org/search/
Search for "APG" or Apollo Guidance Computer.
Should show some of the logic modules.
- LRK -
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/view.php?s=refs&id=223&PHPSESSID=23990d493c9ac123ddc1b5ccd9aa65b2
*Title:* Fairchild Micrologic in the Apollo Guidance Computer
*Author:* Eldon Hall, et al.
*Created:* 1965 ca.
*Publisher:* Various
*Cataloguer:*
*Copyright:*
Snip
*Reference:* The decision by MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory in 1962, to design the Apollo Guidance Computer using integrated circuit logic devices was critical to the AGC success and a key moment in the history of computing.
Eldon Hall's book "Journey to the Moon" recounts this decision process:
"Journey to the Moon:The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer" (1996)
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast) ISBN:156347185X
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/156347185X/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-5159419-4410516#reader-link
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1716.pdf
A Case History of the ACG Logic Integrated Circuits
http://www.klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1716.pdf
This pdf is a case history of the integrated circuit used for the logic in the Apollo Guidance Circuit written by Eldon Hall in December 1965. Achieving the required goals of low weight, volume, and power coupled with extreme high reliability necessitated the use of one single, simple integrated circuit for all logic functions. A brief description of the evolution of the computer design is given along with a general discussion of some of the engineering and design problems which arise with the use of a standardized semiconductor monolithic integrated circuit.
Note: The f i r s t prototype computer was operating in July 1963 with the Raytheon built flight computer operating in January 1964.
The page notes that MIT/IL had placed an order with Texas Instruments for 64 ICs at $1000 each in 1959. They were the Kilby mesa process Solid Logic devices. That TI order was not delivered until late 1962. The document also shows copies of purchase orders placed with TI, Westinghouse, Transitron and Motorola for alternate source devices.
Snip
==============================================================
http://www.klabs.org/richcontent/Misc_Content/AGC_And_History/PartsAnalysis/PartsAnalysis.htm
NASA Office of Logic Design
A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space
flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apollo Guidance Computer
Block 2 Parts Analysis
Snip
==============================================================
You may find reading the comments under this post interesting and informative. - LRK -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=1422
Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
Snip
I was reading JayUtah's post (CosmicDaves 32 Questions) regarding AGC code, and in my desperate impatience to see some, did some Google work. I drummed up the following link:
http://verdade.no.sapo.pt/moon/landing_hoax.html
Lists some info regarding the AGC, and also has a (rather scruffy) Jpeg of a tiny portion of code. This appears to be part of a larger hoax site I've not seen before, and discusses other conspirasist (sp?) theories. Unfortunately I cant find a way back to a 'main' page [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img]
Jay, please post any code you can! If anyone else has more info regarding the computer systems used, please post here also...
Cheers,
widoxm
Snip
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
Friday, April 20, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
China launched a satellite Wednesday
-
New Launch: 2007 April 11 0327 UTC Site: Taiyuan Space Center, PRC Launcher: CZ-2C International Designators(s): 2007-010A
SSC Name Owner 31113 HAIYANG-1B PRC
"China launched a satellite Wednesday to begin a three-year mission surveying the world's oceans to monitor sea color and temperature, according to state media reports.
The Haiyang 1B satellite is China's second oceanographic satellite, and it replaces an earlier craft that stopped working in 2004, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Liftoff of Haiyang 1B occurred at 0327 GMT (11:27 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from Taiyuan launch center in northeastern China's Shanxi province, Xinhua reported.
A two-stage Long March 2C rocket deployed the payload into orbit a few minutes later, completing China's second space launch of the year. The flight of the 138-foot-tall booster marked the Long March rocket family's 54th consecutive successful mission since 1996.
Haiyang 1B was delivered to a Sun-synchronous orbit circling Earth's poles. This type of orbit allows satellites to fly over much of the planet at set intervals.
The craft is the second ocean surveying satellite fielded by China, and its mission will include pushing Chinese development of ocean resources, aiding the construction of new harbors and ports, and monitoring ocean pollution, according to Xinhua."
Source: Spaceflight Now, "China launches an ocean observer spacecraft" (www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0704/11haiyang1b/)
AGI's Launch Notification e-mails will help you stay current with all new spacecraft launches. E-mails are sent after every launch and include key spacecraft information such as: the date, time, launch site, launcher, international number, name, and owner. Get more information on thousands of satellites and other vehicles by viewing STK models, animations, and our encyclopedic "Spacecraft Digest" database at www.agi.com/resources.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
NASA Targets June Launch for Space Shuttle Atlantis
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
04.10.07 - 7:45 p.m. EST
NASA is targeting June 8 as the next possible launch opportunity for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-117 mission to the International Space Station.
Tuesday’s decision by agency management followed a meeting that reviewed the progress in repairing insulating foam on the shuttle’s external fuel tank, which was damaged during a sudden hail storm Feb. 26 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. That damage required engineers to repair approximately 2,660 sites on the tank.
Snip
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I hope no more ice storms.
I wonder what it will be like when you start making routine trips to the Moon.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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04.10.07 - 7:45 p.m. EST
NASA is targeting June 8 as the next possible launch opportunity for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-117 mission to the International Space Station.
Tuesday’s decision by agency management followed a meeting that reviewed the progress in repairing insulating foam on the shuttle’s external fuel tank, which was damaged during a sudden hail storm Feb. 26 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. That damage required engineers to repair approximately 2,660 sites on the tank.
Snip
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I hope no more ice storms.
I wonder what it will be like when you start making routine trips to the Moon.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
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April 10, 2007
Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4769
Kyle Herring
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
RELEASE: 07-83
NASA TARGETS JUNE LAUNCH FOR SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS
WASHINGTON - NASA is targeting June 8 as the next possible launch
opportunity for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-117 mission to the
International Space Station.
Tuesday's decision by agency management followed a meeting that
reviewed the progress in repairing insulating foam on the shuttle's
external fuel tank, which was damaged during a sudden hail storm Feb.
26 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. That damage required
engineers to repair approximately 2,660 sites on the tank.
The meeting also included an assessment of using the repaired external
tank for the STS-117 mission versus swapping to one that arrived last
week from the manufacturing plant in New Orleans. Managers decided to
finish repairs to Atlantis' current tank and use it for STS-117. The
tank that arrived Friday will be prepared for space shuttle
Endeavour's STS-118 mission to the space station and now is targeted
for launch in August.
"The workforce has done an amazing job of assessing and repairing the
tank so far, but the sheer volume of repairs dictates moving the
launch target to June," said Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne
Hale.
June 8 is the opening of the next available launch window for Atlantis
to go to the station. STS-117 Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee
Archambault and mission specialists Jim Reilly, Patrick Forrester,
Steven Swanson and John "Danny" Olivas will continue training at
NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. During the 11-day mission, the
astronauts will work with the station crew and ground teams to
install a new, girder-like truss segment, unfold a new set of solar
arrays and retract one array on the starboard side of the station.
For more information about the STS-117 crew and mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Monday, April 09, 2007
When bad launches happen to good companies
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/847/1
by Jeff Foust
Monday, April 9, 2007
Over the last decade the commercial launch industry has experienced a series of ups and downs. The industry was doing quite well in the late 1990s, riding the telecom boom and the development of several large constellations of low Earth orbit communications satellites. The boom went bust early this decade, and the industry went into the doldrums, with a sharp drop in launch demand and even the withdrawal of vehicles like the Delta 4, which Boeing took off the commercial launch market because prices had dropped dramatically in response to the low demand. In the last couple of years, though, the market has improved, with increased demand and rising prices (see “Is the launch industry on the rebound?”, The Space Review, February 20, 2006).
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Hope Sea Launch figures out what went wrong and can launch again soon.
LRK
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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Friday, April 06, 2007
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