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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=22941
"The National Space Society, in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, is co-hosting the Participatory Exploration Summit at Ames
Research Center today. This invitation-only event will bring together Web 2.0, virtual world and
Internet experts with NASA stakeholders to discuss the use of new technologies to better engage
the public with space exploration."
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This event will have taken place by the time you read this but pass on to keep
you up to date.
Ames posted the announcement on 6/20/07 for this 6/26/07 happening.
http://www.nss.org/
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/pes
and similarly earlier.
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http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/node/59
Ames Director Pete Worden Addresses ISDC Conference from Second Life
Video of our own Gen. Pete Worden, NASA Ames Center Director, speaking
to the crowd at ISDC 2007 from NASA CoLab Island in Second Life:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6450672975119560695&hl=en
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6450672975119560695&hl=en>
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What we are seeing here is possibly the use of Virtual Reality to experience
upcoming adventures in space.
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Virtual reality and participatory exploration
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Thanks to the Internet, it's now possible for the public to take a
more active role in space exploration. Jeff Foust reports on how one
NASA center is dabbling with virtual reality as a means of sharing
the exploration of solar system.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/896/1
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We watched live the latest work on the ISS for the installation of the new solar
array panels with the astronauts head cameras and the cameras on the ISS and
robotic arms. Having missed the show you can look at what was saved and made
available on the Internet.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/index.html
*Image and Video Galleries*
+ Searchable Gallery
<'http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html'>
+ International Space Station Gallery
<'http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/index.html'>
+ Space Shuttle Gallery
<'http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/index.html'>
+ Scale Model Drawing Package
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/scalemodel/index.html>
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I just finished reading Ben Bova's novel "RETURN TO MARS" where VR suits are used to send back to Earth images of what the astronauts
are working on.
The book was copyright 1999 and has enough hard science fact to make the fiction
seem real. We would just need to go to Mars and back again to make it the real
thing.
If you had a VR rig here on Earth then you got to FEEL the actions of the
astronaut as they picked at rocks and scaled the cliffs of Mars.
http://www.amazon.com/Return-Mars-Ben-Bova/dp/0380797259
I hope we take the time and interest to include us here on Earth when we go back
to the Moon.
- LRK -
Larry Kellogg
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http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html
These "Virtual Reality Moon Phases" were created by R. Schmidt from ray-traced
images of the
Moon. A Clementine spacecraft mosaic of the lunar surface was mapped onto a
sphere, and scenes were rendered as a virtual Sun "orbited" the Moon. The
depiction of lunar surface features suffers geometric distortion but the
terminator is correct with respect to the spherical Moon.
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http://moonpans.com/vr/
Quicktime Virtual Reality Apollo Panoramas
Quicktime VR Movies are 360 panoramas that you can navigate around
using your mouse. Once you have clicked on one of the movies below, you
just need to point your mouse in any direction whilst holding down the
button, and you can move around in 360 degrees, just like you are
actually standing on the surface of the moon!
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Working The Moon
What will it be like to work on the Moon?
What will we see?
http://www.nss.org/settlement/spaceresources/library.htm
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1992: Space Resources, NASA SP-509.
Overview. 44 pages. [HTML] [PDF 2.5 MB]
Volume 1: Scenarios. 68 pages. [HTML] [PDF 3.4 MB]
Volume 2: Energy, Power, and Transport. 182 pages. [HTML] [PDF 7.6 MB]
Volume 3: Materials. 330 pages. [HTML] [PDF 14.4 MB]
Volume 4: Social Concerns. 314 pages. [HTML] [PDF 14.8 MB]
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Who will we communicate with?
Are you looking out the window at far away beaches?
Do you see the corporate lobster holding your project?
Do you have the patience of the panther, deep in thought?
Have you learned how to quiet the alligators?
Do you have your toys to play with?
How is the mission going out there?
When do we go back to the Moon?
Thursday, March 01, 2007
REAPERS of the DUST - A Prairie Chronicle - And you want to go to the Moon!
REAPERS of the DUST - A Prairie Chronicle is a small book, a collection
of stories about the hard times of a North Dakota family during the
1930s depression and drought. It is by my cousin, Lois Phillips Hudson,
who was born in 1927. She gave me a copy back in December of 1995 and I
just finished reading it again.
http://shop.mnhs.org/moreinfomhspress.cfm?Product_ID=233
Why do I mention this if we are talking about setting up a colony on the
Moon?
Sometimes we just think about the adventure and forget what it takes to
overcome what nature throws at us.
The first story in the book is entitled "The Dust Storm" and I would
like to copy the first paragraph and while you read it, think about what
it will be like on the Moon, in a spacesuit, putting up with talcum
powder glass grit that will get into every nook and cranny. Think about
what the gloves of the spacesuit will do to your fingers as you battle
the stiffness of a pressurized suit.
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Two SPRINGS AGO, according to local newspapers and to coughing, red-eyed
service-station operators in the Rocky Mountains, we drove through the
worst dust storm Wyoming had suffered in eighteen years. The wind was
prematurely aging the young Rockies, pushing dusty fingers under the
loosening fragments of thin topsoil that covered the grazing plateaus,
picking up the small greenish gravel from the road shoulders, and
hurling dust and gravel into the air at sixty miles an hour. If we
dipped into a trough between plateaus, its shelter enabled us to see the
laden wind rising over the mountains and the sky running in massive
dirty currents above us. After reaching the Coast we replace the badly
pitted window glass, had the car repainted, and cleaned the seats, floor
mats, and window crevices. Yet months after we thought we had breathed
the last Wyoming grit, we turned on the defroster and blew bits of the
Rocky Mountains all through the car
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There may not be any wind on the Moon but the fine regolith will electro
statically stick to whatever it contacts and as the terminator advances
you may find it rising into space and settling on items as the lunar day
begins. This dust won't be rounded grains but rather sharp and
abrasive. How will you work in this harsh environment?
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http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/aurora/Moonbase.jpg [2.8 meg]
http://moon.jaxa.jp/ja/gallery/moon_base/IMAGE/moon_base06_s.jpg [54 KB]
Will the Moon be a land of opportunity or hardship?
Still want to go?
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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http://shop.mnhs.org/moreinfomhspress.cfm?Product_ID=233
Reapers of the Dust
*By: Lois Phillips Hudson*
Format: Paper, xvi, 173 pp., 1984
Publisher: MHS Press
Usually ships in: 1-3 business days
ISBN 0-87351-177-8
/A Prairie Chronicle/
First published in 1965, her childhood recollections of living in North
Dakota are what Lois Phillips Hudson used to spin these unusual, moving
stories of simple, joyful days and of continuing battles with the
hostile elements on the Great Plains during the 1930s. Lois Hudson is
recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland
during the grim years of the Great Depression.
New Introduction by the author
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