Time marches on and one day blurs into the next.
Still, one may reflect on the past and then look forward into the future.
- LRK -
We lost the Apollo-1 crew on January 27, 1967 and we lost the Challenger
crew on January 28, 1986, one minute and 13 seconds into the flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-51L.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
The Apollo missions went on and took us to the Moon, and now an
International Space Station is almost complete.
Will watch and see what the future brings.
- LRK -
If you are in the USA then make your desires known by voting in the
Presidential Primaries.
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/election_2008/
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
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http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/
Apollo-1 (204)
Pad 34-A (7)
Saturn-1B AS-204
<http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-1/apollo-1.html> (4)
CSM-x ()
Apollo Pad Fire
Crew
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/crew.html>
Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/grissom.html>
Edward Higgins White, II, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/white.html>
Roger Bruce Chaffee, Lieutenant Commander, USN
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/chaffee.html>
Backup Crew
Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, Jr., Captain, USN
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/backup.html#schirra>
Donn F. Eisele, Colonel, USAF
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/backup.html#eisele>
Walter Cunningham, Colonel, USMC (Reserves)
<http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/backup.html#cunningham>
On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire
occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the
Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight,
the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a
veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the
astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular
activity during the Gemini program; and Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut
preparing for his first space flight, died in this tragic accident.
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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
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# Jan 28 - Express AM-33 Proton M-Briz M Launch
# Jan 28 -New[Jan 23] Comet P/2008 A2 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth
(1.129 AU)
# Jan 28 - Asteroid 143 Adria Occults HIP 47779 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
# Jan 28 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest Approach To Earth (1.271 AU)
# Jan 28 - Asteroid 13926 Berners-Lee Closest Approach To Earth (1.781 AU)
# Jan 28 - Lecture: Beyond Our Solar System: In Search of Extrasolar
Planets, New York, New York
# Jan 28 - New[Jan 24] Cosmology Seminar: The Morphology of Clusters of
Galaxies - Prospects for Cosmological Constraints, Stanford, California
# Jan 28-29 - Meeting: Cosmology Meets Condensed Matter, London, United
Kingdom
# Jan 28-Feb 01 - Meeting: Magnetic Fields in the Universe II - from
Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe, Cozumel, Mexico
# Jan 29 - Comet C/2007 S2 (Lemmon) Closest Approach To Earth (4.710 AU)
# Jan 29 - Updated[Jan 23] Asteroid 2007 TU24 Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
# Jan 29 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest Approach To Earth (1.383 AU)
# Jan 29-31 - Workshop: Science with the New Hubble Space Telescope
after Servicing Mission 4, Bologna, Italy
# Jan 30 - Theos Dnepr 1 Launch
# Jan 30 - Asteroid 2007 WD5 Near-Mars Flyby
# Jan 30 - Asteroid 2347 Vinata Occults HIP 14893 (5.8 Magnitude Star)
# Jan 30 - 140th Anniversary (1868), Pultusk Meteorite Shower in Poland
# Jan 30-Feb 01 - Annual NuSTAR Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany
# Jan 31 -Hot[Jan 23] 50th Anniversary (1958), Explorer 1 Launch (1st US
Satellite)
# Jan 31 - Asteroid 3329 Golay Occults HIP 45058 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
# Jan 31 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach To Earth (1.223 AU)
# Jan 31- Feb 02 - 14th Annual Space Exploration Educators Conference,
Houston, Texas
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Space Weather News for Jan. 28, 2008
http://spaceweather.com
ASTEROID FLYBY: Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past Earth this week at a distance
of only 334,000 miles (1.4 lunar distances). NASA radars tracking the asteroid
confirm that there is no danger of a collision, but it will be close enough for
amateur astronomers to photograph through mid-sized backyard telescopes. At
closest approach on Jan. 29th, the asteroid will glide through the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia glowing like a 10th magnitude star.
Visit http://spaceweather.com for celestial coordinates and a low-resolution
radar image of the approaching rock.
HALO BONUS: A photographer in Finland has captured the long-sought "Kern arc",
a rare sun halo created by triangular ice crystals. Experts are calling it the
"halo photo of the decade" and it is featured on today's edition of
http://spaceweather.com.
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Many folks would like to see us back on the Moon and developing its resources.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Mercury fly-by a success.
Thanks to your eyes out there, I am reminded that we had a most news
worthy event taking place at planet Mercury.
MESSENGER made a successful fly-by.
- LRK -
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html
As NASA�s MESSENGER neared Mercury on January 14, 2008, the spacecraft
took this image of the planet�s full crescent. The image shows portions
of Mercury previously seen by Mariner 10, but when Mariner 10 flew by
the planet at each of its encounters, the sun was nearly overhead. For
this MESSENGER flyby, in contrast, the sun is shining obliquely on
regions near the day/night boundary (called the terminator) on the
right-hand side of the crescent, revealing the surface topography. This
image illustrates how MESSENGER, during its future flybys and subsequent
orbital mission, will teach scientists much about the portion of Mercury
already imaged by Mariner 10. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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MESSENGER images of Mercury
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/index.html
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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Did you catch this about the Mercury fly-by?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=508772&in_page_id=1965
Bob MacBird
Conroe, Texas
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205801036
Merury fly-b a success
R. Colin Johnson
EE Times
(01/16/2008 11:49 AM EST)
PORTLAND, Ore. � The U.S. Messenger spacecraft has flown its first
successful fly-by of the planet Mercury.
Messenger, which stands for Mercury Surface Space-Environment
Geochemistry and Ranging, will perform the most detailed survey of the
closest planet to the Sun. Already having flown by Venus, which is
between Earth and Mercury, the spacecraft is now training its
instruments on the final destination--orbit around Mercury in 2011, just
in time to observing the effects of the peak sunspot season.
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http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
MESSENGER
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging
January 18, 2008
*MESSENGER�s Mercury Flyby Science Data Now Safely on Earth*
A day after its successful flyby of Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft
turned toward Earth on Tuesday and began downloading the 500 megabytes
of data that had been stored on the solid-state recorder during the
encounter. All of those data, including 1,213 images from the Mercury
Dual Imaging System (MDIS) cameras, have now been received by the
Science Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. [more]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_10
Mariner 10 was a robotic space probe launched on November 3, 1973 to fly
by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was launched approximately 2 years
after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program
(Mariner 11 and 12 were redesignated Voyager 1 and Voyager 2). The
mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere,
surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of
Venus. Secondary objectives were to perform experiments in the
interplanetary medium and to obtain experience with a dual-planet
gravity-assist mission.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-013 MEDIA BRIEFING ON NASA'S EARTH SCIENCE PROGRAM: 21 MISSIONS WORTH
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WASHINGTON - NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 24, at
12:30 p.m. EST, to discuss the agency's Earth science program and
preview major activities planned for 2008, including the launch of two
new Earth-observing missions and a weather satellite. The briefing will
take place in the NASA Headquarters' James E. Webb Auditorium, 300 E
Street, S.W., Washington. The briefing will be carried live on NASA
Television.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, NASA continues to advance the
frontiers of scientific discovery about Earth, its climate and its
future. NASA's multidisciplinary Earth science program contains a
broad-based portfolio of cutting-edge science and technology, from new
remote-sensing instruments in orbit to basic research delving into the
intricate workings of our home planet.
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NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
You may be interested in seeing what the press have to ask and NASA
reply about the upcoming Earth science programs.
Tune in to the above.
You might also be interested in the Science@NASA site.
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/
And maybe some links from the Ames Earth Science Project Office.
http://www.espo.nasa.gov/
Or NASA's Earth Observing System.
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
And links at Goddard Space Flight Center for the Earth Science Project
Div code 420
http://eos.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Nice having a number of eyes checking out what is going on with our Blue
Marble.
Appreciate your eyes looking out and up as well.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_M08013_earth_science.html
Jan. 18, 2008
Dwayne Brown/Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726/0918
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-013
MEDIA BRIEFING ON NASA'S EARTH SCIENCE PROGRAM: 21 MISSIONS WORTH
WASHINGTON - NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 24, at
12:30 p.m. EST, to discuss the agency's Earth science program and
preview major activities planned for 2008, including the launch of
two new Earth-observing missions and a weather satellite. The
briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters' James E. Webb
Auditorium, 300 E Street, S.W., Washington. The briefing will be
carried live on NASA Television.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, NASA continues to advance the
frontiers of scientific discovery about Earth, its climate and its
future. NASA's multidisciplinary Earth science program contains a
broad-based portfolio of cutting-edge science and technology, from
new remote-sensing instruments in orbit to basic research delving
into the intricate workings of our home planet.
Panelists are:
- Administrator Michael Griffin, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Alan Stern, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate,
Headquarters
- Michael Freilich, director, Earth Science Division, Headquarters
- Randy Friedl, deputy chief scientist, Earth Science Division,
Headquarters
Media may ask questions from participating NASA locations. Reporters
also may participate by phone. Reporters wanting to participate by
phone must call Grey Hautaluoma on 202-358-0668 by 10 a.m. Jan. 24.
The briefing will be streamed live on NASA's Web site at:
http://www.nasa.gov
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