Challenger STS 51-L Accident

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

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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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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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