Up from the Ashes: The Genesis of the Phoenix Mission

It takes a long time to develop a mission and sometimes even longer to
get it launched.

Some links about the upcoming Phoenix Mission to Mars.
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http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
Up from the Ashes: The Genesis of the Phoenix Mission
June 15, 2007
The origins and inspiration of the Phoenix Mars Mission go back a decade
and more to the successful Mars Pathfinder, the failed Mars Polar Lander
and the discovery of ice by the Mars Odyssey. Like the mythical bird of
the same name, the upcoming exploration journey rises from ashes to fly
again.

In his own words, Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith tells the
story of the science objectives of Phoenix and the implications of what
may be discovered.
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A web site with space information including the Phoenix Status Report.
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http://www.space.gs/mars/phoenix/27-jun-2007.html
*06/27/07: Phoenix: Status Report. * *Mission: *Phoenix
*Launch Pad: *17-A
*Launch Vehicle:* Delta II 7925
*Launch Date: *August 3, 2007
*Launch Time: *5:35:18 a.m. EDT (09:35:18 UT)

The solar array lighting test and installation of the spacecraft
parachute are complete.

Spacecraft fueling is scheduled for July 2-3.

Spin balance testing is scheduled for July 11-12

At Pad 17-A, the attachment of the nine solid rocket boosters to the
Delta II first stage is complete. Hoisting of the second stage atop the
first stage is scheduled for June 28.

- courtesy of George H. Diller, Kennedy Space Center, Fl.

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Launch information, follow links on the page.
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http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/phases02.php
Launch
Powered by a Boeing Delta II 7925
www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta2/delta2.htm
launch vehicle, Phoenix will begin its mission within a 22 day launch
window in August of 2007. The launch will take place at Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station <https://www.patrick.af.mil/> in Florida.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html
Welcome to the Phoenix Mission, going to the arctic plain of Mars.

Media Resources
+ Launch Press Kit
<http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/181835main_phoenix-launch-presskit.pdf> (6.5Mb-PDF)

  MISSION FEATURES
  06.29.07 - Phoenix Set for a Mars Arctic Expedition
Lander will dig for clues to more red planet mysteries.
+ Read More
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/launch/Phoenix_prepared.html> 

  MISSION NEWS
  07.09.07 - Mars Lander Ready for August Launch to Icy Site
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, the next mission to the surface of Mars, is
beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007.
+ Read More
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20070709.html>
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/jul/HQ_07148_Phoenix_press_release.html
NEWS RELEASE
July 09, 2007

RELEASE: 07-148

NASA Readies Mars Lander for August Launch to Icy Site

WASHINGTON - NASA's next Mars mission will look beneath a frigid arctic
landscape for conditions favorable to past or present life.

Instead of roving to hills or craters, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will
claw down into the icy soil of the Red Planet's northern plains. The
robot will investigate whether frozen water near the Martian surface
might periodically melt enough to sustain a livable environment for
microbes. To accomplish that and other key goals, Phoenix will carry a
set of advanced research tools never before used on Mars.

First, however, it must launch from Florida during a three-week period
beginning Aug. 3, then survive a risky descent and landing on Mars next
spring.

"Our 'follow the water' strategy for exploring Mars has yielded a string
of dramatic discoveries in recent years about the history of water on a
planet where similarities with Earth were much greater in the past than
they are today," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration
Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "Phoenix will complement our
strategic exploration of Mars by being our first attempt to actually
touch and analyze Martian water -- water in the form of buried ice."

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter found evidence in 2002 to support theories
that large areas of Mars, including the arctic plains, have water ice
within an arm's reach of the surface.

"Phoenix has been designed to examine the history of the ice by
measuring how liquid water has modified the chemistry and mineralogy of
the soil," said Peter Smith, the Phoenix principal investigator at the
University of Arizona, Tucson.

"In addition, our instruments can assess whether this polar environment
is a habitable zone for primitive microbes. To complete the scientific
characterization of the site, Phoenix will monitor polar weather and the
interaction of the atmosphere with the surface."

With its flanking solar panels unfurled, the lander is about 18 feet
wide and 5 feet long. A robotic arm 7.7 feet long will dig to the icy
layer, which is expected to lie within a few inches of the surface. A
camera and conductivity probe on the arm will examine soil and any ice
there. The arm will lift samples to two instruments on the lander's
deck. One will use heating to check for volatile substances, such as
water and carbon-based chemicals that are essential building blocks for
life. The other will analyze the chemistry of the soil.

A meteorology station, with a laser for assessing water and dust in the
atmosphere, will monitor weather throughout the planned three-month
mission during Martian spring and summer. The robot's toolkit also
includes a mast-mounted stereo camera to survey the landing site, a
descent camera to see the site in broader context and two microscopes.

For the final stage of landing, Phoenix is equipped with a pulsed
thruster method of deceleration. The system uses an ultra-lightweight
landing system that allows the spacecraft to carry a heavier scientific
payload. Like past Mars missions, Phoenix uses a heat shield to slow its
high-speed entry, followed by a supersonic parachute that further
reduces its speed to about 135 mph. The lander then separates from the
parachute and fires pulsed descent rocket engines to slow to about 5.5
mph before landing on its three legs.

"Landing safely on Mars is difficult no matter what method you use,"
said Barry Goldstein, the project manager for Phoenix at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Our team has been testing the
system relentlessly since 2003 to identify and address whatever
vulnerabilities may exist."

Researchers evaluating possible landing sites have used observations
from Mars orbiters to find the safest places where the mission's goals
can be met. The leading candidate site is a broad valley with few
boulders at a latitude equivalent to northern Alaska.

Smith leads the Phoenix mission, with project management at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory and the development partnership located at
Lockheed Martin, Denver. International contributions are provided by the
Canadian Space Agency, the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, the Max Planck Institute, Germany,
and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Additional information on the Phoenix mission is available online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix

Additional information on NASA's Mars program is available online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mars

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"We must ride the lightning": Robert Heinlein and American spaceflight

I have been catching up on reading Science Fiction and now engrossed in
Robert A. Heinlein's "STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND"

July 7th would make Heinlein a 100 years old if he were still alive.
There is an article at 'thespacereview' about Robert Heinlein by Dwayne
A. Day posted Monday, July 2, 2007.
- LRK -

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"We must ride the lightning": Robert Heinlein and American spaceflight
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This weekend marks the centennial of the birth of Robert Heinlein, a
science fiction author whose works have served as an inspiration to
many who have pursued careers in the space industry.  Dwayne Day
examines a memo written by Heinlein over 60 years ago that outlined
his belief in the promise of rocketry and spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/901/1

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Maybe you have read Heinlein's "THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS".
http://www.tor-forge.com/themoonisaharshmistress
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Harsh-Mistress-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0312863551/

Many things to consider when we look at how far apart we are from what
we want and what is.
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http://www.asi.org/adb/06/09/03/02/106/failure_vs_success.htm
Failures are the Stuff out of Which Success is Made
IN FOCUS:by Peter Kokh
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In his classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robert A. Heinlein coined
the epithet "tanstaafl", actually an acronym of "There Ain't No Such
Thing As A Free Lunch." Tanstaafl applies to success as to anything else
that is desirable. In the end, we have to pay for it. And the coin is
not only hard work and careful research and preparation and talent
honing etc. The coin is frequently prior failures.

Putting in place the various paving blocks of the road to space is no
different from any other endeavor. But in that the task is very complex,
inter-involved, and largely beyond currently pedestrian technology, we
can expect the failure to success ratio to be higher than most other
avenues of endeavor.
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Will be interesting to see how our adventures to the Moon will turn out.
- LRK -

Some other links about Robert A. Heinlein posted below.

Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein

>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Heinlein signing autographs at the 1976 Worldcon
Born: July 7, 1907
Flag of United States Butler, Missouri
Died: May 8, 1988
Flag of United States Carmel, California
Occupation(s): Novelist, short story author, essayist, screenwriter
Genre(s): Science fiction, Fantasy
Literary movement: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Debut work(s): Life-Line
Magnum opus: Stranger in a Strange Land
Influences: H. G. Wells, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Rudyard Kipling
Influenced: Allen Steele, Spider Robinson, George R. R. Martin, Larry
Niven, Jerry Pournelle, John Varley

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 � May 8, 1988) was one of the most
popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science
fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility
that few have equaled, and helped to raise the genre's standards of
literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream
general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s
with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of
bestselling novel-length science fiction in the modern mass-market era.
For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known
as the "Big Three" of science fiction.[1]

The major themes of his work were social: radical individualism,
libertarianism, religion, the relationship between physical and
emotional love, speculation about unorthodox family relationships, and
the influence of space travel on human cultural practices. His
iconoclastic approach to these themes led to wildly divergent
perceptions of his works. For example, his 1959 novel Starship Troopers
was widely viewed as glorifying militarism. By contrast, his 1961 novel
Stranger in a Strange Land put him in the unexpected role of pied piper
to the sexual revolution and the counterculture.

Heinlein won four Hugo Awards for his novels. In addition, fifty years
after publication, three of his works were awarded "Retro Hugos" �
awards given retrospectively for years in which no Hugos had been
awarded. He also won the first Grand Master Award given by the Science
Fiction Writers of America for lifetime achievement.

In his fiction, Heinlein coined words that have become part of the
English language, including "grok", "TANSTAAFL" and "waldo."

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http://www.heinleinsociety.org/
The Heinlein Society exists to preserve the legacy renowned writer
Robert Anson Heinlein left us in novels, essays, speeches, and short
stories that remain as fresh as ever. We need your help to do it.

We intend in Heinlein's words to "PAY IT FORWARD," since we can never
pay back the benefits we got from him, by spreading the wisdom of Robert
Anson Heinlein to others.

The Heinlein Society has established programs to: Place the books of
Robert Heinlein in libraries everywhere, especially in school libraries
where his juvenile novels may continue to help to form character and
provoke critical and intelligent thinking among our young people

Award scholarships and grants to worthy young people.

Assist in disseminating the works of Robert Heinlein into new languages
and formats

Promote annual Heinlein blood drives

Explore the possibility of accurate and true to book renditions of
Robert Heinlein's stories to film and other media

Promote scholarly research and overall discussion of the works and ideas
of Robert Anson Heinlein

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[Usenet archive about Robert A. Heinlien. - LRK -]
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/rah.html

Robert Anson Heinlein, 7 July 1907 - 8 May 1988

The Heinlein Society <http://www.heinleinsociety.org/> is an excellent
resource.

>From tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!eos!barry
Wed Nov 23 17:20:38 EST 1988
Article 13889 of rec.arts.sf-lovers:
Path: tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!eos!barry
>From: barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: You are saved from seeing Heinlein story
Summary: "Beyond Doubt" has been anthologized at least twice.
Message-ID: <1982@eos.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 05:33:30 GMT
References:
Reply-To: barry@eos.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Organization: QQQCLC
Lines: 15

In article g3d8bu9r%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Alexander H. McIntire)
writes:
>Well, I have a copy of "Beyond Doubt," from _Astonishing Stories_,
>Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1941, written by Lyle Monroe [RAH] and Elma Wentz.
>
>I think, as a public service, that this should be made available.

It is available, though not easy to find. It has been
anthologized twice, to my knowledge: 1) _Beyond the End of Time_, ed. by
Frederik Pohl (Permabooks, paperback, 1952); 2) _Political Science
Fiction_, ed. by Warrick Greenberg (Prentice-Hall, 1974).

If you can't find it, you're really not missing much, fellow
Heinlein fans. It's not a terribly good story.

Kayembee
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http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.nl.html?pid=4166
Robert A. Heinlein Centennial

July 7, 2007 will be the birth centennial of American author, futurist,
philosopher and spaceflight advocate Robert A. Heinlein. Commemoration
and celebrations will fill the science fiction Grandmaster's Centennial
year, with the grandest event to be held on the weekend of July 6, 7 and
8 in his home town of Kansas City, Missouri.

Date: 6-8 Jul 2007

Location: Hyatt Regency Crown Center & Westin Crown Center, Kansas City,
MO, US

Web Site Address: http://www.heinleincentennial.com/

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http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/biographies.html
Heinlein Society
Biographies of Robert and Virginia Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein
a biography by
William H. Patterson, Jr

Virginia Heinlein
a biography by
Robert James, Ph.D.

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FLORIDASPACErePORT

A chronicle of developments in the space industry, updated (almost) daily.

Time passes and others post.
I would not want you to miss out.
Take a look at Edward Ellegood's blog FLORIDASPACErePORT.

The shuttle has been returned to KSC.
http://www.wesh.com/news/13612033/detail.html

Russia is launching satellites to space.
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http://www.ohb-system.de/gb/News/presse/0307_07.html
*Second SAR-Lupe satellite also successfully launched
*Reconnaissance system available to the German Armed Forces as of the
autumn

Bremen/Plesetsk, 07-03-07

The second satellite in the SAR-Lupe system has been placed successfully
in orbit. The Russian Cosmos 3M launch vehicle lifted off last night
from the Russian Plesetsk space center, south of Archangelsk, on
schedule at 21:38:41 hours CEST. Roughly half an hour later, it released
the radar satellite into its low-earth orbit at an altitude of roughly
500 km.
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http://spacereport.blogspot.com/2007/07/july-3-news-items.html

FLORIDA SPACErePORT <http://spacereport.blogspot.com/>

A chronicle of developments in the space industry, updated (almost) daily.

  July 03, 2007

*Homans Resigns Spaceport Authority Post* (Source: Las Cruces Sun-News)
When Rick Homans took over as executive director of the New Mexico
Spaceport Authority he said he would like to hand the job over to
someone else sooner or later. On Monday, he announced that would happen
sooner. Homans informed the NMSA that he was leaving his post for a job
in the private sector. "When I took this job May 1, I made it very clear
that I considered myself an 'interim' director and that one of my key
jobs would be to find my replacement, a 'permanent' director," Homans
wrote. Homans said his new job will be with a company that will
establish its headquarters in New Mexico. His new position starts Aug.
1. He did not specify the company.

*Benson Space Company to Provide Low-G Rides* (Source: Benson)
Using a patent pending combination of technology and technique, the
newly designed suborbital space tourism spaceship from Benson Space
Company (BSC) will produce rides that do not exceed approximately 3.0
G's of force on passengers. This technology, in development since 2002,
uses dive brakes with variable
feathering to greatly reduce deceleration forces during descent and
reentry. The BSC spaceship, which is based on an amalgam of the NASA and
Air Force X-2, X-15 and T-38 vehicles, will spread its entry
deceleration over a wide altitude band by changing the vehicle's
ballistic coefficient (vehicle weight divided by drag area) during the
atmospheric entry.

*Europe and Russia Plan Next Generation Spaceship *(Source: The Register)
Plans are underway to build a European alternative to the US's shuttle
replacement Orion. The European Space Agency (ESA) has convened a series
of meetings with key industrial groups in Europe to thrash out the
details of new passenger launch systems. Russia will lead the
feasibility study of various Crew Space Transportation Systems (CSTS),
while Japan is also reported to be keen to be involved. Daniel Sacotte,
the ESA's director of human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration
told the BBC that the move was not about beating the US, or being
isolationist.

"We want to have parallel systems, to be cooperative; so that if one
system has a failure, there is another one that allows space exploration
to continue," he said. "We cannot rely on only one [transportation
system]." The form the new launch system will take is still undecided.
This decision will be the focal point of the meetings. It could be based
on the well-established, if slightly ageing Russian Soyuz system, or it
could be totally different. The eventual form the CSTS will take will
depend on what it is most likely to be used for: low earth orbit
missions may call for different hardware than a moon shot, for instance.

*AF Holds To EELV Schedule *(Source: Aerospace Daily)
The U.S. Air Force says it is holding firm on the planned launch dates
for upcoming Atlas V and Delta IV missions using the Pratt & Whitney
RL10 upper-stage engine, having traced the launch anomaly on a recent
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) classified satellite launch to a
stuck valve on the Atlas V's Lockheed Martin Centaur upper stage. The
Air Force says for now at least the late summer launch dates for the
upcoming launch of the service's Wideband Gapfiller (WGS) communications
spacecraft on an Atlas V with a Centaur and the final Defense Support
Program missile warning satellite on a Delta IV Heavy using the RL10 in
a different stage will remain unchanged. The Atlas V launch from Cape
Canaveral is scheduled for Aug. 11 while the Delta IV Heavy flight is
set for Aug. 28.

*ICO Global Inks Deal with Loral* (Source: MarketWatch)
ICO Global Communications said Tuesday it inked an agreement with Loral
for the design of additional medium earth orbit satellites. Terms
weren't disclosed. The company also said it's pursuing its litigation
against Boeing concerning its medium earth orbit satellites.

*Replacement Workers Take-On Endeavour Work During Strike* (Source:
Florida Today)
The orbiter Endeavour was hoisted up off its transporter in the Kennedy
Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building by replacement crane operators as
NASA pressed ahead with preparations for a planned Aug. 7 launch. The
orbiter will be mated to an external tank with two attached solid rocket
boosters before the fully assembled shuttle is hauled out to launch pad
39A on July 11. The work is being done by an experienced team standing
in for striking workers with the International Association of Machinists
& Aerospace Workers union. USA put together a pool of people who all
have experience in orbiter lifting operations, and former crane
operators who all have up-to-date certifications are operating the
lifting devices. The work is being done in two stages because of the
strike.

*NASA Extends Contract with Wyle Labs* (Source: Houston Business Journal)
NASA has extended its contract with Wyle Laboratories. The $294 million
contract extension will support the Space Life Sciences Directorate at
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The extension, which extends the
contract to April 30, 2011, is the first of two options in NASA's
contract with Wyle Laboratories. Terms of the bioastronautics contract
call for Wyle's life sciences group, based in Houston, to support the
International Space Station, space shuttle, constellation and human
research programs. Wyle maintains readiness of space and life
sciences-related facilities and laboratories; provides services for
program integration, habitability and environmental factors; human
adaptation and countermeasures; space medicine; flight hardware; and
human research activities. The work is performed at Johnson, Kennedy
Space Center in Florida and at the University of Texas Medical Branch in
Galveston. A second option, if exercised, would extend the contract to
April 30, 2013. If both options are exercised, the total potential value
of the contract is $973 million.

*Russian Rocket Blasts Off with German Satellite *(Source: Xinhua)
A Russian rocket blasted off Monday night with a German satellite atop.
The Kosmos-3M booster, carrying the German intelligence satellite
SAR-Lupe-2, launched from the Plesetsk spaceport. According to a
contract signed in 2003, Russia will send into orbit five such
satellites, part of Germany's first satellite-based radar reconnaissance
system.

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SpaceTEC Administers the Nation's Premiere Program for Certified
Aerospace Technicians

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL
SpaceTEC, the National Science Foundation's Center of Excellence for
Aerospace Technical Education, is the focal point for providing
aerospace related post-secondary technical education for aerospace
employees. SpaceTEC and its industry partners offer programs that
prepare aerospace technicians to become Certified Aerospace

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The Aerospace Resource Center [ARC] for the State of Florida

The ARC is Florida's first designated industry resource center -- a
one-stop shop for addressing the aviation and space industry's current
and future workforce training needs. The following goals help to define
the services the ARC will provide:

* Work with industry, education providers, and workforce development
  agencies to keep Florida's aerospace workforce capable and
  competitive.
* Develop skill sets for entry-level and advanced jobs, as well as
  skills upgrades for the existing aerospace workforce.
* Deliver, arrange, or assist in providing training with
  industry-level certifications.
* Function as a focal point for institutions and employers by
  maintaining and disseminating workforce education resources.

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Economic Development Corporation
of Florida's Space Coast

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