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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 12 : Issue 118

Today's Topics:
        Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once?
     Magellan press conference scheduled [Corrected] (Forwarded)
              Balloons, anyone?
       Magellan press conference scheduled (Forwarded)
             NSS 1990 Convention
               Re: Soyuz stuff
                 Re: Freedom
        Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once?
        Whatever happened to the Moon Walkers?
               Citizen of the Galaxy ?

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Date: 24 Jul 90 02:35:31 GMT
From: usc!wuarchive!mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo![e-mail]  (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Robert Casey) writes:
>Did the USSR ever fly their shuttle "Burin" (sp) more than once?

Buran has flown only once so far.  They flew it before it was really ready,
actually.  Nobody is in a big hurry to fly it again, and funding is a bit
tight.  Last I heard, the second flight was expected next year.
--
NFS:  all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and its performance and security too.  |  [e-mail]   utzoo!henry

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Date: 23 Jul 90 21:12:39 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Magellan press conference scheduled [Corrected] (Forwarded)


Paula Cleggett-Haleim
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                      July 23, 1990
(Phone:  [phone])

EDITORS NOTE:  N90-56

MAGELLAN PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED

     "How to cover the Magellan mission" will be the subject of a
press briefing, Thursday, July 26, 2 p.m. EDT, in the NASA
Headquarters 6th floor auditorium, 400 Md. Ave., S.W., Wash.,
D.C.  Principals from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will
explain what media can expect during Magellan's arrival at Venus,
insertion into the planet's orbit, instrument check-out and
subsequent mapping.

     On Aug. 10, 1990, Magellan reaches Venus after a 15-1/2
month voyage.  Last year on May 4, the spacecraft was deployed
from Atlantis on STS-30, the first planetary mission launched
from a Space Shuttle.  Magellan's primary mission is to map 70 to
90 percent of Venus, with 10 times better resolution than any
achieved before.

     A 3-1/2 minute, animated videotape of the mapping process
will be available.

     Conference presenters include:

     Dr. Joseph Boyce, NASA Hdqtrs., Magellan Program Scientist
     Anthony J. Spear, JPL, Magellan Project Manager
     Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, JPL, Magellan Project Scientist
     Dr. Gordon Pettengill, Massachusetts Institute of
         Technology, Principal Investigator, Radar Experiment

     This briefing will be carried live on NASA Select
television, Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13, C band, at 72 degrees
west longitude, frequency 3960.0 MHz.

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Date: 23 Jul 90 13:25:14 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (Beck, James C.)
Subject: Balloons, anyone?


  I was reading the other day about cosmic-ray research, where big zero-
pressure weather balloons would lift big pieces of Lexan up to 140,000 ft.
This got me thinking, so I went to the library to do some research. My
initial findings show that these things can carry up to 5000 kg. over
100,000 feet in the air. My question to you is: Does anyone think this
could serve as an inexpensive 'first stage' for a small rocket? Could
a rocket be built under this weight and that could go the extra 250 km to
low-earth orbit? (The books I've found mention that this altitude is
above 99% of the atmosphere, so aerodynamic drag can be ignored).
  Thanks in advance for your help.

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Date: 23 Jul 90 18:40:54 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Magellan press conference scheduled (Forwarded)

Paula Cleggett-Haleim
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                      July 23, 1990
(Phone:  [phone])

EDITORS NOTE:  N90-56

MAGELLAN PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED

     "How to cover the Magellan mission" will be the subject of a
press briefing, Thursday, July 26 in the NASA Headquarters 6th
floor auditorium, 400 Md. Ave., S.W., Wash., D.C.  Principals
from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will explain what
media can expect during Magellan's arrival at Venus, insertion
into the planet's orbit, instrument check-out and subsequent
mapping.

     On Aug. 10, 1990, Magellan reaches Venus after a 15-1/2
month voyage.  Last year on May 4, the spacecraft was deployed
from Atlantis on STS-30, the first planetary mission launched
from a Space Shuttle.  Magellan's primary mission is to map 70 to
90 percent of Venus, with 10 times better resolution than any
achieved before.

     A 3-1/2 minute, animated videotape of the mapping process
will be available.

     Conference presenters include:

     Dr. Joseph Boyce, NASA Hdqtrs., Magellan Program Scientist
     Anthony J. Spear, JPL, Magellan Project Manager
     Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, JPL, Magellan Project Scientist
     Dr. Gordon Pettengill, Massachusetts Institute of
         Technology, Principal Investigator, Radar Experiment

     This briefing will be carried live on NASA Select
television, Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13, C band, at 72 degrees
west longitude, frequency 3960.0 MHz.

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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 12:24:41 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: NSS 1990 Convention
Cc:

CALL FOR PAPERS!!!   CALL FOR PAPERS!!!   CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
Abstracts are being solicited for the National Space Society's
10th Annual International Space Development Conference
to be held at the Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk in San Antonio,
Texas, May 22-27, 1991.  The theme is SPACE: A CALL FOR ACTION.
Topics include:

   SPACE ADVOCACY      FOR THE PUBLIC      SPACE TECHNOLOGY
   Community Action    Law & Politics      Infrastructure
   Chapter Action      Space Medicine      Space Stations
   Political Action    Space Education     Space Manufacturing
   Fund Raising        Business & Econ.    Planetary Communities
   Recruiting          Debate for Space    Off-Planet Colonies
   Media & Publicity   International Prog. Future Manned Missions

Abstracts are due by November 1, 1990.  Submissions must include
a cover letter with name, address, phone, and brief description
of your experience or expertise, and a one page abstract.

Send to :   Bob Blackledge, 6015 Eagles Nest Ct.,
            Colorado Springs, CO 80918-1510   [phone]

For registration information contact:
            Beatrice Moreno, Southwest Research Institute,
            6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510  [phone]

For further information contact:
            Dr. Carol Luckhardt Redfield, Southwest Research Institute
            6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510  [phone]
___________________________________________________________________
|                                          |                      |
|    Rich Osman (Oz)                       | Good judgement comes |
|    Southwest Research Institute          | from experience, and |
|    6220 Culebra Road                     | experience comes     |
|    San Antonio, TX  78238                |  from bad judgement. |
|    [e-mail]             | -Fred Brooks, UNCar. |
|__________________________________________|______________________|

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Date: 23 Jul 90 03:33:22 GMT
From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!dhw68k!ofa123![e-mail]  (Mark Perew)
Subject: Re: Soyuz stuff

David Anderman writes:

>Please keep in mind that this thread began with a discussion of a
>capsule to be used in conjunction with the Freedom space station
>(if there is going to be such a station), and so any discussion of
>the attributes of the Soyuz should take into consideration the
>constraints of capsule technology - that is that capsules are not as
>large as the Space Shuttle, that they can carry a limited number of
>passengers, and perhaps the Soyuz, within these constraints, is a
viable
>substitute for the $1.5 billion program to develop a rescue vehicle for
>Freedom.

I believe that my comments were in reply to assertions by Alan Sherzer
(Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow) that we should immediately phase
out the Shuttle and develop the Heavy Life Titan and use a Soyuz for
all manned flight.  I also believe that Mr. Sherzer asserted that there
will be no "Space Station Fred".


--
Mark Perew
Internet: [e-mail]
BBS:      714 544-0934   2400/1200/300

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Date: 23 Jul 90 23:36:39 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (RAMontante)
Subject: Re: Freedom

<[e-mail]> [e-mail] (SIMMONS DONALD F):
|   Who named the space station Freedom anyway? Did they consider any other
| names besides it. It smells of a politically motivated PR choice to me.

[e-mail] (Mary Shafer) <[e-mail]> :
| This is a remarkably stupid comment.  Of course it was politically
| motivated PR.


Longtime readers of this newsfroup know that the actual name of the
Space Station is "Fred".  For various political reasons this has been
corrupted to the longer form, so that now the budgetary process can kill
Freedom instead of merely bumping off Fred.

:-)

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Date: 24 Jul 90 04:13:47 GMT
From: sam.cs.cmu.edu![e-mail]  (Vincent Cate)
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle, did it fly more than once?


Matthew DeLuca:
>Robert Casey:
>>Did the USSR ever fly their shuttle "Burin" (sp) more than once?
>
>Nope.  It flew one unmanned mission in 1988, and won't fly again until
>1991.  From what I've heard, they're going to launch it unmanned, rendezvouz
>with Mir, and fly it back manned.  This is pretty old, so they may have
>changed their plans.

You know why they are waiting so long to launch again?
They have to get get the bugs out of the O-ring on their own.

What do ya bet that the 1991 launch is delayed due to a hydrogen leak?

   :-)     :-)

Stolen from Allan Heydon.

  - Vince

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Date: 23 Jul 90 15:10:35 GMT
From: spock![e-mail]  (Tom Gray)
Subject: Whatever happened to the Moon Walkers?



Whatever happened to the Moon Walkers?

The following information was taken from a newspaper article
celebrating the 21st anniversary of the first moon walk.
If you've ever wondered about the current status of all
of the moon walkers you're curiosity will be sated.

Neil Armstrong - 59
      executive with a computer services
      company

Edwin Aldrin 60
     sold Cadillacs in Beverly Hills
     now science consultant and professor at the
     University of North Dakota

Charles Conrad - 60
     vice-president of McDonnell Douglas

Alan Bean - 58
     formerly in charge of astronaut training
     now retired and full time artist

Alan Shepard - 67
     oldest man on the moon
     formerly had a beer distributership in Houston
     now a real estate developer

Edgar Mitchell - 59
     established a forum to investigate ESP
     the Institute of Noetic Sciences

David Scott - 58
     engineering services executive
     President of Scott Science and Technolgy

James Irwin 60
     preacher, founder of evangelical organization High Flight

John Young - 60
     was astronaut office chief
     piloted maiden flight of shuttle Columbia

Charles Duke - 55
     youngest man on the moon
     President of Southwest Wilderness Art Inc and
     Duke Investments

Harrison Schmidt - 55
     was a US senator
     now a consultant

Eugene Cernan - 56
      last man on the moon
           was an oil executive
      now owns a consulting firm

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Date: 23 Jul 90 00:13:54 GMT
From: van-bc!rsoft!mindlink![e-mail]  (Bruce Dunn)
Subject: Citizen of the Galaxy ?

The following note is from the July 1990 issue of  "Spaceflight", which is
received  monthly by members of the British Interplanetary Society.  For
information on joining the society and receiving this excellent magazine,
contact the British Interplanetary Society at 27/29 South Lambeth Road, London,
SW8 1SZ, England.

(begin quote)

Women Cosmonauts Discussed

     The Soviet Union tried to recruit a husband and wife team to fly a long
duration mission in space, according to Aleksandr Aleksandrov, civilian
cosmonaut training manager.
     Aleksandrov said that the notion of flying mixed crews on long duration
flights raised "moral and ethical problems".  Aleksandrov did not rule out
short duration flights involving mixed crews, however, citing the American
Shuttle as an example of such crews.
     The experienced cosmonaut gave no information about the date of the
recruitment plan for the married couple.

[end quote)


     If the Soviet Union is serious about trying to get a married couple to fly
together for long periods in the Mir space station,  they presumably will make
some arrangements for them to have occasional privacy for sex.   Think of the
potential public relations aspect - the Soviet Union might not have been first
to the moon, but could have the first  country to have a citizen who was
conceived in space!

--
Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    [e-mail]

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