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Manned Space Log 1.0 (c) 1988 by Gene Heitman

Synopsis

Manned Space Log is an AmigaBASIC program that presents information on the
man-related space missions of the United States and the Soviet Union.  This
PAKed file contains the following:  SpaceLog1.0, SpaceLog1.0.info, SLMissions,
SLMissions.info, and SpaceLog.doc.  SpaceLog1.0 requires that AmigaBASIC be in
the same directory as SpaceLog1.0 and SLMissions (and their associated .info
files).

Contents

I   - Explanation
II  - Examples
III - Directions
IV  - Launch Sites
V   - Soviet Launch Vehicle Designations
VI  - Sources
VII - Space-Related Organizations

I   - Explanation And Examples

The Manned Space Log was put together using an AmigaBASIC program written for
the Commodore Amiga 500 personal computer with 512K RAM and equipped with a
Commodore Amiga 1010 3.5" external disk drive.  It uses the AmigaBASIC 640 X 200
pixel default screen for its display.

The Manned Space Log uses an external file that contains all of the man-related
space missions for the United States and the Soviet Union from 1957 to the
present.  The file (SLMissions) contains over 330 space missions, listed in
chronological order, which were related to the development of manned space
flight.

For each mission the following data is given:  mission name, launching nation,
launch date, launch site, launch vehicle, payload weight in pounds, orbital
period in minutes (total flight time for suborbital missions), orbital perigee
in statute miles, orbital apogee in statute miles, orbital inclination in
degrees, and remarks.

This program is being released as freeware (freeware being where the program is
freely distributable but the copyright remains with the original author) but if
you feel the urge send me some money (cash, travelers checks, loose change,
personal checks, no credit cards) I won't turn it down.

I intend to release future versions of this program that will support printing
output, etc.  Anyone who has comments or suggestions for improvements should
contact the author via any of the means listed below.

U.S. Mail:  Gene Heitman, 513 Selma Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63119
Telephone:  [phone]
CompuServe:  76317,206
PeopleLink:  geneh


II  - Examples

Example 1:

Mission # 35
MERCURY-ATLAS 6     USA  02/20/62  ETR       ATLAS D             2987 LBS
88.5 MIN  100 MI    163 MI    32.5 DEG  JOHN GLENN ORBITS EARTH 3 TIMES

On February 20, 1962, the United States launched Mercury-Atlas 6 from the
Eastern Test Range.  Atop the Atlas D booster was astronaut John Glenn inside
his 2987-pound Mercury capsule.  The spaceraft was inserted into an orbit
inclined 32.5 degrees from the equator and with an 88.5 minute orbital period.
The perigee of the orbit was 100 statute miles and the apogee was 163 statute
miles.  John Glenn completed three orbits before returning to Earth.

Example 2:

Mission # 39
X-15 NO 3 FLIGHT 7  USA  07/17/62  EAFB      X-15 NO 3           34000 LBS
11 MIN    0 MI      59 MI     - DEG     BOB WHITE ON 1ST X-15 SPACEFLIGHT

On July 17, 1962, X-15 No 3 flew at Edwards Air Force Base on its seventh
mission.  The 34000-pound vehicle successfully completed a suborbital flight 11
minutes long during which Bob White became the first X-15 pilot to go above 50
statute miles and thereby earn astronaut wings from the U.S. Air Force.  Bob
White achieved a maximum altitude of over 59 miles during the flight.

Example 3:

Mission # 172
-                   USSR 06/24/71  TYURATAM  G-1-E               - LBS
1 MIN     0 MI      7 MI      - DEG     SUPER BOOSTER FAILURE-UNMANNED

On June 24, 1971, the Soviet Union attempted a test launch of their G-1-E, a
Saturn V-class booster, from the Tyuratam launch complex.  Approximately one
minute into the flight the booster exploded after reaching an altitude of seven
miles.  The unmanned booster carried a payload of unknown weight.


III - Directions

To start the space log program click twice on the SpaceLog1.0 icon.  After
AmigaBASIC is loaded the program itself will load.  When the program begins to
run it will display the title and ask you to wait while it loads the data on the
man-related missions.  The data file necessary to run this program is called
"SLMissions" and contains over 330 missions for the USA and the USSR.  After the
data is loaded the computer will ask you to press the right mouse button for the
program menu.  The menu choices are shown below.

Change File        List Missions       Show Totals         Quit
Add New Mission    All Missions        Vehicle Table       Quit SpaceLog
Change Mission     By Mission          Annual Table
Delete Mission     By Nation           Annual Graph
Save Changes       By Date
                   By Site
                   By Vehicle

After you make your choice from the program menu the following will happen:

Change File

Add New Mission - If you select this you will be asked to enter eleven different
fields of data for the new mission.  If you do not know the field it is asking
for just enter a "-" (minus sign) instead.

Mission - name of the mission, must be no longer than 19 characters
Nation - nation that launched the mission, must be either "USA" or "USSR"
Date - launch date of the mission, must be of format MM/DD/YY, i.e. April 12th
   in 1981 is 04/12/81
Site - launch site, must be no longer than 8 characters (see Section IV for
   launch site abbreviations)
Vehicle - launch vehicle used, must be no longer than 18 characters
Weight (LBS) - weight of mission in pounds, must be no more than 6 digits
   without a decimal point and rounded off to the nearest pound
Period (MIN) - orbital period in minutes, for suborbital flights it is total
   flight time, must be no more than 5 places including decimal point, rounded
   off to the nearest tenth of a minute
Perigee (MI) - orbital perigee in statute miles, for suborbital flights it is
   zero, must be no more than 5 digits without a decimal point, rounded off to
   nearest mile
Apogee (MI) - orbital apogee in statute miles, for suborbital flights it is the
   maximum altitude reached, must be no more than 5 digits without a decimal
   point, rounded off to the nearest mile
Inclination (DEG) - orbital inclination in degrees, for suborbital flights it is
   a "-", no more than 5 places with decimal point, rounded off to nearest tenth
   of a degree
Remarks - special remarks about the mission, must be no longer than 37
   characters

After you enter the mission it will automatically be put in the correct
chronological order in relation to the other missions.  There can be no more
than 360 missions in the data file.  Any additions to the file do not become
permanent until the file is saved to disk.  After the addition is put in the
correct order the program will tell you to return to the menu.

Change Mission - To change a mission you must know its mission number.  After
you enter the mission number the program will display the data for that mission
and ask you which of the eleven fields to change.  The program will then show
the field you are replacing and ask for the new field.  The changes you make are
not permanent until the file is saved to disk.  After the program has made the
change it will tell you to return to the menu.

Delete Mission - To delete a mission you must know its mission number.  The
program will ask you which mission number you want to delete.  The data for that
mission will be displayed and you will be asked if this is the correct mission.
Any deletions you make will not be permanent until the mission file is saved to
disk.  After the mission is deleted the program will tell you to return to
the menu.  (Note:  The program marks a mission as deleted by changing its nation
to "X".  If you want to undelete a mission and you know its mission number it is
possible to change the mission nation to "USA" or "USSR" from "X".)

Save Changes - This option will save the mission file currently in memory to the
disk and replace the previous version of "SLMissions".  Up until you actually
save your changes they are only temporary and will be erased when you quit the
program.  The program will tell you to wait until it is done saving the file and
then it will tell you to return to the menu.

List Missions

All Missions - To list all the missions that are possible in chronological order
the program will first ask you for the mission numbers to start and end the list
with.  After you tell the computer where to start and end its listing the
program will display the missions one at a time.  You must hit the space bar to
tell the computer to display the next mission or hit the return key to stop the
listing.  After you hit the return key or reach the end of the listing the
computer will tell you to return to the menu.

By Mission, By Nation, By Date, By Site, By Vehicle - To list missions by
Mission, Nation, Date, Site, or Vehicle is almost exactly the same as listing
all missions.  The only difference is that you can specify which of the 5 fields
you want to search and what the matching field must be.  A special feature is
that if you ask for missions with a Vehicle of "ATLAS" you will get "ATLAS D",
"ATLAS-X259", "ATLAS-AGENA D", and "ATLAS F".  This feature works with all 5
fields that you can search.

Show Totals

Vehicle Table - This option will search through the data file from the beginning
to end and find how many times a launch vehicle was used for a mission, which
nation used the vehicle, and what year it was first used.  The computer will ask
you to wait while it compiles the information and it will then display it as a
table on the screen.  The computer will then tell you to return to the menu.

Annual Table - This option will compile annual mission totals for each nation as
well as the final total for each nation.  It will ask you to wait while it
computes the data which will then be displayed in tabular form on the screen.
The computer will then tell you to return to the menu.

Annual Graph - This option will give you the same data as in the Annual Table
option but it will be presented in a graph with the years as the horizontal axis
and the number of missions per year as the vertical axis.

Quit

Quit SpaceLog - This option will exit the program and return you to AmigaBASIC.


IV  - Launch Sites

United States

ETR - Eastern Test Range:  Launches are from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, both of which are located on the Florida coast.
Site for all American manned launches through the present.  Missions launched
from here include Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, Saturn, ASSET,
FIRE, MOL, etc.

WTR - Western Test Range:  Launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
are mainly for military satellites and ICBM tests.  Space Shuttle missions
needing high-inclination (greater than 57 degrees) orbits were originally
planned to be launched from here before the Challenger accident.  The X-23A
missions were launched from here.

WSMR - White Sands Missile Range:  This site in New Mexico is the Army's main
missile test site and was first established in 1945.  One of the main facilities
is located 40 miles west of El Paso, Texas.  The Apollo launch abort tests using
Little Joe II boosters were done here.

WI - Wallops Island:  NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, located on Wallops Island
off of the coast of Virginia, is mainly used for sounding rocket flights and
Scout launches.  Little Joe, Reentry, and RAM missions were launched from here.

EAFB - Edwards Air Force Base:  This California desert site hosts the Air Force
Flight Test Center and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility where the M2-F2,
HL-10, and X-24B lifting bodies were tested.  It is also used as a shuttle
contingency landing site.  X-15 missions and Space Shuttle approach and landing
tests were conducted here.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Tyuratam - Tyuratam:  Also known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome, this complex east
of the Aral Sea has been used for all Soviet manned missions.  The new Soviet
Energia booster and its shuttle derivative are launched from here.  All Korabl
Sputnik, Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz, Salyut, Progress, and Mir flights have been
launched from here as well.

Kap. Yar - Kapustin Yar:  This site is also known as the Volgograd Station
because it is located south of the city of Volgograd.  The only man-related
launches from this site have been the subscale spaceplane tests.


V   - Soviet Launch Vehicle Designations

There are two main classification methods for Soviet launch vehicle
designations.  The method used in the Manned Space Log is the system developed
by the late Dr. Charles Sheldon of the Congressional Research Service.  The
first letter in the designation indicates the family of related vehicles.
The number is the variant within the family.  Another letter, if present,
shows the use of an additional upper stage.  The other system is used by the
Department of Defense.  The SL in the DOD system stands for "Space Launcher".
No designation in the Sheldon system has been assigned to SL-17 yet.  A
conversion table for the two systems is given below.

Sheldon       DOD       Payloads
A-1           SL-3      Vostok
A-2           SL-4      Voskhod, Soyuz, Progress
A-2-e         SL-6      early lunar probes
C-1           SL-8      Kosmos spaceplanes
D-1           SL-9      Salyut, Mir, Kvant (Proton)
D-1-e         SL-12     lunar probes (Proton)
G-1-e         SL-15     lunar spacecraft
-             SL-17     shuttle and heavy space station? (Energia)


VI  - Sources

The following were used as sources of information in compiling the Manned Space
Log and are recommended for further reading.  Additional information was
obtained from the Satellite Digest which appears regularly in Spaceflight
magazine from the British Interplanetary Society.

Baker, David.  The History of Manned Spaceflight.  New York:  Crown Publishers,
   Inc., 1981.

Bartlett, H. E., J. W. Dean, and A. H. Owen.  ASSET:  Systems Description and
   Evaluation.  Vol. 2.  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio:  Air Force
   Flight Dynamics Laboratory, 1965.

Bilstein, Roger E.  Stages to Saturn:  A Technological History of the
   Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1980.

von Braun, Wernher, and Frederick I. Ordway, III.  History of Rocketry & Space
   Travel.  3rd rev. ed.  New York:  Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.

Brooks, Courtney G., James M. Grimwood, and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr.  Chariots for
   Apollo:  A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1979.

Clark, Phillip S.  Letter to author.  26 May 1986.

Compton, W. David, and Charles D. Benson.  Living and Working in Space:  A
   History of Skylab.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1983.

Ezell, Edward C., and Linda N. Ezell.  The Partnership:  A History of the
   Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1978.

Flight Evaluation Office, Johnson Space Center.  Shuttle Flight Data and
   Inflight Anamoly List.  Revision I.  Houston, Texas:  NASA, 1986.

Foster, Lee R., Jr.  Letter to author.  25 February 1986.

Furniss, Tim.  Manned Spaceflight Log.  London:  Jane's Publishing Company,
   Ltd., 1983.

----------.  Space Flight-The Records.  Enfield, Middlesex, England:  Guinness
   Superlatives, Ltd., 1985.

Gatland, Kenneth, et al.  The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology.  New
   York:  Harmony Books, 1981.

Hacker, Barton C., and James M. Grimwood.  On the Shoulders of Titans:  A
   History of Project Gemini.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1977.

Haeseler, Dietrich.  "Design Features of the Mir Space Station."  Spaceflight,
   28 (1986), 384-385.

----------.  "Maintaining a Space Station."  Spaceflight, 28 (1986), 426-429.

Hallion, Richard P.  On the Frontier:  Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981.
   Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1984.

Johnson, Nicholas L.  The Soviet Year in Space:  1983.  Colorado Springs,
   Colorado:  Teledyne Brown Engineering, 1984.

----------.  The Soviet Year in Space:  1984.  Colorado Springs, Colorado:
   Teledyne Brown Engineering, 1985.

----------.  The Soviet Year in Space:  1985.  Colorado Springs, Colorado:
   Teledyne Brown Engineering, 1986.

----------.  The Soviet Year in Space:  1986.  Colorado Springs, Colorado:
   Teledyne Brown Engineering, 1987.

----------.  The Soviet Year in Space:  1987.  Colorado Springs, Colorado:
   Teledyne Brown Engineering, 1988.

The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Space.  New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company,
   1968.

Newkirk, Dennis.  Letter to author.  1986.

Oberg, James E.  Red Star in Orbit.  New York:  Random House, 1981.

Ritchie, Eleanor H.  Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1976:  A Chronology.
   Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1984.

Shayler, David J., and Rex D. Hall.  The Soviet Cosmonaut Detachment:
   1960-1985.  Vol. 1.  Halesowen, West Midlands, England:  Astro Info Service,
   1985.

Sherman, Madeline W., ed.  TRW Space Log.  Vol. 19.  Redondo Beach, California:
   Electronics and Defense Sector of TRW, 1983.

----------.  TRW Space Log.  Vol. 20.  Redondo Beach, California:  Electronics
   and Defense Sector of TRW, 1984.

Smith, Marcia S.  "Soviet Space Activities."  Spaceweek-St. Louis, St. Louis,
   Missouri.  19 July 1984.

Swenson, Loyd S., Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander.  This New
   Ocean:  A History of Project Mercury.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1966.

Thompson, Tina D., ed.  TRW Space Log.  Vol. 21.  Redondo Beach, California:
   Electronics and Defense Sector of TRW, 1986.

U.S. Cong.  Office of Technology Assessment.  Salyut:  Soviet Steps Toward
   Permanent Human Presence in Space-A Technical Memorandum.  Washington, D.C.:
   GPO, 1983.

----------.  U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Space-A Technical Memorandum.
   Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1985.

U.S. Cong.  Senate.  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  Soviet
   Space Programs:  1976-80 Supporting Facilities and Launch Vehicles, Political
   Goals and Purposes, International Cooperation in Space, Administration,
   Resource Burden, Future Outlook.  Pt. 1.  97th Cong., 2d sess.  Washington,
   D.C.:  GPO, 1982.

----------.  Soviet Space Programs:  1976-80 (with supplementary data through
   1983) Manned Space Programs and Space Life Sciences.  Pt. 2.  98th Cong., 2d
   sess.  Washington, D.C.:  GPO, 1984.

----------.  Soviet Space Programs:  1976-80 (with supplementary data through
   1983) Unmanned Space Activities.  Pt. 3.  99th Cong., 1st sess.  Washington,
   D.C.:  GPO, 1985.

Yenne, Bill.  The Encyclopedia of US Spacecraft.  New York:  Exeter Books, 1985.

Young, Dick.  Letter to author.  24 June 1986.


VII - Space-Related Organizations

If you are interested in supporting the exploration and development of space,
there are several organizations of people who share an interest in space.  I
belong to both of the space-related organizations listed below.  They both have
excellent magazines which helped me in my research for this program.  I highly
recommend that you join either or both of them.

The British Interplanetary Society - This organization was founded in 1933 and
is still going strong.  The society publishes two magazines, Spaceflight
and Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, which are very good.  Annual
dues are 22 British pounds ($40 U.S.) and includes 12 issues of Spaceflight.
For more information write:  The British Interplanetary Society, 27/29 South
Lambeth Rd., London SW8 1SZ, England.

The National Space Society - Founded in 1987 by the merger of the former
National Space Institute and the L-5 Society.  Both previous organizations were
founded in the mid-1970s.  NSS publishes Space World magazine which is also
a very nice magazine.  Annual dues are $30 U.S. and includes 12 issues of Space
World.  NSS also runs the Mir Watch and Space Hotline and has an annual Space
Development Conference.  For more information call [phone] or write:
National Space Society, 922 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.