These people might be selected for awards and positions because they connect to me somehow - to weave them into the tapestry of my life - because the notion is that the intelligence of these people and the bravery of these people selected would not even be observed if not for the comet I destroyed in 1976. The notion is that bravery and intelligence would have become extinct on this planet if I had not been successful in my mission in 1976. And I think a pivotal decision of that event was when I decided to continue traveling to the comet instead of returning for repairs. If I had returned for repaired and then started out again afterwards to intercept the comet, it would have been much closer to Earth. I don't think we knew that the 4-B41's thermonuclear bombs were only going to fragment the comet instead of obliterating it. If the fragments had been closer, one or all of them would have still impacted the Earth. I think we were surprised to see that the bombs only fragmented it. It was only because I hit it so far out that the fragments were deflected enough to miss the planet.
Sandra Day O’Connor recently retired after being the first woman to serve as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on 7/7/81, which was about 6 months after he took office as President. The period 3/3/81 to 7/7/81 was precisely 18 weeks. The period of 4/14/81 to 7/7/81 was precisely 12 weeks. Dividing 12 by 18 produces a result of 2/3's.
The date difference of 3/26/40 and 7/13/40, which was Sandra Day O'Connor's birth and Patrick Stewart's birth, respectively, was 3762 days. The date difference of 3/3/59 and 7/20/69 was 3792 days. There is a difference of 30 days in those two time periods. That first time period represents how old she was when Patrick Stewart was born. The second period represents how old I was when I think I landed on the Earth’s moon with Apollo 11. The time periods are virtually the same.
Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated by President Reagan to succeed a Justice that was retiring from the Supreme Court that year: Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.
I found it interesting, among other clues, that space shuttle flights STS-8 and STS-41-D launched and returned on the same day one year apart, in 1983 and 1984, respectively. The 8/30 launch date is precisely 5.9 months after 3/3. One detail that piqued my curiosity is that STS-8 was the 3rd flight of the 3rd year that shuttles had been going into space. It was also the 3rd flight of the Challenger orbiter vehicle. So the 3rd flight of Challenger was the 3rd flight of the 3rd year. I don’t know why the triple-3’s come up. I can see the 2-three's, because of March 3rd. I guess it's because of my grandson status, where grandchild represents 3 levels. If I have this figured out correctly, I am the grandson of a former President of the U.S. on one side of the family and the grandson of the Queen of Great Britain, et. al., on the other side of the family.
As I puzzled over STS-8, I began to think it is an anchor to my first experience flying a jet aircraft. I have been thinking for a while that my first flight occurred in 1967, but I couldn’t even begin to guess at the precise date. As I puzzled more over this, I realized that for most of the calendar year 1967, I was 8 years old. The year 1967 is also featured prominently in my symbolic “memories” because my first pickup truck was a red 1967 Ford. It was the “memory” that got me started to thinking that I used to be a pilot and I think that pickup represented the F-16 Fighting Falcon. My second pickup was a blue 1967 Chevrolet and I think that “memory” represents my assignments as an F-14 Tomcat pilot and an F-18 Hornet pilot.
The period of 3/3/59 to 8/30/83, the launch date of STS-8, was 8947 days. Dividing 8947 by 3 equals 2982.33. The date difference of 3/3/59 and 5/1/67 was 2982 days. Maybe that was the day of my first flight in a jet aircraft. The date difference of 3/3/67, my 8th birthday, and 5/1/67 was 59 days.
The commander of STS-8 graduated college in 1959 and his first assignment as a pilot in the U.S. Navy was to fly the F-8 Crusader with Fighter Squadron 33. The pilot of STS-8 became a U.S. Navy pilot in May 1967 after he went on active duty in the Navy in September 1965. I was born in 1959, on 3/3, I believe I first flew a jet at 8 years old in May 1967 and I started Princeton University in September 1965.
Another member of the crew of STS-8 was Guion Bluford, the first African-American in space. The date difference of his birthday, 11/22/1942, and 5/1/1967 was 8927 days. Dividing 8927 by 3 and multiplying by 2 is 5951.33 days. The date difference of 11/22/42 and 3/3/59 was 5945 days. That means of the period between his birth and the day I think I first flew a jet at the age of 8 years, my birth date was practically 2/3's of the way through that period.
Guion "Guy" Bluford, Junior (born November 22, 1942) is a retired Colonel, from the United States Air Force and a former NASA Astronaut. He participated in four flights of Space Shuttle between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-8, Bluford became the first African American in space.
Another astronaut on STS-8 was William Thornton. His birth date indicates that 4/14/77 was his 48th birthday. The flight STS-48 occurred in 1983, which was 6 years after 1977, the year I believe I returned to Earth from my mission to the outer solar system. Dividing 48 by 6 equals 8.
Also on STS-8 was Dale Gardner. I couldn't find any connection to 5/1/67, but there is a connection to Apollo 11. The date difference of his birth, 11/8/1948, and 7/21/1969 is 7561 days. Dividing 7561 by 2 equals 3780.5 days. The date difference of Gardner’s birth and my birth was 3768 days. That means my birth was virtually at the mid-point between his birth and when I think I stepped onto Earth’s moon with Apollo 11.
The space shuttle flight before STS-8 was the flight STS-7, which launched on 6/18/83 and marked the first time an American woman had gone into space. The mid-point of her birth date of 5/26/51 and the 11/11/66 launch of Gemini 12, what I think was my first flight into space, was less than a month before my birth date. The date difference of 5/26/51 and 3/3/59 was 2838 days. The date difference of 3/3/59 and 11/11/66 was 2810 days. I calculated that the mid-point between her birth and Gemini 12 was 2/16/59 and that mid-point was only 15 days before my birth.
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is a former astronaut and became the first American woman to reach outer space, in 1983.
There's a pattern of the first Japanese astronaut into space and my theoretical visit to Mars. He was on STS-47 and the pattern is in the period of his birth, 1/29/48 and 1/21/76, which was the date I think I landed on Mars. The launch of Gemini 12 is to being the 2/3's of that period between 1/29/48 and 1/21/76. I believe that Gemini 12 was my first flight into space.
The date difference of 1/29/48 to 11/11/66 is 6861 days.
The date difference of 1/29/48 to 1/21/76 was 10219 days.
Dividing 6861 by 10219 equals 0.67
I have been writing that I think I started Princeton University on 9/2/65 at the age of 6.5 years. I was reviewing the shuttle flight STS-65 and further reviewing the biography of Chiaki Mukai. As a member of the crew of STS-65, she was the first female astronaut from Japan to go into space. The mid-point between her birthday of 5/6/52 and 9/2/65 was 1/3/59. From 1/3/59, 59 days later was 3/3/59, the day I was born.
Chiaki Mukai (Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952) (M.D., Ph.D.) is a JAXA astronaut (Payload Specialist).
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She flew aboard STS-65 in 1994 and STS-95 in 1998. She is the first Japanese woman to fly in space, and the first Japanese astronaut to fly twice.
Her second flight was on STS-95. That shuttle launched on 10/29/98, which was 33 years, 58 days, after 9/2/65.
STS-95 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle Discovery in November 1998. It was the second space flight of John Glenn, who broke the record for oldest person to go into space. Pedro Duque became the first Spaniard in space.
This day would have been 33 years, 59 days, after 9/2/65.
On Friday, October 30, 1998, 9:00 a.m. CST, STS-95 MCC Status Report # 3 reports:
Discovery's seven astronauts began their first full day in space at 7:45 a.m. Central time today when the crew was awakened to the sounds of Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World," played for Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski from his wife, Gail. Discovery's astronauts will conduct a full complement of scientific experiments today supporting wide-ranging activities, from the release of a small communications satellite to the study of the behavior of materials at an atomic level.
How I miss going out riding my Litespeed bicycle on that trail in Redmond. Also that 6-miles of jogging I used to do along that trail; I miss that a lot.
