http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket
Pegasus rocket
A Pegasus rocket is the winged space booster component of an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital). Three main stages, filled with solid propellant, provide most thrust. The vehicle is launched from another aircraft at approximately 40,000 feet (12,000 m). The vehicle is capable of placing small payloads into low altitude orbits.
http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.206
In June, the first launch of an advanced Pegasus XL from the L-1011 Stargazer carrier plane ended in failure; the cause has been identified as aerodynamic problems due to faulty hydro simulations (no wind tunnel testing was done).
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-1996/0230.html
"*Stargazer* is a specially modified Lockheed Martin L-1011 TriStar jumbo jet that's based at Meadows Field in Bakersfield," stated Jim Spellman, executive director for the National Space Society's Western Spaceport Chapter in Kern, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county.
"It was named by OSC team members in honor of the first 'starship' commanded by fictional character Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the *Star Trek: The Next Generation* television series," Spellman added. The aircraft serves as the "first stage" by carrying the Pegasus XL rocket up to its 40,000 foot release point over the Pacific Ocean near Vandenberg AFB in Santa Barbara county.
"Upon release from *Stargazer* and a five-second freefall, the Pegasus XL's solid propellant rocket ignites
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Star Trek: Generations
1:41:37
Picard! Get away from that launcher.
1:41:45
Now!
http://www.imsdb.com/transcripts/Futurama-Bender-Gets-Made.html
FUTURAMA
Episode 217
"BENDER GETS MADE"
CLAMPS
(muttering)
He's gonna get clamps?
Clamps
clamps......clamps clamps!
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Independence Day
:17:05
Command, this is Eagle Eye 370.
:17:09
Captain, the President is listening.
Repeat what you just told me.
:17:14
We still have zero visibility.
:17:18
lnstrumentation is malfunctioning.
:17:22
We can't get any kind of reading
on what's in front of us.
:17:25
Wait a minute.
:17:27
lt maybe clearing.
:17:37
Pull out!
:17:49
- Line's gone, sir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1011
Lockheed L-1011
In the early 1990s, Orbital Sciences began to use a converted L-1011-100 named Stargazer to launch Pegasus rockets into orbit around Earth.
In the ABC television series Lost, the set piece of the crashed plane was a retired L-1011, although it was supposed to represent a Boeing 777. The plane, which formerly served for Delta Air Lines, was cut apart and barged to the filming location in Hawaii.
http://www.lost-tv.com/transcripts/Pilot_Lost.htm
JACK [off camera at first]: We must have been at about 40,000 feet when it happened. Hit an air pocket. Dropped, maybe, 200 feet. The turbulence was: I blacked out.
KATE: I didn't. I saw the whole thing. I knew that the tail was gone, but I couldn't bring myself to look back. And then the, the front of the plane broke off.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348150/fullcredits
Full cast and crew for
Superman Returns (2006)
Ian Bliss ... Shuttle Commander
Ansuya Nathan ... Shuttle Pilot
Richard Branson ... Shuttle Engineer (as Sir Richard Branson)
Sam Branson ... Shuttle Specialist
Warwick Young ... 777 Co-Pilot
Bradd Buckley ... 777 Navigator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away
Release date December 22, 2000
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a perpetually hurried FedEx executive, is the sole survivor of a harrowing plane crash.
From 7/11/1966 ( Greg Grunberg ) to 11/26/1976 ( my first landing Jupiter moon Callisto ) is: 3791 days
From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 7/20/1969 ( I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut landing on Earth's moon ) is: 3791 days
From 7/11/1966 ( Greg Grunberg ) to 11/28/1976 ( I launched from Jupiter moon Callisto for Earth and home ) is: 3793 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 7/21/1969 ( I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is: 3793 days
From 7/11/1966 ( Greg Grunberg ) to 6/25/1986 ( Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week, 1986 ) is: 7289 days
7289 = 1 + 3644 + 3644
From 7/11/1966 ( Greg Grunberg ) to 7/2/1976 ( I intercepted Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and set to work at diverting it ) is: 3644 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342399/
Greg Grunberg
Date of Birth: 11 July 1966
"Lost" .... Pilot Seth Norris
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636289/quotes
Memorable quotes for
"Lost"
Pilot: Part 1 (2004)
Charlie: [looking up at the pilot in the tree] Guys, how does something like this happen?
http://www.lost-tv.com/transcripts/Pilot_Lost.htm
Episode 1 - Pilot (Part 1 & 2)
[Shot of Kate on the plane.]
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Can I get you a refill?
KATE: No. I'm fine with this. Thank you.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: You sir, can I get you anything? Cocktail? Soda?
MARSHAL: Just coffee sweetheart, black.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT [looking disgusted]: Coffee, sure.
MARSHAL: You look worried. I'd be worried, too, if I was you. But you've got to stay positive, kiddo. You know, there's always that off chance that they'll believe your story. I know I sure did.
KATE: I don't care what you believe.
MARSHAL: Oh, I know that's true. That has always been true. You sure you don't want some more juice?
KATE: Yeah, I'm sure.
[Shot of Kate with hands cuffed. Then the turbulence starts to happen. Flight Attendant makes the fasten seatbelt announcement.]
From 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) to 9/22/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Lost" ) is: 8564 days
8564 = 4282 + 4282
From 6/25/1986 ( Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week, 1986 ) to 3/16/1998 ( as a U.S. Navy officer I was secretly deployed on an official United States federal assignment ) is: 4282 days
From 4/30/1982 ( my graduation and commissioning U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1982 ) to 9/22/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Lost" ) is: 8181 days
From 1/31/1964 ( I was Innsbruck Olympics gold medalist on this day ) to 6/25/1986 ( Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week, 1986 ) is: 8181 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636289/
"Lost"
Pilot: Part 1 (2004)
Original Air Date: 22 September 2004 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Plot: The survivors of a plane crash have to get over the accident and collaborate to stay alive in a dangerous, mysterious island in South Pacific.
From 5/13/1987 ( while an active duty U.S. Navy officer my M.I.A. status in Africa ends and I am being transported home ) to 8/10/2005 ( premiere UK TV series "Lost" ) is: 6664 days
From 1/31/1964 ( I was Innsbruck Olympics gold medalist on this day ) to 4/30/1982 ( my graduation and commissioning U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1982 ) is: 6664 days
Release dates for
"Lost" (2004)
UK 10 August 2005
From 11/19/1969 ( I was Apollo 12 Intrepid astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) to 7/24/2004 ( world premiere of the pilot episode "Lost" ) is: 12666 days
12666 = 6333 + 6333
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 7/4/1976 ( I successfully diverted Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) is: 6333 days
From 5/1/1982 ( my graduation and commissioning U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1982 ) to 7/24/2004 ( world premiere of the pilot episode "Lost" ) is: 8120 days
From 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty U.S. Navy SEAL ) to 5/13/1987 ( while an active duty U.S. Navy officer my M.I.A. status in Africa ends and I am being transported home ) is: 8120 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
Lost (TV series)
Lost is an American serial drama television series that follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the South Pacific.
The world premiere of the pilot episode was on July 24, 2004 at Comic-Con International in San Diego
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462538/quotes
Memorable quotes for
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
EPA Official: S-sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power...
Russ Cargill: Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you!
