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Dennis Tito
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Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.
Spaceflight
See also: ISS EP-1
In a project first arranged by MirCorp, Tito was accepted by the Russian Federal Space Agency as a candidate for a commercial spaceflight. Tito met criticism from NASA before the launch, primarily from Daniel Goldin, at that time the Administrator of NASA, who considered it inappropriate for a tourist to take a ride into space. MirCorp, Goldin and Tito are profiled in the documentary film, Orphans of Apollo. When Tito arrived at the Johnson Space Center for additional training on the American portion of the ISS, Robert D. Cabana, NASA manager, sent Tito and his two fellow cosmonauts home, stating "...We will not be able to begin training, because we are not willing to train with Dennis Tito."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/21/07 9:02 PM
"Lost tourist." That reinforces my thoughts lately about a story I told the North Vietnamese one of the times they caught me.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/21/07 10:18 PM
Where was that place I "remember" playing in an old military tank, maybe it was a Sherman tank. Was that at Rich Mountain outside Mena, AR?
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/21/07 10:44 PM
I can't think of a better literary device than equivocation.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 January 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 10:29 PM Friday, March 23, 2007
I made some calculations about the height and noted that in my journal. I also noted in my journal about the average height of a 10 year and compared that to the illustrations I made in that one Apollo 11 photo. Based on that rough measurement of the photo, I determined that one astronaut is about 1 foot taller than the other one. I'll note some other clues in my next blog post. As it is now, I am about average height, but I wonder if I would have grown a few more inches if I had led a normal life, so I might have been taller than other 10 year olds. That 530 days in space starting when I was 16 years old may have had some influence on my height, but I think there might have been a greater reason. I have been thinking for a while that I had some kind of eating disorder for a long time. It’s now more of just a shadow of something that probably bothered me a lot in the past before that whole string of memories was suppressed. My hunch is that it started when I was a captive in Vietnam. My hunch is also that I was held captive over two periods. The first time they captured me, I pretended to be a regular kid - separated and lost from my family who were there as tourist’s - and they threw me in with other civilians into some kind of re-education camp. I led a revolt and many of us escaped.
My theory is I went back to school at Princeton University and then returned to Vietnam the following summer. They captured me again, and knowing who I was then, they threw me in with U.S. Navy pilots at Hoa Loa Prison, the so-called Hanoi Hilton.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 March 2007 excerpt ends]
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SPACE.COM
First Space Tourist: How a U.S. Millionaire Bought a Ticket to Orbit
Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer April 27, 2011 06:00am ET
If the era of commercial spaceflight has a birthday, it's April 28, 2001.
On that date, American businessman Dennis Tito became history's first space tourist, paying his own way to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Forty years to the month after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, Tito showed that there was money to be made in human spaceflight -- potentially lots of money, as he plunked down a reported $20 million for his flight.
Now, 10 years later, the industry looks set to heat up, with multiple firms jockeying for position in a commercial space race that is arguably already under way.
"The private spaceflight industry did start with Dennis' flight," said Tom Shelley, president of Space Adventures, the Virginia-based company that brokered Tito's eight-day mission with Russia's Federal Space Agency and has sent a total of seven people on eight orbital flights since 2001. "That was the first real milestone and demonstrated to a lot of people that there was a market for private citizens to go to space." [Photos: The World's First Space Tourists]
A lifelong dream, nearly deferred
Tito made his millions in the world of finance. But he was once an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and has been a space enthusiast since he was a teenager.
"My dream was to fly in space before I die," Tito said. "And I basically came up with that lifelong goal around the time of Yuri Gagarin's flight."
In early 2000, Tito started working toward making his dream a reality. He would turn 60 later that year, and he felt like his chances of getting into space were rapidly running out. The oldest rookie spaceflyer at the time, after all, was NASA astronaut Deke Slayton, who first made it to orbit in 1975 at the age of 51.
"So I was gettting over the hill, I thought," Tito told SPACE.com. "So I said, 'It's now or never.'"
In June 2000, Tito signed a deal with a company called MirCorp to ride a Soyuz to Russia's Mir space station. However, those plans fell through in December of that year, when Russia announced that it planned to deorbit the aging station. (Mir burned up in Earth's atmosphere in March 2001.)
Undeterred, Tito soon made other arrangements. He signed on with Space Adventures, which brokered an April 2001 flight to the International Space Station, again on a Soyuz. The station was a relatively new project at the time, having just begun assembly operations in November 1998.
NASA makes it tough
The Russians agreed to take Tito's money and offer him a seat on a Soyuz. But the other station partners -- notably NASA and space agencies from Canada, Europe and Japan -- were not so thrilled. They informed Russia that they "recommended against" Tito's mission.
NASA officials said at the time that they didn't object in principle to the presence of a paying customer aboard the orbiting lab. They just didn't think Tito's training would be sufficient by April, which they said was a time of complex and crucial station operations.
"During this period, the presence of a nonprofessional crewmember who is untrained on all critical station systems, is unable to respond and assist in any contingency situation which may arise, and who would require constant supervision, would add a significant burden to the Expedition and detract from the overall safety of the International Space Station," reads a NASA press release from March 19, 2001.
Tito thinks his age may also have been a factor.
"If you're older, heart attacks happen, strokes happen, whatever," he said. "And what are they going to do, transport a corpse back to Earth? That would be very embarrassing for them, and traumatic."
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Los Angeles Times
Russia Welcomes U.S. 'Space Tourist' as a Hero
May 07, 2001 JOHN DANISZEWSKI TIMES STAFF WRITER
MOSCOW — Dennis Tito returned to a hero's welcome--just not from his own country.
A lone American flag hastily put up at Chkalovsky military airport represented the United States on Sunday at the welcoming ceremony for the world's first "space tourist."
No representative of NASA or the U.S. government was on hand for the brief formal procedure near here that officially concluded the first individually paid sightseeing trip to outer space.
But if Tito, the Los Angeles multimillionaire who pressed ahead with his trip to the International Space Station despite NASA's objections, felt snubbed, he was not showing it.
"Fan-tas-tic!" he shouted before being ushered into the cosmonauts' rehabilitation center by a burly guard. He was to undergo an examination Sunday evening at Star City, the cosmonaut training facility 20 miles northeast of the capital that was built to glorify the Russian space program.
Tito, who not only spent $20 million of his own money but also underwent 900 hours of cosmonaut training, never allowed himself to be discouraged by the political battles swirling around him. It had been worth every minute, he said.
"It was paradise. I just came back from paradise," he told a swarm of journalists earlier Sunday after he was pulled from the Soyuz TM-31 landing capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan, the former Soviet republic southeast of here, at 9:41 a.m. Moscow time.
Russian spacecraft fall on solid ground using parachutes and a last-moment burn of the capsule's rockets to cushion the impact. Tito became the first American to try the system. "Soft landing," he said.
Immediately upon landing, Tito was pale and perspiring and was too disoriented to successfully juggle apples given him by his Kazakh greeters in a traditional goodwill gesture. But he was smiling broadly, and the elation stayed with him all the way to Moscow.
He was first flown with his two crew mates to the Kazakh capital, Astana, for a welcoming ceremony during which he was embraced by Kazakh President Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. The three men then flew on to Star City, where Tito had undergone the months of preparation for his flight.
About 150 military and space officials and a scattering of celebrities--including the popular Russian pop group Na-Na--were on hand to welcome them at the military airport. A brass band played two stirring marches, and flight commander Talgat Musabayev gave a brief, formal report of a successful mission and accepted congratulations from his superiors. The U.S. flag, hanging next to Russia's, was struck as soon as Tito departed the scene.
Tito remained in Star City on Sunday night, making phone calls to family and friends and arranging to return to the U.S. on Saturday, his personal spokeswoman, Kim Shepherd, said from Chicago.
She said Tito had told her that he enjoyed space "even more than he'd imagined."
"He can hardly wait to share his experience with other people. He is very anxious to tell people about it and help others to achieve their dreams," she said.
He also reported no ill health effects, she said. "He said that he'd heard that space flight makes you feel younger, and he did."
NASA, the main financier of the 16-nation International Space Station, acceded to Tito's flight reluctantly after it became plain that Russia was not going to back down from its plan to fly him to the Russian-built section of the ISS.
The ISS began functioning late last year and is still under construction. U.S. space officials said having a nonprofessional on the station at this stage would be distracting and potentially dangerous, and they urged Russia to push back Tito's ride until at least October.
Before finally agreeing that he could go, NASA insisted that Tito state in writing that he would pay for any damages he caused on board and said he could not enter the U.S. section of the station unescorted. Last week, NASA head Daniel S. Goldin also threatened to bill the Russian space program for the extra "baby-sitting" it caused by bringing Tito aboard.
With Tito safely back and the space station apparently none the worse for his visit, the Russians put a definite we-told-you-so spin on the dispute.
The episode seemed to reinflate Russia's space bravado, which was shrunk somewhat by budgetary cutbacks throughout the 1990s that ended in the deliberate sinking of the 15-year-old Mir space station in the Pacific earlier this year.
Lt. Gen. Valery Grin, deputy commander in chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces and head of the Russian space flights commission, said NASA's objections "added a lot of gray hairs" to his head but "proved totally groundless" in the end.
"You can call him a tourist, but he was so well trained that he could replace both the engineer and commander of the flight if needed," Grin added.
His Russian colleagues also did not stint on compliments for Tito.
"He showed the world what a real dream is and what it takes to achieve it," said cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev, the backup commander of Tito's flight, who said he could see in the hours before the flight the strain Tito was under.
Afanasyev said he would never forget the look on Tito's face when he was finally circling the globe: "The entire world could see it was the smile of the happiest man on Earth, or rather, in space."
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Soyuz 2 Taxi Flight Crew
The Soyuz 2 Taxi Flight was the second flight of a Soyuz spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station, or ISS. However, this was the first crew to launch aboard a new Soyuz vehicle and return aboard a previously docked Soyuz. Russian flight rules dictate that a Soyuz remains docked to the ISS and replaced by a fresh Soyuz every six months. Should the station's resident crew encounter an emergency requiring them to disembark the orbital outpost, they would enter the Soyuz lifeboat, undock from the station and de-orbit for a landing on Earth. The Russian spacecraft is certified to remain in space no longer than six months due to the degradation of its propellant over time and space radiation hazards to the vehicle.
Soyuz Commander Talgat Musabayev, Flight Engineer Yury Baturin -- both cosmonauts representing Rosaviakosmos -- and American Space Flight Participant Dennis Tito blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:37 a.m. CDT (0737 GMT) on April 28, 2001. They docked to the station two days later on April 30, 2001, at 2:58 a.m. CDT (0758 GMT) to begin nearly eight days of docked operations with the Expedition Two crew. The crews transferred gear and equipment from the new Soyuz to the orbital outpost, as well as into the older Soyuz spacecraft in which the visiting crew would return home.
Wrapping up its visit to the International Space Station, the three-member crew, which included the first paying visitor on a space mission, undocked from the aft docking port of the Zvezda Service Module in the Soyuz TM-31 on May 6, 2001, at 9:21 p.m. CDT
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Chronology of Notable Astronauts
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Chronology of notable astronauts
name mission date accomplishment
Dennis Tito Soyuz TM-32/ISS/ Soyuz TM-31 April 28–May 6, 2001 first space tourist
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Catch-22 (1973 TV Movie)
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US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Written testimony of USSS Director Joseph Clancy for a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing titled “Flying Under the Radar: Securing Washington D.C. Airspace”
Release Date: April 29, 2014
2154 Rayburn House Office Building
Good morning, Chairman Chaffetz, Ranking Member Cummings, and distinguished Members of the Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to be here to discuss the Secret Service’s role within the interagency, National Capital Region (NCR) airspace security effort. The relationships developed over time with the other agencies represented here today -- the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Park Police (Park Police), and the U.S. Capitol Police (Capitol Police) -- are critical to our collective successes in securing protected sites and individuals from airborne threats.
The type of threats the Secret Service must be prepared to confront continuously evolve, as do our measures to defeat them. Threats from small manned and unmanned aircraft systems represent a quickly evolving capability with widening availability to the public. As these capabilities have become available, the Secret Service has worked aggressively with our partners to develop the means necessary for us to successfully carry out our protective mission. This work to better counter existing threats and anticipate future ones will never stop.
For perspective, threats to the White House from the air are not new. On February 17, 1974, Robert Preston, a private in the Army, stole an Army helicopter from Fort Meade, Maryland, and flew it to the White House Complex. He passed over the Executive Mansion and then returned to the south grounds, where he hovered and touched down briefly in proximity to the West Wing. Officers forced the helicopter down on the south grounds with shotgun and submachine gun fire.
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1974 White House helicopter incident
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On February 17, 1974 Robert K. Preston stole a helicopter and landed at the White House.
Incident
At 2 A.M. on February 17, 1974, Robert K. Preston, a United States Army private first class, stole a United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois ("Huey") helicopter from Fort Meade, Maryland, flew it to Washington, D.C. and hovered for six minutes over the White House before descending on the south lawn, about 100 yards from the West Wing. There was no initial attempt from the Executive Protective Service to shoot the helicopter down, and he later took off and was chased by two Maryland State Police helicopters. Preston forced one of the police helicopters down through his maneuvering of the helicopter, and then returned to the White House. This time, as he hovered above the south grounds, the Executive Protective Service fired at him with shotguns and submachine guns. Preston was injured slightly, and landed his helicopter.
In a plea bargain, he pled guilty to "wrongful appropriation and breach of the peace," and was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $2,400. This amounted to a six-month sentence, since he had already been in prison for six months at the time. He eventually served two months of hard labor at Fort Riley, Kansas, before being granted a general discharge from the Army for unsuitability.
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HISTORY
November 17, 2011
A History of White House Attacks
By Jennie Cohen
February 17, 1974
Robert Preston, a young Army private who had flunked out of flight training, stole a helicopter from an airfield, flew to the White House and hovered above the south lawn. Secret Service guards unleashed a barrage of gunfire on the unauthorized craft, forcing Preston to land. Slightly injured and clad in fatigues, the hijacker was apprehended and admitted for psychiatric observation.
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Mr. Mallory, I have devoted years of my life honing my considerable intelligence so that I may impart a subject this complex with some lucidity. You may at least do me the courtesy, sir, to *pretend* that you are listening.
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Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945 - 1953
Executive Order 10190 - Prescribing Regulations Relating to New Trials by Courts-Martial and Other Relief in Navy and Coast Guard Cases
December 6, 1950
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 12 of the act of Congress entitled "An Act to unify, consolidate, revise, and codify the Articles of War, the Articles for the Government of the Navy, and the disciplinary laws of the Coast Guard, and to enact and establish a Uniform Code of Military Justice," approved May 5, 1950 (64 Stat. 107; Public Law 506, 81st Congress), I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the application for, and the granting of, new trials by courts-martial and other appropriate relief in cases in the Navy and the Coast Guard with respect to offenses committed during World War II:
1. PETITION; BASIS FOR REMEDY. With respect to all trials by general courts-martial which resulted in a conviction and with respect to any trial which resulted in an approved sentence, including a bad-conduct discharge adjudged by any lesser court-martial for a violation of the Articles for the Government of the Navy or the disciplinary laws of the Coast Guard committed at any time between December 7, 1941, and May 30, 1951, inclusive, an accused may, within one year after final disposition of the case upon initial appellate review or at any time before May 31, 1952, whichever is the later date, petition the Judge Advocate General of the Navy or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, as may be appropriate, to grant a new trial, or to vacate any sentence adjudged and to restore rights, privileges, or property affected by the sentence, and in a proper case to substitute for a dismissal, dishonorable discharge, or bad-conduct discharge previously executed a form of discharge authorized for administrative issuance. Completion of review and of any confirming, approving, or affirming action taken under the Articles for the Government of the Navy or the disciplinary laws of the Coast Guard, or required under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, when it becomes effective or any regulations prescribed under such Articles, laws, or Code shall constitute final disposition of a case upon initial appellate review. Only one such petition may be entertained with regard o any one case. The petition may be submitted either by the accused or by his representative, regardless of whether the accused is in the service or has been separated therefrom. A petition may not be submitted after the death of an accused. A petition for relief under section 12 of the said act of May 5, 1950, shall be acted upon in the department which reviewed the previous trial, except that if the accused is a member of the Coast Guard at the time of his trial and at the time of submission of his petition, the petition shall be acted upon by the department in which the Coast Guard is serving at the time the petition is submitted.
Relief under section 12 of the said act of May 5, 1950, shall be granted only upon good cause shown. Good cause for granting a new trial, for vacation of a sentence, or for other remedy shall be deemed to exist only if, within the discretion of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, as the case may be, all the facts and information before him, including the record of trial, the petition, and other matter presented by the accused, affirmatively establish that an injustice has resulted from the findings or sentence.
2. FORM OF PETITION; PROCEDURE. The petition shall be in writing and signed under oath or affirmation by the accused, or by a person possessing either the power of attorney of the accused for the purpose or the authorization of a court of law to sign the petition as the representative of the accused, and shall be forwarded in triplicate directly to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Washington 25, DC., or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, Washington 25, D.C., as may be appropriate. So far as practicable the petition shall be typewritten with lines double-spaced, and shall contain the following:
(1) The name and serial number of the accused, his address, and the date of trial.
(2) The remedy sought.
(3) The sentence or a description thereof as finally approved or confirmed, together with a statement of any subsequent reduction thereof by clemency or otherwise.
(4) A brief description of any findings or sentence believed unjust.
(5) A full statement of the fact, ruling, or error relied upon as good cause for the remedy south. No fact, ruling, or error other than matters relating to jurisdiction shall be deemed to constitute good cause unless it had a substantial contributing effect upon the findings of guilty or upon the sentence as finally approved.
(6) The affidavit of each person whom the accused expects to present as a witness in the event of a new trial. Each such affidavit should set forth briefly the relevant facts within the personal knowledge of the affiant.
Upon written request and within his discretion, the Judge Advocate General or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, as the case may be, may allow oral argument upon a petition. Any hearing granted shall be conducted under rules prescribed by such officer and the hearing may be before that officer or before an officer or officers designated by him. The Judge Advocate General of the Navy or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, as the case may be, may cause such additional investigation to be made and such additional evidence to be secured as he may deem appropriate.
Action in granting or denying a remedy under section 12 of the said act of May 5, 1950, shall be taken by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department in writing signed in his own hand or by his direction. Whenever appropriate, the action granting a remedy shall be published in appropriate departmental orders.
If a new trial is granted by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department upon the petition of the accused, he shall cause the accused to be brought before a new court convened by an officer possessing authority to convene an appropriate court-martial and designated for the purpose by the Judge Advocate General or the General Counsel. The new trial shall be on the same charges and specifications originally preferred against the accused unless the reasons for retrial are based on defects in the charges or specifications, in which case new charges and specifications shall be prepared correcting the pleading previously objected to, but the accused shall not be tried for any offense of which he was found not guilty by the first court. Upon the granting of a new trial, the proceedings, findings, and sentence relating to the previous trial shall be set aside by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy or the General Counsel of the Treasury Department, as the case may be: Provided, that if the accused has been separated from the service, such proceedings, findings, and sentence shall not be set aside when the new trial is granted but shall be set aside after initial appellate review of the new trial.
The new trial shall be held at such time and place as the convening authority may direct.
The presentation of a petition shall not operate to stay execution of a sentence.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 6, 1950
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Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945 - 1953
Executive Order 10189 - Amendment of Executive Order No. 4601 of March 1, 1927, Prescribing Regulations Pertaining to the Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross
December 6, 1950
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 12 of the act of July 2, 1926, 44 Stat. 789, as amended by section 4 of the act of July 30, 1937, 50 Stat. 549, and in consonance with the act of May 3, 1950, Public Law 501, 81st Congress, it is ordered as follows:
1. Paragraph 8 of Executive Order No. 4601 of March 1, 1927, prescribing rules and regulations pertaining to the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(a) For any act of heroism or extraordinary achievement performed on or before July 2, 1926, the Distinguished Flying Cross shall not be awarded after July 2, 1929, nor unless the recommendation therefor shall have been made on or before July 2, 1928. For any such act of achievement performed subsequent to July 2, 1926, the said decoration shall not be awarded after more than three years from the date of such act or achievement, nor unless the recommendation therefore shall have been made at the time of such act or achievement or within two years thereafter: Provided, that for any such act or achievement performed between December 7, 1941, and September 2, 1945, the said decoration may be awarded not later than May 2, 1952, in any case in which the written recommendation therefor shall have been made on or before May 2, 1951: And provided further, that for any such act or achievement performed during the period commencing September 3, 1945, and ending t twelve o'clock noon, December 31, 1946, the date of the termination of hostilities of World War II, as proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2714 of December 31, 1946 the said decoration may be awarded in any case in which the recommendation therefor shall have been made not later than June 30, 1947.
"(b) In any case in which a recommendation for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross has been lost and such recommendation is alleged to have been made within the applicable period of time prescribed by subdivision (a) of this paragraph, the certificate of an officer or the affidavit of an enlisted man to the effect that the recommendation was made within such applicable period of time and forwarded through official channels, accompanied by a statement of the substance of the recommendation, or preferably a copy thereof, shall be accepted, and the case considered on its merits."
2. Executive Order No. 9615 of September 14, 1945, making certain time limitations imposed by the said paragraph 8 of Executive Order No. 4601 inapplicable to certain cases, is hereby superseded.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 6, 1950
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Commando Cody Season 1 Episode 1
Enemies of the Universe
Aired Saturday 12:30 PM Jul 16, 1955 on NBC
From Republic's press release: "The Ruler, a diabolical scientist who wants to enslave the Solar System, learns of Commando Cody's design for a rocketship that can go anywhere in outer space. He is determined to sabotage Cody's work." Commando Cody is a top secret scientist who wears a mask for security reasons. He receives two new assistants, Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards, that help him develop an atomic powered rocketship. The Interplanetary commission has received a warning from a mad scientist known as Ruler. Cody is named the new sky marshal of the universe in order to combat Ruler's threat. Cody explains that reports of flying saucers are actually reports of Ruler's missiles attempting to land on Earth. Cody develops an cosmic dust blanket that encircles the globe and that will cause any enemy craft to disintegrate before entering earth atmosphere. Ruler fears Cody's abilities and sends agents to sabotage Cody's rocket and learn the secret of the cosmic dust blanket. Cody drives off the agents and finishes his rocket preparing another line of defense against the Ruler.
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http://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-F-Sinclair
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Harry F. Sinclair
American oilman
Harry F. Sinclair, in full Harry Ford Sinclair (born July 6, 1876, Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.—died November 10, 1956, Pasadena, California), American oilman who founded Sinclair Oil Corporation, a major integrated petroleum company of the early and mid-20th century. He also figured in the Teapot Dome Scandal in the 1920s.
Sinclair grew up in Independence, Kansas, and studied pharmacy at the University of Kansas (1897–98). After making an unsuccessful attempt in the drugstore business (1898–1901), he decided to venture into the oil fields, which were in the early phase of their development in the central part of the country. Initially a lease broker, he subsequently became an independent producer of oil wells in Oklahoma and finally entered refining and marketing. In 1916 he consolidated his interests into Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation (later renamed Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation), headquartered in New York City. Within a few years he became a major independent producer with holdings worldwide. During World War I he served on the Council of National Defense, a board that advised on the mobilization of raw materials and industry for the war effort.
In 1922 Albert B. Fall, then secretary of the interior in the Warren G. Harding administration, leased the U.S. Navy’s Teapot Dome oil reserve near Casper, Wyoming, to the Mammoth Oil Company, which had been set up by Sinclair. The lease was given to Mammoth without competitive bidding, and it granted Sinclair exclusive rights to take and dispose of all oil and gas from the reserve. It was later disclosed that Fall had received large cash gifts and no-interest “loans” from Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, another oil producer who had taken out a similar lease with Fall’s approval. A Senate investigation subsequently brought the scandal to light, and the leases were canceled. Sinclair was cited for contempt of the U.S. Senate for refusing to answer certain questions during the investigation. In addition, he and others were indicted and tried for bribery and conspiracy to defraud the government, but Sinclair’s trial was interrupted by a sensational charge that he had hired a detective agency to investigate the jurors with the aim of finding one who might be bribed to vote for acquittal. In a separate trial on this charge, he was convicted for contempt of court. In the resumed conspiracy trial, however, the jury acquitted Sinclair of the major charge, ruling that the government had not proved that the gifts had been given in order to obtain favours for Sinclair. Nevertheless, for contempt of court and of the Senate, he served six and one-half months in prison in 1929.
Sinclair left prison denying all guilt and returned to his oil business, which continued to prosper. During the Great Depression he purchased troubled oil companies, continuing to build a nationwide network of oil fields, pipelines, and refineries. He also sold off assets in Europe as tensions on that continent made the prospect of war likely. His company, renamed the Sinclair Oil Corporation, participated fully in the mobilization of World War II, during which time Sinclair served again on an industrial advisory board. By the time of his retirement in 1949, Sinclair Oil was said to have assets of $1.2 billion, with earnings of $68 million. In 1969 it was merged into Atlantic Richfield Company.
Sinclair was also interested in sports. He was the owner of a stable that raised Thoroughbred horses (one of which won the Kentucky Derby in 1925), and he was one of the organizers of the short-lived Federal League in baseball in 1914–15.
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Boeing
AH-64 APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTER
Historical Snapshot
The AH-64 Apache was designed to be an extremely tough survivor under combat. The prototype Apache made its first flight in 1975 as the YAH-64, and in 1976, Hughes received a full-scale development contract. In 1982, the Army approved the program, now known as AH-64A Apache, for production. Deliveries began from the McDonnell Douglas plant at Mesa, Ariz., in 1984 — the year Hughes Helicopters became part of McDonnell Douglas.
A target acquisition and designation sight/pilot night-vision sensor and other advanced technologies added to its effectiveness in the ground support role. To reduce costs and simplify logistics, the Apache used the same T700 engines as the Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter and its naval cousin, the SH-60 Seahawk.
Highly maneuverable and heavily armed, the combat-proven Apache helicopter is the backbone of the U.S. Army’s all-weather, ground-support capability. The AH-64D Apache Longbow, which first flew as a prototype on May 14, 1992, provided a quantum leap in capability over the AH-64A. The Apache Longbow’s fire-control radar and advanced avionics suite gave combat pilots the ability to rapidly detect, classify, prioritize, and engage stationary or moving enemy targets at standoff ranges in nearly all weather conditions.
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Iron Eagle (1986)
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Doug Masters: Looks like they'll be importing oil this year
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Defense Minister Colonel Akir Nakesh: You are allowed a statement on your behalf.
US Air Force Colonel Ted Masters: This court is a fraud. At no time did I violate your territorial airspace. At no time did we engage in any type of intelligence-gathering operation. This trial is a blatant violation of international law.
Defense Minister Colonel Akir Nakesh: Colonel, the American naiveté never ceases to amaze me. We make the laws in this country. We are not subject to your ridiculous Western alliances. I am a pilot myself. And when in flight, I am always aware of my exact position. I have no doubt you were quite clear about yours. Your country has been warned time and time again!
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-organizes-luftwaffe
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
FEB 26 1935
On February 26, 1935, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signs a secret decree authorizing the founding of the Reich Luftwaffe as a third German military service to join the Reich army and navy. In the same decree, Hitler appointed Hermann Goering, a German air hero from World War I and high-ranking Nazi, as commander in chief of the new German air force.
The Versailles Treaty that ended World War I prohibited military aviation in Germany, but a German civilian airline–Lufthansa–was founded in 1926 and provided flight training for the men who would later become Luftwaffe pilots. After coming to power in 1933, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler began to secretly develop a state-of-the-art military air force and appointed Goering as German air minister. (During World War I, Goering commanded the celebrated air squadron in which the great German ace Manfred von Richthofen–“The Red Baron”–served.) In February 1935, Hitler formally organized the Luftwaffe as a major step in his program of German rearmament.
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Los Angeles Times
Astronauts Link Russian, U.S. Space Station Parts
December 07, 1998 From Associated Press
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas — Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station Sunday, creating a seven-story tower in the shuttle cargo bay.
It was the first time that the Russian-built Zarya control module and the U.S.-made Unity chamber had ever touched. It looked to be a perfect and, hopefully, long-lasting fit.
"We have capture of Zarya," commander Robert Cabana announced the moment the two pieces came together.
"Congratulations to the crew of the good ship Endeavour," replied Mission Control. "That's terrific."
The 240-mile-high construction job began two hours earlier with Nancy Currie's capture of Zarya (Russian for "sunrise") using the shuttle robot arm. "We're halfway home," Cabana said.
Then came the hard part: stacking the two giant cylinders in the cargo bay.
The two station pieces are so big--77 feet from the tip of one to the tip of the other with a combined mass of 70,000 pounds--that Currie and her crew mates had to rely on a computerized vision system and camera views, rather than direct line of sight. This was the first time such a "blind" docking had ever been attempted.
Currie positioned the solar-winged Zarya, still on the end of the shuttle robot arm, several inches directly above Unity.
Once she was sure she had it, Cabana fired Endeavour's thrusters, and the brief burst raised the shuttle and thereby Unity enough for the docking mechanisms on the two station components to snap together. The historical moment occurred above the South Pacific.
The union set the stage for a spacewalk by two astronauts today to attach electrical connectors and cables between the two components.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/dec/07/news/mn-51499
Los Angeles Times
White House Is Given 30 Hours to Present Case
December 07, 1998 RICHARD A. SERRANO TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — On the eve of a historic showdown in Congress, President Clinton and the House Judiciary Committee reached a compromise Sunday that will allow White House lawyers a marathon 30-hour opportunity to present their case on why the president should not be impeached for alleged misconduct in the Monica S. Lewinsky matter.
The agreement, finalized after both sides had been bitterly accusing each other of politicizing one of the Constitution's most fundamental provisions, means that Clinton's lawyers can address the committee and call witnesses during 15-hour hearings, from morning to midnight, on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
That timetable now sets the stage for the committee members to begin formal debate on whether Clinton lied and obstructed justice in hiding his affair with the former White House intern, with a vote on articles of impeachment coming perhaps as early as Friday.
In another surprise development Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who until now has been cautious about Clinton's fate, announced in his strongest language to date that, if the full House approves impeachment, he will immediately hold a trial in the Senate, perhaps as early as the first week in January.
The vote set for next week on the floor of the House, where a simple majority is needed, is considered too close to call.
In the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is needed to convict the president and remove him from office, Lott's comments could be seen as a sharp message to many of those undecided House members that they should not vote in favor of impeachment unless they sincerely believe that Clinton's behavior meets the benchmark of "high crimes and misdemeanors," as worded in the Constitution.
There had been speculation in Washington that some undecided House members might vote for impeachment in the expectation that the Senate would sidestep the issue and dispose of it without plunging into a full-scale trial. Lott's comments seemed to foreclose any such political expedient.
For several days, the White House and the GOP-led Judiciary Committee have been wrangling over how and when the president's lawyers would be allowed to put on their case and address the panel.
Initially, the Clinton administration sought as much as four days to press his defense and announced a partial witness list composed of two law professors and a historian.
The committee, led by Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.), immediately fired back that the White House was not sticking to the rules and procedures of the committee, which mandate that witness lists be provided and approved in advance, and that testimony not duplicate prior statements to the panel.
Last week, Democrats on the panel called a wide array of experts and scholars on what constitutes an impeachable offense.
Now, Hyde and other Republicans are angry that the White House is offering more of the same in what the GOP sees as an attempt to get the impeachment matter put off until next year, when the House will have more Democrats and passage might be more difficult.
In a strongly worded letter Sunday, Thomas E. Mooney, chief of staff and general counsel for Hyde, directed the White House to give the committee its full witness list by noon today. The White House later said it would comply.
"The counsel for the president and any approved witnesses that he suggests will be subject to questioning by all of the members and counsel for the majority and minority," Mooney advised White House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff and Gregory B. Craig, special counsel to the president. "The presentation by the White House must be completed on Wednesday night so that the committee can stay on its course to resolve this matter by the end of the year."
The letter also complained that the White House has repeatedly tried to circumvent the impeachment process.
"You have failed to comply with committee procedures and demonstrated contempt for the committee's process," Mooney wrote. "I am concerned that your recent maneuvers may be little more than an attempt to delay the committee and turn attention away from the facts before it."
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Iron Eagle (1986)
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USA 17 January 1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boynton_v._Virginia
Boynton v. Virginia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 12, 1960
Decided December 5, 1960
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Google Books
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Oct 1954
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Sliders Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot (1)
Aired Unknown Mar 22, 1995 on FOX
AIRED: 3/22/95
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September 1959
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in September 1959:
September 18, 1959 (Friday)
The jetway, the extending bridge that permits airline passengers to board directly from the terminal to the airplane door, was used by airline passengers for the first time. Installed on July 22 at the Atlanta airport by Delta Air Lines, the new device was inaugurated with the first commercial use of the Douglas DC-8, a competitor to the Boeing 707 began commercial air service. Both Delta United flew inaugural flights on the same day.
https://www.deltamuseum.org/exhibits/delta-history/aircraft-by-type/jet/douglas-dc-8
DELTA FLIGHT MUSEUM
History
Aircraft Make & Model: Douglas DC-8-11
First Scheduled Service: September 18, 1959, world's first DC-8 service (Atlanta-New York)
Narrative: Douglas DC-8 1959-1989
Delivery
Delta secured its early DC-8 delivery positions from Douglas Aircraft after Eastern Airlines, Delta's major competitor, decided to wait for a more powerful engine. The 14th DC-8-11 off the assembly line was Delta's N801E, Ship 801, named "Pride of Delta."
On delivery day, July 22, 1959, Ship 801 flew the 2,497 mile route from the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California, to Miami in 4 hours and 43 minutes. The previous record on the route had been 5 hours and 50 minutes set by a Douglas DC-7. Delivery crew: Captain T.P. "Pre" Ball, superintendent of flight operations; Captain W. Lee McBride, chief pilot, Miami/Dallas; and Captain James H. Longino, assistant chief pilot, Atlanta.
Delta raced to install Atlanta airport's first passenger boarding bridge, called a "jetway," just in time for the arrival of the DC-8 from Miami.
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amazon
Red Storm Rising Hardcover – August 7, 1986
by Tom Clancy (Author)
Product Details
Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: G. P. Putnam Sons; 1st edition (August 7, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399131493
ISBN-13: 978-0399131493
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1385857.Red_Storm_Rising
goodreads
Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy
Hardcover, 656 pages
Published August 7th 1986 by Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN
0399131493 (ISBN13: 9780399131493)
http://www.book-info.com/isbn/0-399-13149-3.htm
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authors
Tom Clancy
ISBN-10: 0-399-13149-3
ISBN-13: 9780399131493
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Year: August 7, 1986
Edition: First edition
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IMDb
The Final Countdown (1980)
Release Info
USA 1 August 1980
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808886/releaseinfo
IMDb
Eyes in Outer Space (1959)
Release Info
USA 18 June 1959
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034648/releaseinfo
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Destruction Inc. (1942)
Release Info
USA 25 December 1942
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/releaseinfo
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Convoy (1978)
Release Info
USA 28 June 1978 (Los Angeles, California)
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Kris Kristofferson
Biography
Date of Birth 22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA
Birth Name Kristoffer Kristofferson
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/06/news/wp-59970
Los Angeles Times
IT Certification a Plus, but Not Essential
Hands-On Experience, College Degree Count
May 06, 2001 RONALD D. WHITE TIMES STAFF WRITER
Young people interested in pursuing a career in information technology confront an alphabet soup of seemingly endless proportions. MCSE, ODBA, CNE, A-plus and CCIE are just a few of the more than 350 information technology certifications that verify expertise in everything from basic computer support work to networking skills.
An international, multibillion-dollar industry has risen in the last 12 years to promote and support the certification of information technology workers. But even as the push for certification intensifies, job seekers looking to add acronyms behind their names should know that certifications still fall far behind other attributes in the eyes of employers, according to a recent report by the Information Technology Assn. of America, based on a survey of more than 600 hiring managers.
"Four-year college degrees proved the best pre-hire means of attaining needed skills and knowledge in four of eight job categories: database development/administration, enterprise systems, programming/software engineering and technical writing. Private technical schools pulled the highest marks for network design/administration and digital media," said the report, which went on to regard certifications as being of moderate importance.
"Employers may list certification as a plus, but it's usually not a requirement," said Dawn M. Haden, director of human resources for HeadHunter.net Inc. "All other things being equal, certification may help get a resume closer to the top of the pile. But you still want hands-on experience that's been applied in a real job. We do encourage our own people to obtain certification, but it's not that their future here is hindered if they don't."
Many IT workers say they have discovered the same thing.
"In this area, it seems hands-on knowledge is more valuable than classroom certification," said Michael Schlein, a 32-year-old senior Unix administrator for a Prudential Insurance office in New Jersey. "Potential new employers care more about you being able to perform a specific set of skills, namely the job that you are applying for."
Others say the certification process, which includes everything from boot camps and corporate training academies and outside training partners to help applicants pass tests, has become a self-sustaining industry.
The cost of materials, courses, training and cram sessions can easily reach into the thousands of dollars. That kind of expense and overkill hasn't gone unnoticed.
"The problem now is that there are certifications for everything," said Yves Lermusiaux, president of San Francisco-based ILogos, which serves as the research arm of Recruitsoft, a company that produces Internet-based hiring systems. "It's become a business of its own and some are far less valuable than others. People are making a lot of money on this."
Others go so far as to privately suggest that certification is less important to individual employees and has become a weapon for companies to monopolize business contracts, equipment, software and the best IT talent.
Indeed, certain certifications are so rare and difficult to obtain that they have become bragging rights in the information technology world. Companies use them to distinguish themselves from competitors, much in the same way that a private school or a think tank will boast of the number of students or researchers, respectively, with perfect SAT scores or PhDs.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Release Info
USA 11 June 1982
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