http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-11/news/mn-44717_1_space-travel
Los Angeles Times
Columbia Countdown Started for Longest Shuttle Flight Yet : Space: If all goes as planned, the mission will exceed the current record by five hours. Seven astronauts will study effects of long space travel.
October 11, 1993 from Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — When Columbia lifts off on a two-week research mission, the longest space shuttle flight yet, it will be loaded with seven human guinea pigs and 48 rats.
The seven astronauts will spin in chairs, do bungee jumps, draw blood and conduct other medical tests to study the effects of long space trips.
The launch is scheduled for Thursday morning. The countdown began at midnight Sunday.
"This is my big shot at doing the very best for science that I can," said Dr. Martin Fettman, a veterinarian and pathology professor at Colorado State University.
If all goes as planned, the mission will exceed by five hours the current shuttle record of 13 days, 19 hours and 30 minutes, set by Columbia last year.
That pales in comparison to NASA's space endurance record--an 84-day Skylab mission by three astronauts in 1973-74--and Russia's 366-day Mir space station stay by two cosmonauts in 1987-88.
Space travel is rough on the body over time.
Muscles shrivel, bones weaken, red blood cells dwindle, the immune system diminishes and, for two-thirds of all astronauts, motion sickness strikes.
And space voyagers sometimes feel lightheaded when they return to Earth and try to stand, and their reflexes are slow.
Many of Columbia's 14 laboratory experiments--eight on humans and six on rats--follow up on work done in 1991 on NASA's first and only other mission devoted to biomedical research.
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If I'm this pumped by a test launch, I won't need a rocket.
Final countdown.
I know.
Most people don't know if their dreams will ever come true.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-20/news/mn-47805_1_shuttle-mission
Los Angeles Times
Astronauts Check Body Changes During Tests on Weightlessness
October 20, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia drank water laced with oxygen isotopes, nitrogen and calcium Tuesday in tests to monitor body changes during weightlessness.
The crew members also gave each other shots of chemicals that were traced through their bodies to measure changes in blood volume, kidneys, bones and muscles. Blood, urine and saliva samples also were collected on the first full day of the planned two-week medical research mission.
In another test, the astronauts monitored their heartbeats with an ultrasound device developed by David Wolf, one of the crew's two physicians. They also exercised on a stationary cycle and collected the droppings of laboratory rats.
The crew had to open the door on one of the two animal enclosures and turn on a fan to cool the 24 inhabitants. The enclosure was a few degrees warmer than desired.
"All the rats look pretty healthy and happy," said Columbia's veterinarian, Martin Fettman. "We're just a little concerned about the rats in cage two because of the vacuum, the hurricane that goes by them with the cage door open and the (fan) on."
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants the five men and two women to collect as much data as possible early in the flight, while the body is still adapting to weightlessness. Scientists said that is a major limitation of Russia's space program--even though cosmonauts have spent as much as a year in orbit, it is difficult for them to gather medical data during the first few days.
Muscles weaken in space and bones soften. NASA wants to develop measures to counteract these and other side effects, such as diminished immunity, reduced red blood cells and loss of balance.
The only other shuttle mission devoted to medical research, a nine-day flight in 1991, indicated among other things that the body produces enough muscle protein in weightlessness but that the protein breaks down faster.
Tuesday, like launch day, was full of experiments. "I think that we'll be fortunate if we can keep up this pace," NASA program scientist Frank Sulzman said. "We know that for a 14-day mission we have to schedule things so that we don't have the crew working nonstop."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-58
STS-58
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
STS-58 was a mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 18 October 1993.
Crew
Position Astronaut
Pilot Richard A. Searfoss
First spaceflight
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Space Above and Beyond
Pilot (1)
[Officer #2] Damn InVitros are all alike.
"InVitros"? Call him what he is-a Tank.
[Woman] We're told to report immediately and then they make us wait two hours? The others didn't have to wait.
Good afternoon, sir.
The launch simulation went perfect.
We are still a go? I know you are aware of the growing rights movement for InVitros those conceived and born in artificial gestation tanks.
Sir, we have every right to support the InVitros.
They're human beings, sir, just like us only conceived from parents who never lived.
Last evening the Tellus Board of Governors was issued a directive from the United States Senate.
The launch will be scrapped unless ten InVitros are on board.
Given the severe limitations on weight rations, and personnel capacity- Are you saying we're being replaced? It is my sincere regret to inform you that one of you will not be on board.
- One of us? - Nine colonists have been released.
- Postpone the mission.
- If we don't go in six hours the forecasted wormhole passage to Tellus won't be open for another 12 years.
They're not even trained.
Send them on the next colony.
The next colonial mission won't be ready for five years.
There are members of Congress who need to look good now.
- We'll both resign.
- You have a commitment to execute vital assignments on this mission, duties which one of you could cover but for which no one else is trained.
Not to mention the severe legal consequences of breaking your contract.
Besides I know you both.
It's your dream to go to space.
The dream was to go together.
I'm on record as saying this directive stinks.
I fought it all the way.
Rather than issuing an order I'm allowing the two of you to decide who shall remain.
There is, uh, an alternative for one of you.
There is a possibility the Marine Corps Space Cavalry may be assigned duty as Colonial Sentries.
You want us to bet our lives on a possibility? We did everything you told us.
We followed the rules.
We gave the program everything we had.
These InVitros didn't train.
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Everyone's saying good-bye to their families.
I never thought we'd be saying good-bye to each other.
Then let's run away.
To a life of what? Because we broke our contract, no one would employ us.
We'd be indentured servants to the Colonial Program for 20 years.
Did they keep their word to us? The program was all I ever believed in.
And now there's nothing.
You believed in equal rights for InVitros.
Not at the expense of our rights.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-18/news/mn-47246_1_launch-attempt
Los Angeles Times
NASA Readies Space Shuttle for Third Launch Attempt : Science: If successful, Columbia's 14-day medical research mission will set a fleet record. The crew will study body changes in weightlessness.
October 18, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA loaded a fresh batch of 48 rats into the space shuttle Columbia on Sunday for the third launch attempt in less than a week.
Columbia was due to lift off at 7:53 a.m. PDT today on a 14-day medical research flight, the longest planned for a shuttle.
The first two launch attempts last Thursday and Friday were thwarted by computer and communications system failures. Officials said both problems were resolved.
"In this business, you have to go when you're ready and you can't be anxious or antsy or anything like that. That's not the way it works," said Bill Dowdell, National Aeronautics and Space Administration test director.
Rain and thunderstorms added to last week's troubles, but meteorologists forecast an 80% chance of acceptable conditions today.
The seven astronauts spent the weekend relaxing and reviewing flight plans.
Two of the four scientists--veterinarian Martin Fettman and biochemist Shannon Lucid--left in place the catheters intended to help measure blood pressure during the flight.
Each of the astronauts will submit to numerous medical tests aimed at studying space motion sickness and body changes in weightlessness.
The rats are intended for similar tests.
NASA program scientist Frank Sulzman said rats undergo physical changes in weightlessness faster than humans, making the animals valuable research tools.
A previous batch of 48 rats was removed from Columbia on Saturday after the earlier launch delays. Those rats were killed and either discarded because of radioactive isotopes in their blood or donated to a rehabilitation program for birds of prey. NASA has nearly 1,000 rats on standby in case of more launch delays.
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Pilot (1)
Must be a scout- going toward Earth had to crank the chicken switch over Mars.
- Probably sent a distress call.
- That means there'll be more coming.
There's got to be some way to figure it out.
Don't.
It could carry some kind of disease.
I never had a mother, but you sound like one.
[Growls] Looks like it operates the vehicle- like a key.
Yeah, some sort of encoded information.
- What is this? - [Growls] [Cooper] Him? What does this have to do with him? This is this? It's like a picture of his family or something.
Maybe we ought to give it something to eat or drink.
It wants water.
Right.
It's probably one thing we have in common.
- Let's give it some water.
- [West] What the hell is the matter with you? We're low on rations as it is, we're cut to 30% O2 flow and you guys want to waste water on this thing? No.
No way.
This thing killed Pags! God knows who else it killed.
[Air Lock Hisses] I'm giving it some water.
Let's show it what it means to be human.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-19/news/mn-47458_1_draw-blood
Los Angeles Times
7 Astronauts Fly High in Orbit, Draw Blood in Name of Science
October 19, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia and its seven astronauts blasted off on a belated mission Monday, carrying 48 rats that will be poked, prodded and in some cases decapitated by guillotine and dissected in orbit.
All in the name of science.
The astronauts quickly got started on their 14 days of space checkups, drawing blood from one another, measuring their blood pressure and noting any symptoms of motion sickness.
The mission--the longest ever planned for a space shuttle--is intended to help scientists develop measures for counteracting the debilitating effects of space travel.
Despite the tests, everyone was flying high.
"As you can well imagine, there are seven very happy people up here," commander John Blaha said.
Astronaut-physician David Wolf was the first one to enter the pressurized laboratory in the cargo bay, followed by the crew's other medical doctor, M. Rhea Seddon.
NASA needed three countdowns to get Columbia off the ground. Equipment failures halted last week's attempts.
"Guys, the third time's a charm," orbiter test director Brian Monborne assured the crew before liftoff.
Delayed 10 seconds by a stray Navy plane, the 2,000-ton spaceship rose from its seaside pad at 7:53 a.m. PDT and tore through three decks of clouds on its way to a 176-mile-high orbit.
Two crew members had catheters threading through their veins for launch--Martin Fettman, the first U.S. veterinarian in space, and Shannon Lucid, a biochemist who became the first woman to fly in space four times. The catheters were hooked to white backpacks with floating cables, making the two look like a pair of bees.
Throughout the mission, Fettman and the others will draw blood from the 2- to 3-month-old male rodents, inject isotopes and hormones, and collect the animal droppings to measure calcium content, an indicator of bone loss.
On Oct. 30, Fettman will use a guillotine to behead five rats, six if there's time. He and another astronaut then will perform the first animal dissections in space, preserving almost everything for post-flight analysis: brain, eyes, inner ears, parts of the skull, spleen, heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, thyroid, lungs, trachea, bones, muscles, blood, glands, testes.
Biologists say the only way to know exactly how weightlessness affects creatures is to dissect them before they're exposed again to gravity.
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Pilot (1)
Uh- Pags um I wanted to say something to you when they buried you but I don't know what.
And now that I'm here, I still don't.
Besides, they don't let anybody say anything at those things anyway.
I guess I just wanted to say you were the only guy that was ever okay to me.
I wish- I just wish, somehow, you could just feel my insides and know.
Maybe right now you can.
I doubt it.
I wish I knew what you were feeling right now.
See, I thought I knew what it would be like but seeing you up there all blood I just- I wish I could know if anything's worth it.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-19/news/mn-47456_1_draw-blood
Los Angeles Times
7 Astronauts Fly High in Orbit, Draw Blood in Name of Science
October 19, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia and its seven astronauts blasted off on a belated mission Monday, carrying 48 rats, that will be poked, prodded and in some cases decapitated by guillotine and dissected in orbit.
All in the name of science.
Five of the rats are part of UC Irvine research on the effects of weightlessness. Scientists Kenneth Baldwin and Vincent Caiozzo have designated a series of muscle mass tests for the five, hoping to learn more about why and how loss of gravity causes muscles to change in humans and animals.
The astronauts aboard Columbia quickly got started on their 14 days of space checkups, drawing blood from one another, measuring their blood pressure and noting any symptoms of motion sickness.
The mission--the longest ever planned for a space shuttle--is intended to help scientists develop measures for counteracting the debilitating effects of space travel, including changes in muscle mass. Astronauts will test the UCI rats in space, while Baldwin and Caiozzo are simultaneously testing comparison rats on the ground at UC Irvine labs.
In an interview Monday in Irvine, Baldwin said the UCI researchers believe the tests will result in knowledge useful for humans on land as well as in space.
"We think the information we learn from the tests will apply to people who go through stages of aging, as well as to people who have injuries and have a dramatic reduction in physical activities," Baldwin said.
The two Irvine scientists are scheduled to greet Columbia when it lands at Edwards Air Force Base in Los Angeles County on Nov. 1. They will then examine firsthand their lab rats and make additional tests.
Columbia blasted from its Florida launch pad Monday morning after two previous delays.
"Guys, the third time's a charm," orbiter test director Brian Monborne assured the crew before liftoff.
Delayed 10 seconds by a stray Navy plane, the 2,000-ton spaceship rose from its seaside pad at 7:53 a.m. PDT and tore through three decks of clouds on its way to a 176-mile-high orbit.
Two crew members had catheters threading through their veins for launch--Martin Fettman, the first U.S. veterinarian in space, and Shannon Lucid, a biochemist who became the first woman to fly in space four times. The catheters were hooked to white backpacks with floating cables, making the two look like a pair of bees.
In addition to the UCI rats being used for tests of muscle mass, other rats on the Columbia will be tested for such things as bone loss in space.
Throughout the mission, Fettman and the others will draw blood from the 2- to 3-month-old male rodents, inject isotopes and hormones, and collect the animal droppings to measure calcium content, an indicator of bone loss.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-26/news/mn-49942_1_muscle-strength
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Crew Reports Faces Are Puffier, Muscles Flabbier
October 26, 1993 From Times Wire Services
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Their faces are puffier. Their muscles are flabbier. But Columbia's astronauts are still feeling frisky halfway into their 14-day medical mission.
"We're having a lot of fun, getting a lot of work done," pilot Richard Searfoss said Monday.
Astronaut William McArthur Jr. said not he, Searfoss or Dr. David Wolf, all space rookies, have had motion sickness. Two-thirds of astronauts become nauseated in the first few days of flight.
"We were frisky from the minute the main engines cut off," McArthur told radio interviewers.
But Searfoss reported a loss of muscle strength. Wolf said he could feel his body change in weightlessness: His legs got skinny and his face puffy because of the upward shift of body fluids.
"When I first saw myself in the mirror up here, I had to take a second look to see if it was really me," Wolf said.
Columbia's 14-day voyage, expected to end Monday, is the longest shuttle flight ever planned by NASA and only the second mission dedicated to medical research.
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Pilot (1)
- Are you calling me a liar? - Sir, the best way to maintain peace is to maintain a good defense, sir.
Are you a politician? Are you running for office? [Snickers] - Do you think I'm funny? - Sir, no, sir.
- Do I amuse you? - Sir, no, sir.
Drop down and give me 25.
[Snickers] Well, I'm glad to see you're having such a fun time.
You too.
On your face.
Twenty-five.
One, two, three, four.
I love the Marine Corps.
Gunnery Sergeant? Are all of these worms present or accounted for? Short one, Sergeant Major- the Tank Cooper Hawkes.
[Vehicle Approaching] He's all yours.
I know all about you, Hawkes.
So the judge thought it would be cute to sentence a Tank to the military.
I fought alongside you people in the A.
I.
Wars so I know that Tanks are lazy and they don't care about anyone or anything.
I won't let you down.
The only thing you're going to let down is your face upon my deck and crank out 50 pushups.
Now, do it.
One, two, three, four.
I love the Marine Corps.
One, two, three, four.
I love the Marine Corps.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-30/news/mn-51263_1_space-shuttle-columbia
Los Angeles Times
Space Shuttle Astronauts Pedal Around World
October 30, 1993 From Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The space shuttle Columbia's astronauts got an orbital workout Friday as they pedaled at full speed around the world to see how their bodies were holding up after nearly two weeks in space.
One by one, the crew members worked their way from 30% of maximum exercise capacity on the shuttle's stationary cycle to 60% and then to 100%. They breathed into a tube connected to a gas analyzer as they cycled; their heart rates and blood pressures also were monitored.
"This may not feel so good to do, but it's very important in understanding the absolute capacity of our cardiovascular system to deliver oxygen to the tissues of the body, particularly the muscles," astronaut-physician David Wolf said before hopping on the cycle.
Muscles weaken in weightlessness, as do bones. Wolf and the three other scientist-astronauts aboard ingested and injected one another with calcium Friday to see how it is absorbed by the body in space.
Researchers involved in Columbia's 14-day medical mission want to know whether bone loss in weightlessness is caused by increased bone destruction, decreased bone formation, or both.
The dissections today of some of the 48 rats aboard the shuttle--a space first--should help answer that question.
The remaining animals will be killed for dissection after the flight.
The flight, the longest ever for a shuttle, is due to end Monday with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Medical Research in Space
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia have been performing experiments in medical disciplines ranging from neuroscience to cardiovascular physiology during their two-week mission. Some of the notable projects include:
Weightlessness: A study of the effects of weightlessness on the cardiovascular system. The experiment requires astronauts to spend time in a vacuum sack that forces blood and other body fluids from their chests into their legs. Researchers want to see if the treatment keeps them from becoming dizzy once they are back on Earth, a common complaint of returning astronauts.
Muscle mass: A determination of how protein metabolism is changed in space--an effort to determine why muscle mass decreases during long space flights. Each crew member is weighed daily and a log is kept of all fluids and total nitrogen intake, among other things.
Body fluids: An examination of how space flight affects body fluids and disturbs body electrolytes. Zero gravity causes a fluid shift toward the head, which causes a perceived increase in the body's blood volume. Measurements of blood, urine and saliva are being taken.
Calcium loss: Tests to determine how space flight causes a loss in the body's calcium level. Researchers believe that significant changes in hormones may be associated with calcium loss.
Sensory organs: A probe into how the body handles the loss of information, such as the loss of the sense of gravity, when it has redundant paths of such information. Space sickness, which affects many astronauts, is believed to be related to the brain's confusion when it receives conflicting information from the inner ear and from other sensory organs.
Animal testing: The Columbia carried 48 rats into space as part of a study of life processes in zero gravity. Astronauts will use a laboratory guillotine like this to behead and dissect six of the rats in space so that their systems will not readjust to gravity. The other 42 rats will be kept alive for examination on Earth. Among other things, NASA wants to see how zero gravity affects calcium levels and hormones in the rats' internal systems.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-31/news/mn-51816_1_landings-shuttle-edwards
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle to Land Monday at Edwards
October 31, 1993 Special to The Times
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — Calling all shuttle watchers: Monday is it.
The last scheduled Southern California shuttle landing--for at least the next 14 months--is slated for early Monday morning at Edwards Air Force Base.
Because of road construction in the area of the usual public viewing site, spectators will be able to watch the shuttle Columbia land from NASA's hillside viewing area. The site is usually reserved for the space agency's invited guests and offers a closer, elevated vantage point for watching the orbiter making its descent.
Columbia will announce its return to Earth after a 14-day life sciences mission with its characteristic double sonic boom moments before the planned 7:08 a.m. landing in the California desert.
It is the last scheduled landing at Edwards through the end of 1994, NASA spokesman Don Nolan said. All nine shuttle missions planned for 1994 are scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center. The Florida landings save NASA an estimated $1 million per mission.
Edwards Air Force Base will be open to shuttle watchers in self-contained RVs 24 hours before the shuttle landing, a base spokesman said. Spectators in other vehicles will be allowed on the base 12 hours before the landing.
It is recommended that viewers arrive at least two hours before the scheduled landing.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-31/local/me-51860_1_edwards-air-force-base
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Columbia on Course for Desert Landing Monday : NASA: It's the last scheduled spacecraft touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base through the end of 1994.
October 31, 1993 SHARON MOESER SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — Calling all shuttle watchers: Monday is it.
The last scheduled Southern California shuttle landing--for at least 14 months--is planned for early Monday at Edwards Air Force Base.
Because of road construction in the usual public viewing area, spectators will be able to watch the shuttle Columbia's landing from NASA's hillside viewing site. It's an area normally reserved for the space agency's invited guests, offering a closer, elevated vantage point to witness the orbiter making its descent.
Columbia will announce its return to Earth after a 14-day life sciences mission with its characteristic double sonic boom moments before its planned 7:08 a.m. landing in the California desert.
It is the last scheduled landing through the end of 1994, NASA spokesman Don Nolan said. All nine shuttle missions planned for 1994 are scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center. The Florida landings save NASA an estimated $1 million per mission.
"Not only do you have the expense of sending the orbiter back on the (modified) 747, but a lot of people travel out from Kennedy," Nolan said. "It's definitely much cheaper if they can land it there. NASA's trying to reduce costs just like everybody else is."
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility is estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 people will be on hand to see Columbia's landing.
"It's very difficult to estimate," Nolan said. "It's a weekday, but it's the last (landing) for a while so we don't know how many people will attend."
The last scheduled shuttle landing that occurred at Edwards--May 16, 1992--drew an estimated 125,000 people, Nolan said. That landing, however, was the first of NASA's newest orbiter, Endeavour. It was also on a weekend day.
"The place just exploded (with people)," he said. "It was fun."
Since the maiden Endeavour voyage ended at this military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert nearly 18 months ago, there have been just two shuttle landings at Edwards. Both were diverted shortly before their planned landing from Florida's Kennedy Space Center because of poor weather conditions.
About the only people who witnessed the unscheduled landings, one last December and the most recent in May, were NASA and Edwards personnel. Members of the public who happened to be touring either the base or the Dryden facility the day of an unscheduled landing also got an unexpected surprise.
The largest crowd ever to witness a shuttle landing at Edwards was more than a decade ago, Nolan said. About 545,000 were on hand for a July 4, 1982, shuttle landing attended by then-President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
In October, 1988, there were 420,000 spectators to watch Discovery touch down at Edwards. It was the first shuttle mission after the 1986 explosion of Challenger.
A March, 1989, landing of Discovery drew about 460,000 people, Nolan said, noting that the large crowd was attributed to the orbiter's weekend landing date.
Columbia's Monday landing, which will bring to an end the longest shuttle mission ever, will be the 58th shuttle landing. Since the first shuttle orbited the Earth in 1981, there have been 38 landings at Edwards, Nolan said. Shuttles have landed 18 times at Kennedy Space Center and there has been one landing in New Mexico.
Edwards will be open to shuttle watchers in self-contained RVs 24 hours before the shuttle landing, according to a base spokesman. Spectators in other vehicles will be allowed on the base 12 hours before the landing.
It is recommended that viewers arrive at least two hours before the scheduled landing time.
"We don't want people to be stuck in traffic when it lands," Nolan said.
Recorded information on the shuttle landing is available by calling (805) 258-3520.
* RESEARCH: First animal dissections in space. B5
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-01/news/mn-52008_1_astronauts-edwards-base
Los Angeles Times
Astronauts Shut Lab, Aim for Edwards Base
November 01, 1993 Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia's science astronauts were jabbed with needles for the last time in space Sunday as NASA's longest shuttle flight drew to a close.
Researchers were thrilled with the data collected during the 14-day medical mission.
The astronauts worked 18-hour days for much of the flight and volunteered for extra tests, some of them dizzying, so that scientists could better understand how the body changes in weightlessness.
Before shutting down Columbia's laboratory, the mission's two physicians, one veterinarian and one biochemist squeezed in more heart measurements and drew blood from one another to gauge calcium and protein levels.
Columbia's journey was due to end with a 7:06 a.m. PST landing today at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-02/news/mn-52429_1_space-shuttle-columbia
Los Angeles Times
Weighing In : Space Shuttle Returns With a Cargo of Data on Weightlessness
November 02, 1993 JACK CHEEVERS TIMES STAFF WRITER
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — The space shuttle Columbia descended from a pale blue sky and landed smoothly here Monday after 14 days in orbit, ending the shuttle program's longest flight with a wealth of new data on weightlessness in humans.
Heralded by its distinctive double sonic boom, the shuttle touched down just before 7:06 a.m.--29 seconds ahead of schedule--on Runway 22 as an estimated 35,000 spectators watched.
Columbia's seven crew members were rushed from the spacecraft on stretchers for new tests at a base medical lab before their bodies had time to readapt to Earth's gravity.
The touchdown marked the last scheduled shuttle landing at Edwards until 1995. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration saves $1 million per mission by landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the shuttle's launch site. After landing at Edwards, the spacecraft is piggy-backed on a modified Boeing 747 jet and flown back to Florida.
During the flight, crew members pedaled bicycles, drew blood samples, dissected laboratory rats and performed other tests in a self-contained space clinic designed to provide new clues on how harmful effects of weightlessness can be counteracted during long space voyages.
"It's the best mission we've ever flown," said Dr. Frank Sulzman, NASA's program scientist for the mission, at a post-flight news conference. "We got everything we wanted, plus some things we didn't expect. . . . We did some really historic studies on the heart, lungs and blood."
The flight was the 58th since the shuttle program's 1981 inception and the 15th for Columbia. The shuttle orbited the Earth 224 times, traveling 5,840,560 miles at more than 17,000 m.p.h.
After zooming over the California coast just south of Monterey, the spacecraft banked hard above Edwards, on the edge of the Mojave Desert, and dropped toward the runway, its nose scorched by intense heat generated by its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
NASA shuttle director Tom Utsman said some protective thermal tiles on at least one of the vehicle's engines appeared to have torn. But he said it was not a problem that threatened the mission's safety.
Columbia's astronauts conducted more than 125 tests intended to help solve such medical riddles as why muscles weaken, bones soften and red blood-cell production drops during lengthy space journeys.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-02/local/me-52337_1_space-shuttle-columbia
Los Angeles Times
Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Shuttle Landing Draws Big Crowd : Space: Fans and first-timers flock to witness what may be the last Columbia touchdown in Southern California until 1995.
November 02, 1993 SHARON MOESER SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — It drops out of the sky like a brick. And in the best of conditions you might get to count your view of it in minutes rather than seconds.
But there they were, up before the sun, the fanatics and the first-timers. Equipped with blankets, chairs and cameras, about 35,000 people braved the desert chill Monday morning to watch the space shuttle Columbia return to Earth after a 14-day mission.
Several records were set during the mission, including the longest flight in the history of the shuttle program and the first animal dissection in space. Yet it was not those records that drew hordes of people to this air base on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Instead it was an opportunity to see a Southern California shuttle landing, perhaps the last until 1995.
Like many people, Maureen Reeve said she, her husband and four children came to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards AFB on Monday to watch Columbia land because it's "probably the last one for who knows how long."
Pauline Weiss and Will Poole have lived in a small town next to Edwards AFB for four years but never before took the time to watch an orbiter touch down. Monday morning they were among the privileged. With VIP passes secured from a relative who works at NASA, the couple stood on the roof of a Dryden building for a bird's-eye view of the 7:06 a.m. touchdown.
Spectators in RVs, some who had come from as far as Washington and Arizona, began arriving at Edwards AFB on Sunday. Early Monday thousands of cars streamed in, backing up traffic as far as a mile from the base's heaviest traveled west entrance gate.
Because of road construction near the shuttle viewing site, spectators were allowed access to NASA's hillside viewing area, an area normally reserved for invited guests.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance," said Yorba Linda resident George Lawson, who watched his first shuttle landing with his wife from atop his RV. "If you see it a second time that's something the good Lord gives you."
Watching Columbia land brought tears to the eyes of Bob and Jan Baxter, Washington residents. "To think we can send people out like that and then bring them back to one little spot on Earth, it makes you feel good about where you live," Bob Baxter said.
Charles Wiggins and Toni Moore consider themselves groupies. They drove with two friends from Tucson, the third time they've done so. They left Sunday and headed back home Monday.
"People in space, it's something that's special to our generation," Moore said.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062304/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Star Wagon (1966 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 21 October 1966
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/quotes
IMDb
The Final Countdown (1980)
Quotes
[last lines]
Commander Richard Owens: Welcome back, Mr. Lasky.
Lasky: Laurel, Commander Owens.
Commander Richard Owens: Please join us. We have a lot to talk about.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-58.html
NASA
Space Shuttle
STS-58
Mission: SLS-2
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launch Pad: 39B
Launched: October 18, 1993 10:53 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Landing: November 1, 1993. 07:05:42 a.m. PST
Landing Weight: 229,753 pounds
Runway: 22
Rollout Distance: 9,640 feet
Rollout Time: 61 seconds
Revolution: 225
Mission Duration: 14 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes, 32 seconds
Returned to KSC: November 9, 1993
Orbit Altitude: 155 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 39 degrees
Miles Traveled: 5.8 million
Crew Members
Image above: STS-58 Crew photo with Commander John E. Blaha, Pilot Richard A. Searfoss Mission Specialists M. Rhea Seddon, William S. McArthur, Jr., David A. Wolf, Shannon W. Lucid and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman. Image Credit: NASA
Launch Highlights
STS-58 Mission Patch First launch attempt on Oct. 14 was scrubbed at the T-31 second mark due to a failed range safety computer. Second launch attempt on Oct. 15 scrubbed at the T-9 minute mark due to a failed S-band transponder on the orbiter. The launch was reset for Oct. 18. Countdown proceeded smoothly to liftoff, delayed only by several seconds because of an aircraft in launch zone.
Mission Highlights
Second dedicated Spacelab Life Sciences mission (SLS- 2). Fourteen experiments conducted in four areas: regulatory physiology, cardiovascular/cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal and neuroscience. Eight of the experiments focused on crew; six on 48 rodents. Crew collected more than 650 different samples from themselves and rodents, increasing statistical base for life sciences research. Combined data from SLS-1 and SLS-2 will help build comprehensive picture of how humans and animals adapt to weightlessness.
Cardiovascular investigations: Inflight Study of Cardiovascular Deconditioning; Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero Gravity; Pulmonary Function during Weightlessness. Regulatory physiology investigations: Fluid Electrolyte Regulation during Space flight; Regulation of Blood Volume during Space flight; Regulation of Erythropoiesis in Rats during Space flight; Influence of Space flight on Erythrokinetics in Man. Musculoskeletal investigations: Protein Metabolism during Space flight; Effects of Zero Gravity on the Functional and Biochemical Properties of Antigravity Skeletal Muscle; Effects of Microgravity on the Electron Microscopy, Histochemistry and Protease Activities of Rat Hindlimb Muscles; Pathophysiology of Mineral Loss during Space flight; Bone, Calcium and Spaceflight. Neuroscience investigations: Study of the Effects of Space Travel on Mammalian Gravity Receptors; Vestibular Experiments in Spacelab.
For one of the neurovestibular experiments, the Rotating Dome Experiment, crew worked with first flight prototype of Astronaut Science Advisor (ASA), a laptop computer designed to assist astronauts conducting experiments; also called "principal investigator in a box" because it can increase efficiency of experiment activities.
Six rodents were killed and dissected during mission, yielding first tissue samples collected in space and not altered by re-exposure to Earth's gravity.
Other experiments: Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment (OARE); Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX). Also performed: Pilot Inflight Landing Operations Trainer (PILOT), portable laptop computer simulator to allow pilot and commander to maintain proficiency for approach and landing during longer missions.
From 11/27/1963 ( Lyndon Johnson - Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress ) To 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut ) is 10918 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/24/1995 is 10918 days
From 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut ) To 9/24/1995 is 706 days
706 = 353 + 353
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/21/1966 ( premiere US TV movie "The Star Wagon" ) is 353 days
From 9/26/1960 ( premiere US TV series "The Blue Angels" ) To 8/18/1990 ( the dedication of the Spokane Washington State Riverfront Park sculpture "The Childhood Express" ) is 10918 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/24/1995 is 10918 days
From 11/3/1974 ( the Expo '74 Spokane Washington closes ) To 9/24/1995 is 7630 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/23/1986 ( premiere US TV series "Sledge Hammer!" ) is 7630 days
From 11/3/1974 ( the Expo '74 Spokane Washington closes ) To 9/24/1995 is 7630 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/23/1986 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks at a Ronald W. Reagan Scholarship Fundraising Dinner for Eureka College ) is 7630 days
From 4/24/1961 ( John Kennedy - Exchange of Messages With President de Gaulle of France ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 10918 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/24/1995 is 10918 days
From 4/24/1961 ( John Kennedy - Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Concerning Secret Service Protection of Persons in Line for the Presidency ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 10918 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/24/1995 is 10918 days
From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 9/24/1995 is 5532 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1980 ( premiere US film "Altered States" ) is 5532 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 9/24/1995 is 1711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/10/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Proclamation 3996 - United Nations Day, 1970 ) is 1711 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 9/24/1995 is 1711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/10/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Proclamation 3996 - United Nations Day, 1970 ) is 1711 days
From 4/25/1945 ( Harry Truman - Executive Order 9544 - Authorizing and Directing the Secretary of War to Assume Full Control of a Certain Airport [Redmond Oregon] ) To 9/24/1995 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 4/25/1945 ( Harry Truman - Executive Order 9544 - Authorizing and Directing the Secretary of War to Assume Full Control of a Certain Airport [Redmond Oregon] ) To 9/24/1995 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 4/20/1941 ( Pat Pattle of the Royal Air Force killed in action during World War 2 ) To 9/24/1995 is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days
From 2/28/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Printer's Devil" ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 10918 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/24/1995 is 10918 days
From 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) To 9/24/1995 is 2258 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/8/1972 ( premiere US TV movie "The Astronaut" ) is 2258 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/pilot-1-72591/
tv.com
Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot (1)
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Sep 24, 1995 on FOX
AIRED: 9/24/95
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/printers-devil-12696/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 4 Episode 9
Printer's Devil
Aired Unknown Feb 28, 1963 on CBS
Douglas Winter's paper, The Courier, is in financial trouble. Mr. Smith appears and offers to pay off the debts, and run the linotype machine. Douglas agrees, but soon regrets when he realizes Mr. Smith is the Devil. Mr. Smith offers him a contract guaranteeing The Courier's success in exchange for Doug's soul. Afraid of losing Mr. Smith, he agrees. Mr. Smith proceeds to cause all kinds of disasters. Doug asks him to stop, and Mr. Smith makes him another offer: He'll stop if Doug will kill himself.
AIRED: 2/28/63
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/printers-devil-12696/trivia/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 4 Episode 9
Printer's Devil
Aired Unknown Feb 28, 1963 on CBS
QUOTES
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: Take away a man's dream, fill him with whiskey and despair, send him to a lonely bridge, let him stand there all by himself looking down at the black water, and try to imagine the thoughts that are in his mind. You can't, I can't. But there's someone who can—and that someone is seated next to Douglas Winter right now. The car is headed back toward town, but its real destination is the Twilight Zone.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/printers-devil-12696/trivia/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 4 Episode 9
Printer's Devil
Aired Unknown Feb 28, 1963 on CBS
QUOTES
(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Exit the infernal machine, and with it his satanic majesty, Lucifer Prince of Darkness, otherwise known as Mr. Smith. He's gone, but not for good, that wouldn't be like him. He's gone for bad. And he might be back, with another ticket to the Twilight Zone.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034274/releaseinfo
IMDb
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
Release Info
USA 17 April 1941 (Des Moines, Iowa) (premiere)
USA 20 April 1941
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100406110108/http://www.operations.mod.uk/onthisday/newsItem_id=1114.htm
The National Archives
Ministry of DEFENCE
Sixtieth anniversary of the loss of Sqn Ldr Pattle
Published Thursday 19th April 2001
20 April marks the sixtieth anniversary of the death in action of one of the Royal Air Force's most distinguished pilots of the Second World War, Squadron Leader Marmaduke "Pat" Pattle.
Born at Butterworth, South Africa, in 1914, Pattle is officially recognised as the second-highest scoring Commonwealth fighter pilot of the war, his 34 victories placing him second only to the late Johnnie Johnson, who scored 38 victories. But it has always been recognised that the loss of official records during the evacuation from Greece in 1941 has prevented Pattle being given full credit for a remarkable career, which probably saw him achieve the highest score of any Commonwealth or US fighter pilot. (The most successful US pilot was Richard Bong, with 40 victories in the Pacific.) Pattle's colleagues believed he achieved as many as fifty or sixty victories in just nine months. He was without doubt the most successful biplane pilot of the war, scoring a remarkable 15 victories in the obsolete Gloster Gladiator.
Turned down by the South African Air Force, Marmaduke Pattle joined the RAF in 1936, and following pilot training was posted to 80 Squadron in 1937. The squadron deployed to Egypt the following year, and entered action in the Western Desert in August 1940, flying the Gloster Gladiator. Pattle, commanding B Flight, survived being shot down in the desert, rejoining his unit after walking back to British lines. 80 Squadron was deployed to Greece in November 1940, and re-equipped with Hurricanes in February 1941. The following month, Pattle was promoted to Squadron Leader and took command of 33 Squadron, the other RAF fighter squadron in Greece.
On 20 April 1941, despite being physically exhausted and sick with influenza, Pattle led the remnants of 33 and 80 Squadrons against a large enemy formation over Eleusis Bay near Athens. During the subsequent dogfight, heavily outnumbered, it is believed he was killed going to the aid of a colleague in difficulties, his Hurricane coming down in the sea.
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=space-above-and-beyond&episode=s01e01
Springfield! Springfield!
Space Above and Beyond
101 - Pilot (1)
[ USMC second lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: ] I'll never get in one of those.
[ USMC lieutenant colonel Tyrus McQueen: ] - Ten of us Tanks were with the Tellus Colony.
[ USMC second lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: ] - [Beeping] Only makes the aliens just as bad. I'm not going to die for them.
[ USMC lieutenant colonel Tyrus McQueen: ] What would you die for?
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
DANIEL
That's a curious word, to use, eh
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1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
Samuel S. Chapman: This is, uh, Senator Samuel S. Chapman of the United States Senate onboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz. Captain Yelland is here with me.
US Navy radio operator: You're on what?
Samuel S. Chapman: I am Senator Samuel S. Chapman onboard the USS Nimitz.
US Navy radio operator: All right, whoever the hell you are use of military frequencies by unauthorized personnel is a felony.
Samuel S. Chapman: Now just a minute here, sir.
US Navy radio operator: As we have no aircraft carrier Nimitz and no Captain Yelland I suggest asshole, that you stop impersonating some other asshole and get off the air. You're wasting our time.
Samuel S. Chapman: How dare you talk to me that way! Captain, tell him who you are. Speak to them!
1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Sir, I think you ought to see these aerial reconnaissance photographs of Pearl Harbor.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: Turn that off!
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Yes, sir.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: That'll be all. You.
US Navy Commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Executive Officer: It's not Pearl Harbor.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: Sure as hell is.
USS Nimitz CVN 68 operations officer: Look at that old battlewagon.
US Navy Captain Matthew Yelland - USS Nimitz CVN 68 Commanding Officer: It's a memorial now.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-blue-angels/angel-on-trial-177652/
tv.com
The Blue Angels Season 1 Episode 1
Angel On Trial
Aired Unknown Sep 26, 1960 on
AIRED: 9/26/60
http://www.azlyrics.com/c/coldplay.html
AZ
COLDPLAY
album: "X&Y" (2005)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/coldplay/talk.html
AZ
COLDPLAY
"Talk"
Oh brother I can't, I can't get through
I've been trying hard to reach you, cause I don't know what to do
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh I wanna talk to you
You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel?
Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
And they're talking it to me
So you take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or a write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Do something that's never been done
So you don't know were you're going, and you wanna talk
And you feel like you're going where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored
Nothing's really making any sense at all
https://my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontpark/highlights/red-wagon/
spokanecity
Riverfront Park
Red Wagon
The Childhood Express
Have you ever seen a red wagon this big?
This “larger than life” symbol of childhood is also an interactive sculpture. The handle doubles as a slide! Relax on a park bench and enjoy the beauty of the park while your kids play. Or hey, slide down the handle yourself! (We won't tell anyone...)
The Junior League of Spokane plaque, dated August 18, 1990 reads: This sculpture is dedicated to Spokane's children, as a reflection of the past, created in the present, to last into the future.
Facts about the Red Wagon
Created for the Centennial Celebration of Children - 1989
Dimensions - 12' high x 12' wide x 27' long.
Weight - 26 tons.
Made of steel and reinforced concrete.
Will hold as many as 300 people supporting 100 lbs. per square foot.
"Space: Above and Beyond"
"Pilot"
24 September 1995
Episode 1 Season 1DVD video:
00:59:00
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: Today you have been assigned your SA-43 endo-exo atmospheric attack jets. Your current orders are to take 48 hours leave.
US Marine Corps 2LT Nathan West: Sir, ship us out, sir.
US Marine Corps 2LT Shane Vansen: Sir, why have we been on accelerated training if we're not going to be used, sir?
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: Listen. All we know is what you people found last week. We have no idea what lies ahead. We know basically nothing about the enemy - numbers, weapons, tactics. That's why we have been losing and losing badly in every battle of this war. Don't be in such a hurry. My advice - go home. See your families. Could be the last time.
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Pilot"
24 September 1995
Episode 1 Season 1 DVD video:
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: Why are you here?
Vanessa Damphousse: Sir, to find a direction, sir.
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: A direction? Are you lost?
Vanessa Damphousse: Sir, I suffer from a sense of disconnection -
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: Answer the question.
Vanessa Damphousse: Sir, yes, I am, sir.
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: Well, do I look like a road map to you?
Vanessa Damphousse: Sir, no, sir.
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: I am a road map.
"Space: Above and Beyond"
"Pilot"
24 September 1995
Episode 1 Season 1 DVD video:
Neal West: Hi. The TV said we're about to begin another battle.
Reporter FTN Television video: I'm here at the U.N. Task Force Headquarters at Vandenberg, California, receiving the latest reports -
Neal West: I heard the alien fighters are made of some unknown metal - that we can't harm it.
US Marine Corps 2LT Nathan West: We've only started reverse engineering on the one we found. It's just rumors.
Neal West: Kylen's brother told us -
Reporter FTN Television video: ...official dispatch of the elite Marine Corps fighter squadron, the 127th, better known as the Angry Angels, which left their base in Loxley, Alabama, sometime last evening. This is, without a doubt, the largest mobilization of Unified Earth force -
Neal West: It doesn't seem like we can win.
US Marine Corps 2LT Shane Vansen: Don't worry. This time out we'll beat them.
John West: How do you know?
US Marine Corps 2LT Shane Vansen: Well, because this time they're going up against the 127th - the Angry Angels. They will knock the enemy into Andromeda.
http://www.space.com/14457-nasa-astronaut-shannon-lucid-retires.html
Space.com
Record-Setting Female Astronaut Shannon Lucid Leaving NASA
SPACE.com Staff February 03, 2012 07:00am ET
NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid, the only American woman to live aboard the Russian Mir space station, and a member of NASA's first astronaut class to include women, has retired after a long and outstanding career at the agency.
Lucid's time at NASA spans more than three decades, which includes five spaceflights. In total, she has logged 5,354 hours, or more than 223 days, in space, agency officials said in a statement. From August 1991 to June 2007, Lucid also held the international record for the most days spent in orbit by any woman.
Lucid is the only American woman to have lived and worked on the Russian Mir space station. Her stay lasted more than 188 days, which was the longest mission of any American aboard that former orbiting outpost.
Lucid's time on Mir also made her the record holder for the longest single flight by a woman, but this milestone was later surpassed by Sunita Williams in 2006. Lucid then served as NASA's Chief Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. from 2002 to 2003, before returning to the Johnson Space Center. [Biggest Human Spaceflight Records of All Time]
Among other duties as part of the Astronaut Office, Lucid frequently served as the capsule communicator on space station and space shuttle missions, and many will likely remember her distinctively cheerful voice as the go-between for the crews and Mission Control.
"Shannon is an extraordinary woman and scientist," Peggy Whitson, chief of NASA's Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a statement. "She paved the way for so many of us. She was a model astronaut for long-duration missions, and whether she was flying hundreds of miles up in space or serving as Capcom [capsule communicator] during the overnight hours for our space shuttle and space station crews, she always brought a smile to our faces. Like so many others, I always will look up to her."
Lucid was selected by NASA in 1978, and graduated with five other women as the agency's first female astronauts. Her first three shuttle missions, STS-51G in 1985, STS-34 in 1989, and STS-43 in 1991, deployed satellites, including the Galileo spacecraft to explore Jupiter. Her fourth shuttle mission, STS-58 in 1991, was designed to conduct a series of medicalexperiments and engineering tests.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706368/quotes
IMDb
Space: Above and Beyond (TV Series)
Pilot (1995)
Quotes
Capt. Shane Vansen: Don't. It could carry some kind of disease.
Lt. Cooper Hawkes: I never had a mother, but you sound like one.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25988
The American Presidency Project
Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
11 - Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress.
November 27, 1963
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans:
All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time. Today John Fitzgerald Kennedy lives on in the immortal words and works that he left behind. He lives on in the mind and memories of mankind. He lives on in the hearts of his countrymen.
No words are sad enough to express our sense of loss. No words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of America that he began.
The dream of conquering the vastness of space--the dream of partnership across the Atlantic--and across the Pacific as well-the dream of a Peace Corps in less developed nations--the dream of education for all of our children--the dream of jobs for all who seek them and need them--the dream of care for our elderly--the dream of an all-out attack on mental illness--and above all, the dream of equal rights for all Americans, whatever their race or color--these and other American dreams have been vitalized by his drive and by his dedication.
And now the ideas and the ideals which he so nobly represented must and will be translated into effective action.
Under John Kennedy's leadership, this Nation has demonstrated that it has the courage to seek peace, and it has the fortitude to risk war. We have proved that we are a good and reliable friend to those who seek peace and freedom. We have shown that we can also be a formidable foe to those who reject the path of peace and those who seek to impose upon us or our allies the yoke of tyranny.
This Nation will keep its commitments from South Viet-Nam to West Berlin. We will be unceasing in the search for peace; resourceful in our pursuit of areas of agreement even with those with whom we differ; and generous and loyal to those who join with us in common cause.
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. We must be prepared at one and the same time for both the confrontation of power and the limitation of power. We must be ready to defend the national interest and to negotiate the common interest. This is the path that we shall continue to pursue. Those who test our courage will find it strong, and those who seek our friendship will find it honorable. We will demonstrate anew that the strong can be just in the use of strength; and the just can be strong in the defense of justice.
And let all know we will extend no special privilege and impose no persecution. We will carry on the fight against poverty and misery, and disease and ignorance, in other lands and in our own.
We will serve all the Nation, not one section or one sector, or one group, but all Americans. These are the United States-a united people with a united purpose.
Our American unity does not depend upon unanimity. We have differences; but now, as in the past, we can derive from those differences strength, not weakness, wisdom, not despair. Both as a people and a government, we can unite upon a program, a program which is wise and just, enlightened and constructive.
For 32 years Capitol Hill has been my home. I have shared many moments of pride with you, pride in the ability of the Congress of the United States to act, to meet any crisis, to distill from our differences strong programs of national action.
An assassin's bullet has thrust upon me the awesome burden of the Presidency. I am here today to say I need your help; I cannot bear this burden alone. I need the help of all Americans, and all America. This Nation has experienced a profound shock, and in this critical moment, it is our duty, yours and mine, as the Government of the United States, to do away with uncertainty and doubt and delay, and to show that we are capable of decisive action; that from the brutal loss of our leader we will derive not weakness, but strength; that we can and will act and act now.
From this chamber of representative government, let all the world know and none misunderstand that I rededicate this Government to the unswerving support of the United Nations, to the honorable and determined execution of our commitments to our allies, to the maintenance of military strength second to none, to the defense of the strength and the stability of the dollar, to the expansion of our foreign trade, to the reinforcement of our programs of mutual assistance and cooperation in Asia and Africa, and to our Alliance for Progress in this hemisphere.
On the 20th day of January, in 1961, John F. Kennedy told his countrymen that our national work would not be finished "in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But," he said, "let us begin."
Today, in this moment of new resolve, I would say to all my fellow Americans, let us continue.
This is our challenge--not to hesitate, not to pause, not to turn about and linger over this evil moment, but to continue on our course so that we may fulfill the destiny that history has set for us. Our most immediate tasks are here on this Hill.
First, no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.
I urge you again, as I did in 1957 and again in 1960, to enact a civil rights law so that we can move forward to eliminate from this Nation every trace of discrimination and oppression that is based upon race or color. There could be no greater source of strength to this Nation both at home and abroad.
And second, no act of ours could more fittingly continue the work of President Kennedy than the early passage of the tax bill for which he fought all this long year. This is a bill designed to increase our national income and Federal revenues, and to provide insurance against recession. That bill, if passed without delay, means more security for those now working, more jobs for those now without them, and more incentive for our economy.
In short, this is no time for delay. It is a time for action--strong, forward-looking action on the pending education bills to help bring the light of learning to every home and hamlet in America--strong, forward-looking action on youth employment opportunities; strong, forward-looking action on the pending foreign aid bill, making clear that we are not forfeiting our responsibilities to this hemisphere or to the world, nor erasing Executive flexibility in the conduct of our foreign affairs--and strong, prompt, and forward-looking action on the remaining appropriation bills.
In this new spirit of action, the Congress can expect the full cooperation and support of the executive branch. And in particular, I pledge that the expenditures of your Government will be administered with the utmost thrift and frugality. I will insist that the Government get a dollar's value for a dollar spent. The Government will set an example of prudence and economy. This does not mean that we will not meet out unfilled needs or that we will not honor our commitments. We will do both.
As one who has long served in both Houses of the Congress, I firmly believe in the independence and the integrity of the legislative branch. And I promise you that I shall always respect this. It is deep in the marrow of my bones. With equal firmness, I believe in the capacity and I believe in the ability of the Congress, despite the divisions of opinions which characterize our Nation, to act--to act wisely, to act vigorously, to act speedily when the need arises.
The need is here. The need is now. I ask your help.
We meet in grief, but let us also meet in renewed dedication and renewed vigor. Let us meet in action, in tolerance, and in mutual understanding. John Kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed-that America must move forward. The time has come for Americans of all races and creeds and political beliefs to understand and to respect one another. So let us put an end to the teaching and the preaching of hate and evil and violence. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream.
I profoundly hope that the tragedy and the torment of these terrible days will bind us together in new fellowship, making us one people in our hour of sorrow. So let us here highly resolve that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not live--or die--in vain. And on this Thanksgiving eve, as we gather together to ask the Lord's blessing, and give Him our thanks, let us unite in those familiar and cherished words:
America, America,
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good
With brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 08:45 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 30 October 2015
