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Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish [ The Simpsons ]
Reporter: I must say that in my day, we didn't talk that way to our elders.
Bart: Well, this is my day, and we do, sir.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/news/mn-1284_1_shuttle-flight
Los Angeles Times
NASA's New Endeavour Faces Challenging, Potentially Dangerous Flight : Science: Shuttle voyage will include spacewalks and a satellite-rescue mission. The seven-person crew will also practice construction in orbit.
May 06, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — The nation's newest space shuttle, Endeavour, is scheduled to lift off at 4:06 p.m. PDT Thursday on its maiden voyage and one of the most challenging missions in the 11-year history of the shuttle program.
If things go as planned, Endeavour's seven-day flight will include a record three spacewalks, the delicate and potentially dangerous rescue and relaunch of a $150-million communications satellite, and a practice run at assembling parts of the planned space station Freedom 200 nautical miles above the Earth.
In addition, the six men and one woman aboard will test the latest devices that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has devised for its four-shuttle fleet.
Originally scheduled for Monday evening, the beginning of Endeavour's maiden voyage was moved back three days until Thursday to permit a daylight launch. Officials said Tuesday that poor weather conditions could lead to a further delay. Thunderstorms expected Thursday put the chance of launch at 30%, and Friday's weather could present a similar problem, they said.
With Endeavour's scheduled launch coming as Congress renews the debate over the future of America's manned space program, "the general theme of this mission seems to be the human role in space," said John E. Pike, director of the space policy project for the American Federation of Scientists. "To demonstrate or evaluate just what you can do with people that you can't do some other way, I think that's what this . . . is all about."
Endeavour's mission, the 47th shuttle flight since Columbia was launched in 1981, is of particular interest to Californians. The new shuttle's pilot, Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin P. Chilton, 36, grew up in Westchester and graduated from St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey.
In Huntington Beach, engineers at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co., which is building a major portion of the planned, $30-billion space station, are relying on the assembly practice sessions to help them evaluate procedures and complete final, detailed design work.
Named after the 18th-Century ship that was the first command of Capt. James Cook, the British explorer, the $2-billion Endeavour replaces the shuttle Challenger, which exploded in 1986, killing seven crew members and stalling the U.S. manned space program for more than two years.
Completed a year ago by workers at Rockwell International in Palmdale, Endeavour has a host of new features intended to improve navigation, foster safer landings and permit longer flights.
The most difficult task the crew will attempt is the rescue of Intelsat VI, a 9,000-pound, 17 1/2-foot-tall, 12-foot-wide communications satellite. It was lost in a useless, low-Earth orbit in March, 1990, when a booster rocket failed to fire.
Intelsat--the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization--is a consortium of 122 nations that owns and operates a 17-satellite system that transmits television, telephone, facsimile, data and telex signals. The organization is paying NASA $93 million for the rescue operation.
If successful, the mission will put the satellite in position in time to transmit images of the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona, Spain, to points around the world.
The operation will begin hours after launch, when satellite controllers at Intelsat headquarters in Washington start maneuvering Intelsat VI into an orbit 200 nautical miles above the Earth, 100 miles lower than its current flight path.
Four days into the mission, Endeavour's commander, Navy Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, will move the shuttle into rendezvous position. As the shuttle approaches, astronauts Pierre J. Thuot, 36, a Navy commander, and Rick Hieb, also 36, will begin the first of the mission's three spacewalks.
Thuot will ride the shuttle's mechanical arm toward the slowly rotating satellite. In one of the trickiest maneuvers of the mission, Thuot will attach a "capture bar" to the bottom of the satellite, secure the bar with a special tool and then manually halt the satellite's rotation with a wheel built into the bar.
Astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, 42, a U.S. Coast Guard commander working inside the shuttle, will use the mechanical arm to pull the satellite into the cargo bay. There, Thuot and Hieb will attach the satellite to a 23,000-pound, solid-fuel rocket motor carried aloft by the shuttle.
Then the satellite and its new motor will be jettisoned from the spacecraft by four large springs. When the rocket motor is fired, it will propel the satellite into a transition orbit 45,000 miles above the Earth, before setting it down in a permanent position about 23,000 miles above the Atlantic.
This part of the mission is particularly dangerous, Pike said. "Any (spacewalk) is risky in the sense that deep-sea diving is risky," he said. "You're in a very hostile environment, and there's not much between you and that hostile environment. You have all of the same pressure problems . . . plus you have space debris to worry about."
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-06/news/mn-1284_1_shuttle-flight/2
Los Angeles Times
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NASA's New Endeavour Faces Challenging, Potentially Dangerous Flight : Science: Shuttle voyage will include spacewalks and a satellite-rescue mission. The seven-person crew will also practice construction in orbit.
May 06, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
The mass and rotation of the satellite add to the potential problems, Pike said. "It's kind of like floating around a swimming pool with a bunch of elephants."
After they deploy the satellite, Endeavour's astronauts will twice more venture outside, five and six days into the mission, to practice techniques that will be used beginning in late 1995 to assemble space station Freedom in orbit.
Astronauts Kathryn G. Thornton, 39, and Thomas D. Akers, a 40-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel, will team up for the second spacewalk, while Thuot and Hieb will handle the third.
During the spacewalks, the astronauts will build a pyramid intended to simulate a section of the 300-foot-long aluminum truss structure that will serve as the backbone of the space station. They will use the pyramid as a substitute for the orbiting station and practice the complex berthing maneuvers that will be required when the shuttle brings up additional pieces of the station for assembly in space.
The crew will also test five devices intended to assist future astronauts in working outside the space shuttle and the space station.
Engineers at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems are particularly interested in the ability of the astronauts "to be able to position that (pyramid) in the correct place, to be able to dock it and mate it to the other station component," said Bob Overmyer, McDonnell Douglas' director of operations for the space station project.
In addition, Overmyer said, engineers are "eagerly awaiting information to come back to us on the preference on the size and shape of the hand holds, for better gripping . . . so we can get on with our design."
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/15/2006 8:21 AM
I was reminded that 12/19/84 is the date I remember as reporting to the USS Taylor, and that I had missed the commissioning ceremony, as well as earning plankowner status, by 18 days.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 September 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/07/08 1:55 AM
It could be that I did leave the ship in the last days of January 1986 but that I have no recollection of those details.
I do "remember" leaving though. I cannot remember the guy's name who gave me a ride to the airport but he was a junior Quartermaster and he had a new blue Ford Escort car.
I "remember" the officer of the deck was going to render honors to a departing plankowner but I told him I was not a plankowner and that I had missed the ships commissioning
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 April 2008 excerpt ends]
From 12/1/1984 ( the United States Navy warship USS Taylor FFG 50 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet active service - departing 11 February 1986 as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 3rd Class my first United States Navy fleet assignment beginning 19 December 1984 ) To 5/7/1992 is 2714 days
2714 = 1357 + 1357
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 7/21/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1357 days
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-08/news/mn-1910_1_space-station-assembly
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Difficult Maiden Flight : Science: The mission includes three spacewalks, practice for space station assembly and rescue of a communications satellite.
May 08, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Dodging gusty winds and threatening thunderstorms, the shuttle Endeavour, the nation's newest orbiter, found a hole in the clouds Thursday and blasted off on its maiden voyage.
The weeklong mission, one of the most challenging in the 11-year history of the space shuttle program, began at 4:40 p.m. PDT, 34 minutes behind schedule, with a fiery liftoff from launch pad 39-B at the sprawling space center.
The new shuttle traced a graceful arc high over the Atlantic Ocean as it thundered toward orbit.
"It was sweet," said Daniel S. Goldin, the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "I think tonight we saw the very best of America."
The launch followed a virtually flawless countdown, marred only by a minor computer glitch and by nagging concerns about the weather in Florida and at an emergency landing site in Morocco.
A low-pressure trough off Florida's east coast spawned thunderstorms and a persistent cover of low, thick clouds that began to break up about an hour before liftoff. Rain at the Ben Guerir landing site in Morocco cleared in time to permit the launch.
Endeavour's flight, scheduled to end next Thursday evening at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is to include three space firsts.
Four of the seven crew members--Richard J. Hieb, 36, Navy Cmdr. Pierre J. Thuot, 36, Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas D. Akers, 40, and astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, 39--working in teams of two, are scheduled to complete a record three spacewalks. The walks are intended in part to test astronaut endurance for the grueling work of constructing the planned space station Freedom.
During the first walk, scheduled for Sunday, Hieb and Thuot will attempt another first when they try to rescue and relaunch a $150-million communications satellite. The Intelsat VI, which will broadcast signals from the Summer Olympics in Barcelona if the mission is successful, was stranded in a useless low orbit two years ago when the commercial rocket that carried it aloft malfunctioned.
In the two subsequent spacewalks, the Endeavour crew will be the first to practice in space the critical techniques and maneuvers that will be used in assembling the $30-billion space station, beginning with a shuttle mission planned for late 1995.
Named after the 18th-Century ship that was the first command of Capt. James Cook, the legendary British explorer of the South Pacific, the $2-billion Endeavour was built to replace the shuttle Challenger. Challenger was lost on Jan. 28, 1986, in an explosion that killed seven astronauts and stalled America's manned space program for more than 2 1/2 years.
NASA test director Eric Redding told reporters: "I can't think of a launch since the Challenger accident where I've seen a higher level of optimism and pride."
The launch of Endeavour came as Congress is again debating the future of the nation's manned space program, particularly the fate of space station Freedom. The program so far has survived a series of congressional attacks.
"We've got a very ambitious mission ahead of us," shuttle test director Al Sofge said, "and the benefits of flying men in space are going to be obvious here in the next few days."
Endeavour's mission, the 47th shuttle flight since Columbia lifted off in 1981, is of special interest to Californians. The orbiter was built by Rockwell International at its Palmdale plant, and its pilot, Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin P. Chilton, 36, grew up in Westchester.
Other crew members are the mission's commander, Navy Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, and Coast Guard Cmdr. Bruce E. Melnick, 42.
The most delicate and potentially dangerous part of the mission will begin about 2 p.m. PDT Sunday, when Hieb and Thuot attempt to pull the stranded satellite into the shuttle cargo bay and then attach it to a new, 23,000-pound solid rocket motor.
The motor, to be fired by Intelsat flight controllers in Washington, is supposed to boost the communications satellite from 220 miles to nearly 23,000 miles above the Earth, where it will stay in a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/08 8:50 PM
I just woke up a few minutes ago from I guess about 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I still feel exhausted. I am now wondering of the series of scenes and images in one dream was actually a representation of my flight into space as the commander of the first space shuttle launch.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/08 8:54 PM
There dream, though, seemed to be set on the USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7. I am not certain how I linked that setting to FFG-7 but I am certain I was on a FFG-7 class ship and the notion lingers in my mind that it was the FFG-7.
In a somewhat confusing part, I walked out of a room with two people in it, where a junior person was getting a medal, for someone reason, as I was looking on, onto the weatherdeck. The person who had got the medal, which was a medal I can visualize but that I do not recognize, followed out onto the deck, I think. I can still visualize the calm blue water and also looking out onto the shore and the sky line of some city we were near but that I cannot recognize either after waking up. I do remember that I commented to the other person that I enjoyed being back out to sea, and I feel compelled to note that I might have said to him that I enjoyed especially being out to sea when we we just floating around, as we were then. Then, for some strange reason, I was over the edge of the deck and I was hanging onto the low railing, trying to keep myself from falling over into the water. But the gravity was strange and that might be why that part seems weird, in retrospect of the dream. I almost want to say that my feet were drifting upwards instead of downwards towards the ocean. I cannot remember what happened next. On one hand, it seems understand that I was hanging onto that railing but I am also somewhat baffled, as I ponder the dream after waking up, why I was even hanging from that railing in the first place.
I also remember something, vaguely, about Iceland, maybe. Something related to flying aircraft. Perhaps I was stationed at some point as a pilot in Iceland. I remember hearing some comments about someone's skills as an aircraft pilot. I remember something about looking at an aircraft runway and seeing the remains of the de-icer material they use. This all seemed to happen as I was sitting on the boat and I could actually see those other locations, such as the runway and the office, while I was in another far away location. That might be the result of remembering a past experience while having a dream. Something like that. A memory within a memory. I also remember sitting there in that boat that I was holding some kind of award plaque but I cannot remember what was writting on that award plaque. I think the award plaque had been given to Jim Lovell but I am not certain what that means. I can still visualize certain words on it but I cannot remember enough to describe those words. I remember that some letters were missing in the words.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 March 2008 excerpt ends]
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 11/18/1996 is 1656 days
1656 = 828 + 828
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 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/09/raymond-why-dont-you-pass-time-by.html ]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11-facts.cfm
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The Apollo Program
APOLLO 11
Facts
Lunar Module: Eagle
Command and Service Module: Columbia
Launch: July 16, 1969
13:32:00 UT (09:32 a.m. EDT) Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Landing Site: Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility)
Landed on Moon: July 20, 1969
20:17:40 UT (4:17:40 p.m. EDT)
First step: 02:56:15 UT July 21, 1969
(10:56:15 p.m. EDT July 20, 1969)
EVA Duration: 2 hours, 31 minutes
LM Departed Moon: July 21, 1969
17:54:01 UT (1:54:01 p.m. EDT)
Time on Lunar Surface: 21 hours, 38 minutes, 21 seconds
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/quotes
IMDb
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Quotes
Rey: There are stories about what happened.
Han Solo: It's true. All of it.
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