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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/brandenstein-dc.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
Biographical Data
DANIEL C. BRANDENSTEIN (CAPTAIN, USN, RET.)
NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)
EXPERIENCE: Brandenstein entered active duty with the Navy in September 1965 and was attached to the Naval Air Training Command for flight training. He was designated a naval aviator at Naval Air Station, Beeville, Texas, in May 1967, and then proceeded to VA-128 for A-6 fleet replacement training. From 1968 to 1970, while attached to VA-196 flying A-6 Intruders, he participated in two combat deployments on board the USS Constellation and the USS Ranger to Southeast Asia and flew 192 combat missions. In subsequent assignments, he was attached to VX-5 for the conduct of operational tests of A-6 weapons systems and tactics; and to the Naval Air Test Center where, upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Maryland, he conducted tests of electronic warfare systems in various Navy aircraft. Brandenstein made a nine- month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean on board the USS Ranger while attached to VA-145 flying A-6 Intruders during the period March 1975 to September 1977. Prior to reporting to Houston as an astronaut candidate, he was attached to VA-128 as an A-6 flight instructor. He has logged 6,400 hours flying time in 24 different types of aircraft and has 400 carrier landings.
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE
1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" DVD video:
01:26:47
US Navy Commander Frank "Dooke" Camparelli - USS Independence CV 62 air squadron commander: I want you out of my squadron. You'll be transferred out at my convenience.
US Navy Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton - USS Independence CV 62 US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot: Wait a minute! Good men die, and all we care about is following the rules, huh?
US Navy Commander Frank "Dooke" Camparelli - USS Independence CV 62 air squadron commander: What are you looking for, Grafton? Revenge? Now, this is not the place for it. You're going to shake your fist at God and say, "Give me revenge?" Well, He ain't listening. You know what's going on back home. Bombs, riots, people spitting on soldiers in airports. The whole country is tearing itself apart. Is there anything in this pissant war worth that? Christ, all we really got is each other. I want you to think about that while we're out there this morning, Mr. Grafton.
https://youtu.be/sRXPC_MQ-ok?t=671
You Tube
Stravinsky Petrushka
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/21/08 4:03 AM
I had a dream the other night where I heard someone that I could not see make a comment that I would make a good CAG.
I was on an aircraft carrier and I did not recognize any of the surrounding, as I pondered over the dream after waking up.
I do remember something about the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70, as I remember seeing those words on a cap someone was wearing, but something was wrong about that. The hull number might have been wrong on the cap or something else was wrong about those details in the dream.
In the dream, I told the Captain of the aircraft carrier that I had two A-6 Intruders holding near a ship that had navigated close to us and the Captain told me to bring them back. I can still almost hear the engine noises of those jets and I am not certain if maybe it is a noise I heard while in one of those jets during an experience relevant to the details in that dream.
I am not certain when I had that dream. A few days ago I guess. There were other details that I pondered over after waking up but that I do not remember now.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/21/08 4:10 AM
At the point in the dream after the Captain told me to recall the Intruders was when I heard the comment, as though from some external source to my sleeping mind, that I would make a good CAG.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/21/08 4:12 AM
Before I gained conscious awareness that I have some form of amnesia, I used to refer to such occurrences as 'foreign dreams.'
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 February 2008 excerpt ends]
http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/57v.htm
NavSource Online
Interior Communications
The 1JV circuit
This was the primary maneuvering and docking circuit and connected the captain with such stations as the forward and after engine rooms, the forecastle, the fantail, the different mooring stations and the after steering station.
Over this circuit the captain communicated with everyone who had anything to do with the movement of the ship, direction or speed.
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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.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 02:39 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 04 January 2016
