Days of Thunder

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Sid Watkins

Biography

Date of Birth 6 September 1928, Liverpool, England, UK

Date of Death 12 September 2012, London, England, UK

Birth Name Eric Sidney Watkins


He became the Formula One's race doctor in 1978










http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-27/news/mn-48173_1_shannon-lucid

Los Angeles Times


Experts Expect Lucid to Be Very Tired, Wobbly

September 27, 1996 THOMAS H. MAUGH II TIMES MEDICAL WRITER

After 188 days in space, Shannon Lucid is going to be a little wobbly on her legs, lightheaded and very, very tired, researchers said Thursday.

Experience from previous extended space missions suggests that it may take eight weeks for her to fully regain her balance, and longer still to restore the 20% loss of muscle mass that has been encountered on previous missions, according to Dr. Dan Feeback, who heads the Johnson Space Center's muscle research laboratory.

But overall, the flight should leave no lasting effects, according to Dr. Lawrence I. Sinoway of Pennsylvania State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Although researchers still have only limited experience with the medical effects of extended space missions, results from U.S. Skylab and Russian Mir studies--as well as periods of prolonged bed confinement on Earth--suggest that four areas offer the greatest concern: the cardiovascular system, the neurovestibular system (which controls balance), muscles and the skeleton.

In the micro-gravity of space, Feeback said, "fluids go to the head, not the lower body like on Earth." The body thinks blood pressure is too high and responds by excreting more fluids and reducing production of red blood cells.

When the astronaut returns to Earth, the blood goes back into the lower limbs and he or she might feel lightheaded when standing up or moving suddenly, Feeback said. Because of the reduced volume of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, about 12% to 15%, the astronaut will also be slightly anemic and fatigue easily.

The neurovestibular system, which tells us where we are with respect to our environment, "is absolutely dependent on gravity," Feeback said, and is useless in space. When it begins to work again on landing, it over-responds.

The astronaut receives mixed signals from the system and will be wobbly for as long as eight weeks, especially when his or her eyes are closed or when he or she moves suddenly, said Dr. Jacob Bloomberg of the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Muscles that are not used in space will atrophy as much as 20% during a mission the length of Lucid's, Sinoway noted. The effect is most pronounced in muscles of the back and legs, which are normally exercised all the time on Earth when a person sits or stands.

Unless the astronaut takes specific steps to exercise these muscles in space--Lucid used a treadmill daily--they get little or no use. The astronaut who returns from space therefore will be weaker than normal and fatigue easily until muscle mass and tone are restored, Sinoway said.

Finally, astronauts have been shown to lose as much as 1% of bone mass for each month spent in space. The loss in a four-month flight "isn't earth-shattering," Feeback noted, but could be a problem if it were concentrated in crucial weight-bearing areas.

Sinoway noted that women are more predisposed to bone loss than men, but said that there has not been enough experience with spaceflight among women to determine whether their bone loss will be more severe.










From 9/6/1928 ( Sid Watkins ) To 6/27/1990 ( premiere US film "Days of Thunder" ) is 22574 days

22574 = 11287 + 11287

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 9/27/1996 is 11287 days



From 6/16/1960 ( premiere US film "Psycho" ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 11287 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 9/27/1996 is 11287 days



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 9/27/1996 is 1604 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 3/25/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Executive Order 11520 - Amending Executive Order No. 11407, Relating to the Presidential Service Certificate and the Presidential Service Badge ) is 1604 days





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The American Presidency Project

William J. Clinton

XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001

Remarks Welcoming Returning Astronaut Shannon Lucid in Houston, Texas

September 27, 1996

Thank you very much. Thank you. I want to say first how very much I appreciate the work that is done here by all of you at NASA. Thank you, George Abbey. Thank you, Dan Goldin. Thank you, every one of you who worked for America's space program, for a job well done. This is all of your triumph here today, and America is very proud of you. Thank you very much.

Of course, like all of you, I'm here to say welcome home to Shannon Lucid. There's so many things to say about the incredible skill and stamina and dedication it takes to be in space for 6 months. Her achievements: the longest single flight by an American in space; the longest duration for any woman in space; five shuttle missions now for her. It's a monument to the human spirit. One of the wits on my airplane remarked as we were coming down, he said, "You know, Mr. President, you're always talking about bringing the deficit down for 4 years in a row; it's a good thing you haven't been giving her frequent-flier miles or we'd be in debt again." [Laughter] It's an amazing, amazing achievement.

And I know I speak for all Americans when I say I think we all feel at least that we've gotten to know Dr. Lucid, watching her grin and bear it as the mission was extended, hearing her eagerness to see her family, her yearning for what she called the wind and the sun. Perhaps more than she knows, she has also set a remarkable example for a new generation of young Americans and especially young girls all across this country who look up to her and now see new possibilities for themselves. And we thank her for that as well.

Let me also salute Bill Readdy and the crew of the Atlantis. What seems to me remarkable about their launch and return is that they make it now seem easy, and we know it's not. But we know that their bravery and their professionalism make possible for all of us regular space travel with all of the scientific, military, and commercial benefits it brings. Now it's a part of our lives thanks to this crew and others like them.

The mission from which Dr. Lucid returns continues to cement the close and growing bonds of cooperation between the United States and the Russian space programs, something that we have worked very hard for, not only the cooperation between our Nation and Russia but between our Nation and other nations as well in the space station project.

We are committed to continuing the strong United States space program. We have to keep the space shuttle flying; work toward the international space station with all of its promise and challenges; develop the X-33, which will replace the shuttle and help to create a revolution in global communications; and continue robotic exploration of Mars and the solar system.

I was told, in preparing these remarks, that when Dr. Lucid was in the eighth grade, she wrote an essay saying she wanted to be a rocket scientist. She was told by her teacher there is no such thing as a rocket scientist and if there were, it wouldn't be a woman. Well, how lucky we are that not everyone can foresee the future.

I say that today to make this point: The children here, whether when they grow up they have anything to do with the space program or not, many of these children will be doing work that has not been invented yet. Many of these children will be doing work that has not been imagined yet. And we owe it to them, their future, and their children's future to continue in the American tradition of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge, exploring the frontiers that we don't yet understand.

Our space pioneers reflect the very best of America's spirit of exploration, our never-ending search for new horizons. And Dr. Shannon Lucid today stands tall among them all. We are grateful for her. We welcome her home.

Thank you.

NOTE: The President spoke at 4:30 p.m. at Ellington Field. In his remarks, he referred to space shuttle Atlantis commander William Readdy.










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Springfield! Springfield!


The Martian (2015)


Dear Mark, Apparently, NASA's letting us talk to you now. And I, drew the short straw.










http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-27/local/me-48004_1_shannon-lucid

Los Angeles Times


It's a Lucid Moment

September 27, 1996

There's no place like home. Just ask Shannon Lucid. She's back from 188 days in space--an American record--and she's hankering for contact with her family, a shower and junk food. Such creature comforts were absent and dearly missed by the 53-year-old Oklahoman while she was aboard the Russian space station Mir. In orbit she conducted a range of scientific experiments and was forced to extend her stay six weeks because of weather problems on Earth and mechanical difficulties with the shuttle Atlantis, her transport back home.

The mother and biochemist was the first American woman to be stationed on Mir. On Sept. 7 Lucid broke the women's space endurance record set last year by the Russian cosmonaut Elena Kondakova.

Now Lucid herself is a specimen of study. She underwent five hours of medical tests after wobbling from Atlantis Thursday at Cape Canaveral. There were more tests scheduled today at NASA headquarters in Houston.

President Clinton sent a huge gold box full of M&Ms, which the astronaut said were high on her wish list as she circled the Earth more than 3,000 times. The hoopla that greeted her return was reminiscence of some of America's early space endeavors. Said Daniel Goldin, the NASA administrator: "She has a toughness and she has an ability to perform. She stuck with it. She's my hero."

Lucid's father had a more down-to-earth perspective of his daughter. When she visits him in Bethany, Okla., he said, "She's going to repaint my bedroom and help carpet the house." Ah, home.










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Days of Thunder (1990)

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Harry Hogge: Tim, take a look at that hound. That's the best coon-dog I ever seen or heard about and I didn't to teach him a damn thing.










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Days of Thunder (1990)

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Dr. Claire Lewicki: Tell me what you love so much about racing.

Cole Trickle: Speed. To be able to control it. To know that I can control something that's out of control.










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Days of Thunder (1990)

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Cole Trickle: What'd you win this one for?

[Points to a trophy]

Cole Trickle: This one right here, what'd win this for?

Rowdy Burns: Doesn't it say?

Cole Trickle: Yeah, that's a Winston Cup, buddy. Hell, that's an easy one to forget. What's your name, or has that slipped your mind too?

Rowdy Burns: Screw you, man.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 13, 2006


This image from STS-1 reminds me of something from the Taylor. We were in Gitmo during shakedown and the evaluators had the windows on the bridge covered up. We had to leave port like that, essentially flying by instrumentation and charts. While that memory would represent many different experiences from flight training, I have started wondering the past few hours if I was on STS-1 when it went up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Columba.sts-1.training.triddle.jpg

STS-1 crew in Space Shuttle Columbia's cabin. Astronauts John W. Young [left] commander and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, are the prime crew members for NASA's first Space Shuttle flight, STS-1. Here, they are logging time in the Shuttle orbiter Columbia in the orbiter processing facility [OPF] at the Kennedy Space Center [KSC].


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 17, 2006


One of those others that tugs my mind. I feel the defenses, the Kerry Burgess trying to save his life, reluctant to let me believe this.


http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/40981f.htm

Message to the Columbia Astronuats on the Inaugural Flight of the Space Shuttle
April 9, 1981

Commander John W. Young and Captain Robert L. Crippen, you go forward this morning in a daring enterprise, and you take the hopes and prayers of all Americans with you. You go in the hand of God and draw on the courage of life.

Our countryman and poet William Cullen Bryant said America is where mankind throws its last fetters. With your exploits, we loosen one more.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 July 2006 excerpt ends]










http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-27/news/mn-48138_1_lucid-home

Los Angeles Times


Lucid Lands on Both Feet After Record-Setting Flight

NASA: Astronaut surprises doctors on return to Earth by walking with shuttle crew mates after 188 days in orbit.

September 27, 1996 MIKE CLARY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — She's home at last.

After a record-setting 188 days in space, Shannon Lucid--biochemist, pioneer astronaut and mother with a hankering for potato chips and chocolate--returned to planet Earth on Thursday aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.

As the sun rose over the Atlantic Ocean, the silvery shuttle glided into view here, its arrival heralded by a double-barreled sonic boom. It rolled to a stop on the long runway at Kennedy Space Center at 8:13 a.m. EDT.

"Welcome home," said Mission Control.

Among a crowd of several hundred gathered at the landing site were Lucid's husband, Michael, her three grown children and her father, Oscar Wells of Bethany, Okla.

"I'm thankful it's over," said Wells, a retired minister.

So, clearly, is Lucid, 53, who was scheduled to complete her unprecedented space odyssey last month but spent an extra six weeks aboard the Russian space station Mir because of weather and mechanical snafus that delayed liftoff of Atlantis, her ride home.

After more than half a year beyond the reach of gravity, Lucid was expected to be weak, perhaps even unable to walk. But 45 minutes after touchdown, Lucid surprised National Aeronautics and Space Administration doctors by insisting that she walk with her five crew mates from Atlantis to a bus.

"She was a little wobbly, a little woozy, but she said, 'No, I can do it,' " said David Leetsma, director of flight crew operations.

On Mir, Lucid spent as much as two hours a day on a treadmill so she would have the strength to leave Atlantis under her own power.

Leetsma said Lucid's departure from the shuttle was delayed about 10 minutes because a catch on her space helmet became jammed and a technician had to be summoned to help get it off.

"I'm happy to say she's in great shape," reported NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, who greeted her aboard the bus. "Her spirits are terrific. She's such a positive person."

Added Goldin: "She has a toughness and she has an ability to perform. She stuck with it. She's my hero."

President Clinton called from the Oval Office to congratulate her. "I couldn't believe you walked off the shuttle," he said.

Clinton had sent a letter of commendation and a large box of M&Ms embossed with the presidential seal. During her stay on Mir, Lucid confessed to having a sweet tooth and said she especially craved M&Ms.

That extraterrestrial endorsement prompted the New Jersey-based M&M/Mars Corp. to dispatch a couple of public relations executives and a truckload of the candy to the space center. And, along with the visitor center at the Kennedy Space Center, it sponsored a welcome-home party for Lucid in which people who wanted to come were to be bused to a site near the landing strip. NASA security vetoed that plan, however--disappointing about 1,000 people who had turned out in response to full-page newspaper ads.

"I don't think we should turn the space program into a set of infomercials," Goldin said.

Although she had been aboard four previous shuttle missions, and is now the most frequent female flier in American space history, Lucid rocketed into the atmosphere March 21 as a virtual unknown. But she returned a full-blown celebrity.

She was the first American woman to live aboard Mir, a 250-ton orbiting research complex on which American astronauts will have a continuing presence for the next two years. On Sept. 7 she broke the women's space endurance record set in 1995 by Russian astronaut Elena Kondakova.

Lucid was replaced aboard the 10-year-old Mir on Sept. 19 by fellow American astronaut John E. Blaha. She took the mid-deck seat that Blaha had occupied aboard Atlantis for the journey home.

During her 4,512 hours in space, Lucid circled Earth 3,008 times, traveled 75 million miles, and, especially when her trip home was delayed, displayed a good-humored nature that endeared her to her Russian hosts and the American public.

"She's done something nobody else has done and done it with an attitude and enthusiasm that I think has captured the entire country," said Leetsma.

When Lucid was blasted into space aboard the same shuttle that brought her home, spring was just two days old. Major league baseball players were just loosening up. Lamar Alexander was considered a viable presidential contender. Liz Taylor was still married to Larry Fortensky.

Lucid missed the whole summer.

From space she also reported missing her family, junk food, visits to the bookstore, bicycle riding and hot water. Lucid has not taken a shower in more than six months.

Lucid also missed gravity. Scientists said she will need time to readjust to the feel of life on Earth after more than half a year of weightlessness. Although Lucid carried out a full load of scientific duties for both NASA and the Russians, she is also part of the experiment. She underwent at least five hours of medical tests Thursday, including a magnetic resonance imaging exam to study any changes in her tissues and bones.



http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-27/news/mn-48138_1_lucid-home/2

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Lucid Lands on Both Feet After Record-Setting Flight

NASA: Astronaut surprises doctors on return to Earth by walking with shuttle crew mates after 188 days in orbit.

September 27, 1996 MIKE CLARY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Once she returns today to NASA's Johnson Space Center headquarters in Houston, NASA scientists will put her through a series of additional tests to gauge the effects of her prolonged stay in zero gravity. They expect to find some loss of calcium in her bones and perhaps some lethargy.

Of particular interest will be Lucid's weight, normally 150 pounds. Her predecessor aboard Mir, Norman Thagard, a 52-year-old physician, lost 18 pounds during his four-month stay last year and on his return complained of the food, boredom and cultural isolation.

By all indications, Lucid was better prepared to spend more than half a year circling 240 miles above the Earth while confined to a cluttered, tin-can apartment with a reputation for foul air. Not only did she express a fondness for some sorts of Russian fare, including borscht, but she was well-supplied with American snacks, books and some knowledge of the Russian language, which she and Blaha studied during a year of training at Russia's Star City cosmonaut center.

She stayed in touch with her family via daily computer e-mail messages and through frequent televised telephone conversations.

Lucid remained in good spirits throughout her stay aboard Mir. "Everybody loves her," said Gen. Yuri Glazkov, a Russian training center official who before Lucid's flight expressed his expectation that because she was a woman, Lucid would help keep Mir clean.

It is not clear how much housekeeping Lucid did in space. She did, however, carry out a full range of scientific experiments, including some involving burning candles and growing plants.

Nonetheless, for several days Lucid has been dropping none-too-subtle hints that she was definitely ready to come home. Last week, after Atlantis finally took off to pick her up, Lucid commented: "You can be assured I am not going to be on the wrong side of the hatch when they close it."

She later remarked that, on the night last week before Atlantis lifted off, she was so excited that she could hardly sleep. "It was sort of like Christmas Eve when you're a kid, you know what I mean?" she said.

Mission Control in Houston appreciated her impatience. The next day workers there entertained Atlantis commander William F. Readdy and his crew with a recording of the 1965 hit, "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass. "A message from Shannon," Mission Control called it.

After transferring her gear into Atlantis, Readdy said, "Shannon filled the orbiter with laughs. There was hardly a moment that went by when she wasn't laughing about something. She's a real trouper."

The nine-day mission to bring Lucid home marked the 17th flight of Atlantis and the 79th flight of the shuttle program. Along with fetching Lucid, the Atlantis also resupplied Mir with equipment and fresh foodstuffs. The shuttle also brought back items no longer needed or that the more-cramped Russian Soyuz transporter could not carry. For example, Atlantis carried to Earth an Orion extravehicular spacesuit that would not fit into the Russian craft.

Born in Shanghai, China, where her father was a Baptist preacher, Lucid considers Bethany, Okla., her home, though she and her husband maintain an apartment in Houston. She holds both a bachelor of science degree and PhD in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma. Her husband is a petrochemist in Indianapolis.

Her father said he looks forward to his daughter coming soon to Bethany, where, he said, "she's going to repaint my bedroom and help carpet the house."










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Springfield! Springfield!


The Martian (2015)


You're in Martinez's hands now.

Well. Tell that asshole no barrel rolls.










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Days of Thunder (1990)

Release Info

USA 27 June 1990



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Days of Thunder (1990)

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Tom Cruise ... Cole Trickle










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Psycho (1960)

Release Info

USA 16 June 1960 (New York City, New York) (premiere)










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The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 25

Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM May 21, 1995 on FOX

Quotes


Smithers: (drunk) Mr. Burns was the closest thing I ever had to…a friend. But he fired me! So now I spend my days drinking cheap scotch and watching Comedy Central!

Dr. Hibbert: Oh, dear god!

Smithers: Eh, it's not all that bad… I never miss "Pardon My Zinger".

(Ned puts a blanket around Smithers.)

Groundskeeper Willie: Burns cost me my groundskeeping job at the school! And I'm too superstitious to take the one at the cemetery…

Grampa: Because of him, I lost my room, my things, and my buddy's collection of old sunbathing magazines.

Old Jewish Man: You bastard!

Moe: I lost my bar!

Barney: (pointing to Moe) I lost his bar!

Lisa: He robbed the school of music!

Principal Skinner: He robbed the school of financial security!

Tito Puente: He robbed the school of Tito!

Homer: He can't remember my name!










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Code of Federal Regulations

Title 32 - National Defense

Volume: 3

Date: 2006-07-01

Original Date: 2006-07-01

Title: Section 578.105 - Presidential Service Badge and Certificate.

Context: Title 32 - National Defense. Subtitle A - Department of Defense (Continued). CHAPTER V - DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. SUBCHAPTER F - PERSONNEL. PART 578 - DECORATIONS, MEDALS, RIBBONS, AND SIMILAR DEVICES. - General.

§ 578.105 Presidential Service Badge and Certificate.

(a) The Presidential Service Badge and the Presidential Service Certificate were established by Executive Order 11174, September 1, 1964 as amended by Executive Order 11407, April 23, 1968; Executive Order 11520, March 25, 1970; and Executive Order 12793, March 20, 1992. This award replaced the White House Service Badge and Certificate established by Executive Order 10879, June 1, 1960.

(b) The certificate is awarded, in the name of the President by the Secretary of the Army, to members of the Army who have been assigned to the White House Office; to military units and support facilities under the administration of the White House Military Office or to other direct support positions with the Executive Office of the President (EOP). The certificate will not be issued to any member who is issued a Vice Presidential Certificate or similar EOP Certificate, for the same period of service. Such assignment must be for a period of at least one year, subsequent to January 21, 1989.

(c) The badge is awarded to those members of the Armed Forces who have been granted the Certificate and is awarded in the same manner in which the certificate is given. Once the badge is awarded, it may be worn as a permanent part of the uniform.

(d) Only one certificate will be awarded to an individual during an administration. Only one badge will be awarded to an individual regardless of the number of certificates received.



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