I can remember specifically one time back in the early 1990s I told the woman who regularly cut my hair that I wanted to let my hair grow longer in the back. I'm pretty sure that was the early 1990s and I was living in Greenville South Carolina. I remember the context of having returned to civilian life not much earlier. I can remember growing it out onto my shirt collar and I can remember then telling her to trim it back shorter sometime not long after that.
Since my mission was always to someday go public about this stuff then there is reason to believe I would have left clues for me to find much later in the future. Because I would have known that something would be wrong with my memory.
There's really nothing wrong with my memory. I am just not getting through to people who *should have* been much easier to reason with.
Well, that's Shrieking Monkeys for you, here on Homestead Day 905. And that's after Crown Pointe Day 1473. And that's after Vermont Day (about) 989.
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/#/Detail/45452
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
FOR RELEASE: Apr 24, 1991
PHOTO NO: : KSC-91PC-766
The newest space shuttle orbiter, Endeavour, is ready to roll out of the hangar at Palmdale, Calif. OV-105 features many design enhancements, including a drag chute for safer landings and equipment to allow the orbiter to remain in space for up to 28 days.
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/#/Detail/45453
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
FOR RELEASE: Apr 24, 1991
PHOTO NO: : KSC-91PC-767
The newest space shuttle orbiter, Endeavour is ready to roll out of the hangar at Palmdale, Calif. OV-105 features many design enhancements, including a drag chute for safer landings and equipment to allow the orbiter to remain in space for up to 28 days.
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/#/Detail/45451
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
FOR RELEASE: Apr 24, 1991
PHOTO NO: : KSC-91PC-765
Chief Astronaut Daniel Brandenstein stands tall during a proud moment in the history of manned spaceflight: the debut of the newest space shuttle orbiter, Endeavour, at Palmdale, Calif.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-26/local/me-522_1_space-shuttle-endeavour
Los Angeles Times
New 'Jewel' of Shuttle Fleet Debuts : Space: Endeavour, the replacement for Challenger, comes off the production line in Palmdale. It is more advanced than earlier craft.
April 26, 1991 THOMAS H. MAUGH II TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
PALMDALE — The $1.8-billion space shuttle Endeavour officially rolled off the Rockwell production line in Palmdale on Thursday, replacing the ill-fated Challenger and bringing NASA's space fleet back to its full complement of four vehicles.
To the majestic strains of "Thus Spake Zarathustra"--the theme from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the unofficial anthem of the space generation--the five-story tall, gleaming white craft made its official debut before a crowd of 3,000 employees and well-wishers at Air Force Plant 42. NASA will not officially take delivery, however, until Endeavour is flown piggyback on a 747 to the Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida this weekend.
Although the orbiter will not actually be completed until after it reaches Florida, NASA officials and astronauts waxed poetic over it.
"Endeavour, the jewel of the fleet! Isn't it beautiful?" remarked astronaut Daniel Brandenstein, who will command the shuttle on its maiden voyage in March, 1992, a mission to bolt a new rocket motor onto a failed communications satellite. "I tell you, if that doesn't put a lump in your throat, I don't think you're human."
"Endeavour is a beauty," said NASA Administrator Richard Truly, "but in this case beauty is more than skin deep. This orbiter's not like the others. It's equipped with the latest avionics (navigation equipment), the finest mechanical systems, a new drag chute and equipment for longer duration flights."
Endeavour incorporates all the improvements that have been made on the other three shuttles, and some that won't appear on those shuttles until later. The most obvious is a drag parachute that will be deployed on landing to slow the orbiter, thereby easing the pressures on the brakes and landing gear.
The parachute and a newly beefed-up nose wheel will also increase control of the shuttle when it is forced to land on the concrete runway at the Kennedy center rather than the longer and wider dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base.
Endeavour also contains more fuel cells, which generate electricity, to allow it to stay in orbit for as long as 28 days, twice as long as the existing craft. NASA plans to make longer flights in the future to study the effects of microgravity on astronauts.
At the ceremony, Brandenstein was presented with part of the sternpost recovered from the first Endeavour, a research ship commanded by British explorer Capt. James Cook between 1768 and 1771. The centuries-old memento will be carried into space on Endeavour's first mission.
Endeavour joins Discovery, Atlantis and Columbia, which were also named after seagoing research vessels. The new vessel's name was suggested by schoolchildren from Senatobia, Miss. and Tallulah Falls, Ga., who were present for the rollout.
It replaces the Challenger, which exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven aboard.
Former President Reagan authorized the replacement for Challenger in 1987. The quick construction was possible in part because Rockwell had a set of wings, a crew cabin, a tail fin and other major structural components available as backups for the fleet. These were all incorporated into Endeavour.
But the orbiter is still missing a nose-mounted cluster of steering rockets that will not be delivered until July, and its three main rocket engines will not be installed until September. Two small maneuvering rockets also are not finished, and Endeavour will make its first flight with two borrowed from Columbia.
The Newest Shuttle: Endeavour NASA's newest space shuttle incorporates many modifications, upgrades and technologies added to the orbiter fleet over the past several years. 1. Hydraulic system: Improved power units are lighter and last longer. 2. Navigation system: Includes more powerful computers, new star tracker and a new inertial navigation system. 3. Nose-wheel steering: New backup system in case the primary one fails. 4. Extended duration: Modifications include more storage space, trash compactors, carbon dioxide removal system and more fuel cells. 5. Improved brakes: Helps craft stop in a shorter distance. 6. Drug chute: To aid deceleration and reduce load on landing gear and brakes. Source: NASA, Rockwell International
From 4/25/1991 To 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 ) is 378 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 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut returning from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 378 days
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/endeavour-info.html
NASA
Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Overview: Endeavour (OV-105)
Construction Milestones
February 15, 1982 Start structural assembly of Crew Module
July 31, 1987 Contract Award
September 28, 1987 Start structural assembly of aft-fuselage
December 22, 1987 Wings arrive at Palmdale, Calif. from Grumman
August 1, 1987 Start of Final Assembly
July 6, 1990 Completed final assembly
April 25, 1991 Rollout from Palmdale
http://www.space.com/11513-nasa-space-shuttle-endeavour-history.html
SPACE.com
NASA's Youngest Shuttle: The Historic Endeavors of Space Shuttle Endeavour
By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor April 28, 2011 04:51pm ET
Twenty years after exiting its assembly facility for its maiden mission, space shuttle Endeavour is poised on the launch pad to fly its final flight.
NASA's youngest orbiter, born from a tragedy, Endeavour made its debut on April 25, 1991, as it was rolled out from Rockwell's construction hangar in Palmdale, Calif. The fifth and last of the U.S. space agency's reusable winged spacecraft to enter the shuttle fleet
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http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-104A
NASA
Gemini 12
NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1966-104A
Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 1966-11-11
Launch Vehicle: Titan II
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Funding Agency
NASA-Office of Manned Space Flight (United States)
The automatically controlled reentry sequence began with retrofire at the end of revolution 59 on 15 November at 1:46:31 p.m. EST. Splashdown occurred at 2:21:04 p.m. in the western Atlantic at 24.58 N, 69.95 W, 4.8 km from target point. The crew was picked up by helicopter and brought aboard the U.S.S. Wasp at 2:49 p.m., the spacecraft was picked up at 3:28 p.m. Total mission elapsed time was 94:34:31.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:15 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 20 March 2016
