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The Alternative Factor [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 3087.6
Original Airdate: 30 Mar, 1967
[ Opening scenes ]
[Bridge]
(Enterprise is orbiting a red and white planet.)
KIRK: Well, Mister Spock?
SPOCK: Very typical, Captain. Iron-silicon base, oxygen-hydrogen atmosphere, largely arid, no discernible life. No surprises.
KIRK: Photographic section, begin scanning. Tie in to visual section 988-TG, computer bank 22. Kirk out. About four more orbits ought to do it, Mister Lesley. That'll wrap it up. Lay in a course for Starbase 200.
LESLEY: Aye, aye, Captain.
SPOCK: Captain.
(Something suddenly rocks the ship. We see a shot of a nebula along with the crew.)
KIRK: Mister Spock!
SPOCK: Incredible, Captain.
(And again.)
KIRK: What was that?
SPOCK: What my instruments read is totally unbelievable, Captain. Twice, for a split second each time, everything within range of our instruments seemed on the verge of winking out.
KIRK: I want facts, not poetry.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-05-08/news/9202070243_1_intelsat-space-program-spacewalking-astronauts
SunSentinel
`Endeavour` A New Start, Nasa Says
May 8, 1992 By ARDEN MOORE, Staff Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL -- Daniel Goldin, NASA`s new administrator, hailed Endeavour`s launch debut on Thursday as a new start for America`s space program.
The newest space shuttle shook off a threat of rain and hail to pound through a low bed of clouds at 7:40 p.m. on its way to an ambitious, eight-day mission.
``When I saw the flames shoot out of the bottom of Endeavour, I thought, `We have a fresh start,``` said Goldin, the former chief executive of TRW Inc. who plans to run the U.S. space program as a business.
He liked what he saw, saying that the $2 billion shuttle was built under budget, delivered on time and performed a picturesque launch.
The space program is at a critical crossroads, he said. The fleet of four orbiters must be capable of sending astronauts into space to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and build Space Station Freedom during this decade.
``We`ve got to sell our program to the public on merit and not on theatrics,`` Goldin said.
The big test for Endeavour -- which replaces Challenger, the shuttle that exploded in 1986, killing all seven crew members -- comes on Sunday. Its seven-member crew must capture and repair a wayward telecommunications satellite whose first job will be to broadcast this summer`s Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, to an international viewing audience.
The rescue, considered the most complex in the shuttle program`s 11-year history, involves the first rendezvous between an orbiting shuttle and a satellite. It is a $150 million gamble for Intelsat, an international satellite organization, which is paying NASA for the rescue.
Intelsat officials are banking on spacewalking astronauts to attach a rocket motor to their satellite on Sunday.
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STS-49
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STS-49 was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite (Intelsat 603, which failed to leave low earth orbit two years before), attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous orbit. After several attempts, the capture was completed with a three-person extra-vehicular activity (EVA). This was the first time that three people from the same spacecraft walked in space at the same time, and as of 2014 it was the only such EVA. It would also stand until STS-102 in 2001 as the longest EVA ever undertaken.
Spacewalks
Thuot and Hieb – EVA 1
EVA 1 Start: 10 May 1992 – 20:40 UTC
EVA 1 End: 11 May 1992 – 00:23 UTC
Duration: 3 hours, 43 minutes
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STAR TREK
Alternative Factor, The
Star Trek: The Original Series
Season: 1 Ep. 27
Air Date: 03/30/1967
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The Alternative Factor [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 3087.6
Original Airdate: 30 Mar, 1967
SPOCK: I have given you the facts, Captain. The entire magnetic field in this solar system simply blinked. The planet below, the mass of which we're measuring, attained zero gravity.
KIRK: That's impossible. What you're describing
SPOCK: Is non-existence.
UHURA: Standard General Alert signal from Starfleet Command, Captain.
KIRK: All stations to immediate alert status. Stand by.
SPOCK: Captain, scanners now report a life object on the planet surface below.
KIRK: You just did a complete life survey five minutes ago. How are you just picking it up now?
SPOCK: Inexplicable, Captain. This reading began at approximately the moment that the pulsation phenomenon began to subside.
KIRK: Well, what is it, this object? Its physical makeup?
SPOCK: A living being. Body temperature 98.5 Fahrenheit. Mass, electrical impulses, movement. It is apparently human, Captain.
KIRK: And its appearance coincided with this cosmic winking-out?
SPOCK; Almost to the second.
KIRK: Explanation.
SPOCK: None.
KIRK: Speculation. Could this being present any danger to the ship?
SPOCK: Possible. Very possible.
KIRK: Lieutenant Uhura, notify Security to have an armed detachment of men ready to beam down with us. Let's go. Any word comes through from Starfleet Command, pipe it down immediately. Communications, priority one.
Captain's log, stardate 3087.6. While investigating an uncharted planet, the Enterprise and at least this entire quadrant of space, has been subjected to violent, unexplained stress and force. Sensors have reported the presence of a human being on the planet below who might be connected with the phenomenon. With my first officer and a security team, I have set out in search of him.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-11/news/mn-1188_1_space-shuttle-endeavour
Los Angeles Times
Errant Satellite Twists Out of Shuttle's Grasp
May 11, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — What had been a flawless maiden voyage for space shuttle Endeavour ran into serious trouble Sunday as astronauts attempting to snag a stranded $150-million communications satellite sent it spinning out of control.
"We've got to get away from this thing," Endeavour commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, said after the first of four rescue attempts pushed the Intelsat 6 satellite into an uncontrollable, 52-degree wobble.
At the Johnson Space Center, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to abandon further efforts to rescue the satellite Sunday and tentatively said they will make another try today. Meanwhile, they ordered Brandenstein to slowly back Endeavour away from the wildly gyrating Intelsat and trail it from a distance of between 45 and 70 miles.
"Our plan is to be successful the next time we go to capture Intelsat," said Randy Stone, NASA operations director for the Endeavour mission. "Other than the exciting events of (Sunday) afternoon, the orbiter and the crew are in great shape."
At the Washington headquarters of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, which paid NASA $93 million for the rescue mission, flight controllers predicted that they could stabilize the satellite in time for a rescue attempt today.
"Yes, we are disappointed," said Pierre Madon, a vice president of the international communications consortium. But he added, "I'm quite sure this (Monday) will be a successful attempt."
Shuttle commander Brandenstein had confidence too. "We wish the home team had won today, but there's always tomorrow," he said.
The rescue failure appeared to be a serious setback for NASA, which had billed the Endeavour voyage in part as a demonstration of the need for using human beings in space exploration.
The mission went awry just before 3 p.m. PDT, when astronaut Pierre J. Thuot, a Navy commander, made his first try at grabbing the 17-foot tall, 8,960-pound satellite. The attempt came as the Endeavour and the Intelsat 6 streaked over Central Africa at 17,500 miles an hour.
Tethered to the shuttle's mobile robot arm, Thuot, 36, reached for the bottom of the slowly rotating satellite with a specially built 15-foot-long "capture bar." But Thuot failed to secure the bar to the satellite and instead appeared to push its right side into a yaw.
"Oh, man," Thuot said, "I hardly touched it."
Over the next hour, three subsequent passes at the wobbling satellite also failed. At one point, astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, 42, working inside the shuttle at the controls of the robot arm, attempted to guide Thuot back under the Intelsat 6. During the maneuver, one of the astronauts on board the shuttle shouted a warning to Thuot: "Pierre, get out of there!"
The astronauts had been trying to pull the satellite inside the shuttle's cargo bay, where they were to hitch it to a frame that houses a new 23,000-pound, solid-fuel rocket motor. The new motor is intended to boost the satellite out of its low Earth orbit so that it can be used to transmit telephone and television signals.
Stone, the mission operations director, said it does not appear that Thuot damaged the satellite during the rescue attempt. "We don't know everything that happened, but I don't expect we did any damage to the (Intelsat)," Stone said. "We'll just have to wait and see."
Stone said NASA engineers planned to work overnight, reviewing videotape of the failed rescue attempts and questioning the astronauts about what went wrong.
"It's just a very difficult thing when you're dealing with a great big piece of equipment and a long bar to get everything lined up," Stone said.
The complex rescue operation, which began at 1:42 p.m. PDT, 225 miles over Australia, was to have been completed in just over five hours.
The Intelsat 6, which is scheduled to beam video of the 1992 Summer Olympics around the world, was stranded in its useless low orbit in March, 1990, when the commercial Titan rocket that carried it aloft malfunctioned.
In addition to the money it gave to NASA, Intelsat spent $50 million on the new rocket motor that the Endeavour astronauts were to have clamped onto the bottom of the communications satellite.
Intelsat controllers had been scheduled to fire the rocket motor Monday, which would have propelled the satellite into an elliptical orbit that would have pushed it as far as 51,750 miles away from the Earth. Eventually, the satellite was supposed to settle into a geosynchronous orbit--in effect, a stationary orbit--22,300 nautical miles (25,650 statute miles) over the Atlantic Ocean.
If it is eventually successful, the rescue would mark the first time that astronauts had saved a satellite by delivering a new rocket motor and attaching it in space.
The complex ballet that brought the 172,000-pound, 123-foot-long Endeavour and the Intelsat 6 together in space began at 4:40 p.m. PDT Thursday, when the new shuttle roared off on its maiden voyage from launch pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-11/news/mn-1188_1_space-shuttle-endeavour/2
Los Angeles Times
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Errant Satellite Twists Out of Shuttle's Grasp
May 11, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
Named after the ship that was the first command of Capt. James Cook, the 18th-Century British explorer, the $2-billion Endeavour was built by Rockwell International Corp. in Palmdale, Calif., to replace space shuttle Challenger. The Challenger was destroyed on Jan. 28, 1986, in an explosion that killed its seven crew members and stalled the Americans-in-space program for more than two years.
On Friday, Intelsat flight controllers at the consortium's headquarters in Washington fired thrusters that began lowering the satellite's orbit from 350 miles to the 225-mile altitude where it linked up with the shuttle.
They also slowed the spin of the satellite from 11 to less than 1 revolution per minute to allow Thuot to safely wrestle the satellite to a stop. Spinning the satellite helps maintain its stability in space, and reducing the spin increases the chance of yawing.
As the Intelsat team worked in Washington, the Endeavour crew and NASA flight officers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston began executing a series of shuttle thruster "burns" that brought the shuttle's orbit into phase with the satellite's flight path.
Endeavour closed in on the errant satellite shortly after 1:30 p.m. PDT as Thuot and astronaut Richard J. Hieb, 36, prepared for the first of the mission's record three space walks.
At the same time, Intelsat controllers "safed" the satellite--locking its steering jets to prevent any errant thruster commands from Intelsat ground stations that could spell disaster for the rescue team.
At 1:42 p.m. PDT Thuot and Hieb emerged from the shuttle's air lock into the cargo bay, where they began to unpack tools needed for the rescue.
Working from the shuttle's aft cockpit, Endeavour commander Brandenstein took manual control of the shuttle's thrusters as the spacecraft came abreast of the satellite, flying about 2,500 feet below the target.
Brandenstein slowly pulled the shuttle up in front of the satellite, with the shuttle's tail pointed toward the Earth. The maneuver aligned the open shuttle cargo bay with the bottom of the Intelsat 6.
Thuot then tethered himself to the shuttle's movable robot arm, visible on the ground through the cargo bay's television cameras, and the problems began.
The mission's other two scheduled spacewalks were to have taken place today and Tuesday, when astronauts were to have practiced techniques to be used on future missions to repair the flawed Hubble space telescope and to assemble the planned space station Freedom.
Space Rescue Planned The first flight of the new space shuttle Endeavour included an ambitious attempt to rescue the Intelsat 6 communications satellite, marooned in a low orbit since 1990. 1. Endeavour approaches Intelsat 6. Both spacecraft are moving at 17,500 m.p.h. relativeto Earth, but slowly relative to each other. 2. Astroaut Pierre J. Thuot clamps a control bar to the satallite so he can halt its rotation. 3. Astronauts mate the satallite to its new rocket motor and prepare it for ejection into space. Trapped in a useless orbit When it was launched in 1990, a booster failure marooned Intelsat 6 in a low orbit. The rocket attached by Endeavour's crew will loft the satallite into a temporary orbit almost a quarter on the way to the moon. Finally, over a period of months, Intelsat 6 will be lowered into its correct, 22,300-mile-high orbit. Source: NASA
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The Alternative Factor [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 3087.6
Original Airdate: 30 Mar, 1967
[Bridge]
KIRK: Activate phaser banks.
LESLEY: Phaser banks activated.
KIRK: Stand by to fire.
(The bright dot appears on the planet surface.)
LESLEY: Phasers standing by, sir.
KIRK: Fire phasers.
(A sustained burst hits the little saucer, while the two Lazarus' wrestle in non-space. Finally it disappears.)
KIRK: All right, Mister Lesley, let's get out of here. Ahead warp factor one.
LESLEY: Warp one, sir.
KIRK: Everything's all right, Mister Spock, for us.
SPOCK: There is, of course, no escape for them, sir.
KIRK: There is, of course, no escape. How would it be? Trapped forever with a raging madman at your throat until time itself came to a stop? For eternity. How would it be?
SPOCK: Captain, the universe is safe.
KIRK: For you and me. But what of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?
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Deep Space Homer [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 24-Feb-94
Carl: I hate these "Worker of the Week Award" ceremonies.
Lenny: Who even cares any more? Everyone at work sure has already got one.
Carl: Except foooooor --
Homer: Hello! Well, today's the day for Homer J.! I _know_ I'm going to win this time.
Lenny: Yeah? How come?
Homer: Union rule 26. "Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity, or rank odor." Heh heh heh heh.
Smithers uses a megaphone to make an announcement.
Smithers: Attention, everyone. Let's have an awed hush please for Mr. Burns.
[Everyone gasps]
Burns: Compadres, it is imperative that we crush the freedom fighters before the start of the rainy season. And remember, a shiny new donkey for whoever brings me the head of Colonel Montoya. [Smithers whispers to him] Hmm? What? Oh, and by that I mean, of course, it's time for the "Worker of the Week Award". I can't believe we've overlooked this week's winner for so very, very long. We simply could not function without his tireless efforts. So, a round of applause for...this inanimate carbon rod!
[Everyone cheers]
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Homer Simpson: Stupid carbon rod. It's all a popularity contest.
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