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Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Crew Toasts Telescope's Release
February 20, 1997 From Times Wire Services
HOUSTON — As a stronger, smarter Hubble Space Telescope drifted farther away Wednesday, the shuttle Discovery's astronauts couldn't wait to get back home Friday to celebrate their service mission.
"I'll buy for the whole crew, and they're going to take me up on that," chief spacewalker Mark Lee said as his six crew mates cheered. "Up here, we've got some orange mango drink and some lemonade, but that's about as stiff as it gets. So I'm ready for a margarita."
Discovery is scheduled for a rare nighttime landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The $2-billion Hubble observatory, anchored for nearly a week in the shuttle's open cargo bay, was set free to rousing music after being modernized and repaired in five wearying spacewalks, conducted one night after another.
"It's been sitting in the mother's nest in the shuttle quite comfortable, and now our little baby's out on its own," said NASA's chief Hubble scientist, Ed Weiler.
The orbiting Hubble will undergo an eight- to 10-week checkout by ground controllers before it can start gazing deeper into the universe with its new infrared eyes and two-dimensional imaging sensors.
"These are all instruments built in 1990s with today's technology and far surpass anything we have on the old space telescope," Weiler said. "We just don't know what we're going to see with these new instruments."
The first images are to be released in May.
"Thanks to you . . . the window on the universe is about to be open just a little bit more," NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin told the crew.
Hubble and Discovery parted company 385 miles above Africa's western coast, the highest orbit ever for the telescope thanks to a gradual, gentle lift on the shuttle.
It was the second service call to the Hubble, which was put in orbit in 1990.
In 1993, spacewalking astronauts fixed the Hubble's blurred vision, caused by a defective mirror.
The latest mission was nearly flawless.
"From my viewpoint, we did more than we set out to do," John Campbell, a Hubble manager, said. "I'd say we're 110% successful."
One big surprise was peeling insulation on Hubble's sun-drenched side.
The astronauts covered the six gaping holes with jury-rigged patches during their fifth spacewalk, added specifically to repair the insulation.
In 1999, astronauts will return to equip Hubble with a new camera, computer, thermal insulation and solar wings. NASA hopes to keep operating Hubble until at least 2005.
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Oh, wow. This is just heartbreaking. All this time. 12 years ago.
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List of parks in Seattle
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There are hundreds of parks in Seattle, Washington, many of which are administered by Seattle Parks and Recreation, a city department. This is a partial list.
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Freeway Park
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Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington, United States, extends from Downtown Seattle, where it adjoins the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, to First Hill. The park bridges over Interstate 5 and a large city-owned parking lot; 8th Avenue bridges over the park. An unusual mixture of brutalist architecture and greenery, the 5.2-acre (21,000 m2) park, designed by Lawrence Halprin's office under the supervision of Angela Danadjieva, opened to the public July 4, 1976
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
COCHRANE: Ha, ha, ha. That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?
LAFORGE: It's your telescope.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 04:26 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Wednesday 15 May 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/05/they-know-future.html
I started this blog in a drug-induced haze from those hospital drugs they tricked me into taking and now I am still here. I have made no progress. I have literally just made my future worse, despite how incredibly relevant are the reports I have generated. I have no future if I remain on this course.
And they didn't just trick me into a simple mistake at that hospital. They didn't just trick me into taking brain medication when I thought I was taking aspirin. I mean, the notion of medication was farthest from my mind. They secretly drugged the food they gave me. I had agreed to stay there a few days in the hospital so I knew I was going to eat there. I had no idea they were going to drug me.
And drug me they did. You just wouldn't believe how doped up I was by that hospital. The doctors kept talking to me and I kept telling them the same thing: people are following me. My apartment is bugged. People on the television know what I am saying.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:07 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 28 December 2016
