http://www.tv.com/shows/lights-out-1949/the-house-that-time-forgot-416294/
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Lights Out (1949) Season 2 Episode 36
The House That Time Forgot
Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM May 15, 1950 on NBC
Episode Summary
A young couple buys a long-abandoned house and discovers why it's been empty for so long: its former occupants from 1939 are still inhabiting the home.
AIRED: 5/15/50
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-28/news/mn-18110_1_space-station
Los Angeles Times
As Spirits Fly With Atlantis, Delays a Mir Inconvenience : Space: The shuttle pierces a blue sky after Florida storms scratched two launch dates. Linkup with Russian station is on track for Thursday.
June 28, 1995 K.C. COLE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The space shuttle Atlantis cracked open a robin's-egg-blue Florida sky with a deafening roar Tuesday afternoon as hundreds of spectators and NASA officials cheered and sighed with collective relief.
Pounding rain with lightning had been soaking the area for days, preventing two scheduled launches last week and threatening to keep the five U.S. and two Russian crew members indefinitely on the ground. But the storms held off Tuesday.
Atlantis had to begin its journey during a 10-minute window beginning at 3:32 p.m. EDT in order to make its planned docking with the Russian Mir space station, now set for Thursday morning. Mir passed over Kennedy Space Center just minutes before Atlantis took off. By the time the shuttle left the ground, Mir was over Iraq.
"Liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis on a mission that will herald a new day of international cooperation in space," launch commentator Bruce Buckingham announced as the shuttle, looking like a toy plane attached to a mile-high flamethrower, rode into orbit. The blastoff marked America's 100th manned trip into space.
The mission is the first joint U.S.-Russian mission since a U.S. Apollo spacecraft linked up briefly with a Russian Soyuz in 1975. This time, the two craft are to mate for five days at more than 200 miles above the Earth while the crew conducts several dozen experiments on biological effects of zero gravity to set the stage for building an international space station.
Waiting on Mir for a ride home is astronaut Norman E. Thagard, who broke the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight on June 6, when he logged 85 days on Mir. His two crew mates, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, will also be hitching a ride home on Atlantis.
Meanwhile, cosmonauts Anatoly Y. Solovyev, and Nikolai M. Budarin, who will ride up on Atlantis, will remain in space as the next Mir crew.
Atlantis is commanded by Navy Capt. Robert L. (Hoot) Gibson. In the pilot's seat is Air Force Lt. Col. Charles J. Precourt. The mission specialists are Dr. Ellen S. Baker, Gregory J. Harbaugh and Bonnie J. Dunbar.
Launch was delayed so long that dozens of Russian dignitaries gathered for the event had to leave for Moscow to get home in time for a meeting on space matters with Vice President Al Gore.
One of those dignitaries, cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, was waiting on Mir when Thagard arrived in March; in February, she had waved out Mir's window at the crew of the shuttle Discovery during its rendezvous. In a preliminary to the Atlantis docking, Discovery circled around Mir and hovered as close as 37 feet for just 10 minutes before backing off.
"It was a great pity they did not dock with us," said Kondakova just hours before heading home. "I will be jealous of those who will be on the station and receiving the crew."
Both U.S. and Russian crew members are eager to see their colleagues again.
"We're really excited about opening that hatch and seeing [Thagard's] smiling face," said Harbaugh. "I'm not sure if he's going to say hello in English or Russian."
This is to be the first of seven planned dockings, all to test procedures and equipment for the international space station, a partnership among Russia, the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada. Construction is due to begin in 1997, with occupancy scheduled for 2002.
Soon after launch, Atlantis began a series of rocket firings designed to put it in roughly the same orbit as Mir. Today crew members will continue to line up their orbit and will activate Spacelab, where experiments are stowed. They will also check out equipment and cameras for the docking.
On Thursday, they will drift up toward Mir. The docking itself, Gibson said, will be a "long, slow, laborious process."
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/16/news/mn-43335
Los Angeles Times
CIA Releases Long-Secret Yearly Espionage Budget: $26.6 Billion
October 16, 1997 From Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The CIA ended 50 years of secrecy Wednesday surrounding how much the government spends to spy, announcing in response to a lawsuit that the annual budget for national intelligence is $26.6 billion.
Disclosure came in a one-sentence legal filing by Lee Strickland, a CIA information officer: "In response to the referenced Freedom of Information Act request, the total budget appropriation for intelligence for fiscal year 1997 is $26.6 billion."
The budget, covering the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, includes the CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Intelligence Agency and other branches of the vast U.S. intelligence-gathering apparatus, as well as tactical military intelligence.
No breakdown of how the money was spent was provided, and CIA Director George J. Tenet said none would be.
"The administration intends to draw a firm line at the top line," Tenet said. "Beyond this figure, there will be no other disclosures of currently classified budget information because such disclosures could harm national security."
Tenet also said the administration will decide on a year-by-year basis whether to reveal overall intelligence spending. Neither Congress nor the administration has provided the intelligence budget for fiscal 1998, but a congressional staffer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it is only slightly larger.
To put the intelligence budget in perspective, the total was somewhat lower than what the federal government spent last year on transportation, $35.9 billion, and health and human services, $34 billion, not including Social Security.
Despite the lack of details, the Federation of American Scientists, which filed the suit, has been able to construct approximate breakdowns of intelligence spending based on an inadvertent disclosure by the House Appropriations Committee three years ago.
About $10 billion of the total goes for tactical military intelligence, serving battlefield commanders; the CIA itself gets about $3 billion; the National Security Agency, which conducts electronic eavesdropping and decoding operations, gets about $4 billion; the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and operates spy satellites, gets about $6 billion.
The rest is divided among a variety of intelligence analysis agencies such as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and intelligence offices at the FBI, State Department, Energy Department and elsewhere.
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates ) To 6/28/1995 ( as Kerry Burgess official records State of South Carolina, County of Greenville, date of record the final sale of my house at 30 Country Club Drive, Greer, South Carolina ) is 11670 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 10/15/1997 is 11670 days
From 11/17/1994 ( premiere US film "Star Trek Generations" ) To 10/15/1997 is 1063 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 9/30/1968 ( the debut of the Boeing 747 ) is 1063 days
From 5/15/1950 ( premiere US TV series episode "Lights Out"::"The House That Time Forgot" ) To 10/15/1997 is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
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 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 8660 days
From 1/21/1947 ( the first keyboard is created ) To 10/15/1997 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
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 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 9265 days
From 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) To 10/15/1997 is 7800 days
7800 = 3900 + 3900
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 7/7/1976 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks of Welcome to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ) is 3900 days
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/cassini-huygens/
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MISSION TO SATURN
Cassini-Huygens
Launch Date: October 15, 1997
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http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/16/news/mn-43317
The New York Times
UCLA Chemist, Stanford Physicist Win Nobel Prizes
Science: Awards recognize discovery of how sunlight is turned into energy and use of lasers to freeze atoms.
October 16, 1997 K.C. COLE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
A UCLA chemist and Stanford University physicist were roused from sleep Wednesday morning with news that all scientists dream of: They had won Nobel prizes.
UCLA's Paul D. Boyer won a share of the chemistry prize for discovering the molecular machinery of the "three-cylinder engine" that turns sunlight into energy powering virtually all living things.
Stanford's Steven Chu shared the physics prize for his use of lasers to freeze atoms in their tracks, allowing them to be trapped, measured and studied.
Both Boyer and Chu said their initial reaction to the news was disbelief. "At first, I had to be reassured it was real," said Boyer, on vacation at his nephew's home in Sea Ranch, Calif. "Then I was overwhelmed."
Chu, speaking from Stanford, said he had been told for years by well-wishers that he might get the prize, but tried not to get his hopes up. "It can be depressing," he said. "You can't think about it. If it happens, it happens."
Boyer shared his half of the $1-million chemistry prize with John E. Walker of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Cambridge, England, whose X-ray pictures of the energy-producing molecule known as ATP helped unravel its structure. The other half of the prize went to Jens C. Skou of Denmark for work on a different enzyme that uses ATP to activate nerve cells.
The physics prize was equally shared by Chu, William D. Phillips of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of France.
Both Boyer and Chu regretted that only three people in each category can win the Nobel Prize each year, and Boyer said he will spend at least some of his winnings recognizing the work of "those unsung fellows" of science--postdoctoral fellows who do research at universities for low pay. "I don't think they receive enough recognition," he said.
UCLA's dean of sciences, Roberto Peccei, said he wasn't surprised that Boyer would want to use his prize money to help postdoctoral students. "You couldn't ask for a better person," he said. He noted that Boyer's ideas about the machinery behind the cell's power source were considered heretical at first. "He went out on a limb," he said.
The chemical ATP, or adenosine triphosphate, energizes every human activity, including the thinking that goes into winning a Nobel Prize. In fact, the amount of ATP produced and used up as energy by a typical student in a single day, said Boyer, would weigh as much as the student's body.
But exactly how ATP manages to grab energy out of sunlight and send it on to the cell so efficiently was not understood.
Boyer's revolutionary idea, hatched in the 1980s, was that an enzyme enabling ATP to grab and release energy actually rotated, like a tiny motor. So far, "it's the only known enzyme that has this rotational mechanism," he said. "It's like a three-cylinder motor."
The enzyme contains three different sites, or chambers, where chemical reactions occur. When Boyer's experiments showed that all three sites were doing the same reaction in exactly the same way, but at different times, he immediately thought of rotation.
"All the sites were doing it identically," he said, "and one after another. . . . The only way I could see [to explain that] was internal rotation."
One chamber grabs onto the molecular ingredients that go into ATP; the second pushes them close together so they can react; the third sends the completed ATP molecule on its way into the cell. At each step, the chamber changes shape.
Boyer's idea was not immediately accepted even by his co-workers, who "thought it was a little off base," the new laureate said. But he was undeterred. "I'm persistent," he said. "I kept working at the problem for a long time."
He was also extremely lucky, he said, regretting that the many "post-docs" who worked with him over the years couldn't share the prize. "They deserve the credit," he said.
In a larger context, the prize for the work on ATP was in keeping with the growing recognition of advances in the chemistry of life, said Stanford chemist Richard Zare. "We're going to learn more and more as we understand that the body is some really marvelous chemical factory," he said. "And in many ways, this factory is controlled by the mind, and that too is controlled by chemistry. It's amazing."
The physics prize for the second year in a row went to experimental work at extremely cold temperatures, near the unreachable absolute-zero point (about minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit) where all motion stops. However, rather than the more conventional kinds of "refrigerators" used in last year's prizewinning work, Stanford's Chu won the prize for cooling his atoms with precisely tuned laser beams.
Since the invention of laser cooling in the mid-1980s, thousands of papers have been written on its properties and applications, said University of Colorado physicist Eric Cornell, who created a new form of matter using the technique in 1995.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=6193
The American Presidency Project
Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
654 - Remarks of Welcome to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
July 7, 1976
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen:
On behalf of the American people, I am delighted to welcome you and your party to the United States and to the White House.
Your first state visit to America in 1957 marked the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the first permanent British colony in this new land. You honor us again by coming to share our Bicentennial observance in the new spirit of optimism and cooperation generated by this great occasion.
During the 169 years between the first settlement of Jamestown and our independence, 13 Colonies prospered, protected by the British Navy, enjoying the advantage of British commerce, and adopting British concepts of representative self-government. In declaring independence in 1776, we looked for guidance to our British heritage of representative government--representative government as well as law. As a sovereign nation we have kept and nurtured the most durable bond of all--the bond of idealism in which our new nation was conceived.
Your Majesty's visit symbolizes our deep and continuing commitment to the common values of an Anglo-American civilization. Your Majesty, for generations our peoples have worked together and fought together side by side. As democracies we continue our quest for peace and justice.
The challenges we now face are different from those that we have confronted together and overcome in the past. At stake is the future of the industrialized democracies which have sustained their destiny in common for more than a generation. At stake is the further extension of the blessings of liberty, to all humanity in the creation of a better world. As new nations and old, each set their political course to achieve these aims. The principles of human dignity and individual rights set forth in the Magna Carta and our own Declaration of Independence remain truly revolutionary landmarks.
Your Majesty, the wounds of our parting in 1776 healed long ago. Americans admire the United Kingdom as one of our truest allies and best friends. There could be no more convincing evidence of that friendship than the splendid British contributions and participation on the occasion of our Bicentennial.
Last month I had the privilege and honor to welcome to the White House Rose Garden the distinguished delegation of the British Parliament, who escorted an historic copy of the Magna Carta to America. The loan of this document for our Bicentennial is a gesture that will bring pleasure and inspiration to all who view it.
Yesterday, in Philadelphia, Your Majesty inaugurated the new Bicentennial bell, a gift from the people of Britain to the people of the United States, inscribed "Let Freedom Ring." It will hang in the Bell Tower in Independence National Historical Park. When I was in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July, I thought what a perfect complement the new bell will be to our own Liberty Bell and the Centennial bell in Independence Hall.
For these gifts and for many others which Britain has honored our historic celebration, the American people are deeply grateful. Above all, we appreciate the personal honor you have so graciously demonstrated by visiting our shores at this special moment in our history.
During your visit you will travel to hallowed American landmarks. You will observe many changes since you were here last. But as you travel throughout our land, I trust that you will find something else in the United States--a new sense of unity, of friendship, of purpose, and tranquillity. Something wonderful happened to America this past weekend. A spirit of unity and togetherness deep within the American soul sprang to the surface in a way that we had almost forgotten. People showed again that they care, that they want to live in peace and harmony with their neighbors, that they want to pull together for the good of the Nation and for the good of mankind.
This weekend we had a marvelous reaffirmation of the American spirit. In the days ahead, we would like very much to share that spirit with you.
During your visit in 1957, President Eisenhower remarked that America's respect for Britain was symbolized in our affection for the royal family. It is in this spirit we welcome Your Majesty's visit as a happy occasion for reaffirming our joint dedication to freedom, to peace, democracy, and the wall-being of our people.
Your Majesty, America bids you, Prince Philip, and your party a most cordial and heartfelt welcome.
Note: The President spoke at 11:54 a.m. on the South Lawn at the White House, where Queen Elizabeth was given a formal welcome with full military honors. The Queen responded as follows:
Mr. President, thank you for your welcome to us. We are very pleased to be with you and the American people in this most important week of your Bicentennial Year.
Our countries have a great deal in common. The early British settlers created here a society that owes much to its origins across the ocean. For nearly 170 years there was a formal constitutional link between us. Your Declaration of Independence broke that link, but it did not for long break our friendship.
John Adams, America's first Ambassador, said to my ancestor, King George III, that it was his desire to help with the restoration of "the old good nature and the old good humor between our peoples." That restoration has long been made, and the links of language, tradition, and personal contact have maintained it.
Yesterday, Prince Philip and I were deeply moved by the welcome we were given in Philadelphia. And now we are looking forward to our time in Washington and to our visits to New York and Boston and to the home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. We shall have visited the four cities that were at the center of events 200 years ago. We also hope to see something of America' of 1976 and of the young people who will be taking this country forward into its third century.
Mr. President, the British and American people are as close today as two peoples have ever been. We see you as our strong and trusted friend, and we believe that you, in turn, will find us as ready as ever to bear our full share in defending the values in which we both believe.
That is why we are so happy to be here.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie7.html
Star Trek Generations (1994)
Kirk: Come on in. It's all right, it's my house. ...At least it used to be, I sold it years ago.
PICARD: I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship ...Enterprise.
From 3/17/1899 ( William Henry Pickering discovers the Saturn moon Phoebe on telescope observatory photographic plates ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 28206 days
28206 = 14103 + 14103
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 6/13/2004 is 14103 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 6/13/2004 is 4838 days
4838 = 2419 + 2419
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 6/17/1972 ( the Watergate burglary ) is 2419 days
See also other post by me on this topic: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-new-satellite-of-saturn.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/florida360/os-pictures-cassini-spacecraft-show-saturn-and-011-photo.html
Orlando Sentinel
Cassini spacecraft
This high-resolution composite image of Saturn's moon Phoebe was released Sunday, June 13, 2004.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/16/news/mn-43330
Los Angeles Times
Cassini Mission to Saturn Lifts Off Amid Cloud of Controversy
Space: Craft powered by plutonium begins seven-year voyage to illuminate mysteries of ringed planet. Its deadly fuel concerns critics.
October 16, 1997 MIKE CLARY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Loaded with 72 pounds of radioactive plutonium and freighted with controversy, the Cassini spacecraft rocketed safely away from Earth early Wednesday on the start of an ambitious seven-year scientific mission to Saturn.
The predawn liftoff was both spectacular and routine, and came 48 hours after the originally scheduled launch was scuttled by high winds and computer failure.
Flames shot out from the base of the Titan IV / Centaur rocket, the darkness parted, and the 6-ton spacecraft made a stately, roaring ascension into the starry night--lighting the sky with a brilliance that made the full moon look pale.
"This is special," exclaimed physicist Hunter Waite, one of dozens of scientists involved in the 15-year project who were on hand to witness the start of the Cassini's 2.2-billion-mile journey.
The $3.4-billion mission to explore the planet Saturn is the most complex and expensive unmanned space probe ever launched and the last of NASA's big-ticket interplanetary voyages.
Packed with sophisticated monitoring gear, computers and a huge amount of fuel, the Cassini orbiter is designed to plumb the mysteries of Saturn and its intriguing, colorful rings, and then parachute a smaller probe, called Huygens, onto the surface of Titan, one of the planet's 18 known moons.
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Scientists expect the mission to provide insights into the origin of the solar system and even the beginnings of life. "It will take about seven years for the public to see the benefits of this mission, but they will see," said Waite, who works for a San Antonio firm subcontracted by Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Waite will monitor instruments designed to read the chemical makeup of Saturn's rings and the Titan atmosphere.
The Cassini mission is one of the most controversial ever undertaken by NASA. Critics contend that the 72 pounds of plutonium on board--the most ever sent into space and a necessary fuel, say scientists, for batteries that power the 11-year mission (Cassini will orbit Saturn for four years)--pose an unacceptable risk to human life. An explosion at launch, opponents charged, could have released radioactive dust affecting a wide swath of the Central Florida population, leading to a surge in cancer deaths.
Although no explosion occurred Wednesday, critics say humans will be imperiled again in August 1999, when the spacecraft passes within 500 miles of Earth on a fly-by maneuver designed to slingshot Cassini toward Jupiter before heading to Saturn.
Only a handful of protesters showed up outside the gates of the Cape Canaveral Air Station before dawn Wednesday, but security was tight. Those credentialed to pass through the guarded gates of the Kennedy Space Center were asked not only to show identification but also to open the trunks of their cars for inspection.
Compared to the crowds that normally gather to watch daytime shuttle launches here, spectators were few. Among the scientists and contractors who worked on the Cassini probe were many European visitors and journalists, reflecting worldwide interest in the mission, a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by JPL.
"We're all very excited. We knew there wouldn't be a problem," said Beverly Cook, an Energy Department physicist in charge of testing the plutonium fuel generators.
In town meetings and in interviews spread around the world, Cook, NASA officials, Cassini project manager Richard Spehalski and others have insisted that the plutonium--encased in several layers of protective materials--is safe. Spehalski, among others, made a point of inviting his relatives to watch the launching.
After a review, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy declared that "the important benefits of this scientific mission outweigh the potential risks."
Still, many people, including some scientists and a retired NASA safety director, remained unpersuaded. Foes tried unsuccessfully to block the launching in federal court and by climbing over barbed wired fences around the Cape Canaveral Air Station, where 27 people were arrested for trespassing on Oct. 4. Some area residents, fearing the longshot chance of a launch-pad ccident, packed up their families and left the area before Monday's scheduled liftoff. And some fled again two days later.
Cassini, named for 17th century Italian-French astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, will swing by Venus twice and Earth once to make use of gravity assists that will help propel the spacecraft to Saturn. On the trip itself, Cassini is kept on course by sensors that recognize reference stars and the sun.
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Once in orbit around Saturn in 2004, Cassini is to send back more than 300,000 color pictures of the planet and its rings, which are made up of sand, ice crystals and rock that range in size from a tiny fragment to a train car.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/16/news/mn-43330/2
Los Angeles Times
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Cassini Mission to Saturn Lifts Off Amid Cloud of Controversy
Space: Craft powered by plutonium begins seven-year voyage to illuminate mysteries of ringed planet. Its deadly fuel concerns critics.
October 16, 1997 MIKE CLARY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Four months after starting to orbit Saturn, on-board computers will awaken the Huygens Titan Probe, which will be released in a 22-day descent through the moon's gaseous atmosphere. Data collected by the Huygens, named for the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655, will be relayed to Cassini and stored for transmission to Earth.
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MISSION TO SATURN
Bound for a seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan IV rocket Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Cassini will explore Saturn's gossamer rings, twisted and braided by the action of the giant planet's 18 moons, as well as the planet itself--the second largest in the solar system. The spacecraft's four-year tour will include several close passes by Saturn's mysterious orange moon, Titan.
HUYGENS PROBE
The 9-foot probe will enter the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, at over 13,000 miles per hour. A heat shield will protect it. A series of parachutes will deploy 105 miles from the planet, setting the probe on the surface.
PROBE FACTS
* Cassini is two stories tall, 13 feet wide, with a mass of 5,510 pounds and 6,615 pounds of propellant.
* It requires 20 watts of power to send a radio signal from Saturn to Earth. The signal typically takes at least an hour to reach the Earth from Saturn.
* Cassini uses 40,000 feet of cabling.
* Cassini is designed to withstand the heat of 2.7 Suns.
* Well over 99% of Cassini's trip will be an unpowered coast through space.
* Cassini will travel 2 billion miles to reach Saturn, traveling at 18,720 mph in the approach.
* Cassini could transmit up to 4 gigabits of information per day. Over 300,000 color images will be returned, including 1,100 pictures of Titan taken by the Huygens Probe.
CASSINI TRAJECTORY
Saturn is almost a billion miles away, so distant that even an enormous Titan IV rocket lacks the power to get a spacecraft there in one shot. So NASA engineers will make use of the gravitational pulls of Venus, Earth and Jupiter to slingshot the Cassini spacecraft to the ringed planet.
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SAMMY HAGAR
album: "VOA" (1984)
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AZ
SAMMY HAGAR
"I Can't Drive 55"
One foot on the brake and one on the gas, hey
Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no
So I tried my best illegal move
A big black and white come and crushed my groove again
Go on and write me up for 125
Post my face, wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55, oh no, uh
So I signed my name on number 24, hey
Yeah the judge said, "Boy, just one more, huh
I'm gonna throw your ass in the city joint"
Looked me in the eye, said, "You get my point?"
I say "Yeah!, Oh yeah"
Write me up for 125
Post my face, wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55, oh yeah
(I can't drive 55)
(I can't drive 55)
(I can't drive 55)
(I can't drive) 55, uh
When I drive that slow, you know it's hard to steer
And I can't get my car out of second gear
What used to take two hours now takes all day
Huh, it took me 16 hours to get to L.A.
Go on and write me up for 125
Post my face, wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55
No, no, no, I can't drive, (I can't drive 55)
I can't drive (I can't drive 55)
(I can't drive 55)
(I can't drive 55)
- posted by Kerry Burgess 6:46 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 16 July 2018
