from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 12/27/06 12:07 PM
As I have written, I have been thinking that I started at Princeton University on September 2, 1965.
From: Kerry Burgess
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So I started to talk and read very early and I also began to develop other skills very early. Through some process that I do not yet recall well enough to describe, I was allowed to secretly compete at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and I won several gold medals. From that accomplishment, I was considered the best candidate to go out into space in the next decade, where 10 years is a very, very short time to have to consider that a plan had to be created and then carried out to travel into deep space and to carry enough nuclear weapons to divert a very large mountain of rock that was screaming towards Earth.
They could have trained older people to go out and carry out the mission but a factor about me was that I was still going to be young enough that, if I survived the actual mission, then there was going to be a good chance that I would be able to lead a normal life without being debilitated from living in the weightlessness of deep space for over a year.
Back in the early 1960's, there was hardly anything really known about space travel. The first American astronaut did not go into space until May 1961 and that was only for a few minutes. I was going to have to live and work in deep space for well over a year. Who could even begin to imagine the kinds of problems I would suffer from that kind of extreme environment.
So I became the candidate for the mission because I was the best choice. As I mentioned, I had already graduated from Princeton in 1969 with a medical degree. I started there on 9/2/1965, at the age of 6 years, and I started actually as an instructor of graduate students. I could already pass all the requirements from the medical degree but they decided that the basis for my graduation would be if I could teach a group of graduate students well enough that they could pass the tests
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/08/voyagers-unprecedented-on-going-mission-exploration/
Spaceflight.com
The Voyagers: An unprecedented on-going mission of exploration
written by Jeff Goldader And Chris Gebhardt August 7, 2011
The Voyagers’ missions – visits to the giants of our solar system:
Launching first, Voyager 2 was lofted into space on August 20, 1977 at 10:29.00 EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL by a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket.
Twin spacecraft Voyager 1 was launched on an identical Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket on September 5, 1977at 08:56:00 EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.
Despite being launched second, Voyager 1 quickly overtook Voyager 2 and reached both Jupiter and Saturn before its sister probe.
Specifically for the Jupiter-Saturn mission, the original trajectories of both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ensured encounters with Jupiter and Saturn for both probes.
Voyager 1 experienced closest approach with Jupiter on March 5, 1979 and Saturn on November 13, 1980.
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/feb/HP_news_03082.html
NASA official website
NASA News
PIONEER 10 SPACECRAFT SENDS LAST SIGNAL
Headquarters, Washington
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Feb. 25, 2003
RELEASE: 03-082
After more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth. Pioneer's last, very weak signal was received on Jan. 22, 2003.
NASA engineers report Pioneer 10's radioisotope power source has decayed, and it may not have enough power to send additional transmissions to Earth. NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) did not detect a signal during the last contact attempt Feb. 7, 2003. The previous three contacts, including the Jan. 22 signal, were very faint with no telemetry received. The last time a Pioneer 10 contact returned telemetry data was April 27, 2002. NASA has no additional contact attempts planned for Pioneer 10.
"Pioneer 10 was a pioneer in the true sense of the word. After it passed Mars on its long journey into deep space, it was venturing into places where nothing built by humanity had ever gone before," said Dr. Colleen Hartman, director of NASA's Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington. "It ranks among the most historic as well as the most scientifically rich exploration missions ever undertaken," she said.
"Originally designed for a 21-month mission, Pioneer 10 lasted more than 30 years. It was a workhorse that far exceeded its warranty, and I guess you could say we got our money's worth," said Pioneer 10 Project Manager, Dr. Larry Lasher.
Pioneer 10 was built by TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, Calif., and was launched March 2, 1972, on a three-stage Atlas-Centaur rocket. Pioneer 10 reached a speed of 32,400 mph needed for the flight to Jupiter, making it the fastest human-made object to leave the Earth; fast enough to pass the moon in 11 hours and to cross Mars' orbit, about 50 million miles away, in just 12 weeks.
On July 15, 1972, Pioneer 10 entered the asteroid belt, a doughnut-shaped area that measures some 175 million miles wide and 50 million miles thick. The material in the belt travels at speeds up to 45,000 mph and ranges in size from dust particles to rock chunks as big as Alaska.
Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt, considered a spectacular achievement, and then headed toward Jupiter. Accelerating to a speed of 82,000 mph, Pioneer 10 passed by Jupiter on December 3, 1973.
The spacecraft was the first to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Pioneer also charted the gas giant's intense radiation belts, located the planet's magnetic field, and established Jupiter is predominantly a liquid planet. In 1983, Pioneer 10 became the first human-made object to pass the orbit of Pluto, the most distant planet from the Sun.
Following its encounter with Jupiter, Pioneer 10 explored the outer regions of the solar system, studying energetic particles from the Sun (solar wind), and cosmic rays entering our portion of the Milky Way. The spacecraft continued to make valuable scientific investigations in the outer regions of the solar system until its science mission ended March 31, 1997.
Since that time, Pioneer 10's weak signal has been tracked by the DSN as part of a new advanced-concept study of communication technology in support of NASA's future Interstellar Probe mission. At last contact, Pioneer 10 was 7.6 billion miles from Earth, or 82 times the nominal distance between the Sun and the Earth. At that distance, it takes more than 11 hours and 20 minutes for the radio signal, traveling at the speed of light, to reach the Earth.
From 9/2/1965 ( the first day of my biological brother Thomas Reagan as a university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University Princeton New Jersey United States where he earned a doctor of medicine degree as Dr. Thomas Reagan MD ) To 1/22/2003 is 13656 days
13656 = 6828 + 6828
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 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) is 6828 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 1/22/2003 is 6767 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 5/13/1984 ( Stanislaw Marcin Ulam deceased ) is 6767 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 1/22/2003 is 4330 days
4330 = 2165 + 2165
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 10/7/1971 ( United States Patent 3,761,682 - Filed - Docutel Corporation - Credit Card Automatic Currency Dispenser ) is 2165 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 1/22/2003 is 4330 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 9/10/1977 ( premiere US TV series "What's New, Mr. Magoo?" ) is 4330 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 1/22/2003 is 2256 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 1/6/1972 ( The New York Times "U.S. Agreement With Bahrain To Set Up Navy Base Disclosed" ) is 2256 days
From 1/11/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Sea Service Deployment Ribbon USS Wainwright (CG-28) 88 Jan 11 - 88 Jul 11 ) To 1/22/2003 is 5490 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 11/13/1980 ( the closest approach to the planet Saturn by the unmanned United States spacecraft Voyager 1 ) is 5490 days
From 2/19/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - the Hubble Space Telescope placed back into its own orbit of the planet Earth ) To 1/22/2003 is 2163 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 10/5/1971 ( premiere US TV series episode "Marcus Welby, M.D."::"I Can Hardly Tell You Apart" ) is 2163 days
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/26/nation/na-pioneer26
Los Angeles Times
Pioneer 10 Space Probe Fires Off Its Last Message
February 26, 2003 From Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO — Earth has bid its final farewell to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, 31 years after the probe set off for the outer regions of the solar system.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday it had received Pioneer's final signal last month and would no longer seek to track the now-remote object.
"After it passed Mars on its long journey into deep space, it was venturing into places where nothing built by humanity had ever gone before," said Colleen Hartman, director of NASA's Solar System Exploration Division. "It ranks among the most historic as well as the most scientifically rich exploration missions ever undertaken."
Pioneer 10, one of a series of unmanned space probes, was launched in 1972 to study the outer reaches of the solar system. It was the first to go through the Asteroid Belt, the first to send back pictures of Saturn and Jupiter and the first to go beyond Pluto.
NASA last received a signal back from Pioneer 10 on Jan. 22 from a distance of 7.6 billion miles -- 82 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. It took the faint radio signal 11 hours and 20 minutes to get home, traveling at the speed of light.
"Originally designed for a 21-month mission, Pioneer 10 exceeded all expectations and lasted more than 30 years," said project manager Larry Lasher at the Ames Research Center in California.
"It was a workhorse that far exceeded its warranty, and I guess you could say we got our money's worth."
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: Well, well, well. What have we got here? ...I love a good peep show.
(Cochrane looks through a telescope and sees the Enterprise orbiting)
COCHRANE: Ha, ha, ha. That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?
LAFORGE: It's your telescope.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Montana settlement bar]
Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: Let me make sure that I understand you correctly, ...Commander. A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have travelled back through time to enslave the human race, and you're here to stop them.
RIKER: That's right.
COCHRANE: Hot damn, you're heroic. Ha, ha, ha.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 3:31 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 05 September 2018
