album: "Reckless" (1984)
Bryan Adams
"Run To You"
I know her love is true
But it's so damn easy makin' love to you
I got my mind made up
I need to feel your touch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_4
Skylab 4
From Wikipedia
As Skylab work progressed, the astronauts complained of being pushed too hard, and ground controllers complained they were not getting enough work done. NASA determined major contributing factors were a large number of new tasks added shortly before launch with little or no training, and searches for equipment out of place on the station. There was a radio conference to air frustrations which led to the workload schedule being modified, and by the end of their mission the crew had completed even more work than originally planned.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-that-day-three-nasa-astronauts-20151228-column.html
Los Angeles Times
Column: The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space
BY MICHAEL HILTZIK BUSINESS COLUMNIST
DEC. 28, 2015 2:42 PM PT
Blows on behalf of fair labor treatment don’t always have to come from factory workers. Sometimes they’re delivered by unionized professors or even multimillionaire ballplayers. On Dec. 28, 1973, or 42 years ago Monday, one was delivered by three U.S. astronauts orbiting the globe in NASA’s Skylab -- a one-day sit-down strike in space.
As Erik Loomis retells the story, mission commander Jerry Carr, science pilot Ed Gibson and pilot William Pogue were in the midst of what would become a record 84-day mission, the last before the spacecraft was to be decommissioned, when they rebelled against NASA’s remorseless work schedule.
We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.
They knew before going up that the pace would be punishing -- 84 days of 16 hours each without a break, filled with minute-by-minute scheduling for observations of the sun and Comet Kohoutek, medical tests, photographing of the Earth below, and four spacewalks.
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Other astronauts on the ground team, including the commanders of the previous two Skylab missions, advised NASA that the plans were unreasonable. None of the three astronauts on the Skylab 4 mission had been in space before, but NASA hadn’t factored in any time for them to become acclimated to conditions aloft. They were plainly overscheduled. In fact, Pogue almost immediately came down with debilitating nausea.
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Relations between the crew and mission control started off on the wrong foot. The crew treated Pogue’s spacesickness as a passing bug (they were right) and didn’t bother to report it to Houston, which turned out to be secretly eavesdropping on their onboard conversations and upbraided them for keeping secrets.
Almost instantly the crew fell behind schedule, and with no give in the workload, couldn’t catch up. After a month, Gibson was grousing that the mission resembled “a 33-day fire drill.” Carr informed ground control, “We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.”
The crew gained the reputation of “complainers,” and their exchanges with Houston lost their civility. Finally, a couple of days after Christmas, Carr wired a manifesto earthward: “We need more time to rest. We need a schedule that is not so packed. We don’t want to exercise after a meal. We need to get things under control.”
Houston’s response was chilly: The crew had to meet its schedule. On Dec. 28, the crew staged its strike. (In some accounts, it’s called a “mutiny,” which is surely too harsh.) Carr turned off the radio link with the ground and crew members spent a full day relaxing, taking things at their own pace and pursuing projects of their own.
The ground crew, stuck at the far end of a dead radio hookup, had no choice but to fume impotently. When Skylab came back online, NASA was much more amenable to discussion. Houston agreed to afford the crew full rest and meal breaks, and replace its minute-by-minute schedules with a list of tasks to be completed, leaving it to the crew to manage its own time.
Interspace relations improved from then to the end of the mission in February, but the crew’s strike plainly rankled; none of the three ever was assigned a spaceflight again. Pogue, who died last year, danced around the episode in his 2011 memoir, “But for the Grace of God,” mentioning that the Skylab work was “sometimes tiresome and tedious, but the view was spectacular.” Asked at a post-mission debriefing how he and his crew mates got along, he recollected, he replied: “We got along together just fine. We were bound by a common enemy: Mission Control.”
But the one-day strike did force a lasting reconsideration of crew management upon NASA, contends Samir Chopra of Brooklyn College. NASA treated the crew as expendable instruments of its schedule, but Skylab 4 showed that when push came to shove the astronauts had all the control in their own hands.
Once in space, they were no longer replaceable robots and had to be treated as responsible partners if the mission was to be completed successfully. “Highly trained military types and scientists fully convinced of the value of their work are likely to push back when placed in an artificially controlled, too-tightly-regulated environment,” Chopra observed. “The lessons here are not just for manned space flight, but for any workplace environment that approximates its conditions, whether in space or on Earth.”
Loomis concludes, however, that the lessons of Skylab 4 have limited application. It’s not common for employees to have the control over management that the crew could exercise merely by turning off their radio, threatening work valued a millions of dollars a day. There wasn’t much to be learned even by 1970s labor activists from the strike in space.
“It’s hard to make new demands of employers when those employers are just going to move the jobs to Mexico, as was happening throughout the 1970s,” Loomis writes. Union organizing was heading into a dark age then, the Skylab strike notwithstanding, thanks to “the rise of conservatism and the growth of the powerful corporate lobby with the open intent of crushing the American labor movement,” he adds. We’re still living with the consequences.
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4208/ch17.htm#t8
SP-4208 LIVING AND WORKING IN SPACE: A HISTORY OF SKYLAB
The crew held the second televised press conference of the mission on 31 January, in which they confirmed their faith in the value of Skylab and the scientific data collected. As they saw it, the program had proved that man was indispensable to a productive and flexible program of orbital science. Gibson was willing to predict that space stations and manned planetary expeditions, though admittedly far in the future, were clearly possible "when the American people choose to make the effort." When that time came, Carr said, designers were going to have to pay a lot more attention to habitability. Not only was it important to have pleasant quarters and properly designed work areas, but "you're going to have to have a place that you can call home [where you can] be by yourself and do just what you want to do." Asked for comment on the low level of public interest, Carr said, "Well, I think people just get used to things.... and take [them] for granted.... As long as things stay rather routine in the space program . . . public interest will stay pretty low." The press conference was too short to include four questions submitted by a sixth-grade science class in upstate New York, but since they had been cleared for use, during the next revolution CapCom Dick Truly worked them in one at a time. The student's questions were, if anything, more penetrating than the newsmen's. One that gave Bill Pogue pause was whether the astronaut felt more of a man now, as compared with before you left?" Pogue begged off the philosophical implications of that one, but did allow that he was a better crewman-that is, a more efficient astronaut-after 77 days. Several students wondered whether the three missed female companionship. Taken somewhat aback, Gibson asked, "What grade did you say that was, Dick?" (Nobody had put that question so directly before.) Then he answered, "Obviously, yes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1974
January 1974
From Wikipedia
January 31, 1974
Skylab 4: The crew held their second televised press conference from space, during which commander Gerald Carr commented, "As long as things stay rather routine in the space program...public interest will stay pretty low." After the end of the press conference, the astronauts also answered questions from a sixth-grade class, including whether astronaut Pogue felt like "more of a man" after being in space and whether the crew missed feminine companionship.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287602/quotes
IMDb
Odyssey 5 (TV Series)
Pilot (2002)
Quotes
Sarah Forbes: Dr. Kurt Mendel, Nobel Prize-winning behavioral geneticist and author of several best-selling science books, is hitching a ride to the International Space Station, where he will be overseeing a series of experiments. Dr. Mendel, would you care to explain the specifics of the work you will be doing?
Kurt Mendel: Um, well, Sarah, the *thrust* of my work will be to *erect* a series of *hard* protocols, designed to *penetrate* the *ins* and *outs* of zero-G environments on DNA sequencing. Hopefully, it will all *come* together.
Sarah Forbes: [Through clenched teeth] Thank you, *Doctor*.
Kurt Mendel: [On a TV on Earth] My pleasure, Sarah.
Sarah Forbes: This is Sarah Forbes, reporting to you live
[static burst]
Sarah Forbes: Space Shuttle Od -
[white noise]
Sarah Forbes: [a major tremor is suddenly felt on Earth]
Sarah Forbes: [Back on Odyssey] You're a dead man. You're a *dead man*.
Kurt Mendel: What'd I say? I answered the question.
Chuck Taggart: Cool it.
Angela Perry: Hey, we just lost video.
From 4/30/1946 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Letter to Senator Murray Concerning a Bill for a National Health Program ) To 6/21/2002 ( premiere US TV series "Odyssey 5" ) is 20506 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 20506 days
From 6/27/2005 ( in Seattle the Patty Murray press conference at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System hospital at the same moment as Kerry Burgess I was discharged from same United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 6024 days
6024 = 3012 + 3012
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/31/1974 ( the USA NASA Skylab 4 news conference ) is 3012 days
From 6/27/2005 ( in Seattle the Patty Murray press conference at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System hospital at the same moment as Kerry Burgess I was discharged from same United States of America Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 6024 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/1/1982 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Remarks at Dedication Ceremonies for the U.S. Pavilion at the Knoxville International Energy Exposition (World's Fair) in Tennessee ) is 6024 days
From 5/21/2006 ( referenced in text here: Kerry Burgess - Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 5696 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1981 ( the Baghdad Osirak construction site destroyed by Israeli Air Force ) is 5696 days
From 1/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 11300 days
11300 = 5650 + 5650
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/22/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters Helen Thomas and Jim Gerstenzang on the President's Recovery Period ) is 5650 days
From 9/3/1962 ( John F. Kennedy, 35th President of USA: Statement by the President Announcing an International Conference on "Human Skills in the Decade of Development." ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
From 12/9/2017 ( premiere US film "Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi" ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 8/20/1905 ( ) To 12/2/2017 ( Evelyn Orgasz-Corvette on her way to me ) is 41012 days
41012 = 20506 + 20506
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/24/2021 ( ) is 20506 days
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/660/SMC.HENRIQUES.html
Finding aid for the Anna Stafford Henriques collection
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Historical Studies-Social Science Library
Einstein Drive
Princeton
NJ, 08540
Biographical note
Anna Stafford Henriques (1905-2004), one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study, was a mathematician who was on the Faculty of the University of Nebraska and, later, the University of Utah.
The following biographical article was originally published in "Attributions," a newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Study, in 2001: http://www.ias.edu/files/pdfs/publications/attributions-2001-1.pdf
Anna Stafford Henriques A Member at the Institute in 1933
In October 1933, Anna Stafford came to the Institute for Advanced Study as a Member – or Worker, as Members were called then – in the School of Mathematics, whose work she has generously supported over the years. Albert Einstein also arrived in Princeton that same month and year to join the Faculty of the newly-formed Institute, which had been founded in 1930 and three years later opened its doors in borrowed quarters in Princeton University’s Fine Hall. Stafford was one of two young women in that first small group of mathematicians who came to the new Institute to work with its outstanding faculty: James Alexander, Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Oswald Veblen, and Hermann Weyl. In 1934 this group was joined by visiting professor P.A.M. Dirac.
To earn her living during these Depression years and also manage to be at the Institute, young Stafford arranged to teach mornings at a private secondary school in Mendham, N.J., and to come to the Institute every afternoon. “By strange good luck,” Stafford, now aged 95, recalled in a recent interview at her home in Washington, D.C., “the Institute always had lectures at 3:00, and then we had tea, and then we met again at 4:30. So I got to the lectures just fine. If you wanted to give a talk, you put a notice on the secretary’s door, and that’s the way ‘classes’ were held. And of course nobody told where Einstein’s office was. There was a boarding house where a lot of the mathematicians lived. I would also come down on weekends and we would all talk and argue. It wasn’t a bit elegant – but that didn’t matter.”
Anna Stafford was born in Chicago on August 20, 1905. Anna shared her mother’s love of mathematics, and knew by the time she was fourteen that her future would include a career either in the field itself or in something closely related to it. Perhaps, she thought then, she might become an astronomer.
Without regarding it as anything out of the ordinary, Stafford double-majored in mathematics and Greek at Western College for Women [started in Oxford, Ohio in 1855 as the “western” sister school of Mount Holyoke]. After graduation in 1926, she began a pattern of working during the year teaching mathematics at a secondary school in New Jersey, and spending summers in graduate school at the University of Chicago, where she worked with the mathematician Mayme Logsdon. She earned an S.M. degree in 1931 from Chicago, and received one of six Ph.D.s the University awarded in 1933 in mathematics, two of them to women. A turning point for Stafford while she was at Chicago came when she heard a lecture on topology given by University of Michigan mathematician Raymond Wilder (also a Member in the School of Mathematics in 1933-34). “I thought, aha – that’s what I like,” Stafford recalled. “But there was very little to find on the subject, and what little there was to find was done by a man named Oswald Veblen, who had written a book called Analysis Situs (1922), and by James Alexander. And that [Princeton] was the only place I knew that you could study topology. So I wrote to Princeton and said I wanted to study topology, and they sent me a postal card saying, ‘We don’t take girls.’
IMDb (dot) com
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Quotes
Marion: Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/587831-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-gop-for-projecting-their-sexual-frustrations-at-her
The Hill
Ocasio-Cortez criticizes GOP for 'projecting their sexual frustrations' at her
BY JOSEPH CHOI - 12/31/21 03:25 PM EST
Evelyn Orgasz-Corvette says: No one in the USA should ever have to work! For a piece of Mommy's delicious pie!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsphere
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287602/quotes
IMDb
Odyssey 5 (TV Series)
Pilot (2002)
Quotes
Chuck Taggart: I can't find the Earth.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-senator-murray-concerning-bill-for-national-health-program
The American Presidency Project
HARRY S. TRUMAN
33rd President of the United States: 1945 ‐ 1953
Letter to Senator Murray Concerning a Bill for a National Health Program.
April 30, 1946
Dear Senator Murray:
It has been most gratifying to observe the deep interest displayed and the progress made by the Senate Education and Labor Committee under your Chairmanship in the conduct of the hearings on S. 1606, the bill designed to give legislative effect to a large part of the National Health Message which I submitted to the Congress on November 9, 1945.
In providing generally for medical and hospital services under S. 1606, it is intended that these most essential and valuable benefits be within the reach of those persons who are not eligible for medical and hospital services under existing laws and be afforded to some persons already eligible therefor, in whole or in part, who for various practical reasons do not have such services made readily available. The latter aspect of the program is deserving of special attention to remove any doubts as to the real effects intended by the proposed legislation.
It is not intended that existing programs of medical and hospital services are to be supplanted. For example, it is not intended that our obligations to veterans for medical and hospital care shall be changed or impaired in either service connected or nonservice connected cases. The special provisions for veterans under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration reflect our nation's gratitude for their services and I urge that when the bill emerges from your Committee it provide in explicit terms for the preservation of medical and hospital services under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
A National Health program such as I have recommended, and as envisaged in S. 1606, would make it possible for persons to get complete medical and hospital services locally. As to veterans the program would merely provide additional means of securing medical and hospital care. Veterans with non-service connected disabilities, in common with others, would become entitled to out-patient treatment. As to persons eligible under other laws, particularly veterans, the program under S. 1606 would include the families of such persons for complete medical and hospital services which benefit is not now available to them.
I have conferred with the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs and the Federal Security Administrator and they share in my convictions.
Sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
[Honorable James E. Murray, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. ]
Harry S. Truman, Letter to Senator Murray Concerning a Bill for a National Health Program. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/232827
album: "Reckless" (1984)
Bryan Adams
"Run To You"
She says her love for me could never die
But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
Boomer: Helo -
Helo: You can do this without me. I know you can, you've proven it.
From 5/29/1917 ( John F. Kennedy ) To 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/17/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess, active-duty United States Navy, I began formal course of instruction, basic training, United States Navy ) is 9207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( ) is 9207 days
From 8/17/1943 ( the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission during World War 2 ) To 1/17/1991 ( ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 8660 days
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1991/October%201991/1091apache.aspx
Air Force Magazine
October 1991
Apache Attack
By Richard Mackenzie
The helicopters would open the war. They had to take out Iraq's early warning net, and they had to get it all.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 7:28 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 01/01/2022
