"No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2022/04/today-is-04052022-post-2.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess, April 05, 2022
Today is 04/05/2022, Post #2
I am feeling especially certain at this moment, sitting here again another day at this same stupid desk, that the day will come
Some day, I will make a blog-post here
That will be The Day It All Finally Makes Sense
Will finally make sense, to me, at least.
The rest of you will still have many questions, and that with extreme exceptions among the vast majority of you, will never be answered.
I am feeling especially certain at this moment that I will read something on the global-internetwork and then suddenly: Eureka!
Previously, here on Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home:
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2022/04/today-is-04182022-post-4.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 1:01 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Monday, April 18, 2022
Today is 04/18/2022, Post #4
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: November 10, 2017 10:00 pm
Kerry Burgess updated his status.
"Kill Switch" is surprisingly similar to what I was thinking of earlier today when I was outside walking around a few hours ago and a few hours before I had any idea I would be a few hours later watching for the first time the video "Kill Switch" on Amazon Prime.
From 5/25/1961 ( John F. Kennedy, 35th President of USA: Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs ) To 11/10/2017 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me ) is 20623 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/20/2022 ( Wednesday ) is 20623 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 4/20/2022 ( ) is 10543 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1994 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Leaving their mark ) is 10543 days
From 3/18/1960 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Long Live Walter Jameson" ) To 4/20/2022 ( ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734588/quotes
IMDb
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Long Live Walter Jameson (1960)
Quotes
Narrator: [Opening Narration] You're looking at Act One, Scene One, of a nightmare, one not restricted to witching hours of dark, rainswept nights. Professor Walter Jameson, popular beyond words, who talks of the past as if it were the present, who conjures up the dead as if they were alive.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734588/quotes
IMDb
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Long Live Walter Jameson (1960)
Quotes
Professor Sam Kittridge: How old are you, Walter?
Prof. Walter Jameson: You wouldn't believe me.
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19940914-01.2.9&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 118, Number 78, 14 September 1994
Leaving their mark
Continuing with senior tradition, the Class of 1995 proudly displays its year on Cannon Green in front of Nassau Hall.
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/jfk_speech_text.html
NASA
May 24, 2004
Excerpt from the 'Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs'
President John F. Kennedy
Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961
Section IX: Space:
Finally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take. Since early in my term, our efforts in space have been under review. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides-time for a great new American enterprise-time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment.
Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by the feat of astronaut Shepard, this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful. But this is not merely a race. Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals:
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar space craft. We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations-explorations which are particularly important for one purpose which this nation will never overlook: the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon-if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Secondly, an additional 23 million dollars, together with 7 million dollars already available, will accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.
Third, an additional 50 million dollars will make the most of our present leadership, by accelerating the use of space satellites for world-wide communications.
Fourth, an additional 75 million dollars-of which 53 million dollars is for the Weather Bureau-will help give us at the earliest possible time a satellite system for world-wide weather observation.
Let it be clear-and this is a judgment which the Members of the Congress must finally make-let it be clear that I am asking the Congress and the country to accept a firm commitment to a new course of action, a course which will last for many years and carry very heavy costs: 531 million dollars in fiscal '62-an estimated seven to nine billion dollars additional over the next five years. If we are to go only half way, or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty, in my judgment it would be better not to go at all.
Now this is a choice which this country must make, and I am confident that under the leadership of the Space Committees of the Congress, and the Appropriating Committees, that you will consider the matter carefully.
It is a most important decision that we make as a nation. But all of you have lived through the last four years and have seen the significance of space and the adventures in space, and no one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be of mastery of space.
I believe we should go to the moon. But I think every citizen of this country as well as the Members of the Congress should consider the matter carefully in making their judgment, to which we have given attention over many weeks and months, because it is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful. If we are not, we should decide today and this year.
This decision demands a major national commitment of scientific and technical manpower, materiel and facilities, and the possibility of their diversion from other important activities where they are already thinly spread. It means a degree of dedication, organization and discipline which have not always characterized our research and development efforts. It means we cannot afford undue work stoppages, inflated costs of material or talent, wasteful interagency rivalries, or a high turnover of key personnel.
New objectives and new money cannot solve these problems. They could in fact, aggravate them further-unless every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant gives his personal pledge that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 2:56 PM Pacific-time USA Monday 04/18/2022
