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Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 10:10 AM Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Armageddon
:23:01
Even if the asteroid itself
hits the water, it's still hitting land.
:23:05
It'll flash boil millions
of gallons of seawater and slam
into the ocean bedrock.
http://www.cswap.com/1976/Rocky/cap/en/25fps/a/01_49
Rocky
1:49:24
You stop this fight,
I'll kill you.
1:49:27
- I'm going.
- If you wanna go, go!
1:49:50
They look like
they've been in a war.
1:50:01
The champion really tagged him.
1:50:04
Apollo clearly protecting
his right side, his ribs.
1:50:14
Look at the blood coming out.
He's spitting up blood now.
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Armageddon/cap/en/25fps/a/00_27
Armageddon
:27:01
- All they gotta do is drill?
- That's it.
:27:04
- No spacewalkin',
no crazy astronaut stuff.
- Just drill.
http://www.cswap.com/2000/Mission_to_Mars/cap/en/25fps/a/01_13
Mission to Mars
1:13:31
When I came to
and dug myself out of the sand,
my face plate was cracked.
1:13:34
It was... leaking,
leaking badly.
1:13:38
I barely made it
back to base.
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#a=search&s=tomcat%20fuel&chk=6cfe0&n=90&guid=d1c44d241662881fa43262129602753051e5b447
DN-SC-84-11524
An aviation boatswain's mate (fuels) hauls a fuel hose to an F-14 Tomcat aircraft from Fighter Squadron 154 (VF-154) during flight operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70).
Photographer's Name: PH3 Don Choquette
http://www.cswap.com/1991/Flight_of_the_Intruder/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_09
Flight of the Intruder
:09:28
They'd never expect us
to come back.
:09:33
Nobody'd go through that again.
:09:37
Tell you what.
:09:39
I came here to bomb.
:09:42
Come hard left.
:09:43
Heading 1 80.
:09:44
1 -8-0, one more time.
:09:51
Check the ACU
circuit breakers.
:09:53
Armament circuit
breakers back in.
:09:55
Maintain 300 feet.
:09:57
300 feet.
:10:06
We're at Jet B.
:10:07
Hard left.
:10:08
Get it on.
:10:10
Though I walk
through the valley...
:10:13
Three miles to target.
:10:15
Right, two degrees.
:10:17
I shall fear no evil...
http://www.cswap.com/1991/Flight_of_the_Intruder/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_06
Flight of the Intruder
:07:44
Flow with it.
:07:45
Damn, we're going to have to go
right through this crap.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/hotelcalifornia.html
EAGLES LYRICS
"Hotel California"
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/escape%20velocity
escape velocity
the minimum speed that an object at a given distance from a gravitating body must have so that it will continue to move away from the body instead of orbiting about it.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/hotelcalifornia.html
EAGLES LYRICS
"Hotel California"
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/escape%20velocity
escape velocity
the minimum speed that an object at a given distance from a gravitating body must have so that it will continue to move away from the body instead of orbiting about it.
http://www.cswap.com/1976/Midway/cap/en/25fps/a/01_57
Midway
1:57:51
Larry, radio Enterprise:
We'll land there after our bomb run.
1:57:55
Yes, Sir.
Blue Leader to all planes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B41_nuclear_bomb
B41 nuclear bomb
The B41 was a thermonuclear weapon deployed by the United States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s.
Development
The development of the Mk 41 began in 1955 with a USAF requirement for a Class B (high-yield, over 10,000 lb/4,545 kg) weapon. It was based on the "Bassoon" test device first fired in the Redwing Zuni test of 27 May 1956. An ICBM warhead version of the weapon was cancelled in 1957.
Composition
The Mk 41 was the only three-stage thermonuclear weapon fielded by the U.S. It had a deuterium-tritium boosted primary, probably with lithium-6-enriched deuteride fuel for the fusion reaction. Two versions were deployed, Y1, a "dirty" version with a tertiary stage encased with U-238, and Y2, a "clean" version with a lead-encased tertiary.
It was the highest-yield nuclear weapon ever deployed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons.
Physical characteristics
The weapon was 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m) long, with a body diameter of 52 in (132 cm). It weighed 10,670 lb (4,850 kg). It was carried only by the B-52 Stratofortress and B-47 Stratojet. It could be deployed in free-fall or retarded (parachute) configuration, and could be set for airburst, groundburst, or laydown delivery.
Service life
The Mk 41 (designated B41 from 1968 on) entered service in 1961. About 500 of these weapons were manufactured between September 1960 and June 1962. The Mk 41 was progressively phased out of service from 1963 in favor of the B53 nuclear bomb. The last B41s were retired in July 1976.
Excerpt ends: Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 10:10 AM Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:45 AM Monday, December 15, 2008
EAGLES LYRICS
"Hotel California"
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Deep_Impact/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_44
Deep Impact
:44:24
Baker: Look at these.
They're the size of houses.
:44:27
Yeah, I know.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/escape%20velocity
escape velocity
the minimum speed that an object at a given distance from a gravitating body must have so that it will continue to move away from the body instead of orbiting about it.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/hotelcalifornia.html
EAGLES LYRICS
"Hotel California"
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/escape%20velocity
escape velocity
the minimum speed that an object at a given distance from a gravitating body must have so that it will continue to move away from the body instead of orbiting about it.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/hotelcalifornia.html
EAGLES LYRICS
"Hotel California"
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany
Tiffany
The Tiffany Cross, the U.S. Navy Medal of Honor from 1919–1942
http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/01_02
Apollo 13
1:02:07
It's only
by a very narrow margin...
1:02:09
that we're going to get Lovell,
Haise and Swigert back alive.
From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) To 7/20/1994 ( "Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back" ) is 6306 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) To 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) is 6306 days
From 2/12/1973 ( Operation Homecoming begins and I was the lead C-141A pilot transporting home the American POW's ) To 7/20/1994 ( "Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back" ) is 7828 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) To 11/19/1969 ( I was Apollo 12 Intrepid astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is 3914 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180443/
Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back (1994) (TV)
Release Date: 20 July 1994 (USA)
excerpt ends: Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:45 AM Monday, December 15, 2008
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1990/90-007.txt
NASA official website
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
January 17, 1990 3:00 p.m. EST
Johnson Space Center, Houston
RELEASE: 90-7
1990 ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES SELECTED
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1985_49722
chron Houston Chronicle Archives
Soviet warships being watched in Gulf
Houston Chronicle News Services
TUE 11/05/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A U.S. Navy vessel is closely monitoring the movements of two Soviet warships that entered the Gulf of Mexico and came within 40 miles of the Texas coast, the U.S. Navy said.
The USS Taylor, American guidedmissile frigate, has been tracking the Soviet ships - a guided-missile destroyer and a guided-missile frigate - since they left Havana Thursday, said Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman in Norfolk, Va.
The Taylor is always "within visual range" of the Soviet vessels that were last reported about 100 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla., and moving in a southeasterly direction, possibly toward Cuba, said Quigley.
However, there was no way to determine whether the Soviet warships were preparing to leave the Gulf and return to Havana. "They can always change rudder at a moment's notice," he said.
The destroyer and frigate - part of a larger group of four Soviet ships that entered the Caribbean in September - entered the Gulf Thursday, Quigley said.
1978 film "Capricorn One" DVD video:
Dr. James Kelloway: [speaking into telephone] Yes? Which one? [listening] What direction was he going?
From 6/29/1955 ( Charles Precourt ) To 3/21/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "Ancient Mysteries"::"The Rosetta Stone" ) is 14876 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 7/26/2006 is 14876 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 7/26/2006 is 4289 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 7/31/1977 ( premiere US TV series "The Starland Vocal Band Show" ) is 4289 days
From 1/13/1914 ( Edward Charles Spitzka dead ) 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 29752 days
29752 = 14876 + 14876
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 7/26/2006 is 14876 days
From 2/25/1956 ( Nikita Khrushchev - The Secret Speech On the Cult of Personality ) To 7/26/2006 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( 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 & RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 26, 2006
I was thinking last night about a memory featured prominently in my symbolic memory. It is of a time in 1985 when I was on the Taylor. It was during that same deployment when I watched the Estocin run aground in Key West. We were traveling along shoulder to shoulder with a Soviet battlegroup that was touring the oil pltform fields off the coast of Texas and Louisiana. During that time, I still worked for the Boatswain's Mates, but I was assigned to a 90-day tour of the mess decks, as all junior crewmen had to complete. I was working every day on the mess decks as a dishwasher. There was three of us in there and I remember one of them telling me "happy birthday". The part of this memory that seems to be operative is that I remember thinking several times that I turned 20 years old in "the Gulf." There seems to be a process there to makes me want to, that forces me to think that it was the Gulf Of Mexico. If I need to be forced to think I was in the Gulf Of Mexico for my 20th birthday
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14764058105
flickr
Internet Archive Book Images Follow
Image from page 451 of "Buffalo medical journal" (1914)
Identifier: buffalomedicaljo6919unse
Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
OBITUARIES Dr. Edward Charles Spitzka, University of New York 1873,died at his home in Manhattan, January 13, 1914
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
Doctor Daniel Jackson: The point is not who built them; the point is when they were built.
1978 film "Capricorn One" DVD video:
Dr. James Kelloway: All right, that's the end of the speech. Now we're getting to what they call the 'moment of truth.' Come with me. I want to show you something. There's a door here. I'm going to open it and walk into another area. If you follow me, you'll see a bit more. I'll answer some questions, and... You're going to - why don't you just follow me?
US Air Force Colonel Charles Brubaker: You don't really think you're going to get away with this.
Dr. James Kelloway: Well, I don't know. It's a chance. Maybe it's not a very good one, but it's a chance.
US Air Force Colonel Charles Brubaker: Who knows about this?
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-starland-vocal-band-show/show-1-127954/
tv.com
The Starland Vocal Band Show Season 1 Episode 1
Show #1
Aired Sunday 8:30 PM Jul 31, 1977 on CBS
AIRED: 7/31/77
1978 film "Capricorn One" DVD video:
00:21:05
Dr. James Kelloway: You think I like this? You think I really believe I'm standing here in this craziness telling you about patching in tape recordings and telemetry and an island
00:21:18
Dr. James Kelloway: I - I don't know what the hell I'm doing either. I just care so goddamn much, I think it's worth it. I'm not even sure of that. I just think it.
US Navy Commander John Walker: I think I'm going to throw up.
US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis: Well, that'll solve everything.
US Air Force Colonel Charles Brubaker: What's this all going to solve?
Dr. James Kelloway: It'll keep something alive that shouldn't die. Before you all begin to moralize, you take a look around. You look at what we've done and how much more we can do. You look at what we've meant to this country. Nobody gives a crap about anything anymore. People close their garages and triple-lock their doors. They hide under the beds. They're even afraid to turn on their television sets for fear of what they might find out on the evening news. There's nothing more to believe in. You want to blow this whole thing wide open? God knows what it might do to everybody. I'm sorry. I'm so goddamn sorry. I just don't know what else to do. I'm hanging on by my fingernails
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Charles_Spitzka
Edward Charles Spitzka
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Charles Spitzka (November 10, 1852 – January 13, 1914)
1978 film "Capricorn One" DVD video:
00:23:20
US Air Force Colonel Charles Brubaker: You're crazy. You know that? You know that? You're crazy! You've got us in the middle of this nuthouse and you don't want to be put in a corner?!
1978 film "Capricorn One" DVD:
00:38:44
Robert Caulfield: Hard day at the office?
Elliot Whittier: I don't even want to talk about it.
Robert Caulfield: Did you break your slide rule?
Elliot Whittier: I'm not really sure. I ran a check on my own on the transmission signals. The numbers came up screwy. So I told Dr. Bergman about it. It was like he was pissed at me for running a check. He said it must be a console malfunction. So I told Dr. Kelloway about it and he said the same thing.
Robert Caulfield: Big deal. What did you expect - a merit badge?
Elliot Whittier: I guess so. They must know what they're doing. Those numbers couldn't have been right anyway. No way.
Robert Caulfield: Well, if you know the numbers couldn't have been right why the hell are you so upset?
Elliot Whittier: Because the way they reacted. No double check or anything. They looked at me like I was a kid and offered me a cookie.
Robert Caulfield: What were the numbers?
Elliot Whittier: I have to admit it is ridiculous.
Robert Caulfield: Good. Let's play pool.
Elliot Whittier: Those signals couldn't have come from 300 miles.
Robert Caulfield: Which signals?
From 6/29/1955 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 14610 days
14610 = 7305 + 7305
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 11/2/1985 ( Ronald Reagan - Radio Address to the Nation on the Soviet-United States Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations ) is 7305 days
From 6/29/1955 To 9/13/1979 ( Jimmy Carter - Memorandum From the President on Undocumented Aliens ) is 8842 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 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA - 1990 Astronaut Candidates Selected ) is 8842 days
From 6/29/1955 To 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 12738 days
12738 = 6369 + 6369
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 4/11/1983 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"Space: The Race for High Ground" ) is 6369 days
From 6/29/1955 To 1/8/1980 ( John William Mauchly deceased ) is 8959 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 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
From 6/29/1955 To 6/5/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 11664 days
11664 = 5832 + 5832
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 10/21/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Statement on United States Strategic Policy ) is 5832 days
From 1/20/1930 ( Buzz Aldrin ) to 6/29/1955 is 9291 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 4/11/1991 ( Gulf War ends ) is 9291 days
https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/precourt.html
NASA official website
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
Biographical Data
CHARLES J. PRECOURT (COLONEL, USAF, RET.)
NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)
PERSONAL DATA: Born June 29, 1955, in Waltham, Massachusetts, but considers Hudson, Massachusetts, to be his hometown. Married to the former Lynne Denise Mungle of St. Charles, Missouri. They have three daughters, Michelle, Sarah, and Aimee. Precourt enjoys golf and flying light aircraft. He flies a Varieze, an experimental aircraft that he built. His parents, Charles and Helen Precourt, reside in Hudson. Her mother, Jerry Mungle, resides in Pearland, Texas.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Hudson High School, Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977, a master of science degree in engineering management from Golden Gate University in 1988, and a master of arts degree in national security affairs and strategic studies from the United States Naval War College in 1990. While at the United States Air Force Academy, Precourt also attended the French Air Force Academy in 1976 as part of an exchange program. Fluent in French and Russian.
ORGANIZATIONS: Vice President of the Association of Space Explorers; Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP), and member of the Experimental Aircraft Association.
SPECIAL HONORS: Military decorations include: the Legion of Merit, the Defense Superior Service Medal (2); the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal (2). Distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the United States Naval War College. In 1978 he was the Air Training Command Trophy Winner as the outstanding graduate of his pilot training class. In 1989 he was recipient of the David B. Barnes Award as the Outstanding Instructor Pilot at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School. NASA awards include: the NASA Distinguished Service Medal; the Exceptional Service Medal and Outstanding Leadership Medal; and the NASA Space Flight Medal (4).
EXPERIENCE: Precourt graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, in 1978. Initially he flew as an instructor pilot in the T-37, and later as a maintenance test pilot in the T-37 and T-38 aircraft. From 1982 through 1984, he flew an operational tour in the F-15 Eagle at Bitburg Air Base in Germany. In 1985 he attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Upon graduation, Precourt was assigned as a test pilot at Edwards, where he flew the F-15E, F-4, A-7, and A-37 aircraft until mid 1989, when he began studies at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Upon graduation from the War College, Precourt joined the astronaut program. His flight experience includes over 7,500 hours in over 60 types of civil and military aircraft. He holds commercial pilot, multi-engine instrument, glider and certified flight instructor ratings. Precourt retired from the Air Force on March 31, 2000.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in January 1990, Precourt became an astronaut in July 1991. His other technical assignments to date have included: Manager of ascent, entry, and launch abort issues for the Astronaut Office Operations Development Branch; spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), providing the voice link from the Mission Control Center during launch and entry for several Space Shuttle missions; Director of Operations for NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, from October 1995 to April 1996, with responsibility for the coordination and implementation of mission operations activities in the Moscow region for the joint U.S./Russian Shuttle/Mir program. From May 1996 to September 1998, he served as Acting Assistant Director (Technical), Johnson Space Center. From October 1998 through November 2002, Precourt was Chief of the Astronaut Corps, responsible for the mission preparation activities of all space shuttle and future International Space Station crews and their support personnel. In his final assignment he was the Deputy Manager for the International Space Station, responsible for the day-to-day management of ISS operations, on orbit assembly and the interfaces with NASA contractors and the International Partners. A veteran of four space flights, he has logged over 932 hours in space. He served as a mission specialist on STS-55 (April 26 to May 6, 1993), was the pilot on STS-71 (June 27 to July 7, 1995), and was the spacecraft commander on STS-84 (May 15-24, 1997) and STS-91 (June 2-12, 1998), the final scheduled Shuttle-Mir docking mission, concluding the joint U.S./Russian Phase I Program. Precourt left NASA in March 2005 and is now working for Thiokol in Utah.
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-55 Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 26, 1993. Nearly 90 experiments were conducted during this German-sponsored Spacelab D-2 mission to investigate life sciences, materials sciences, physics, robotics, astronomy and the Earth and its atmosphere. STS-55 also flew the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) making contact with students in 14 schools around the world. After 160 orbits of the earth in 240 flight hours, the 10-day mission concluded with a landing on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on May 6, 1993.
STS-71 (June 27 to July 7, 1995) was the first Space Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station Mir, and involved an exchange of crews (seven-member crew at launch, eight-member crew on return). The Atlantis Space Shuttle was modified to carry a docking system compatible with the Russian Mir Space Station. It also carried a Spacehab module in the payload bay in which the crew performed various life sciences experiments and data collections. STS-71 Atlantis launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Mission duration was 235 hours, 23 minutes.
STS-84 Atlantis (May 15-24, 1997) carried a seven-member international crew. This was NASA’s sixth Shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. During the 9-day flight, the crew conducted a number of secondary experiments and transferred nearly 4 tons of supplies and experiment equipment between the Space Shuttle and the Mir station. STS-84 Atlantis launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Mission duration was 221 hours and 20 minutes.
STS-91 Discovery (June 2-12, 1998) was the 9th and final Shuttle-Mir docking mission and marked the conclusion of the highly successful joint U.S./Russian Phase I Program. The crew, including a Russian cosmonaut, performed logistics and hardware resupply of the Mir during four docked days. They also conducted the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment, which involved the first of its kind research of antimatter in space. Mission duration was 235 hours, 54 minutes.
MARCH 2005
http://www.tv.com/shows/frontline/space-the-race-for-high-ground-543108/
tv.com
Frontline Season 1 Episode 11
Space: The Race for High Ground
Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM Apr 11, 1983 on PBS
Episode Summary
Frontline examines how in the previous 25 years before President Reagan introduced his "Star Wars" plan, the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to blast them out of the sky. The superpowers were converting space from an arena for communications, to a concept of space as 'high ground,' and the battle for control.
AIRED: 4/11/83
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-71
STS-71
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mission highlights
Docking occurred at 9 am EDT, 29 June, using R-Bar or Earth radius vector approach, with Atlantis closing in on Mir from directly below. R-bar approach allows natural forces to brake the orbiter's approach more than would occur along standard approach directly in front of the space station; also, an R-bar approach minimizes the number of orbiter jet firings needed for approach. The manual phase of the docking began with Atlantis about a half-mile (800 m) below Mir, with Gibson at the controls on aft flight deck. Stationkeeping was performed when the orbiter was about 75 metres (246 ft) from Mir, pending approval from Russian and U.S. flight directors to proceed. Gibson then maneuvered the orbiter to a point about 10 metres (33 ft) from Mir before beginning the final approach to station. Closing rate was close to the targeted 0.1 foot per second (30 mm/s), being approximately 0.107 foot per second (33 mm/s) at contact. Interface contact was nearly flawless: less than 25 millimetres (0.98 in) lateral misalignment and an angular misalignment of less than 0.5 degrees per axis. No braking jet firings had been required.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-01/news/mn-19226_1_mir-aboard-atlantis
Los Angeles Times
Doctor, Two Cosmonauts Undergo Medical Tests Aboard Atlantis-Mir
July 01, 1995 From Associated Press
HOUSTON — After 3 1/2 months of being the doctor, astronaut Norman E. Thagard became the patient Friday and was poked and probed aboard Atlantis-Mir, the linked U.S. shuttle and Russian space station.
Dr. Ellen Baker drew blood from Thagard, a physician, and his two Russian crew mates and performed physical exams to help scientists understand the effects on the body of long stays in space. Thagard spent 3 1/2 months aboard the space station Mir, a U.S. space endurance record.
Mission Control, meanwhile, was puzzled by the higher than expected use of fuel by Atlantis.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-01/news/mn-19226_1_mir-aboard-atlantis
Los Angeles Times
July 01, 1995 From Associated Press
The shuttle is controlling the position of the sprawling, half-million-pound complex by firing small jets so Mir's power-generating solar panels point constantly toward the sun.
Stargate: Universe - Air - television series premiere episodes 1 & 2 of 3 - Friday 02 October 2009
Episode Summary
A research team studying the Stargate's ninth chevron is forced to flee through the gate when their secret base is attacked by an unknown enemy. They end up stranded on an Ancient ship named Destiny, billions of light years from Earth.
(from internet transcript)
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ANCIENT SHIP. Lieutenant Scott and the others have returned to the Gateroom. Sergeant Greer and some other military people are checking the supply of weapons. Scott calls for everyone's attention.
SCOTT: OK, listen up. Everybody who is able, we are gonna search this ship, top to bottom. Teams of three.
(He goes over to Greer and speaks quietly.)
SCOTT: Weapons?
GREER: Twenty-three, including handguns.
SCOTT: One per group?
GREER: Yeah.
(Unnoticed by anyone, Doctor Nicholas Rush has found the bag that Colonel Young brought through and is unzipping it to reveal the metal case inside.)
SCOTT (to the crowd): Flashlights, radios only when necessary. Once those batteries are dead, they are dead. Regular check-ins with Doctor Rush in the Control Room every ten minutes and keep in mind, as far as we know, this bucket is really freakin' old
From 5/31/1988 ( Ronald Reagan - Toasts at a State Dinner Hosted by the President at Spaso House in Moscow ) To 10/2/2009 is 7794 days
7794 = 3897 + 3897
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 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) is 3897 days
From 5/31/1988 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Students and Faculty at Moscow State University ) To 10/2/2009 is 7794 days
7794 = 3897 + 3897
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 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) is 3897 days
From 8/30/1907 ( John William Mauchly ) 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 32080 days
32080 = 16040 + 16040
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 10/2/2009 is 16040 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 Computer Complex Operator ) To 10/2/2009 is 7878 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 5/29/1987 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks on United States Policy in the Persian Gulf ) is 7878 days
From 4/16/1947 ( Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" ) 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 16040 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 10/2/2009 is 16040 days
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Mauchly
Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Mauchly
AMERICAN PHYSICIST AND ENGINEER
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John Mauchly, in full John William Mauchly, also called John W. Mauchly, (born August 30, 1907, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died January 8, 1980, Ambler, Pennsylvania), American physicist and engineer, coinventor in 1946, with John P. Eckert, of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic computer.
After completing his education, Mauchly entered the teaching profession, eventually becoming an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. During World War II Mauchly and Eckert, a graduate engineer, were asked to devise ways to accelerate the recomputation of artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army. They accordingly proposed the construction of a general-purpose digital computer that would handle data in coded form, and by 1946 they completed the ENIAC, a huge machine (containing more than 18,000 vacuum tubes) that incorporated features developed by J.V. Atanasoff. The ENIAC was first used by the U.S. Army at its Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in 1947 for ballistics tests.
The following year Mauchly and Eckert formed a computer-manufacturing firm, and in 1949 they announced the Binary Automatic Computer (BINAC), which used magnetic tape instead of punched cards. In 1950 the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation was acquired by Remington Rand, Inc. (later Sperry Rand Corporation), Mauchly becoming director of special projects. The third computer after BINAC was UNIVAC I, specially designed to handle business data. Mauchly continued his work in the computer field, winning many honours. He served as president (1959–65) and chairman of the board (1965–69) of Mauchly Associates, Inc., and as president of Dynatrend Inc. (1968–80) and of Marketrend Inc. (1970–80).
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=34346
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks on United States Policy in the Persian Gulf
May 29, 1987
I want to speak directly this afternoon on the vital interests of the American people, vital interests that are at stake in the Persian Gulf area. It may be easy for some, after a near record 54-month economic recovery, to forget just how critical the Persian Gulf is to our national security. But I think everyone in this room and everyone hearing my voice now can remember the woeful impact of the Middle East oil crisis of a few years ago: the endless, demoralizing gas lines; the shortages; the rationing; the escalating energy prices; the double-digit inflation; and the enormous dislocation that shook our economy to its foundations.
This same economic dislocation invaded every part of the world, contracting foreign economies, heightening international tensions , and dangerously escalating the chances of regional conflicts and wider war. The principal forces for peace in the world, the United States and other democratic nations, were perceived as gravely weakened. Our economies and our people were viewed as the captives of oil-producing regimes in the Middle East. This could happen again if Iran and the Soviet Union were able to impose their will upon the friendly Arab States of the Persian Gulf, and Iran was allowed to block the free passage of neutral shipping.
But this will not happen again, not while this President serves. I'm determined our national economy will never again be held captive, that we will not return to the days of gas lines, shortages, inflation, economic dislocation, and international humiliation. Mark this point well: The use of the vital sealanes of the Persian Gulf will not be dictated by the Iranians. These lanes will not be allowed to come under the control of the Soviet Union. The Persian Gulf will remain open to navigation by the nations of the world.
Now, I will not permit the Middle East to become a chokepoint for freedom or a tinderbox of international conflict. Freedom of navigation is not an empty cliche of international law. It is essential to the health and safety of America and the strength of our alliance. Our presence in the Persian Gulf is also essential to preventing wider conflict in the Middle East, and it's a prerequisite to helping end the brutal and violent 6 ?-year war between Iran and Iraq. Diplomatically, we're doing everything we can to obtain an end to this war, and this effort will continue.
In summary then, the United States and its allies maintain a presence in the Gulf to assist in the free movement of petroleum, to reassure those of our friends and allies in the region of our commitment to their peace and welfare, to ensure that freedom of navigation and other principles of international accord are respected and observed—in short, to promote the cause of peace. Until peace is restored and there's no longer a risk to shipping in the region, particularly shipping under American protection, we must maintain an adequate presence to deter and, if necessary, to defend ourselves against any accidental attack or against any intentional attack. As Commander in Chief, it's my responsibility to make sure that we place forces in the area that are adequate to that purpose.
Our goal is to seek peace rather than provocation, but our interests and those of our friends must be preserved. We're in the gulf to protect our national interests and, together with our allies, the interests of the entire Western World. Peace is at stake; our national interest is at stake. And we will not repeat the mistakes of the past. Weakness, a lack of resolve and strength, will only encourage those who seek to use the flow of oil as a tool, a weapon, to cause the American people hardship at home, incapacitate us abroad, and promote conflict and violence throughout the Middle East and the world.
Note: The President spoke to reporters at 1:46 p.m. in the Briefing Room at the White House.
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The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on the Soviet-United States Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations
November 2, 1985
My fellow Americans:
Yesterday in Geneva American negotiators presented to their Soviet counterparts new proposals designed to achieve real reductions in the nuclear arsenals of both the United States and the Soviet Union. My instructions to our negotiators also asked that this round of the negotiations be extended into this coming week so that our team can make a full presentation of our new proposals and so that the Soviets have the opportunity to ask questions about them. I am very pleased that the Soviet Union has agreed to this extension of the talks. I know you join me in hoping that this will be a productive week in Geneva. Our new proposals address all three areas of these negotiations: strategic nuclear arms, intermediate-range nuclear forces, and defense and space systems. They build upon the concrete reduction proposals American negotiators have had on the table since early in the talks, and they take into account expressed Soviet concerns.
Our objective since the start of the administration in 1981 has been to achieve real progress in reducing not only nuclear arms but conventional forces and chemical weapons as well. We've been firm and consistent in our arms control approach. Just as important, we have placed great value on maintaining the strength and unity of our alliances and ensuring that the security interests of our allies are enhanced in these negotiations. And we've demonstrated flexibility in taking legitimate Soviet interests into account. I'm pleased to report to you that our strategy has been working. I believe we've laid the groundwork for productive negotiations in Geneva. The first sign of this was when Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze presented to me at our White House meeting in September a Soviet counteroffer to our own earlier proposals. The Soviet negotiators then presented this in detail in Geneva, and our negotiators and our experts here at home have had a chance to analyze it carefully.
Based on this analysis, I decided upon the new U.S. proposals and instructed our negotiating team to present them in Geneva. Judged against our very careful criteria for reaching sound arms control agreements, we found that the Soviet counterproposal had some flaws and in some ways was one-sided. But as I made clear in my speech to the United Nations, the Soviet move also had certain positive seeds which we wish to nurture. Our new proposals build upon these positive elements. One of them is the Soviet call for 50-percent reduction in certain types of nuclear arms. For more than 3 years we've been proposing a reduction of about half in the strategic ballistic missiles of both sides. We therefore have accepted the 50-percent reduction proposed by the Soviets.
At the same time, we're making it clear that we have a safer and more stable world. And if we're to have that, reductions must be applied to systems which are comparable, and especially to those which would give either side a destabilizing first-strike advantage. We not only want to bring nuclear arms way down to equal levels in a stable way, we also want to decrease our mutual reliance for security on these extremely destructive offensive arsenals. Thus, we're seeking to discuss at the same time with the Soviets in Geneva how together we can try to help make the world a safer place by relying more on defenses which threaten no one, rather than on these offensive arsenals. Each of us is pursuing research on such defenses, and we need to be talking to each other about it.
I have written to both allied leaders and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev about our new proposals. And I have informed Mr. Gorbachev how much I am looking forward to our meeting later this month in Geneva. He and I will have a broad agenda at our meeting, one that includes human rights, regional issues, and contacts between our peoples, as well as the Geneva and other arms control negotiations. If we hope to succeed in our efforts to create a safer world and to bring about a fresh start in the U.S.-Soviet relationship, progress will be needed in all of these areas. And this can only be accomplished if the Soviet leaders share our determination. We're encouraged because after a long wait, legitimate negotiations are underway.
Now, we've had a proposal on the table in Geneva for quite a while. Now the Soviet Union has offered a counterproposal, and we, in turn, have a new proposal now reflecting some of the elements of both of the others. And this is what negotiation is all about. I can't give you any more details about our new arms control proposals because we have to let the negotiators work this out behind closed doors in Geneva. But I want to leave you with the four key objectives our American negotiators are seeking: deep cuts, no first-strike advantages, defensive research—because defense is much safer than offense—and no cheating.
Until next week, thanks for listening.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 04:56 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 26 August 2018
