Today was the first time I heard the mainstream media mention Anne McClain and the NASA plan to send a woman to the surface of the Earth's moon and back safely.
The CBS News national broadcast on television was probably last night but I didn't see it first until just before 03:30 AM this morning.
In recent hours of the past day I have had serious doubts about whether I actually piloted the space shuttle to landing in one instance and that literally I did perform a return from orbit by parachute. Not sure which flight that would have been. Maybe the first one, STS-49. The public didn't know I was even on that flight until I started reporting about it here, the crew sworn to secrecy, so the failure of that stunt would have not been known, only reported to people who knew me as Kerry Burgess that I had been killed under less dramatic circumstances, perhaps having fallen asleep while driving my car, Thedia would have been lied to before my closed-casket funeral.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:57 AM Friday, January 20, 2012
"Earth 2"
"Water" DVD video
Sunday 11 December 1994
Episode 6 Season 1
00:23:49
Dr. Julia Heller: I'm a doctor. That's what they made me for.
Alonzo Solace: Nobody made you, Julia. No matter what they did to your genes, you should take credit for who you are.
Dr. Julia Heller: I wish that were true.
Alonzo Solace: I have to do this. You know, you surprise me.
Dr. Julia Heller: I've been surprising myself actually.
[excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess, January 20, 2012 ]
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https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/kootenai-county/full-ironman-triathlon-may-return-to-coeur-dalene-in-2021/293-0fe30696-ae96-411c-8514-0659af4a874d
KREM Channel 2 CBS Spokane
Full Ironman Triathlon may return to Coeur d'Alene in 2021
Council member Dan Gookin told KREM he would support bringing back the race and suspects the rest of the council would as well.
Author: Brooke Wolford
Published: 3:14 PM PDT June 24, 2019
Updated: 3:14 PM PDT June 24, 2019
KOOTENAI CO., Idaho-- A Coeur d’Alene city council member confirmed that talks are in the works to bring the full Ironman race back to the city.
Council member Dan Gookin told KREM 2 Monday afternoon that the council received an email from City Administrator Troy Tymesen that said the North Idaho Sports Commission (NISC) is working with the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce on a transition to become the Ironman Host Site administrator beginning in 2021.
The email says the NISC has been in negotiations with Ironman to bring back the Ironman race on a three-year rotation that would start in 2021. The email also says that the full race would begin in 2021 and would be followed by the half Ironman race in 2022 and 2023.
Tymesen said in the email that if an agreement is reached between the two agencies, they will bring a proposal to the city council for a partnership agreement that resembles those made in the past.
Gookin told KREM he would support bringing back the race and suspects the rest of the council would as well. Exactly two years ago, the council voted to amend the city’s Ironman agreement with the Chamber of Commerce to continue hosting the Ironman 70.3 race for three more years.
Gookin said the council was happy to keep the races, but negotiations between the chamber and Ironman’s parent company, the World Triathlon Corp., did not include any Ironman races after that three-year period.
While Gookin expressed excitement at the possibility of more Ironman Triathlons in Coeur d’Alene, Steve Wilson, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, seemed less than enthused about the events two years ago.
Wilson said it was an “easy decision when all partners involved agree” that the changes would be mutually beneficial. With participation declining to about half of what it was four years prior, and a phenomenon Wilson called “event fatigue,” referring to the lack of volunteers in recent years, keeping races in Coeur d'Alene didn't make financial sense.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-says-cia-spy-network-dismantled-regional-tensions-143051792.html
Yahoo! News
Trump's Pentagon nominee quits, Iran targets CIA network
Sebastian SMITH with Amir HAVASI in Tehran, AFP June 18, 2019
Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump lost his nominee for Pentagon chief on Tuesday, adding to the volatility in a tense standoff with Iran, which claimed to have dismantled a CIA network.
Foreign powers are watching the situation in the Mideast with growing concern as Tehran and Washington exchange warnings about an escalation in their conflict.
Trump -- in his latest comments that appear to contradict more hardline advisors -- told TIME magazine late Monday he considers explosions on two oil tankers, blamed by Washington on Iran, to have been only "very minor."
But his policy was thrown into further uncertainty by the abrupt withdrawal of his pick for defense secretary.
Trump announced on Twitter that Patrick Shanahan was quitting to spend time with his family. The former Boeing executive has seen his candidacy bogged down for months in Congress and the last straw appeared to be revelations of violent incidents during his previous marriage.
Trump named army secretary Mark Esper as his new pick. He will start work on June 24.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-reasons-why-todays-space-161500608.html
Yahoo! News
3 Reasons Why Today's Space Race Is Better Than Apollo
Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics June 24, 2019
From Popular Mechanics
'Tis the season to celebrate the Apollo program’s first human excursion to the lunar surface in July 1969. Fifty years later, this epic and ground-breaking achievement certainly warrants praise as it set the technological stage for generations of engineers and scientists to follow.
But there is also the temptation to say that America needs another Apollo-style program to reclaim its primacy in space. This sentiment ignores both the realities of the moonshot and the amazing possibilities that the current commercial space revolution is opening.
Here’s a few reasons why what’s happening now is even better than Apollo.
Protected From Politics
Apollo was born of Cold War desperation: a political exercise that paid enormous scientific and technological dividends. After the launch of Sputnik in 1957, it became vital to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon, a geopolitical urge that created an enormous budgetary effort.
The problem with politically motivated-well, anything-is that the faucet of support can be closed just as quickly as it opened. It happened to Apollo, as follow on missions were cancelled and the focus shifted to a reusable craft to service low-earth orbit. This pattern of shifting space priorities and strategies whipsawed NASA, most noticeably when the Obama administration’s cancellation of the Bush-era Constellation moon program in 2010.
But multiple private companies pursuing their niches in space have an obvious redundancy. While companies may rise and fall, the very nature of a commercial effort isn't as dependent on government funding. If it’s worth doing, especially if it makes money, space industry will endure political shifts. The objectives of a well-run company do not change that much every four years.
That leaves today’s NASA with a choice: Do it themselves and control everything (the traditional way), or fund private companies to develop the tech the agency needs and then allow them to sell their services to any nation, company, or individual (the new way). With those services on the open market, NASA would be one of many customers for a new U.S.-based space economy.
This debate is boiling over right now. The ongoing effort to return to the moon, called Artemis (after Apollo’s sister), is becoming a lesson in the advantages of the commercial model.
So Much Cheaper, Even NASA Noticed
One measure of Apollo’s urgency is the amount of money the government spent on it. The moonshot consumed 2.5 percent of America’s gross domestic product over a 10-year period, for a total of $25 billion, or about $150 billion in today's dollars. If we apply the same urgency to today’s GDP, a similar-sized percentage would be more than $100 billion every year.
For some perspective, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine last week said the agency will need $20 billion to $30 billion over the next five years. This is sizeable as NASA’s budget is likely to hover around $20 billion annually, so they’re looking at $5 billion or so more each year. The pushback generated by this request-it’s too much, it’s not enough-crosses the political spectrum, following Congressional district lines more than party affiliation.
If only investment guaranteed results. For those who miss bloated, government-run spaceflight, there is already a NASA spacecraft mired in the old ways of thinking. The feds have sunk a lot of money into the Space Launch System, a mega-rocket built to NASA specs for deep space missions. It was supposed to fly in 2017, but we’ll be lucky to see a first flight in 2020-and it busted the $9.7 billion estimated budget, now costing about $12 billion.
But something happened during these SLS delays: the commercial space industry started delivering on its promises. Most visibly, private firms have been delivering supplies to the International Space Station for years and (hopefully soon) will ferry astronauts as well. Blue Origin and SpaceX has started development of crewed spacecraft able to reach to the moon and Mars. Elon Musk even sold a moon trip to a Japanese billionaire.
The speed and relatively cheap cost of these operations has impressed Bridenstine, who sees the commercial space industry as a key enabler to accelerate the timeline. "We're going back to the Moon, but we're doing it entirely different than we did in the 1960s," Bridenstine told reporters recently. “The reason we need commercial operators is because they can drive innovation if they're competing on cost.”
There are plenty of things that the private sector can provide for NASA’s moonshot, using the new model. A space station near the moon, robotic landers, and new spacesuits are all going to commercial firms, who will ultimately own the blueprints and offer proven equipment to whoever wants to pay to use them.
Bridenstine has even publicly pondered the idea of using commercial space heavy rockets to reach the moon. If that happens, it will be a true death knell for the traditional, Apollo approach.
A Truly Global Impact
Planting the American flag on the moon is a big moment in human history, but it's often framed in terms of a U.S. victory over its geopolitical rivals. The moon landing was a demonstration of national power, pursued in a jingoistic fervor, as most government-funded feats of explorations tend to be.
The commercial space industry is more inclusive. In fact, it has to be in order to survive. The current commercial satellite launch market survives on a similarly global customer base. Simply put, telecom companies from around the world will pay Chinese, European, or American launchers to put their spacecraft into orbit.
Now extend that thinking to even more industries. There are plenty of potential customers who would pay to ride on a commercial space vehicle and orbital facility: Medical tech companies lofting research experiments, universities paying for small space telescopes, Middle Eastern and African countries sending their first astronauts to space.
With NASA giving developers the ability to market their rockets, spacecraft, and orbiting stations, the entire world will enjoy the benefits of this new space age. There are many who see spaceflight as the way to bring the world together, and the commercial space industry could make that happen.
It won’t be cheap, and there will undoubtedly be conflict when marketing plans clash with national priorities. But when it comes to people using and, eventually, living in space, there is no bigger chance in human history for the whole world to participate.
So this summer be sure to celebrate Apollo and all those who made it happen, but also keep an eye on what’s going on now because it has the chance to become something even bigger.
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Intl. Space Station
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@Space_Station
10:13 AM - 10 Jun 2019
Three Exp 59 crewmembers are preparing to return to Earth on June 24. Meanwhile, scientists continue exploring what living in space does to the human body long-term. https://go.nasa.gov/31rnRxJ
From 6/3/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Section 12. Campaign/Service and Other Awards - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88 Feb 13 - 88 Jun 03 ) To 6/24/2019 is 11343 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/22/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11343 days
From 12/9/1992 ( official State of South Carolina documents: "the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto Kerry Wayne Burgess" the house I owned at 30 Country Club Drive, Greer, South Carolina ) To 6/24/2019 is 9693 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/17/1992 ( The New York Times "Shuttle Uses Parachute to Chalk Up Another First" ) is 9693 days
From 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 6/24/2019 is 9900 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/10/1992 ( Orlando Sentinel reports that Roy Nedrow, director of Secret Service investigations, has been chosen director of the Navy Criminal Investigative Service ) is 9900 days
From 1/22/1972 ( premiere US TV series "Emergency!" ) To 6/24/2019 is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my 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 the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 8660 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) To 6/24/2019 is 10932 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/8/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"The Dark Side of the Sun" ) is 10932 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) To 6/24/2019 is 10932 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/8/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Bart Sells His Soul" ) is 10932 days
From 9/8/1966 ( premiere US TV series "Star Trek" ) To 6/24/2019 is 19282 days
19282 = 9641 + 9641
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/26/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Colonel Homer" ) is 9641 days
From 12/6/1943 ( premiere US film "In Old Oklahoma" ) To 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) is 19592 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/24/2019 is 19592 days
From 1/20/2012 ( referenced in text above here ) To 6/24/2019 is 2712 days
2712 = 1356 + 1356
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/20/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1356 days
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/24/spokane-astronaut-anne-mcclain-back-on-earth/
The Spokesman-Review
Spokane astronaut Anne McClain back on Earth
UPDATED: Mon., June 24, 2019, 9:27 p.m.
From staff reports
After 204 days in space, Spokane astronaut Anne McClain is back on Earth.
McClain departed the International Space Station with Oleg Kononenk of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency.
They landed at about 7:47 p.m. (Spokane time) in Kazakhstan, concluding a more than six-month mission conducting science and maintenance aboard the space station. They circled the planet 3,264 times, covering 86.4 million miles, according to NASA.
McClain graduated from Gonzaga Prep in 1997 and spent a year in the ROTC program at Gonzaga University before attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering.
McClain became a commissioned Army officer in 2002 and served 15 months in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
McClain holds master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and international relations from the Universities of Bath and Bristol, respectively, both in the United Kingdom.
McClain also played on the USA Rugby Women’s National Team. She also has a 5-year-old son.
McClain was supposed to be part of a history-making all-female spacewalk team this spring, that was later canceled amid controversy due to a lack of small suits.
“I think by now most people know that was actually based on my recommendation,” McClain told the TODAY Show in April. “I think as the lead for the U.S. segment up here on the space station we are always looking for ways to make our team and our job execution the most efficient that we possibly can.”
Hours before landing, McClain tweeted a picture of the space station and outer space with the caption, “We shall not cease from exploration… .”
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tv.com
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 20
Colonel Homer
AIRED: 3/26/92
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tv.com
Star Trek Season 1 Episode 1
AIRED: 9/8/66
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-12-11/news/9212110951_1_secret-service-tailhook-nedrow
Orlando Sentinel
OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - WASHINGTON
Secret Service Official To Head Navy Probe Unit
December 11, 1992
Roy Nedrow, director of Secret Service investigations, has been chosen director of the embattled Navy Criminal Investigative Service, the Navy said Thursday.
Nedrow, 50, has been with the Secret Service for 22 years. Before joining the Secret Service, he was a police officer in Berkeley, Calif.
From 4/6/1965 ( premiere US film "In Harm's Way" & US NASA launches the Intelsat I "Early Bird" satellite into orbit of planet Earth - the commercial telecommunications satellite ) To 5/13/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9899 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 12/9/1992 ( ) is 9899 days
From 12/20/1988 ( premiere US film "Working Girl" ) To 12/9/1992 is 1450 days
1450 = 725 + 725
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 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) is 725 days
From 2/7/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Night Call" ) 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 9899 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 12/9/1992 is 9899 days
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Patrick M. Shanahan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Michael Shanahan (born June 27, 1962) is an American government official serving as acting United States Secretary of Defense since 2019.
On May 9, 2019, President Trump announced his intention to nominate Shanahan as the Secretary of Defense.
Shanahan joined Boeing
was known there as "Mr. Fix-it" from as early as 2008.
https://twitter.com/kerrywburgess/status/1126690777034190848
From 6/27/1962 ( ) To 8/30/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess the debut of my current and public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft - now renamed ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) 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 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 7885 days
From 6/27/1962 To 9/11/1987 ( Lorne Greene dead & premiere US film "Fatal Attraction" ) is 9207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) 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 ) is 9207 days
From 6/27/1962 To 9/20/1976 ( the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications agreement ) is 5199 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/27/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::series premiere episode "Galactica Finds Earth - Part 1" ) is 5199 days
From 6/27/1962 To 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10914 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/20/1995 ( AT&T announced that it was restructuring into three different companies ) is 10914 days
From 6/27/1962 To 5/14/1992 ( first flight of the Boeing Apache Longbow ) is 10914 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/20/1995 ( AT&T announced that it was restructuring into three different companies ) is 10914 days
Fatal Attraction (1987) Movie Script
(from internet transcript)
I went for a walk with Grandpa.
We saw rabbits...
Slow down.
I can't understand a word.
I want a rabbit.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 04:45 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 25 June 2019
