"It may take many decades"
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/spaceshipone
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/asterisk
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asterisk
a small starlike symbol (*), used in writing and printing as a reference mark or to indicate omission, doubtful matter, etc.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044367/releaseinfo
IMDb
Apache Country (1952)
Release Info
USA 30 May 1952
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=290923
United States Navy
United States of America
190621-N-NU281-1039
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 20, 2019) Cmdr. Scott Maloney, right, executive officer aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), and Fire Controlman 2nd Class Matthew Verduyn conduct a maintenance condition inspection on the 5-inch gun mount control panel in preparation for an upcoming Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV). Michael Murphy is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin R. Pacheco/Released)
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=291175
United States Navy
United States of America
190624-N-TI693-0347
ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 24, 2019) - Fire Controlman 2nd Class Joshua Massengill, right, from Cumberland, Tennessee, relays firing commands to Fire Controlman 3rd Class Michael Vonnahme, from San Diego, as he fires a .50-caliber machine gun during a live fire exercise aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), June 24, 2019. Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its sixth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Fred Gray IV/Released)
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=287734
United States Navy
United States of America
190604-N-TI693-0104
ROTA, Spain (June 4, 2019) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Nathan Medich, from Zanesville, Ohio, guides live ammunition for the MK 45 5-inch gun aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), June 4, 2019. Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its sixth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Fred Gray IV/Released)
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=287726
United States Navy
United States of America
190531-N-TI693-0031
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (May 31, 2019) Fire Controlman 3rd Class David Durnwald, from New Washington, Ohio, fires a 9 mm M9 pistol during a low-light firearm qualification aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), May 31, 2019. Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its sixth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Fred Gray IV/Released)
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=286748
United States Navy
United States of America
190520-N-VH871-021
ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 20, 2019) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Steve Peterson collects environmental data to increase radar effectiveness aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), May 20, 2019. Roosevelt, homeported in Mayport, Fla., is operating in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Austin Ingram/Released)
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=280094
United States Navy
United States of America
190207-N-KA046-0098
PLYMOUTH, England (Feb. 7, 2019) Fire Controlman (Aegis) 1st Class Donald White mans the missile system supervisor watch station aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) during a general quarters drill in Plymouth, England, Feb. 7, 2019. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its sixth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Turner)
https://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=282057
United States Navy
United States of America
190317-N-HI376-1058
PHILIPPINE SEA (March 17, 2018) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) launched a Standard Missile (SM) 2 during a missile exercise in the Philippine Sea, March 16, 2019. Missile exercises are designed to increase the tactical proficiency, lethality, and interoperability of participating units in an Era of Great Power Competition. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy Graham)
Pilot Movie 1: The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD video
07 March 1973
00:40:35
Dr. Rudy Wells: Hold it. Want some help?
Steve Austin: No. The thing is Doc, why? Why?
Dr. Rudy Wells: Why, what?
Steve Austin: Oh, come on. I may walk like a two year old, but I'm not that naive. Now you have all given me a gift, and I thank you very much. But now, what is the price tag?
Dr. Rudy Wells: We have given you something back that you've lost and that is all.
Steve Austin: How do you know what I've lost?
Dr. Rudy Wells: We've given you and eye for an eye, haven't we? An arm for an arm.
Steve Austin: My arm didn't come packed in a wooden box!
Dr. Rudy Wells: What do you want?
Steve Austin: I wanna know who's paying the freight!
Dr. Rudy Wells: What's the difference?
Steve Austin: The difference is when the bill comes due.
Dr. Rudy Wells: What are you so suspicious of?
Steve Austin: Look, I was a civilian member of the space program for 12 years! I know how much things cost.
From 4/14/1977 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed nuclear-pulse propulsion spaceship returned to the planet Earth from solar system deep space after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) To 6/21/2004 ( the SpaceShipOne flight of ignorance ) is 9930 days
9930 = 4965 + 4965
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1979 ( ) is 4965 days
From 7/5/1960 ( the House Committee on Science and Astronautics declaration ) To 9/12/1987 ( premiere US TV series "Showtime at the Apollo" ) is 9930 days
9930 = 4965 + 4965
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1979 is 4965 days
From 6/7/1979 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 4724 days
4724 = 2362 + 2362
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/21/1972 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1972 was United States Apollo 16 Orion spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking and driving on the planet Earth's moon ) is 2362 days
From 6/7/1979 ( Anne McClain ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 5618 days
5618 = 2809 + 2809
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/12/1973 ( Richard Nixon - Executive Order 11728—Amending Section 104(b)(1) of Executive Order No. 11157, as it Relates to Incentive Pay for Hazardous Duty Involving Aerial Flight ) is 2809 days
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Anne McClain
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Born Anne Charlotte McClain
June 7, 1979
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/v1p1.htm
PART 1
Concept to Apollo
Beginnings through July 1960
1960
July 5
The House Committee on Science and Astronautics declared: "A high priority program should be undertaken to place a manned expedition on the moon in this decade. A firm plan with this goal in view should be drawn up and submitted to the Congress by NASA. Such a plan, however, should be completely integrated with other goals, to minimize total costs. The modular concept deserves close study. Particular attention should be paid immediately to long lead-time phases of such a program." The Committee also recommended that development of the F-1 engine be expedited in expectation of the Nova launch vehicle, that there be more research on nuclear engines and less conventional engines before freezing the Nova concept, and that the Orion project be turned over to NASA. It was the view of the Committee that "NASA's 10-year program is a good program, as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. Furthermore the space program is not being pushed with sufficient energy."
U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Space, Missiles, and the Nation, 86th Congress, 2nd Session (1960), pp. 55-56.
From 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: "CO,NEPTDCEN ADV LTR 1-86" - advancement from US Navy enlisted E-3 to E-4 - Petty Officer Third Class Fire Controlman weapons control ) To 6/21/2004 is 6788 days
6788 = 3394 + 3394
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/17/1975 ( premiere US TV series pilot "S.W.A.T." - US TV series episode "The Rookies"::"S.W.A.T." ) is 3394 days
From 5/30/1952 ( premiere US film "Apache Country" ) 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 14111 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 6/21/2004 is 14111 days
From 3/7/1973 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) To 6/21/2004 is 11429 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/16/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - extra-vehicular activity #3 ) is 11429 days
From 4/12/1912 ( underway at sea the Titanic receives by radio the first of many ice warnings ) 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 28222 days
28222 = 14111 + 14111
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/2004 is 14111 days
From 11/7/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"Wolf 359" ) To 6/21/2004 is 14471 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) is 14471 days
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/spaceshipone
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
SpaceShipOne
This privately built, piloted craft reached space and returned safely, expanding opportunities for commercial spaceflight.
Launched from its White Knight mothership, the rocket-powered SpaceShipOne and its pilot ascended just beyond the atmosphere, arced through space (but not into orbit), then glided safely back to Earth. The flight lasted 24 minutes, with 3 minutes of weightlessness. Its three record-setting flights were:
* 100 kilometers (62 miles) altitude*; Mike Melvill, pilot; June 21, 2004
* 102 kilometers (64 miles) altitude; Mike Melvill, pilot: September 29, 2004
* 112 kilometers (70 miles) altitude; Brian Binnie, pilot; October 4, 2004
With SpaceShipOne, private enterprise crossed the threshold into human spaceflight, previously the domain of government programs. The SpaceShipOne team aimed for a simple, robust, and reliable vehicle design that could make affordable space travel and tourism possible.
SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for repeated flights in a privately developed reusable spacecraft, the Collier Trophy for greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in 2004, and the National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Current Achievement.
Pilot Movie 1: The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD video
07 March 1973
00:51:18
Steve Austin: Look, I will not work for the OSO, period!
Oliver Spencer: Why? Why? Because you had an experience this afternoon that made you feel a little like, oh, some kind of a Frankenstein monster, eh? And now you hold the OSO responsible for those feelings simply because we gave you those two legs and that arm and that eye to see out of? That what you're talking about, eh? That's what you're feeling? Well, let's cut through this nonsense. We're pressed for time. If the OSO were an artillery outfit we would very simply pick up the telephone and call a foundry and have a cannon designed and built for us. We are not, however, an artillery outfit. We do need a different kind of weapon. A weapon that is potentially far more destructive than a cannon. It must be mobile and self-propelled in the field, under any circumstances over any terrain. It must be able to reprogram itself in the field on the basis of new information and altered circumstances. It must have superior strength, stability, and utter dependability. Now those were our specifications.
Steve Austin: And I'm the result.
Oliver Spencer: You are the result.
Steve Austin: One robot.
Oliver Spencer: No, actually, we would've preferred a robot. A robot doesn't have emotional needs and responses. You do. We have you because you are the optimum compromise in the present state of technology, Mr. Austin. A cybernetic organism. Part machine, part human being. The cyborg. Yes, we've had to settle for that.
Steve Austin: [ with his natural left-hand violently back-hand slaps the crap out of Oliver Spencer ]
Oliver Spencer: Mr. Austin. We didn't order you into the lifting body you were testing. We didn't order it crashed. We merely picked up the pieces and unlike Humpty Dumpty put you back together again. In some ways I think even better than before.
Steve Austin: If only these feelings of mine wouldn't keep getting in the way, right?
Oliver Spencer: Yeah, something like that.
Steve Austin: You know, you're more of a robot than I am.
https://www.airspacemag.com/space/in-the-museum-sweet-success-11889222/
Air & Space
Sweet Success
SpaceShipOne takes its place in the Milestones of Flight gallery.
By Diane Tedeschi
Air & Space Magazine
March 2006
At first glance, SpaceShipOne seems out of place in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery. Hanging from the same ceiling as Bell Aircraft’s beefy little X-1 and North American’s hulking black X-15, SpaceShipOne looks almost like a toy, with blue and white stars sprinkled across the underside of the fuselage. Many of the artifacts in Milestones bear U.S. Air Force and NASA markings; SpaceShipOne, however, advertises itself as “A Paul G. Allen Project.” On June 21, 2004, this “project,” bankrolled by Microsoft co-founder Allen and designed by Burt Rutan, became the first privately built and piloted vehicle to reach space.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5261571/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/private-rocket-ship-breaks-space-barrier
MSN NBC News
Private rocket ship breaks space barrier
History-making pilot copes with serious control problem
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
msnbc.com
MOJAVE, Calif., June 21, 2004 — With a triumphant thumbs-up and a broad grin, the pilot of the SpaceShipOne rocket plane celebrated becoming the first private-sector astronaut to steer his ship into space — by less than a tenth of a mile.
"I feel great, I really do!" pilot Mike Melvill exclaimed after emerging from his craft on the runway of the Mojave Airport here.
Melvill's exultant comments capped SpaceShipOne's wildest ride since its rollout a year ago. During the flight, he had to cope with a serious glitch with the flight control system that knocked the plane 22 miles off course in a matter of seconds. Melvill switched to a backup system that he said "saved the day."
But the problem meant the 63-year-old South Africa native had to cut his spaceward rise short — and the plane's designer, Burt Rutan of Mojave-based Scaled Composites, said the unofficial data indicated that the craft reached a top altitude of 328,491 feet (100.12 kilometers). That's just 408 feet (124 meters) above the internationally recognized boundary of outer space.
On the way down, Melvill experienced 5 G's of acceleration — more than shuttle astronauts feel during their descent.
"I was not afraid all the way up, but I was a little afraid on the way down," he told journalists at a postflight news conference.
New page in history books
Despite the white-knuckle moments, Melvill, Rutan and the rest of the Scaled Composites team wrote a new page in the aviation history books — marking an era in private suborbital spaceflight that some hope will open the final frontier to regular tourists.
"It may take many decades," said California millionaire Dennis Tito, who became the first paying space passenger in 2001 when he took an orbital flight on a Russian spacecraft to the international space station. "It may take 50 to 100 years. But it's going to lead to a new industry."
Melvill's flight has turned him into the new star on the space scene, and he was being courted by late-night and morning news TV shows. He showed off a lucky horseshoe that he had pinned to his flight suit, a gift he made for his wife while he was courting her, more than four decades ago.
"I've worn it on my shoulder every flight, and so far it's kept the luck for me," he said.
A representative of the Guinness Book of World Records, David Hawksett, officially recognized Monday's effort as the "first-ever privately funded manned spaceflight." And Patti Grace Smith, the Federal Aviation Administration's associate administrator for commercial space transportation, awarded Melvill the first astronaut wings ever granted by the FAA and the Department of Transportation.
After Smith gave Rutan a certificate celebrating the achievement, Rutan gave Smith a peck on the cheek, then quipped: "Now, don't ever say that Burt Rutan doesn't kiss up to the FAA."
Cheers going up and down
An estimated 11,000 spectators whooped as SpaceShipOne's contrail zoomed almost straight up in the desert sky, and cheered again when Melvill and his ship were rolled past the reviewing stands.
Video: Safe landing
After greeting Melvill with a bear hug on the runway, Rutan said he was filled with emotion several times during the roughly 90-minute flight. "I just can't tell you how pleased I am," he said.
Melvill, a veteran test pilot who holds several world aviation records, got a taste of the suborbital experience felt in the 1960s by early NASA astronauts and X-15 pilots. He almost gushed over the sight of the curving Earth beneath the blackness of space.
"You really do get the feeling that you've touched the face of God," he said.
The flight wasn't all seriousness: "When I got to the top, I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit," he told the crowd from the runway. "It was amazing -- the M&Ms were just flying around."
'Fairly wild ride'
But serious concerns arose after an initial review of the flight data. Rutan said SpaceShipOne would not fly again until the source of the flight control problem was identified and fixed.
"The anomaly we had today is the most serious flight system safety problem we have had in the entire program," he told reporters.
Video: Wild ride In addition, Melvill had to deal with a roll of the rocket plane during its ascent, and was surprised by an unexpected booming sound. Afterward, Melvill and Rutan said the boom was apparently caused by the buckling of a fairing that was added to the rocket plane's engine nozzle for this record-setting flight.
"Sounds like it was a fairly wild ride," said Dick Rutan, Burt's brother, who set a record of his own in 1986 by flying the Voyager aircraft around the world nonstop without refueling.
The project was funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a billionaire who says he spent "in excess of $20 million" on SpaceShipOne.
"I had my heart in my throat when I watched this," he said of Monday's flight. "And I hope everybody had a good time."
Carnival atmosphere
The Mojave Airport's sprawling grounds took on the atmosphere of an air show, with some fans arriving two days early and setting up camp in a freshly graded stretch of sandy desert. Cars streamed into the parking lot starting Sunday night and continued nearly up to takeoff time at about 6:45 a.m. PT (9:45 a.m. ET). Space celebrities such as moonwalker Buzz Aldrin milled around a VIP area, while regular folks thronged the souvenir stands and viewing areas.
"This is bigger than Kitty Hawk," said one of the onlookers, Tim Reeves, 60, who had driven to Mojave from Los Angeles the night before. "At Kitty Hawk they didn't have visions of 747s dancing in their heads. Here, everybody knows what this portends for private spaceflight."
Five-year-old Vinnie Gionta had a more personal reason for watching the launch. Vinnie, whose father Matthew is a top engineer at Scaled Composites, said he came to watch "my daddy's rocket ship" take off.
"When it goes up, then it makes a big cloud," he said.
SpaceShipOne had a large supporting cast for the main show: For takeoff, the rocket plane was nestled beneath its alien-looking White Knight carrier airplane, another of Burt Rutan's creations. Several chase planes followed along. About an hour after sailing into the clear desert sky, at an altitude of almost 50,000 feet, the White Knight released its companion craft, and Melvill lit up his rocket engine for the nearly straight-up blast, lasting about 70 seconds.
During descent, SpaceShipOne’s wings folded into a high-drag configuration — turning the craft into a self-stabilizing shuttlecock. In the final stage of the 25-minute descent, SpaceShipOne straightened its wings again and glided to a landing.
Eyes on the prize
Monday’s test flight represented a step toward winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which would be awarded to the first team to send a spaceship carrying a pilot and the weight of two passengers to an altitude of 100 kilometers twice within two weeks.
This flight won’t qualify for the prize, because SpaceShipOne carried only Melvill. Rutan said he had hoped to start a 60-day countdown toward an X Prize attempt within a matter of days, but the investigation into the anomaly may affect that hoped-for timetable.
Rutan has been reticent about his post-X Prize plans, saying he always tries to avoid talking about future projects.
Video: Historic liftoff
"One of our lessons learned from doing this program is that it is a very good idea to not reveal to the media what we’re doing until we have to," Rutan said Sunday, "because if I had to do this even occasionally, we’d be a year behind."
But Allen has indicated that the technology developed for SpaceShipOne could be applied in future suborbital space tourism ventures. Over the weekend, Allen said the technology was jointly owned by Mojave Aerospace, a corporation that was set up with Allen. Rutan said he had a share in the corporation by virtue of his intellectual property, but "the majority value is the funding that Paul brought to it."
Allen said that once the X Prize is won, "that opens up a whole host of opportunities to do other things."
Rutan and other experts have suggested that such seats could go for $30,000 to $100,000 initially, and drop to the price of a sports utility vehicle as larger commercial space vehicles are built.
"It's fair to say as you scale up the number of passengers, the price goes down dramatically," Allen said after Monday's flight.
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http://www.cnet.com/news/windows-1-0-the-flop-that-created-an-empire/
cnet
Windows 1.0: The flop that created an empire
Two years later than planned, Microsoft's new graphical operating system went on sale November 20, 1985. It wasn't worth the wait. But a bigger story was soon to unfold.
November 20, 2013 4:00 AM PST
by Charles Cooper
The big story in The New York Times on November 20, 1985, concerned Hurricane Kate's advance as it smashed into northern Cuba and the Florida Keys before barreling north to threaten the Gulf Coast. But another big story -- for the technology world -- was about to unfold thousands of miles away in Las Vegas, where the Comdex trade show was getting under way.
Apple had grabbed headlines a year earlier with the introduction of its graphical Macintosh. Now, after two years of delays, Microsoft was finally ready to debut the much-promised Microsoft Windows.
Ford's Edsel arguably received better reviews.
Computer reviewer Erick Sandberg-Diment wrote in his column that "running Windows on a PC with 512K of memory is akin to pouring molasses in the Arctic." That critique was one of many describing the product as an unadulterated flop.
This was just a momentary setback for Microsoft, which shrugged off the initial embarrassment. (Tandy Trower, the product manager charged with shipping Windows. 1.0 offers a great write-up here about the history of how the company labored to get things right.) Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 2.0 wasn't much better than Windows 1.0. However, by the time the third incarnation of Windows came out, in 1990, Microsoft had a clear winner.
It also caused a rancorous split with longtime partner IBM, which had its hopes on another graphical user operating system for PCs it co-developed with Microsoft called OS/2. But Bill Gates stuck with his vision and Windows became a veritable money machine that would create billions of dollars in wealth for Microsoft and its investors.
To this day, you'll still hear Microsoft critics complain that the various flavors of Windows through the years have never come close to offering the simplicity or elegance of the Mac operating system. (You'll hear a similar refrain from many OS/2 diehards.) I'll leave that one for a bar stool debate. With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, however, this much is clear: Windows 1.0 was a flop. But it also was the embodiment of a technology vision which would create a tech empire.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970216&slug=2524353
The Seattle Times
Sunday, February 16, 1997
Shuttle Takes Hubble Higher Up To Avoid Orbiting Space Junk
By Marcia Dunn
AP
SPACE CENTER, Houston - Space shuttle Discovery fled to a safer, higher orbit with the Hubble Telescope yesterday to avoid a piece of space junk the size of a book.
The fragment of an exploded rocket would have come dangerously close to Discovery, its seven astronauts and the telescope anchored in the cargo bay had the crew not steered out of the way.
Astronauts making the mission's second spacewalk Friday night discovered a surprising number of cracks and tears in Hubble's thin, outer insulation, as well as holes punched into the solar panels by micrometeorites.
A few hours after Discovery's pilots steered the shuttle and the moored Hubble into a 2-mile-higher orbit to extend the lifetime of the telescope, they were ordered to go up an additional half-mile.
A fragment of an exploded Pegasus rocket was due to pass within a half-mile of the shuttle and telescope, officials said, and Mission Control did not want to take any chances.
The Pegasus was launched in 1994 with a military-research satellite, which ended up in the wrong orbit. The rocket fragment was one of 8,014 orbiting objects being tracked by the U.S. Space Command yesterday, most of it junk.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 07:19 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 17 July 2019
