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Intelsat 6 Reboost Mission
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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-05-09/news/9202070423_1_wayward-satellite-daniel-c-brandenstein-kathryn-c-thornton
SunSentinel
New Shuttle `Endeavour` Speeds Toward Rendezvous With Satellite
May 9, 1992 The New York Times
CAPE CANAVERAL -- The space shuttle Endeavour and a wayward satellite on Friday sped toward an orbital rendezvous on Sunday in which the astroanuts are to walk in space to boost the $150 million communications satellite into its correct orbit.
From 5/9/1992 ( ) To 3/3/2012 ( ) is 7238 days
7238 = 3619 + 3619
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 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) is 3619 days
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-05-09/news/9202070423_1_wayward-satellite-daniel-c-brandenstein-kathryn-c-thornton
SunSentinel
New Shuttle `Endeavour` Speeds Toward Rendezvous With Satellite
May 9, 1992 The New York Times
CAPE CANAVERAL -- The space shuttle Endeavour and a wayward satellite on Friday sped toward an orbital rendezvous on Sunday in which the astroanuts are to walk in space to boost the $150 million communications satellite into its correct orbit.
The Endeavour, which began its inaugural flight at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening, had few of the problems that have troubled some of the nation`s winged spaceships on their first flights. The biggest glitch was a lint-clogged air filter, which was little more than a nuisance.
The day was mostly spent firing jets on the shuttle and the satellite to position them for a rendezvous 230 miles above Earth, checking out space suits and exercising various shuttle systems, including the Endeavour`s 50-foot robot arm.
The astronauts interrupted their work to exchange greedings with Ukraine`s president, Leonid M. Kravchuk, who was touring the Johnson Space Center in Houston after meeting this week with President Bush.
``I would like to wish you a very successful flight,`` Kravchuk radioed through an interpreter.
The mission commander, Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein of the Navy, thanked Kravchuk and noted that a successful mission would mean that the world would have a new communications satellite to aid international dialogue.
The Endeavour`s target is the Intelsat 6 satellite, which has been stranded 350 miles above Earth for more than two years and on Friday was slowly lowered toward a linkup with the shuttle.
On Sunday, the astronauts are to attach an engine that will boost the satelilte to its correct orbit 22,300 miles above the Atlantic.
For a decade or more, the 38-foot-long satellite should be able to simultaneously relay 120,000 telephone calls and three television channels.
From 5/10/1992 ( 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 - EVA #1 begins ) To 3/4/2012 ( ) is 7238 days
7238 = 3619 + 3619
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 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) is 3619 days
From 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 ) To 3/4/2012 ( ) is 7717 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 12/19/1986 ( premiere US film "Platoon" ) is 7717 days
From 11/20/1959 ( premiere US TV series episode "Black Saddle"::"Apache Trail" ) To 3/4/2012 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 11/20/1959 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Time Enough at Last" ) To 3/4/2012 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 3/4/2012 is 6284 days
6284 = 3142 + 3142
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 6/10/1974 ( premiere US film "The Midnight Man" ) is 3142 days
From 7/16/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) To 3/4/2012 is 2788 days
2788 = 1394 + 1394
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 8/27/1969 ( premiere US film "Doppelgänger" or "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" ) is 1394 days
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-10/news/mn-2517_1_satellite-today
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Poised for Satellite Rescue Today : Space: Endeavour should overtake orbiting target by mid-afternoon. Crew will then attempt to lasso and relaunch device.
May 10, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — The nation's newest space shuttle, Endeavour, on Saturday streaked toward an unprecedented attempt to rescue a stranded communications satellite today by attaching it to a new rocket motor designed to propel it into a higher orbit.
As Endeavour entered its third day in space, the seven-member crew made detailed preparations to retrieve the $150-million satellite, which was left in a useless low-Earth orbit in March, 1990, when the commercial Titan rocket that launched it malfunctioned.
Engineers for the communications consortium that owns the satellite, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, have been directing the device toward its rendezvous position by activating thrusters on the satellite that dropped it from a 350-mile-high orbit to an orbit 225 miles above the Earth.
By Saturday evening, the shuttle was trailing the Intelsat 6 satellite by 975 miles, and was closing at a rate of 86 miles each orbit.
"It's (been) a nice quiet day, building up to the extremely ambitious day we have (Sunday)," Al Pennington, flight director for the National Aeronautics and Space Administation, said during a briefing at the Johnson Space Center. The spacecraft lifted off Thursday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
If all goes as planned, the rescue will begin at 1:30 p.m. PDT today as Endeavour enters its 48th orbit and astronaut Pierre J. Thuot, 36, a U.S. Navy commander, enters the shuttle's cargo bay.
Thuot will begin by tethering his feet to the shuttle's movable arm. Inside the orbiter, astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, 42, a Coast Guard commander, will guide the arm to lift Thuot within reach of the 12-foot wide Intelsat 6, which will be rotating at a rate of once every two minutes.
Thuot is to grab the 8,960-pound, 17-foot-tall satellite from the bottom with a specially designed "capture bar," and then manually halt its rotation. He will then hook the bar to the shuttle arm and Melnick will guide Thuot and the satellite into the shuttle bay.
There, Thuot will work with astronaut Richard J. Hieb, 36, to hitch the satellite to the frame that houses a new 23,000-pound, solid-fuel rocket motor. After the two crew members attach electric umbilical cords linking the motor to the satellite, they will set four, pre-loaded springs that, minutes later, will push the satellite and reboost the rocket back into space.
Once the spacewalkers are safely inside, the crew will release the springs to send the satellite assembly spinning away from the shuttle at a speed of about a half-foot per second.
Intelsat controllers in Washington, D.C., are scheduled to fire the rocket motor Monday, initially propelling the satellite into an elliptical orbit reaching as far as 51,750 miles from the Earth. Eventually, the satellite is to settle into the lower orbit over the Atlantic Ocean, where it can relay telephone and television signals, including video of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Intelsat is paying $93 million for the rescue mission. The cost of a shuttle mission has been pegged at between $250 million and $500 million, depending on the overhead, salary and development costs included in the calculation.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:18 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Don't try to adjust your set - we are experiencing technicalities.
This reminds me so much of a dream I had yesterday that I cannot help but to post here this observation because I just read this part and I wonder why I would have a dream now - why now - about something that seems so similar.
I mean, the issue is largely the same. It is about derivative works. How can I have a dream that is derivative of something that I have not read in months and why would I dream derivative details about that part? And why now?
The dream was yesterday I think. I have thought often about it and I have thought about writing it down somewhere but I never did, until now. I have been puzzling over whether is was associated somehow with the dream I awoke from this morning which was the second of two dreams, with the first probably more than two weeks ago, where I found myself falling a great distance and I knew there was no way I would survive the fall, in reality, but in the dream I did. As in the first dream, I was falling backwards towards the ground and I had fallen off, what seemed to be a mountain and I was in a pickup truck and the driver said something to me, which I do not recall now but his words were to the effect of "Oops" and as we fell straight down for what seemed to be at least a mile straight down I was thinking that whole way down and I had enough time to think about it and to begin to accept that I would splatter on the ground and, as with the first dream, I improbably began to see people standing on the ground come into my field of view so that meant I was only about three feet above the ground after falling for a mile or so and I knew the end was near. And then I knew the end was there. And then I sat up and looked around and there was nothing really scary about it. The fall was over and I was fine. I still remember how I felt glad afterwards that it was over. I dwell on that feeling more often as the day goes on today after having that dream this morning.
So anyway, in the dream I started off here to write about, I had that dream again about that house I used to own in South Carolina. This time, as with how certain details always vary, I was living there with a group of other people, which is a new detail. I didn't recall any of the people in the dream. So one person and I and digging a trench in the front yard that extends to the curb at the corner of the lot at the front yard. Then we are going to dig a trench that extends along the yard along the street in front of the house. At some point, I seem to be talking to someone about how there used to be a patch of juniper shrubs on each side on the inside of the circle driveway in front of the house. I was looking at it and the junipers were mostly gone and all that was left was some bare branches and I started to pull those up and removing them from the ground. I pulled up the first one and that was when I saw there was a hole in the ground. I started digging and I discovered what I thought over later was one of those big shipping containers and that was buried there. I found some stuff inside there and I think I forget some of the details now. Oh, right. Sports equipment. I saw maybe a bicycle. I definitely saw diving gear and a helmet for some deep diving gear. I remember I found a tiny FM radio of a type I remember owning long ago and it was about the size of a quarter but it was closer to cylindrical shape. A child was there near me then, who seemed to be part of the group living in the house with me, and I was showing her how the radio worked and I operated a slide lever on the side to turn on the radio. I might have found other stuff in there but I don't recall now. I do recall I found a stack of cash. It seemed to be all forty dollar bills though and after being awake for a while I started thinking that the color was wrong and that might now [ correction: might not ] have been United States currency.
Then I found a second container next to that one and that was to the right-hand side if you were standing in front of the house and looking towards the street. That one made me start thinking after being awake that it was not a large metal shipping container but just a small brick structure. I remember having a hard time reaching into the back to get all the items but now I am not certain if I am thinking of the third compartment I found that was to the right of the second compartment, as though they were stacked side-by-side and buried underground on the slope of that hill that was my property.
What I do recall about the second container is that I pulled out a large platter of what seemed to be barbecued chicken portions. The metal platter reminds of what you might see in a large restaurant where a lot of the portions are being cooked at one time. The scenery is contradictory in my mind as I try to visualize and I seemed to have been pulling out other portions of various types of animals that were cooked for meals. The whole scene left me with an unappetizing notion about that food. Especially since it seemed to have been sealed in there for a few decades.
I forgot what all I found in the third container, and I think I am thinking of details about the third container but this all less clear now. I remember clearly pulling out a book that had "Senator" printed on it and I think there was person's name on it too, but I don't recall those details now.
The point of all this is that at some point, I feel certain after I discovered the containers and their contents, I was handed a piece of paper that was legal size and it had some similar to a manila folder page behind it, although it wasn't the standard manila folder color and it was the size of legal paper too, although slightly larger, and I think it was bluish-green.
I don't recall the precise words on that legal-size sheet of paper but the message was that some delivery company had attempted to deliver a parcel to me and they had left the parcel, or letter, or registered letter, or something that I don't really recall, at the house of my neighbor, which I shared a property line with, on the right-hand side from the front of my house and looking toward the street.
According to the details I became aware of in the dream, the occupant of that house was "Houck." That was the guy's name. I heard some dialog, including my own, about pronouncing his name as "Hawk."
As best I recall now from the dream, that sheet of paper informed me, of which there was a great more detail than could be associated with such a message, that the delivery company had attempted to deliver a package to my house but I wasn't there so they left it at the house of my neighbor, "Houck."
I looked over there at that house and all the lights were off. The message indicated, I don't recall the precise details, that the package was something from the AT&T company, and I have been left with the sense since being awake and after thinking about it quite a few times that it was some kind of promotional item from them and looking at the lights being off at that house, I thought of how trying to find out if anyone was home so I could get the package did not seem overly important at that time.
A few years ago, I would have wrote here about one other detail that in the context of the dream that the narrator had told me in that foreign dream that "Houck had something for me." I cannot now recall if that was precisely the words I had the sense of from the dream but that seems close enough. That sense was also present that what ever it was that had been left for me at that house wasn't all that important and for some reason I think that is just some kind of message in itself that was being communicated to my by means that I don't fully understand at this time.
I think that was the ending of the dream. I thought about it a lot because that was another dream about that house I used to own in Greer South Carolina.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:18 PM Sunday, March 04, 2012 ]
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Platoon (1986)
Sgt. Barnes: You all take a good look at this lump of shit. Remember what it looks like. You fuck up in a firefight... and I goddamn guarantee you a trip out of the bush - in a body bag! Out here, assholes, you keep your shit wired tight at all times! And that goes for you, shit-for-brains. You don't sleep on no fuckin' ambush! And the next sum'bitch I catch coppin Z's in the bush, I'm personally gonna take an interest in seein' him suffer.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 04:34 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 09/01/2019
