BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
4X01 - HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME
ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 04-APR-2008
(from internet transcript)
Gaeta: Baseships launching missiles, forty -- correction, fifty -- plus inbound. Half targeted on us, half on the Fleet.
Adama: Have triple-a target only missiles going towards the Fleet. We can handle the hits, they can't.
Helo: Sir. All forces, priority: intercept enemy missiles targeting civilian vessels.
(Sam's Viper leaves the tube.)
(Sam's Viper)
Anders: Okay. I am Samuel T. Anders. I was born on Picon. I went to Noyce Elementary School.
Seelix, interrupting him on wireless: -- Get your thumb off the transmit button, Sam. You're blocking the freq.
Anders: Copy that. Oh, frak me!
(Missiles connect with the toroid Fleet ship, blowing out a segment of its ring.)
Seelix: Longshot, hardball. Turkey right four low at three, committing.
Anders: Longshot, I got the... tally? I got your back.
(A Raider engages Seelix's Viper.)
Anders: Seelix, there's a Raider on you!
Seelix: Shoot, Anders!
(Sam's gun locks up.)
Anders: I'm trying to. Gods, come on!
(In slow motion, a Raider turns and looks directly at Sam, as he stares back. Its red eye scans, stops in the middle, and begins to pulse. They look at each other, and the iris of his eye flashes red. The Raider immediately turns and retreats. Sam stares as the Raiders all begin to vanish toward the Basestars.)
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lander-193716623.html
Yahoo! News
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander didn't deploy camera during historic descent
Mike Wall
Fri, February 23, 2024 at 11:37 AM PST
Sorry, space fans: We won't be getting ground-level views of the first moon landing by an American spacecraft since the Apollo era.
That epic touchdown came courtesy of Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander, which lowered itself onto the gray dirt about 190 miles (300 kilometers) from the moon's south pole yesterday (Feb. 22).
The success was hard-won. As they prepared for descent yesterday, mission team members discovered that Odysseus' laser rangefinders, which the lander used to determine its altitude and horizontal velocity, weren't working properly. So they switched over to an experimental NASA instrument that Odysseus was carrying, pressing it into service for vital landing operations.
The strategy worked, helping Odysseus become the first private craft ever to soft-land on the moon. But it appears the navigation issue affected one of the other payloads aboard the lander — EagleCam, an instrument built by students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) that was designed to deploy from Odysseus about 100 feet (30 meters) above the lunar surface and photograph the craft's touchdown from below.
Due to the navigation complications, which required the uplink of a software patch, "the decision was made to power down EagleCam during landing and not deploy the device during Odysseus' final descent," Mike Cavaliere, ERAU's director of news and media relations, wrote in an update today (Feb. 23).
"However, both the Intuitive Machines and EagleCam teams still plan to deploy EagleCam and capture images of the lander on the lunar surface as the mission continues," he added. "The time of deployment is currently unknown. Stay tuned!
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/02/today-is-02242024.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:30 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Today is 02/24/2024
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
4X01 - HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME
ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 04-APR-2008
Anders, approaching Chief: Hey. Hey, this is crazy. What if I get up there and another switch flips in my head and turns me against my own?
Chief: What the frak is wrong with you? Shut the frak up.
excerpts, original work by me, Kerry Burgess, in progress
From 6/13/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital in Seattle documents includes: Other Medications - Risperdal started 6/13/05 ) To 2/22/2024 ( ) is 6828 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/1984 ( premiere USA film "The Last Starfighter" ) is 6828 days
excerpts
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/moon-lander-described-alive-well-day-after-white-knuckle-lunar-touchdown-2024-02-23/
Reuters
Moon lander Odysseus tipped sideways on lunar surface
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette
February 24, 202412:50 AM PSTUpdated a day ago
The uncrewed robot spacecraft reached the lunar surface on Thursday after a nail-biting final approach and descent in which a problem with its navigation system surfaced, requiring flight controllers on the ground to employ an untested work-around to avoid what could have been a catastrophic crash landing.
The original laser-powered range finders had been rendered non-functional because company engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida had inadvertently failed to unlock a safety switch before the lander's launch to space last Thursday, Altemus said.
"That was an oversight on our part," he said, likening the overlooked switch to a safety mechanism on a firearm.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:39 AM Pacific-time USA Sunday 02/25/2024
