dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque;1893;92-101;) (08/03/88)
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 and I'm sure that everyone would like to celebrate it. It never hurts to be prepared in advance, so lets start to kick ideas around. My idea is that they launch Discovery on or before July 20, 1989, even if its faucets do leak. Any others? --- Dan Tilque -- dant@twaddl.LA.TEK.COM
jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) (08/04/88)
In article <3763@teklds.TEK.COM> dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) writes: }Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 and I'm sure that }everyone would like to celebrate it. It never hurts to be prepared in }advance, so lets start to kick ideas around. } }My idea is that they launch Discovery on or before July 20, 1989, even }if its faucets do leak. Any others? Fireworks? (oh. never mind - last time the launch WAS fireworks) Disclaimer: Individuals have opinions, organizations have policy. Therefore, these opinions are mine and not any organizations! Q.E.D. jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu 128.244.65.5 (James W. Meritt)
konath@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (kannan) (08/04/88)
In article <3763@teklds.TEK.COM> dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) writes: <Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 and I'm sure that <everyone would like to celebrate it. It never hurts to be prepared in <advance, so lets start to kick ideas around. <My idea is that they launch Discovery on or before July 20, 1989, even <if its faucets do leak. Any others? Anniversary or no anniverrsary, launch Discovery only when Crippen is absolutely sure that there is nothing wrong and the Challenger tragedy should not as far as it is humanly possible be repeated. If there were no human lives at stake, go ahead and launch it but since it is a manned mission all precautions have to be taken. >Dan Tilque -- dant@twaddl.LA.TEK.COM Kannan konath@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) (08/04/88)
In article <2087@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> konath@silver.UUCP (kannan) writes: >In article <3763@teklds.TEK.COM> dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) writes: ><Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 and I'm sure that ><everyone would like to celebrate it. It never hurts to be prepared in ><advance, so lets start to kick ideas around. > ><My idea is that they launch Discovery on or before July 20, 1989, even ><if its faucets do leak. Any others? I would hope that NASA would cancel the launch if there we any unreasonable possibility of failure. Last thing we need to be remindered is how twenty years ago we would put men on the moon, and now all we can do is scatter them over the Atlantic Ocean.
dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque;1893;92-101;) (08/05/88)
In article <11289@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jec@iuvax.UUCP (James E. Conley) writes: >>In article <3763@teklds.TEK.COM> dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) writes: >><Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 and I'm sure that >><everyone would like to celebrate it. It never hurts to be prepared in >><advance, so lets start to kick ideas around. >> >><My idea is that they launch Discovery on or before July 20, 1989, even >><if its faucets do leak. Any others? > >I would hope that NASA would cancel the launch if there we any unreasonable ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >possibility of failure. Last thing we need to be remindered is how twenty >years ago we would put men on the moon, and now all we can do is scatter >them over the Atlantic Ocean. Perhaps you mean "reasonable". But then since you seem to agree with the current NASA administration, perhaps you do mean "unreasonable". This is not a flame just at you, there were several others who expressed similar sentiments. My purpose in posting the original article was two-fold. One was that it's now a good time to start thinking about a 20-year celebration. I think it's unfortunate that we don't have some major new project ready to go (or already underway) at that time. (How many of you would have predicted the current state of the U.S. space effort 20 years ago?) My other purpose was to indicate that at the rate the Discovery testing is going, they won't launch before the end of the century. Every day I open the newspaper and read about a new leak setting the launch back another week or so. It seems like NASA is trying for a Perfect launch; something which anyone with common sense will tell you is virtually impossible. After all, there's always the "unreasonable" possibility of it being hit by a meteor on its way up. Anyway, many of the delays are caused by things which would not have caused delays in pre-Challenger launches. I'm not saying that they should ignore every one of them, but their hyper-cautiousness is becoming ridiculous. --- Dan Tilque -- dant@twaddl.LA.TEK.COM P.S. It occurred to me after I wrote this that maybe there's an SDI test scheduled next July. Then we could claim that the test is our celebration. I can't think of anything more reflective of our current space effort than to blow up a satellite.
campbl@sunybcs.uucp (Scott S. Campbell) (08/08/88)
In article <3763@teklds.TEK.COM> dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) writes: >Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 and I'm sure that >everyone would like to celebrate it. It never hurts to be prepared in >advance, so lets start to kick ideas around. > >--- >Dan Tilque -- dant@twaddl.LA.TEK.COM How about a commemorative(sp) stamp issue?? - Scott S. Campbell campbl@cs.buffalo.edu campbl@sunybcs.BITNET