alb@alice.UUCP (11/29/83)
Weather was better than expected today, and the shuttle launched on time, at 1100 EST.
judd@umcp-cs.UUCP (12/02/83)
..............
This is about the fourth launch notice I have seen. I saw one the
day of the launch and one more each day after. It would help if
submiters would either:
0 put explicit subject headers on the notices (eg. launch notice,
LAUNCHED ...)
or
1 put an expiration date on such short notices so they would
not propogate (sp) far
or
2 limit distribution to the local area
or
3 create a single source for such announcements. Some one would
have to take on the job of being the *official* reporter for
launches (~ to mediator)
I know 1 and 2 are possible but must admit I don't know how to do them.
3 would be a lot of work and no one is doing 0.
Does anyone know any other methods?? ( n does not work because I don't
know from the Subject: field if it is an anouncement of launch or infor
about the launch)
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Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!juddalb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (02/04/84)
The Challenger launched on schedule today, at 0800 EST. Soon after launch, NASA recovery ships located and secured the SRB's for tow back to port.
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (02/04/84)
Does anybody know how they are going to navigate this untethered spacewalk? Personally, I'd be scared stiff trying to shoot around in a jet pack in zero G with no ground to drag my feet on. Do the astronauts get real good at a spacewar video game, or is the whole thing controlled by a computer, or what? What happens if a jet pack fails or runs out of fuel while they're out on EVA? (The same thing that happens if the engine fails or runs out of fuel in an airplane, I guess.)
lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney) (02/07/84)
I'm not really sure myself how they navigate a space walk, but I watched Vance Brand and several other astronauts navigate a mockup of the Teleoperator Retrieval System (you know, the one that was supposed to save Skylab) about 4 years ago. We programmed the worst case coning motion into the Skylab, and those people could hit the docking ring without hesitating, time after time. (The TRS was a rocket motor carrying a TV camera and a docking ring, controlled from the Shuttle flight deck with two joysticks for 6 degree-of-freedom control.) The champion at the time was the astronaut who was pilot for the US-USSR docking - seems he spent a year with the controls glued in his hand. Since most TV games have two degrees of freedom, I guess you can see the point. -- Lyle McElhaney (hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc
alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (07/30/85)
The Challenger launched at 1700 EDT today, after an earlier delay due to a faulty SRB gyro.
alb@alice.UucP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (08/27/85)
At 0658 EDT today, Discovery punched its way through a hole in the cloud cover over KSC and roared into orbit. Minutes later, the Cape was drenched in a downpour from a nearby tropical storm.