intro

Andre B. (amuaddib@niven.imsweb.net)
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 04:04:18 GMT

        My name is Andre Beckus.  I've been on this mailing list for a while
but just never got around to sending an intro.  I live in St. Petersburg,
Florida, and attend the Center for Advanced Technologies, a magnet program
at Lakewood High School.  I guess that I really got interested in space
travel when I saw "Apollo 13."  I have seen several shuttle launches from my
roof, but I have yet to see a launch of anything else.  One of the first,
and most spectacular, satellites that I saw was that tethered satellite that
had broken loose from the shuttle.  I am interested in pursuing a career in
the space program, and am considering going to the Florida Institute of
Technology, since it has some ties with the space program.

        Now I just had a couple of questions.  Are all the epoch times for
the satellites according to the atomic clock?  I have read that there are
radio stations that transmit this time.  How do you know precisely what time
it is so that you can tell exactly when the satellites are going to pass?

Thanks,
Andre "Muad'Dib" Beckus
amuaddib@niven.imsweb.net