Off topic and the article disparaged Boeing in any event who made a complete mess of the FIA project and lied in the first place to get the contract. Additionally, thank god someone is watching the purse on these things... ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Olshevsky" <george.olshevsky@gmail.com> To: "seesat-l" <> Cc: <george.olshevsky@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Miscellaneous notes > Today's New York Times carries a lengthy article on the US reconsat > program: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/washington/11satellite.html?ref=science#step1 > > I must say I'm not too thrilled with the way the NYT uses every > opportunity to disparage the government, particularly the space > program. A few days ago it headlined how NASA was "scrambling" to fix > the broken solar panel on the ISS. Why not use the word "mobilizing"? > The word "scrambling" carries an I believe unwarranted subtle message > of incompetence, as in the expression "mad scramble." Add up thousands > of these kinds of subtle, subliminal digs every day and it must surely > affect the psychology of the readership. > > > San Diego has recently been plagued with evening clouds, but things > cleared up a bit last night and a friend and I went out to find Comet > Holmes. Sure enough, there it was. It showed up quite nicely in 11x80 > binoculars, about half the size of the moon. My pal could easily see > it without the binoculars but I could not make it out--the sky is > pretty bright in the city and my eyesight is not what it used to be. > > > I wonder which of the two new ISS debris pieces is the pliers that > Scott Parazynski let go on his panel-repair spacewalk. > > > Finally, I note the current absence of 2007-054 from SpaceTrack's > SatCat. Guess this is because the launch is classified. I expect three > objects: the Delta 4 2nd stage (in an LEO), the Delta 4 3rd stage (in > a HEO transfer orbit), and the DSP spacecraft (in HEO). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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