From cewcew at mac.com Mon Jul 13 21:28:44 2009 From: cewcew at mac.com (Craig E. Ward) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:28:44 -0700 Subject: [oasis-members] Apollo 11 Anniversary Message-ID: The newspapers this Sunday had articles about "Where were you when we landed on the Moon?" Me, I was at Boy Scout summer camp on Catalina Island. I missed the entire show. (I got to see more of some of the later missions.) Anyone that wants to share their memories with the group should send them in. If you reply to this message, you must REPLY ALL or the list won't see it. To start your own thread, send to oasis-members at oasis-nss.org . Craig -- cewcew at mac.com "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't." From carlmclark75 at roadrunner.com Mon Jul 13 21:40:33 2009 From: carlmclark75 at roadrunner.com (Carl M. Clark M.D.) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:40:33 -0700 Subject: [oasis-members] Apollo 11 Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: When ?we landed on the Moon" i was participating in an USAF Jungle Survival School in the Philippines eat my rice off a green leaf with chop sticks I had just carved from a green bamboo. carlmclark75 at roadrunner.com On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Craig E. Ward wrote: > The newspapers this Sunday had articles about "Where were you when > we landed on the Moon?" > > Me, I was at Boy Scout summer camp on Catalina Island. I missed the > entire show. (I got to see more of some of the later missions.) > > Anyone that wants to share their memories with the group should send > them in. If you reply to this message, you must REPLY ALL or the > list won't see it. To start your own thread, send to oasis-members at oasis-nss.org > . > > Craig > -- > cewcew at mac.com > "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand > binary and those who don't." > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OASIS-members mailing list > OASIS-members at oasis-nss.org > http://oasis-nss.org/mailman/listinfo/oasis-members_oasis-nss.org > Visit the above URL to update your email address or subscription > options. From tom-locke at sbcglobal.net Mon Jul 13 22:09:17 2009 From: tom-locke at sbcglobal.net (Thomas Locke) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [oasis-members] Apollo 11 Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <525610.53237.qm@web81507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Along with nearly everybody else who was a member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (or LASFS) at that time, I went to John and Bjo Trimble's house in Hollywood, where they hosted an Apollo 11 Party.? The Trimbles had their own color TV in their living room which they had tuned to CBS.? By arrangement, two other LASFS members had brought their color TV's (this was when color TV's were quite large and heavy and not yet commonplace) along and set them up in other rooms, so there would be one for ABC and one for NBC.? But most of us stayed in the living room where Walter Cronkite was interviewing various notables including Robert A. Heinlein. Most of us had come before lunch, which the Trimbles served.? As the time for the landing approached, we all gathered to watch, and the roof nearly flew off the house when Eagle touched down.? The Trimbles had?broken out an?ample supply of champagne and we all toasted the touchdown.? A lot of people left for a while in the evening, but by the time came for the Moonwalk nearly all had come back.? I believe some of the attendees stayed overnight to see the liftoff (represented by animation as there were no cameras to record it) on Monday (which President Nixon had declared a National Holiday) but I had gone home and watched it from there. I was not the only attendee who had?charged against Account 279.? My own experience was as a trainee programmer at The Marquardt Corporation (now a part of Lockheed Martin,) a subcontractor which produced the Reaction Control System (the 100-pound thrusters used for maneuvering as opposed to the Command Modules main engine and the Lunar Module's descent and ascent engines.)? However as I recall Roy Lavender and Jerry Kidd, who were in much more senior positions on Project Apollo,?were there, and if I recall correctly so was Jerry Pournelle, who had worked on Project Mercury. On the Thursdays of July 16 and July 23, the LASFS will have a two-part program on the Moon Landing.? For those of you who wish to attend, this will be at 8:00PM at the clubhouse, The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society 11513 Burbank Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601 Happy 40th Anniversary! Tom Locke ________________________________ From: Craig E. Ward To: OASIS On-Line Membership Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:28:44 PM Subject: [oasis-members] Apollo 11 Anniversary The newspapers this Sunday had articles about "Where were you when we landed on the Moon?" Me, I was at Boy Scout summer camp on Catalina Island. I missed the entire show. (I got to see more of some of the later missions.) Anyone that wants to share their memories with the group should send them in. If you reply to this message, you must REPLY ALL or the list won't see it. To start your own thread, send to oasis-members at oasis-nss.org. Craig --cewcew at mac.com "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't." _______________________________________________ OASIS-members mailing list OASIS-members at oasis-nss.org http://oasis-nss.org/mailman/listinfo/oasis-members_oasis-nss.org Visit the above URL to update your email address or subscription options. From Rfoxbro at aol.com Mon Jul 13 14:29:36 2009 From: Rfoxbro at aol.com (Rfoxbro at aol.com) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:29:36 EDT Subject: [oasis-members] What a deal! Message-ID: Friends: If you already have a copy of my first book, "On the Cutting Edge", stop reading this and go back to nose picking. But, if not, read on and your life will surely be enriched beyond your wildest dreams! "On the Cutting Edge" has been warehoused and distributed (mostly via Amazon.com) by the University of Nebraska Press. They have decided to cease warehousing the book and my Publisher offered me ~ 200 or so unsold copies, which my friend Jim Wertz and the Microcosm, Inc. Book Store kindly decided to distribute at a greatly reduced price ($12). So, here is a fine opportunity to support your local Aerospace Industry while enjoying a reading romp through the best part of the last Century. Two reviews follow: One attached and the other below. Also note that my latest epic, "A Pilgrim Muddles Through" - full of fun and serious bits - is available from Amazon.com (as is 'Cutting Edge") or by calling 1 866 308 6235 To make the deal for Cutting Edge - here's who to contact: Pam Esquinca Manager Microcosm Astronautics Books 4940 W. 147th Street Hawthorne, CA 90250 Phone:310-219-2700 FAX: 310-219-2710 866-ASTROBK _www.astrobooks.com _ (http://www.astrobooks.com/) email: bookstore at smad.com Bookstore hours: Monday-Thursday 8am-4pm Friday 8am-12:30pm And now, a look at the contents: ON THE CUTTING EDGE TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Grad Student Days (1947-50) The Making of a Rocket Scientist WW2 interrupts college, discharge leads to career options GREAT COURT CASES, #1 In which we meet Orville Wright and testify testily DRAGON SLAYING 101 ENIAC, Smeniac; a first start in computational fluid dynamics CHAPTER 2 The Atomic Years (1950-56) What! No flying saucers?!!! A new start in the Wild West! FUN IN THE PACIFIC A-Bomb testing and viewing at Eniwetok STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT Making unruly bombs hit the side of a barn door MEXICO UNDER SIEGE In which an unarmed TX- 5 bomb is dropped on our good neighbor ANGLE IRON TO THE RESCUE Fixing the first externally carried A- Bomb, the Mark 7 ?MICK? TAKES A DARE An insouciant Navy Commander breaks the sonic barrier THE A-BOMB ENABLES THE SPACE AGE The space age began in New Mexico ? the Bomb got us there A ?17? FOR UNCLE JOE The H-Bomb was our answer to Stalin?s A-Bomb arsenal CHAPTER 3 Guided Missile Days (1956-58) California, Here I come! Getting into missilery on the ground floor A WONDERFUL EARLY SIMULATION The analog computer, in its day, performed miracles THE GLITCH AT MACH 2 A lesson in hardware inspection is learned CHAPTER 4 The Fabulous Years at Aerojet (1958-71) The Roaring ?60?s The Space Age enters like a lion FLATASS JACK OF JACKASS FLATS Moving the huge Saturn 2nd stage from Downey to the sea WHO KNEW? Getting into the spacecraft business from scratch FIRST IN SPACE 30 years too soon on a rescue lifeboat for the Space Station THE WALKING WHEELCHAIR >From Moon walker to kid?s stair walker- a real conversion DIRTY FRENCH POSTCARDS Peddling an automated Syphilis tester in Western Europe THE ALGERIAN GALITZIANER Shady business dealings with a wily, mean CEO THE ROAD TO MAROC Building a Comsat ground station in the middle of no where CAVEAT EMPTOR A young engineer saves the nation?s most critical space program CHAPTER 5 Freezing in Iowa (1971-80) Down on the Farm Living there, after they?ve seen Paree THE ICEBERG COMETH An international iceberg conference in landlocked Ames, Iowa?! PIE IN THE SKY The butt of David Brinkley?s evening news and SPAM?s chagrin GREAT COURT CASES, #2 or, Annals of Goofball Engineering. A Twin Beech crashes. IN 1984, I ?INVENTED? ASTRONAUTICS How astronautics became an accredited curriculum ODE TO TEACHING A paean to the second of the world?s oldest professions CHAPTER 6 Back in our own Backyard - TRW (1980-88) Return to Industry Back to California; to Industry and Academia THE SHUTTLE BUS CAPER A failure in judgment by a slow learner BEATING THE FOG FACTOR Winning the Mars Observer study and Gene Spangler?s heart GOOD COP, BAD COP A slapstick team runs Independent Research & Development OLD CYBERSPACE U. Fight on USC - The modern way to bring education to the masses CHAPTER 7 The Twilight Zone (1988-2004) No Way Retired! A retirement of a sort - with windmill tilts NIH ? THE CREW RETURN VEHICLE METAMORPHOSES 40 years later ? the renewed fight for a space escape lifeboat THE SWEET SURVEILLANT SCIENCE The amazing capabilities of our ?eyes in the sky? THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY The frustrating fight to establish a new world order A MAN WITHOUT A COMPANY After 60 years, an alumnus of no one! CHAPTER 8 Summing up (2004-2005) Letting Go - Gradually Musing on a career; should I have been a real doctor? THE GLORY OF ENGINEERING! Even if it?s done badly, it?s a hell of a ride! THE LAST HURRAH Old soldiers and engineers never die ? they travel! THE GREAT EVENTS OF THE LAST CENTURY A review of major aerospace achievements after the Wright Brothers and, a detailed review is attached, while a less detailed one follows On the Cutting Edge Dr. Robert F. Brodsky Gordian Knot Books 100 west 57th Street, Suite 2M, New York, NY 10019 1884092624 $18.00 www.richardaltschuler.com Written by engineer, educator, and arms race/spacecraft design pioneer Dr. Robert F. Brodsky, On the Cutting Edge: Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer and Space Ages is a collection of true tales of the author's professional experiences. 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Name: Cutting-ER Review.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1527296 bytes Desc: not available URL: From James.Spellman at travis.af.mil Tue Jul 14 14:25:55 2009 From: James.Spellman at travis.af.mil (Spellman, James Civ USAF AMC 60 MDG/PA) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:25:55 -0500 Subject: [oasis-members] Apollo 11 Anniversary (aka "Moonday memories") In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <86148EB0B848B54F9895EBA9500FCE374DD4D5@AMCR2VN801.amc.ds.af.mil> "Moonday memories" I was almost 11 years old, going into sixth grade at Santa Susana Elementary in Simi Valley. Our family had just returned a few days earlier from a month-long, cross country vacation to visit our grandparents and relatives in New York and Massachusetts. I insisted my Mom wake me early (4 a.m.!) on launch day to watch CBS News' coverage of the historic voyage of Apollo 11 "as it happened," since I felt it wouldn't be the same witnessing history on TV replays. For the next nine days, my world stopped as there was no interest whatsoever in going outside to play baseball, or do any of the normal summertime activities kids of my generation were likely to do. In the days before the internet and 24/7 cable news, "Uncle" Walter Cronkite and former astronaut Wally Schirra at CBS News (along with John Chancellor, Roy Neal, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley at NBC, Jules Bergman, Howard K. Smith, Frank Reynolds at ABC and the local L.A. station coverage) were my guides to the momentous occasion. CBS News had the best animation and in-depth coverage, in my opinion (shared by many others), due to Walter Cronkite. However, when the "Walt & Wally Show" would break for commercial, I'd spin the dial in descending order of priority to see what was being said at NBC and ABC. When "Eagle" safely touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20 -- my grandmother's birthday -- I informed my Mom who was in the kitchen washing dishes from a late afternoon BBQ in our backyard. Later that evening, my family gathered in our living room, mesmerized as we watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take their first steps for all mankind in black and white on our 19-inch RCA color TV/stereo console. Dad would step outside to look up at the moon with his binoculars. Three years later, he would introduce me to Brig. Gen Robert H. White (former X-15 pilot/astronaut) and Col. Buzz Aldrin at the Edwards AFB Officer's Club. Gen. White was the base commander while Buzz was commandant of the Air Force Flight Test School, and had become a family friend, and later a mentor while in high school, college and AFROTC. He would also become a colleague to me in space advocacy efforts to this very day (National Space Society, U.S. Space Foundation, Planetary Society, Space Frontier Foundation, etc.). As a communications major in college, I would also go on to meet and befriend the late Roy Neal, Jules Bergman, Wally Schirra and many other early "pioneers of the space frontier" during my student journalism coverage of the first shuttle flights and Voyager missions at JPL. The passion would eventually be carried over to my active duty career at Vandenberg AFB as a visual information officer from 1983-1991 with the 1369th Audiovisual Squadron. Regards, ~JS~ -----Original Message----- From: oasis-members-bounces at oasis-nss.org [mailto:oasis-members-bounces at oasis-nss.org] On Behalf Of Craig E. Ward Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:29 PM To: OASIS On-Line Membership Subject: [oasis-members] Apollo 11 Anniversary The newspapers this Sunday had articles about "Where were you when we landed on the Moon?" Me, I was at Boy Scout summer camp on Catalina Island. I missed the entire show. (I got to see more of some of the later missions.) Anyone that wants to share their memories with the group should send them in. If you reply to this message, you must REPLY ALL or the list won't see it. To start your own thread, send to oasis-members at oasis-nss.org . Craig -- cewcew at mac.com "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't." _______________________________________________ OASIS-members mailing list OASIS-members at oasis-nss.org http://oasis-nss.org/mailman/listinfo/oasis-members_oasis-nss.org Visit the above URL to update your email address or subscription options. From rogers at ISI.EDU Thu Jul 16 10:30:02 2009 From: rogers at ISI.EDU (Craig Milo Rogers) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:30:02 -0700 Subject: [oasis-members] Lori Garver Is Now #2 at NASA Message-ID: <20090716143002.GA11376@isi.edu> Lori Garver has veen confirmed as NASA Deputy Administrator, according to news reports. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jXoYMCeVVA6CwoNxN_BVhE4QtYCAD99FD4JO0 http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/15bolden/ http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28756 http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/garver_bio.html Craig Milo Rogers From rogers at ISI.EDU Thu Jul 16 11:22:00 2009 From: rogers at ISI.EDU (Craig Milo Rogers) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:22:00 -0700 Subject: [oasis-members] Maj. Gen Charles Bolden, Astronaut, Is Now #1 at NASA Message-ID: <20090716152200.GA13487@isi.edu> Marine Maj. General Charles Bolden, who flew in a shuttle 4 times, including the deployment of the Hubble Space STelescope, is now in charge of NASA. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jXoYMCeVVA6CwoNxN_BVhE4QtYCAD99FD4JO0 http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/15bolden/ http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28756 http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/bolden_bio.html Craig Milo Rogers From rogers at ISI.EDU Wed Jul 29 01:28:35 2009 From: rogers at ISI.EDU (Craig Milo Rogers) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:28:35 -0700 Subject: [oasis-members] Making the Moon Pay Message-ID: <20090729052835.GM28473@isi.edu> MSNBC has an interesting article titled "Making the Moon Pay", with a bunch of interesting links embedded in it. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/28/2012537.aspx Craig Milo Rogers From rogers at ISI.EDU Thu Jul 30 18:29:33 2009 From: rogers at ISI.EDU (Craig Milo Rogers) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:29:33 -0700 Subject: [oasis-members] Does Sea Launch have a Future? Message-ID: <20090730222933.GG29427@isi.edu> Now that Sea Launch is more than a month into bankruptcy proceedings, customers are losing confidence in its ability to continue operations, according to a Spaceflight Now article. Some customers are concerned that Sea Launch has been unable to obtain rocket equiptment for future flights, and there is concern that customer prepayments might be wasted money. For more information, read the article by Stephen Clark: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/30sealaunch/ Craig Milo Rogers