SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 7” and “Tour of the Constellation Capricornus”
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Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “The Lost Missile” (1958)
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Discussion topic of the evening.
The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 7!
Mission Patch
https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/338804main_07-lg.jpg
Crew Photo
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/The_Apollo_7_Prime_Crew_-_GPN-2000-001160.jpg
Launch
http://media3.onsugar.com/files/2012/10/41/3/192/1922507/5f9f14933c6f61a3_Apollo7.xxxlarge_1.jpg
Separation from Second Stage
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/as07-03-1531.jpg
Simulated Docking
http://sen.com/thumbs/1024×576/img/inaugurating-the-apollo6201444426235.jpg
LMP Walt Cunningham
http://www.echoesamongthestars.com/OriginalSite/apollosevenone_files/Apollo7Cunningham.png
Commander Wally Schirra
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0157/3938/products/apollo-7-astronaut-wally-schirra_1_grande.jpeg?v=1338936086
Splashdown
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a16/ap16-S72-36300.jpg
Apollo 7 Command Module Frontiers of Flight Museum – Dallas, TX
https://www.johnweeks.com/spacecraft/iapol/apollo7.jpg
Smiling Walt Cunningham and Apollo 7 Command Module
http://www.collectspace.com/review/apollo7_40th_fof02.jpg
Apollo 7 50th Anniversary
https://www.flightmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Apollo-VII-FOFM-Seal.png
Apollo, ASTP, STS, and ISS Astronauts 40th Anniversary
https://mysweetcharity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DSC__0804-Frank-Culbertson-Fred-Haise-Jim-Lovell-Michael-Lopez-Alegira-Tom-Stafford-Alan-Bean-Eileen-Collins-Walt-Cunningham-Mary-Ellen-Weber-Gene-Cernan-and-Tom-He.jpg
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
Northwest, October Evenings
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/10/12oct10_430.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Capricornus
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/43951311_2764094760283356_2318478506645782528_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&oh=e966f1469d9ae3c757f77ab560d2a65d&oe=5C4D5DC6
Photo #1 Algiedi Alpha Capricorni
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44060360_2764094876950011_8941823483059372032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&oh=21246aa85090f22fc9148be186857052&oe=5C4D465B
Photo #2 Globular Cluster (M30)
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/44024878_2764094973616668_8605483567612428288_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&oh=cb649552b549fe8bd9de7e2f3f8fe695&oe=5C50E586
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Mystery at the Center of the Galaxy Solved
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181010093625.htm
Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter’s Moon
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181009102440.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
The Launch Escape System saves the day again!
Some of you might remember my speaking about Soyuz t-10-1, which saved the day on september 26th 1983; Tom found a great video for the net
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-ST_No._16L
Well, it’s happened again!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/a-soyuz-crew-makes-an-emergency-landing-after-rocket-fails/
Chandra in safe mode after gyroscope problem
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-nasa-space-telescope-orbit.html
Hubble in safe mode, too. gyroscopes really give you the runaround!
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/update-on-the-hubble-space-telescope-safe-mode
Space History
October 10th, 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) formallly comissioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Arra
October 11th, 1958 Pioneer 1 Launched—first spacecraft launched by NASA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_1
October 11th, 1969, Launch of Soyuz 6, part of a complicated 3-spacecraft rendezvous experiment (6, 7, 8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_6
October 12, 1965, launch of Voshkhod 1–crazy 3-person spacecraft with no spacesuits, but they got away with it twice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_1
Oct. 12th, 1968, 50th anniversary of Apollo 7! You know, you can go see the CM at a museum near you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Tiangong 2
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Oct 15
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58406.8153817894&type=V