Skynet 3-23-19 NASA: The Analog Missions – The Altitude Chamber Complex 9PM CT

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SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT

Saturday’s Topic: “NASA: The Analog Missions – The Altitude Chamber Complex

Net Control: Billye KF5PDS

Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Journey to the Center of Time” (1968)

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Discussion topic of the evening

Discussion topic of the evening.

NASA: The Analog Missions – The Altitude Chamber Complex
https://www.nasa.gov/analogs/acc

Waz Up?

Chaz KF5JHA
Chaz covers:

Moon Phases
Occultations
Constellation and Navigation Tips and Factoids
Sunrise and Sunset Features
Q and A

Recent Astronomical discoveries

Water-bearing Minerals on Asteroid Bennu
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190319135114.htm?fbclid=IwAR03KrVCT4hG7vslBiJIz8p5grBM3i92RdbspBDaiezJaUAYCPT65DFAvR8

Giant X-Ray “Chimneys” are Exhaust Vents At Milky Way’s Center
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190320164912.htm?fbclid=IwAR08az41Dtqv2VJtbRklZRpa26O4IjZrfzfpgPPXMgXYrRsyr9G-cH8CIWk

Space Exploration and Space History

Space Exploration News

All is not quiet on the Bennu front; active, venting material has attracted the interest of scientists and complicated plans for sample collection.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/BennuAsteroid.jpg
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NcAdBZHwFF4jDArUZAs33K-650-80.jpg

Space-Related Birthdays

March 23rd, 1912: Werner von Braun: brilliant, but controversial
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Wernher_von_Braun_1960.jpg

This Week in Space History

March 17th, 1958: Vanguard 1
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Vanguard_1_composite.jpg

March 18th, 1965: Voshkod 2
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Aleksey_Leonov_ASTP_-_cropped.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Voskhod_1_and_2.png

March 21st, 1965: Ranger 9


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/The_Ranger_Spacecraft_GPN-2000-001979_%28cropped%29.jpg

March 23rd, 1965: Gemini 3, the Unsinkable Molly Brown
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Gemini_3_training.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Gemini_3.jpg

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.

Tiangong 2
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

March 24
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=41765&mjd=58566.7997551854&type=V

North Korean Satellite
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=39026&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

March 24
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=39026&mjd=58566.235877673&type=V

March 28
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=39026&mjd=58570.2318070161&type=V

Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

March 24
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=20580&mjd=58566.2075337232&type=V

Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

March 24
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58566.7903114989&type=V

March 26
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58568.8079969283&type=V

March 27
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58569.7825418269&type=V

March 29
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58571.800222054&type=V

April 1
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58574.7924585037&type=V