SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Understanding Space Disasters: Challenger and Columbia Accidents”
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Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“A.I.” (2001)
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Discussion Topic of the Evening
Understanding Space Disasters: the Challenger and Columbia Accidents.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/STS-107_Flight_Insignia.svg
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CAIB Report
Click to access CAIB_medres_full.pdf
Challenger (STS-51L), in a nutshell:
Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair; Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Challenger_flight_51-l_crew.jpg
Columbia (STS-107)
David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, William McCool, Ilan Ramon
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Crew_of_STS-107%2C_official_photo.jpg
Columbia Breakup
Challenger:
https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v1p90.jpg
Columbia:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Impact-test.jpg
Scheduling Expectations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Shuttle_missions#Flight_statistics
https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v1p233.jpg
Resource Links:
Rogers Report
https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm
CAIB Report in various resolutions
https://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html
Waz Up?
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
North, June Evenings
https://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/06/Big-Dipper-point-Polar-Little-Dipper.jpg
Big and Little Dipper Asterisms
https://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/06/Big-and-Little-Bears.jpg
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Cepheid Variables: Eta Aquilae
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61601565_3307743362585157_5883291947757469696_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_oc=AQli9YAQ_MZsBgR2AOiDQNI4sKYTwFbkXOsKCrdb2M93VtvbJLncabxQ2qdHveWAGKQ&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=7db65240259e864f943407e22f11295c&oe=5D523F40
Brightest Stars: Altair, Sigma, Eta, and Zeta
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61834002_3307743405918486_6534127574983901184_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_oc=AQkM5Hv5yUIIhjY9bKYeB8VhOwdZzyiwr1-JgI-s2RN6vDKj418_0-N3L0vooN3u4s4&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=29e47020fc278fb58ab77df61ead5b5b&oe=5D50F600
Altair IV: The movie Forbidden Planet.
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61686958_3307743375918489_1528270073972654080_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQm6UOt1PnFjEy_7JpXYuozPJM8v2FHcUH9QQ95oUGnqyAg-KsmaFZYaD3qBdTUeoFE&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=79bf00d7ea2eb8f52aa6fbdfd83ce826&oe=5D5124D2
H-R Diagram: Includes Altair!
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61548175_3307743452585148_4702627578643480576_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQnPo9M8RlFdTI5ZgfV3O1qbpXxV5xVgMpsCryiyo3ZZZSiX4qCV6bQI-qnEmnwGFD0&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=dbf871b6e0e67f23134a27065cc1f3ea&oe=5D8DD04C
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Did Ancient Supernovae Prompt Human Ancestors to Walk Upright?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190528095301.htm?fbclid=IwAR0LLxUD3DW-IdsPOWiQX-T_AG7AgK7vjtBsz4zzI3SygSyEAXnp0jAlccU
Astronomers Find “Forbidden” Planet in the “Neptunian Desert” Around Its Star
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190528193034.htm?fbclid=IwAR2-jJhdbk4FbghA9awoXXSyAYitI0_7gMr8JKu891ngw9pcdw-R8179jPM
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
18 more exoplanets found in old Kepler space telescope data
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WfVcXVLNvyEYSVhGG57tV7-970-80.jpg
Spacex launches internet satellites, frightens astronomers
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XVzhMVg7O5c/XOiU74MbwOI/AAAAAAAAFuM/o_luSi91VRUN25vp88n2zxkJLSOEBkzRwCLcBGAs/s1600/Snapshot%2B-%2B2.png
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/05/wowowow-spectacular-view-of-spacex.html
https://www.livescience.com/65586-spacex-astronomers-starlink.html
Space-Related Birthdays
May 26th, 1951: Birth of Sally Ride
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Sally_Ride_in_1984.jpg
This Week in Space History
May 26th, 1970: Birdseed I, mission “Duck” Plasma gun fired
May 28th, 1971: Mars 3 lands, fails after 20 seconds
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Mars3_iki.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Mars_propm_rover.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Mars_3_Image.png
May 29th, 1919: Einstein is right…and now, famous
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/1919_eclipse_positive.jpg
May 30th, 1966: Surveyor 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1#/media/File:Surveyor_NASA_lunar_lander.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Surveyor_1_launch.jpg
May 30th, 1971: Mariner 9 is launched, the first spacecraft to orbit another planet
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Mariner09.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/M09_mtvs4187_45.gif
June 1st, 1937: JPL founded at GALCIT
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory_logo.svg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Site_du_JPL_en_Californie.jpg
June 1st, 1970: Soyuz 9 launches for an endurance record
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/The_Soviet_Union_1970_CPA_3907_stamp_%28Cosmonauts_Andriyan_Nikolayev_and_Vitaly_Sevastyanov%2C_Soyuz_9%29.jpg
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST
OTV 5 (USA 277)
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=42932&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST
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