SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Mission Control: Then and Now” & “The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“My Science Project” (1985)
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Tonight’s Topic: “Mission Control: Then and Now”
Discussion topic of the Evening.
Houston’s Mission Control (Then and Now)
Gene Kranz
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4223/p131.jpg
Apollo 10 Mission: Gerald Griffen and Glynn S. Lunney (Black Team)
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/23658364679_d2b935acb6_o.jpg
Apollo 9 (Live Transmission From Earth Orbit)
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/s69-26301.jpg
Artemis Mission Logo
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Artemis_program_%28contrast_wordmark%29.svg/1920px-Artemis_program_%28contrast_wordmark%29.svg.png
Blue Moon Lander
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blueoriginascent-800×450.jpg
Paul Sean Hill
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Paul_Hill_%28flight_director%29.jpg
ISS Mission Control Center
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/VT2Vko7-hVZRtKclWgMdXYq6sHg=/0x0:4928×3280/1520×1013/filters:focal(2070×1246:2858×2034)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/56453373/jsc2013e087950.0.jpg
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Flight Control Room in 1964
https://www.regus.co.uk/work-uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/131/2018/02/Regus_NASA-Mar2018_NASA3.png
ISS Flight Director Emily Nelson
https://www.startalkradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Emily-Nelson_457162main_jsc2010e081946_hires-1400×933.jpg
Paul Sean Hill, former director of Mission Operations at the Nasa Space Center in Houston, Texas
https://www.regus.com/work-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/131/2018/02/Regus_NASA-Mar2018_NASA3-1.png
Mission Control: Flight Control Room
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/filepets/styles/full_width_feature/public/jsc2013e087950.jpg
Space Exploration and Space History
Marshall Space Flight Center Named For Return to Moon Program
MSFC: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/msfc.png
Space/NASA History:
In space history this week…
August 11:
Moon Discovered Orbiting Mars
1877: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaph_Hall#/media/File:Professor_Asaph_Hall.jpg
August 12:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Lifts Off
2005: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia23341-16.jpg
August 13:
Apollo 11 Ticker-tape Parade
1969: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Apollo_11_ticker_tape_parade_2.jpg
August 17:
1933: Gene Kranz is Born
Eugene_F._Kranz_at_his_console_at_the_NASA_Mission_Control_Center.jpg
1966
Launch of Pioneer 7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_6,_7,_8,_and_9#/media/File:Pioneer-6-9.jpg
Waz Up?
Chaz KF5JHA
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
Chaz covers:
Moon Phases
Occultations
Constellation and Navigation Tips and Factoids
Sunrise and Sunset Features
Q and A
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Special Topic: Tsiolkovsky and the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation.
Meeting Don Pettit and watching some of his talks and presentations.
Konstantin Tsilokovsky
What the Rocket Equation is
What the Rocket Equation tells us and why Pettit says it is tyrannical.
The Tyrannical Rocket Equation
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/69104647_3526347027391455_8498041047987781632_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQmn8uSCRv1IZ91SVW2HmI7-AYkFglopMqYrPkR72POk5z2hFy7WUFlYGX9io9ZEYXo&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=1f7f45d7a8f372d60bccea1568c2ef20&oe=5DE627A8
Delta V’s – Mass vs. Velocity
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/69104647_3526347027391455_8498041047987781632_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQmn8uSCRv1IZ91SVW2HmI7-AYkFglopMqYrPkR72POk5z2hFy7WUFlYGX9io9ZEYXo&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=1f7f45d7a8f372d60bccea1568c2ef20&oe=5DE627A8
Space Launches For This Week
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Moon Glows Brighter than Sun in Images from NASA’s Fermi
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190815120656.htm?fbclid=IwAR3QGeDFrLgXX3NDQYRZU4ReXjUtwRNVEmEEAfuYsPdODPBR2YFanPtjczU
Heavens Above
Interactive Sky Chart with PDF Option
https://www.heavens-above.com/skychart2.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=LewisvilleTX&alt=110&tz=UCT
Annual Solar Eclipses
http://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEclipse.aspx?jdmax=2459375.94660477
Solar System
https://www.heavens-above.com/planets.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=LewisvilleTX&alt=110&tz=UCT
Comets
https://www.heavens-above.com/Comets.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=LewisvilleTX&alt=110&tz=UCT
Amateur Radio Satellites – All Passes
https://www.heavens-above.com/AmateurSats.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=LewisvilleTX&alt=110&tz=UCT