...Deep Space 1 Introduction: Deep space 1 was an extraordinary historic launch with fascinating new discoveries for the innovative world. The successful launch took place on October 24, 1998 and lasted for roughly three years. The objective of the mission was originally an engineering test flight for a dozen new high-risk advanced technologies. Such technologies included SCARLET II, xenon ion engine, solar concentrator array, autonomous navigation plus two other autonomy experiments, small transponder, Ka-band solid state power amplifier, and experiments in low power electronics, power switching, and multifunctional structures. Deep Space 1 also encountered Comet Borrelly and returned the best images and other science data ever from a comet. The Deep Space 1 was the first of a series of technology demonstration probes developed by NASA’s New Millennium Program. Its primary mission was to prove innovative new technologies for future spacecraft. The project manager for Deep Space 1 was Dr. Marc Rayman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While the spacecraft accomplished a planetary-class mission, the asteroid encounter was not a required aspect of the mission. The encounter was only a bonus in the primary mission. NASA approved the extended mission to Comet Wilson Harrington in August 1999. Then the spacecraft’s sole star tracker failed in November 1999. A seven-month rescue effort succeeded in recovering the capability to operate the spacecraft without the star tracker, but the...
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...reasons to keep, delete, or create a particular type of content, article or policy. These comparisons may or may not be valid, but the invalid ones are generally so painfully invalid that there has been a backlash against the "other stuff exists" type of rationales. When used correctly, these comparisons are important as the encyclopedia should be consistent in the content that it provides or excludes. For example, Harmonizing file names of a set of images is a valid rationale for renaming file. (To a lesser degree, this applies to article titles as well, although article naming is more complex.) Trouble arises when legitimate comparisons are disregarded without thought or consideration of the Wikipedia:Five pillars. Contents [hide] 1 Deletion of articles 2 Creation of articles 3 Inherent notability 4 Precedent in usage 5 See also Deletion of articles[edit] The claim of "Other Stuff Exists" most often arises in article deletion debate, where it is often used in a poor manner. Examples: Keep There's an article on x, and this is just as famous as that. –LetsKeepIt! 04:04, 4 April 2004 (UTC) Delete We do not have an article on y, so we should not have an article on this. –GetRidOfIt! 04:04, 4 April 2004 (UTC) The nature of Wikipedia means that you cannot make a convincing argument based solely on what other articles do or do not exist, because there is nothing stopping anyone from creating any article (except for a salting, which is only performed in dire cases)...
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...The Complete Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition Ferengi are a species from StarTrek that was particularly highlighted in Deep Space 9. Their religion is commerce and their society is determined by profit. The Ferengi believe that the universe is held together by the Great Material Continuum, also known as the Great River. The Ferengi believe that each part of the universe has too much of one thing, but not enough of another, and it is through the continual flow of the Great River that wants and needs can be fulfilled, if one navigates the River with sufficient entrepreneurial skill. By request, here are the complete Ferengi rules of acquisition. | * Check out the brand new StarTrek Game - Especially for StarTrek Fans!The Complete Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition1. Once you have their money, never give it back2. You can't cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try3. Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to4. Sex and profit are the two things that never last long enough5. If you can't break a contract, bend it6. Never let family stand in the way of opportunity7. Always keep you ears open8. Keep count of your change9. Instinct plus opportunity equals profit10. A dead customer can't buy as much as a live one11. Latinum isn't the only thing that shines12. Anything worth selling is worth selling twice13. Anything worth doing is worth doing for money14. Anything stolen is pure profit15. Acting stupid is often smart16. A deal is a deal ... until a better...
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...Now that I am living in my adulthood, I often think back and reminisce on the days of my High School days while attending Southwest Dekalb High School. I can remember starting High School in the 9th grade and wanting to become more active in school and join my peers in various activities. I had developed a passion for the military, especially because my grandfather served active duty for over 20 years. As a result I joined the N.J.R.O.T.C. program. By my senior year due to my exceptional leadership skills, I was promoted as a Lieutenant Commander. Holding this position changed my life in so many ways, and shaped me to become the man I am today. As Lieutenant t Commander I held the position as Company Commanding Officer (CO), it was my duty to overseer two platoons. Each platoon was comprised of approximately 30 students ranging in various ages from 9th graders to 12th graders. I remember this time period of my life ever so clearly, mainly because of all the sacrifices made, which would later play an important role in my adulthood. I can remember taking necessary actions in order to fulfill my duties as CO. Every Thursday of each week I was required to wear my R.O.T.C. uniform to school, and I had to make sure I was appropriately dressed from head to toe, including wearing my medals. I was most proud of wearing the medal I received from the Secretary of the Navy for my outstanding leadership skills.I also remember staying after school each day for two hours to practice drills...
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...Personal Perspectives Paper Dooda HUM-103 SURVEY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS February 19, 2009 DooDaDay Title of Performance Title: This One's From the Heart Performance Location: The Orleans Casino Performer: James Darren My wife and I have always liked James Darren, ever since his early days as Moondoggie in the Gidget movies of the 60’s. His smooth voice was very enjoyable weather he sang pop, jazz, or love ballads. We sort of lost touch with his music during the 80’s and most of the 90’s, until one day we saw him on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. He played a hologram named Vic Fontaine, a Vegas nightclub and casino owner from the 50’s. He was his own starring headline, singing Sinatra style love songs and ballads. Well in 2005, I found out James was in town, and I wanted to take my wife out to his performance on her birthday. We both thoroughly enjoyed the performance, and lived up to our expectations of a swinging, sophisticated cat who could still sweep a woman off her feet with just a song. We were especially touched by the tribute he paid to Sandra Dee who had passed away just a few months earlier. His tribute was very emotional and heartfelt, highlighting the associations they had together throughout the years. My wife and I missed the days when couples went out in style, dressed to the nine’s. Men dressed in suites or Tuxedo, and women in evening gowns. James Darren embodied that spirit of sophistication and class Born James William Ercolani...
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...What if you are against lying but, under some circumstances, it might be the only thing left to do. Lying is not always the best thing to do because it will affect others depending on how often a lie is told. After a lie, the feeling of telling a lie is so terrible that it might have gotten the other people into trouble for something that did not even occur. In the article, “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, she talks to us about the different types of lies there are. She explains how lying comes out in a person’s everyday life even when is inevitable. However, “In the Pale Moonlight” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine shows how one of the main characters, Captain Sisko, felt guilty because of the lies he had made. The lie he makes, cost...
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...GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS/NEW LAWS AFFECTING THE INDUSTRY 1.0 Government Actions Regulation (GAR) The legal framework of the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA) is dependent on government actions to establish land designations and objectives or measures for resource values. Government actions can be established 1 • through land use objectives under the Land Act, • in regulation (e.g. Forest Planning and Practices Regulation), • through actions under authority of the Government Actions Regulation, and • through grand-parented objectives, measures and features established under the Forest Practices Code. 1.1 Overview The Government Actions Regulation (GAR) provides direction for establishment of localized land designations and features that require special management for the stewardship of wildlife, fish, water, biodiversity, visual quality, cultural heritage resources, recreation resources, and resource features. GAR regulates how government establishes features or land designations, and the measures or objectives that pertain to the designated land areas. A summary of GAR is provided in Appendix 1. The actions covered by the regulation are carried out by the specified Minister who can delegate their authority to a Delegated Decision Maker or DDM (see 1.2 below). Persons who are preparing an order for stewardship of a resource value under the GAR should consider the need for government action, and the potential interactions with...
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...Space Travel Activity Name :James Foreman Course: ASTR100 Date: 06/20/2014 Space travel is one of the most urgent problems of modern civilization. Although the knowledge of people about traveling into the space is rooted in the history, the actual space traveling became possible only in the 20th century with the development of rocket technology. Undoubtedly, space travel is not a country picnic. Moderate temperature and atmospheric pressure fluctuations seem natural for us. However, in deep space humans will have to face the fact that most of the universe is in a state of chaos and there are deadly radiation belts and meteor swarms. The first problem of a long space travel to be solved is weightlessness. Conducted long-term studies of weightlessness have shown that the human body in space loses minerals necessary for life and chemicals much faster than expected. Even a tough program of physical exercise cannot save the situation: after a year on the space station astronauts bones and muscles atrophy so that when they return to Earth, they are only able to crawl like infants. It seems that the logical consequences of a prolonged staying in weightlessness during space flight are muscle atrophy, deterioration of the locomotor system, reducing the production of red blood cells, decreasing immune response...
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...Objective: This lab is to use the internet to find out about telescopes and observatories in the US. Show space images and what was found to be interesting about them and also give information on a space mission. The Otto Struve Telescope is a part of the McDonald Observatory. It is located in the Davis Mountains in West Texas. The Otto Struve is operated by University of Texas astronomers and graduate students; along with other researchers from other institutions. The telescope is 45tons, has a diameter of 19meters (82ft.), and it has a visible light. Not only did it contain the 82inch (2.1 meter) telescope, which is what this telescope was known as before its name, it housed living and sleeping quarters for the astronomers who used and a library – then it was the second largest in the world. Otto Struve made the discovery of Uranus’ fifth moon, Miranda; it also discovered Neptune’s second-largest moon, Neveid. The Star V838 Monocerotis, I found to be interesting because it was a simple cream like swirled color and just the middle was a distinct red spot. This Nebula stood out to me because my favorit color is green and this is a very bright green formation. The Mars Polar Lander/ Deep Space 2 had a mission target of landing on Mars. The mission ended on December 03, 1999. The instruments that the spacecraft carried were: 1. Mars volatiles and climate surveyor (MVACS) 2. Mars descent imager (MARDI) 3. Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) 4. Mars microphone...
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...by vastus medialis Posterior Wall: It’s formed by adductor longus and adductor magmus Content6s: 1. medial muscular branch of femoral nerve 2. Saphanous nerve and its anterior to the femoral 2. Femoral vein which is posterior to the femoral artery Femoral triangle: Is a triangular are located the upper one third of anteromedial region of thigh and bounded by the following borders Superior border: formed by inguinal ligament lateral boder: formed by medial border of the sartorius Medial border: formed by medial border of adductor longus. Anterior border(the roof) formed by Skin, Superficial fascia and fascia lata Poserior border( the floor): formed by adductor longus , pectinus and iliopsoas from medial to lateral Contents: 5Fs: 1-femoral Nerve, femoral artery(lateral) 3- femoral vein( intermediate) 4- femoral canal (medial). 5- femoral lymph nodes and fatty tissue. Femoral sheath: Formation: formed by the continuous part of transverse fascia and iliac fascia which enclose the upper part of the femoral vessels It’s divided into three parts by two longtudinal fibrous septa Lateral part: it’s occupied by femoral artery. Intermediate part: occupied by femoral vein Middle part: occupied by femoral canal Contents:1. Femoral Artery which divides into 1. Superficial epigastric artery 2- superficial iliac circumflec artery , external pudendal artery and deep femoral artey 2- Femoral vein and femoral canal. Humeromuscular...
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...The Evolution of the Universe edited by David L. Alles Western Washington University e-mail: alles@biol.wwu.edu Last Updated 2013-7-14 Note: In PDF format most of the images in this web paper can be enlarged for greater detail. 1 “If being educated means having an informed sense of time and place, then it is essential for a person to be familiar with the scientific aspects of the universe and know something of its origin and structure.” Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science ---------------------------"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."—Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg is winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, and author of the book "The First Three Minutes". 2 Introduction Science at the beginning of the twenty-first century can make some bold, yet simple observations: 1) the universe has evolved; 2) we are a result of that evolution. “We are the first generation of human beings to glimpse the sweep of cosmic history, from the universe's fiery origin in the Big Bang to the silent, stately flight of galaxies through the intergalactic night.” (National Research Council) Order in the Universe Cosmology is the study of the evolution of the universe from its first moments to the present. In cosmology the most fundamental question we can ask is: Does our universe have intelligible regularities that...
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...details of what computer was on board and why that particular computer was chosen if possible. Since this was a spacecraft with a set trajectory, what else controlled it to make it stay in place? That’s when this paper talks about the attitude control and propulsion systems onboard the stardust spacecraft. The last thing that will talked about in the spacecraft design section of this paper is the scientific instruments the stardust spacecraft carried in order to fulfill its primary objective. Its primary objective was to do a fly by and collect samples from preset meteor targets. The next major body of this paper is the actual mission profile of the spacecraft. The mission’s primary objective was to fly by a meteor and collect samples from space and another meteor. This sections will go over where the spacecraft was launched and what its trajectory was. Also, what date it was actually launched successfully. Its first trajectory was aimed towards a meteor called Anne frank. Brief information about the meteor Anne Frank will be...
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...behind in the growing space tourism industry. Russian firms unveiled their plans at the country's premiere air show this week at Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, saying the race was on to build a new craft to take people into space following the retirement of NASA's space shuttle in April. RKK Energia unveiled plans for a replacement shuttle and Orbital Technologies said it hoped to build an orbiting hotel with room for seven guests by 2016. Other plans include flying tourists to the dark side of the moon and, by 2030, to Mars. "Space tourism is a real and fast-growing business," said Sergei Kostenko, head of Russian firm Orbital Technologies, said at the MAKS air show. "Whoever builds the first new spaceship now will reap big dividends." Although Russia currently holds a monopoly on rides to space aboard its Soviet-designed Soyuz, it starts at a disadvantage. Foreign experts say they doubt Russian firms can achieve their ambitious goals because they lack funding and even Russian officials said it would be hard to rival U.S. private sector firms now competing for contracts with NASA. Funding for the U.S. space program is much higher and NASA is expected to forge ahead with building a new generation of craft capable of traveling into deep space, with flights into low Earth orbit outsourced to private firms. "The U.S. has more possibilities than us right now," said Alexander Derechin, deputy chief designer for Russia's partly state-owned space contractor RKK Energia...
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...NASA Research Paper Chelsea Best 4138567 LSTD 300 Professor Kerney Since its beginning the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been pivotal in the scientific advancements made in the United States. Their vision, “To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.” The scientist and researchers for NASA are trying to answer questions not just about the universe at large, but also about everyday human lives here on Earth. There are four focuses of NASA’s activity, called mission directives. Aeronautics, which focuses on meeting the worldwide demand for more eco-friendly and sustainable aircrafts. Human Exploration and Operations which involves operations on the International Space Station (ISS), developing commercial spaceflight and the ability for humans to explore beyond low-Earth Orbit. Scientist are exploring not only the Earth itself, but the universe beyond as well and works on charting the best exploration paths for us to continue discovering the universe. Space Technology is the final mission directive of NASA which combines elements from the others to develop and create the most innovative technology to aid future missions. NASA is also working hard to aid in the development of a private sector in space travel. Their hope is that by commercializing some aspects of space travel, such as routine trips to the ISS, more of their resources will be available for furthering their overall goals. This...
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...TEN FACTS ABOUT SATURN Space exploration began several centuries ago with scientist developing a keen interest in the knowledge of space. There was this desire and curiosity that arose, the desire to know what is there beyond earth. This desire arose from people wanting to know whether there exists another world other than the current one we live in, and whether there is life there in space. The discovery of the planet Uranus in the year 1781 by Sir William Herschel, planet Neptune in the year 1846 by John Couch Adams and Pluto by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in the last century is among the notable discoveries. As a result, governments have invested resources that would be channeled towards space exploration. In October 1957, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into space. Later on after four years in April 1961, Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth. Since then, a series of other space visits occurred aimed at studying beyond earth, the contents and properties. Thus the discovery of planets continued. One of the planets in existence was planet Saturn. It is the sixth planet from the sun. It is also the second largest planet. Here are some 10 important facts about this planet Saturn 1. Saturn is Surrounded by a ring Saturn is one of the planets, apart from Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune planet in the solar system that is surrounded by a large, beautiful and extensive ring. Its ring is the biggest and brightest. It has thus been nicknamed famously as...
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