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Trashed by the Sun

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:49:00 +0000

four x class solar flares...a flare a day for may..2013

There goes the neighborhood

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:44:00 +0000

Radio has made Howard Stern a rich man, and the self-proclaimed “King of All Media” will spend $52 million of it on a new Palm Beach, FL home. The Palm Beach Daily News says he’s buying the 3.25 acres estate not far from a home owned by conservative talker Rush Limbaugh. If accurate, the paper says it would be the highest ticket real estate deal in Palm Beach so far in 2013.

The Death of Paul Drew

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:59:00 +0000

Radio has lost a true legend. Top 40 radio pioneer PAUL DREW died of natural causes at VICTOR ROYALE ASSISTED LIVING in GLENDALE, CA; he was 78.

DREW launched his radio career in ATLANTA, as a DJ at WAKE, WGST and WQXI -- the latter station promoted him to PD. He also held PD gigs at CKLW/WINDSOR-DETROIT, WIBG/PHILADELPHIA, KFRC/SAN FRANCISCO and KHJ/LOS ANGELES. After programming KHJ, DREW was promoted to VP/Programming for RKO Radio, overseeing the stations in NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO, BOSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, WASHINGTON, MEMPHIS and FORT LAUDERDALE.

He was also a partner in the radio consulting firm DREW-ATKINSON ASSOCIATES, and was appointed Director of the USIA's RADIO MARTI PROJECT by President RONALD REAGAN.

In addition to countless friends and colleagues, PAUL is survived by his former wife, ANN. Funeral arrangements are private

More here.

kepler we miss you..rip

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:21:00 +0000

At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode. As was the case earlier this month, this was a Thruster-Controlled Safe Mode. The root cause is not yet known, however the proximate cause appears to be an attitude error. The spacecraft was oriented with the solar panels facing the sun, slowly spinning about the sun-line. The communication link comes and goes as the spacecraft spins.

We attempted to return to reaction wheel control as the spacecraft rotated into communication, and commanded a stop rotation. Initially, it appeared that all three wheels responded and that rotation had been successfully stopped, but reaction wheel 4 remained at full torque while the spin rate dropped to zero. This is a clear indication that there has been an internal failure within the reaction wheel, likely a structural failure of the wheel bearing. The spacecraft was then transitioned back to Thruster-Controlled Safe Mode.

An Anomaly Review Board concurred that the data appear to unambiguously indicate a wheel 4 failure, and that the team’s priority is to complete preparations to enter Point Rest State. Point Rest State is a loosely-pointed, thruster-controlled state that minimizes fuels usage while providing a continuous X-band communication downlink. The software to execute that state was loaded to the spacecraft last week, and last night the team completed the upload of the parameters the software will use.

The spacecraft is stable and safe, if still burning fuel. Our fuel budget is sufficient that we can take due caution while we finish our planning. In its current mode, our fuel will last for several months. Point Rest State would extend that period to years.

We have requested and received additional NASA Deep Space Network communication coverage, and this morning the Anomaly Review Board approved the transition to Point Rest State later today. Because this is a new operating mode of the spacecraft, the team will closely monitor the spacecraft, but no other immediate actions are planned. We will take the next several days and weeks to assess our options and develop new command products. These options are likely to include steps to attempt to recover wheel functionality and to investigate the utility of a hybrid mode, using both wheels and thrusters.

With the failure of a second reaction wheel, it's unlikely that the spacecraft will be able to return to the high pointing accuracy that enables its high-precision photometry. However, no decision has been made to end data collection.

Kepler had successfully completed its primary three-and-a-half year mission and entered an extended mission phase in November 2012.

Even if data collection were to end, the mission has substantial quantities of data on the ground yet to be fully analyzed, and the string of scientific discoveries is expected to continue for years to come.

Updates will be provided as information is available.
https://www.google.com/search?q=kepler+distance+from+earth

The end of Kepler..from New Scientist

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:26:00 +0000

"Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong."

So laments planet hunter Geoff Marcy, with a due nod to W. H. Auden, upon hearing the news that NASA's Kepler space telescope is probably close to ending its search for extrasolar planets.

Since its launch in 2009, Kepler has discovered 132 exoplanets and identified nearly 3000 more possible planets, including a handful of potentially rocky worlds that may be able to host life. The mission's plethora of data has transformed our view of the galaxy, showing, for instance, that Earth-sized worlds should be common, and that one may even be lurking a mere 6.5 light years away.

But the pioneering telescope has been hobbled by a damaged reaction wheel, NASA announced at a press conference today. These wheels help Kepler keep its orientation in space, and precision steering is crucial to the mission.

Rest and relaxation

The telescope has been watching some 150,000 stars near the constellation Cygnus for changes in brightness caused by a planet crossing, or transiting, its face as seen from Earth. To do this, it needs to keep the same specific pixels of its light detector trained on given stars for months at a time.

Kepler started out with four reaction wheels – one to control its motion around each axis and one spare. One wheel stopped turning in July last year, leaving the telescope with no backup. In January, a second wheel began misbehaving, so mission managers gave Kepler a small break from planet hunting, in the hopes that a spot of R&R would fix the problem.

Despite the Kepler team's best efforts, on Sunday the space telescope put itself into safe mode, an automated stop of its science operations that is usually triggered by a system glitch. Follow-up communication from the team showed that the wheel had stopped moving and that it is not responding to attempts to restart it.

"Unfortunately, Kepler is not in a place where I can go up and rescue it," John Grunsfeld, a former NASA astronaut who now works in the agency's science directorate, said during the press briefing. The prognosis is not good, but the team is not quite ready to give up the ghost. "We're looking at the data very carefully to see if it's possible to get back into science mode," said Grunsfeld. "I wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet."

Tragic timing

Word of Kepler's woes was not exactly a surprise. The mission was initially funded for three and a half years and has been running on an extended time frame.

"It was already known that it wasn't going to go on for decades," says astronomer Daniel Fabrycky of the University of Chicago. "Its days were numbered."

Still, if Kepler cannot be brought back into action, the timing will be tragic for scientists hoping to realise the mission's primary goal: determining what fraction of sun-like stars host Earth-sized planets with temperatures favourable for life.

Astronomers need to see at least three transits to confirm a signal as an orbiting planet. That means planets farther from their stars, in the habitable "Goldilocks zone" – in which a planet's surface temperature is just right for liquid water to exist – will take longer to find. Kepler needs a few more years' worth of data to see planets around sun-like stars with orbits that last longer than 200 days, says exoplanet researcher Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"It will mean that the mission won't confirm as many small planets in the habitable zone as had been hoped," says Fabrycky. "It's a real loss."

Earth twins await

But Kepler team member William Boruki points out that even if Kepler's main mission is over, the team has about two years of data that have not been fully searched. He is optimistic that the bounty still holds some surprises. "We're really pretty positive we'll get Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone around stars like the sun. I'm confident that the data we have will allow us to accomplish that," he said at the press briefing.

There will be a gap of at least four years before the next exoplanet-chasing telescopes come online. NASA will launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2017 to scan the entire sky for exoplanets. The European Space Agency also plans to launch the Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite(CHEOPS) in 2017, with the goal of following up on known planetary systems and searching for traces of life.

For Fabrycky, such missions are a sign of Kepler's lasting legacy. "The people who worked on it will go off and do other things, but in its wake it will have inspired a lot of people to join this field."

GPS 2 F 4

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:13:00 +0000

LC 40 the old titan pad home of the ATLAS V

Tonights Atlas V launch with the latest GPS sat..getting you from here to there

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:10:00 +0000

50 years ago today..MA 9 the last Mercury flight

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:15:00 +0000

Proton launch last night

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:28:00 +0000

Spacecraft "Double Dee 3» (Eutelsat W3D) launched into orbit

15.05.2013 ::

May 15 at 05 h 15 min. Moscow time, according to cyclogram flight spacecraft (SC) "Double Dee 3» (Eutelsat W3D) was separated from the upper stage (RB) "Briz-M, launched into the target orbit and transmitted to the control of the customer launch.

Start Launch Vehicle (ILV) "Proton-M" with the upper stage "Breeze-M" (production - Khrunichev. Khrunichev) intended for breeding of this satellite, made the day before in 20 hours 02 minutes. Moscow time from the launch complex area 200 Baikonur calculations of rocket launchers and space industry. After the separation of the main unit of the third stage of the launch vehicle to further elimination of the spacecraft into orbit was performed by the operation of the propulsion system booster.

Spacecraft "Double Dee 3» (Eutelsat W3D) created by Thales Alenia Space on the order of one of the leading satellite operators Eutelsat (France) and is designed to provide digital television, telephony and broadband Internet access on Europe, Turkey, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia.

Your next launch tmw afternoon

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:02:00 +0000

The U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-4 satellite is ready for launch aboard a UnitedLaunch Alliance Atlas V Launch Vehicle on May 15 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

The launch window opens at 5:38 p.m. EDT and will remain open for 18 minutes to accommodate any delays for weather or technical reasons. The satellite, designated as Space Vehicle Number (SVN) 66, is the fourth in the series of 12 IIF space vehicles that Boeing has on contract with the Air Force. SVN-66 will be joining the other operational satellites currently on-orbit in the GPS constellation.

"We are looking forward to yet another successful launch; tremendous progress is being made with the GPS IIF space vehicles. The first three satellites are on-orbit and meeting all mission requirements and the atomic clocks on-board the payloads are providing the best accuracy ever," said Col. Bernie Gruber, director of the Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Directorate.

"This is just the beginning of the modernization plan to improve operations, sustainment and overall GPS service for military and civil users around the globe. I would like to commend the 45th and the 50th Space Wings, United Launch Alliance, our industry partners, the Atlas V and GPS IIF launch teams. Thanks to the hard work and focus on mission success, we are ready tolaunch the fourth GPS IIF satellite," he said. "To mission success!"

The new capabilities of the IIF satellites will provide greater navigational accuracy through improvements in atomic clock technology; an increased design life of 12 years for long-term service; and a new third civil signal (L5) to provide a more robust signal for commercial aviation and safety-of-life applications, while the second civil signal (L2C) is available for dual-frequency equipment.

GPS will deliver sustained, reliable and improved military and civil navigation capabilities to ensure GPS remains the "Center of Excellence forspaced-based navigation."

Americas Cup..watch the video

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:44:00 +0000

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Coming home via Soyuz from NASA

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:38:00 +0000

Soyuz Landing

Up to three crewmembers can return to Earth from the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft. The vehicle lands on the flat steppes of Kazakhstan in central Asia. A Soyuz trip to the Station takes two days from launch to docking, but the return to Earth takes less than 3.5 hours.

Lightening the Load on the Way Down

Image to right: This illustration shows the Soyuz Descent Module, center, immediately after the Orbital Module, left, and Instrumentation/Propulsion Module are jettisoned. Credit: NASA
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The Soyuz TMA spacecraft is composed of three elements attached end-to-end -- the Orbital Module, the Descent Module and the Instrumentation/Propulsion Module. The crew occupies the central element, the Descent Module. The other two modules are jettisoned prior to re-entry. They burn up in the atmosphere, so only the Descent Module returns to Earth.

The Orbital Module provides the crew with extra living space during the two-day trip to the Station. It contains systems vital to rendezvous and docking with the Station's Pirs Docking Compartment or other port: a docking mechanism, a hatch and rendezvous antennas. Once the Soyuz departs, the Orbital Module is no longer needed, so it is jettisoned about three hours after undocking.

The Instrumentation/Propulsion Module is shed at the same time, about half an hour after its engines perform their final task -- a deorbit burn that drops the Soyuz from orbit. With it go the spacecraft's two solar arrays. This module contains the primary guidance, navigation and computer systems for the vehicle.

Image to left: In this illustration, the Soyuz Descent Module reaches Entry Interface, where friction from Earth's thickening atmosphere heats its outer surfaces. Credit: NASA
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A secondary guidance, navigation and control system in the Descent Module enables the crew to maneuver the vehicle after the Instrumentation/Propulsion Module has been jettisoned. The Soyuz commander can pilot the module using a rotational hand controller that manages the firing of eight hydrogen peroxide thrusters on the vehicle's exterior. This system is deactivated 15 minutes before landing, when the parachutes are deployed.

Cushioning the Landing

Having shed two-thirds of its mass, the Soyuz reaches Entry Interface -- a point 400,000 feet above the Earth, where friction due to the thickening atmosphere begins to heat its outer surfaces -- three hours after undocking. With only 23 minutes left before it lands on the grassy plains of central Asia, attention in the module turns to slowing its rate of descent.

Eight minutes later, the spacecraft is streaking through the sky at a rate of 755 feet per second. Before it touches down, its speed will slow to only 5 feet per second, and it will land at an even lower speed than that. Several onboard features ensure that the vehicle and crew land safely and in relative comfort.

-- Parachutes

Four parachutes, deployed 15 minutes before landing, dramatically slow the vehicle's rate of descent. Two pilot parachutes are the first to be released, and a drogue chute attached to the second one follows immediately after. The drogue, measuring 24 square meters (258 square feet) in area, slows the rate of descent from 755 feet per second to 262 feet per second.

Image to right: Two new engines on the bottom of the Soyuz TMA Descent Module ignite one second before landing to reduce the force of impact. Credit: NASA
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The main parachute is the last to emerge. It is the largest chute, with a surface area of 10,764 square feet. Its harnesses shift the vehicle's attitude to a 30-degree angle relative to the ground, dissipating heat, and then shift it again to a straight vertical descent prior to landing.

-- Landing engines

The main chute slows the Soyuz to a descent rate of only 24 feet per second, which is still too fast for a comfortable landing. One second before touchdown, two sets of three small engines on the bottom of the vehicle fire, slowing the vehicle to soften the landing.

-- Seats

Further cushioning the impact of landing are the crew seats with their custom-fitted liners. The liners are made preflight, individually molded to fit each person's body -- this ensures a tight, comfortable fit when the module lands on the Earth. When crewmembers are brought to the station aboard the Space Shuttle, their seat liners are delivered with them and transferred to the existing Soyuz spacecraft as part of crew handover activities.

Image above: This map of Kazakhstan and the surrounding areas shows the target area for landing Soyuz vehicles. Credit: NASA

TMA Improvements for Landing

The Soyuz TMA spacecraft is a replacement for the Soyuz TM, which was used from May 1986 to November 2002 to take astronauts and cosmonauts to Mir and then to the International Space Station beginning in November 2000.

Image to left: Soyuz TMA seats accommodate both larger and smaller occupants than the older model, and seat shock absorbers have been modified to suit the varying loads. Credit: NASA
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The TMA increases safety, especially in descent and landing. Two new engines reduce landing speed and forces felt by crewmembers by 15 to 30 percent, and a new entry control system and three-axis accelerometer increase landing accuracy. Instrumentation improvements include a color "glass cockpit," which is easier to use and gives the crew more information, with hand controllers that can be secured under an instrument panel. All the new components in the Soyuz TMA can spend up to one year in space.

Descent module structural modifications, seats and seat shock absorbers were tested in hangar drop tests. Landing system modifications, including associated software upgrades, were tested in a series of airdrop tests. Additionally, extensive tests of systems and components were conducted on the ground.

Flare incoming

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:47:00 +0000

http://www.space.com/21115-multiple-spacecraft-see-first-solar-x-flare-of-2013-video.html

Skylab's 40th the video

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:46:00 +0000

http://www.space.com/21116-skylab-40-years-later-video.html

Any day now the hum of the Cicada..

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:02:00 +0000

http://cicadatracker.sutron.com/cicada/tw/googleplot.page?dataIds=2837,2891&timestart=19-Apr-2013

Love this Cmdr Hatfeld shot of Florida

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:01:00 +0000

Great night time view of Florida you can see Orlando in the center, the spacecoast on the right and at the bottom right West Palm to Miami. Top of the photo shows North Florida and Jacksonville

This man is the "rockstar of astronauts"

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:57:00 +0000

Not a aerospace book in the bunch

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:52:00 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/science/science-bookshelf-top-selling-nonfiction-titles.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto&_r=0

ISS coolant leak following..more later

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:05:00 +0000

Following Thursday's identification of an ammonia coolant leak outside the International Space Station, the Expedition 35 crew Friday began preparing for a possible spacewalk Saturday. A final decision on whether to go forward with a spacewalk is not expected until late tonight.

The crew is not in danger, and the station continues to operate normally otherwise.

When Jeff Bezos...

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:39:00 +0000

Amazon.com is developing a wide-ranging lineup of gadgets—including two smartphones and an audio-only streaming device—to expand its reach beyond its Kindle Fire line of tablet computers, said people familiar with the company's plans.

To tweet or not to tweet that is the question

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:32:00 +0000

With so much emphasis in recent years on tweeting as a low-cost marketing strategy, how are stations engaging with their Twitter followers? Mostly, stations are trying to drive followers to the station Website. Beyond that, their objectives are far more diffuse, and not even as directly marketing-focused as one might think.

The 2013 Edison Research/Arbitron Infinite Dial Study found that the percentage of respondents who had ever used Twitter was up sharply, from 10% to 15%. Stations were encouraged to “engage Twitter users differently than is done with Facebook.”

So last Wednesday, April 12, around 3 p.m., I analyzed one hundred of the tweets from the broad cross-section of stations I follow (too many to count but likely over a thousand) in a wide variety of formats. I didn’t include tweets from individual personalities, except when a jock was clearly tweeting on behalf of a station or as an extension of station promotion. Tweets were classified in to more than 15 categories, and a single tweet could qualify in more than one category.

Out of 100 random tweets, here’s what stations used them for:

53 — Drive traffic to the station site, for any reason. Most of these tweets had some other purpose, such as sending listeners to a station site for promotions, artist or celebrity news, or contesting. But in many cases, there was no second objective beyond driving Website traffic. Some stations weren’t even driving traffic to their own sites; a number of tweets from CBS Radio-owned stations sent listeners to stories on CBS Local sites in other markets. Five years ago, endless on-air attempts to drive listeners to a station site by any means necessary (“Lindsay did what? Go to our site”) became a running joke in the industry. Now that type of content has migrated to Twitter, and, yes, there were several about Lindsay Lohan.

28 — Artist news/gossip. In general, a lot of the artist/celebrity news and other “relatable” bits and factoids that might have once comprised an on-air jock break have moved to Facebook or Twitter. Carrie Underwood’s People interview, in which she addressed the possibility of retirement, showed up in several tweets. So did new artist releases and videos. So did the first week sales of the new album from The Band Perry on KFRG Riverside, California.

27 – Video. These weren’t necessarily tweets that drove listeners to see a video (e.g., several postings on the new Demi Lovato video); they also included other features that were illustrated with any sort of video, whether it was an artist interview, movie trailers, or news reports from a local TV station.

24 — Random Internet goofiness. Drunken man robs Stop & Shop! Deep-fried chicken-head found in box of nuggets? Rapping weathermen! Worst Mother’s Day gifts! Woman’s car hit by iPad! Circus elephant injured in drive-by shooting! If the idea is for stations to market less to their followers, but to interact with them as friends, then about a quarter of the tweets contained the sort of trifling but entertaining content that friends send to each other. Nothing here could be said to have achieved meme status; it was more often “news of the weird” from the other news sources used by station sites.

22 — Contesting/Promotions. This category included crossplugs for on-air contesting and Web-only “secret” contests, but also tweets that supported other station promotions. The common theme here was ticket giveaways, but there was also Majic 100 Ottawa’s Pinterest tie-in, “Pin And Win” and Jack FM Sacramento’s “Shiny Briefcase of Cash.” Again, less than you’d expect, especially attempting to influence behavior at a given moment.

18 – Engage directly with listeners. A few stations retweet listeners’ postings about the station. Some engage in the sort of semi-private conversations that often characterize personal Twitter exchanges. But any tweet that gave listeners a chance to interact with the station beyond merely clicking through to register for a contest was included here. Those ranged from Facebook page conversations or comments on station postings to Listener Driven Radio song voting to other request solicitations. This percentage would have likely been far higher during morning drive when stations use Facebook and Twitter to drive on-air topics. In afternoons, it was shockingly low.

12 – Create a new listening occasion. For all the emphasis, good or bad, on creating additional listening occasions, a surprisingly low number were actually cross-promoting something taking place on the air, either at that moment (Toronto’s “The Flow” encouraged listeners to tune in to hear the new Justin Timberlake single and, separately, to win concert tickets) or in general (KOSF San Francisco’s $1,000 giveaway).

12 – Hear or see music from an artist. This ranged from the handful of stations that were streaming the just-released new single from Jimmy Eat World to US99 Chicago’s links to music from the just-announced Country Hall of Fame inductees. WQQK Nashville posted singer Ray J’s just-released “I Hit It First,” widely implied that day to be about Kim Kardashian, with the headline “All-Time Low.”

11 – Feature a station sponsor. For better or worse, there was surprisingly little of this, even though Facebook and Twitter have often become the new way to keep a giveaway from taking up airtime. Any contesting that even mentioned a sponsor was included. Mix 96.5 Houston’s “Mad Men” prize pack was included, but so were several sponsored ticket giveaways and a station’s sponsored meet-and-greet with R&B singer Miguel. Country KTTS in Springfield, Missouri tweeted a giveaway with clothing designer Cowgirl Clad.

11 – Drive traffic to a station or personality’s Facebook page. Like the majority of tweets that sought to send listeners to a Website, this was a grab-bag category, although it was often the site of those “news of the weird” postings that drove listener comments.

Fewer than 10% of the tweets that were analyzed attempted to do any of the following:

Offer listeners enterprise content. Stations have a special ability to create additional entertainment for listeners, but only seven of the hundred tweets analyzed featured any. Chicago’s 101.9 The Mix posted an in-studio performance from Vicci Martinez. New York’s Power 105 had several clips of jocks interacting with artists, including one playing “slide” with Kelly Rowland. England’s Absolute Radio had the most elaborate: it had built a several weeks-long stunt out of the relationship between a personality’s brother and actor The Rock that culminated in video from a trip to Wrestlemania in the U.S.

Report breaking news. Only nine tweets contained breaking news, weather or traffic information that wasn’t music news or artist gossip, and two of those were from all-news powerhouse WTOP Washington, D.C.

Support charity efforts. With more stations chafing at the notion of turning over the airwaves to an all-day radiothon, one rationale has been that stations have so many other ways to engage with listeners for the community good. But only three tweets fell in that category. Two were part of one station’s anti-bullying campaign; the other was KMLE Phoenix’s “Pack The PODS For The Troops” effect

ULA we launch rockets..

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:18:00 +0000

The video is great the script well.,and the narration...could be much better.

This was the first ever launch I saw in person at the Cape..the last Saturn V

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Tue, 07 May 2013 02:37:00 +0000

NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.

The discussion, open to NASA employees and the public, will begin at 2:30 p.m. EDT in the James Webb Auditorium of NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Participants will include:
-- Owen Garriott, science pilot, Skylab 3
-- Gerald Carr, commander, Skylab 4
-- Kevin Ford, commander, International Space Station Expedition 34
-- D. Marshall Porterfield, director, Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications Division, NASA Headquarters
-- Jason Crusan, director, Advanced Exploration Systems, NASA Headquarters

Media representatives who want to attend must call 202-358-1100 no later than noon May 13. Anyone unable to attend the event in-person may ask questions during the program via Twitter or Google+ using the hashtag #asknasa.

NASA launched Skylab on May 14, 1973. It was the nation's first foray into significant scientific research in microgravity. The three Skylab crews proved humans could live and work effectively for long durations in space. The knowledge gathered during Skylab helped inform development and construction of the International Space Station, just as the research and technology demonstrations being conducted aboard the ISS will help shape a new set of missions that will take Americans farther into the solar system.

Glad to see Glenn Kalina back on the air

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:38:00 +0000

Greater Media’s newly launched classic hits station in Monmouth-Ocean, NJ is sporting a new talent lineup. “Jersey's Greatest Hits” WJRZ (100.1) has pulled together a 24/7 staff of New Jersey and Philadelphia radio vets, including Matt Knight, TJ Bryan, Glenn Kalina, Barbara Farragher and Rick A. The former “Magic 100.1” flipped from AC to classic hits late last month.

Enterprise fixed in it's new New York City home

noreply@blogger.com (lou josephs) — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:52:00 +0000

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050613b.html