NOVEMBER SPACE EVENTS

Mission controllers said Sunday they have not given up on the missing US CONTOUR space probe in spite of indications it may have been destroyed when it tried to fire its engines.

Telescope images showing two objects traveling along a path close to CONTOUR's trajectory mean controllers "know where to look now," said Robert Farquhar, CONTOUR mission director at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

"We aren't sure that the spacecraft is completely gone, and that's what we're going to be working on over the next several days."

The telescope images taken Friday as mission controllers tried to reestablish contact with the spacecraft showed two trails moving nearly parallel from the area where the probe was last seen -- an indication the probe may have broken into pieces.

The probe disappeared Thursday after its engines were to fire 225 kilometers (140 miles) above the Indian Ocean, an orbit too low for detection by NASA's antennas.

The burn was meant to accelerate the probe to 6,912 kilometersmiles) per hour to overcome the pull of Earth's gravity.

Farquhar said controllers still hope the probe automatically restarts its radio transmitters after being out of contact with Earth for 96 hours, which could be as early as 0909 GMT Monday.

The Comet Nucleus Tour probe, or CONTOUR, was launched July 3 from Kennedy Space Center on a Delta II rocket.

NASA hoped that by analyzing the hearts of two comets close up, CONTOUR would reveal the secrets of the hydrogen-rich celestial bodies, which could become mobile fueling stops for future interplanetary explorations.

The CONTOUR probe was scheduled to pass through the comet Encke on November 12, 2003, and the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 on June 19, 2006, traveling within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of each comet's nucleus. Both comets are less than 50 million kilometers from earth.

The 970-kilogram (2,138-pound) probe, shielded in Kevlar to protect it, might also have been sent to a third, as yet undetermined, comet.

The Comet Nucleus Tour, or CONTOUR, mission is timed to encounter and study at least two comets as they make their periodic visits to the inner solar system. At each comet flyby, the spacecraft will take high-resolution pictures and perform high-resolution analyses of their composition, as well as determine the comet's precise orbit. The science objectives are to dramatically improve our knowledge of key characteristics of comet nuclei and to assess their diversity.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced that Barbara Morgan, the agency's first Educator Astronaut, has been assigned as a crewmember on a November 2003 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Commander Scott J. Kelly (Cmdr., USN) will lead the six-member STS-118 crew. Charles O. Hobaugh (Lt. Col., USMC) serves as the Space Shuttle's pilot. Veteran NASA astronaut Dr. Scott E. Parazynski will be making his fifth space flight. The Canadian Space Agency's Dr. David R. Williams will return to space for a second time, and Lisa M. Nowak (Cmdr., USN) will -- like Morgan -- make her first flight into space.

A native of McCall, Idaho, Morgan was selected in 1985 as the backup candidate for the Teacher in Space program. Following the Challenger accident, the program was suspended and Morgan worked with NASA¹s Education Office, meeting with teachers and students across the country to share her space training experiences and their relevance to the classroom and America¹s future.

In the fall of 1986 Morgan returned to teaching at McCall-Donnelly Elementary School in Idaho, but continued to travel the country in support of NASA¹s education efforts. In January 1998, she was selected by NASA to complete her astronaut training. For more than a year, Morgan has served as a spacecraft communicator, or CAPCOM, in Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, providing the voice link between the flight control team and crews orbiting in space.

Nearly 17 years after teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe gave her life in pursuit of her profession, her back-up, "Educator Mission Specialist" Barbara Morgan, has been assigned to pick up where Christa left off. Her flight will bring to fruition the project begun by Christa McCauliffe and the Challenger crew that ended so violently in 1986

The International Space Station (ISS) will "change the course of human history", says Daniel Goldin, the administrator of the US space agency Nasa.

It is a momentous statement, the accuracy of which will, no doubt, be judged by future generations. The ISS is, by any standards, an ambitious idea. It is certainly the largest international scientific and technological project ever undertaken.

The goal is to establish and maintain a permanent presence in space and to provide a testbed for new technologies, medical research and the development of advanced industrial materials.

It will ultimately replace the Russian space station Mir, when it becomes operational in late 2003.

The United States took the lead on the ISS after the then US president Ronald Reagan announced in 1984 that he wanted to spend about $8bn putting a space station in orbit within a decade.

Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, it was decided to make the space station an international collaboration between the US, Russia, Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency (Esa), as well as a smaller input by the Brazilian Space Agency.

Nasa says the US will spend $21bn putting the ISS into space. Some observers say the final cost could be as much as $50bn

The station will be made up of various modules that will be transported into space on 44 flights over a period of five years.

When assembled, the ISS will have a pressurised cabin space equal to two 747 airplanes, will measure 356 feet (108.5 metres) across and 290 feet (88.3 metres) long and will weigh up to a million pounds (450 000 kilograms).

It is expected that up to seven people of all nationalities will live on the station at any one time.

It was hoped to launch the first part of the ISS, the Russian-built core control module - the Functional Cargo Block - in December 1997. But delays in its development pushed the launch date back to November 1998.

The first crew of the new station is planned to arrive early in 1999 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and will stay for five months. The American astronaut Bill Shepherd will be the ISS's first commander.

The space station will orbit 220 miles (350 kilometres) above the earth at an inclination of 51.6 degrees to the equator providing observation coverage of 85% of the globe.

NASA is upgrading the Deep Space Network (DSN). NASA has selected Schwartz-Hautmont Construcciones Metalicas S.A. of Tarragona, Spain, to build a new antenna to be completed at the Madrid complex by November 2003. The 34 meter (112 ft) diameter antenna is the biggest portion of the US$54 million worth of improvements that NASA's Office of Space Science, Office of Space Flight, and Space Operations Management Office have set as priorities for increasing the Deep Space Network's capabilities by late 2003. Other parts of the plan will improve the capabilities of existing antennas at all three of the network's tracking complexes: Madrid; Canberra, Australia; and Goldstone, near Barstow, Calif.

In late 2003 and early 2004, the United States, Europe and Japan will each have missions arriving at Mars, two other spacecraft will be encountering comets, and a third comet mission will launch. Several other missions will have continuing communication needs. NASA plans to land two rovers on Mars in early 2004. Projections for demands on the network during the November 2003 to February 2004 period indicated the greatest need for increased communications capacity would be at Madrid. Building a new 34-meter, antenna in Madrid would add about 70 hours of spacecraft-tracking time per week during the periods when Mars is in view of Madrid. The Madrid complex's current capacity is 210 hours within Mars view periods per week.

The Deep Space Network is a global system for communicating with interplanetary spacecraft. The Deep Space Network communicates with spacecraft that are anywhere from near Earth to out past Pluto. The network uses clusters of antennas at locations in Spain, Australia, and California which are approximately 120 degrees apart in longitude, which enables continuous observation and suitable overlap for transferring the spacecraft radio link from one complex to the next. Each station has one 70 meter (230 ft) diameter antenna, plus several smaller ones. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, manages the network for NASA.

NASA needs this new antenna operating by the time an unprecedented peak in demand for deep-space communications hits in November 2003, said Jeffrey Osman, Deep Space Network antenna and microwave manager at JPL. During the following three months, three rovers and two orbiters from the United States, Europe and Japan will arrive at Mars, two other spacecraft will encounter comets, and a third comet mission will launch. That's on top of the continuing communication needs of many other missions.

The new antenna will span 34 meters (112 feet) in diameter and will use an advanced design called "beam waveguide," which steers the gathered radio signals to a protected, underground electronics room. The design gives more reliable operation than the older antenna design with processing gear up in the dish.

A coincidence of solar system geometry will intensify demand on network resources during the crunch period, Osman said: The comet encounters by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour spacecraft in November 2003 and by NASA's Stardust spacecraft in January 2004 will happen in the same direction from Earth as Mars will be. That will minimize opportunities to have one station track the comet missions while another tracks the Mars missions

REFERENCE: Project Service Level Agreement for Deep Space 4 / Champollion, Initial Version, dated August 1998

The Resource Allocation Planning and Scheduling Office (RAPSO) has performed a loadingstudy to determine the impacts of the Deep Space 4 (DS4) tracking requirements on the DSNand the ability to support those requests.

The DS4 mission plans to launch on 4/12/2003, perform a comet rendezvous on 12/2/2005,depart the comet on 4/23/2006, and possibly perform a sample return to earth on 5/31/2010.Uplink and downlink X-Band support has been requested on 34M and 70M antennas. A summary of the requirements is attached to this IOM.

In general, we believe that DS4 will receive nearly 100% of the continuous support requestedduring the launch phase of the mission in April and May 2003. The 34M X-band capabilities areheavily subscribed during that time while the 70M antenna capabilities are not. For example, inAustralia, Voyager 2 is requesting significant 34M time but some of their support couldpotentially be moved to DSS-43. Likewise some of the DS4 support could possibly use DSS-43.During the initial phases of the mission later in 2003, DS4 is in viewperiod contention withMars Climate Orbiter, Mars01 Orbiter Mapping, Voyagers 1 and 2, and DSN Maintenancesupport.

These activities have some minimal impact on achieving the DS4 support. Cassini has aplanned TCM on May 1, 2003 but this should not impact DS4 since they are not in viewperiodcontention with Cassini.Later in the year, starting about November 1, 2003 several support requests impact the overall34M usage of the DSN. Mars03 Lander, Stardust TCM, Europa Orbiter Launch, and CassiniGravitional Wave activities all cause a heavy load on the 34M networks. By that time DS4 is inCruise and Beacon Mode operations, requesting minimal support, and should receive nearly100% of their requested time. Trade-offs will have to be made amongst the various users andantennas to maximize support for all users of the DSN.For the subsequent years, 2004 through 2010, during cruise, comet operations and earth return,we do not see any significant support issues regarding DS4 support.

[20.390] An Overview of the Comet Nucleus TOUR Discovery Mission and a Description of Neutral Gas and Ion Measurements Planned

P. Mahaffy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), J. Veverka (Cornell University), H. Niemann, D. Harpold (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Chiu (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labratory), E. Reynolds (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory), T. Owen (University of Hawaii), W. Kasprzak (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), E. Raaen, E. Patrick, J. Demick (SSAI)

The CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus TOUR) Mission led by its Principal Investigator Professor Joseph Veverka of Cornell is presently under development at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for launch in July of 2002. A flyby of Comet Encke is scheduled for November 3, 2003 at a solar distance of 1.07 au. A robust Whipple dust shield is designed to allow a close nucleus approach distance (< 150 km). The 2nd nominal CONTOUR target is Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, although the spacecraft can alternately be directed to a new comet if such an interesting target is discovered. CONTOUR contains 4 instruments: an imaging spectrometer (CRISP) developed at APL that will obtain both high resolution nucleus images through 8 filters and IR spectra (800 to 2550 nm) of the nucleus, a narrow field of view forward imager (CFI) to locate the target days before the encounter, a dust composition time of flight mass spectrometer (CIDA) provided by Dr. J. Kissel and von Hoemer & Sulger, GmbH, and a mass spectrometer (NGIMS) provided by Goddard Space Flight Center to measure neutral gas and ambient ions. Laboratory calibration of the NGIMS has now been completed. NGIMS also includes an in-flight calibration system that we plan to exercise before and after each comet encounter. We will provide an overview of the CONTOUR Mission and discuss more specifically the NGIMS measurement goals for this mission.

Total eclipses occur around every 12 to 18 months, and any given location sees a total eclipse on average once every 375 years. Interestingly, by mere coincidence a small region of Angola was fortunate enough to be in totality today and during the last total eclipse in June 2001. This will be the last easily accessible eclipse until March 29, 2006. For those seeking adventure, the next total eclipse is on November 23, 2003, but it will be visible only from Antarctica.

DREAMING OF ASTRONAUTS AND THE REALITY
... DREAMING OF ASTRONAUTS AND THE REALITY - THE SPACE PLATFORM THE TERRAFORMING OF MARS Astronaut Alan Shepard poses in his Mercury spacesuit in 1961, shortly before he became the first American ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/astronts.htm

DID WE REALLY GO TO THE MOON?
... really proud of the United States for beating Russia to the moon and our proud moment when our Astronaut Neil Armstrong got off the spacecraft and said, "That's one small step for man . . . one giant ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/moon/moonlndg.htm

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
... of some of the craters as if they may be radioactive. They just glow in the very dim light." Astronaut Borman, "It looks like clouds down there." NASA's Dr. John Freeman reported that instruments left ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/moon/darkmoon.htm

EARTHCHANGES - THE CHILDREN
... a huge silver flat faced balloon shot up out of the 2nd rocket and the balloon had the face of an astronaut on it with an American flag behind him. My family was in awe and stood there with me, mouths ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/children.htm

DEE'S DREAMS AND VISIONS - JUNE, 1998
... a huge silver flat faced balloon shot up out of the 2nd rocket and the balloon had the face of an astronaut on it with an American flag behind him. My family was in awe and stood there with me, mouths ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/jun98.htm

DREAMS AND VISIONS OF ELEPHANTS
... a huge silver flat faced balloon shot up out of the 2nd rocket and the balloon had the face of an astronaut on it with an American flag behind him. My family was in awe and stood there with me, mouths ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/elephants.htm

DREAMS OF ALIENS AND UFOS
... a huge silver flat faced balloon shot up out of the 2nd rocket and the balloon had the face of an astronaut on it with an American flag behind him. My family was in awe and stood there with me, mouths ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/aliens.htm

DREAMS OF ALIENS AND UFOS
... a huge silver flat faced balloon shot up out of the 2nd rocket and the balloon had the face of an astronaut on it with an American flag behind him. My family was in awe and stood there with me, mouths ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/alien.htm

BLACK AND WHITE - TWO TIMELINES - IS IT TIME TO MERGE?
... artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1987 Dr. Mae Jemison - The first Black female astronaut. - She was the first African American woman in real space.1987 Lenora Fulani - ran for the ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/blkwht.htm

Deja News Retrieved Document
... (satellite photos) and asked him if he had heard anything about that and he told me that every astronaut, every moon trip had been followed by craft, by saucers, that every one of them, every astronaut ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/retrieved.htm

DREAMS OF BASEBALL GAMES WITH INTERPRETATION
... a huge silver flat-faced balloon shot up out of the 2nd rocket and the balloon had the face of an astronaut on it with an American flag behind him. Again, my family and I stood in awe of this spectacle ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/baseball.htm

ON THE BEACH - IT'S JUST A MOVIE - RIGHT?
... depicts the ultimate symbiosis of the machine/man in our atomic age by rebuilding a mutilated astronaut with nuclear-powered bionic limbs and organs. Other pilots dependent upon miniature nuclear technologies ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/atomic.htm

THE MOON IS TOO TOO BRIGHT - BACTERIA ON THE MOON
... goes mad, murdering almost the entire crew bar one. This leads to the famous sci-fi line where by astronaut Dave is trapped outside the main ship and asks; 'Open the pod bay doors please HAL' HAL refuses ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/moon/bacteria.htm

DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS - MAY, 2001
... 60's. I saw the wife briefly but I was talking to the man mostly. He was a washed up, retired astronaut/pilot, balding on top with darker hair on the sides. They were moving back to Texas. He was crying ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/may2001.htm

MAYAN TIME
... on its cover of the sarcophagus lid of Pacal VOTAN in Palenque. He has been referred to as the Astronaut of Palenque by some Russian in the 1970s who thought it looked like an astronaut at his controls ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/mayantm.htm

UFO'S AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS
The Largest UFO Link Page In The World
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The Great Shift 2001
... a tomb. These momentous discoveries, fraught with implications for both Egyptologists and ancient astronaut theorists alike, indicates a grand plan at Giza far beyond even the Egyptian dynasties. Robert ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/Shift_2001.htm

LATEST UFO AND ALIEN NEWS
... bases" and "military aircraft shadowed" in the United States. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 astronaut who was the sixth man to walk on the moon, is one of many supporters of international cooperation ...
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UFO PROPULSION SYSTEMS
... over 77 nautical miles, a swarm of UFOs flurried about the Tether and satellite as Space Shuttle Astronaut, Claude Nicollier, took video footage (using a hand-held black & white video camera designed ...
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MAYAN PROPHECY
... of the human race twelve people have set foot on the moon…Like the mythical heroes of legend, astronaut Mitchell pursued a vision, ventured on a quest, risked great danger, and obtained uncommon wisdom ...
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THE TURTLE ISLAND - THE DREAM - THE MYTHOLOGY - THE REALITY
... descendants of the ape, it sends a signal that it is time for the next big step in evolution. The astronaut, Dave, is transformed into a baby in a bubble and sent back to earth, symbolizing the next great ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/lessons/turtle.htm

UFO INVESTIGATORS, RESEARCHERS, AND PEOPLE
... DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL UFO ORGANIZATIONS BRIEF BIOS ON ALIEN AND UFO ABDUCTION RESEARCHER Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell DAVID ADAIR Mikhail Agrest Kenneth Arnold Gray Barker Timothy Green Beckley...
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GREAT DREAMS - EARTHCHANGES - CONSPIRACIES
... - Catastrophism AEON What's New at UFOMind DisInformation Roswell Rods - UFO Daytime Videos! Astronaut Sightings Planetary Mysteries CROP CIRCLE CENTRAL Crop Circle Connector The Circular Times : ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/consp.htm

THE SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUMBER NINE
... yet investigated) Our astronauts saw these pyramids from space. On one of the Apollo Missions, an astronaut, while in orbit over China, saw nine unusual dots on the surface, and took several photos. ..
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LION POWER
... one such collaboration in the book Psychic Exploration, published in 1974 and edited by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, explorer of both outer and inner space - and the sixth man on the moon. That particular ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/lion.htm

The American Tragedy: A Symbolic Event, Part Two
This article explores the 9-11-2001 disasters as symbolic events. Meaningful coincidence related to numbers and symbols add to the convincing power of the story. There are apparent specific connections ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/Events/9_11_01/Amertrg2.htm

DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS - SEPTEMBER, 1999
... . NOTE: Hmmm. Not a bad idea. ************* 9-10-99 - DREAM - (The radio was on with Art Bell and Astronaut Cooper all night. ) My dream of web pages were designed with black symbols at the beginning ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/sep99.htm

DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS - MARCH , 2001
... up, I was thinking about the medicine wheel and I saw it again, this time turned with a Mayan astronaut at each of the 4 direction points, but they were turned 1 1/12th of the way further on the wheel ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/mar2001.htm

DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS - APRIL, 2001
... lunar module, Snoopy. Once the spacecraft was in orbit Snoopy and Charlie Brown separated, leaving astronaut Young alone in Charlie Brown. Snoopy descended toward the moon. It flew within 10 miles of ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/apr2001.htm

DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS - JUNE 2001
... small families which lived on the moon for 3 months. There were no details. The third dream, an astronaut came and said he would tell me about his 3 months on the moon but I wouldn't be able to tell anyone ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/june2001.htm

TAILHOOK - BOTH SIDES
... of astronauts. The principal speaker at the Saturday night banquet was Mercury-Gemini-Apollo Captain Wally Schirra, U.S. Navy, (Retired). Traditionally, the final--and best-attended--event of ...
http://www.greatdreams.com/tailhook.htm

PLANETARY SIGHTINGS - NOVEMBER, 2003

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

KIDS SIGN UP FOR MARS - NAMES TAKEN UNTIL NOVEMBER 15, 2003

EDUCATION IN NASA

VISIBLE EARTH PHOTOS

JOHN F KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - LAUNCH SCHEDULE

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SCHEDULE

NOVEMBER SPACE LAUNCHES - NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL AUGUST, 2003

LIST OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREWS - ALPHA LIST

DREAMS OF THE GREAT EARTHCHANGES
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PHOTO OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - DUE TO BE FINISHED IN NOVEMBER 2003				? China launching spacecraft into space. 14 astronauts training		1 Casseopeia, Taurus, Pisces and Cygnusare constellations visible in the U.S.A.in November.
2	3 A flyby of Comet Encke scheduled for November 3, 2003 at a solar distance of 1.07 au.	4 -30 day eclipse cruise begins in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on November 4, 2003, on the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov	5	6	7	8 Total lunar eclipse 16:13 Taurus November 8, 2003 8:20 pm est/5:20 pm pst See chart below
9 lunar eclipse on November 9, 2003 17:33-20:04 CST “at-one-ment” The Harmonic Concordance See chart below Meditate in Egypt Nov. 4 - 11	10	11 On November 9, 2003 the Star of David is activated and reaches its full potential on 11-11-03.. In addition , on 11-11-03 the 4 fingers (yod) of God overlight this remarkable day... See more below:	12 CONTOUR probe scheduled to pass through comet Encke on November 12, 2003 Space Daily News	13 Space Shuttle Columbia lift off - schedule November 13, 2003 This has been delayed until March, 2004 because of the shuttle crash and deaths earlier this year!	14	15
16	17	18	19	20 Deep Space Launch opportunities "Mars Crunch" 2003-2004 November 20, 2003 Launch Continuous at visible periods Launch and Orbit Raising Nov 22-Dec 09 2003 About 16 h/day Bus In Orbit Test MORE:	21	22
23 Total Solar Elipse Australia Antartica Total Solar Eclipse 1:14 Sagittarius November 23, 2003 5:50 pm est/2:50pm pst	24	25	26	27	28	29 Orbital schedule Manned trip from Earth to Mars and Return Great Charts
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