Obama Killing Space Program

Cited: The Washington Post

They are getting ready to put up a new sign at NASA that will read “For Sale: 355-foot steel tower for launching rockets into space, brand-new, never used, one-of-a-kind, going cheap, asking $500 million”!  That means the moon will never be visited by man again.

There’s one available at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Brand new, never been used.  The mobile launcher has been built for a rocket called the Ares 1. The problem is, there is not yet any such thing as an Ares 1 rocket — and if the Obama administration has its way, there never will be.

President Obama’s 2011 budget kills that rocket, along with the rest of NASA’s Constellation program, the ambitious back-to-the-moon effort initiated under President George W. Bush.

People here were shocked when they heard the news last month. They were already facing the imminent retirement of the aging space shuttle, and the likelihood of thousands of layoffs in the contracting corps but many hoped to find a Constellation job, stay on site and essentially just switch badges.

Now suddenly, they’re looking at no shuttle, no Ares 1, no NASA-owned spaceship of any kind in the near future. American astronauts for years to come will hitch rides to space on Russian rockets.

“It’s almost like losing manned space flight,” said Michele Kosiba, 44, a quality inspector for United Space Alliance.

The space center is a unique place, built on a flat expanse of marsh and scrub that knuckles into the Atlantic. Long, straight, government roads are lined with ditches patrolled by alligators. Launch towers stand sentinel on the horizon. From here, the United States launched some of its most spectacular national achievements. But the decision to kill Constellation has shrouded this part of the world in an unfamiliar gloom.

People are dismayed and bewildered. Obama has gotten the message and will fly to the Kennedy Space Center on April 15 to hold a space conference and a town hall meeting. He is certain to point out that his budget actually boosts funding for NASA. The new NASA strategy shifts the task of launching astronauts to low Earth orbit from traditional government contracts to commercial contracts. If the private sector can create a taxi to space, NASA can focus on new technologies and longer journeys in the solar system.

“We think it’s exciting,” NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former astronaut, said in an e-mailed response to questions. “It will enable us to do things we can only dream about today. It will foster new industries, spur innovation, create jobs and lead to more missions, to more destinations, sooner, safer and faster.”

‘Cancel Constellation?’

A presidential commission, led by former aerospace executive Norman Augustine, reported to Obama last September that the Ares 1 would have limited use and that the heavy-lift rocket necessary for a moon mission probably wouldn’t be ready until 2028. At that point, the panel said, there’d be no money left in the program for a moon lander or moon habitat. In effect, the Augustine committee said Constellation, which has already cost $9.4 billion, was destined for a (metaphorical) crash landing.

“We could get to the moon and do what?” said Dale Ketcham, a University of Central Florida professor who runs a think tank called the Spaceport Research and Technology Institute. “The taxpayers would really be ticked off: Sixty years later we go back and plant the flag and go home.”

Lawmakers in Congress in both parties, particularly those in districts with space jobs, have given the Obama plan a cold reception. Congress still must approve Obama’s budget. Until that happens, Constellation maintains a ghostly existence as “the program of record.”

Which means that, every day, workers are still adding elements to the mobile launcher. Across the country, work continues on Ares and the new crew capsule, Orion. The Orion launchpad abort system will be tested later this spring in New Mexico. Even if Congress sanctions Obama’s plan, the administration expects to spend $2.5 billion just closing out contracts and shutting down Constellation.

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NASA employees and contractors on the Cape say they were caught off guard by the new strategy.

“We just pulled the rug out from human space flight,” said Jim Bolton, a NASA manager for shuttle processing. The morning of the announcement, Bolton said, “People were just truly shocked. ‘How can that be? Cancel Constellation? What are you talking about?’ ”

Bolton spoke as he stood directly beneath the shuttle Atlantis, which was jacked up in its processing bay and completely shrouded in scaffolding and fuel lines. The orbiter is being prepped for its 32nd, and most likely final, journey to and from orbit. From below, some of the gray thermal tiles that keep it from burning up upon reentry are slightly scuffed, but it’s still a pretty spiffy spaceship.

“It’s such an awesome machine,” said Tim Keyser, a mechanical lead in another orbiter bay. “It’s not old. I go in the midbody, it’s pristine. It looks like it rolled off the assembly line.”

People here talk of the orbiters — Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour — as if they are beloved members of the family. There are only four shuttle flights left, with the last scheduled for September, though the timetable could slip a few months. Some lawmakers are scrambling to keep the shuttle flying, perhaps with a drawn-out flight manifest.

Howard DeCastro, shuttle program manager for United Space Alliance, the primary shuttle contractor, said the shuttle is flying better than ever. The main challenge for shuttle extension is restarting supply contracts that have already shut down. It would take two years, for example, to produce a new external fuel tank for an additional shuttle flight. Still, DeCastro said, “there are no showstoppers in flying the shuttle longer.”

What will really hurt, workers say, is the disappearance of the know-how accumulated over decades here at the Cape.

“We lose that knowledge base, it’s very hard to get that back,” adds Chris Loines, 43, a United Space Alliance contractor who has been launching rockets his entire adult life.

Soon, a taxi to space

The administration has promised to spend $2 billion upgrading the Kennedy Space Center. But workers here said they don’t know what that means, exactly. They don’t want to work on facilities, they want to work on spaceships. Terry White, a United Space Alliance worker who supervises the thermal protection system on the orbiters, said that putting money into KSC without a spaceship is like having a fancy showroom with no cars to sell.

Ketcham said the decision to retire the shuttle has only recently hit home.

“There was this communal epiphany — ‘Oh my God, they’re going to cancel the shuttle.’ And then we plunged into the classic five stages of grief. And rational thought is not one of the stages of grief,” Ketcham said.

NASA isn’t the only game in town. The Cape is shared by NASA, the Air Force and commercial rocket companies. On the Air Force-controlled side of the Cape, one will find the commercial rockets named the Delta IV and the Atlas V, each with a dedicated launch complex. And there’s a newcomer on the block: the Falcon 9.

This is the rocket built by SpaceX, a private company founded by Internet tycoon Elon Musk. SpaceX has a contract with NASA to launch cargo to the space station. The Falcon 9 has never flown. Framed by lightning towers, the 143-foot rocket is poised on an old Titan rocket pad, having been raised to the vertical position by two hydraulic jacks.

The scene is rather calmer than what you’d find at a NASA site. A low building holds cubicles and a couple of dozen workers. A few technicians in hardhats can be seen poking around the base of the rocket. In a hangar where the rocket is built, a lone figure sits at a desk. The commercial route figures to be cheaper than the traditional government route to space.

SpaceX would like a modified version of the Falcon 9 to become the commercial taxi to space. The first test flight could be mid-April, right about the time Obama visits the Space Coast. Musk has estimated the chance of success on the first try at between 70 and 80 percent. The final preparations include the installation of an auto-destruct system, said Scott Henderson, mission assurance director for SpaceX.

If it blows up, Henderson said, “It’s not going to get outside the fence here.”

From the SpaceX pad, looking west across the scrub of the Cape, the visitor can see the new NASA mobile launcher, parked for now near the huge Vehicle Assembly Building. Could SpaceX use that launch tower? Conceivably, Henderson said. But it’s not really designed for a rocket like the Falcon 9, he said. SpaceX certainly doesn’t need it at the moment.

NASA officials insist that they could still find a use for the half-billion-dollar tower even if the Ares 1 never materializes. But space technology tends to be highly customized. A worker on his way to the cafeteria the other day was overhead saying he wanted to climb the mobile launcher “before it becomes an artificial reef.”

“It’s just a big old tower now,” DeCastro said. “I guess you could sell it to SeaWorld or something and put a big ol’ slide on it.”

DeCastro, the United Space Alliance executive, said he doubted the mobile launcher could be useful without the Ares 1.

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My Take: I think they are actually stupid for killing the space program!  What with overcrowding of cities, food shortages around the world and global warming the people of this planet are going to need someplace else to live.  The first thing that is going to happen is the unemployment rate is going to skyrocket.

The article is right about one thing, we are going to lose a lot of the knowledge and advancements that the space program has provided us.  Stop and think about it, what kind of network security software does NASA use?  Or even intrusion detection software?  These programs were developed specifically for NASA and lesser or equal versions are on the market for everybody now.  In fact there are companies that provide managed security services with software that was probably developed by NASA.

I also believe that halogen light bulbs were developed because of the space program.  I know light bulbs themselves were developed because the space program, but I believe the halogen ones were.  So many things have come from the space program that includes medical advances, electronic advances, and much more than I can even begin to name.  It will be a sad day in America when the space program in its!

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Earth’s Seasons Scientifically Explained

Cited: MSNBC.com

Many people do not realize how powerful a force the seasons our in our lives.  The seasons affect everything we do, the foods we crave, the clothes we wear and many times the moods we are in.  Once again, the seasons officially change from winter to spring at the end of March.  What makes it seem strange that in the Northern Hemisphere spring is beginning however in the Southern Hemisphere autumn is beginning.  This is because of the planets tilt that dictates the cycle of spring in our.

What is it that causes the change in seasons?

The ability to predict the seasons — by tracking the rising and setting points of the sun throughout the year — was key to survival in ancient times. Babylonians, the Maya and other cultures developed complex systems for monitoring seasonal shifts. But it took centuries more to unravel the science behind the seasons.

Nicolai Copernicus (1473-1543) radically changed our understanding of astronomy when he proposed that the sun, not Earth, was the center of the solar system. This led to our modern understanding of the relationship between the sun and Earth.

We now know that Earth orbits the sun elliptically and, at the same time, spins on an axis that is tilted relative to its plane of orbit. This means that different hemispheres are exposed to different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. Because the sun is our source of light, energy and heat, the changing intensity and concentration of its rays give rise to the seasons of winter, spring, summer and fall.

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The seasons are marked by solstices and equinoxes — astronomical terms that relate to Earth’s tilt.

The solstices mark the points at which the poles are tilted at their maximum toward or away from the sun. This is when the difference between the daylight hours and the nighttime hours is most acute. The solstices occur each year on June 20 or 21 and Dec. 21 or 22, and represent the official start of the summer and winter seasons.

The vernal equinox and autumnal equinox herald the beginning of spring and fall, respectively. At these times of the year, the sun appears to be directly over Earth’s equator, and the lengths of the day and the night are equal over most of the planet.

On March 20 or 21 of each year, the Northern Hemisphere reaches the vernal equinox and enjoys the signs of spring. At the same time, the winds turn colder in the Southern Hemisphere as the autumnal equinox sets in.

The year’s other equinox occurs on Sept. 22 or 23, when summer fades to fall in the north, and winter’s chill starts giving way to spring in the south.

From year to year, there is always some variability in the equinoxes and solstices because of the way Earth’s changing tilt matches up with its orbit around the sun. This year, the precise moment of the March equinox came at 1:32 p.m. ET Saturday. That’s the moment when the sun was exactly overhead, as seen from the point on Earth’s equator directly facing the sun at that time.

Effect on climate

Here’s how the seasonal change affects the weather: Around the time of the June solstice, the North Pole is tilted toward the sun and the Northern Hemisphere is starting to enjoy summer. The density of the solar radiation is higher because it’s coming from directly overhead — in other words, the sun’s rays are concentrated over a smaller surface area. The days are longer, too, meaning that more radiation is absorbed in northern climes during the 24-hour cycle. Another factor that may come into play is that the radiation takes a somewhat shorter path through the energy-absorbing atmosphere before striking the earth.

At the same time that the Northern Hemisphere is entering summer, the South Pole is tilted away from the sun, and the Southern Hemisphere is starting to feel the cold of winter. The sun’s glancing rays are spread over a greater surface area and must travel through more of the atmosphere before reaching the earth. There are also fewer hours of daylight in a 24-hour period.

The situations are reversed in December, when it’s the Southern Hemisphere that basks in the most direct rays of the sun, while the Northern Hemisphere receives less dense solar radiation for shorter periods of time.

Although the solstices represent the pinnacles of summer and winter with respect to the intensity of the sun’s rays, they do not represent the warmest or coldest days. This is because temperature depends not only on the amount of heat the atmosphere receives from the sun, but also on the amount of heat it loses due to the absorption of this heat by the ground and ocean.

We do not feel the coldest days of wonder or the hottest days of summer until the ground and oceans absorb enough heat to reach an equilibrium with the temperature of the atmosphere.

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My Take: I learned this in high school.  It really amazes me what a lot of people do not know about the changing seasons.  Everybody knows that in autumn the leaves of trees change color in most parts of the country.  That is why if you’re thinking of a Mediterranean yacht charter as a vacation, you should know what time of year is best.  The same thing goes for Caribbean charters, you need to know the right time of year to do it.

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Then you have those people who have the money to purchase Spain properties and be able to spend the winter months in Spain and the summer months at home to stay warm year-round.  So if you have the money, get yourself a piece of Marbella real estate and spend your winter staying warm.

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Disney Looks for New Web Ads at Tech Conference

Cited: Reuters

Media executives say that rather than blasting consumers with TV-style ads that are expensive, the urgency of using the Web to glean data and target consumers directly is better financially due to the advertising downturn caused by the recession.  In fact, Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger began a discussion about new ways to market to consumers at the Fortune Brainstorm TECH conference in Pasadena recently describing himself as, “pretty bullish about what technology is going to allow in terms of behavioral tracking.

Executives from AOL, a division of Time Warner Inc, News Corp and IAC/InterActiveCorp echoed similar hopes about the potential to reach consumers online.  As advertising dollars grow ever more scarce, companies have been forced to rethink how they reach consumers and have moved away from the traditional 30-second spot to the kinds of targeted, Internet-driven marketing campaigns that have been talked about for years.

Internet advertising in the United States — a $23.4 billion market in 2008 — was down 5 percent in the first quarter of this year and Iger and other executives say the sector may not return to the historic growth trajectory seen before the recession.

Jonathan Miller, head of News Corp’s Digital Media Group, believes advertising is undergoing, “fundamental changes … and you have to tease them out of the recession effects. “Marketing is on an arc to become more efficient. My dollar should go further. And that says the advertising pool may not grow at the rate that it’s traditionally grown at, even out of this recession.”

Targeting consumers via demographics, profiling, and their social networks, “you learn a lot about people and you can identify them,” Miller added.  The thinking among these media executives is that advances in technology is enabling them to build more detailed profiles of consumers — which can then either be sold as a commodity or employed in their own marketing campaigns.

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AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong, former sales chief at Google Inc, also sees new marketing opportunities from consumer referrals and tracking.

“Where people actually go, what they do, how they do it,” he said. “It’s not just about data, it’s about the insight. If you’re Procter & Gamble, or Kellogg’s, or Coke or whatever, forget all the data. What is the insight you get out of it? How does that actually change your perception?”

However, Ed Moran, director of product innovation for Deloitte, said tracking tastes and developing profiles is fine, as long as advertisers do not make the old media mistake of finding their optimum consumers, only to show them a commercial.  Moran said next-generation advertising will be driven by the tastes and habits of 14 to 24 year-old “millennials” whose lives center on social networks and Internet-enabled handsets.

“A more effective way of reaching these young folks … is to use their social networks as influencers, rather than bombarding them with ads,” Moran said.

Chief executive of Web giant IAC/InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller,  said Internet advertising must evolve from displays and become integrated into the content of websites.  Ashton Kutcher, an actor and media producer, chimed in at the conference, saying the billboard-style ads are already outdated.

“People who have grown up on the Internet have trained themselves not to see it,” he added.

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My Take: I do not care what kind of commercial it is, commercials always interrupt what I am looking at were doing.  I do not like commercials.  I understand what they are for and why businesses use them.  That does not mean that I have to like them.  Do not get me wrong, I have seen some commercials that were actually enjoyable.  However, most of them are stupid in my opinion.

The commercials that are really annoying are those info commercials.  You know the ones, the ones that say call our data center and get this product for a reduced price.  You may be living on the West Coast but you are probably calling a Chicago data center.  These are the ones you have to be very careful of because of the small print you cannot read and they speak so fast you miss it and end up subscribing to a monthly product and paying for.

If I preferred any type of “commercial”, they would be the kind you find on Greek tees.  The advertising you find on T-shirts is so much more enjoyable and you can easily ignore it because you are talking to the person and not the shirt.  Usually, you will see a Greek shirt with the logo of a fraternity or sorority on it or even a corporate logo.  However, you do see them occasionally with something other than a cute saying or phrase.

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In-Flight Entertainment Losing Battle against Mobile Gadgets

Cited: Reuters

It seems that iPods and other mobile entertainment gadgets are rendering the in-flight entertainment systems of airlines around the world who spend millions of dollars annually to upgrade.  Long-haul travelers in economy class are always certain of two things, the bland airline food and the movies and games that could be played on a minuscule 5-inch screen that the airline provided to them.

However, with USB ports and a power socket increasingly common even for economy class passengers on carriers such as Singapore Airlines Ltd and Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, the concept of in-flight entertainment could change.

Adding to the mix are plans by carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc, which has begun offering an Internet connection on board, allowing passengers to continue tweeting and updating their Facebook status instead of flipping channels on the in-flight entertainment (IFE) system.

Analysts call this content customization, where passengers are no longer limited to an airline’s offerings in their in-flight entertainment systems and are able to pick and choose what they want to watch or do on board a flight.

Airlines, already badly hit by weak demand for air travel and volatile jet fuel prices, are likely to welcome the move, as it would allow them to save on costs such as licensing fees to production studios and maintenance fees.

“There’re so many reasons for airlines to change the way it works right now,” said Peter Harbinson, an analyst at the Center of Asia-Pacific Aviation in Sydney. “The biggest advantage for airlines is the weight of the IFE equipment. Fuel burned, regular engineering checks, and licensing fees to movie studios all add up to a considerable amount of money for airlines.”

The growing popularity of low-cost netbook PCs and other mobile entertainment devices such as Apple Inc’s iPod and other MP3 players could further hasten IFE’s demise, as more and more airline passengers carry these gadgets with them when they travel.

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The biggest draw for airlines, industry watchers say, is that they could save money in tough economic times, while simultaneously disguising the change as a product enhancement.  Passengers engrossed with their laptop PCs and mobile entertainment devices that can be used continuously as a result of the power sockets on every seat could also free up cabin crew.

“I’ve heard stories about the number of crew on board each flight being cut by airlines after they introduced personal TVs on every seat,” said Anthony Prakasam, an aviation consultant.

Low-cost airlines such as Ryanair Holdings PLC and AirAsia Bhd, always eager for a fresh revenue source, could also turn to installing USB ports and power sockets and charging for their use.

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The biggest losers from the entire episode could be companies such as Rockwell Collins Inc and Panasonic Corp, which develop and build current in-flight entertainment systems but now look like they might have innovated themselves into obsolescence.

These companies have been on the forefront of encouraging airlines to install power sockets and USB ports onto every seat in the aircraft, but they could have to start looking at diversifying their work if they are to stay ahead, analysts say.

Khoa C. Huynh, 24, a self-professed airline geek, said he would want to turn off the in-flight entertainment system even more if he were forced to watch advertisements on board.

“I travel everywhere with my laptop, and being able to use it without having to worry about the battery dying on me is a great plus. I won’t say I’ll stop watching in-flight movies, but I suppose that could mean less time spent on it.”

In-flight movies have long been seen as the last-place in the world considered to be commercial-free.  There is the possibility of providing advertisers the ability to broadcast ads on large screens to a captive audience.  However, that is one plan that could very well backfire because many people do not want to watch commercials on an airplane.

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My Take: I rarely fly because I do not have the money and if I did it would definitely be the economy class.  Although, my flight would not be long enough to include an in-flight movie so I am not real concerned about whether the in-flight movie is available or not.  On the other hand, many people fly regularly and for long distances that this may affect.

Even though some people that do fly more frequently and for long distances are on either a business trip or a personal trip, they may want a choice of either an in-flight movie or the ability to utilize their computer.  Many of these same people are not concerned about an in-flight movie because they plan on sleeping through their flight.  Others are on a business trip and need to complete work before they get to their destination and would need to use their laptops to do so.

The thing I do not understand is why the airlines need so much fancy equipment to play a movie.  I guess it must be because I am not a techie that I do not understand.  It seems to me they would only need a VCR or DVD player that is hooked up to several monitors or TVs to play a movie.  I do not think that they need all of the fancy equipment to do so.  As it is right now, you have to pay for the ear phones to even listen to the movie.

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