“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.” -JFK

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Our Founders declared 'each individual' as a sovereign king; until professional politicians sought to take the place of "We the people." Thus the downward spiral of deceit worked its way through the three components of economics; and in every stretch outside of our imagination, sought to reverse our Sovereign status, to enrich their few...
VOTE THEM ALL OUT!

Image:George Washington- 1782 painting

RESTORE THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, or stand aside!
Subjugating Americans, will always fail...
In every instance, those who served their own interests; always chose to impact manipulative legislation, that was kept from view...
VIDEO: Minority Leader Boehner TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!

To create preoccupation, some lowered our defenses... To maximize control, some tried to impact minimum resistance to control... To collapse our currency, they sought to destroy the faith of the American people in each other!

While waging psychological games against our pure industries of capital, goods, and services; they made it appear as if 'open market' was the failure... Now we MUST remove them from office, so that "We the People" can recover!

THEIR AGENDA RUNS ADVERSE TO US CONSTITUTION!
Some of us have cracked the formula of their programming matrix!

Finally, inverting this matrix, i.e., solving for the Xk terms of the Yj, we get, say, [bkj] [Yj ] = [Xk]... This is the result into which we substitute to get that set of conditions of prices of commodities, bad news on TV, etc., which will deliver a collapse of public morale ripe for take over. Once the economic price and sales coefficients ajk and bkj are determined, they may be translated into the technical supply and demand coefficients gjk, Cjk, and 1/Ljk.

Shock testing of a given commodity is then repeated to get the time rate of change of these technical coefficients. read.

Today's Links...
BEWARE OF THE FEDS BEARING GIFTS...
This Stand blocked federal control of individual State: more.
Some noticed only her wardrobe, but failed to notice their own President without clothes! But might have researched the dissimilarities with their past... Again:
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) [HT: Across the Curve]

One might want to bookmark these tranquility videos

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There is so much going on in the world, but I will say... Take the few minutes to relax, be calm, and center your thoughts... All the worry, and troubles will wait for you. ;)

And if timing, is an obstacle...
You might bookmark this post.
It's evening here...
BIG SCREEN Tranquility Videos...
(Open in new window)

VIDEO: Very relaxing...
Gentle rain

Video: ZEN GARDEN
Peaceful VIDEO: Images.

River Rain & Thunder
Close your eyes: RELAX

Image: Barbay (France) -08






LOVELY VIDEO:
American Home Showcase (US) BIG SCREEN

UPDATE: Where to shop in US
Luxury Furniture and Lighting: Shop: Florida USA (Lovely!)

Back in France for 2 week family visit...
Oops, D. Worth was unable to post updates; but, will add this, and others from pending file (perhaps) to archives below...

Quick labels are reserved for Americans

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So much for this Administration's "quick" labeling of tens of thousands of Americans who had absolutely no connection with bombs or abductions; as more and more are placed on "no-fly lists" without the slightest hesitation...

But regarding prisoners, caught on the battlefield, using weapons against civilians... They would need more information, as is "case-by-case" needed, in order to label...



Related Links...
Airline Captain, in Navy for 6 years, on accidental watch list. #
Has to call his company security to get cleared to fly for pleasure or company business. more.

Pilot flies multi-million dollar planes, denied passenger status
Remains on "no fly" watch list... Read.

She's an Angel (Boyle on BGT)

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She has every octave mastered, like a heavenly, beautiful instrument… The cello should chill-out in the beginning...
But otherwise…
She amazing opens up her wings...at 3:31 (of video)



How very sweet...
She says, "I just want that chance to perform before the Queen."
You cannot have a dry eye, to hear such a lovely voice!
Ht: Gateway... He has the results: Here.



All proceeds go to the Royal Variety Charity...
I hope she performs before the Queen... (tear)

Memorial Day gratitude, honor, & focus

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We remember those who came to the aid of people in harms way... And those who still do. ALL were prepared to pay the ultimate sacrifice; as some have...
Paratrooper Sgt. Stephen Decatur


Memorial Day gratitude.
Men and women in defense of freedoms and nations... Did not wavier! We pay tribute by honoring their sacrifice, & protecting their legacy.
Fellow Americans, please join us: Warrior Legacy Foundation

What the missions & troops are made of...
Seal and US Army statement appears for the first 20 seconds or so...
(Program will start after that.)


With due respect... Re-naming the threat or fight, will not end it...
Bottom-line: We work alongside our allies, to help them to defend & protect independently; against an enemy of whose goal seeks their demise.

This is why we fight... VIEW VIDEO BIG SCREEN
Everyone should view this film, as forgotten history, seems to enact a repeat (in one varied form or another.) And regardless if history is over-sighted...
One must never loose sight of this focus...

Some of our departed told us not to cry for them...
"Just remember to stand with, and honor the troops."

Welcome Home, STS-125 Atlantis!

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VIEW BIG SCREEN: LANDING
-Landing link: Scientist Papachote
At beginning of clip you see Atlantis 6 ½ min from landing at an altitude of 81,000 feet, 1700 miles per hour… falling at 260 feet per second! Home!
NASA: Flawless landing at Edwards!


NASA modified 747 awaits transport of Atlantis, (Sat. May 23rd) at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB...

Still inclement weather at primary landing site (FLA).. NASAtwitter says, "It will take about a week to get the shuttle prepped to be placed on top of a 747 for the return to Kennedy.

NASA's Dryden FRC: Taxi :)

UPDATE: SHUTTLE ATLANTIS CREW POST-LANDING REMARKS...
ht: NASA Twitter
"Following their safe landing Sunday, May 24, and subsequent egress and walkaround of the orbiter, crew members of space shuttle Atlantis stopped on the tarmac at Edwards Air Force Base in California to remark about their successful STS-125 mission to enhance and extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope!"



One picture (as NASA twitter says) explains the mission. VIEW.

Back from Sardinia (picnic) ..And had to wait to see this, but heard about it from the ship... Wish I was in California, as I've viewed these shuttle landings before...
They're thunderous and incredible! (more later)

Galaxy photometry; intuitive sound & light

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Image of the Day: Universe Awaits: Hubble beams it all back... :D Interesting IPAC: Programs lend further clarity.
Radiometric calibrations, from starless cores to planet-forming; excite discovery adding new dimensions to mapping.
[ENLARGE] From NASA STS-125 Atlantis

VIDEO: The cries of Earth from Space: BIG SCREEN
Image: Last of the Green 'red-eyed' monster:
Comets Kick up Dust in Helix Nebula.
Image made up of data from Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer. Blue shows infrared light of 3.6 to 4.5 microns; green shows infrared light of 5.8 to 8 microns; and red shows infrared light of 24 microns. read.

-Video clip (below) from April 14, 2006...
Hubble images having a 'Spitzer' moment...
INTERPLANETARY TRIP INTO THE ABYSS OF SPACE.


NASA Infrared Astronomy: SOFIA project
OFFICIAL SOFIA SITE Here.
VIDEO: Christening of SOFIA: Maiden Voyage.

(links open new window)
IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite
2MASS Two Micron All Sky Survey
MSC Michelson Science Center
IRTS Infrared Telescope in Space
COSMOS Cosmos Evolution Survey
ISO Infrared Space Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
Holds data also held by Michelson Science Center
(PIT, KAO, etc.)

Coincidence, or likely conversation...
NASA says, "Spitzer "warms" up... Kepler begins the hunt."
VIDEO This Week at NASA: BIG SCREEN!
VIDEO: NASA's Intro to Kepler BIG SCREEN VIEW

Today's Links...
LOOKS LIKE TOMORROW STS-125 LANDING!
(more later)

UPDATE: 5/23/09: Landing delay Tomorrow or Monday.
NASA twitter says, "It costs $1.8 million to ferry the shuttle back to Kennedy on top of a 747 and takes time, so we prefer to land at Kennedy."

View NASA Twitter Updates: here.
Atlantis astronauts will go to sleep at 5pET... And await return time-coordinates.
NASA points to this sleeping in space, info: Space Sleep.

A little music... World Capital Productions.

Former S. Korean President, Roh Moo-hyun, has died

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"This is a truly unbelievable, lamentable and deeply sad event," President Lee Myung-bak, Roh's successor, said in statement released by Pres Blue House

Remembering: Summit was Watershed for Peace: Lim.
Roh Moo-hyun's extension of peace with Kim Jong Il...
This action touched the world: VIEW VIDEO: Here.
No matter the outcome... Roh Moo-hyun's effort to extend peace, will truly be remembered... North Korea should come forward, in honor of Roh Moo-hyun; and return the effort... IMAGE.


The article says, "Even the one legacy Roh was admired for, of at least running a clean government...Such sad circumstances which followed.
Maybe we are all too quick to judge...

I was just looking at this picture earlier, today (the day of his death.)
Taken the 22nd of may, at the ceremony at the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, South Korea, to honor U.S. war dead, a few days ahead of Memorial Day.












Caption: General Walter Sharp (L), chairman of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC), gives a salute along with Lee Sung-chul, Deputy Commander of the CFC, May 22, 2009; honoring U.S. war dead, prior to May 25th, Memorial Day...

My sympathy goes to the family of Roh Moo-hyun...

History Links...
John Paul II's appeal saved future Korean president from death
Catholic News Agency - ‎May 21, 2009‎
A letter from Pope John Paul II asking for clemency helped save the life of a future South Korean president who was sentenced to death by a military ...
John Paul II saved life of Korean President Kim Dae-jung CathNews

NASA's LRO: Prep for fairing installation

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On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, & Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft will launch together June 17 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...

View multimedia HERE!
NASA: Image credit- Jack Pfaller


LCROSS will use the spent second stage Atlas Centaur rocket in an unprecedented way that will culminate with two spectacular impacts on the moon's surface.At Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, is being prepared for fairing installation. Source: NASA.gov.

Fueled, Stacked and Ready for Encapsulation... View.
NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor.

Another mission of: Plan (2002-2008) has reached fruition!
TODAY: Countdown: 25 days, 21 hours, 20 min, 55 seconds!
Video: Remembering update from one year ago...


Using a suite of seven instruments, LRO will help identify safe landing sites for future human explorers, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment and test new technology. LCROSS will seek a definitive answer about the presence of water ice at the lunar poles.

LRO to Help Astronauts Survive in Infinity... VIDEOS.
"On the moon we will develop technologies to survive in space, because the moon presents the same challenges we will encounter throughout the universe." -NASA.

NASA crew readies journey home; time-line as weather permits

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Image of the Day: View of the Journey Home, amidst the blackness of space; a silhouette of thin atmosphere... Pictured here, Space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay, Canadian-built remote manipulator system robotic arm. read more.

NASA: STS-125 crew flight day 10

Assistance by a rescue craft, not needed for the STS-125 crew; as Atlantis' astronauts prepared for sleep at 6:01 pm EDT... And awaken, 2:01am Friday; for updates on weather...

-NASA Twitter details weather conditions... And says, "Forecast "no go" issues for both KSC opportunities: thunderstorms within 30 nm, broken clouds at 4000 feet and 19 knot peak crosswinds."

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit: VIEW, The touch-down is likely to take place today; it will be 5 or 6 pm (at earliest) here in Europe...
NASA also says that Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Will update (below).

NASA.gov posts this image... Updates.
Mission Specialist Mike Massimino looks through a window on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Atlantis.
IMAGE CREDIT NASA




Other NASA links...
While waiting for the next decision point before payload bay doors close at 6:10 am EDT...Found a couple of interesting clips.

VIDEO: NASA's Intro to Kepler BIG SCREEN VIEW

NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new "first light" images show the mission's target patch of sky, a vast, starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy.(No sound for first two min. of clip)

VIEW VIDEO BIG SCREEN!

For the next three-and-a-half years, Kepler will search more than 100,000 sun-like stars for signs of planets... More Later...

STS-125 Crew prepares for return home

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The Atlantis crew will spend the day preparing the shuttle for tomorrow’s return home.

VIDEO: DAY 9:
BIG SCREEN

NASA: Grunsfeld & Johnson



NASA STS-125 Astronauts in their own words...
Pre-launch Hubble service interviews with Michael J. Massimino, Michael T. Good, both mission specialists; Gregory C. Johnson, pilot; Scott D. Altman, commander; K. Megan McArthur, John M. Grunsfeld and Andrew J. Feustel...



I wish the crew a safe and wonderful flight home...
ps: Traveling to Italy this afternoon...
(More later.)

UPDATE:
View Mike Massimino's lovely descriptions of Space:
from twitters

"From orbit: We see 16 sunrises and sunsets in 24 hrs, each one spectacular as the sun lights up the atmosphere in a spectrum of colors"

"From orbit: Viewing the Earth is a study of contrasts, beautiful colors of the planet, thin blue line of atmosphere, pure blackness of space" more.

Today's Links...
NASA Flight Facility Successfully Launches Nanosatellite 15 hours ago
Science Daily (May 20, 2009) NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 7:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Space... Full Article at Science Daily

Former astronaut and retired Marine Charles Bolden is being considered by President Obama to head NASA, as NASA administrator. read more.

As Atlantis Wings Home , Congress Debates NASA's Future. The 2010 NASA budget provides bolstered spending to complete the space shuttle fleet's last eight missions to the International Space Station in 2010.
Full Article at eWeek

A very odd space Video... BIG SCREEN

GREEN RED EYED MONSTER: VIEW HERE.

NASA SDO teaser video. 'Our new eye on the Sun'... launching soon.

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New short overview of NASA's:Solar Dynamics Observatory
VIDEO: BIG SCREEN (teaser)
NASA SDO HMI twitter explains:
"The magnetic field in the outer regions (corona) of our sun forms loops that carry waves and behave rather like a musical instrument."
NASA: SDO in the (EMI)


LISTEN: solar wind speed (and proton) data turned into sound!
Invisible, inaudible solar winds passing by NASA satellites...
Harmonics!! A Lovely flow of numbers! AUDIO! This is undoubtedly how we are perceived in the Cosmos; and, in my intuition; there-in lies crucial keys toward transportability...

Video (below) over-view of SDO observatory that is crucial in every imaginable way, to our future...Our future Missions, & evolution of earth!



The right time to remind Obama to retain our entire NASA family... Together with our Int'l partners, WE ALL STAND at the forefront of essential evolution of technology. The most proficient balance of Scientists & engineers of our AGE.

Today's Links...
No time is being wasted; as evolution of the Shuttle draws near...
Right now Ares I-X stacking is scheduled to begin 6/25.. After a fine and successful hot fire test of the hardware at the Aft Skirt Test Facility at Kennedy Space Center... And: CM-LAS and the Birdcage...
VIEW: Aft Skirt Hot Fire Test…Check!
Dan Kanigan writes...

NASA says, "Additionally, the power units are run at 100%, 110% and 112% of capacity to assure that all redundancy modes are working properly.

When the test has been successfully completed the hydraulic systems are left as they are and the hydrazine is taken out. The system will stay in that condition until the Ares I-X vehicle is at the launch pad where the system will be refueled with hydrazine in preparation for launch." read. (So, we shall see.)

Other Space News...
What about claims of NASA STS-125 UFO'S, at Hubble Mission?
Not an over-see, it's likely NASA's force-field amidst floating debris...
-Quite Lovely music toward the end of the clip, though:
VIEW VIDEO HERE. (Haven't looked at the rest of site)
INTUITION: I am seeing spherical, remote craft camera-drones, as they scan for debris; coupled with mission force-field around Atlantis; which appears to be impacting a 'repelling reaction' by said 'floating debris'...

Le 62e Festival de Cannes (Dir. Loach)

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IMAGE: British director Ken Loach (C) leaves after the screening of the movie "Looking for Eric", in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2009...
(French actor, Eric Cantona, to the left)

Directors vying for the Cannes film festival's Palme d'Or:
(1-20) VIEW.
View top Films: Official Festival De Cannes Site: HERE.

Director Ken Loach is this site's favorite... View prior Films.
This year: LOOKING FOR ERIC (View trailer)



Four decades of film-making, Loach took the Palme d'Or with 2006's:
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley." Read more.

Big Screen Videos, of the day...
VIDEO: Another Palme d'Or Winner...
Oscar du meilleur film documentaire et une Palme d'Or au Festival de Cannes pour: "Le Monde du silence".VIEW HERE.

VIDEO: Around Cote d'Azur, 2000 BIG SCREEN VIEW.

STS-125: Mission Complete; on 40th Anniversary of Apollo 10

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Final Spacewalk of STS-125 Mission Complete
Mon, 18 May 2009 12:27:13 PM PDT
"The fifth and final STS-125 spacewalk concluded at 3:22 p.m. EDT. It was 7 hours, 2 minutes. During their walk in space, Grunsfeld and Feustel installed a battery group replacement, removed and replaced a Fine Guidance Sensors and three thermal blankets (NOBL) protecting Hubble’s electronics.

NASA: Grunsfeld powder-blue heaven

VIEW: Final Hubble EVA: BIG SCREEN!

NASA Twitter has quotes, and recaps.
Remembering Apollo 10 launched 40 years ago today...
Multi-media Galerie: Apollo 10 history.

Obama: You must keep the entire NASA family team!
Video: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: BIG SCREEN

Boston.com has wonderful photos of the Hubble enhance/repair mission STS-125! Especially here, on a 40 inch computer screen! VIEW!

Space shuttle Atlantis crew's wake up at 4:31am ET...
(more later)

STS-125 '4th walk' success! Final tomorrow

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NASA: Plan Update for 5th Spacewalk
Sun, 17 May 2009 04:15:05 PM PDT
"Our goal is to get the spacewalk done on time, which is scheduled to last 5 hours, 45 minutes. Batteries and the Fine Guidance Sensor tasks are our priorities for tomorrow's spacewalk. We will make a real time call where we are in the timeline after those tasks are complete on the go forward plan for the Bay 5 & 8 New Outer Blanket Layer installation tasks." Read.

Image:NASA: MASSIMINO!!!

At the close of a successful day...
Massimino said it was beautiful out, and that he wanted one last look before closing the hatch...

And thanked John Grunsfeld, who helped to choreograph the spacewalk from inside, for stickling with them today. -NASA.
Massimino still had time to twitter!!

Spacewalkers pull off toughest Hubble repairs yet read.

An inside look at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...



More NASA TV (Video)...
VIDEO view Earlier: BIG SCREEN

Shuttle Atlantis' crew is scheduled to wake up tomorrow at 5:31am ET.
The spacewalk is set to start at 9:16am...
I'll be enroute on my trip (France) by then...
(More later)

Borel leads Alexandra to another win!

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Calvin holds the trophy after riding Rachel Alexandra to victory in Saturday's 134th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course; Baltimore (US) ... Prior to the win of this race, Jockey Calvin Borel became just the fourth rider in Churchill Downs history to win 900 races...

Image: Jockey Clavin Borel, did it again!

Interviewing Calvin!
VIEW BIG SCREEN


In the interview (above) he thanks Jackson, and mentioned the attendance of a little child w/ cancer. (They are going to help him)

AP Video Report...
It's the 2nd jewel, on the way to the "Triple Crown"



Today's Links...
Rachel Alexandra shows that girls rule on this day
Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
Jockey Calvin Borel congratulates assistant trainer Scott Blasi after Rachel Alexandra won the 134th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Track...read.

Calvin Borel: 'God gave him a gift' - video
"You can’t win it, if you’re not in it." -Borel
Want an American success story? Calvin Borel's living it.
A boy who left school at the age of 12 has 30 years later become a man with a Ph.D. in thoroughbreds, and more than 4,600 career wins and $100 million in earningsread.

Encouraging that he'll remain as sweet as he is. :)
Rachel Alexandra Calvin Borel Preakness WINNER! LALATE

US pasta Co. 'Cargill' (etc) seized by Chávez

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gpsfan(Freeps) reports:

"This is a joke, right?







I must have missed this news...
Perhaps due to US media down-play of news content... As Obama team eyes US firms... I'll be comparing the local news content in Europe, next week...

Venezuela seizes US pasta company guardian.co.uk
"A rice mill owned by Cargill was taken over earlier this year, on the grounds that it was not producing rice at government-set prices.

Cargill had said it did not break the government's pricing rules on rice because the mill did not produce the plain rice which is regulated." read.

Chávez seizes Cargill factory Financial Times

Venezuela Seizes Pasta Factory Of US Food Giant Cargill
RTT News
(---) Venezuela had seized last week hundreds of supply boats and several oil service companies, including two American owned gas facilities. Chavez has also nationalized several private companies in the country, including plants and offices belonging to Mexican cement giant Cemex and the massive Orinoco Belt oil projects. -RTT Staff Writer -read.

And the US President's response? Z-z-z-z.. On the same Hugo page in US? GPS.FAN points out, "No word if Venezuela is going to seize any Chinese properties"...

Related Links...
Chavez’s Oil Seizures May Cause ‘Substantial’ Output Decline
“Petroleos de Venezuela doesn’t have the management and strategic capacity to operate these companies properly,” said Jorge Pinon, a fellow at the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami, referring to the state-owned oil company. "You’ll see a substantial drop in oil production." Source.

Update: NASA's 'Massimino & Good' complete -7hr, 56-min spacewalk

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From NASA: The second of five STS-125 spacewalks concluded at 4:45pm ET. It was 7 hour, 56-minutes, making it the 8th longest spacewalk in history...

For those who did not watch the EVA 2 LIVE. Today…
VIEW VIDEO: BIG SCREEN

Following Massimino's work today, as he moved through the emergency tests, battery and gyro replacement... Keith Walyus, Operations Mgr; HST SM4, gives more detail at the:
Space Telescope Operations Control Center
Update 5/14/09
VIEW VIDEO: BIG SCREEN

And, a recap...
STS-125 HD Flight Day 4 Highlights
VIEW VIDEO: BIG SCREEN!!
In the 360 degree backdrop, cluster of starts...
Tomorrow is another busy day for the crew...

PS: Packing to visit family (France) Flight on Sunday.
Hoping that my craft (boat) will be repaired by Saturday...
Will try to update, and add images, later-on...Have a great day :o

Dr. Hammel at STS-125 Hubble mission pre-launch (NASA image of the day)

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ANDROMEDIA Galaxy:#

M31: Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler (robgendlerastropics.com) Explanation: Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy.



As the STS-125 mission to repair & upgrade Hubble, continues...
It is Hubble images that have brought enthusiasm to future missions... We are left with "earthly" clues of prior travel throughout the ages; as entire civilizations were built around the effects of our galaxy... A probably well suited Andromeda, and the hope if a return?

NASA team is not just repairing our eyes to the Universe...

VIDEO (below) Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its upcoming repair mission....

Presented: during the STS-125 pre-launch press conference


More about the image above (links leave site)
Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda.
Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda's image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. Andromeda is frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier's list of diffuse sky objects... -Respectfully, the source: Robert Gendler: read more.

Again, leaving for 2 week trip to France on Sunday...

NASA's Grunsfeld & Feustel spacewalk

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A very productive 78th spacewalk from the space shuttle... And as NASA informs, it's the 19th spacewalk in support of Hubble (136 hrs & 30 min!)



VIEW VIDEO: BIG SCREEN!!
Astronaut Gregory C. Johnson, STS-125 pilot communicates at the pilot's station on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Summary Points from Thursday's Mission Status Briefing: read.
View NASA's EVA #1... With Astronauts, Grunsfeld and Feustel, implementing the Wide Field Camera III Installation, Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Computer, Soft Capture Mechanism Installation and Latch Over Centerline Kit Installation.

Thierry Legault's solar transit (12th) HERE!!





NASA: Hubble from Atlantis




Incredible! Hubble's new camera has a mass of 890 lbs! And into the same protective covering, Astronauts place the WFPC 2; for return to their new home, at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum...

(More later)
PS: I leave to France on Sunday, for two weeks...

Video: Atlantis, Hubble Grapple Sets Stage for Spacewalks

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Video: 9.3 min ; compressed from 75 min. Flares (below) at the beginning are the shuttles attitude jets firing. Visible: Atlantis robotic arm; HTS Grapple


Image NASA Ground Control
VIDEO (View Narrated version) STS-125-NASA's great footage!
(Window's media player) new window: HERE!

LINK: NASA TV

Video slow to load up... (add. links above & below)


Live Leak: Formerly posted.
Commentator:

"From 200 feet - the Hubble Space Telescope. First time it's been seen since March 2002, the most recent servicing mission...

Atlantis essentially station-keeping while the final command sequence being completed before moving in for the final approach to grapple." UPDATES: HERE.

Today's Links....
View incredible German technology...
VIDEO: View Festo Bionic "Flying Robotic Penguins!"
BIG SCREEN (Opens in New window)

Great article by Rand Simberg (Pajama’s media)
re: NASA challenges in the coming post-shuttle era.
read more. (read comments)

(More later) Thursday Space walk...