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Mar/Apr 2021 THE WRIGHT STUFF Vol XXXI I No 02 The Official Newsletter of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk NCC-1659 Mar/Apr 2021 THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 1 MAR / APR 2021 C O N T E N T S THE CENTER SEAT ....................................................................................................... 3 John Troan COMPUTER OPERATIONS REPORT ........................................................................... 3 John Troan ENGINEERING REPORT ............................................................................................... 4 Brad McDonald STARFLEET BOOK REVIEW ........................................................................................ 5 William Simkiss ST:TOS – “ONLY THE GOOD” ...................................................................................... 6 Brad McDonald UPCOMING EVENTS ................................................................................................... 10 Volume 32 - Number 2 is a publication of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, the Raleigh, N.C., chapter of STARFLEET, an international STAR TREK fan organization. This publication is provided to all chapter members in good standing. Please address all correspondence to CATBIRD Publications, 5017 Glen Forest Dr., Raleigh, N.C. 27612. This publication is a non- profit enterprise and is not meant to infringe upon any copyright or trademark held by Paramount Pictures, Gulf & Western, or any other holder of STAR TREK copyrights or trademarks. Unless otherwise noted, ENTIRE CONTENTS ARE COPYRIGHT 2021 CATBIRD Publications, THE WRIGHT STUFF. Nothing in whole or in part may be used without the written permission of the publisher. THE WRIGHT STUFF assumes all material submitted for publication is gratis. The publisher and editors reserve the right to edit all submissions. Publisher ......................................... J.R. Fisher Editors ............................................. Elaine Pischke IMAGES - Title Banner John Troan Wright Flyer from NASA/Ames PAO photo archive; U.S.S. Kitty Hawk (USN CV-63) from navicp.navy.mil; Constitution class cruiser from gwu.edu/~rljones/khawk. IMAGE - Featured Front Page Celebrated each year on March 30, National Doctors' Day recognizes the contributions of physicians to individual lives and communities. At NASA, a number of our astronauts also have been physicians. NASA also has flight surgeons, who specialize in caring for our astronauts. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, was also a physi- cian and flew on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-47 mission in 1998. In this image from Jan. 1992, Jemison works at NASA's Kennedy Space Cen- ter. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/celebrating-nasas-astronaut-physicians THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 2 MAR / APR 2021 The Center Seat By John Troan Following the success of our virtual Anniversary to 2022 due to covid concerns. dinner at the end of January, we’re going to do another Second is that STARFLEET has now codified No virtual dinner – this time on April 17 at 6pm. Same as Bullying text into the STARFLEET Membership before, we’ll login to a Zoom meeting and just simply eat & Handbook’s section for Code of Conduct. Our handbook socialize together – no meeting agenda and not even a will copy that Code pretty much word-for-word (with proper suggested menu. attribution). The Kitty Hawk handbook is still in the works, but Finally, I’ve seen a few things mentioned recently the schedule is sliding a bit – which means there’s time for that those of us who have to take – or that I’ve asked to eager volunteers to pick up a section or subsection to take – the STARFLEET DPP exams will need to take a write. separate annual refresher (instead of the same exams It’s also been suggested that we look into the again). I’ll have more on this once it’s available. cheap rental of a movie theater for the group – after we’ve In a quick Regional update, the new domain is in all had our covid shots – and watch a (Trek) movie place – r1.sfi.org – and I’ve put in a place-holding web together. I’ve been given a contact that covers four page until we add more content. I’m also rebuilding all the different Triangle-area theaters, so there are possibilities. mail forwarders and mailing lists. In checking the STARFLEET database, it looks As we move into the summer and second half of like everyone with a March or April SFI renewal has had the year, please be on the lookout for volunteer their renewal requests processed. My apologies, again, opportunities that we can do after we’ve gotten for anyone that had a short notice and I’m going to try to vaccinated. I miss being able to get out and look forward watch a little better and give 60- and 30-day notices. to returning to our core mission of community service. Three other items from STARFLEET.... first is that the 2021 International Conference has been pushed back Esse Quam Videri and Stay Safe! Computer Operations Report By John Troan The next installment of our current narrative has been posted to our website. The rest of the installments will be posted monthly through June, and another narrative is planned to start with the July/August issue of the newsletter. The biggest NASA news since the last issue is the successful arrival and landing of Perseverance on the Mar- tian surface. Not long after landing, one of the main investi- gative instruments – the Mastcam-Z – turned in its panoram- ic view and it wasn't too much longer before Perseverance made its first motion across the Martian soil. In another first, we now have the first sounds recorded from the Mar- tian surface and another recording includes the first sounds of the rover’s movement. Not to be forgotten, the Juno probe in orbit around Jupiter has recently discovered what creates the dawn brightening of the gas giant’s auroral oval at each pole. For planned human missions, NASA has completed testing of an Ares I core stage of the SLS rocket. It looks like a shuttle-era external tank, but is bigger and has its own Perseverance snaps its first full color photo of Mars engines. THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 3 MAR / APR 2021 Engineering Report By Brad McDonald Lots to talk about, so let's get started. happen on schedule after all. Budget restraints, delays due to Scientists are giving one of our 'neighbors' a fair the Covid-19 virus and mismanagement from the former chance at harboring life. Alpha Centauri-a may be a life- administration have all led to delays. Studies are being supporting planet. It's located in the habitable zone of the star conducted to determine the actual problems and possible and is roughly the size of Neptune. That translates to about solutions. four to five times the size of Earth. Life forms may be The furthest object in our solar system has been somewhat different than those on Earth, but the chances are identified and is 140x Earth's orbit. It's a dwarf planet, only 250 good. miles in diameter and orbits in a very elliptical path, once every As part of the Apollo 14 mission, pilot Stuart Roosa 800 years. Until a more permanent name is chosen, it's being carried a selection of tree seeds. On board their command called Far Far Out. module called the Kitty Hawk (!) were hundreds of seeds for While we're talking about remote objects, an ongoing redwoods, long needle (loblolly) pine, douglas fir, sweet gum quest for planet X has come to a screeching halt. After and sycamore trees. Upon return to Earth, it was discovered reviewing all the existing data gathered so far, much of it was that the seed canister was compromised and the seeds were found to be unreliable. Because of this, the search has been thought to be dead. However, they did survive and were sent to put on hold. In fact, planet X may not actually exist after all! California and Mississippi to be germinated and 450 saplings Virgin Galactic has put off its next test flight another were eventually grown. The saplings were then sent to three months. The previous tests revealed numerous problems schools, universities, parks, government facilities and even from electromagnetic interference which led to computer Brazil. To locate the trees, NASA has set up a 'moon tree' page problems. The problem caused an engine ignition failure. That and every tree is listed. system was replaced, but more EMI issues were discovered Elon Musk has stated that the Starlink Satellite Internet during the February 13 flight and will take until May to Service will double speeds later this year to 300Mb/s and correct. Investors are disappointed as Virgin Galactic shares latency will drop to approximately 20ms. This will tie into the have fallen. However, the company has already sold 600 seats goal to reach most customers by the end of this year and and future plans call for two more space ports. Also, they are complete global coverage by next year. By the way, latency is building more ships and seem optimistic about their future. the delay of how much time it takes a signal to travel from If you wondered why the parachute on the location to location. The system is intended to serve low Perseverance rover was decorated with random patches of density population areas where internet service is limited. It's color, well, it wasn't random. It was encoded with a message estimated to cost $10 billion but profits could be as much as which was decoded by a number of 'fans.' The first three rings $30 billion. That translates to ten times the profits of his current read: Dare Mighty Things. Also encoded were the longitude rocket business. and latitude of the NASA Center. Included were drawings of Haley Arceneaux, from St. Francisville, La., was previous rovers, DNA, a rocket and a dinosaur. Items such as selected as one of four civilians who will be part of the those are referred to as festooning by NASA people.
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