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Archive-name: space/diff

DIFFS SINCE LAST FAQ POSTING (IN POSTING ORDER)

(These are hand-edited context diffs; do not attempt to use them to patch
old copies of the FAQ).

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diff -t -c -r1.21 FAQ.intro
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	      Online Archives
		  NASA Ames
		  NASA Astrophysics Data System
+		  NASA Directory of WAIS Servers
		  NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (Mission Information and Images)
		  NASA Langley (Technical Reports)
		  NASA Spacelink
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	      Astronomical Mnemonics

      6   Contacting NASA, ESA, and other space agencies/companies
!	      NASA Centers / Arianespace / ESA / NASDA / Soyuzkarta / Space
!		  Camp / Space Commerce Corporation / Spacehab / SPOT Image
	      Other commercial space businesses

      7   Space shuttle answers, launch schedules, TV coverage
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	      Astronomical Mnemonics

      6   Contacting NASA, ESA, and other space agencies/companies
!	      NASA Centers / Arianespace / CNES / ESA / NASDA / Soyuzkarta /
!		  Space Camp / Space Commerce Corporation / Spacehab /
!		  SPOT Image
	      Other commercial space businesses

      7   Space shuttle answers, launch schedules, TV coverage

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diff -t -c -r1.21 FAQ.data
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a13086	Sat Jul  3 15:34:12 1993
--- FAQ.data	Sat Jul  3 15:33:56 1993
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      sao-ftp.harvard.edu:pub/ads/ADS_User_Guide.

      Contact Carolyn Stern Grant (stern@cfa.harvard.edu).
+
+
+     NASA DIRECTORY OF WAIS SERVERS
+
+     A WAIS database describing servers of interest to the space community is
+     described by the source file:
+
+	  (:source
+	     :version  3
+	     :ip-name "ndadsb.gsfc.nasa.gov"
+	     :tcp-port 210
+	     :database-name "NASA-directory-of-servers"
+	     :cost 0.00
+	     :cost-unit :free
+	     :maintainer "stelar-info@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov"
+	     :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5.1 on May  5 14:05:34 1993 by warnock@Hypatia
+
+     Maintainers of WAIS databases of interest to the NASA community can
+     register their databases with the NASA-directory-of-servers by sending
+     the source file to stelar-info@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov. Contact Archie
+     Warnock (warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov).


      NASA JET PROPULSION LAB (MISSION INFORMATION AND IMAGES)

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diff -t -c -r1.21 FAQ.addresses
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a13101	Sat Jul  3 15:34:16 1993
--- FAQ.addresses	Sat Jul  3 15:33:55 1993
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      Washington, DC 20006
      (202)-728-9075

  EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE COMPANY (EOSAT)
      7500 Forbes Boulevard
!     Lanham, MD
!
  EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)
      955 L'Enfant Plaza S.W.
      Washington, D.C. 20024
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      Washington, DC 20006
      (202)-728-9075

+ CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES (CNES) [the French space agency]
+     2, place Maurice Quentin
+     F-75039 Paris Cedex 01, FRANCE
+     phone 33 (1) 45.08.75.00
+
  EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE COMPANY (EOSAT)
      7500 Forbes Boulevard
!     Lanham, MD 20706
!     (800)-344-9933 (Landsat Applications Group)
!     p
  EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)
      955 L'Enfant Plaza S.W.
      Washington, D.C. 20024
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  SPACE INDUSTRIES, INC.
      101 Courageous Dr.      711 W. Bay Area Blvd. #320
!     Leage City, TX 77573    Webster, TX 77598
      (713) 538-6000

      I'm not certain which of these two addresses is correct.
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  SPACE INDUSTRIES, INC.
      101 Courageous Dr.      711 W. Bay Area Blvd. #320
!     League City, TX 77573   Webster, TX 77598
      (713) 538-6000

      I'm not certain which of these two addresses is correct.

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diff -t -c -r1.21 FAQ.controversy
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a13121	Sat Jul  3 15:34:22 1993
--- FAQ.controversy	Sat Jul  3 15:33:56 1993
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      HOW THE CHALLENGER ASTRONAUTS DIED

!     The Challenger shuttle launch was not destroyed in an explosion. This is
!     a well-documented fact; see the Rogers Commission report, for example.
      What looked like an explosion was fuel burning after the external tank
!     came apart. The forces on the crew cabin were not sufficient to kill the
!     astronauts, never mind destroy their bodies, according to the Kerwin
!     team's medical/forensic report.

!     The astronauts were killed when the more-or-less intact cabin hit the
!     water at circa 200MPH, and their bodies then spent several weeks
!     underwater. Their remains were recovered, and after the Kerwin team
!     examined them, they were sent off to be buried.


      USING THE SHUTTLE BEYOND LOW EARTH ORBIT
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      HOW THE CHALLENGER ASTRONAUTS DIED

!     The Challenger shuttle was not destroyed in an explosion. This is a
!     well-documented fact; see the Rogers Commission report, for example.
      What looked like an explosion was fuel burning after the external tank
!     came apart.

!     The medical/forensic report by Joe Kerwin's team confirmed what was
!     already suspected for other reasons: at least some of the crew were not
!     only alive, but conscious, for at least a few seconds after the orbiter
!     broke up. The forces of the breakup were not violent enough for a high
!     probability of lethal injury, and some of the emergency-escape air packs
!     had been turned on manually.
!
!     However, unless the cabin held pressure -- which could not be determined
!     positively, but seems unlikely -- they almost certainly were unconscious
!     within seconds, and did not recover before water impact. They did not
!     have oxygen masks (the emergency-escape packs held air, not oxygen, for
!     use in pad emergencies) and the cabin apogee was circa 100,000ft.
!
!     The circa 200MPH water impact was most certainly violent enough to kill
!     them all. It smashed the cabin so badly that Kerwin's team could not
!     determine whether it had held pressure or not. Their bodies then spent
!     several weeks underwater. Their remains were recovered, and after the
!     Kerwin team examined them, they were sent off to be buried.
!
!     The Kerwin report was discussed in Aviation Week and other sources at
!     the time. World Spaceflight News printed the full text.


      USING THE SHUTTLE BEYOND LOW EARTH ORBIT

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diff -t -c -r1.21 FAQ.groups
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a13126	Sat Jul  3 15:34:24 1993
--- FAQ.groups	Sat Jul  3 15:33:57 1993
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	  Washington, DC 20044
	  (301)-589-6062

!     ASERA - Australian Space Engineering and Research Association. An
	  Australian non-profit organisation to coordinate, promote, and
	  conduct space R&D projects in Australia, involving both Australian
	  and international (primarily university) collaborators. Activities
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	  Washington, DC 20044
	  (301)-589-6062

!     ASRI (Australian Space Research Institute Ltd, formerly ASERA). An
	  Australian non-profit organisation to coordinate, promote, and
	  conduct space R&D projects in Australia, involving both Australian
	  and international (primarily university) collaborators. Activities
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	  of the annual space development conference. Associated with
	  Spacecause and Spacepac, political lobbying organizations.

!	  Membership $18 (youth/senior) $35 (regular).

	  National Space Society
	  Membership Department
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	  of the annual space development conference. Associated with
	  Spacecause and Spacepac, political lobbying organizations.

!	  Membership $20 (youth/senior) $35 (regular).

	  National Space Society
	  Membership Department
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	  65 North Catalina Avenue
	  Pasadena, CA 91106

!	  Membership $35/year.

      SSI - the Space Studies Institute, founded by Dr. Gerard O'Neill.
	  Physicist Freeman Dyson took over the Presidency of SSI after
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	  65 North Catalina Avenue
	  Pasadena, CA 91106

!	  Membership $35/year (ask about the unadvertised student rate).

      SSI - the Space Studies Institute, founded by Dr. Gerard O'Neill.
	  Physicist Freeman Dyson took over the Presidency of SSI after
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	  Space News
	  Springfield VA 22159-0500
	  (703)-642-7330
!	  $75/year, may have discounts for NSS/SSI members

      Journal of the Astronautical Sciences and Space Times - publications of
	  the American Astronautical Society. No details.
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	  Space News
	  Springfield VA 22159-0500
	  (703)-642-7330
!	  $75/year, student rate ~$49. May have discounts for NSS/SSI members

      Journal of the Astronautical Sciences and Space Times - publications of
	  the American Astronautical Society. No details.