#OV-102

[lonestarflight]

Reference guide of all the external changes made to the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia (OV-102) during her lifetime.

Missions: STS-1, STS-2, STS-3, STS-4, STS-5, STS-9, STS-61-C, STS-61C, STS-24, STS-28, STS-32, STS-35, STS-40, STS-50, STS-52, STS-55, STS-58, STS-62, STS-65, STS-73, STS-75, STS-78, STS-80, STS-83, STS-94, STS-87, STS-90, STS-93, STS-109, STS-107

Date: 1981-2003

Documents by Alfonso X Moreno: link

#Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Columbia #Columbia #OV-102 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #reference guide #April #1981 #2003 #my post

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Orbiter Columbia OV-102 had a unique external feature the "SILTS" pod (Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing), it was located on the top of her vertical stabilizer. It was installed after STS-9 (1984) to acquire infrared and other thermal data on the vehicle’s environment. The instruments were removed after several missions but the pod remained.

#Space Shuttle #Columbia #spaceflight #infrared

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How many blocks and items would be added in the Valley of Plenty mod? I'm interested to see how much it might (and might not) change.

So! Each Version ov Valley of Plenty past 1.0 will be themed around an "Update" to the game, and thus add a good amount ov new content. For 1.0, however, its basically my own Wild update / Overworld update, making a quick pass over preddy much every biome in the Overworld. This includes new stone types, new flower placement, etc. Not many new items at first though!

As far as blocks, by my count it's ummmmm. Around 258 so far! I still have quite a bit ov stuff to get ported over though, & the question ov "do I drop the new Secondary stones now or do I wait til a future update?" I'm thinking I'll wait til a future update though tbh, maybe even slow release them through updates.

Additionally, I've already got 102 blocks programmed in that will only be accessible through the creative inventory / commands, a sort ov "ghost drop" for the 1.1 Desert update. Think ov them like experimental snapshot features.

Valley of Plenty is a Vanilla+ mod though, so hopefully more than anything it'll feel like, yknow, new updates to the game! Not too heavy on changes, but the ones I am making I hope will feel natural- like, as mentioned, new flower placement: I want to make it so that all flowers can be placed like the Pink Petals are placed.

#minecraft #mc #mod development #valley of plenty

[loveydive]

i just finished reading giovanni’s room and i am curious about the immense amount of ‘room’ imagery in the novel. i mean duh, a novel called ‘giovanni’s room’ is going to use that analogy. but ive seen people interpret giovanni’s room as soooo many things but none of them felt satisfying enough for me.

ive seen ppl call it a physical cage for davids idea of masculinity, or a place of freedom and love where david can love who he loves away from society’s expectations, or a toxic and claustrophobic place that forced him to stay in the closet. but i feel like the room can be all of these at once. in my eyes, the room analogy is amorphous and its meaning changes throughout the story because my take on it is that giovanni’s room is giovanni.

when david first sees the room, he remarks that it is organised by ‘punishment and grief’ (p. 78). and he thinks that his role is to ‘destroy this room and give Giovanni a new and better life. This life could only be my own, which, in order to transform Giovanni’s, must first become a part of Giovanni’s room.’ (p. 78). the implication is clear - he must become a part of giovanni’s life and to destroy the grief that wracks giovanni and give him a better life.

but its important to highlight that giovanni never saw his room like david did. because when david asks him why he has buried himself in ‘that hideous room’ (p. 104), giovanni doesn’t agree with him. he rebutes:

‘The world is full of rooms - big rooms, little rooms, round rooms, square ones, rooms high up, rooms low down - all kinds of rooms! What kind of room do you think Giovanni should be living in? How long do you think it took me to find the room I have? And since when, since when’ - he stopped and beat with his forefinger on my chest - ‘have you so hated the room? Since when? Since yesterday, since always? Dis-mois.’ (p. 104)

if you consider that the idea that giovanni’s room is giovanni, this conversation is essentially david calling giovanni hideous and giovanni having to justify his existence, his humanity to him. giovanni simply lives in that room, he never thought of it as stinking or dirty like david did. because unlike david, giovanni ‘is not afraid of the stink of love’ (p. 125), to him this is simply the reality of love and being human. and when he asks david when he has started to hate the room, it prompts the reader to question of when he has started to hate giovanni himself.

this discovery is all the more heartbreaking when giovanni says this monologue when reuniting with david after hella’s return:

‘Sometimes you were here all day long and you read or you opened the window or you cooked something - and I watched you - and you never said anything - and you looked at me with such eyes, as though you did not see me. All day, while I worked to make this room for you.’ (p. 121-2).

and yes i did cry at the bolded section. it just reminded me of the man called ove and how in that novel love was shown so much through building. how ove builds a ramp for wife so she can go to work, builds all the tables in their houses lower for her, builds bookcases after bookcases. and thats what giovanni was doing for david. he was working to make that room for him. to make himself for david. and when he lost his job, he found other ways to show his love for david through the room and david knows this:

He had some weird idea that it would be nice to have a bookcase sunk in the wall and he chipped though the wall until he came to the brick and began pounding away at the brick. It was hard work, it was insane work, but I did not have the energy or the heart to stop him. In a way he was doing it for me, to prove his love for me. He wanted me to stay in the room with him. Perhaps he was trying, with his own strength, to push back the encroaching walls, without, however, having the walls fall down. (p. 102)

the room where these two have spent so many hours in had begun to feel smaller when they were struggling with money. giovanni recognises the desperation of the whole situation - that he has nothing to offer david anymore. he has no job, he is no longer entertaining enough to pique davids interest, and davids fiancee is coming back. the room has become smaller and boring - he has become small and boring. so when he begins pounding at the brick wall, it was as if he was trying desperately to change himself so that david would stay with him.

but david doesnt. when david first kisses hella upon their reunion he describes her as a ‘familiar, darkened room’ (p. 108), almost as if he is imagining kissing giovanni instead. but when she makes up her mind and they agree to marry, when they make love, he describes her as a ‘strong, walled city’ (p. 110) - david has already learnt to forget giovanni. because no matter how hard he tried, giovanni’s life was so much smaller than hella’s, he could never hope to compete. hella is a city, giovanni is just a room.

and when giovanni was caught, he was caught ‘no farther than the Seine’ (p. 135). giovanni never even left paris even though he knew he would be arrested. he remained there where david had left him - like a house; like a room.

the room was never just a room - the room is him; he is the room. and he could not make himself into a city for david as much as he wanted to try.

#cin.txt #giovanni's room #james baldwin #dk if this makes compelte sense #but i was thinking about it SOOOOO MUCH at work #theres still so much in ths book to analyse #like the use of mirrors and windows #masculinity and feminity #the idea of feeling free by being committed #but this was the thing that was the most on my mind #and i just wanted to write it down SOMEWHERE so i could make my thoughts makesense #oh and the theme of shame #baldwin says that the work isnt inherently homosexual; that is abt being unable to love someone #which i agree #but i find that the shame that david feels in being unable to love someone #and the almost disgust he feels in inherently gay in nature #just because of how society has constructed gay romantic love to be sinful and disgusting

[skull001]

Finished watching all 8 available episodes of Sonic Prime.

Out of all the characters presentes so far, Rusty Rose (the Amy version of New Yolk that is ruled by the Eggmen) is one that intrigues me for how her story will be resolved, as none of the other characters - not even Tails - were left in that kind of messed up situation: she's a cyborg, still has organic parts, but her body is mostly made of prosthetic parts, she has no will of her own (yet)... and to top it all, to keep her alive, a flicky is inside her, serving as an organic battery.

In short, she was turned into something not so different from E-102 Gamma, which might be an interesting twist.

One aspect I do like, in terms ov the action, is that she has proven to be a formidable adversary to not just Sonic, but also powerhouses like Knuckles and Rouge, having fought them simultaneously whichbsays just how strong she is... in fact, minus Black Rose, Rust Rose and Thorn Rose have been pretty OP. On that I'm satisfied.

However, one part I'm not is Sonic not showing any guilt for Rusty's situation, because being fair, she IS his fault. I like that Sonic on the 8th episode was willing to fight her without considerations because he knows she is tremendously strong, but at the same time, I feel that had Tails been in Rusty's place, he would express the kind of sentiments he so far hasn't for this version of Amy... almost as if he was caught in the idea of defeating someone he forgets is one of his friend... the one who took the worst part when the universe shattered.

Somehow, I get the feeling that Sonic will not be the one to save Rusty, but rather, it will be the other versions of Amy. She already started to have a reaction upon seeing one of her alternate selfs, something not done for any of the other characters.

Then again, they did mention Amy would be an important character in the show, and since she is my favorite character since forever, I expect a good resolution for her.

#Sonic Prime #Amy Rose

[spacenutspod]

On March 24, 1979, space shuttle Columbia arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the very first time. Following Presidential direction to build the space shuttle in 1972, Congress quickly approved and funded the program later that year. Construction of the first orbital vehicle, later named Columbia, began in 1975. Four years later, Columbia completed its first transcontinental flight, arriving at KSC to begin preparations for its first mission. The first shuttle flight in April 1981 ushered in an era of reusable space transportation. Left: NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher, left, presents a model of the space shuttle to President Richard M. Nixon in January 1972. Right: Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young, left, and Charles M. Duke on the Moon in April 1972. On Jan. 5, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon directed NASA to build the space shuttle, formally called the Space Transportation System (STS), stating that “it would revolutionize transportation into near space.” NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher hailed the President’s decision as “an historic step in the nation’s space program,” adding that it would change what humans can accomplish in space. Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke learned of the space shuttle’s approval while exploring the Moon in April 1972. Mission Control informed them that Congress had authorized the development of the space shuttle. Young and Duke both enthusiastically responded to the positive news with “Beautiful! Wonderful! Beautiful!” Young added with some foresight, “The country needs that shuttle mighty bad. You’ll see.” He had no way of knowing that nine years later, he would command the first ship of the space shuttle fleet, Columbia, on its maiden voyage. Left: Columbia’s crew compartment during assembly in 1976. Middle: Columbia’s aft fuselage and wings during assembly in November 1977. Right: Columbia just prior to rollout from Rockwell’s plant in Palmdale in March 1979. Once Congress authorized the funds, on July 26, 1972, NASA awarded the contract to the North American Rockwell Corporation of Downey, California, to begin construction of the first orbital vehicle. Officially known as Orbital Vehicle-102 (OV-102), in January 1979 NASA named it Columbia after Captain Robert Gary’s sloop that explored the Pacific Northwest in the 1790s and took the honor as the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe, as well as after the Apollo 11 Command Module. Construction of Columbia’s first components at Rockwell’s Palmdale, California, plant began on March 25, 1975. Left: Workers roll Columbia out from its hangar at Rockwell’s Palmdale, California, plant. Middle: Workers transport Columbia from Rockwell’s Palmdale facility to NASA’s Dryden, now Armstrong, Flight Research Center. Right: Columbia atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft takes off from Dryden to begin the cross-country ferry flight.  Nearly four years later, on March 8, 1979, Columbia rolled out of the Palmdale facility to begin its multi-day transcontinental journey to KSC. For the first step of the journey, workers towed Columbia from Palmdale overland to NASA’s Dryden, now Armstrong, Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) 36 miles away. Two days later, workers there hoisted Columbia onto the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a Boeing 747 aircraft modified to transport space shuttle orbiters. During a test flight, thousands of the orbiter’s thermal protection system tiles fell off. Workers returned Columbia to a hangar where over 100 men and women worked for nine days reapplying the tiles. Weather then delayed Columbia’s departure until March 20, when the SCA/shuttle duo flew from Dryden to Biggs AFB in El Paso, Texas. Left: Space shuttle Columbia atop its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) touches down at Kelly Air Force Base (AFB) in San Antonio for an overnight stop. Middle: Head on view of Columbia atop the SCA. Right: Tina Aguilar, age nine, an aspiring young reporter, interviews astronaut Donald K. “Deke” Slayton in front of Columbia and the SCA at Kelly AFB. Weather delayed Columbia’s departure for the planned refueling stop at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, until the next day. About 200,000 people went to view the shuttle during its overnight layover in San Antonio prior to its departure on March 23. Left: The past meets the future, as space shuttle Columbia atop its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) flies over the Saturn V display at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Middle: Columbia atop the SCA touches down at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), with the Vehicle Assembly Building visible in the background. Right: At the SLF, NASA Administrator Robert A. Frosch addresses the crowd assembled to welcome Columbia to KSC, as other dignitaries listen. After another overnight stop at Eglin AFB in Florida, Columbia atop the SCA touched down at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) on March 24, a crowd of about 3,000 cheering its arrival. Dignitaries in attendance at a brief welcoming ceremony at the SLF included NASA Administrator Robert A. Frosch, KSC Director Lee R. Scherer, SCA pilots Joseph S. Algranti and Fitzhugh L. Fulton, program manager for Shuttle Flight Test Operations NASA astronaut Donald K. “Deke” Slayton, and astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen, designated as the commander and pilot for STS-1, the first space shuttle mission. Also in attendance, U.S. Congressman C. William “Bill” Nelson whose district included KSC and now serves as NASA’s 14th administrator, and Florida Lieutenant Governor J. Wayne Mixson. Left: Columbia in the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Middle: Workers hoist Columbia in KSC’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for mating with its external tank and solid rocket boosters. Right: Columbia rolls out of the VAB on its way to Launch Pad 39A. The next day, after removing Columbia from the back of the SCA, workers towed it into the Orbiter Processing Facility, where the orbiter spent the next 19 months preparing for its first flight. Rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for mating with its External Tank and the two Solid Rocket Boosters took place Nov. 24, 1980. After a series of integrated tests, the shuttle stack rolled out of the VAB and made the 3.5-mile trip to Launch Pad 39A on Dec. 29, 1980. Young and Crippen flew Columbia’s historic first mission, STS-1, in April 1981, ushering in an era of reusable space transportation. Share Details Last Updated Mar 21, 2024 Related TermsNASA HistorySpace Shuttle Explore More 21 min read 55 Years Ago: Four Months Until the Moon Landing Article 1 day ago 11 min read 20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other Postcards of Home Article 2 weeks ago 4 min read More Planets than Stars: Kepler’s Legacy Article 2 weeks ago

#space #astronomy #news #science

[goalhofer]

2023 In Memoriam Part 36

Prof. Eugenio Calabi, 100

David McCallum, 90

Archbishop Stanislaw Szymecki, 99

Brooks Robinson; Jr., 86

Sandra Dorsey, 83

Teri Hope, 85

Hifzi Topuz, 100

Bishop Slobodan Štambuk, 82

Sir Michael Gambon, 82

Donna Becker, 91

Sabina Citron, 95

MSgt. Hezekiah Clark; Jr., 86

Ed Fancher, 100

Ted Bachman; Jr., 72

Glenn Bujnoch, 69

Viliami Moala, 30

Bob Priddy, 83

Sycamore Gap Tree, 300

Mayra Copas, 28

Maurice Racca, 100

Kurt Schumacher, 70

Archbishop Eurico Dos Santos Veloso, 90

Chris Snow, 42

Thomas Danneberg, 81

Ron East, 80

Galip Haktanir, 102

Ove Johansson, 75

Tim Wakefield, 57

Russ Francis, 70

George Reed; Jr., 83

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Dnevni podsetnik za dobre vibracije 11 Oktobar

🍁 Sreda, dan Merkura 🍁 284 dan ove 2023 godine 81 dana do početka 2024 3 dana do delimičnog Pomračenja Sunca 18 dan (od 30) Sunca u Vagi 7 dan (od 17) Merkura u Vagi 3 dan (od 30) Venere u Devici 1 dan do Marsa u znaku Škorpije 36 (od 117) dan retro-hoda Jupitera 114 (od 139) dan retro-hoda Saturna 44 (od 151) dan retro-hoda Urana 102 (od 158) dan retro-hoda Neptuna 203 dana do…

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#2023 #Dnevni horoskop #Dnevni podsetnik #Dobre vibracije #Oktobar #Sreda

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#Leonora Tindall on Nora Codes

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[lonestarflight]

STS-1: mating Columbia with the External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters

"Workers grappled Columbia with a crane and lifted it from the transfer aisle, hoisting it more than 190 feet in the air to transfer it to High Bay 3 before lowering again to join it to the already assembled ET and SRBs.

By early Nov. 26, workers completed all the connections to Columbia as engineers activated the orbiter to prepare the assembled vehicle for a series of tests. As part of the two-week shuttle interface test, on Dec. 4, engineers powered up the entire stack for the first time. Additional tests ensured that all systems operated as expected in the overall vehicle and ground systems."

Date: November 25, 1980

Space Shuttle Columbia preparing for completed assembly. 1980-11-24. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 26 Jun. 2023.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/8707>

NASA ID: KSC-80P-0284, 0523-80PC-618, 0534-80PC-0557, link, KSC-80P-0282, KSC-80PC-0558, S80-42883, KSC-80P-0292, S80-42881

#STS-1 #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Columbia #Columbia #OV-102 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #stacking #Vehicle Assembly Building #VAB #Kennedy Space Center #KSC #Florida #November #1980 #my post

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Interior Fit-Out Trends in Dubai: Bring Life to Your Workspace

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Bečki klimatski tim – inovativan pristup građanskoj participaciji

Da glavni grad Austrije veliku važnost pridaje borbi protiv klimatskih promjena, svjedoči i inovativan projekt koji je pokrenut prošle godine. Tada je na inicijativu člana bečkog gradskog poglavarstva za zaštitu okoliša Jürgena Czernohorszkog osnovan Bečki klimatski tim čiji je cilj okupljanje gradskih institucija i građana kako bi zajedničkim snagama dali svoj doprinos borbi protiv globalnog zatopljenja. Protekle su godine odabrana tri od ukupno 23 bečka okruga čiji su stanovnici mogli iznijeti svoje prijedloge mjera za borbu protiv klimatskih promjena, između ostaloga online putem ili poštom. U svrhu informiranja stanovnika održano je oko 40 predavanja, događanja i javnih rasprava.   Odaziv građana iz okruga Margareten, Simmering i Ottakring nadmašio je očekivanja. Zaprimljeno je čak 1.100 prijedloga, a stručno povjerenstvo koje ih je pregledalo proglasilo je 283 prijedloga izvedivim. Zatim je uslijedila faza zajedničkog rada na projektima u radionicama u kojima su sudjelovali stručnjaci iz Grada, tvorci ideja i drugi zainteresirani građani. Ta je faza rezultirala prvim nacrtima projekata, a naposljetku su nastala 102 nacrta. Posljednji korak u procesu bilo je odobrenje žirija koji čine stanovnici. Navedena tri okruga odlučila su se za ukupno 19 projekata u području zaštite klime koje će gradske vlasti provoditi u narednim godinama počevši od 2023.   Nakon izuzetno uspješnog početka projekt će se ove godine proširiti na tri nova okruga – Mariahilf, Währing i Floridsdorf te će stanovnici tih okruga moći poslati svoje ideje kojima žele poboljšati klimu u vlastitoj četvrti.   Inovativan pristup Bečkog klimatskog tima građanskoj participaciji i procesu odobrenja projekata pokazao se vrlo uspješnim. Tako su građani bili izravno uključeni u politički proces, radeći s predstavnicima gradske uprave na realizaciji novih ideja. Grad Beč predvidio je proračun od oko šest milijuna eura za ovaj projekt za 2023. Osim toga ove će godine stručnjaci provesti i procjenu kako bi projekt po potrebi prilagodili za novu fazu koja bi trebala započeti 2024. godine. Eurocomm PR Read the full article

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Homenaje al Columbia

Homenaje a Colombia Esta es una versión imprimible del tributo al orbitador del transbordador espacial Columbia, o OV-102, que cuelga en la sala de tiro 4 del Centro de Control de Lanzamiento en el Centro Espacial Kennedy de la NASA en Florida.  El tributo presenta a Columbia, el “primero de la flota”, elevándose sobre la Tierra en los albores del Programa del transbordador espacial.  Los…

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