After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
quote by Sally Ride
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
quote by Sally Ride
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The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
quote by John L. Phillips
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We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.
quote by Marc Garneau
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Sonnet: Atlantis, June 2007
Thank God, the Atlantis is back on earth,
With seven astronauts, all safe from space!
The touch-down though delayed did cause much mirth,
As space-shuttle glided on an air-base.
But what a feat, a woman had set up!
Sunitha Williams is a famous name;
One ninety five days in space-station, Yep!
Her new record has given her great fame!
Not only NASA but Indians are proud!
What stamina and nerves of steel, she had!
Her near and dear ones must have prayed aloud;
They made it though the weather was quite bad.
Their success is a feather in their caps;
’Tis time to slumber well and not take naps!
(Fondly dedicated to dear Sunitha Williams/6-23-2007)
poem by John Celes
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Fundamental of Liar Chapter LXXXII: Accident
It’s not a terrorist attack
It’s not a battle of war
It’s just an accident
It’s not natural disaster
It’s not global tragedy
It’s just an accident
It’s not a conspiracy theory
It’s not a character murder
It’s just an accident
It’s not a careless mistake
It’s not a wrong decision
It’s just an accident
It’s not a misfortune
It’s not a twisted fate
It’s just an accident
It’s not a planned piracy
It’s not a suicide party
It’s just an accident
It’s not a mechanical failure
It’s not a human error
It’s just an accident
It’s not a crash
It’s not a downfall
It’s just an accident
poem by Maria Sudibyo
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
quote by Sally Ride
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In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
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Primal Death
Space
Time
Space
Travel
Raining
Ai ming
Space
Time
Space
Expanding
Un iting
Increasing
Space
Time
Space
Sweeping
Restraining
Stretching
Space
Time
Space
Wrestling
Throwing
Throwi ng up
Space
Time
Space
Falling
Sinkin g
Overturning
Space
Time
Space
Whi rling
Space
Time
Space
Disturbing
Space
Time
Space
Whirring
Space
Ti me Space
Erring at
Nothing
poem by August Stramm
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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
quote by Christa McAuliffe
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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
quote by Christa McAuliffe
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A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
quote by Linda M. Godwin
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NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
quote by James Lovelock
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I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.
quote by Marc Garneau
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Your Right To Be Wrong
Wouldn’t it be great to never be wrong;
To always be right and go along
Knowing your opinions count more
Than any others that have gone before?
Alas, this won’t ever take place since
From wrong to right there’s a lot of space
Littered with wrongs, but along the way
Your proportions can improve everyday.
Everyday, that is, that you demand
Your right to be wrong and firmly stand
On the path only you have chosen to go
That’s right for you from wrongs you know.
poem by Gregory Huyette
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Reggae Accident
Reggae accident
By: lucas p. gravell
1993
-- spoken:
Okay now, get ready heres your part. now listen to me.
It was a reggae accident
I said a reggae accident
I cant here you
A reggae accident
A reggae accident
A reggae accident
Now make room for the band
A reggae accident
Here they come here they come
A reggae accident
I say make room for them
A reggae accident
Ha ha, look out now
It was a reggae accident
A reggae accident
This is not a political statement
Nor is it a farce
In the land of the great bald bird
The rasta man is sparse
He does not like our urban jungle
Or our capitalistic nightmare
He does not believe in auto insurance
Mon I dont believe that is fair
It was a reggae accident
Four rastas in a rambler
A reggae accident
They came from out of nowhere
A reggae accident
They were smoking some spliff cigars
A reggae accident
They totaled out my car
I lost the case that sealed my fate
Last week in municipal court
The judge ruled for rasta restitution
Of a most peculiar sort
Now theres four stoned faces at my dinner table
And my wife wonders how come
She does not mind the extra mouths to feed
As much as she minds those after dinner drums
We sing was a reggae accident
Four rastas eating pasta
A reggae accident
Pass the parmesan please
A reggae accident
How does a rasta spell relief
A reggae accident
No problem mon, pass the spliff
Oh reggae down...
Now the sun shines on the isle of jamaica
As its done since time began
No problem says the rasta mon
When I asked to join his band
You see I sold my house I quit my job
I left that narrow-minded wife
And I moved to the island of jamaica ya
Just to live that rasta life
It was a reggae accident
Four rastas in a rambler
A reggae accident
They came from out of nowhere
A reggae accident
They were smoking some spliff cigars
A reggae accident
Now Ive become a rasta star
It was a reggae accident
Look out world
A reggae accident
You know the harder they come
A reggae accident
The harder they fall one and all
A reggae accident
It was just an accident one day
A reggae accident
A reggae accident
A reggae accident
A reggae accident
-- spoken:
Come back, come back to jamaica
Come back to the way things used to be
Ya, ya lets play some dominoes now mon
Come on...
song performed by by Jimmy Buffett
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Alternative Pasts Futures
Apocalyptic horsemen Nibiru recurring cycle death
destruction earthquakes global volcanic eruptions
earth’s dwarf binary star 3600 year return pole shifts
Anunnaki wormwood what future really awaits us?
IRAS satellite December 30th 1983 Nibiru discovery
Nibiru planet of the crossing NASA’s chief scientist
announced NASA had discovered Planet X using
an Infra-red astronomical Satellite telescope IRAS
discovery reported in 6 daily newspapers but then
in 1984 NASA retracted the discovery tell me why?
Since May of 2003 all category 2 and 3 telescopes
in observatories were made unavailable to Joe public.
Category 4 scopes on a one to two year waiting list
put; to schedule time? 1600 BC Nibiru last passed
our sun timeframe of a Biblical record Noah's Flood?
NASA reports to NSA (National Security Agency) .
All NASA employees are under seal nondisclosure.
NASA, NSA, NSF (National Science Foundation)
and NRO (the top secret National Reconnaissance
Organization which puts telescopes in space) , closet
governmental agencies, are major funders of category
2 and 3 publically censored observatory programs.
The truth is out there inbound; how will our NASA
in March 2012 explain dawn birth of two earth suns?
Russian scientists 2000 held meetings state discussed
inbound planet discovered watched by observatories?
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Lost In Space
Columbia space shuttle
Lost in space
What was everyone’s dream it is shattered now
Because it was lost in space forever
What is the beginning it is now the end
Too many lives lost
Those lost in space can never be replaced by anyone
This dream is faded away in the blue sky
It all happened so closed to home
poem by Aldo Kraas
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The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.
quote by Robert Crippen
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Earthlight (sexual situations, microgravity)
Once upon an Earth lit night,
On NASA Moon base two,
I chanced to spy a cute Brunette –
A space Cadet named Yu.
Her eyes were dark and beautiful
Deep as a lunar mare-
And, free from bra and gravity-
her breasts beyond compare.
Love in Microgravity
Is a curious affair
She brought me to her snuggle tube
And she restrained me there.
She straddled on the launching pad
And docking was effected
And after a few awkward strokes
Our cadence was perfected.
The Moon Child that resulted
From our friendly first embrace
Forced Yu to have to shuttle back
to Earth from outer space.
It seems that Human embryos
Need gravity to grow.
Else their hearts would be too weak
Their reflexes too slow.
So, like Salmon, we go back
to where our mothers birthed.
Procreation’s problematic
beyond the bounds of Earth.
We named our daughter Luna
-Unoriginal, I know.
And now we’re out near Jupiter
getting busy on Io.
By John F. McCullagh
poem by John F. McCullagh
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The Take-Away
I'm not what you've sized me up to be inside your head
No way you could ever see me how I really am
Be careful what you say
Because some things never change
It's such a waste of time, but it's so strange
You're only right when something's wrong
You've tried to give me everything that I could never have
I thought that you were trying to improve upon yourself
Be careful what you say
Because some things never change
It's such a waste of time, but it's so strange
You're only right when something's wrong
Are you ready to do something about it?
Or is it already too late?
I've given up everything
It hasn't changed a single thing
Are you ready to do something about it?
Or will you take the easy way?
I can already see you start to disappear
The take-away
song performed by by Face To Face
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