Author Topic: NASSAC First Flight using DGII ready for launch June 27th (Read 12570 times)

John · 23 June 2003, 06:50:37

Hi Dan,

Just a short note to update you on our NASSAC program mission for June 26-28.. June 26 will be
the final traing day for the crew and mission control. All systems are go for a 8:22 launch from
Cape Canaveral on Friday June 27th. The flight plan calls for an RINC AN Normal (-) burn and two
other burns to adjust the orbit for ISS intercept at 12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time in the U.S. I
am taking four others on the flight and they all have duties to perform. Some will be watching the
life support systems. We are pumping compressed air into the cabin through a filer that will have
to be monitored. The pressures will also have to be moniroted and adjusted to maintain normal
atopheric presure readings. The flight surgeon will monitor the readouts from the DGII.

We ahve linked 8 other computers to the network with VMC and other kids will be monitoring the
flight and be in constant radio contact with the DGII. The mission control kids have a list of 25
questions that they must answer along the way using the telemetry information on their monitors.
They will also perfom some script commands to test the Telemetry ocntrol of DGII's main engines,
RCS engines, MFD and HUD screens. The kids are going to stay on board through the night, taking
shifts to watch the systems. We are doing this mission in real time. THe return is planned for June
28th at about 12:00 PM.

The kids are excited and love the DGII. I will make a full report after the mission and let you know
how things went. Thanks again for the DGII and your hard work to make it more realistic. I wish
you could share in this directly but I just did not have the time to work out the logistics. Send me
your mailing address in an E-Mail and I will mail you a video tape of the mission. We are recoding
everyting we can.

John Abent

DanSteph · Reply #1 - 24 June 2003, 23:46:46

Hello John,

That sound awesome, I hope all will be fine
don't forget to keep us updated about your flight.

About the video I can do better if your intterested,
I will work tomorrow to give you a space on my site
with a litle utilities to upload your video on it.

Once the video uploaded on my site you can than post here
and give the link to your video so everyone can watch them.
(and even the family of the child)

Howewer I'm affraid I cannot hold them for several month
(free space worry) but for some week there is no problem.

I'll keep you updated about this

Dan

John · Reply #2 - 29 June 2003, 02:42:05

Right on Dan,

The "Spirit I" mission was a complete success. The DGII glider performed perfectly. We lifted off at
exactly 8:22:30 AM from KFC and arrived at the ISS seven hours latter after making our RINC
correction burn and three transitional burns to the ISS. We spent a total of 28 hours in the DGII
and landed at the Cape at about 11:30 Saturday morning.
I know I told you before how much I appreciated your work, but I have to tell you that to a six
year old and three, nine year old boys the added realism made a BIG difference. When they saw
their names in the computer along with their vitals, they got the message, "failure is not an
option". And to all those that participated in the VMC part or the support program as well.
We had a little scare on our reentry when I had to shut down the computer because we were
overshooting the landing site. I let the nose down a little too much and the warning sound went
off concerning G- Forces when I recovered. Well, we had the families of these little guys watching
on close circuit TV the Rentry data Screen with full sound. They told me latter how real it was, and
how thye felt a moment of panic knowing their little ones were on board. All I can say Dan is that
you, along with Martin and others have done a great job and I look forward to taking many more
young dreamers into space for the first time.
We had many little addons like compressed air with gauges, Co2 filters that had to be changed, a
docking module that had to be pressurized and a window with a thick half rounded glass that
gave one the impression that they were looking down on earth. You will not believe the pictures
from that window. We also had a floating pen that floated once we reached orbit just to remind us
that in space things float.

Thanks for the free space to upload the Videos. We recorded the whole thing from beginning to
end. I will review the tapes on Monday and select some segments to send to you.

In the future, if I have my way, we are going to build a life size model of the DGII simulator. What
we are using now is only a proto type of things to come.

John Abent

canadave · Reply #3 - 30 June 2003, 17:55:41

Wow......

That sounds absolutely awesome. Speaking as a kid who never grew up, and always wanted to
do something like you described your kids doing but never got the chance, I hope you'll be able to
duplicate this type of mission for kids for years to come.

This also raises the point of being able to have emergencies crop up in the DG2. For instance, it
would've been interesting for the kids to have a sudden emergency at 3am---maybe not too
serious, but still something to wake them up a bit

How did you do the addons, John?

Good luck, and I can't wait to see the videos!!

Cheers,
Dave Klein

DanSteph · Reply #4 - 30 June 2003, 22:33:48

I could not say better than dave

Some care about the detail as the pen floating amazed me
you have done a great work John, I bet the child where happy.

I'm still looking to open a space for you john I have only 9mo
left on http (on 80 mo) but I have also 80 mo of FTP that are empty
(I must find a way to give you a personnalised access to upload
them)

Dan

John · Reply #5 - 30 June 2003, 22:46:04

Hi Dave,

The addons that I talked about in the simulator that we built are hands on. For the compressed air
I simply ran a compressed air line, into a regulator that the kids had to adjust to maintain 14.5
PSA. The main line runs into a tree with two pressure guages and three valves to adjust. I also
hooked up a low pressure vacuum gauge to act as the air lock indicator. The air lock had to be
pressurized before they could open it up and the vacuum gauge had to read a postive 1
atmosphere before they could unbolt the door and go into the airlock to take a look out the
window. The air lines ran into a filter (charcoal/fiber water filter) that the the kids had to change
before returning. The air is then pumped through clear 3/16 air lines to the ceiling of the simulator.
The hissing sound adds another realism factor for the senses. As for the floating pin, I simply
connected a threaded crank to a very slow moving motor, .15 rpm per minute. On the end of the
crank I attached a fender washer that would freely rotate on the shaft. I drilled a small hole on
the edge of the washer and ran very light fishing string from the washer to the floating ink pen. I
turn the motor on when we reach orbit and very slowly the pen begins to fall and rotate (from the
moving air) and the effect is quite convincing especially in low light. When the kids saw it they
were amazed. I then had them think about how it could be done. The window was a half round
theater lense from a spot light that slightly magnifies the image of the 19 inch monitor and gives it
depth. I am working on getting the pictures together.
I know how you feel about "always wanting to do something like that when you were a kid but
never got the chance", i can relate. Because that is partly why I did it for these young guys. As for
repeating it we plan on doing it many times over. The simulator is ready to go but we need to
work on getting the next team ready. I personnally found the entire mission a great challenge
from beginning to end. And when we touched down on the center line at KFC I fullfulled a
childhood dream. It was an awsome and great feeling of accomplishment. And the response from
those that watched it was overwelmingly positive as well. They also felt like they part of real
space flight.

John Abent

John · Reply #6 - 30 June 2003, 22:54:04

Hi Dan,

I will patiently watch for your provision so I can upload the videos and pics.

Thanks again

John

DanSteph · Reply #7 - 30 June 2003, 23:31:42

With your permission John I'll post
the image you sent to me.
(I also always dreamed about a simulator... the absolute
dream for me is a moving simulator in 3 axes)

Here the amazing Job John have done for the child camp.

DanSteph · Reply #8 - 01 July 2003, 16:16:12

John,

I have sent to you a mail with the parameter
to upload your video.

I have got a strange mail delivery error (550)
but the adress doesn't match the one I used
to write to you tell me if you didn't received my mail.

Dan

John · Reply #9 - 03 July 2003, 05:23:10

I got the E-mail Dan. I will be working on putting the videos together on Thursday and will begin
to upload later that night.

Thanks John

John · Reply #10 - 04 July 2003, 21:46:44

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edit from admin: Added in plain his adress so spammer robot will have fun grabing it:

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McBrain · Reply #12 - 19 April 2005, 22:00:52

wow, he's shrewd not to open a new thread but using an old one!

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Dan

Post Edited ( 04-19-05 22:32 )

DocHoliday · Reply #14 - 19 April 2005, 23:14:17

Quote

BOSS_realty wrote:
sendflowers@sendflowersukraine.com
With any luck he will send to himself somes ****

Good move Dan!

DanSteph · Reply #15 - 20 April 2005, 01:23:57

Sure

I was wondering why they posted those crap here... and finally found the answer: Google rank

In google you gain rank when a lot of site have link that point on yours..
So while removing the url and posting their e-mail we just piss them

Dan

Me · Reply #16 - 21 August 2005, 20:50:58

WHAT the hell (up one)?

canadave · Reply #17 - 26 August 2005, 21:41:53

her body's kinda nice, but her face looks like the back end of a rocket exhaust.

Atom · Reply #18 - 27 August 2005, 20:13:14

Would it be possible to get out of her clothing without a pair of scissors?

Edit : I'm not impyling that I want to, they just look rather difficult to get out of.

Post Edited ( 08-29-05 01:46 )

jgrillo2002 · Reply #19 - 29 August 2005, 00:45:14

This is considered spam. dan. please ban those people and remove their posts

Atom · Reply #20 - 29 August 2005, 01:14:25

Or Doc

Me · Reply #21 - 30 August 2005, 01:09:06

pretty funny though
It hasent happened many times thoug right?

Mauiman · Reply #22 - 07 January 2006, 20:54:26

John and DanSteph...

I had tried to look at these pictures that are in these links down below and below them

Quote

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/crew1.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/crew2.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/DSCF0061.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/Hatchga1.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/module1.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/team1.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph//team2.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/view1.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph//view2.jpg

ftp://ftp2.dansteph.com/dansteph/view3.jpg

And all I have got was this...

Note I have put the ("img] [/img") tags around them. I am sorry for the absence of some brackets.

DanSteph · Reply #23 - 07 January 2006, 22:07:52

??? where does those link come from ????

Dan

StarLost · Reply #24 - 09 January 2006, 02:58:17

Dan they came from a thread from "john" almost three years ago. This is a case that speaks for time expiring posts.

Mauiman, did you not look at the date of the thread when you bumped the topic? Usually if someone posts an image it might be
available for only a couple of weeks, a couple of months at the most.