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Maybe You'll Have CoffeeWhen you walk across campus, you're always in a hurry. You don't stop to notice individuals, because you just don't have time for that kind of empathy. You're busy. You have a life, unlike the rest of them, who just go along with the flow and dress how it's expected and turn in the mediocre for their average scores. You are a creative mind. A flowering vine among daisies; you are held back by the trellis society uses to cage you, to shape you. You dream in color.Maybe You'll Have Coffee3 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
But today, you're awake and you look at the people as you wonder why they waddle along in their homogenous stereotypes. You're not sure how they somehow pass for a diverse group when combined. Diversity, what a joke, when they only try to fit into a mold pre-made for them.
What is this? They all seem to be in color today. It's almost like they're unique, kind of how you are. They're real people, today, not simply mannequins catering to society's whims.
The guy y
My Parents"Oh, darling, you are soMy Parents3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
beautifully boring and conservative"
"And you, love, are so wonderfully
prickly, closed-minded and strict. I think
that we should ride off into the sunset
(but not too noisily
and not if it's after curfew)
while respecting local speed limits
in a fuel-efficient minivan
painted a lovely shade of grey"
"Oh yes, darling, I agree
and I think we should get married
in a respectable Catholic church
and have 2 children
(whom we will dutifully mould into our values)
and have a financially feasible life together."
"Oh, love, our life will be so
magically mediocre
it's just what I've always wanted."
YouI miss youYou3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
and if God had had only
a few minutes to create the Earth
I hope
he'd still have planted flowers.
DriftingSometimes we just don'tDrifting2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
wake up soon enough
and we're left dreaming
by ourselves
with no one to shake us,
and when we do awaken
everyone is gone
and we're alone and empty,
wondering what we did wrong
and if it's too late to fix it.
And we scramble to our feet
like confused animals
and call out for help,
but all we hear in return
are echoes—
echoes and a voice inside
our heads saying, "You blew
it. You blew it and there's
no going back."
And we wonder if we should
even try anymore;
we wonder if maybe we should
just lie back down,
say "Oh well, I tried"
and drift off.
And maybe that was the plan
for us all along—maybe
we were never meant
to stay awake;
maybe we woke up for
a short moment only to learn
that this world
needs dreamers.
One Thousand ContestWe mentioned recently that we would be planning a contest to celebrate reaching one thousand members, and starting now, the contest begins!One Thousand Contest3 years ago in Personal More Like This
The theme is simply 1000. Your story must center around the idea of one thousand of something, be it years, coins, or members of an army. Just be sure that whatever it is is the focus of the story, not just a vague mention.
You must also not exceed one thousand words.
General group rules still apply.
The idea of one thousand of something must be the focus.
Entries must be literature.
Entries must be all your own work.
New works only.
Only members may enter.
One entry per member.
Word limit: 1000 words.
Judging Criteria
Written Quality.
[Bullet; Red]On Theme.
(Meaning that all members, including all admins, can join.)
[Bullet; Red]1st Place:
-One year premium membership.
-1000 points.
MessageOn theMessage2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
tear-stained pillow
I once cried my prayers
into, I found a note:
I'm sorry.
- God
Bastard Sons of GodThe bar is small with a huge mirror behind the front counter that reflects the sunlight pouring in through the windows. Cameron and Mikey sit next to each other on bar stools at the front counter, drinking Adios Motherfuckers. For a long moment no words are passed between them, but then Mikey breaks the silence. "Don't worry, man," he says, clapping Cameron on the back. "You'll find someone else."Bastard Sons of God2 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
"I don't want to," Cameron replies.
"That's what everyone says, and then it happens—you meet someone, you hit it off, the feelings come back, and then bam, you're back to square one. Relationship status: taken. And everything's cool."
Cameron looks down into his half-gone Adios Motherfucker. "She was different."
"They're all different. Listen, when I lost Kim, I lost my goddamn mind. She was my whole world, man. I thought she was my soul mate. I didn't know how the he
Think About MeBecause it's late at night when he returns home and he's tired and the home is empty. Because he turns lights on and tosses his keys on the table and checks the post on the floor and sighs. Because he cracks open a beer and sits on the sofa and turns on the TV and the lights are low. Because his apartment is empty and the volume is low and the beer is cold and the apartment is empty. Because his home is devoid of his lover's smile and soft laughter and tender warmth. Because he misses him like they'll never see him again and there's a soft ache in his heart as he looks the calendar and the date stares back at him accusingly. Because it's the 26th of July and he is alone. He leans back and looks out at the city and the sky is dark and the city lights twinkle back at him. He closes his eyes and leans back against the leather of the sofa, beer cold in his hands, and allow his mind to drift back to his lover. His smile and his laughter and his soft lips and calloused hands and his gentle pThink About Me3 years ago in Romance More Like This
From a Great HeightConfused, I satFrom a Great Height2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
on the edge of my mind
and asked, why
do we feel like dying
when the only solution
is life?
Untitledhere you go,Untitled3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
spitting between life's eyes
and claiming yourself blind.
-- the affliction of disenchanted escapists
who major in suspension of disbelief
and get lost when the wool unravels and
the costumes and skins
slip off.
now sordid lips
tired tongues.
sometimes i don't know
if i have forgotten how to write
or if its only that
i have nothing to say--
i am an amnesiac.
{and i always want to pick up dead things}
losing instinct
with reality taming,
and eating inspiration
demurely, after all,
who could be ravenous
{-tell me my words aren't just jumping off your spindly ears like they're highrise buildings and hoping to kiss concrete}
- hope makes martyrs of us.
What IfA dying man onceWhat If3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern More Like This
said "Sometimes it's better to
be sorry than safe."
I never wiped your eyesI was never worthI never wiped your eyes3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern More Like This
your tears, but I love that you
shed them anyway
CompassWhen all that I breathe forCompass3 years ago in Concrete Poetry More Like This
Is sitting by the shadowed door,
Languidly smoking and long deceased -
I will take a pen with me,
And I will travel east.
When all that I sing for
Is locked away in a bedside drawer,
Gathering more dust than putting forth -
I will wake my sleeping voice,
And I will travel north.
When all that I love for
Is drowning in the cruel mind's war,
Poisoned with reason and black from the mouth -
I will pick up the pieces of me,
And I will travel south.
When all that I dream for
Is stranded on some distant shore,
With ragged, shallow breathing at best -
I will pack a faith with me,
And I will travel west.
When all that I live for
Is hanging from an old trunk's core
Blood gushing from the spirit's cup -
I will give a soul its wings,
And I will travel up.
Silence is Not a SolutionThe administration has instructed my teachers to chastise anyone speaking about the murders. like they never happened... like people don't kill other people, or that there is drugs and violence or over 33 suicides of people 13-21 every day in America, that someone didn't and would never try to harm someone else... Well it must be news to them that THIS DID MOTHER FUCKING HAPPEN and that we can be big boys and girls and already know that DEATH HAPPENS. 2 kids being murdered within a month of each other isn't something new. I'm not saying that we should freak out but pretending it didn't happen is the opposite of a solution. These two boys may have been killed for petty reasons but that doesn't mean they led petty lives.Silence is Not a Solution3 years ago in Emotional More Like This
They need to be remembered for the people who Loved them, the ones that care for them, the ones that can sit there and say, "I remember this one time when...". These people need the support of there friends and they need to talk. I know because I've been th
The Petals OnlyAnother late nightThe Petals Only3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
sober, without conviction.
Not loveless, not
a cat in the road,
not even moss on the doorstep.
The heat shimmer is bawdy
and the kids go to sleep
early for a reason.
It's just like
when you find out
you weren't born special.
When you find out
the pretty ones do
have petals on their beds.
Stepping on the sheets.
It's the pin-prick stars
that are sick of waiting
for us.
It's telling the clouds
what they look like.
Grab a handful of a dirt
with your back to the grass,
and choose which finger
to point at the sky.
up in flamesyou sulkup in flames3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
your back turned
toward me
eyes strewn around the room
flexing your fingers
open and
you say
i've forgotten
how to makes amends,
"flirtatious or unfriendly,
afraid of intimacy
and other things that smell like
furling smoke
charred houses
but sometimes you run and
the fire is behind you
until you turn back and say
it's okay, baby.
it's okay."
Summer ContestUPDATE: Submissions to the contest are now closed. Watch for an announcement on the results.Summer Contest3 years ago in Deviant Events More Like This
The Prompt
Use an object to connect the lives of two or more otherwise unrelated characters.
Contest Begins on June 1st, 2012.
Contest Ends on August 1st, 2012 at 11:59pm Pacific Time
The Rules
All entries must be Literature. Prose, Poetry, and Scripts are accepted. No visual poetry; concrete is allowed.
All entries must be written specifically for this contest, uploaded to dA on or after June 1st, 2012.
All entries must include a link to this contest journal in the artist's comment of the deviation.
All entries must adhere to deviantART's Submissions Policy and Etiquette Policy.
Anyone who is not judging may enter the contest, including DLD st
So ething issingy Dear,So ething issing3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
aybe you do s ell like cigarettes
(and- what was the other thing?)
and aybe you do not
but I don't ind either way
and I don't have a good topic
for conversation
and I don't know
what you eant
when you said
"As you wish. Goodnight..."
but I do love when you say
"Love, it's okay
we're here and it's now
so, stretch out and wait..."
And I feel very uch like
I' standing on a precipice
watching y whole world fall to pieces
Last night I scoured y bedroom
and I swore I would find yself
but I had no success
Yet I hope
that when y world finally
decides to reconstruct itself
that it will still have you in it
Because, like the thirteenth letter
of the alphabet
o itted from a typewriter
the essage still is not complete
the eaning isn't quite clear
I' not yself without you.
There's so ething issing.
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Richard Bushman is a highly respected historian who probably understands the beginnings of Mormonism as well as or better than anyone else. Besides being the co-general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers, he chairs the board of directors of the Mormon Scholars Foundation. He knows early church history.
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I know that I'm just one of thousands of LDS members who have a website where they share their beliefs and testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I like to think that I'm not much different from your average Mormon.
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In the priesthood session of the April 2003 General Conference, President Hinckley delivered a landmark address on the subject of loyalty. In his remarks he said, "Each of us has to face the truth of the matter—either the church is…
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You've been active and faithful in the church all your life and have a deep and abiding testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. You have enjoyed success and found great joy in helping others come to a…
Critical thinking among faithful Mormons
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We are redeveloping the Revolver Records site live, so please bear with us as we get the site up to speed. When we are complete you will be able to search our site to look at our catalogue of nearly 4500 albums, download artists biogs and trawl through images and buy albums direct from the label, including some hard to find titles no longer in print.
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Natural Approaches to Clearing Chronic Pain
By Deanna Hope Berman, ND, CM
I don't have a high number of clients who come to me solely because of pain. However, pain is often a secondary symptom of the many chronic conditions my clients present with. Therefore, out of necessity, I find myself helping people overcome chronic pain. That's no surprise. According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, chronic pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
The most common types of chronic pain are back pain, migraine or headache pain, and joint pain. Although some pain stems directly from current or past injuries, this is not where I want to focus this article. Here, I'm discussing the chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus, Lyme disease, and other chronic conditions. Because pain can affect the simplest of daily tasks (walking the dog, doing the dishes, getting dressed), it can make living a fulfilling life nearly impossible. For this reason, I am dedicated to helping my clients find lasting relief, and better overall health in the process.
As you may have experienced, the cycle of pain itself exacerbates the problem. Chronic pain makes it harder to exercise or to get a good night's sleep. A lack of exercise can lead to both depression and weight gain. Weight gain can often exacerbate chronic pain especially in the back and joints. The lack of sleep leads to an increase of stress hormones. Stress hormones and the related anxiety and depression can exacerbate inflammation, thus further increasing the pain. My goal is to help people break these negative cycles by getting at the underlying causes.
Home Sweet Home Birth
By Sandra Londino, MS, CNM, LM
Home birth is common among women in many countries, but in the US it's rare and poorly understood. This wasn't always the case. During colonial times, women gave birth in their homes, attended by women, with male physicians allowed into the birthing room only when labor deviated from the norm.
During the second half of the eighteenth century, male physicians began taking a more prominent role in childbirth, especially for members of the upper and middle class, who saw being attended by physicians as a status symbol. Commonly held sexist beliefs about the intellectual and emotional inferiority of women contributed to this shift. By the turn of the century, doctors were attending half of all births, though midwives still served the poor and rural folks.
In the early 1900s, medical leaders began calling for the abolition of midwifery entirely. Prominent obstetricians of the time believed that pregnancy and childbirth were dangerous, pathological conditions that could be best managed in hospitals with drugs, specialized procedures, and surgery. Thus, women began to believe that hospitals offered them the safest and most satisfying birthing experience. This happened in spite of the favorable outcomes that midwives experienced, such as lower rates of maternal death and neonatal injury and death, and more comprehensive postpartum care. By the early twentieth century, thousands of American women still died from postpartum infection every year. Serious perineal lacerations, head injuries to the fetus, and breathing disorders resulted because of inappropriate and careless use of forceps and chloroform. As midwifery declined during the first half of the century, maternal and infant mortality rates steadily increased. By 1935, the percentage of births attended by midwives in the US had decreased to 12.5 percent.
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Hi Bob,
My mother bought a 2004 Honda Accord brand new. This past May, she had the car brought from Florida up to NYC by an auto mover. The guy who took the car from her down in Florida had an accident and needed a jumpstart. Well, my mom's car radio had an anti-theft device on the radio, which kicked in when the battery was removed.
She can not find the card that gives the serial number for the radio. You need the card to enter the 5-digit code to unlock the theft device on the radio. Is there a way to get the code without tearing up the dashboard and pulling the radio out to get the serial number from the back? Please help!
That information will not be found on the radio for obvious reasons. She might be able to get it from the Honda dealer, but that might not happen either. It may be easier to simply replace the radio if she can not find the card. Have her check in the booklet that has the owner's manual. The dealer usually puts that card in there somewhere.
Good Luck!
Drive Safely!
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Metalstorm Lyrics
Artist: Manilla Road
Album: Open the Gates
From the grave comes the storm
fire and ice, and battle horns.
Through the night a dark star burns
Titans fight, the King returns.
Demons eyes spread fear in pain
Throughout the minds of those too sane
To realize this is no game,
Drinking the lies in Heaven's name.
Spear of tin, forged by Muse
Majik mound of Crom.
Some they learn, some they burn
In the wake of Metalstorm.
From the veils blows the storm.
Lightning strikes from the sword.
Warriors ride upon the wind.
All Hallows Night, the hunt begins.
Lord of Flies doth spread the plage
Throughout the lives of those to blame.
For all the lies in Heaven's name
The Lords of Light shall rise again.
Holy Grail, Silver sails,
Court of Avalon.
Some they learn, some they burn
In the wake of Metalstorm.
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The racing business is no different than any other that's built on spin.
I bring this up because on Monday, shortly after it was announced he would be inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame, jockey Edgar Prado explained to reporter Tim Wilkin why he committed to ride Adriano in the Kentucky Derby for trainer Graham Motion.
Motion and Prado made their bones on the Maryland circuit and have enjoyed a highly successful relationship for many years. So after he rode Adriano to victory in the Grade 2 Lane's End Stakes, Motion asked for a Derby commitment and got it.
Then what was all the jive about how Adriano's April 13 workout at Churchill Downs--as opposed to the colt's demonstrated success on Polytrack and turf--would be the deciding factor for Prado?
When the rider committed to Motion, he had yet to win the Wood Memorial aboard Tale Of Ekati or the Blue Grass Stakes on Monba. The Lane's End was run March 22nd. The other two races weren't run until April.
When exactly Prado got the calls from Barclay Tagg and Todd Pletcher, respectively, to ride in the Wood and Blue Grass is anyone's guess. And it won't do any good to ask now.
In all likelihood, the workout had nothing to do with Prado's decision because had Tagg and Pletcher realized they wouldn't necessarily get Prado back for the Derby, they might have gotten different Wood and Blue Grass jockeys.
The double-edge sword there is that Prado might not have had the chance to earn his 10 percent of two purses worth a combined $1.5-million. But who's to say that Tale Of Ekati and Monba would have won their close Grade 1 finishes without Edgar's Hall of Fame services?
Racing's a funny business.
Perhaps turf writers only have themselves to blame when things come up different than originally presented.
Later in the Wilkin interview, Prado said: "At the time, we didn't know how the other horses were going to run. I think [Adriano] has a chance. We'll have to wait and see."
Not exactly the vote of confidence Adriano fans were looking for. But maybe the good karma that loyalty engenders will compensate.
Guess you can't believe everything you read. Not even when you write it.
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FAA Will Respond to NTSB's SpaceShipTwo Report Within 90 Days
Eight of the 10 recommendations adopted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday about the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) crash were directed at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST). An FAA spokesman said today the FAA will respond within the next three months. The other two were for the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) and its President, Eric Stallmer, said CSF would carry them out promptly.
FAA spokesman Hank Price told SpacePolicyOnline.com that the FAA "takes all NTSB recommendations seriously and we will review and respond to them within 90 days as required."
The NTSB determined that the probable cause of the fatal SS2 accident on October 31, 2014 was that the spaceplane's builder, Scaled Composites, did not take into account the possibility that a single human error could cause a catastrophic accident and mitigate against it. That failure "set the stage" for co-pilot Michael Alsbury to unlock a feathering system meant to slow the craft during descent at the wrong time. The spaceplane was torn apart by aerodynamic forces. Alsbury died. Pilot Peter Siebold was injured, but survived.
Scaled is owned by Northrop Grumman. Scaled President Kevin Mickey said in a statement after the NTSB ruling that safety "has always been a critical component" of its culture, its pilots are "experienced and well trained," and "we have already made changes in the wake of the accident to further enhance safety."
Alsbury and Siebold both worked for Scaled and Scaled designed, built and operated the SS2 spaceplane that was destroyed in the accident. It was under contract to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic (VG), which plans to build as many as five of them to take people on suborbital trips to space. VG is itself now building the second spaceplane. In a "party submission" to the NTSB, VG listed remedial steps it has taken. They include adding an automatic mechanical inhibit to prevent a pilot from incorrectly unlocking or locking the feathering system during safety-critical phases of flight. VG has total responsibility for the second spaceplane, but Mickey said Scaled and VG continue to have a relationship and an agreement for parts and services.
As for AST, the NTSB questioned several aspects of its regulatory actions in granting an experimental license to Scaled and overseeing compliance. By law, AST has a dual role in regulating and facilitating commercial space launch services and reentries. Its regulatory authority is to protect the public, property and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.
When Congress created AST in the 1984 Commercial Space Launch Act, the intent was for a light regulatory hand that would not stifle a nascent industry by creating unnecessary, burdensome regulations. The Act has been amended and updated several times over the intervening decades. That objective has remained the same.
In this case, however, the NTSB found AST's evaluation of Scaled's application for an experimental permit was "deficient." The NTSB focused on waivers AST granted in 2013 and 2014, that were not requested by Scaled, after it determined that the hazard analysis Scaled submitted did not meet the software and human error requirements of AST's regulations. NTSB said AST issued the waivers after concluding public health and safety would not be jeopardized and that Scaled had necessary mitigations in place, but did so "without understanding whether the mitigations would adequately protect against a single human error with catastrophic consequences [or] ... were sufficient to ensure public safety." In addition, "Scaled did not request the waiver, participate in the waiver evaluation process, or have an opportunity to comment on the waiver before it was issued (except to identify proprietary information that should not be disclosed)."
NTSB also reported that some of AST's technical staff complained that "their questions that did not directly relate to public safety were filtered by FAA/AST management to reduce the burden on Scaled." AST's responsibility is public safety, but the NTSB found that the "dividing line" between questions related to public safety and those to meet mission objectives is "not always apparent."
Among the eight NTSB recommendations to the FAA is for AST to develop clearer policies, practices and procedures that allow direct communications between its staff and applicants; clearer guidance on evaluating permits, waivers and licenses; and better define the line between information needed to ensure public safety and that needed for mission success.
The NTSB also made two recommendations to the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF), an industry association working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality. Those recommendations are to help industry ensure better emergency response procedures and to work with the FAA to develop and issue human factors guidance that commercial space operators can use throughout design and operation of a crewed vehicle. In a statement, CSF President Eric Stallmer pledged support to carry out those recommendations promptly.
AST is a relatively small office within the FAA, and while there is no hint in the NTSB report that budget or staffing shortages were a factor, the FAA has been trying to increase AST's level of resources. The FY2016 budget request for AST is $18.114 million, a $1.5 million increase over its FY2015 level. Congress has not been enthusiastic about granting all of that increase, however.
AST is funded as part of the Transportation-HUD appropriations bill. The House approved only a $250,000 increase and the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended an $820,000 increase.
Mike Gold of Bigelow Aerospace chairs the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) that provides independent advice to AST. Gold said in an interview that perhaps one silver lining is that the SS2 accident and investigation may stimulate a discussion about the appropriate level of resources that AST requires.
In addition to its regular duties, AST has been involved in investigations of three accidents in the past 8 months: Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares failure on October 28, 2014 (Orb-3); the SS2 accident three days later; and the SpaceX Falcon 9 failure (CRS-7) on June 28, 2015. All were licensed by AST. While AST does not take the lead in the investigations, its staff participates. As Gold said, launching into space is hard and accidents are going to happen – "AST needs more resources to deal with these issues."
CSF's Stallmer also vowed to continue working with Congress to ensure that AST has the resources it needs "to fully address the safety findings and recommendations in the [NTSB] report."
Rep. Chaka Fattah Indicted, Steps Down as House CJS Subcommittee Ranking Member
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the top Democrat on the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA and NOAA, stepped down from that position today after being indicted by the Justice Department for misuse of funds. Fattah denied the charges.
In a statement, Fattah criticized an "eight year effort by some at the Department of Justice to link my public service career to some form of wrongdoing. With today's charges, this misguided campaign has now moved from speculation to specific allegations....I have never participated in any illegal activity or misappropriation of taxpayer dollars as an elected official."
The Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee funds not only NASA and NOAA, but the Department of Justice.
Fattah said he was stepping aside as ranking member of the subcommittee in accordance with House rules and precedent, but will "proudly" continue to serve his constituents.
The Justice Department said he and four associates were charged in a 29-count indictment "involving bribery, concealment of unlawful campaign contributions and theft of charitable and federal funds to advance their own personal interests."
Fattah has been a reliable space program supporter during his tenure as ranking member of the CJS subcommittee. The House already has passed its version of the FY2016 CJS appropriations bill, but Fattah ordinarily would have been a key member of conference negotiations with the Senate on a final version of the bill.
Multiple media outlets report that he will be replaced by the next highest ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), whose district is near NASA's Ames Research Center. Honda himself is currently under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee for an alleged violation of ethics rules regarding coordination between his official staff and his campaign staff.
NTSB: Scaled's Failure To Protect Against Human Error Led to Loss of SpaceShipTwo
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) voted today to adopt its final report on the October 31, 2014 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) accident that killed one of the spaceplane's two pilots. The Board agreed to 17 findings and 10 recommendations, along with a statement of probable cause that focused on the failure of Scaled Composites to "consider and protect against" the possibility that a single human error could doom the vehicle and its crew.
SS2 broke apart during a flight test over the Mojave Desert killing co-pilot Michael Alsbury. The pilot, Peter Siebold, survived after being thrown clear of the spaceplane unconscious. He regained consciousness during the fall to Earth and was able to detach himself from his seat and his parachute opened automatically.
It was immediately evident from telemetry and cockpit video that Alsbury had prematurely moved one of two levers that activate a feathering system intended to slow the spaceplane during descent, creating aerodynamic instability that tore the plane apart. Why he did so and why the feathering system deployed even though the second lever was not activated were among the subjects of the investigation.
The findings and recommendations span a wide range of concerns about government and private sector actions, many of which were leveled at the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST), but the statement of probable cause is aimed at Scaled, which built SS2 and was in charge of the test flight.
The NTSB staff's version said the probable cause was that Alsbury prematurely unlocked the feathering system as the result of time pressure and vibration and loads he had not experienced recently. It added as a contributing factor Scaled's failure to consider the possibility that a single human error could cause the feathering system to deploy at the wrong time and to adequately warn pilots of that risk.
NTSB chairman Christopher Hart proposed a revised version that swapped those sentences, placing Scaled's failure first and identifying Alsbury's actions as a consequent result. During a brief recess, the staff and Board members wrote a third version that was thereupon adopted:
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was Scaled Composites' failure to consider and protect against the possibility that a single human error could result in a catastrophic hazard to the SpaceShipTwo vehicle. This failure set the stage for the copilot's premature unlocking of the feather system as a result of time pressure and vibration and loads that he had not recently experienced, which led to uncommanded feather extension and the subsequent aerodynamic overload and in-flight break up of the vehicle.
Hart was acting NTSB chairman at the time of the accident and was on-site at Mojave Air and Space Port during the initial stages of the investigation and provided the press briefings.
One focus of the investigation was the training the pilots received including human factors and the information formally conveyed to them by Scaled about the dangers of premature deployment of the feathering system. The NTSB found that the copilot (Alsbury) was experiencing high workload as a result of recalling tasks from memory while performing under time pressure and with vibration and loads that he had not recently experienced, which increased the possibility for errors. NTSB found that Scaled "did not ensure that pilots correctly understood the risks of unlocking the feather early" and missed opportunities to mitigate against the consequences of human error in its design.
The NTSB also found that AST's evaluations of Scaled were "deficient" because they did not recognize that Scaled had not identified the potential human-error hazards. The NTSB also found that a lack of direct communications between the AST and Scaled technical staffs, pressure to approve experimental applications within 120 days, and other factors interfered with AST's evaluation process. Questions also arose about why AST granted a waiver to Scaled in July 2013, which the company did not request, regarding required hazard analysis that did not meet requirements for human and software errors.
The NTSB has posted a synopsis of its findings and recommendations.
Senate Adopts Ex-Im Bank Extension, But Fate Still Uncertain - UPDATE
UPDATE, July 28, 2015, 8:10 am EDT: The Aerospace Industries Association issued a press release praising the Senate action and urging the House to follow suit.
ORIGINAL POST, July 27, 2015, 11:28 pm EDT: The Senate tonight adopted an amendment to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank as part of a Highway Trust Fund reauthorization bill. House Republican leaders stated earlier today, however, that they will not bring the Senate bill to the floor for a vote.
The amendment, offered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on behalf of Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), has been the source of bitter contention with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other conservatives who consider the bank to be "corporate welfare." The bank assists in the financing of U.S. exports, including aerospace products, and advocates insist that without it American exports will suffer and jobs will be lost. The Aerospace Industries Association and the Satellite Industry Association are among its supporters.
The bank's authority to operate ended on June 30 when a previous reauthorization attempt failed. The bank can continue current operations, but cannot take on new projects until and unless it is reauthorized.
The Kirk amendment would extend its authorization for four years. Yesterday the Senate voted 67-26 to allow the amendment to be offered. Tonight the vote was 64-29 to adopt it. The Senate has yet to vote on the underlying bill. Even assuming that it passes, its fate is far from certain.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vowed today that the House will not take up the Senate bill. The House and Senate disagree not only on the Ex-Im Bank issue, but on the underlying highway bill that allows disbursement of funds from the Highway Trust Fund for highways, highway safety, and public transportation projects. The Highway Trust Fund's authorization expires on Friday, July 31. The House is scheduled to begin its August recess on Friday, so some type of agreement will have to be made - perhaps a short term extension. The House already passed a 5 month extension of the highway bill -- without an Ex-Im Bank provision -- and McCarthy wants the Senate to pass that bill, not the version now before the Senate.
What happens next is anyone's guess.
Senate Agrees to Consider Amendment to Reauthorize Ex-Im Bank
The Senate took a small, but important, step towards potentially reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank during a rare Sunday session today. The action does not reauthorize the bank, but sets up a vote on an amendment to do just that later in the week, perhaps as early as tomorrow (Monday).
The Export-Import Bank, created in 1934, assists in the financing of U.S. exports, including aerospace products such as communications satellites. The Aerospace Industries Association and the Satellite Industry Association are among those trying to convince Congress to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank. Its authority to operate expired on June 30 when previous efforts at reauthorization failed. The bank may continue existing operations for now, but cannot take on new projects.
The issue is divisive within both the Republican and Democratic parties. Advocates argue that without the bank, exports of American goods will suffer and jobs will be lost. Opponents insist that it is corporate welfare. Boeing and General Electric are frequent targets of those critics because they reportedly received two-thirds of the bank's loan commitments between 2007 and 2013, but advocates, including President Obama, counter that smaller companies also benefit, including those that are suppliers to the big companies.
To expedite action, the Senate voted today to allow Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) to offer an amendment to an unrelated highway bill later this week. The highway bill is "must pass" legislation because without it funds from the Highway Trust Fund cannot be disbursed to pay for highways, highway safety, and public transportation projects. That bill also is controversial. It is far from certain that even if the Senate does pass the highway bill, with the Ex-Im bank reauthorization included, that the House will agree with either of those actions. The House is scheduled to begin its month-long August recess on Friday, with last votes expected no later than 3:00 pm ET on Thursday.
That gives the Senate only a few days to pass its bill and try to reach a compromise with the House in order to send legislation to the President' before the Highway Trust Fund authorization expires on July 31.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is a strident opponent of the bank and on Friday publicly accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of lying to him and other Senate Republicans about the issue in a blistering statement on the Senate floor (which is available on YouTube). Such intra-party disputes are not typically aired in front of the C-SPAN cameras.
The procedural vote today to allow Kirk to offer the amendment was 67-26 (60 votes were needed). Cruz and 25 other Republicans voted against it.
That does not signal what the fate of the amendment itself will be when it is finally debated, however. Some of those who voted to allow the amendment to be offered may nonetheless oppose the amendment itself. At the moment, the Kirk amendment is on the schedule for tomorrow (Monday, July 27), along with several other amendments.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has a useful report explaining the Ex-Im Bank controversy.
NTSB Ready To Vote on Final Report on SpaceShipTwo Crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will meet in public session on Tuesday, July 28, to deliberate and vote on its report on the probable cause of the October 31, 2014 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) crash. The meeting begins at 9:30 am ET and will be webcast on the NTSB website.
The NTSB ordinarily has five members, but there is one vacancy at the moment. The Tuesday meeting is an opportunity for all four members to hear from the NTSB staff at the same time about their findings, conclusions and recommendations. The Board members have had access to factual reports and draft staff reports already, but this is the formal unveiling and opportunity for debate. The Board will vote to adopt or modify the staff's draft. The Board can make changes to the recommendations, although an NTSB spokesman told SpacePolicyOnline. com on Friday that typically they add or suggest rewordings to staff-developed recommendations rather than making wholesale changes.
The NTSB does not hold public meetings for all of its hundreds of investigations every year, but only for those of significant public interest. NTSB chairman Christopher Hart, who was acting chairman at the time of the SS2 crash, pointed out that this is the first spaceflight accident it has investigated. He was on-site at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, CA, where the crash occurred for the initial phase of the investigation and provided the public briefings.
The factual documents produced by the staff will be made public on Tuesday at 9:00 am ET, half an hour before the meeting. They will be posted on the NTSB website. Parties to NTSB investigations have access to NTSB's factual documents during the investigation, but are not allowed to speak about them until the NTSB adopts its report. The parties may submit their own documents responding to the NTSB's findings both before and after the NTSB adopts the final report that are also made part of the public record, but the parties do not address the Board at the public meeting. In this case, the parties include the FAA, Scaled Composites, and Virgin Galactic.
This is the final action by the Board, although it is possible for a party to file a petition for reconsideration if new, relevant information becomes available that has the potential to change the probable cause.
The technical cause of the crash was evident almost immediately. SS2 co-pilot Michael Alsbury, who died in the crash, prematurely moved one of two levers that activate a feathering system intended to slow the spaceplane during descent. Why he did so and why the feathering system deployed even though the second lever was not activated are among the subjects of the investigation.
SS2 was built by Scaled Composites for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, which plans to send tourists on suborbital space flights using these spaceplanes. The company planned to build five of them. The one destroyed on October 31 was the first and only operational spaceplane. A second spaceplane was already under construction and that is continuing although the date for a test flight is uncertain. Virgin Galactic President George Whitesides said in January that the company will "recover, we'll learn the hard lessons from the accident, and return to flight." The company is also developing a version of its system, LauncherOne, that will be used to launch small satellites instead of people.
What's Happening in Space Policy July 26-31, 2015
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of July 26-31, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. Congress is in session this week.
During the Week
The House is scheduled to begin its annual August recess on Friday (no votes are scheduled after Thursday at 3:00 pm ET), so this is the last week for Congress to deal with any "must pass" legislation for programs expiring at the end of July. To that end, the Senate is beginning its week today, Sunday, in a continuing attempt to pass a bill to reauthorize expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for highway, highway safety, and public transportation programs that otherwise will expire on July 31. While the highway bill per se is not a space-related issue, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has agreed to allow an amendment to be offered to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. Last month, Congress failed to reauthorize the bank and its charter expired. The bank is still operating, but cannot take on new projects. The bank offers loan guarantees for customers wanting to buy products -- like communications satellites -- from U.S. manufacturers and the Aerospace Industries Association and Satellite Industry Association are among its supporters. Critics claim it is corporate welfare. The issue splits both parties and has the Senate in turmoil. Even if a bill does pass the Senate, there is no guarantee the House will go along. The Senate is scheduled to be in session during the first week of August, but if the House recesses as planned, it would not be able to pass a compromise until it returns in September, so the Senate would have to agree to something the House already passed, perhaps a short-term extension for the highway funds and/or the Ex-Im Bank. What will happen is very much up in the air.
With such disarray, the likelihood of other legislation passing is diminished, but it is always possible that relatively non-controversial bills could get through. One possibility is the Senate Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, S. 1297, which was formally reported from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday (S. Rept. 114-88). Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the main sponsor of the bill, however, and his verbal attack on McConnell on the Senate floor on Friday because of the Ex-Im bank issue (available on YouTube) might weigh against it getting a spot on the calendar, which McConnell controls. It really is anyone's guess, though.
This is "NAC week" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. Many of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) committees will meet early in the week, with the full NAC meeting Wednesday afternoon through Friday morning. The committee and Council meetings are available by WebEx and telephone for anyone who wants to listen in. Bear in mind that times listed on the agendas are in local time at the meeting venue -- Pacific Daylight Time in this case.
On Tuesday, trying to tune into those meetings will compete with three interesting events in Washington, DC: the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB's) public meeting to finalize its report on the October 2014 SpaceShipTwo crash beginning at 9:30 am ET; a House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee hearing at 10:00 am ET on planetary exploration -- including testimony from the Principal Investigators for the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres (Alan Stern and Christopher Russell, respectively); and a NOAA briefing at 1:00 pm ET on 10 Years Since Hurricane Katrina featuring NOAA Administrator Kathy Sullivan and the heads of NOAA's four line offices, including Steve Volz, who is in charge of NOAA's satellite programs. All three events are available by webcast or WebEx.
Those and other events we know about as of Sunday morning are listed below.
Monday-Tuesday, July 27-28
Monday-Wednesday, July 27-29
Monday-Friday, July 27-31
Tuesday, July 28
Tuesday-Wednesday, July 28-29
Wednesday-Friday, July 29-31
Stunning Backlit Photo of Pluto Shows Atmosphere
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft not only took fascinating photos of Pluto as it approached and flew past the dwarf planet 10 days ago, but continued snapping pictures as it raced away on the other side. Today NASA released a photo showing Pluto's silhouette as the spacecraft looked back towards the Sun.
The artistically stunning image is full of scientific data. As Michael Summers, a co-investigator on the mission from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA pointed out at a briefing this afternoon, it is the first image of Pluto's atmosphere and shows a "haze" that reaches out 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the surface -- much higher than anticipated. The photo was taken when New Horizons was 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto around midnight July 15 Eastern Daylight Time and delivered to Earth yesterday. North is at the top of the frame.
That Pluto has an atmosphere is no surprise -- scientists have studied it for years, measuring its density using stellar occultation. Early results from the New Horizons data, however, indicate that in the past two years, the atmosphere has lost half its mass, Summers said. The rapidity of the loss is unexpected, but not that the atmosphere would dissipate. As Principal Investigator Alan Stern from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) reminded the audience today, concern that the atmosphere would collapse -- "freeze out" -- as Pluto's 248-year orbit takes it further from Sun was one factor in NASA's approval of the mission in the early 2000s. (The New York Times published an account of the hurdles the New Horizons mission had to overcome to win support after an earlier version was cancelled in 2000 because the cost rose too high.)
Jim Green, NASA's planetary science division director, explained that only 5 percent of the data captured by New Horizons during its close approach to Pluto and its five moons has been returned to Earth so far. At a maximum data rate of 4 kilobits/second, it will take 16 months for all of it to be collected. A number of new images were released today, but no more will come until mid-September. For the next several weeks, the focus will be on sending back data taken by other instruments on the spacecraft.
Among the other images made public today is a higher resolution photo of Pluto's surface, shown in false color to highlight differences in surface characteristics. The image was taken when New Horizons was 280,000 miles (450,00 kilometers) from the planet. The resolution is 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers).
At today's briefing, though, Cathy Olkin from SwRI and William McKinnon of Washington University in St. Louis offered theories to explain the data returned so far. Some of the surface is geologically young, due perhaps to flows of nitrogen-, methane-, and carbon monoxide-ice moving around on the surface as water glaciers do on Earth, from ice upwelling from beneath the surface, or ice falling from the atmosphere as it freezes. Some scientists are postulating that Pluto has an internal heat source and there may even be a liquid ocean under the icy crust as has been observed on other solar system bodies. McKinnon advanced that theory today, but stressed that there is no evidence of such an ocean so far.
Pluto's five moons also are being avidly studied using the New Horizons data, especially Charon, the largest. Stern, in fact, refers to Pluto and Charon as a "double planet" system because the center of mass around which they orbit each other (the "barycenter") is in space, between the two objects, not within Pluto. (The barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is about 1,000 miles or 1,600 kilometers below the Earth's surface.)
Stern enthused that "we've never been to a double planet system before" and it is a "scientific wonderland." Data from that wonderland will be making its way to scientists over the next year and a half, and analysis will continue long after that. As Stern himself cautioned in the days before the spacecraft reached Pluto, "science on the fly is often wrong."
New Horizons was built and is operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) in Laurel, MD under contract to NASA.
The spacecraft is currently 7.6 million miles (12.2 million kilometers) beyond Pluto heading deeper into the Kuiper Belt that surrounds our solar system. Stern estimated earlier that the spacecraft will operate for another 20 years until its radioactive power source runs out. It is possible that it can be targeted to visit another object in the Kuiper Belt during that time. Pluto is in the Kuiper Belt, along with another dwarf planet, Eris.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is in charge of designating solar system bodies as planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, or other types of objects based on characteristics defined by consensus by the astronomical community. In addition to Pluto and Eris, Makemake, Haumea and Ceres are categorized as dwarf planets today. Another NASA mission, Dawn, is currently orbiting Ceres, which is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Ted Cruz and Star Trek
While not the same type of space policy pronouncements made by other presidential contenders, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) expounded on his views of the fictional Captains James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday.
As a Senator, Cruz has made clear that he believes NASA should focus on space exploration, not earth science and that he is an advocate for commercial space. He chairs the Space, Science and Competitiveness Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which sets policy and authorizes funding for NASA.
Turns out he is also a Star Trek fan with strong views on whether Kirk or Picard is the better character.
In an interview with Ana Marie Cox, Cruz called Kirk "working class" and a "passionate fighter for justice" as compared to Picard, an "aristocrat" and "cerebral philosopher." He prefers Kirk, adding that he thinks Kirk would be a Republican and Picard a Democrat.
The rather odd exchange did not add much to the knowledge base of what Cruz would do with the space program if he becomes President, but it was fun.
Two other presidential candidates, Jeb Bush (R) and Hillary Clinton (D) have expressed their enthusiastic support for NASA. Bush was governor of Florida, home of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center, for eight years. Clinton wanted to be an astronaut when she was 14.
Soyuz TMA-17M Scheduled to Dock On Time Despite Stuck Solar Panel-UPDATE
UPDATE, July 23: Later reports said the solar array deployed just before docking, not at docking.
UPDATE, July 22, 2015 11:01 pm EDT: Soyuz TMA-17M docked with the ISS as scheduled. The port solar array did not deploy during the trip to ISS, but did upon docking.
ORIGINAL STORY, July 22, 2015, 6:50 pm EDT: Three new crew members for the International Space Station (ISS) lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:02 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) today, July 22, 2015 (which was 3:02 am July 23 local time at the launch site). Once in orbit, one of the two solar panels on the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft did not deploy, but NASA says that will not affect the scheduled docking with the ISS at 10:46 pm EDT tonight.
NASA calls this mission Soyuz 43S because it is the 43rd Soyuz launched to the ISS. In a statement that was posted on its ISS website at about 6:30 pm EDT, NASA said "The Soyuz 43S vehicle has achieved a stable orbit ... and all antennas have deployed. However, the port solar array ... has not deployed." It added that the starboard array deployed as expected. With no explanation, however, by 6:45 pm EDT NASA had edited that statement to delete any reference to the solar arrays, saying only that the antennas had deployed.
Assuming all goes as planned, the three Soyuz TMA-17M crew -- Kjell Lindgren (U.S.), Kimiya Yui (Japan), and Oleg Kononenko (Russia) -- will join Scott Kelly (U.S.), Mikhail Kornienko (Russia), and Gennady Padalka (Russia) who are already on the ISS. Kelly, Kornienko and Padalka arrived in late March and have been the only three aboard since June 11 when the Soyuz TMA-15M crew returned to Earth. Kelly and Kornienko are embarked on a one-year mission during which time they will see several crew changes; Padalka will return to Earth in September. Typical ISS crews remain for 4-6 month shifts. Kelly and Kornienko are staying for a year to enable studies of longer duration missions on human physiology and psychology in preparation for eventual trips to Mars.
The landing of the TMA-15M crew, and the launch of the TMA-17M crew, were each delayed by the failure of the Russian Progress M-27M cargo ship in April. Russian engineers ultimately decided the Progress M-27M failure was due to a "design peculiarity." The next in the series, Progress M-28M, was successfully launched on July 3. The robotic Progress cargo spacecraft and crewed Soyuz spacecraft use different versions of the Soyuz rocket, but the successful Progress M-28M launch helped restore confidence in the Russian systems.
The United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and 11 European countries (through the European Space Agency) are partners in the ISS program. The ISS has been permanently occupied since November 2000 by international crews on rotating shifts.
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