Struppiccio
(Struppy  para os amigos) tinha acabado de chegar na minha vida, o pequeninho aí na foto só tinha 1 mês e meio, e arrastava um femur de vaca pela casa. As vezes o osso o arremessava pelo contrapeso. Saudades…

NASA’s Stardust Passes Moon, Just Hours Away From Earth Return

Less than one day of space travel separates Earth and history’s first
comet sample return mission. Today at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time
(10:30 a.m. Mountain time), the Stardust spacecraft will cross the moon’s
orbit as the craft makes its way toward Earth.

The final 400,000 kilometers (249,000 miles) of the mission to return a
capsule containing cometary particles to Earth will take just 16 hours
and 27 minutes. It took the Apollo astronauts about three days to make the same journey.

"Our entire flight and recovery team will be watching this final leg of our
flight with tremendous expectation as we implement a precise celestial ballet
in delivering our capsule to Earth," said Stardust Project Manager Tom Duxbury of
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We feel like parents awaiting
the return of a child who left us young and innocent, who now returns holding answers
to the most profound questions of our solar system."

Prior to passing the moon’s orbit, the spacecraft performed a final maneuver to place
it on a precise path to reach its landing target on the Utah Test and Training Range.
The burn, which took place yesterday at 8:53 p.m. Pacific time (9:53 p.m. Mountain time),
took 58.5 seconds to complete and changed the spacecraft’s velocity by 2.9 mph. At the
time of the burn the spacecraft was about 706,000 kilometers (439,000 miles) from Earth.

NASA’s Stardust mission has traveled about 4.5 billion kilometers (2.88 billion miles) during
its seven year round-trip odyssey. It is a journey that carried it around the sun three times
and beyond Mars and the asteroid belt — as far out as half-way to Jupiter. This cosmic voyage
was in quest of cometary and interstellar dust particles, which scientists believe will help
provide answers to fundamental questions about comets and the origins of the solar system.

"With the information we gathered during our encounter with comet Wild 2 in Jan. 2004, Stardust
has already provided us with some remarkable science," said Dr. Don Brownlee, Stardust principal
investigator at the University of Washington, Seattle. "With the return of cometary samples,
we’ll be able to work with the actual building materials of the solar system as they were when
the solar system was formed. It will be a great day for science."

The last few hours of the Stardust mission will be filled with significant milestones. Today at
about 8:15 p.m. Pacific time (9:15 p.m. Mountain time), mission controllers will command the
spacecraft to begin the computer-controlled sequence that will release the sample return capsule.
At 9:56 p.m. Pacific time (10:56 p.m. Mountain time), the Stardust spacecraft will complete the
sequence by severing the umbilical cables between spacecraft and capsule. One minute later, springs
aboard the spacecraft will literally push the capsule away, putting it into its trajectory toward
the Utah Test and Training Range.  Fifteen minutes later, the "mother ship," the Stardust spacecraft,
will perform a maneuver to enter orbit around the sun.

At 1:57 a.m. Pacific time (2:57 a.m. Mountain time), four hours after being released by the Stardust
spacecraft, the capsule will enter Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of 125 kilometers (410,000 feet)
over Northern California. At this point it will be 20 kilometers (12.43 miles) east of the Pacific
coast and 22 kilometers (13.67 miles) south of the Oregon-California border. The velocity of the
sample return capsule as it enters Earth’s atmosphere at 46,440 kilometers per hour (28,860 miles per hour)
will be the greatest of any human-made object on record. This will surpass the record set in May 1969
during the return of the Apollo 10 command module.

The Stardust sample return capsule will release a drogue parachute at an altitude of approximately
32 kilometers (105,000 feet). Once the capsule has descended to an altitude of about 3 kilometers
(10,000 feet) at 2:05 a.m. Pacific time (3:05 a.m. Mountain time), the main parachute will deploy.
The capsule is scheduled to land on the salt flats of the Utah Test and Training Range at 2:12 a.m.
Pacific time (3:12 a.m. Mountain time).

If weather conditions allow, the recovery team will be flown by helicopter to recover the capsule
and fly it to the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, for initial processing. If weather does
not allow helicopters to fly, special off-road vehicles will be used to transport the recovery
team to retrieve the capsule and return it to Dugway. The collector grid with cometary and interstellar
samples will be moved to a special laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, where they
will be preserved and studied by scientists.

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You dislike office politics and try not to get involved in the murk. Instead, you rise above it all with your understanding nature. You like taking control of situations and projects, but do not flaunt your power in people’s faces. You have a deft touch and inspire others with your magnetic charisma. You are well organized and are a strong multi-tasker.

Não escondo minha idade,
o difícil é acreditarem na verdade!
Mas é só verificar o registro do meu nascimento que está no Livro 259.A, Tomo 267.849 na Folha 287 do 17.° Subdistrito da Comarca de São Paulo.
E já que resolveu dar uma de detetive, aproveita e arranja uma segunda via da minha certidão de nascimento , pois a que eu tinha ficou perdida lá na Bavária!

Tudo bem, vou facilitar…

"Momento histórico,
simples resultado do desenvolvimento da ciência viva,
afirmação do homem, normal, gradativa,
sobre o Universo natural.
Sei lá que mais…

Ah.. sim!
Os místicos também!
Profetizando em tudo o fim do mundo
e em tudo o início dos tempos do além
em cada consciência,
em todos os confins…
Da nova guerra ouvem-se os clarins..
guerra diferente das tradicionais
guerra de astronautas nos espaços siderais
e tudo isso em meio as discussões,
muitos palpites, mil opiniões…
Um fato só já existe que ninguém pode negar 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 já…!

Lá se foi o homem conquistar os mundos, lá se foi,
lá se foi buscando a esperança que aqui já se foi,
nos jornais, manchetes, sensação,
reportagens, fotos, conclusão
a Lua foi alcançada afinal, muito bem…
confesso que estou contente também!
A mim me resta, disso tudo, uma tristeza só
talvez, não tenha mais luar p’rá clarear minha canção
o que será do verso sem luar…
o que será do mar, da flor, do violão
tenho pensado tanto, mas nem sei…

Poetas, seresteiros, namorados, correi,
é chegada a hora de escrever e cantar,
talvez, as derradeiras noites de luar…"

E exatamente 5 anos e uns 66 minutos antes de um pé esquerdo humano calçando bota astronáutica tocar o solo da Lua, a humanidade só podia fazer ficção sobre essa imagem no céu…

Era segunda feira, 20:50hs ( Horário de Brasília), quando no Hospital e Maternidade Matarazzo,
no bairro da Bela Vista em
São Paulo, Capital,
eu dava meu primeiro desafinado grito de Alegria!

Sou Canceriana (signo regido pela Lua), ascendente em Peixes, mas não dou a mínima bola para o Horóscopo Ocidental. 

Curto mesmo o Horóscopo Chinês
( Totalmente baseado no ano Lunar!),
onde sou Dragão.
Por sinal, adoro esse animal fictício mesmo antes de me saber de sua espécie.

E ACHO QUE TODO MUNDO QUE FREQUENTA O YADESHKA’S WOLRD JÁ SABE DISSO…

Pois é, dia 20, Dia Internacional da Amizade, eu estarei completando 41 anos de doideiras, aventuras, desalentos, e muitas alegrias… Não planejo comemorações, nem festas, nem nada, deixarei, como de costume, minha vida me surpreender o que sempre foi um bom negócio! E basta desse assunto!

O que me valeu nesse POST foi descobrir um buraco maravilhoso no Site da NASA e descobrir onde estão todas suas maravilhosas fotografias espaciais! HAHAHA A M E I  I S S O ! VALEU N.A.S.A. PRESENTE DE NIVER ADIANTADO! Nada como SURPRESAS!

Que tal descobrir seu nome élfico??