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Early history
 The association was founded by George W. L. Bickley, a Virginia-born doctor, editor, and "adventurer" who lived in Cincinnati. He organized the first castle, or local branch, in Cincinnati in 1854 and soon took the order to the South, where it was well received. It grew slowly until 1859 and reached its height in 1860. Following the Mexican-American War of 1846, the group's original goal was to provide a force to colonize the northern part of Mexico and the West Indies. This would extend pro-slavery interests. The Knights became especially active in Texas. Bickley's main goal was the annexation of Mexico. Hounded by creditors, he left Cincinnati in the late 1850s and traveled through the East and South promoting an expedition to seize Mexico to establish a new territory for slavery. He found his greatest support in Texas. In a short time, he organized thirty-two chapters there. In the spring of 1860, the group made the first of two attempts to invade Mexico from Texas. A small band reached the Rio Grande but failed otherwise. Civil War and demiseIn the SouthwestThe South’s secession and the outbreak of the Civil War prompted a shift in the group's aims from Mexico to support of the new Confederate government. On February 15, 1861, Texas Ranger Ben McCulloch began marching toward the Federal arsenal at San Antonio, Texas, with a cavalry force of about 550 men, about 150 of whom were Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) from six castles. While volunteers continued to join McCulloch the following day, U.S. Army Gen. David E. Twiggs decided to surrender the arsenal peacefully to the secessionists. KGC members also figured prominently among those who, in 1861, joined Lt. Col. John Robert Baylor in his temporarily successful takeover of southern New Mexico Territory. In May 1861, members of the KGC and Confederate Rangers also attacked the building which housed the pro-Union newspaper, the Alamo Express, owned by J. P. Newcomb, and burned it down.[1] Other KGC members followed Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley on the 1862 New Mexico Campaign, which sought to bring the whole New Mexico Territory into the Confederate fold. Both Baylor and Trevanion Teel, Sibley's captain of artillery, had been among KGC members who rode with Ben McCulloch. In the NorthIn early 1862, the Order was in the national headlines when Radical Republicans in the Senate, aided by Secretary of State William Seward, suggested that former president Franklin Pierce, who was greatly critical of the Lincoln administration's war policies, was an active member of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Pierce, writing an angry letter to Seward, denied that he knew anything about the Knights of the Golden Circle, and then demanded that his letter be made public, which it subsequently was by California Senator Milton Latham, who entered the entire Pierce-Seward correspondence, which tended to exonerate the former president, into the Congressional Globe. Appealing to the Confederacy's friends in the North, the Order soon spread to Kentucky as well as the southern parts of such Union states as Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri. It became strongest among Copperheads, some of whom felt that the Civil War was a mistake and that the increasing power of the Federal government was leading to tyranny. In the summer of 1863, Congress authorized a military draft which the administration soon put into operation though others were just supporters of slavery. Loyalist Leaders of the Democratic Party opposed to Abraham Lincoln's administration denounced the draft and other wartime measures, such as the President's temporary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the arrest of seditious persons. During the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, scam artists in south-central Pennsylvania sold Pennsylvania Dutch farmers paper tickets purported to be from the Knights of the Golden Circle for a dollar. Along with a series of secret hand gestures, these tickets were supposed to protect the possessions and horses of the ticket holders from seizure by invading Confederate soldiers.[2] When Jubal Early's infantry division passed through York County, Pennsylvania, they scoffed at the ticket holders and took what they needed anyway. They often paid with Confederate currency or drafts on the Confederate government. Cavalry commander J.E.B. Stuart also reported the alleged KGC tickets when documenting the campaign.[3] Also in 1863, Asbury Harpending and California members of the Knights of the Golden Circle in San Francisco outfitted the schooner J. M. Chapman as a Confederate privateer in San Francisco Bay with the object of raiding commerce on the Pacific coast and capture gold shipments to the east coast. Their attempt was detected and they were seized on the night of their intended departure.[4][5] In late 1863, the Knights of the Golden Circle was reorganized as the Order of American Knights. In 1864, it became the Order of the Sons of Liberty, with Ohio politician Clement L. Vallandigham, most prominent of the Copperheads, as its supreme commander. In most areas only a minority of its membership was radical enough to discourage enlistments, resist the draft, and shield deserters. Numerous peace meetings were held. A few agitators, some of them encouraged by Southern money, talked of a revolt in the Old Northwest, which could have ended the war.[6] Southern newspapers wishfully reported stories of widespread disaffection in the North. John Hunt Morgan's 1863 Great Raid into Indiana and Ohio was initiated in the expectation that the disaffected element would rally to his standard. Governor Oliver P. Morton of Indiana and General Henry B. Carrington effectively curbed the Sons of Liberty in the fall of 1864. In early 1864, Rufus Henry Ingram formerly with Quantrill's Raiders arrived in Santa Clara County and with Tom Poole, (formerly one of Harpending's privateer crewmen), organized local Knights of the Golden Circle and commanded them in what became known as Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers. In attempt to raise funds to support their unit they robbed two stagecoaches near Placerville of their silver and gold, leaving a letter explaining they were not bandits but carrying out a military operation to raise funds for the Confederacy. However they soon were hunted down and dispersed after a couple of dramatic shootouts near Placerville and San Jose.[7] With mounting Union victories late in 1864 and the reelection of Lincoln, the order's agitation for a negotiated peace lost appeal, and the organization officially dissolved. Alleged membersSkull & Bones Society
(INCORPORATED IN 1856 under the name "THE RUSSELL TRUST ASSOCIATION" by an act of CONGRESS IN 1943.....Special Priviliges are given to these CORPORATE CRIMINALS....even today in 2009) The origin of the Skull & Bones Society, once known as The Brotherhood of Death, in the U.S. begins at Yale when a group of men established an organization for the purpose of drug smuggling. Indeed, many American and European fortunes were built on the China (opium) trade. [The Secret Origins of Skull & Bones] The society's alumni organization, which owns its properties and oversees all the organization's activity, is known as the Russell Trust Association (R.T.A.), and is named after one of Bones' founding members. FROM CBS NEWS AND GOOGLED "SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY": CBS) "As opposite as George Bush and John Kerry may seem to be, they do share a common secret - one they've shared for decades, and one they will not share with the electorate. The following text is taken from chapter 7 of: The Tomb George Bush, in fact, passed his most important days and nights at Yale in the strange companionship of the senior-year Skull and Bones Society. 6 Out of those few who were chosen for Bones membership, George was the last one to be notified of his selection -- this honor is traditionally reserved for the highest of the high and mighty. His father, Prescott Bush, several other relatives and partners, and Roland and Averell Harriman, who sponsored the Bush family, were also members of this secret society.... The order was incorporated in 1856 under the name "Russell Trust Association." By special act of the state legislature in 1943, its trustees are exempted from the normal requirement of filing corporate reports with the Connecticut secretary of state. As of 1978, all business of the Russell Trust [which founded Skull and Bones] was handled by its lone trustee, Brown Brothers Harriman partner John B. Madden, Jr. Madden started with Brown Brothers Harriman in 1946, under senior partner Prescott Bush, George Bush's father. Each year, Skull and Bones members select ("tap") 15 third-year Yale students to replace them in the senior group the following year. Graduating members are given a sizeable cash bonus to help them get started in life. Older graduate members, the so-called "Patriarchs," give special backing in business, politics, espionage and legal careers to graduate Bonesmen who exhibit talent or usefulness. The home of Skull and Bones on the Yale campus is a stone building resembling a mausoleum, and known as "the Tomb." Initiations take place on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River (an island owned by the Russell Trust Association), with regular reunions on Deer Island and at Yale. Initiation rites reportedly include strenuous and traumatic activities of the new member, while immersed naked in mud, and in a coffin. More important is the "sexual autobiography": The initiate tells the order all the sex secrets of his young life. Weakened mental defenses against manipulation, and the blackmail potential of such information, have obvious permanent uses in enforcing loyalty among members. The loyalty is intense. One of Bush's former teachers, whose own father was a Skull and Bones member, told our interviewer that his father used to stab his little Skull and Bones pin into his skin to keep it in place when he took a bath. Members continue throughout their lives to unburden themselves on their psycho-sexual thoughts to their Bones Brothers, even if they are no longer sitting in a coffin. This has been the case with President George Bush, for whom these ties are reported to have a deep personal meaning. Beyond the psychological manipulation associated with freemasonic mummery, there are very solid political reasons for Bush's strong identification with this cult.... Skull and Bones -- the Russell Trust Association -- was first established among the class graduating from Yale in 1833. Its founder was William Huntington Russell of Middletown, Connecticut. The Russell family was the master of incalculable wealth derived from the largest U.S. criminal organization of the nineteenth century: Russell and Company, the great opium syndicate. There was at that time a deep suspicion of, and national revulsion against, freemasonry and secret organizations in the United States, fostered in particular by the anti-masonic writings of former U.S. President John Quincy Adams. Adams stressed that those who take oaths to politically powerful international secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. But the Russells were protected as part of the multiply intermarried grouping of families then ruling Connecticut. The blood-proud members of the Russell, Pierpont, Edwards, Burr, Griswold, Day, Alsop, and Hubbard families were prominent in the pro-British party within the state. Many of their sons would be among the members chosen for the Skull and Bones Society over the years. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml
SO LONG GEORGE.......I HOPE YOU CAN LIVE WITH YOUR CONSCIOUS ON YOUR RANCH IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS.....FINALLY AN ORDINARY "AMERICAN CITIZEN" CLASS OF 1968.......YALE UNIVERSITY AND U.S.A. PRESIDENT 2000-2008
CURRENT PENNSYLVANIA STATE SENATOR ARLEN "MAGIC BULLET" SPECTER.....GRADUATE YALE LAW SCHOOL DO YOU THINK THAT THE YOUTH OF AMERICA TODAY IN 2009 WILL ACCEPT A MAGIC BULLET THAT ACTUALLY CHANGES PATHS IN MIDAIR?....... COME ON ARLEN, WHO PUT THAT THEORY IN YOUR HEAD?....... TOO BAD JFK HAD HIS HEAD BLOWN OFF BY A "PRISTINE BULLET"....... EVEN CSI IN HOLLYWOOD COULD SEE THAT A SINGLE BULLET CAN NOT DO THAT MUCH DAMAGE TO THE HEAD AND NECK OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY (#35) AND THEN CHANGE PATHS TO ENTER MR. CONNALLY'S BODY AND NOT BE FOUND IN THE CRIME SCENE OF THE LIMO BUT ON A STRETCHER IN PARKLAND HOSPITAL. DID TREASON EXIST IN DALLAS BEFORE OR AFTER THE ZABRUTER FILM WAS MADE PUBLIC AND EDITED? CAN A SENATOR BE IMPEACHED IF FOUND GUILTY OF TREASON AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER IN A COLD CASE WITHOUT A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS?
WHAT WAS FUTURE PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH DOING STANDING OUT FRONT OF THE "SNIPER"S NEST" IN DALLAS TEXAS NOVEMBER 22, 1963? (SEE CIRCLED MAN) (PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, HIS FATHER PRESCOTT, AND HIS SON GEORGE W. BUSH WERE ALL FROM TEXAS AND MEMBERS OF YALE'S SECRET SOCIETY OF SKULL AND BONES WHICH CAN BE GOOGLED ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ROOM 322 IN THE YALE CRYPT)
LEE HARVEY OSWALD"S FINGER PRINTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON E-BAY
WHO WAS HOLDING THE "SMOKING GUN" IN 1963 AND 1968?
PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH (#41) AT THE FUNERAL OF GERALD R. FORD (#38) AND A MEMBER OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S WARREN COMMISSION ON THE CAUSE OF THR MURDER OF JFK
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JFK JR. IN 1999?
The report of the National Transportation Safety Board came out on August 8, 2000, 13 months after the plane crash of JFK Jr. It contradicts many of the lies pushed in the media. For example, the L.A. Times reported “The accident that killed Kennedy was caused by an inexperienced pilot …the NTSB concluded in its final report” (LA TIMES, 7/7/00, page 1). In fact, the NTSB report shows that Kennedy was highly experienced (he had more than enough hours for an instructor’s license), he was described by his trainers as “excellent”, “methodical”, and “very cautious.” (NTSB report, page 3) The media say the visibility was poor. But the NTSB quotes the Tower manager at Martha’s Vineyard, where the plane went down, saying that there were “stars out” and visibility was “between 10 and 12 miles” (NTSB report, page 5). Why did the media lie? Why have they always lied about the murder of his father? Was John Kennedy Jr. murdered? Judge for yourself. 1) the rescue: This is enormously important. FAA radar tracked Kennedy’s plane crash. The U.S. Coast Guard has reported that Kennedy contacted the tower on his final approach. THIS IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT!!! It means they would have known his plane was going down before it hit the water. FAA regulations require that a search begin immediately when a plane reports itself on final approach and does not land within 5 minutes. Yet it took them 14½ hours to send the first planes and boats to Martha’s Vineyard. (Boston Herald, 7/20/99 “Time gaps in early hours of search are beyond explanation” Jack Sullivan and David Talbot) (LINK5)WHY? 2) the plane: Kennedy’s plane had autopilot, capable of flying itself to within 100 feet of the airport. All a “cautious and methodical” pilot had to do was sit back and let the plane fly itself. (NTSB report, page 18) 3) the sabotage: Kennedy’s plane had a black box. No other private non-jet plane on earth had one. He knew they wanted to kill him and he wanted to make it hard. The NTSB, says the battery had been removed, destroying all record of conversation in the cockpit. (NTSB page 10) All planes have an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which sends out a beacon signal in case of a crash. It took 5 days to locate Kennedy’s plane. Why? Was it missing? Disabled? The report says nothing. According to the NTSB report, the fuel valve had been turned to OFF (NTSB report, page 12). This valve had a safety device on it so that it could not accidentally be turned to OFF. Turning it off during flight would be suicide, since at top speed, the engine will die in 45 seconds!! Because the results are potentially deadly, the valve cannot be turned by accident. A safety-release button must be pushed down and held while turning the valve. This piece of evidence is the smoking gun. It is positive proof of foul play. Was Kennedy committing suicide? If he wasn’t, there can scarcely be any question but that he was murdered. So who turned the valve? Read on. Kennedy’s flight logbook is missing. (NTSB report, page 2) This will be seen as critical in one minute, because the logbook would have recorded the presence of a flight instructor on the plane. The media talked about a “graveyard spiral” and various forms of disorientation. The NTSB report describes Kennedy’s plane making two mild explainable maneuvers; and then the plan plunged drastically to the right and plummeted straight down, crashing 2600 feet in 45 seconds. It sounds like someone grabbed the controls and suddenly shoved the plane into the water. But this description of a suicide plunge is consistent with the “suicide” position of the fuel valve. 4) the flight instructor: All of the early reports said there was a flight instructor on the plane (e.g. The New York Times, Saturday July 17, 1999). Then the flight instructor disappeared from the reports. Kennedy very rarely flew at night without a flight instructor. Out of 310 hours of flight time, and 55 hours at night, he had only 45 minutes at night without an instructor. (LINK12)He was very cautious. He had his wife on board. It is almost unthinkable that he would not have taken an instructor. 5) Egypt Air 990: Two months later Egyptian Air flight 990, with 30 of the highest ranking members of the Egyptian military on board, crashed. (It was big news for several days. The pilot’s family and the Egyptian government objected to the NTSB finding that the pilot was committing suicide. “He was happily married. Moslems don’t commit suicide” etc.) This pilot had walked into the cockpit, said “Allah help me’, grabbed the controls, and tried to force the plane to crash. Three other pilots, grabbed him, and there was a struggle; he gave up, turned around, and he turned the fuel valve OFF. Both pilots, Kennedy’s flight instructor and the Egyptian, were programmed, using hypnosis or other mind control, to act in exactly the same way. The CIA has settled lawsuits by victims of their mind control experiments, the MK Ultra program. One of the physicians, Dr. John Gittinger, Chief Psychologist of the CIA, tortured by his conscience, has come forward to expose the existence of these programs and their purpose: to create walking, pre-programmed human time bombs, set to go off on cue, taking out their intended victim. Kennedy’s emergency locator was removed, the cockpit recorder was disabled, the flight log was taken, and the body of the flight instructor was removed. (But they forgot to return the fuel valve to ON!!) They delayed the rescue 14 hours to do it. They were waiting in the water for the plane to crash. Who was? Who indeed? But why would anyone want to kill John Kennedy Jr.? He was planning to run for National office according to Newsweek and People. He told friends he would have run for Senate in New York, but let Hillary Clinton run instead. And he would have won. He was the most popular man in the US. And for good reason. He was a great guy. But he was the only Kennedy to ever acknowledge a conspiracy in his father’s death. He not only acknowledge it, he published an article by Oliver Stone, in his magazine, George, about assassination, conspiracies, and lying history books. Who would want to kill him? The people who killed his father had to kill him. Kennedy Jr. was going to go after them. So, who killed his father? George Herbert Walker Bush. There’s a ton of evidence at JFKII.com Here’s some.JOHN JOHN
I HAVE THE NEWSPAPERS MY FAMILY AND OTHERS WERE READING IN 1963 WHEN I WAS 2 YEARS OLD LIVING IN A SUBURB OF PHILADELPHIA
HOW IS GEORGE LINKED TO THE DEATHS OF JFK AND JFK JR.? http://brasschecktv.com/page/182.html
NOTICE THAT IN THIS BLACK AND WHITE "GOVERNMENT" PHOTO...JFK HEADWOUND AND HAIR ARE SHOWN PULLED BACK OVER THE HOLE IN THE BACK OF HIS SKULL WHERE THE "KILLSHOT"THAT WAS SHOWN IN COLOR NEVER EXISTED.
"I WANT TO LET THEM SEE WHAT THEY'VE DONE"
SWEET CAROLINE
"While America and England Slept".......Caroline memorized her father's pulizer prize winning book..."Profiles in Courage" but lacked the courage to stand together with her brother and cousins and expose the truth about the Kennedy murders for 45 years"....Will she become SENATOR of NEW YORK? How long will Arlen Spector remain "Senator" of Pennsylvania and what secrets does he share with the Bush family about the murders of Caroline's father, brother, and uncle...(JFK, JFK Jr. and former Senator of New York....Robert F. Kennedy) THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD TO A NEW GENERATION OF CHILDREN!!
FROM THE BBC 1963: Kennedy 'assassin' murdered The man accused of assassinating the US President, John F Kennedy, has himself been shot dead in a Dallas police station.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former Marine, was being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail, at the centre of a large crowd of police officers, reporters and camera crews. The event was being covered live on television, and Americans across the country watched in astonishment as a man - later identified as Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner - stepped forward, drew a gun and shot Mr Oswald at point-blank range.
An ambulance rushed Mr Oswald to the Parkland Hospital - the same hospital which had fought to save President Kennedy's life two days earlier - but he died within minutes of his arrival. Mr Oswald was arrested about an hour after the assassination of John F Kennedy, carried out as the President's motorcade passed through the Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He was initially taken into custody for the murder of a policeman, JD Tippit, who appears to have recognised him and approached him just 45 minutes after the killing of the President. Soon after, Mr Oswald was also charged with the President's assassination. He strongly denied that he carried out the assassination, saying to reporters, "I'm just a patsy." Police gave no explanation of how Jack Ruby came to be in the police headquarters. The building had been under heavy guard after several calls making threats against Oswald's life. Ruby came to Dallas from Chicago 10 years ago. He runs a downtown striptease club, and is said to have links with organised criminals. Police said Ruby had told them, "I didn't want to be a hero - I did it for Jacqueline Kennedy." They said he wanted to spare the president's wife the ordeal of the trial of the man accused of killing her husband.
ARLEN SPECTER'S
The Single Bullet Theory IF you believe what the conspiracy books say the Warren Commission believed about the Single Bullet Theory, you would have to conclude the commissioners and staff of the commission were a bunch of fools. Conspiracy authors always show Connally seated directly in front of Kennedy, at the same height, and facing forward. You've seen Kevin Costner do this sort of thing. The graphic at right, taken from Groden and Livingstone's High Treason is an example of this. Could Commission Exhibit 399, which conspiracists have christened the "Magic Bullet," have done what the Warren Commission said it did?
To view these video sequences you will need Real Player. The Back and Throat WoundsThe other missile entered the right superior posterior thorax above the scapula and traversed the soft tissues of the supra-scapular and the supra-clavicular portions of the base of the right side of the neck. This missile produced contusions of the right apical parietal pleura and of the apical portion of the right upper lobe of the lung. The missile contused the strap muscles of the right side of the neck, damaged the trachea and made its exit through the anterior surface of the neck. Warren Commission Report, p. 543. But how could the facesheet show that dot in a lower location, yet describe the wound in a higher location, 14 cm. below the tip of the mastoid process, and above the scapula? Are Autopsy Face Sheets Supposed to be Drawn to Scale?The Throat WoundOne piece of evidence the conspiracy authors use for a "high" location for the throat wound is the testimony of Dr. Charles Carrico. Before the Warren Commission, he supposedly said that the wound was "above the tie." In fact, his testimony isn't quite as the conspiracy authors represent it. This is his testimony, including the context. Another thing to remember here is that in his "Admission Note," written on November 22, 1963, Carrico said the wound was in the "lower 1/3" of the neck.
CAN WE TRUST ROBERT MCNAMARA... AFTER JFK DIED WHERE WAS THE LIMO TAKEN.....DEARBORN, MICHIGAN? WHY DID THIS GUY HELP LBJ SEND MORE TROOPS TO VIETNAM AFTER JFK WAS MURDERED?
WHAT SECRETS DID FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER HAVE ON JFK AND RFK? WAS THERE MORE THEN ONE WOMAN IN THE LIVES OF JFK AND RFK (MARILYN MONROE)? MARILYN IN N.Y.C. IN MAY OF 1962 FOR JFK'S
WHAT SECRETS DID JFK AND BOBBY HAVE ON HOOVER....(THAT HE WAS GAY AND A CROSS-DRESSER)?
JFK'S CABINET MEMBERS.....INCLUDING RFK AND MCNAMARA
45 YEARS LATER...... THE QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN AND THIS MURDER CASE HAS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS......IN OTHER WORDS....IT"S STILL AN OPEN CASE OF MURDER AND TREASON IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. HOW MANY AUTOPSIES WERE DONE ON PRESIDENT KENNEDY? WHY IS THE BACK WOUND BELOW HIS NECK AND THE THROAT WOUND AT HIS NECK? DOSN'T THIS MEAN THAT THE BULLET HAD TO ENTER FROM THE FRONT AND EXIT AT HIS BACK? WHOEVER CUT HIS NECK OPEN TRIED TO MAKE THIS BULLET LOOK LIKE IT ENTERED FROM BEHIND IN HIS BACK AND EXIT THROUGH HIS NECK....THE PICTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE CANNOT CHANGE THIS FACT...IN OTHER WORDS AT LEAST ONE BULLET HAD TO COME FROM THE FRONT THUS DEBUNKING THE "GOVERNMENT'S" THEORY THAT ALL THREE (OR MORE) BULLETS CAME FROM THE TEXAS SCHOOLBOOK DEPOSITORY AND THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE MORE GUNMAN THAT SHOT PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND THE WARREN COMMISSION WAS WRONG IN THE 'OFFICIAL' FINDING THAT ONLY THREE BULLETS WERE FIRED FROM BEHIND BY LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND A CONSPIRACY DID AND DOES EXIST.
WHO DID THE AUTOPSY AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL IN DALLAS, TEXAS? WHY ARE THERE STILL NURSES WHO WERE ALIVE AT THE TIME AND STATED THAT JFK HAD A GAPPING HOLE IN THE BACK OF HIS SKULL? THIS IS A COLOR PICTURE OF THE KILL SHOT TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S HEAD. REMEMBER KEVIN COSTNER IN JFK.....HIS HEAD WENT BACK AND TO THE LEFT.....THE BLACK AND WHITE SHOWS HAIR IN THE BACK WITH A BULLET HOLE ALSO THERE......IN OTHER WORDS....HIS BODY AND B/W PICTURES WERE DOCTORED TO SHOW A KILL SHO FROM THE BACK....
DID THE TWO AUTOPSIES DONE IN BETHESDA, MARYLAND AND PARKLAND HOSPITAL HAVE THE SAME CONCLUSIONS? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REMAINS OF JFK'S BRAIN THAT WENT MISSING FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIEVES IN 1966? DID LBJ ORDER THAT A "OFFICIAL" WARREN REPORT BE DONE ON THE MURDER BEFORE THE ZABRUTER FILM WAS BOUGHT BY TIME/LIFE?
DID YOU KNOW THAT ANOTHER PRESIDENT WAS ON THAT WARREN COMMISSION....GERALD R. FORD>? BUSH SR. AT GERALD FORD FUNERAL IS THAT GEORGE SR STANDING IN FRONT OF THE "SNIPER'S NEST"?
FROM THE BBC in 1963 1963: John F Kennedy is laid to rest on November 25, 1963 (JFK Jr.'s 3rd Birthday...I was 2 years old, living in Philadelphia and went to Washington D.C. to mourn the death of President Kennedy on November 24th 1963.)     November 25th, 1963 The funeral of the assassinated President, John F Kennedy, has taken place in Washington. An estimated 800,000 Americans lined the streets to watch the coffin's procession from the Capitol, where the president's body had lain in state since yesterday. The crowd stood in silence, punctuated only by the sound of weeping, as the funeral procession made its way towards St Matthew's Cathedral in central Washington. The coffin, draped with the Stars and Stripes, lay on a gun carriage drawn by six grey horses. A black riderless horse pranced along behind. Distinguished mourners Mr Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, and her two children, three-year-old John Kennedy junior, and five-year-old Caroline, rode behind in a black car, accompanied by his brothers, Robert and Edward. Then came the long procession of guests, representing every continent in the world in one of the most distinguished gathering of foreign dignitaries ever assembled in the history of the United States. They included, for Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and the Leader of the Opposition, Harold Wilson. President de Gaulle of France was among them, as was President de Valera of Ireland, Chancellor Erhard of West Germany, and the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. Also among the mourners, in a poignant recognition of the dead president's efforts to foster peace around the world, was the Soviet first deputy Prime Minister, Anastas Mikoyan, representing Nikolai Khrushchev. A child's salute The requiem mass at St Matthew's was led by Cardinal Cushing of Boston. It included a reading of the entire inaugural address, delivered by John F Kennedy in January 1961, with perhaps his most famous words: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." As the coffin left the church after the ceremony, three-year-old John Kennedy Junior was seen to step forward for a moment and put his hand to his forehead in what appeared to be a childish salute. The president was buried in Arlington Cemetery to a 21-gun salute and three musket volleys. As a bugle sounded the Last Post, the remains of John F Kennedy were lowered into the grave. The time was 2034 GMT, and the short but momentous era of America's youngest elected president was over.
BELOW: CAROLINE AND JACKIE ON NOVEMBER 24th 1963
BELOW: PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FUNERAL IN WASHINGTON D.C. DURING THE 1860's (JACKIE KENNEDY MODELED JFK'S FUNERAL AFTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S.......BOTH PRESIDENT'S SHOT IN THE HEAD AND MURDERED PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FUNERAL DOWN PENNSYLVANIA BLVD. IN THE 1860's .....AFTER HE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD WHILE WATCHING A PLAY AT FORD'S THEATRE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
NOTE: 57,661 SOLDIERS DIED IN VIETNAM
BELOW: PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND WERNER VON BRAUN DISCUSS AMERICAN MOON PROJECT AND SATURN 5 MOONROCKET
FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S NOTEBOOK
IT SEEMS FRANK SINATRA, ROBERT KENNEDY, AND THE PRESIDENT EACH HAD AN AFFAIR WITH MARILYN MONROE IN 1961.....I WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 2nd 1961....OR SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD MARILYN WAS GRANTED A DIVORCE FROM ARTHUR MILLER IN JUAREZ, MEXICO ON JANUARY 20, 1961 ( THE SAME DAY JFK WAS BEING INAUGARATED IN WASHINGTON D.C.)
WHAT WERE MARILYN MONROE, RFK, AND JFK DISCUSSING AT PETER LAWFORD'S BEACH HOUSE ON NOVEMBER 19th, 1961?
On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe helped to celebrate John F. Kennedy's 45th birthday at a spectacular party in Madison Square Garden. JFK's joke about Monroe's "sweet and wholesome" rendition of "Happy Birthday" was inspired not only by her scorching delivery, but also by the skin-tight dress into which she had been sewn for the occasion. The original cost of the dress in 1962 was $12,000 In 1999, the dress fetched over $1.26 million at a New York auction. The explanation for this fantastic price lies partly in the fact that Monroe wore it in her last important public performance, and partly in the fact that it has come to be seen as symbolic evidence of her sexual relationship with Kennedy. While nothing about this affair appeared in print while Monroe and Kennedy were alive, it is now routinely reported as certain in biographical accounts of both figures. SHE WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER BRENTWOOD, CALIFORNIA HOME ON AUGUST 5, 1962 WHAT DID THE AUTOPSY CONCLUDE? MURDER, OVERDOSE OR SUICIDE?
BUSH TERMS FINALLY COME TO AN END IN 2008! U.S.A FORMER PESIDENT AND YALE SKULL AND BONER MEMBER CLASS OF 1968 AND HIS FATHER FORMER U.S.A PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH....PRESIDENTS NUMBER 41 and 43 ALONG WITH PRESIDENT # 25 TAFT AND RELATIVES PRESCOTT BUSH AND FOUNDING MEMBERS OF YALE"S SO-CALLED "SECRET SOCIETY" INCORPERATED IN THE 1800's UNDER THE NAME "THE RUSSEL TRUST ASSOCIATION" WHICH TODAY ALSO INCLUDES MANY SO-CALLED "POWERFUL AND INFLUENCIAL MEMBERS IN POLITICS, BANKING, ENTERTAINMENT, SUPREME COURT AND OTHER FORMS OF WORLD ORDER GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD" NOW HAVE BEEN EXPOSED IN THE ADVENT OF THE WORLD_WIDE WEB AND ARE NOW SPREADING PROPERGANDA AND USING AS THEIR "WEAPONS".....FEAR.ANGER.GREED.LUST.MURDER. and TORTURE FOR THE SELF-CENTERED REASON OF WEALTH AND POWER DERIVED FROM THE CHINESE OPIUM TRADE TO CONTINUE TO DECEIVE GENERATION AFTER GENERATION WITH LIES THAT EVEN THEIR OWN CHILDREN SEEM TO NOT BELIEVE...ie..PENNSYLVANIA'S AND YALES "SINGLE BULLET THEORY" BACK IN THE DAY WHERE ONCE INNOCENT CHILDREN HAVE NOW GROWN FROM YUTES INTO MEN AND WOMENHOOD. P.S... THEIR ANNUAL MEETINGS TAKE PLACE IN THE YALE CRYPT OR ON "DEER ISLAND" .....SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND CANADA...... SEE PICTURE BELOW: Deer Island (Thousand Islands)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDeer Island is one of the Thousand Islands. It lies between the United States and Canada, close to Alexandria Bay, New York. It is owned entirely by the Russell Trust Association and is used as a Skull and Bones retreat. The island lies near Boldt Castle and can be seen up close from several U.S. and Canadian tour vessels that operate in the local waterways. The land on the island is densely overgrown with a small lodge on the Southern corner of the island.
OBAMA WAS SWORN IN ON JANUARY 20, 2009
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.......... I HOPE AND PRAY FOR AMERICA TO ONCE AGAIN BECOME A LEADER FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR ......WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.....DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES....IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION, ESTABLISH JUSTICE, INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY BASE HERE....AND ON THE MOON.....THE EAGLE HAS LANDED ON OUR MOON CALLED LUNA IN 1969 AND 5 MORE TIMES! CAN THE USA LAND A WOMAN ON THE MOON AND RETURN HER SAFELY TO EARTH SOMETIME SOON IN THIS MILLENNIUM? SO MY FELLOW AMERICANS, COMMONERS, RICH AND FAMOUS, POOR, HUNGRY "SUPERSTARS OF SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT"......ACTORS, SINGERS, POLITICIANS, PRINCESSES, KINGS AND QUEENS.....ICONS AND LEGENDS IN THEIR OWN MIND.....WILL YOU SACRIFICE SOME OF YOUR MULTIPLE- MILLIONS OR BILLIONS TO HELP THE COMMON MAN ON THE STREET SURVIVE THIS BUSH AND PUTIN INSPIRED RECESSION IN 2009? WILL PRESIDENT OBAMA LEAD US OUT OF THE LIES, DECEIT, AND OPPRESSION OF THE BUSH PRESIDENCIES? I, AS A POET AND SINGER HAVE NO MONEY TO DONATE BUT I GIVE MY WORDS FREELY......WHY DO POETS HAVE TO DIE TO MAKE ANY MONEY?....TOO BAD THEY CAN'T GO ON TV OR MAKE A WORLD TOUR AND CHARGE $500 A SEAT!......LIKE SOME "ARTISTS" DO TO REMAIN RICH AND FAMOUS UNTIL THEIR STAR FADES IN HOLLYWOODLAND. ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF TO MAKE YOU RICH AND FAMOUS.... BUT WHAT TOGETHER WE CAN DO TO LIGHT UP THIS COUNTRY AND ALL WHO HAVE FAITHFULLY SERVED WITHIN IT"S ARMED FORCES OVER AND OVER AGAIN......AND THE GLOW FROM THAT FIRE WILL TRULY LIGHT THE EARTH.... THE MOON, MARS, AND THE OUTER LIMITS OF THE UNIVERSE. LET US BEGIN THIS NEW FRONTIER AND THIS PEACEFUL REVOLUTION OF HOPE ONCE AGAIN!!! GOD SPEED AND GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR REPUBLIC UNDER GOD FOR WHICH IT STANDS... ALL MY LOVE, DANIEL (BORN ON OCTOBER 2, 1961 at the 32nd AIR FORCE HOSPITAL in MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA....GREW UP IN SUBURB OF PHILADELPHIA) (TOO BAD JFK , RFK, MLK AND JFK JR. ARE NOT ALIVE TO SEE THE FIRST "NEGRO" TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
BUT THERE ARE STILL KENNEDYS ALIVE AND WELL AND HIDING OUT IN MASSACHUSETTS PLAYING FOOTBALL:
REST IN PEACE....JACKIE.....JFK.... ...JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JUNIOR , HIS WIFE CAROLINE AND HER SISTER
THE QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN FOR GENERATION X in the 21st CENTURY  WHO MURDERED JFK IN 1963? WAS MARILYN MURDERED IN 1962? WHO MURDERED RFK IN 1968? WAS JFK JR ASSASSINATED IN 1999? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO DIANA IN 1997? FAIRWELL GEORGE....... PEACE, HOPE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING... FOR THE CHILDREN..... Marilyn Monroe
A New Chapter In The Mystery Of Marilyn: It remains one of On August 5, 1962, the body of Marilyn Monroe was found in the bedroom of her An autopsy conducted by Dr. Thomas Noguchi, then deputy medical examiner, concluded that death was due to acute barbiturate poisoning, and a psychiatric team tied to the investigation termed it a "probable suicide." Today, 43 years later, fans from around the world will gather, as they have for decades, near But there is bitterness and frustration as well for the former Whether Enough credence was given to the various reports that in 1982, the The resulting report notes that Miner mentioned the tapes. However, he did not say he had a transcript. Although the report concedes that "factual discrepancies" and "unanswered questions" remained in the case, it did not find enough evidence to warrant launching a criminal investigation. As head of the D.A.'s medical-legal section when Miner said he took "extensive" and "nearly verbatim" notes, and only broke the promise years after Greenson's death, when some Miner's transcript shows Monroe obsessing about the Oscars, describing a sexual encounter with Joan Crawford, craving a father's love from Clark Gable, yearning to be taken seriously as an actress by contemplating doing Shakespeare, and speaking candidly about why her marriages to baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller ended in divorce. At one point, she describes standing naked in front of her full-length mirror assessing the body that captivated the world, knowing that she is slipping into middle age, and commenting that "my breasts are beginning to sag a bit" but "my waist isn't bad" and her buttocks are still "the best." "You are the only person who will ever know the most private, the most secret thoughts of Marilyn Monroe," she tells Greenson, according to Miner's transcript. "I have absolute confidence and trust you will never reveal to a living soul what I say to you." Miner contends that anyone reading the transcript would conclude that "there was no possible way this woman could have killed herself. She had very specific plans for her future. She knew exactly what she wanted to do. She was told by [acting coach] Lee Strasberg, maybe ill-advisedly, that she had Shakespeare in her and she was fascinated with the idea." Miner has shown the transcript to several authors in recent years. In British author Matthew Smith's book "Marilyn's Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death," the excerpts cover the early portion of the tapes, which have Monroe musing on Freud and free association, orgasms, Gable and her agent, Johnny Hyde. Miner was also interviewed for a 1997 ABC documentary called "Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years," but ultimately no excerpts from the transcript were used. The previously unpublished portions of the transcript include descriptions of her feelings for her ex-husbands, a dissection of why her marriages failed, a racy catalog of supposed sexual encounters, details of her dispute with 20th Century Fox, her friendship with Frank Sinatra, and her complaints about housekeeper Eunice Murray, who would discover her body. Smith and Hersh, along with the documentary's producer, Mark Obenhaus, said in interviews this week that they found Miner credible. But to accept Miner's story, one must make a leap of faith - he is the only one still alive who claims to have heard the tapes. Greenson died in 1979, and Miner believes that he destroyed the tapes. "It's like a one-sourced story," Obenhaus said. "You have one guy; he's a credible guy, but he's just one guy." Smith, who said he paid Miner a fee, which he declined to disclose, for use of the Monroe transcript, added: "I believe he is a man of integrity. I've looked at the contents of the tapes, of course, and, frankly, I would think it entirely impossible for John Miner to have invented what he put forward - absolutely impossible." Ronald H. "Mike" Carroll, a former L.A. County deputy district attorney who conducted the 1982 review of Monroe's death, said he and a D.A.'s investigator interviewed Miner for their report and, although he mentioned that Greenson had tapes of the actress, there was no hint that Miner had a transcript. Carroll, the No. 3 prosecutor in the D.A.'s office at the time, who has since retired, said that had he any inkling that Miner was harboring the transcript, he would have obtained a grand jury subpoena to force Miner to hand them over so that he could include them in his report. Miner said he couldn't speak about the transcript then because of his promise to Greenson. "Greenson … was absolutely committed to protecting the privacy of his patients," Miner recalled. "He felt he could not let me see what she had said if there was any possibility that her privacy would be violated." So Miner gave his word. When some suggested that Greenson himself was the actress' killer, Miner went to the psychiatrist's widow and asked for permission to be released from the promise. Greenson's widow, Hildegard, told The Times this week that she didn't know if the tapes existed and never heard her husband discuss them. Still, she does not discount that "That seems like something my husband would do," she said. "He might want to play it to show how she felt and what was going on with her." At the time of the recordings, No one has established the exact date that the recordings were made, although the JFK reference would put it after her singing tribute, a little more than two months before she died. Smith says his research suggests that Hollywood columnist James Bacon, now 91, who met Monroe when she was an unknown in 1949 and would later become a close friend, was at "She was drinking champagne and straight vodka and occasionally popping a pill," Bacon told The Times. "I said, 'Marilyn, the combination of pills and alcohol will kill you.' And she said, 'It hasn't killed me yet.' Then she took another drink and popped another pill. I know at night she took barbiturates." But Bacon added: "She wasn't the least bit depressed. She was talking about going to In the transcript, "And you are going to hear bad language," she warns Greenson. Although She talks about her admiration for Gable, her co-star in "The Misfits": "In the kissing scenes, I kissed him with real affection. I didn't want to go to bed with him, but I wanted him to know how much I liked and appreciated him." And she lambasted members of the Her love for DiMaggio was undimmed. "I love him and always will," she says. "But Joe couldn't stay married to Marilyn Monroe, the famous movie star. Joe has an image in his stubborn Italian head of a traditional Italian wife. She would have to be faithful, do what he tells her, devote all of herself to him. Doctor, you know that's not me." It was different with Miller. "Marrying him was my mistake, not his. He couldn't give me the attention, warmth and affection I need. It's not in his nature. Arthur never credited me with much intelligence. He couldn't share his intellectual life with me. As bed partners, we were so-so." Of her one-night affair with Joan Crawford, she said: "Next time I saw Crawford, she wanted another round. I told her straight-out I didn't much enjoy doing it with a woman. After I turned her down, she became spiteful." In the tapes, As for the president's brother, Robert F. Kennedy, the In the transcripts, As he listened to "You'd have to be without capacity for empathy or emotion" if you weren't moved, he said. Miner, who collaborated with Dr. Seymour Pollack to create the USC Institute of Psychiatry, Law and Behavioral Science in 1963 and taught there over the years, said he would like to see a "re-autopsy" conducted to clear up medical questions that he noticed in the original. "The autopsy clearly shows that the barbiturates - of a massive amount - that entered her body came in through the large intestine," he said. "How do we know that? We know that because there is no indication, in fact there is contraindication, that the capsules were swallowed." He believes that had He also discounts the possibility that she was given a "hot shot" injection of the drugs since neither he nor Noguchi could find any sign of needle marks on her body. (Both the original autopsy report and the 1982 review came to the same conclusion.) Miner had hoped to get Noguchi's support for another autopsy. Noguchi's attorney, Godfrey Isaac, said the former coroner was traveling in It is Miner's theory that the actress took or was given chloral hydrate to render her unconscious - possibly in a soft drink - and someone then dissolved Nembutal in water by breaking open 30 or more capsules and administered the lethal solution by enema. He said that he and Noguchi noticed a discoloration of the large intestine in the original autopsy and that there is a possibility that if the body were exhumed, tissue samples could be taken to determine if she had been given an enema filled with enough drugs to be toxic. Carroll said he had no objections to another autopsy and stressed that he had "no vested interest" in the outcome. But he noted that in his review, he talked to an independent expert, Dr. Boyd G. Stephens, former chief medical examiner-coroner for the city and county of San Francisco, who said the amount of Nembutal in the liver was about twice as much as in the blood, suggesting that the person lived for "quite a period of time" after ingesting the drugs. Carroll told The Times that if Monroe had an enema containing the drugs, it would have gotten into her system rapidly and "you wouldn't expect it to have that ratio in the liver." The D.A.'s review concluded that "the cumulative evidence available to us fails to support any theory of criminal conduct relating to her death." Source: http://tinyurl.com/7o4zt xoxoxoxo
by Joal Ryan Marilyn Monroe was killed by what she loved: An enema. Such is the conclusion of a former Excerpts of John W. Miner's transcripts were published in the The nude body of "Marilyn Monroe bears the stigma of suicide," the 86-year-old Miner writes in a blow-by-blow accounting of the case, also posted on the Times' Website. "That is wrong and must be corrected." Miner argues that it was unlikely that The rumor mill long has been churning out murder suspects with regards to the Monroe death--from CIA operatives to the Kennedys, the latter fueled by Monroe's reputed affairs with both President John F. Kennedy and his brother, then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In his writing, Miner himself doesn't name names. His To Miner, the transcripts are evidence not of Among the highlights of Miner's supposed The actress, addressing her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, riffs her way from James Joyce's Ulysses to Jews in Prior to Greenson's advice, Crawford, who won an Academy Award for Mildred Pierce, "had a gigantic orgasm and shrieked like a maniac" during her one night of passion with Most of Monroe loved Frank Sinatra, but didn't want to marry him. She loved former husband Joe DiMaggio, but he didn't want to be married to her screen persona. She made a mistake marrying playwright Arthur Miller. The "Commander-in-Chief," presumably President Kennedy, is a great man; "Bobby," presumably Robert Kennedy, is a puzzle--"Doctor, what should I do about Bobby?" According to Miner, The author, Matthew Smith, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh, said to have referenced the transcripts in his 1998 book on the Kennedys, are among those who told the newspaper they believe Miner to be a credible source. Such endorsements are key as Miner claims Greenson, who died in 1979, destroyed the For what it's worth, a psychiatry professor who bills himself as a "pioneer in past-life regression therapy," and has a client he is convinced is the reincarnation of Dr. Adrian Finkelstein told E! Online on Monday that while he has yet to ask his subject, identified as recording artist Sherrie Lea, about the transcripts, from what he has gleaned from the Times report, they "most probably" are Monroe's words. Finkelstein even agrees with Miner's basic conclusion, to a point. Based on his interviews with the purportedly reincarnated "She didn't want to die," Finkelstein said, "but she realized she took too much. It was an accidental overdose." Mystery may yet surround Said the doctor of his client: "She is relieved." Source: http://tinyurl.com/bfe46 xoxoxoxo
Ex-Prosecutor Claims Says He Has Notes Of Her Secret Confessions To A Psychiatrist On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, a former prosecutor has unveiled what he says are notes of her secret confessions to a psychiatrist that show her as anything but suicidal. "There was no possible way this woman could have killed herself," John Miner told the Miner, 86, said he would like to see another autopsy performed on Meanwhile, fans were holding their annual gathering Friday near her crypt at Conspiracy theories about Miner is the former head of the Miner said they show a motivated actress who wanted to do Shakespearean plays and promised her psychiatrist that she had thrown all her "pills in the toilet," a possible reference to her reported drug dependency. The notes, which Miner called "extensive" and "nearly verbatim," also show There has been no independent confirmation of the tapes, which Miner said he believes may have been made close to the time of Miner said years after Greenson's death, he broke the promise after some biographers suggested that Greenson might be considered a suspect in Greenson's widow, Hildegard, told the Times that she did not know whether the tapes existed and never heard her husband discuss them. According to Miner's notes, "I want someone else to tell him it's over," she says, according to Miner's notes. Miner has shown his notes to several people in recent years and excerpts appeared in Matthew Smith's book "Marilyn's Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death." However, the Times received previously unpublished parts from Miner. Posted at: 07:33 AM | Permalink  |  |  del.icio.us
WORLD LEADERS AND AMERICAN PEOPLE MOURN IN WASHINGTON AS JFK'S MUTILATED BODY IS RETURNED TO BETHESDA, MARYLANDNovember 23, 2008
MARILYN MONROE SINGS "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT" IN MAY of 1962
PICTURED ABOVE: FRANK SINATRA AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY
JFK WAS IN MEXICO CITY PARADE IN MAY OF 1962
ON AUGUST 5th 1962.....MARILYN WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER BRENTWOOD, CALIFORNIA HOME.....
......THEN ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963.....JFK WAS MURDERED IN DALLAS TEXAS
ON NOVEMBER 23, 1963.....JFK'S MUTILATED BODY WAS BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON, D.C.
....AND WAS LAID IN STATE AS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CRIED AS THEY PASSED BY HIS COFFIN
UNPUBLISHED PHOTO OF JFK FUNERAL ON NOVEMBER 25, 1963 WAS HERE BUT IS NOW HIDDEN
JFK'S LAST INTERVIEW BEFORE HIS MURDER ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963
LET US LEAVE THE TRUTH FOR A NEW GENERATION TO UNCOVER!
NEW YORK....MAY 1962........HAPPY BIRTHDAY JFK LOVE, MARILYN
REST IN PEACE......... MARILYN (NORMA JEANE)..1962 JOHN F. KENNEDY....1963 MLK....RFK....1968 ANWAR SADAT....1970'S JOHN LENNON....1980 DIANA FRANCIS SPENCER WINDSOR..........1997 JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JR...................1999
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ON THIS DAY IN 1963: PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ALLEDGED ASSASSIN CHARGED IN DALLASNovember 23, 2008 DALLAS POLICE ARREST DOCUMENT (SCROLL RIGHT TO VIEW PAGE 2)
PRESS TELETYPE SENT OUT AFTER OSWALD WAS CHARGED
ON NOVEMBER 25, 1963..... JOHN JOHN HAS 3rd BIRTHDAY AS THE WORLD MOURNS THE LOSS OF HIS FATHER.....
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ON THIS DAY IN 1963; LYNDON JOHNSON BECOMES 36TH PRESIDENT OF AMERICANovember 22, 2008CAMALOT ENDS......... 1963: Johnson takes over as US president
Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job today as US president. He was sworn in yesterday just two hours after an assassin shot President John F Kennedy in the head. The former vice-president took his oath on the presidential plane at Andrew's Air Force Base. The new first lady, Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, witnessed the swearing-in together with the dead president's widow Jacqui Kennedy - her stocking still stained with her husband's blood. The party flew to Washington with the assassinated president's coffin after the ceremony. Path to power On arriving in Washington the president said, "I will do my best. That is all I can do." President Johnson will address a joint session of Congress in three day's time where it is likely he will outline his future programme. Commentators say there probably will be little immediate change in policy with a presidential election on the horizon. The new president has come from humble beginnings to become one of the world's most powerful men. The eldest of five children, he was born on a Texan farm in 1908 into a poor background. Mr Johnson worked as a teacher before entering politics as a Texan congressman's secretary in 1931. President Roosevelt soon spotted his talents and made him the director of the National Youth Administration in Texas in 1935. After serving six successive terms in the House of Representatives, he entered the senate in 1948 and rapidly rose through the ranks gaining powerful posts. He made his mark by single-handedly steering the Civil Rights Act through the senate in 1957 despite opposition from within his own party. In 1960 Mr Johnson ran in the Democratic presidential elections which he lost to Kennedy who then invited him to be his running mate. He is regarded by some commentators as a master of compromise with an able political brain. Mr Johnson is married with two daughters, 19 year old Lynda and Lucy aged 16.
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45 YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S.A. PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY MURDERED IN DALLAS, TEXASNovember 22, 2008
"THE NEW FRONTIER OF WHICH I SPEAK IS NOT A SET OF PROMISES .....IT IS A SET OF CHALLENGES." "THE FAITH, THE ENERGY, THE DEVOTION, WHICH WE BRING TO THIS ENDEAVOUR WILL LIGHT OUR COUNTRY AND ALL WHO SERVE IT AND THE GLOW FROM THAT FIRE WILL TRULY LIGHT THE WORLD.'
IN CONTEXT; THE U.S.A. SENT 6 SUCCESSFUL MISSIONS TO THE MOON AND RETURNED 12 AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS TO THE EARTH FROM 1969 to 1972.....THE APOLLO PROGRAM BECAME OUR GUIDING LIGHT INTO THE NEW FRONTEIR.......LET US NOT FORGET THE "ENERGY, THE FAITH, THE VIGOR, AND THE DEVOTION TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY THAT GOT US THERE!! CLICK BELOW TO HEAR PRESIDENT JOHN.F.KENNEDY BEING SWORN IN AS OUR 35th and YOUNGEST PRESIDENT EVER ELECTED. PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S LEGACY: FROM NASA.GOV OverviewIt all started on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Coming just three weeks after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Kennedy's bold challenge set the nation on a journey unlike any before in human history. Eight years of hard work by thousands of Americans came to fruition on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar module and took "one small step" in the Sea of Tranquility, calling it "a giant leap for mankind." Innovation and even improvisation were necessary along the way. In December 1968, rather than letting lunar module delays slow the program, NASA changed plans to keep the momentum going. Apollo 8 would go all the way to the moon and orbit without a lunar module; it was the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Six of the missions -- Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 -- went on to land on the moon, studying soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields and solar wind. Apollos 7 and 9 tested spacecraft in Earth orbit; Apollo 10 orbited the moon as the dress rehearsal for the first landing. An oxygen tank explosion forced Apollo 13 to scrub its landing, but the "can-do" problem solving of the crew and mission control turned the mission into a "successful failure." The program also drew inspiration from Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who lost their lives in a fire during a launch pad test in 1967.  ONE EARTH......... ONE MOON.........ONE GOAL SPACE STATION FREEDOM (ISS)..... BACK TO THE MOON ( LUNA WORLD) ....AND FAR BEYOND MARS....... THE NEW FRONTIER MUST CONTINUE INTO THE COSMOS!!!     Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National NeedsPresident John F. Kennedy EXCERPTS FROM "MOONSPEECH" Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, my copartners in Government, gentlemen-and ladies: The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to "from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union." While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times. These are extraordinary times. And we face an extraordinary challenge. Our strength as well as our convictions have imposed upon this nation the role of leader in freedom's cause. No role in history could be more difficult or more important. We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves--that is our only commitment to others. No friend, no neutral and no adversary should think otherwise. We are not against any man--or any nation--or any system--except as it is hostile to freedom. Nor am I here to present a new military doctrine, bearing any one name or aimed at any one area. I am here to promote the freedom doctrine. I. The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe--Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East--the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny, and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. And theirs is a revolution which we would support regardless of the Cold War, and regardless of which political or economic route they should choose to freedom. For the adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution; nor did they create the conditions which compel it. But they are seeking to ride the crest of its wave--to capture it for themselves. Yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. They have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. They send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. But where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in Vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations.
With these formidable weapons, the adversaries of freedom plan to consolidate their territory--to exploit, to control, and finally to destroy the hopes of the world's newest nations; and they have ambition to do it before the end of this decade. It is a contest of will and purpose as well as force and violence--a battle for minds and souls as well as lives and territory. And in that contest, we cannot stand aside. We stand, as we have always stood from our earliest beginnings, for the independence and equality of all nations. This nation was born of revolution and raised in freedom. And we do not intend to leave an open road for despotism. There is no single simple policy which meets this challenge. Experience has taught us that no one nation has the power or the wisdom to solve all the problems of the world or manage its revolutionary tides--that extending our commitments does not always increase our security--that any initiative carries with it the risk of a temporary defeat--that nuclear weapons cannot prevent subversion--that no free people can be kept free without will and energy of their own--and that no two nations or situations are exactly alike. Yet there is much we can do--and must do. The proposals I bring before you are numerous and varied. They arise from the host of special opportunities and dangers which have become increasingly clear in recent months. Taken together, I believe that they can mark another step forward in our effort as a people. I am here to ask the help of this Congress and the nation in approving these necessary measures................. ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Finally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take. Since early in my term, our efforts in space have been under review. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides--time for a great new American enterprise--time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth. I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshalled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment. Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of leadtime, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by the feat of astronaut Shepard, this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful. But this is not merely a race. Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals: First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar space craft. We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations--explorations which are particularly important for one purpose which this nation will never overlook: the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon--if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Secondly, an additional 23 million dollars, together with 7 million dollars already available, will accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself. Third, an additional 50 million dollars will make the most of our present leadership, by accelerating the use of space satellites for world-wide communications. Fourth, an additional 75 million dollars--of which 53 million dollars is for the Weather Bureau--will help give us at the earliest possible time a satellite system for world-wide weather observation. Let it be clear--and this is a judgment which the Members of the Congress must finally make--let it be clear that I am asking the Congress and the country to accept a firm commitment to a new course of action, a course which will last for many years and carry very heavy costs: 531 million dollars in fiscal '62--an estimated seven to nine billion dollars additional over the next five years. If we are to go only half way, or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty, in my judgment it would be better not to go at all. Now this is a choice which this country must make, and I am confident that under the leadership of the Space Committees of the Congress, and the Appropriating Committees, that you will consider the matter carefully. It is a most important decision that we make as a nation. But all of you have lived through the last four years and have seen the significance of space and the adventures in space, and no one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be of mastery of space. I believe we should go to the moon. But I think every citizen of this country as well as the Members of the Congress should consider the matter carefully in making their judgment, to which we have given attention over many weeks and months, because it is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful. If we are not, we should decide today and this year. This decision demands a major national commitment of scientific and technical manpower, materiel and facilities, and the possibility of their diversion from other important activities where they are already thinly spread. It means a degree of dedication, organization and discipline which have not always characterized our research and development efforts. It means we cannot afford undue work stoppages, inflated costs of material or talent, wasteful interagency rivalries, or a high turnover of key personnel. New objectives and new money cannot solve these problems. They could in fact, aggravate them further--unless every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant gives his personal pledge that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space. X. CONCLUSION In conclusion, let me emphasize one point. It is not a pleasure for any President of the United States, as I am sure it was not a pleasure for my predecessors, to come before the Congress and ask for new appropriations which place burdens on our people. I came to this conclusion with some reluctance. But in my judgment, this is a most serious time in the life of our country and in the life of freedom around the globe, and it is the obligation, I believe, of the President of the United States to at least make his recommendations to the Members of the Congress, so that they can reach their own conclusions with that judgment before them. You must decide yourselves, as I have decided, and I am confident that whether you finally decide in the way that I have decided or not, that your judgment--as my judgment--is reached on what is in the best interests of our country. In conclusion, let me emphasize one point: that we are determined, as a nation in 1961 that freedom shall survive and succeed--and whatever the peril and set-backs, we have some very large advantages. The first is the simple fact that we are on the side of liberty--and since the beginning of history, and particularly since the end of the Second World War, liberty has been winning out all over the globe. A second real asset is that we are not alone. We have friends and allies all over the world who share our devotion to freedom. May I cite as a symbol of traditional and effective friendship the great ally I am about to visit--France. I look forward to my visit to France, and to my discussion with a great Captain of the Western World, President de Gaulle, as a meeting of particular significance, permitting the kind of close and ranging consultation that will strengthen both our countries and serve the common purposes of world-wide peace and liberty. Such serious conversations do not require a pale unanimity--they are rather the instruments of trust and understanding over a long road. A third asset is our desire for peace. It is sincere, and I believe the world knows it. We are proving it in our patience at the test ban table, and we are proving it in the UN where our efforts have been directed to maintaining that organization's usefulness as a protector of the independence of small nations. In these and other instances, the response of our opponents has not been encouraging. Yet it is important to know that our patience at the bargaining table is nearly inexhaustible, though our credulity is limited that our hopes for peace are unfailing, while our determination to protect our security is resolute. For these reasons I have long thought it wise to meet with the Soviet Premier for a personal exchange of views. A meeting in Vienna turned out to be convenient for us both; and the Austrian government has kindly made us welcome. No formal agenda is planned and no negotiations will be undertaken; but we will make clear America's enduring concern is for both peace and freedom--that we are anxious to live in harmony with the Russian people--that we seek no conquests, no satellites, no riches--that we seek only the day when "nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Finally, our greatest asset in this struggle is the American people--their willingness to pay the price for these programs--to understand and accept a long struggle--to share their resources with other less fortunate people--to meet the tax levels and close the tax loopholes I have requested--to exercise self-restraint instead of pushing up wages or prices, or over-producing certain crops, or spreading military secrets, or urging unessential expenditures or improper monopolies or harmful work stoppages--to serve in the Peace Corps or the Armed Services or the Federal Civil Service or the Congress--to strive for excellence in their schools, in their cities and in their physical fitness and that of their children--to take part in Civil Defense--to pay higher postal rates, and higher payroll taxes and higher teachers' salaries, in order to strengthen our society--to show friendship to students and visitors from other lands who visit us and go back in many cases to be the future leaders, with an image of America--and I want that image, and I know you do, to be affirmative and positive--and, finally, to practice democracy at home, in all States, with all races, to respect each other and to protect the Constitutional rights of all citizens. I have not asked for a single program which did not cause one or all Americans some inconvenience, or some hardship, or some sacrifice. But they have responded and you in the Congress have responded to your duty--and I feel confident in asking today for a similar response to these new and larger demands. It is heartening to know, as I journey abroad, that our country is united in its commitment to freedom and is ready to do its duty.
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DID THIS GUY FIRE ALL THOSE BULLETS FROM ONE GUN AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL IN L.A.? OR WAS THERE A SECOND OR THIRD SHOOTER THAT NIGHT IN CALIFORNIA? WHY WAS ALL THE EVIDENCE LOST OR BURNT AND THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL TORN DOWN? THIS SEEMS TO BE ANOTHER UNSOLVED MURDER OF A KENNEDY WHO CARE ASK YOURSELF WHY? AND BOBBY WOULD SAY "WHY NOT" PLEASE CLICK ON THE WEBPAGE BELOW AND ENTER INTO A MYSTERY PAGE...... ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT KENNEDY, BOBBY KENNEDY, JFK JR, MARTIN LUTHER KING, ANWAR SADAT, GERONOMO, PRINCESS DIANA, AND MARILYN MONROE HAVE LEFT THEIR SOULS IN THIS TOMB....THEY ARE THERE IN SPIRIT TO GREET YOU! http://skullandcrossbones.org/articles/skullandbones.htm
THE ZABRUTER FILM HAS NOW BEEN DIGITALIZED AND SHOWS EDITS IN FRAMES ALONG WITH MISSING FRAME NUMBERS AND A STOP FRAME ABILITY TO SEE THE KILL SHOT FROM THE FRONT NOT THE BACK. ACCORDING TO PAPERS AFTER THE MURDER....OSWALD HAD TO SHOOT 3 BULLITS IN 5.5 SECONDS FROM A BOLT ACTION RIFLE.....AND WHAT ABOUT THE "MAGIC BULLITT"? WATCH AGAIN : WAS JFK SHOT FROM BEHIND? Posted at: 10:19 AM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
ENDEAVOUR ASTRONAUTS COMPLETE DIFFICULT SPACEWALK TO REPAIR SPACE STATION FREEDOMNovember 21, 2008
This story was updated at 10:11 p.m. EST. Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Saturday on their mission's longest spacewalk to clean a clogged gear needed to restore full power to the orbiting laboratory. Endeavour shuttle astronauts Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen spent nearly seven hours cleaning and greasing up a 10-foot (3-meter) wide gear that rotates the station's starboard solar wings so they always face the sun. It was the third, and most grueling, spacewalk dedicated to the task and left at least one of the spacewalkers breathing hard by the end. "I think I'm finally getting the hang of this," Stefanyshyn-Piper said during the spacewalk. While she and Bowen toiled outside, engineers on Earth wrestled with glitches afflicting the space station's new water recycler, which is designed to convert astronaut sweat and urine back into drinking water. Delivered by NASA's space shuttle Endeavour, the water recycler is the centerpiece of a $250 million environmental control system that is crucial to the station's ability to double its crew size next year. A sensor is apparently interfering with a motor that drives the system's urine processor centrifuge, leading to shut downs after about two hours of operations. Astronauts will remove some shock absorbers tomorrow in an attempt to fix it, station flight director Ginger Kerrick said late Saturday. The water recycler has distilled some water from urine, though not the quantity hoped for by flight controllers. But the amount, about one-third of that sought after, is enough to collect much-needed samples for the return trip to Earth, Kerrick said. Flight controllers told Endeavour's crew today that, with those samples in hand, they currently don't plan to extend the planned 15-day shuttle flight by a day. Gear-greasing in space Saturday's six-hour and 57-minute spacewalk marked the third of four planned for Endeavour's seven-astronaut crew. The astronauts swapped out five of the six bearings they hoped to replace while cleaning and greasing up the massive rotary joint. The mechanism hasn't worked properly for more than a year, when it was found to be clogged with metal shavings from grinding components. Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen used mitten-like cloths to wipe metal shavings from the gear and grease-spewing guns to lubricate its mottled metal ring. They had to share grease guns and prepared a makeshift backup cobbled together from one of the caulk guns in Endeavour's heat shield repair kit to make up for equipment lost when a $100,000 tool bag escaped from Stefanyshyn-Piper's grasp in a Tuesday excursion. The last bearing, one of 12 total spaced around the paddlewheel-like gear, will be replaced during their mission's fourth spacewalk on Monday. The other six were replaced during earlier excursions. "We really appreciate how hard you guys are all working," Mission Control called up to the spacewalkers. "I know it's painful to call it quits like that, but we think it's the right thing to do." Final spacewalk ahead Monday's spacewalk will send astronauts out to a similar rotary joint on the space station's port side. That joint is working fine, but NASA wants it greased up for good measure. A series of maintenance chores on the station's Japanese Kibo laboratory are also on tap. Saturday's orbital work marked the 117th spacewalk dedicated to the construction and maintenance of the 10-year-old International Space Station. "Ah, what a beautiful sunset," Stefanyshyn-Piper said as the spacewalk neared its end. It was the second career spacewalk for Bowen, who now has 13 hours and 49 minutes of orbital work and will venture outside the station once more on Monday with crewmate Shane Kimbrough, who choreographed today's work from inside Endeavour. Bowen and Kimbrough are making their first spaceflight and spacewalks on the mission. Space station commander Michael Fincke commended the spacewalkers and Stefanyshyn-Piper in particular as she completed her third and last spacewalk for Endeavour's mission. "You helped build us. You helped fix us. You've always been here for us," Fincke told her. "Thank you very much." The spacewalk was the fifth for Stefanyshyn-Piper, who ended with 33 hours and 42 minutes and is leading Endeavour's spacewalking team. She is second most experienced female spacewalker, behind fellow NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and ranks 25th on the list of the most experienced spacewalkers in the world. "This was my last one, so I'm now turning it over to you and Shane," Stefanshyn-Piper said to her crewmates. "It's time for the new guys." Posted at: 11:47 AM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
U.S.A SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BLASTS OFF FOR SPACE STATIONNovember 16, 2008ON THIS DAY IN 2009;
WASHINGTON — The space shuttle Atlantis roared into space Monday afternoon to begin a vital 11-day delivery run to the International Space Station. The shuttle blasted off at 2:28 p.m. EST (1928 GMT) from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The liftoff was the second-to-last planned flight for the 24-year-old orbiter — Atlantis is slated to be retired with its two sister shuttles in about a year. "All the vehicle systems are outstanding today, the weather is near perfect," said launch director Mike Leinbach just before launch. "We wish you good luck, Godspeed, and we'll see you just after Thanksgiving," he said to the crew. "We really appreciate all the effort that’s gone into making this launch attempt possible," responded commander Charlie Hobaugh. "We're excited to take this incredible vehicle for a ride and meet up with another incredible vehicle, the International Space Station." Hobaugh is leading the six-member crew on the STS-129 resupply mission to ferry about 27,250 pounds (12,360 kg) worth of spare parts to the station. "Our flight is one of the first flights that externally will provide a lot of the spare parts and the long lead type of replacement items that are required to keep [the station] healthy and running for quite some time," Hobaugh said in a preflight news conference. Among the large parts packed onto the shuttle are spare high-pressure gas tanks, pumps, power units and battery supplies, as well as parts for the station's robotic arm. The equipment is loaded into two massive platforms due to be installed on the station's backbone-like metal truss. The delivery should help set up the orbiting laboratory to continue to run after the space shuttles stop flying. "These are the spares that will allow us to utilize the investment that we've put in," said Mike Sarafin, the lead shuttle flight director for the mission. Rookies no more Flying with Hobaugh are pilot Barry "Butch" Wilmore and mission specialists Mike Foreman, Bobby Satcher, Randy Bresnik and Leland Melvin. Wilmore, Satcher and Bresnik are rookie spaceflyers. "We don’t use the "R" word at all," Hobaugh said. "Everybody here is an astronaut. We consider them, even though they have not been in the environment yet, seasoned astronauts." A seventh crewmember is slated to join the STS-129 crew for the ride home: NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, a space station Expedition 21 flight engineer who's been in space for about three months, plans to fill the shuttle's remaining seat for the journey back to Earth. The astronauts expect to spend Thanksgiving in space. Bresnik, in particular, will also miss another major family event. His wife Rebecca is expected to give birth to their second child – a baby girl – while he is space, according to ABC News. Foreman, Satcher and Bresnik plan to carry out the mission's three planned spacewalks, or extravehicular activities (EVAs). "All of the EVAs that were doing are six or seven hours and there's a number of complicated tasks in each one of them," Satcher said. In addition to the spacewalks, the crew plans some complex robotic work to help attach the new cargo carriers to the station and transfer the spare parts. "All that in 11 days,” Sarafin said. "It’s a lot to package into a finite period of time; it’s a challenging mission." Monday’s launch marked the start of NASA’s 129th shuttle mission since the fleet began flying in 1981, as well as the 31st liftoff for Atlantis. Tweeting the shuttle The launch also marked the first time NASA has invited Twitter followers to attend a liftoff. About 100 fans gathered in Cape Canaveral for a two-day "tweetup" to view the flight and learn more about NASA and the shuttle mission. "I can't stop jumping up and down!" said Jan DuRaine, who travelled from Valley Springs, Calif. to view the launch. "I want to experience the sights, the noise and the vibration from the sound waves. To me, this is the experience of a lifetime." Attendees said they relished they opportunity even as two Atlantis astronauts – Satcher and Melvin – plan to tweet about their mission from space. Satcher is posting updates as Astro_Bones and ZeroG_MD, with Leland writing under the name Astro_Flow. "The behind-the-scenes aspect intrigues me," said Tina Cassler of Lauderdale, Minnesota. "I hope to learn a great deal and better understand all that they do at NASA." Space Shuttle Mission: STS-129 Posted at: 08:03 PM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
ON NOVEMBER 14, 1973: ENGLAND'S ONLY PRINCESS ANNE MARRIES A COMMONERNovember 15, 2008ON THIS DAY IN 1973 : ENGLAND'S PRINCESS ANNE MARRIES:
1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne  The wedding of the Queen's only daughter, Princess Anne, has taken place at Westminster Abbey. Princess Anne, 23, married Mark Phillips, a lieutenant in the Army. An estimated 500 million television viewers around the world are believed to have watched the ceremony. Princess Anne wore an embroidered Tudor-style wedding dress with a high collar and mediaeval sleeves. Lieutenant Phillips was in the full scarlet and blue uniform of his regiment, the Queen's Dragoon Guards. The princess' bridesmaid was her nine-year-old cousin, Lady Sarah-Armstrong Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret. Her youngest brother, nine-year-old Prince Edward, was her pageboy. The wedding day had been declared a national holiday and crowds lined the streets to watch the newly married couple on their way back to Buckingham Palace. Many well-wishers had spent the night sleeping in the Mall to guarantee a good view of the pair who travelled in a horse-drawn carriage. Later they appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace and waved to the crowd below. After a wedding lunch, the Princess and her new husband left to stay overnight at White House Lodge in Richmond Park. They are due to travel to Barbados tomorrow where they will board the royal yacht Britannia for 18 days sailing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The couple met through their mutual interest in horse riding and their engagement was announced in May. It is only the second time in more than 200 years that a member of the British royal family has married a commoner. The last commoner to marry into the royal family was the Queen Mother in 1923.
USA APOLLO 15 ASTRONAUTS RIDE LUNAR ROVER ON MOON
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U.S.A. SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR BLASTS OFF INTO THE NIGHT SKY OF FLORIDA/ LANDS SAFELYNovember 14, 2008
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APOLLO 12 BLASTS OFF FOR SECOND MOON LANDINGNovember 14, 2008ON THIS DAY IN 1969.... AMERICA SETS SAIL FOR 2nd MOON LANDING
"The Pinpoint Mission..." Mission Objective
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NASA MARS PROBE COMPLETES MISSIONNovember 10, 2008
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INDIAN SATELLITE NOW IN OUR MOON'S LUNAR ORBITNovember 8, 2008
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MADONNA HOSTS MICKEY MOUSE CLUB AT DODGER STADIUMNovember 7, 2008
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U.S.A. CITIZENS ELECT FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENTNovember 5, 2008Barack Obama Makes History!Originally posted Tuesday November 04, 2008 11:00 PM EST From PEOPLE.com
While handily taking the New England states, Obama gained the lead in the race by also winning the hotly contested Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Western states helped put him firmly in the victory column, and the announcement that he had the necessary electoral-college votes was made immediately after the polls closed in California at 11 p.m. ET. Though race was a theme that wafted throughout a tough fight against Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin, most political pundits credited the poor economy as the central factor in the minds of Americans once they closed the curtains in polling booths. In his concession speech, delivered shortly after Obama was declared the victor, McCain told a crowd of disappointed supporters, "We have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly." McCain said he'd called Obama to offer his congratulations, and acknowledged the historic nature of his rival's win. "This is an historic election and I recognize the special significance it has for African Americans," said McCain. "I have always believed that America offers opportunities for those who have the will to seize it … Let there be no reason for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on earth." President Bush also called Obama to congratulate him on his victory. Obama's onetime rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, said in statement, "Tonight, we are celebrating an historic victory for the American people. This was a long and hard fought campaign but the result was well worth the wait." In a presidential campaign that stretched over two years, Obama triumphed with the help of early support from Oprah Winfrey and endorsements from a variety of Hollywood stars like Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon. Only last weekend, he was serenaded in concert by Bruce Springsteen. 'Transformational Figure'Since first appearing on the national stage only four years ago, when he walloped Illinois radio host Alan Keyes to become a U.S. senator, the Chicago Democrat, 47, has emerged as his generation's political rock star, forging a path to the White House with sharp focus and stunning speed.Always, it seemed, there were huge crowds gathered to see the charismatic candidate, whom Colin Powell, in his own endorsement of Obama, labeled "a transformational figure." But there were tough personal times, too, such as when Obama broke off campaigning for two days in the final stretch to visit his gravely ill grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, 86, in Hawaii. Dunham died two days before the election, never living to see Obama rise to this pinnacle. The president-elect takes with him to the White House on Inauguration Day Jan. 20 his wife of 16 years, Michelle Obama, and their two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Obama is expected to make his victory speech at a rally in Chicago's Grant Park, where 70,000 guests received coveted tickets to the event – and up to 1 million people could show up, according to Chicago authorities. Posted at: 11:40 AM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
BRITNEY SPEARS "MANAGER" RELEASES NEW ALBUM COVER FOR HER NEXT CD.....TO BE RELEASED ON HER 27th BIRTHDAY ON DECEMBER 2October 31, 2008Originally posted Friday October 31, 2008 06:30 PM EDT
"The song is an up-tempo track," says the 26-year-old pop singer's official Web site. "It's gonna be absolutely crazy! " The CD, which has already produced the hit "Womanizer," arrives in stores Dec. 2. – Mike Fleeman  Credit: Cousart-Ramirez-Rios/ JFX Online Published: Tuesday November 04, 2008 06:00 AM EST FREEZE FRAMEBritney Spears enjoys an icy drink after a pit stop at a Studio City, Calif., Starbucks on Monday. The pop star has earned her treat: She's been working out as she ramps up for the Dec. 2 release of her new album, Circus. Britney Spears Wants to 'Connect With Y'all'By Mike FleemanBritney Spears is overhauling her Web site, Britneyspears.com, so she can interact with fans.
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PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES ARE BASEBALL CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!!October 29, 2008Octoberphest! Phillies win World Series!!
Phils prevail in Game 5, clinch first Fall Classic title since '80
By Ken Mandel / MLB.com PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies fans returned en masse to Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday for the historic conclusion of baseball's first-ever suspended World Series game, adding a breeze to the chilly October night by waving white towels and cheering without stop. When Game 5 was over, Philadelphia's title-starved fans were rewarded for their devotion with a World Series championship. They roared when closer Brad Lidge recorded the final out of a 4-3 victory over Tampa Bay, a team whose own inspiring worst-to-first story ended with the Phillies gathered in a dogpile in front of the mound. "I never felt better in my life to get pummeled like that," said Lidge, who embraced Carlos Ruiz as others swarmed him. "[Ryan] Howard gave me a good shakedown. This is what you dream about. For the past two days, I wasn't letting myself think about what could be." This is what could be. The Phillies delivered the long-awaited goods by knocking back the Rays and more than a quarter-century of history on a 44-degree night. On a night when play began in the bottom of the sixth inning, they completed a five-game triumph to earn the franchise's second World Series championship in its 125-year history. The achievement triggered a baseball celebration not seen since Oct. 21, 1980, when Tug McGraw fanned Kansas City's Willie Wilson and leaped into Mike Schmidt's arms. Twenty-eight years and eight days later, Lidge struck out Eric Hinske and the dogpile ensued, a group hug extending all the way up into the stands. "I always thought we could win the World Series," manager Charlie Manuel said to the TV audience and the crowd just after the World Series trophy was awarded. "I knew we could beat anybody in our league. I look at what I see in our guys, I see chemistry and attitude and our makeup and how much we like to play and how much the Philadelphia fans back us, I know we can win the World Series. "This is for Philadelphia. This is for our fans. I look around here and who's the world champions? I thank you." Later, quietly in his office, Manuel shared a moment with Dallas Green, the only other man to have managed the Phillies to a World Series championship. "That is a tough chair to sit in," Green said, referring to the seat behind the manager's desk. "It's nice to have company. He earned this." The Phillies earned this last victory, down to the final strike. Lidge allowed the tying run to reach second base with one out in the ninth, but he struck out Hinske and fell to his knees. Howard tackled from the first-base side. Chase Utley raised both arms and threw his glove to the dirt. Manuel hugged coaches in the dugout.
Shortstop Jimmy Rollins kissed his finger and raised it to the air. Shane Victorino and Eric Bruntlett raced in from the outfield. "The most amazing dash of my life," Bruntlett said. Many in that dogpile made the magic happen, from a 24-6 record in the final 30 games to a stirring run through October. At the top of the list was Cole Hamels, the ace lefty who pitched the first part of this split Game 5 and won Game 1. Hamels was named the Series MVP, joining Willie Stargell (1979), Darrell Porter (1982), Orel Hershiser (1988), Livan Hernandez (1997) as the only players win a League Championship Series MVP and a World Series MVP the same year. The Phillies would need other heroes to win Game 5, once Hamels passed off the game to his teammates Wednesday. And several came through. Geoff Jenkins secured his World Series moment when he led off the bottom of the sixth with a leadoff double to deep right-center -- his first postseason hit. He went to third on a sacrifice and celebrated his way to home plate after Akinori Iwamura couldn't field a Jayson Werth popup behind second. "You dream about getting that one big hit to help the team win," said Jenkins, who was told 10 minutes before that he would be hitting. "Tonight was that night for me." That lead was short-lived, as Rocco Baldelli muscled a game-tying homer off Ryan Madson over the left-field flower bed in the seventh. Jason Bartlett singled and was sacrificed to second by J.P. Howell, setting up a brilliant defensive play by second baseman Chase Utley. With Bartlett racing around third on an up-the-middle roller, Utley faked a throw the first -- knowing he had no shot of getting Iwamura -- then threw home to get Bartlett at the plate. In the seventh, Pat Burrell picked the ideal time for his first World Series hit, pounding a double off the wall in left-center. Bruntlett, the pinch-runner, went to third on a groundout and scored what would be the winning run of a championship season on Pedro Feliz's tiebreaking single. J.C. Romero got the win, recording four outs, while Lidge sealed Philadelphia's first major championship for any pro sports teams since the 76ers won the 1983 NBA title.
"There's good teams and there's determined teams, and a determined team makes a good team," Brett Myers said. "We were determined and set out to do what we needed to accomplish. This is the time to party. All those other champagne spraying times were fun, but this is the real one. I'm trying to soak everything in." Jamie Moyer, the native son who attended the victory parade for that 1980 triumph, now will ride on a float for the first time in his 22-year career on Friday. So will 40-year-old Matt Stairs and organizational pillars Rollins, Howard, Utley and Burrell. For these Phillies, the victory carves out an identity of their own. Veterans Stadium, home to the 1980 Phillies and the '93 team that last went to he Series, went down after the 2003 season. It now serves as the parking lot for the new place, and J-Roll, Ut, Howie, the Flyin' Hawaiian, Chooch, J-Dub, Hollywood, Mad Dog and Lidger have christened the building their own. They believe this is just the beginning. "We want to be the new Braves and Yankees, and go to the playoffs every year for centuries," Hamels said. "We don't have to live in anyone's shadow. We're our own team. I have a memory with every one of these guys for as long as I'll live." "We're winners," added Howard. "Rejoice. Nobody can take that away from the city of Philadelphia." The fans have been the constant. As the World Series trophy was hoisted by GM Pat Gillick nearby, Phillies president and CEO David Montgomery told the crowd: "To our consummate Philadelphia fans, we're so proud that we are the Philadelphia Phillies and our first name is Philadelphia. We represent our city." The Phillies went undefeated at home in the postseason, the first team to achieve that feat since the 1999 Yankees. The players know how much that meant to the loyal base. "Everyone who feels like they won something, too, and that's a great feeling," Jenkins said. "It's an amazing feeling." Ken Mandel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. ********************************************************   
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IT'S OFFICIAL!.......IT'S OVER!........ HER MAGESTY IS FREEOctober 26, 2008
"Madonna is a New Yorker," says one source close to the Michigan-born singer. "She will probably want to raise the kids in New York." The pop star – whose rep, Liz Rosenberg, confirms the split with Ritchie but tells the Associated Press that a settlement "has not been finalized" – has homes in New York City, Los Angeles, London and in Wiltshire, England. Why did Madonna, 50, end up living in London? "In a marriage there are compromises," says the source. "[Living in London] was one of them." As for her children – Lourdes, 12, Rocco, 8, and David, 3 – they are homeschooled, so a move would not involve uprooting them from classes. "She plans on keeping the kids with her," adds the source. According to another source, the marriage faltered for a number of reasons, including the singer's "spiritual, emotional and romantic" bond with New York Yankees power-hitter Alex Rodriguez. **********************************************
Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are ending their almost-eight-year marriage, a rep for the singer confirmed Wednesday. "The main concern for Madonna and Guy are their children – the security of their children in all senses of the word and the wellbeing of their children," rep Liz Rosenberg tells PEOPLE. "That's the priority for both of them moving forward. It's a sad situation." The former couple, who have Rocco, 8, and David, 3, together and Madonna's 12-year-old daughter Lourdes with ex Carlos Leon, announced their divorce in a statement. "Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after seven-and-a-half years of marriage. They have both requested that the media maintain respect for their family at this difficult time," says the statement. The statement says they have not agreed to a settlement. "The judgment of the court would be to try and assess what they came in with and divide what they built up fairly equally," said David Allison, a lawyer with Family Law in Partnership, a London firm, told the Associated Press. In a front page story Wednesday, Britain's Sun newspaper claimed that the couple will be issuing a statement "imminently" on the demise of their often tempestuous relationship, which has been the subject of much speculation in recent months. Madonna, 50, is in the midst of her Sticky and Sweet tour and is set to play Boston Wednesday night. Ritchie, 40, was believed to be on the U.K. set of his latest film, Sherlock Holmes. Reached at their home, his family declined to comment. Timeline: Madonna and Guy's Year Together – and Apart- 2008Originally posted Thursday October 16, 2008 10:15 AM EDT
As news broke of the impending divorce of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, the pair were on different continents – as usual. He was on the U.K. set of his latest film, Sherlock Holmes; she was in the U.S. continuing her Sticky and Sweet tour. A look back at their separate lives: Plus: See their relationship in pictures. • February 6: Stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and Demi Moore show up to support Madonna's fundraiser to benefit UNICEF and her Raising Malawi charity. Ritchie didn't. • February 13: Madonna spends pre-Valentine's day without Ritchie at the Berlin premiere of Filth & Wisdom, the short film she directed. • March 10: Ritchie is absent when Madonna is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York City. She thanks "teachers, friends and family," but not her husband. • April 29: While Madonna is in New York City to celebrate the release of her CD Hard Candy, Ritchie takes kids Lourdes, now 12, and Rocco, 8, (but not David, 3) to the London premiere of Speed Racer. • May 21: The couple reunite in Cannes for the premiere of her documentary, I Am Because We Are. During a Nightline interview, Madonna is asked if Ritchie is around and she responds wryly, "I think he's in a bar somewhere. While I'm working, he's playing." • June: Madonna and the children head to New York City where she spends weeks rehearsing her tour. Ritchie remains abroad. Divorce buzz builds – but is quieted when the director joins his family June 30. • July 13: In a public display of togetherness, the couple take a stroll with Rocco and Lourdes in New York. • August 16: Ritchie throws a 50th birthday party for Madonna in London. • August 23: Madonna kicks off her Sticky and Sweet tour in Wales. Ritchie lends support backstage, according to the singer's rep. • September 1: The pair attend the London premiere of Ritchie's film RocknRolla together, but he heads to the Toronto International Film Festival alone later in the week. • September 10: The duo celebrate another birthday together – his 40th – partying low-key at The Punchbowl, a London pub that Ritchie partly owns. • October: Madonna kicks off the North American leg of her tour. Ritchie remains in the U.K. to film Sherlock Holmes. On Oct. 13, Madonna flies solo at the New York premiere of Filth & Wisdom. RELATED GALLERY: • 2001: Inside Madonna & Guy's dream wedding   Posted at: 02:05 PM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
"MADONNA" LOUISE FINALLY SAYS ...."IT'S OVER"....BUT WILL SHE DIVORCE GUY?October 20, 2008
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MADONNA AND HUSBAND WED DECEMBER 22, 2000 AND CHRISTEN SON ROCCO ON THIS DATE IN 2000October 15, 2008 Credit: Martin Cleaver/AP Published: Wednesday October 15, 2008 15:15 PM EDT STANDING ON CEREMONYThe day before their Dec. 22, 2000 wedding, Madonna and Ritchie held an evening christening for then-4-month-old son Rocco at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland. The next day, the couple walked down the aisle to the sound of a lone bagpiper at Skibo Castle before 220 guests, including pals Gwyneth Paltrow and Sting. At the ceremony Rocco wore a kilt that matched his father's, and Madonna's daughter Lourdes, then 4, led the processional, tossing handfuls of red rose petals. Posted at: 11:10 AM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
Orbital Arrival: Fresh Astronaut Crew Docks at Space StationOctober 12, 2008ON THIS DAY IN 2007: NEW CREW ARRIVES AT SPACE STATION By Tariq MalikStaff Writer posted: 12 October 2007 11:49 a.m. ET This story was updated at 1:39 p.m. EDT. The first female commander of the International Space Station (ISS) arrived at the orbital laboratory Friday alongside a veteran cosmonaut and Malaysia's first astronaut to complete a two-day chase aboard their Russian spacecraft. ISS Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, of NASA, made her space station return at about 10:50 a.m. EDT (1450 GMT) as her Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft docked at the orbital laboratory. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor accompanied Whitson to the ISS, where the outpost's current three-man crew gave them a warm welcome. "The biggest gift is our friends who are here on time," said cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, the station's current Expedition 15 commander. "Everybody is smiling and happy, so the fun is only about to begin." Malenchenko, an Expedition 16 flight engineer, commanded the Soyuz TMA-11's flight as it docked at an Earth-facing berth on the station's Russian-built Zarya control module while both spacecraft flew 220 miles (354 kilometers) above Central Asia. "This looks just like Darth Vader's ship," said astronaut Julie Payette, serving as spacecraft communicator at NASA's ISS Mission Control in Houston, Texas, after seeing views of the space station from Soyuz cameras. Crew change ahead Whitson and Malenchenko, both veterans of past ISS crews, are beginning a six-month spaceflight and will replace Yurchikhin and Expedition 15 flight engineer Oleg Kotov on the space station during a nine-day crew swap. NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, currently aboard the ISS, will stay on for the first stage of the Expedition 16 mission. Yurchikhin and Kotov are due to land Oct. 21 to complete their own six-month mission to the space station. Shukor, a trained orthopedic surgeon who is flying under a commercial agreement between the Malaysian government and Russia, will spend about nine days performing science experiments and observing the Earth before returning home with the Expedition 15 crew. "I feel very well and I have lots of Russian and American friends up onboard with me here," said Shukor, who spoke to his father from orbit via a video link. "I love you very much and when I come back I hope share my experiences with you and with all the Malaysian people." Malaysia's Science, Technology and Innovations minister Jamaludin Jarjis thanked Russia's Federal Space Agency, NASA and their ISS partners during a post-docking press conference at Russia's ISS Mission Control. "Without your contributions we wouldn't be able to see one of our men in space," Jarjis said. "We are committed to remaining a permanent member of this [space] community." Busy six months in space Both astronauts spent about 185 days aboard the ISS, Whitson as an Expedition 5 flight engineer in 2002 and Malenchenko as Expedition 7 commander in 2003. Malenchenko also visited the ISS during NASA's STS-106 shuttle flight in 2000 and is a veteran commander of Russia's Mir Space Station. Whitson said that long-duration experience will come in handy on Expedition 16, during which her crew hopes to host up to three visiting NASA space shuttle crews, Europe's first unmanned cargo ship and two automated Russian resupply ships. "Yuri and I will both be ready to step in very quickly," Whitson said in preflight NASA interview. "Which, I think, we’re going to need because this mission is, a very aggressive mission." Each of the NASA shuttle missions -- the first of which is set to launch Oct. 23 -- will bring a new flight engineer to replace the third slot on Whitson's crew as well as a major addition to the ISS structure. The shuttle Discovery is slated to deliver the Harmony connecting node to the ISS later this month, with the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory due at the station in December. A Canadian-built addition to the station's robotic arm and the first segment of Japan's three-part Kibo laboratory are currently scheduled to launch in February. "[W]e have a very exciting mission planned," Whitson said. "I'm looking forward to all the new elements that we're going to be able to ad to the International Space Station."
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GOOD DEEDS AND BIRTHDAY WISHESOctober 2, 2008Good Deeds
Britney Spears Goes Back to School – for a CauseOriginally posted 10/01/2008 05:50PM A New York middle school got a surprise visitor: Britney Spears.
ON THIS DAY IN 1961....I WAS BORN IN MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA (DANIEL JOSEPH THOMAS REED).....CONFIRMED ROMAN CATHOLIC (47th Birthday) ON DECEMBER 2, 1981....BRITNEY JEAN SPEARS WAS BORN IN KENTWOOD, LOUISIANA.....(27th Birthday)
ON JULY 1, 1961....PRINCESS DIANA WAS BORN IN THE UK.....(37 Years old and holding)
ON AUGUST 16, 1958..... MADONNA LOUISE “NONNI” VERONICA-CICCONE-PENN-.RICHIE.... WAS BORN IN BAY CITY (DETROIT) MICHIGAN.....(50th Birthday)  ON FEBRUARY 1, 1968......LISA MARIE PRESLEY WAS BORN...(40th Birthday) Posted at: 06:41 PM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
BACK TO THE MOON..... THEN ON TO MARSOctober 1, 2008
GLASGOW, Scotland — NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin defended his agency's determination to establish a lunar colony before embarking on a manned Mars mission Sept. 30, arguing that those who prefer to focus only on Mars are overestimating what is known about the Moon and underestimating the difficulties of going to Mars. Addressing the International Astronautical Congress here, Griffin said the U.S. Apollo program spent a total of just 27 working days on the Moon, which he said is as big as Africa and merits substantially more exploration. Several space agencies, including some in Europe, say their scientists are much less interested in the Moon than in Mars and that, since doing both is beyond their means, are weighing whether to focus on Mars. Griffin wondered whether those pushing Mars-oriented efforts are fully cognizant of the difficulties of sending astronauts to Mars, and the amount of preparation needed before a mission is pursued. Griffin said that before any attempt to send a crew to Mars is made, the sponsoring agency or agencies must at least be able to conduct the following mission: Send astronauts to the international space station for a six- or nine-month visit, after which they would be sent to the Moon for a similar amount of time, equipped with no additional supplies beyond those sent with them to the station. Once they completed their Moon visit, this same group of astronauts would return directly to the space station for another six- to nine-month visit, again with no resupply. Only then would they return home. Griffin said this mission would simulate what it will take to send astronauts to Mars and return them home. "I am not saying that we have to have conducted such a mission, but that we have to be confident in our ability to conduct it before we send astronauts to Mars," Griffin said. "Otherwise, the crew we send to Mars will not come back."
Even as its mission winds down, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has spotted snow falling from the Martian sky. Phoenix's camera and meteorological equipment have shown clouds and fog forming during the night as the air gets colder. "This is now occurring every night," said Jim Whiteway of York University in Toronto and lead scientist for Phoenix's Meteorological Station. A laser instrument that is pointed directly up into Mars' atmosphere has also detected snow from clouds about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the spacecraft's landing site. Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground. There are no conventional photographs of the snowfall. Scientists knew from previous studies that it snows on Mars. But they've never seen it happening from the ground. "Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars," Whiteway said. "We'll be looking for signs that the snow may even reach the ground." The craft has also seen new hints of the planet's watery past. Meanwhile, mission scientists are trying to squeeze in all the science they can before the Martian sun sets for the winter, including a surprise attempt to switch on Phoenix's as-yet unused microphone. Mission scientists announced the plans for Phoenix's remaining weeks of activity at a press conference Monday. They also revealed information that will help them to "begin rewriting the book of Martian chemistry," said Michael Hecht, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., and lead scientist for Phoenix's Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA). Phoenix landed in the northern plains of Mars on May 25 and has been using its onboard instruments to analyze the Martian dirt and subsurface ice layer at its landing site above Mars' arctic circle. The mission, extended once by NASA through the end of September, was extended again earlier this month through the end of December. But it's unlikely Phoenix will last that long. What's next As winter approaches in the Northern hemisphere of Mars, the sun dips lower in the horizon, providing Phoenix' solar arrays with less and less sunlight to convert into electricity to run its instruments. Eventually the sun will set above the arctic circle alltogether. As this happens, the Phoenix team is "trying to get the most out of these science instruments in the last few days," said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager, also of JPL. Scientists working on Phoenix's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer are planning to attempt to fill the instrument's four (of eight total) remaining ovens will Martian dirt and ice samples. The team particularly wants to get a pure-ice or ice-rich sample, said TEGA lead scientist William Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson. The team has run into problems gathering ice samples, with the "ice almost welding itself to the inside of the scoop" on the end of Phoenix's robotic arm, Boynton said, though he added: "We're still optimistic that we can fill all four before we run out of power." Phoenix will also look for signs of organics in the samples delivered to TEGA, by comparing them to a blank brought to rule out any contamination brought from Earth. While they would be a thrilling find, organics would not necessarily indicate life — they could be deposited by comets and preserved in the ice, said Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith, also of the University of Arizona. The lander will also look at the different isotopes (or types of an element with different numbers of neutrons) in the subsurface ice and the water vapor in the Martian air to see whether the two water sources interact, Smith said. As a bonus, mission scientists are going to try to switch on the microphone that was originally installed on Phoenix to be used during the lander's descent. While that use was scrapped, the Phoenix scientists have to decided now to "try and listen to Mars for the first time," Smith said. "We're not sure if it's going to work, but we're going to make a try," he added. Phoenix will also try to sample the dirt underneath a rock, dubbed "Headless," that it successfully moved with its 7.7 foot-long (2.4 meter-long) robotic arm last week. Images have already shown some color differences in the dirt under the rock. "We're hoping to find a different chemistry under the rock than next to the rock," Smith said. New Martian chemistry So far, the chemistry of the surface layers near Phoenix's landing site has been a bit different that anticipated. TEGA has identified several minerals that suggest that the surface there has interacted with water sometime in the Martian past. These include silicates similar in structure to mica, only softer, and calcium carbonate. Examples of carbonates on Earth are chalk and antacid tablets. The suite of MECA instruments have shown that the pH of the soil near Phoenix is approximate 8.3 — or slightly basic — "almost exactly the pH of ocean water on Earth," Hecht said. MECA has also found evidence of perchlorates, which could act as an energy source for any potential past Martian microbes and could have a significant impact on Mars' water chemistry. For one thing, they could help explain why Phoenix's fork-like probe has found that "the soil in our little corner of Mars is very, very dry," Hecht said. Perchlorate could be soaking up any water in the soil above the ice layer, he explained. Based on models of Phoenix's energy decline, mission engineers don't expect Phoenix to last much past late November. Eventually, the sun will set on Phoenix completely, and carbon dioxide ice will likely deposit on it. That combined with the ever-decreasing temperatures of winter will likely destroy the spacecrafts components. "Nobody anticipates that the vehicle will survive that harsh winter," Goldstein said.
NASA scientists hope to hear what it sounds like on the surface of Mars for the first time when they attempt to switch on the Phoenix Mars Lander's microphone in the next week or two, mission leaders announced on Monday. "This is definitely a first," said Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith, of the University of Arizona, Tucson. Phoenix's microphone is a part of the Mars Descent Imager system that was included on the underside of the lander to take downward-looking images during the three minutes of descent before the spacecraft touched down on the planet's surface. The MARDI on Phoenix was originally designed for the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander missions, which were eventually canceled. The system is also similar to the one aboard 1999's ill-fated Mars Polar Lander. The plan to use the imager and microphone on May 25 (when Phoenix landed) were scrapped when tests showed that using the system would create an unacceptable risk to a safe landing for Phoenix. Phoenix did safely land at its appointed side in the Martian arctic, where it has been digging up samples of dirt and subsurface water ice and analyzing them with its instruments to assess the planet's past potential habitability. Though the original plan to use Phoenix's mike during landing was scrapped, mission scientists didn't rule out using it later during the mission. "We'd always hoped to turn it on," Smith said. The team needed NASA's approval for funding to turn on the microphone, and now they've gotten the go-ahead, Smith said. They can't flip the switch right away — there are still a few checks that need to be done, and Phoenix's software needs to be changed a bit, Smith told SPACE.com. "We're just kind of cranking it up," he said. Martian sounds Once all the preparations are ready, the team plans to try to turn the microphone on while the lander is digging or using the rasp on the end of its robotic arm scoop, "just to make sure we hear something," Smith said. "You at least want to know if there's a chance of noise being created." Phoenix scientists aren't sure just what, or how much, they'll hear. For one thing, Phoenix's mike is "not a professional microphone," Smith said (he likened it to the microphones used on a standard cell phone). For another, sound waves don't travel as far on Mars as they do on Earth because Mars' atmosphere is thinner. It would be similar to listening to sound at an altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,500 meters) above Earth's surface, Smith said. If the team can hear Phoenix's operations, they'll then turn the microphone on while Phoenix is quiet and just see what they can hear. What that might be, Smith isn't certain. Potential images In addition to potentially hearing Martian sounds, the Descent Imager system will take a picture once it's switched on, Smith said. One potential photographic subject is the Holy Cow ice feature directly underneath the lander. The ice was exposed when Phoenix's thrusters pushed away the dirt lying on top of it during landing. The feature was first imaged by Phoenix's robotic arm camera. The imager might also catch a glimpse of some so-called "barnacles" attached to Phoenix's legs. Smith describes these as "bright dots on the legs" that are pieces of the Martian surface that were splashed onto the legs by the thrusters during landing. Some of the dots have grown and some have moved around over the course of the mission, which is now entering its fifth month on the Martian surface. Mission scientists aren't sure why the dots have such unusual behavior. "It's one of those wonderful Martian mysteries," Smith said. Posted at: 05:34 PM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
COMMUNIST CHINA POISED TO COMPLETE THEIR SPACE STATION AND TRAVEL TO USA MOONSeptember 30, 2008
In the wake of the sterling success of its third manned space mission, China is sitting proud and looking ahead to its future in space. Most experts agree the event, which included the nation's first spacewalk, went off without a hitch. Before the Shenzhou 7 mission launched Sept. 25, Chinese space officials said there were four main objectives to the mission: to conduct a spacewalk, to do tests of a solid lubricant material during the spacewalk, to deploy a new satellite to take images, and to use a new data relay satellite for communication, said Dean Cheng, China analyst with Alexandria, Va.-based think tank CNA Corp. "From all accounts, that happened," Cheng told SPACE.com. "If I were the Chinese, I would be very, very happy that all four tasks came off without a hitch. And obviously they used the spacesuit, so that came up good across the board." "Victory" for China While conducting the spacewalk, astronaut Zhai Zhigang wore a new, Chinese-built spacesuit (called "Feitian," meaning "fly the sky" in Chinese). That it worked safely marks another significant technological achievement. Zhai, along with crewmates Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng, returned to Earth on Sunday. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao pronounced Shenzhou 7 "a victory of the Chinese space and technological field and a monumental achievement in the socialist causes," reported official state news agency Xinhua. In another first for the Chinese space program, the major events, including launch, landing and the spacewalk, were broadcast live. The move signals both China's growing confidence in its abilities, as well as a new willingness to be open with the press and public. "The success of Shenzhou 7 certainly shows China's commitment to an ambitious manned space program," said Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island. "I applaud not only their technical achievements but the confidence in their program exhibited by their increasing transparency about the mission. I hope that continues and expands into all areas of their space activities." Shenzhou 7 followed the 2005 Shenzhou 6 mission, which took two astronauts to space for five days, and the 2003 Shenzhou 5 mission, which launched China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei. Eyes on the moon With each new mission, China is taking steps toward its ultimate goals of establishing a more permanent presence in space through building a space laboratory, and perhaps even landing on the moon. The latter goal has been stated more explicitly after the recent success of Shenzhou 7. "We still do not have an exact timetable for a manned mission to the moon, but I believe a Chinese (astronaut) will set foot on the moon in the not too distant future," an unnamed official told the Communist Party newspaper the People's Daily after the mission landed. Wang Zhaoyao, spokesman for the manned space program, told reporters Sunday that it is "necessary" for China to put a man on the moon, the Agence France-Presse news service reported. "We believe that as long as we can make further progress in science and technology, we can achieve the dream of a manned space flight to the moon in the near future," he said. These firmer declarations of intent are significant, because China is unlikely to set a goal it doesn't believe it can accomplish. "When you just have speculation, they're under no obligation to try it," Cheng said in a phone interview. "But when the Chinese make an official statement that they want to do something, they do it." Near term While moon plans may be a bit off, China's next mission is likely to put the nation on the path to a space lab. A date has not yet been set for Shenzhou 8 or 9, but there is a good chance the two missions will be launched in close succession so they can try rendezvous and docking, experts say. "China's next step will be clearer once a next launch date is announced toward a docking," Johnson-Freese said. "Hopefully it won't be another two years." There are also some speculations that Shenzhou 8 will carry China's first female astronaut to space. There are currently no women in China's corps of 14 spaceflyers. However, some press reports hint that Shenzhou 8 and 9 may be unmanned missions intended to launch the capsules needed for a small space lab, and could go up in 2010. According to those reports, the next manned mission would be Shenzhou 10.China also recently announced it was capable of training foreign astronauts, meaning that it could conceivably broker a deal with another country to carry a person into space. The United States and Russia have both engaged in similar arrangements — Russia flew the first South Korean astronaut into space in April 2008, and the first Italian astronaut rode aboard the U.S. space shuttle Discovery in 2007, for example. "Given China's diplomatic use of space, there is a very good chance they would be taking somebody from a new country," Cheng said. China has spearheaded the founding of the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization, a group intended to promote space cooperation between Asian nations. Cheng pointed out that both Iran and Pakistan are members of the group, and could be potential clients for Chinese space transport. "I would strongly suspect that at this point in time the U.S. is probably unlikely to be taking any Iranian citizens into space," Cheng said. "But China has had successful sales of satellites to Nigeria and Venezuela, both of which are oil-producing countries, which would make Iran a candidate as someone who might send an astronaut up." A foreign astronaut could even fly as early as Shenzhou 9, Cheng speculated.
USA PLACES TWO SPACE SHUTTLES ON PADS AT KSC.... AT SAME TIME FOR POSSIBLE SEPARATE LAUNCHES TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Posted at: 11:55 PM | Permalink | | del.icio.us
U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH DELAYED BY NASA MISSION CONTROL?September 29, 2008
ORIGINAL TIMELINE FOR COMPLETION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Preliminary launch dates for shuttles in the rest of 2008:
Because Atlantis will not be able to reach the space station if it gets into trouble, or is damaged, on its Hubble flight, the Endeavour orbiter will be made ready on the pad for a rescue mission in case it is needed. Launch dates for the remaining seven flights in 2009/10 are under review. The crew of the space station is expected to rise from three to six in mid-2009.
 NASA has delayed the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until early 2009? in order to repair a broken device that is blocking the orbital observatory from sending its iconic images of the cosmos back to Earth, agency officials said late Monday. Seven astronauts were training to launch toward Hubble aboard the shuttle Atlantis on Oct. 14 on mission to extend the space telescope's life through at least 2013, but the unexpected failure of a vital data relay system on Saturday will add months of delay to their spaceflight. "I think it's very obvious that Oct. 14 is off the table," NASA's space shuttle program manager John Shannon told reporters. NASA announced Monday that a device known as the Side A Science Data Formatter failed, apparently for good, late Saturday, leaving the otherwise healthy Hubble with no means of relaying data and observations to scientists back on Earth. The electronics box failed after 18 years in service since Hubble launched in April 1990. There is a backup for the unit, Side B, and flight controllers on Earth are working to make the complicated switch to revive Hubble's science relay capabilities. But the move will leave the telescope without the redundancy to withstand another failure should one occur, making a repair for the Side A string vital, mission managers said. "We do not really understand the precise location of the failure inside of the Science Data Formatter," said Preston Burch, NASA's Hubble program manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "And we won't until we bring it down to the ground." Spare in hand NASA does have a spare unit at Goddard, but will have to put it through a series of tests to ensure it is in good health. Burch said that there is high confidence that the spare box, which is relatively brand new despite being 18 years old, is viable for the Hubble repair. But the tests required to prove its spaceworthiness will take months. "I think we'd be hard-pressed to be ready any earlier than, say, January," Burch said, adding that even mid-January could be a bit of a stretch. "It's looking more like a mid-February timeframe is the right time for us." Replacing the 136-pound (62-kg) data formatter box should be relatively straightforward for Atlantis's crew, requiring about two hours during one of the mission's five back-to-back spacewalks to perform, Burch said. One cable connector and 10 bolts need to be freed to remove the box from its mount, he added. Commanded by veteran spaceflyer Scott Altman, Atlantis astronauts plan to install a new camera, replace gyroscopes and batteries, upgrade Hubble's guidance equipment and add a docking ring during their 11-day mission. Tricky repairs to instruments never designed to be fixed in space are also on tap. The mission will mark NASA's fifth and final shuttle flight to Hubble. The astronauts were in the middle of an intense simulation on Monday when news of the delay broke, Shannon said. NASA has not formally set a new launch target, though the agency has called off a planned flight readiness review that would have done so at the end of this week. In the off chance that the spare data formatter fails to pass muster, Atlantis could be primed to launch toward Hubble as early as late November. Shannon said that by the end of next week, shuttle mission managers should have a better sense of what Atlantis' launch target will be. A lucky failure For every month NASA delays Atlantis' flight to Hubble, it adds an extra $10 million to the space telescope program's cost. But, mission managers said, the cost could have been much higher. "Think about if this failure had occurred two weeks after the servicing mission. We'd just put to brand new instruments in and thought we'd extended the life from five to 10 years and this thing failed after the last shuttle mission to Hubble," said Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for science missions. "We could have lost the mission in six, 12, 18 months. "So in some sense, if this had to happen it couldn't have happened at a better time," he added. Atlantis' planned October flight was slated to mark NASA's fourth of up to five shuttle missions planned for this year. The mission was initially slated to launch in early October, but slipped several days due to a series of setbacks caused by Hurricane Ike and payload delivery issues. The agency launched three shuttle flights earlier this year to continue construction of the International Space Station, with the Endeavour orbiter slated to continue that work with a planned Nov. 16 liftoff. Shannon said that if Atlantis' mission slips into 2009 for sure, NASA will prepare Endeavour for its own STS-126 mission to deliver new life support and other equipment that will allow the station to double its current three-astronaut crew size. Meanwhile, NASA engineers at Goddard and their shuttle mission counterparts will work together to determine the best repair plan for Hubble. It was a similar effort, mission managers said, that allowed astronauts to fix Hubble's blurry vision in space after a mirror defect nearly doomed the space telescope in the early 1990s. "Hubble has a habit of coming back from adversity," said Weiler, adding that the Hubble and space shuttle team "works miracles." "I'm not too concerned about this, we'll find a way to get this fixed. Luckily, we have a spare."
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FLASHBACK : 2001 / U.S.A. ATTACKED BY TERRORIST PLOTSeptember 11, 2008
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ON THIS DAY IN 1997: A LIVING SAINT DIESSeptember 6, 20081997: Mother Teresa dies (World mourns deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Theresa)
From the BBC Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87. She died of a heart attack at the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta shortly before 1700 BST. The nun from Skopje, Macedonia, had been battling ill health for some years, and in March stepped down as head of the order of nuns she founded. She was revered by many around the world as a living saint for her work with the dispossessed. The Pope often praised her work and a Vatican spokesman told reporters he was "deeply hurt" by the news of her death. "The Pope believes she is a woman who has left her mark on the history of this century," he said. The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales, Cardinal Hume, said she was an "enormously significant figure - everyone knows who Mother Teresa is". Conservative stance Born Agnes Bojaxhiu in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire later Macedonia, she took the name Sister Teresa in Ireland, where she began her training as a nun with the Loreto Sisters. She founded her order in 1948 and went out to work in the slums of Calcutta. She was sometimes accused by Hindus in her adopted country of trying to convert the poor to Catholicism by "stealth" and criticised by liberals who disliked her conservative stance on abortion and contraception. But her biographer and friend Navin Chana said she would be remembered as someone who "gave the word compassion a new dimension".
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HURRICANES CONTINUE TO HIT GULF COAST AND NEW ORLEANSSeptember 3, 2008
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NASA PROTECTS SHUTTLE FROM HURRICANE DAMAGE/ QUESTION PRESIDENTS GOAL OF RETIRING SHUTTLE BY 2010September 2, 2008
NASA is holding off on moving the space shuttle Atlantis to its Florida launch pad this week to ensure it is not threatened by Tropical Storm Hanna, the agency said Tuesday. While the shuttle could make the 3-mile (4.8-km) trek to the seaside launch pad as early as Thursday, it's more likely to move on Saturday after Hanna has passed, said NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Fla. "We're watching and protecting our options," Beutel told SPACE.com. "I think we're all pretty much figuring it will be Saturday." Shuttle workers at KSC had initially planned to move Atlantis to Launch Pad 39A early Monday but held off a day to monitor Hanna, which as of Tuesday had weakened back to a tropical storm after reaching hurricane status over the weekend. NASA hoped to attempt the shuttle move early Wednesday, but later shifted to no earlier than Thursday at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) with Saturday a more likely target. Until Hanna passes, Atlantis and its attached external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters will stay in the shelter of NASA's 52-Vehicle Assembly Building at the spaceport. As of 2:00 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) Tuesday, Hanna was headed for the southeastern Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of about 70 mph (110 kph) and higher gusts, according to a National Hurricane Center status report. The storm is expected to strengthen over Wednesday and Thursday, with current forecasts predicting it to move northwest off the eastern coast of Florida. "We're expecting tropical force winds," Beutel said. NASA is targeting an Oct. 8 launch for Atlantis and a crew of seven astronauts to pay one last service call on the Hubble Space Telescope. Last week, mission managers were weighing options to push the mission to Oct. 10 or 11 due to processing delays caused by the last month's Tropical Storm Fay, which prompted NASA to close its KSC spaceport for three days. A further launch delay appears likely the longer Atlantis remains inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building. Beutel said today that the spaceport was operating at Hurricane Condition Four, the center's lowest alert level, to secure loose debris in anticipation of wind speeds reaching 50 knots (58 mph) in the next 72 hours. According to NASA's hurricane plan, space shuttles cannot remain at a launch pad if winds are forecast to reach top speeds of 70 knots (79 mph). The plan also forbids space shuttles to move between launch pads and NASA's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building after winds reach sustained speeds of 40 knots (46 mph) with gusts up to 60 knots (69 mph) and lightning within a 23-mile (37-km) radius. Atlantis' October spaceflight is the fourth of five NASA shuttle flights planned for 2008. The year's final scheduled mission, a planned Nov. 10 launch aboard Endeavour to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station, must fly before Nov. 25, when NASA would stand down due to unfavorable lighting and heating concerns at the orbiting outpost, agency officials have said. ASTRONAUTS READY FOR LAUNCH OF U.S.A. SHUTTLE AND REPAIR MISSION OF HUBBLE TELESCOPE Mission InformationSTS-125: Final Shuttle Mission to Hubble Space Telescope These seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-125 crew portrait. From the left are astronauts Michael J. Massimino, Michael T. Good, both mission specialists; Gregory C. Johnson, pilot; Scott D. Altman, commander; K. Megan McArthur, John M. Grunsfeld and Andrew J. Feustel, all mission specialists. Image credit: NASA Veteran astronaut Scott D. Altman will command the final space shuttle mission to Hubble. Navy Reserve Capt. Gregory C. Johnson will serve as pilot. Mission specialists include veteran spacewalkers John M. Grunsfeld and Michael J. Massimino and first-time space fliers Andrew J. Feustel, Michael T. Good and K. Megan McArthur. Altman, a native of Pekin, Ill., will be making his fourth space flight and his second trip to Hubble. He commanded the STS-109 Hubble servicing mission in 2002. He served as pilot of STS-90 in 1998 and STS-106 in 2000. Johnson, a Seattle native and former Navy test pilot and NASA research pilot, was selected as an astronaut in 1998. He will be making his first space flight. Chicago native Grunsfeld, an astronomer, will be making his third trip to Hubble and his fifth space flight. He performed a total of five spacewalks to service the telescope on STS-103 in 1999 and STS-109 in 2002. He also flew on STS-67 in 1995 and STS-81 in 1997. Massimino, from Franklin Square, N.Y., will be making his second trip to Hubble and his second space flight. He performed two spacewalks to service the telescope during the STS-109 mission in 2002. Feustel, Good, and McArthur were each selected as astronauts in 2000. Feustel, a native of Lake Orion, Mich., was an exploration geophysicist in the petroleum industry at the time of his selection by NASA. Good is from Broadview Heights, Ohio, and is an Air Force colonel, weapons systems officer and graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School, having logged more than 2,100 hours in 30 different types of aircraft. McArthur, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, considers California her home state. She has a doctorate in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego. MORE NASA NEWS NASA TO REVIEW SHUTTLE TIMETABLE OF THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION BEFORE "RETIRING" THE U.S.A. SHUTTLE FLEET OF 3 BEFORE OR AFTER 2010 AS PROPOSED BY YALESMAN AND BONESMAN GEORGE W.BUSH
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ON THIS DAY IN 1997: PRINCESS DIANA DIES IN CAR CRASH IN PARISAugust 31, 2008
GOODBYE ENGLAND'S ROSE
Another Fountain in Princess Diana Memorial Garden, Hyde Park Althorp- Her Final resting place-This is where Princess Diana lived as a child.
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PRINCESS DIANA DIES IN PARIS CAR CRASHAugust 31, 2008ON THIS DAY IN 1997: PRINCESS DIANA SPENCER WINDSOR DIES IN PARIS HOSPITAL ON AUGUST 31 or SEPTEMBER 1st WAS IT MURDER OR FATE? Princess Diana
The following letters were written by Princess Diana to her butler and close friend Paul Burrell. They’re included in his book “A Royal Duty”. The ‘crash letter’ tells of Diana’s fears that she would die in a car crash a full 10 months before it actually happened. A new investigation is still underway in Britain as the letter has finally surfaced. From October 1996: “I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high. This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous.[ The princess then identified where she felt the threat and danger would come from] is planning “an accident” in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry. I have been battered, bruised and abused mentally by a system for 15 years now, but feel no resentment, I carry no hatred, I am weary of the battles, but I will never surrender. I am strong inside and maybe that is a problem for my enemies. Thank you Charles, for putting me through such hell and for giving me the opportunity to learn from the cruel things you have one to me. I have gone forward fast and have cried more than anyone will ever know. The anguish nearly killed me, but my inner strength has never let me down, and my guides have taken such good care of me up there. Aren’t I fortunate to have had their wings to protect me……. From August 1996: It’s the 28th August 1996- 15 years of marriage have now been signed off. I never wanted a divorce and always dreamed of a happy marriage with loving support from Charles. Although that was never meant to be, we do have two wonderful boys who are deeply loved by their parents. A part of me will always love Charles, but how I wish he’d looked after me and been proud of my work. It has been a turbulent 15 years, having to face the envy, jealousy, and hatred from Charles’s friends and family-they have so misunderstood me and that has been painful and brought enormous heartache. I want so much to become Charles’s best friend as I understand more than anyone what he is about and what makes him tick. From October 1996: I just long to hug my mother-in-law, and tell her how deeply I understand what goes on inside her. I understand the isolation, misconception and lies that surround her and feel very strongly HER disappointment and confusion. I so want the monarchy to survive and realize the changes that will take [sic] to put “the show” on a new and healthy track. I, too, understand the fear the family have about change but we must, in order to reassure the public, as their indifference concerns me and should not be. I will fight for justice, and fight for my children and the monarchy……." * I call on you to draw your own conclusion as to if she was murdered and by whom. But Diana truly knew that something was wrong a full year before her death in 1997. Let us recall her life and remember the kind and generous woman she was and the legacy she left behind. ***** ***** ***** DIANA: QUEEN OF HEARTS
(1961-1997) )
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***************A TRIBUTE CONCERT FROM HER BOYS....**************** PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY
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