Kalpana Chawala and others

[Guest guest]

> The intersting coincidences, in light of current circumstances, are

> that it is the same week the challenger blew up in 1986, the first

> Israeli astronaut was part of the attack on Iraq's nuclear power

> generator.

>

> Some see coincidence--------perhaps we should penetrate it for

> meaning, for as we know nobody has really died.

>

> The Goddess is everybody and everything, so if She want to kill as a

> wake-up call there is no death.

 

Dear Tony:

 

I have to sadly agree that what you say rings true.

I cry for the pain felt by those left behind.

I cry for the warriors whose lives were lost and pray that they also

attained release through their service.

I cry for the fact that we need a wake-up call.

 

Love,

 

Joyce

 

OM, shaantiH, shaantiH, shaantiH

[Guest guest]

, "Lady Joyce" <ladyjoy@v...>

wrote:

> > The intersting coincidences

 

Namaste LJ,

 

I forgot the other coincidence, that it broke up over TEXAS! pLUS

THERE WERE 2052 OTHER TORTURED SOULS!

 

Animals loaded onto shuttle Columbia

By MARK CARREAU

Copyright 1998 Houston Chronicle

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., -- Technicians carefully stowed record numbers

of rodents, fish, snails and insects aboard the shuttle Columbia on

Tuesday, as weather forecasters upgraded the outlook for launch.

 

Columbia and a crew of seven astronauts are scheduled to blast off

from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:19 p.m., CDT, Thursday. Joined

by 2,052 rats, mice, fish, snails and crickets, the crew plans to

spend at least 16 days aloft investigating how spaceflight alters the

nervous system.

 

Twenty-six major experiments involving the animals and the shuttle

crew, which includes a pair of medical doctors, a veterinarian and a

physiologist, will be carried out in a bus-sized module called

Spacelab that is stowed in the shuttle's cargo bay.

 

On Tuesday, 10 technicians began stowing the menagerie within the

module at the shuttle's launching pad. The painstaking procedure

required two of the workers to be lowered on a sling and pulley

assembly through a long tunnel linking the shuttle's crew compartment

and the module as Columbia rested vertically on its launching pad.

 

In varying stages of maturity and in some cases pregnant, each

species is segregated into its own special enclosure or aquarium. The

enclosures include food and water for the animals as well as a means

for the shuttle crew to observe them during the flight.

 

Many of the animals will be dissected,

 

either by the scientist-

astronauts during the mission or by other researchers after Columbia

returns to Earth.

 

Some of the rodents and fish are equipped with electronic implants

that will record cardiovascular, respiratory and neural activity

during the flight as part of investigations that will attempt to

document how the gravity sensors of their nervous systems are altered

by the spaceflight.

 

Columbia payload commander Rick Linnehan, NASA's first veterinarian-

astronaut, has pledged humane treatment for the unusually large

collection of animals.

 

"It will be my duty to check these animals every day to make sure

everything looks good as far as their food, water and general

health," Linnehan said. "I have absolute authority on orbit, if I

need to, to stop an experiment if an animal becomes sick."

 

Meanwhile, on Tuesday forecaster Ed Priselac said the weather outlook

for Thursday's liftoff had improved from 80 percent to 100 percent

favorable.

 

Mission managers' biggest weather concern would be gusty winds and

clouds at two of Columbia's emergency runways in Spain, he said.

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