TOPIC: Crazy space stuff

The process of the auction is easy...it is the rules we need a flowchart and powerpoint presentation complete with handouts...

Gary,<br />Did you actually look at the flow chart?  The impact of the rules are included.  Or at least as many as I could include in the few minutes it took to put that together. =D<br /><br />Dave

<br />Rewind to mid-April, I had been asked to prepare a contingency plan for all Titan flybys in the event that we lost data due to a DSN outage.  So Monday morning I came into work with about 12 messages on my phone about the need to activate this contingency plan.  So anyway, long story short, I adapted my contingency plan to the specifics of the data outage to change pointer locations in the software, and basically asked (nicely) for Cassini to repeat what it had told us and not take any pictures until it was done.  And as the project collectively held its breath. we pointed Cassini back at Earth, and almost all the lost data was recovered by Thursday. <br />

<br /><br />Sounds like Douglas gets a positive PM review this year!

Fantastic Douglas,<br /><br />I was looking at Saturn the other night with my little telescope, and now I feel like a child in the presence of a master.  Really neat stuff.<br /><br />Teach me Obi Wan.<br /><br /><br />Widseth

it's all way toooo complicated for my small brain, but i do have a question. since this problem occurred way out in space it wan't possible, how many people would have tried to fix it with a smack of a hand on the side? the image of the russian in the movie "armageddon" keeps popping into my mind. the one where they are trying to take off and go home. 

<br />Gary,<br />Did you actually look at the flow chart?  The impact of the rules are included.  Or at least as many as I could include in the few minutes it took to put that together. =D<br /><br />Dave<br />

<br /><br />Dave,<br /><br />Yeppers, I saw it...followed it all the way through...it's a good process flow.<br /><br />Gary

<br />LOL! That is a riot Dave!<br /><br />heheheheheee<br />

<br /><br />I am glad my 1 AM madness amused...

<br />To say that this has been a CRAZY week for me on my project (Cassini), doesn’t even begin to cover it.  And for those that might be interested in the goings on at JPL, I thought I would share.

<br /><br />Wow - a real life space geek here in our midst.  I'm really hoping we can get our act together soon and get the Mars mission moving.  It's been almost 40 years - it's time to take our next giant step in the universe.

hehehehe, last night the flow charts kept making me think of Wile E. Coyote standing over acme blue prints. <br /><br />Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius!<br /><br />hehehehe<br /><br />By the by Widseth, <br />Very cute, if you don't already NASA Archive Picture of the Day is great! Sometimes I'm bad and stay up till after 9pm to see the picture they've uploaded for the next day. eheheh<br /><br /> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html <br /><br />I Heart APOD and StuffOnMyCat. hehehehe. Nothing makes me realize things have been hectic like popping onto those sites and realizing I've missed days!*little laugh*

I swear no process I ever put together had ACME associated with it....  <br /><br />Wait a minute... ::Runs to check TD effects hardware::<br /><br />Umm, OK almost no process!    =D<br />

movie quote: billy bob thorton to steve buscemi in armageddon<br /><br />" we have slightly better rockets than the coyote. "

<br />I swear no process I ever put together had ACME associated with it....  <br /><br />Wait a minute... ::Runs to check TD effects hardware::<br /><br />Umm, OK almost no process!    =D<br /><br />

<br /><br />*Giggles* No, you can't say that! Now I'm going to imagine that coyote sneaking around backstage trying to plot catching the RoadRunner Rogue. I see the silence room skulls with a pile of bird seed in them. hehehehe No, you can't make me layer cartoon imagery over td. *becomes far to giggly at the images* <br />