Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!sdcsvax!odin.ucsd.edu!rose
From: rose@odin.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: "High Flight" (was Re: The Ramparts):
Summary: film version
Message-ID: <7786@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Date: 31 Jan 90 22:21:53 GMT
References: <226.25BEC3D6@uscacm.UUCP> <5411.25c2dd7e@jane.uh.edu> <1096@sdrc.UUCP>
Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu
Reply-To: rose@odin.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Dan Rose)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Lines: 30

In article <1096@sdrc.UUCP> mustard@sdrc.UUCP (Sandy Mustard) writes:
>In article <5411.25c2dd7e@jane.uh.edu>, cheehh@jane.uh.edu writes:
>> In article <226.25BEC3D6@uscacm.UUCP>, Edwin.Wootten@p112.f12.n376.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Edwin Wootten) writes:
>> >   
>> >  SN> The words are the poem "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee Jr.
>> Could someone *please* tell me where I can get an (audio) copy of this song!
>
>You might try staying up late one night watching TV.  Many stations use
>the song as part of their sign-off sequence!

When I was growing up in Western Massachusetts, one of the local
TV stations (40 or 22, I can't remember) used to sign-off with a
little "High Flight" film.  They had a voice-over reading the poem,
while showing a mid-sixties vintage fighter jet -- maybe an
experimental rocket plane? -- soaring above the clouds with sun
glinting off the wings.  It was a bit corny, but stirring nonetheless.
As far as I know, they still show this every night.

Getting back to the newsgroup subject . . .

Does anyone know some details about the LDEF experiments?  In
particular, what I'm wondering is whether there were "active"
experiments in LDEF which might have been adversely affected
by being left up an extra five years.  (Clearly this is no
problem for "passive" experiments, i.e. "let's see how well this
slab of ceramic holds up after years in space.")  Everyone has
treated the extra few years of exposure as a bonus, but I can
imagine it invalidating a lot of work on certain experiments.

						Dan Rose