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Posted by: hal_9000 Jan 9 2006, 08:29 AM

Do anyone know where did they install the disc with names? (pics)
Thanks!

Posted by: Alan Stern Jan 9 2006, 11:51 AM

Do anyone know where did they install the disc with names? (pics)
Thanks!

Posted by: RNeuhaus Jan 9 2006, 03:38 PM

What format Is that CDROM recorded with names? As a ASCII TEXT? MS Word or Lotus Wordpro?
How is that fixed so it won't be fallen out the space?

Rodolfo

Posted by: hal_9000 Jan 9 2006, 09:22 PM

Oh... I didn't find any pic..

Posted by: Alan Stern Jan 9 2006, 09:26 PM

What format Is that CDROM recorded with names?  As a ASCII TEXT?  MS Word or Lotus Wordpro?
How is that fixed so it won't be fallen out the space?

Rodolfo

Posted by: djellison Jan 9 2006, 09:29 PM

I cant find any at KSC that were taken after the CD was fixed, but before the insulation blankets went one. Looking at the spacecraft from 'above' as it were - without the HGA - it's a little like the classic shape of a house - with the RTG being a very large chimney. The CD would be on one of the two sides that would be the 'roof' of the house - the two sides that angle toward the RTG shield.

Doug

Posted by: ljk4-1 Jan 9 2006, 10:07 PM

Perhaps this is the place to ask: What are the materials commemorating Clyde Tombaugh and where are they stored on NH? Thanks.

Posted by: hal_9000 Jan 10 2006, 02:37 PM

anyone found it?

Posted by: RNeuhaus Jan 11 2006, 03:39 PM

I cant find any at KSC that were taken after the CD was fixed, but before the insulation blankets went one.  Looking at the spacecraft from 'above' as it were - without the HGA - it's a little like the classic shape of a house - with the RTG being a very large chimney.  The CD would be on one of the two sides that would be the 'roof' of the house - the two sides that angle toward the RTG shield.

Doug

Posted by: djellison Jan 11 2006, 04:13 PM

Behind the stars-and-stripes in that image, or perhaps in the same position on the opposite side of the spacecraft.

Doug

Posted by: ljk4-1 Feb 4 2006, 12:43 AM

The location of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes and the memorial text on the container are in the first article.


Pluto Mission News

February 3, 2006

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu

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Happy 100th Birthday, Clyde Tombaugh!

When the late American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto 76 years ago this month, he opened the gateway to an unknown region of ancient, icy objects unlike any worlds in our solar system – and touched off a revolution in our understanding of Earth’s ever-expanding planetary neighborhood.

February 4, 2006, marks the 100th anniversary of Tombaugh’s birth – and New Horizons is speeding toward the planet he discovered, carrying a small amount of his ashes along with the dreams of all who, like this Kansas farm boy, gazed toward the heavens in the name of exploration and discovery.

Click here for the full story, or visit

http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2006/060203.asp.

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Clyde Tombaugh: A Daughter’s Perspective

Clyde Tombaugh received many awards and plaudits for his scientific and academic achievements, but Annette Tombaugh-Sitze says Pluto’s discoverer also should have won an award for being a great father.

“My dad gave me a wondrous, beautiful gift that speaks to me of him every night when I step outside my door,” Tombaugh-Sitze writes on the New Horizons Web site. “He gave me the sky.”

Read the full story here, or visit

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/020306.htm.



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New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky, icy objects beyond. Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), leads a mission team that includes the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ball Aerospace Corporation, the Boeing Company, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, KinetX, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, University of Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a number of other firms, NASA centers and university partners. For more information on the mission, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu.

Posted by: punkboi Feb 4 2006, 08:24 AM

The disk is mounted along a side wall of the s/c exterior, under the thermal blankets.
If you have seen pictures with the flags, the CD is under one of the flags.

-Alan

Posted by: abalone Feb 4 2006, 02:19 PM

Posted by: dvandorn Feb 5 2006, 12:37 AM

...Heard rumours we're in for a cold snap!!

Posted by: abalone Feb 5 2006, 05:14 AM

No, the SNAP is actually pretty warm... 

-the other Doug

Posted by: mchan Feb 5 2006, 06:34 AM

No, the SNAP is actually pretty warm... 

Posted by: ilbasso Feb 8 2006, 01:17 PM

"Where is my name?" was the question that my wife asked me last week. She submitted her name through the website, but in searching the database last week, she couldn't locate her name. She says she couldn't possibly have made a mistake, therefore it's obviously NASA's fault.

Might I suggest that we bring NH back here - just briefly, mind you - so that we can correct the disk? We can then send it merrily back on its way.

As she tells me when we leave the house late for appointments because it took her longer than planned to put on her make-up, "You can just drive faster".

Posted by: punkboi Feb 8 2006, 06:30 PM

Might I suggest that we bring NH back here - just briefly, mind you - so that we can correct the disk?  We can then send it merrily back on its way. 

Posted by: ljk4-1 Feb 18 2006, 05:02 AM

New Horizons Digital Time Capsule

It's a long journey to Pluto -- nine years will pass from the time New Horizons launches in January 2006 until the spacecraft arrives in 2015. Meanwhile, the Earth the spacecraft leaves behind will not be the same as the Earth that witnesses the images and data New Horizons sends back from the last unexplored planet in our solar system. What will Earth be like in nine years' time? How will that world of tomorrow have changed compared to our world today?

The Planetary Society, in conjunction with the New Horizons mission, invites children and adults around the world to send a message to future Earth -- a New Horizons Digital Time Capsule from those who launched the mission to the inhabitants of Earth who receive its results nearly a decade later.

The New Horizons Digital Time Capsule will consist of photographs of things in 2006 that people expect will be transformed by 2015. How will life on our planet have changed in those intervening years? More than a billion people will be born, and a billion die; new technologies could revolutionize daily life; the rapid pace of change will have transformed not only our own lives but also cities and entire countries. Earth will have discovered other new horizons while the New Horizons mission cruised through interplanetary space.

The New Horizons Digital Time Capsule will be placed on a DVD and kept securely at Planetary Society Headquarters in Pasadena, California with a backup copy stored with the New Horizons project. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous with Pluto, it will send back a "family portrait" of the Pluto system. The return of this image from the spacecraft will be used as the signal for the time capsule to be opened and shown to Earth 2015. As we see a close up family portrait of Pluto and its moons, we will also look back on the images of Earth as it was when the spacecraft started its journey.

How to enter: Read the contest rules; take your photo and compose a caption; and enter your photo online for selection as part of the New Horizons Digital Time Capsule!

http://planetary.org/explore/topics/contests/time_capsule/