... One thing I did do was to give a star party at my church as a fundraiser. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Space Shuttle Discovery Blasts off On Final Flight In a truly dramatic finale to her very last launch, Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off to space at 4:53 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24, with just two seconds to spare after an unexpected last minute computer glitch with Air Force tracking computers threatened to delay the liftoff yet again despite otherwise perfect launch conditions. ...

... 23 Algorithm fo r evalua tion of two burn maneuv ers using linearity Input information: ( t t E1 , rEI , v t1L , t E2 2L ( ) EI )T )T ­ ­ ­ ­ the time and the state vector of initial orbit for this time ; interval of possible thrusts for transition from initial orbit to the transfer on e; the time and the state vector of the target orbit for this time ; ... We cal culate the state vector for the initial orbit for the time t1a and the target one ­ for the time t2 a . ...