[QCWA] Re: QCWA Chapter 91's website updated

[Richard Rucker]

On Apr 27, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Wayne M. Kinzel wrote:

> Hi Dick,
>
> In the 8th paragraph, there is
> "Having these scientists oversee space telescope operations relieves 
> NASA of that responsibility."
>
> NASA is intimately involved with HST operations. They receive 
> weekly/monthly/yearly reports, control the money(!), "own" the 
> observatory, have an on site representative, run the process to 
> acquire new science instruments, grade the performance of the STScI in 
> running HST, etc.
>
> I suggest deleting that sentence and changing the sentence about 2 
> paragraphs up to STScI is run, under contract to NASA, by Associated 
> Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) made up of 25 member 
> institutions including Johns Hopkins and Penn State U.

Done.

> HST celibrated 15 years of operation on Monday and OPO has released
> some new images:
>
> http://www.stsci.edu/outreach/

I added this link to the text.

> When I came here in 1989, I knew it would be exciting to work here.  
> In recent years I am begining to see the possibility of being able to 
> retire(!) while working on HST and JWST.
>
> Take care,
>
> Wayne
> KR4N


And have a pleasant journey along the way!

BTW, I finished Simon Singh's "Big Bang" and have started Brian 
Greene's "The Elegant Universe."   I am getting hooked on cosmology and 
what the modern-day version can reveal to us about the (strange) world 
we live within.

Dick, KM4ML