Wow... another month is almost over with... class time is moving so fast! Now that we have started fractions, I would encourage you to make sure you are taking time to go over your notes, set aside time for your homework, it is HARDER and will continue to be harder. If you pay attention in class, take notes, ask questions and do your homework I have no doubt that all of you can and will do excellent!
THIS WEEK: This week we start multiplying fractions. Along with multiplying fractions we will also continue to improve our skills with simplifying, remember any time you work with factions you HAVE to simplify.... reduce.. Shrink... letting the witch doctor lead you.
CALCULATOR !!! Trust me your going to want a fraction calculator!!
He had been launched from here at 9:47 A. M.The astronaut's safe return was no less a relief than a thrill to the Project Mercury team, because there had been real concern that the Friendship 7 capsule might disintegrate as it rammed back into the atmosphere.
There had also been a serious question whether Colonel Glenn could complete three orbits as planned. But despite persistent control problems, he managed to complete the entire flight plan.
Lands in Bahamas Area
Still in his capsule, he was plucked from the water at 3:01 P. M. with a boom and block and tackle by the destroyer Noa. The capsule was deposited on deck at 3:04.
Colonel Glenn's first words as he stepped out onto the Noa's deck were: "It was hot in there."
He quickly obtained a glass of ice tea.
He was in fine condition except for two skinned knuckles hurt in the process of blowing out the side hatch of the capsule.
The colonel was transferred by helicopter to the carrier Randolph, whose recovery helicopters had raced the Noa for the honor of making the pick-up. After a meal and extensive "de-briefing" aboard the carrier, he was flown to Grand Turk by submarine patrol plane for two days of rest and interviews on technical, medical and other aspects of his flight.
Colonel Glenn first was set to wiggle out of the narrow top. But when difficulty was encountered in getting one of the bulkheads loose, the explosive side hatch was blown off, and the man from space stepped out on deck, apparently in excellent shape. He was soon afterward transferred to the carrier Randolph.
In the course of his three orbits, Colonel Glenn reported frequently to tracking stations at various points on earth and to the control center here. Invariably, he said that his condition was fine.
Shortly after Colonel Glenn was picked up by the Noa, he received congratulations on his feat from President Kennedy by radio telephone.
A situation that seemed at the moment to pose the greatest danger developed near the end of the flight.
Signal is ReceivedThe signal, received as the capsule was traveling between Hawaii and the West Coast, indicated that the heat shield had become unlatched from the main capsule body. This action was not intended to happen until the final stage of the parachute descent.
At that point, it would fall a few feet, and deploy, between it and the capsule base, a cloth landing bag to cushion the impact on the water.
Colonel Glenn was asked by radio to flip a switch to check whether the shield had, in fact, become unlatched. When the light did not go on, it appeared that the "unlatch" signal had been not working.
Colonel Glenn, apparently sensing possible serious trouble, asked: "What are the reasons for this? Do you have any reasons?'
Jettisoning was delayed today so that, in case the heat shield had become unlatched, the rocket-packet straps would hold the shield in place until this function was taken over by the force of re-entry into the atmosphere.
The package burned on re-entry. The heat shield did not drop away until it was supposed to. This indicated that the signal that had caused so much anxiety had, in fact, been a false one.
100,000 See LaunchingThe whole continent watched on television as Colonel Glenn's capsule was launched. The world listened by radio. And almost 100,000 persons had a direct view from here and the beaches around as the Atlas rocket booster bore the Project Mercury capsule upward with a thrust of 360,000 pounds.
The Friendship 7 was lofted into a trajectory that varied between a low point, of about ninety-nine miles, and a high point of 162 miles.
It traveled at a speed of about 17,530 miles an hour and went from day to night three times before whirling east across the Pacific on the final leg of the flight.
The elated astronaut on board radioed, "Boy, that was a real fireball of a ride!" as the capsule rammed back into the atmosphere.
Besides generating heat that gave him a spectacular moment of fireworks outside his capsule window, the re-entry ended Colonel Glenn's long hours of weightlessness and shoved him forcefully back against his contoured couch.
At 2:43 P. M., a sixty-three foot red-and-white parachute deposited the Friendship 7 on gentle Caribbean waters.
After the capsule had been picked up by the Noa and safely placed on her deck, Colonel Glenn emerged triumphant in his gleaming silver space suit.
He had a "bungee" chord -- a "king size rubberband" -- on which he was to pull, like an oarsman pulling oars, to see how his blood pressure was affected by exercise when he was in a weightless state.
He had a medical kit of spring-loaded needles with which he could give himself various injections. One was to suppress nausea or other symptoms of motion sickness. (Colonel Glenn reported frequently that weightlessness bothered him not at all.)
Under his flying suit Colonel Glenn wore a plastic tube and container for bladder relief.
As the sun rose, the low-hanging clouds disappeared, and left conditions here as ideal as anyone ever had seen them. The weather in key recovery areas at sea was equally perfect.
While waiting for the count to proceed, Colonel Glenn had a chance to talk by phone with wife Anna, his 16-year-old son David, and his 15-year-old daughter Lynn. They watched the proceedings on TV from their home in Arlington, Va.
Visually, there was nothing particularly memorable about take-off, at 9:47. Emotionally, the atmosphere was charged, because a man was going into orbit.
There were the usual cries of "Go! Go!" at take-off. Tears came to the eyes of some viewers, in the blockhouse, at the observer's stand two miles from the launching pad, and on the beaches. But, generally, the emotions were held in. Everyone waited.
Colonel Glenn apparently had a fine, exhilarating time, right from the start. He experienced some vibration along with acceleration force, as he climbed through the atmosphere.
Then it smoothed out; the rocket burning stopped; the acceleration switched abruptly to weightlessness; and the capsule automatically turned its blunt end forward for the almost five hours he was to be in orbit.
"Capsule is turning around," he radioed. "Oh, that view is tremendous."
He was the professional test pilot, and at the same time a human being experiencing pure joy. The tone was full of enthusiasm.
On the first orbit, over the Canary Islands, Colonel Glenn reported that "the horizon is a brilliant blue."
One after another of the stations in the eighteen-station world-wide tracking net locked its radar on the Friendship 7, and most of them established voice communications with the astronaut on board.
Colonel Glenn received a special greeting from the citizens of Perth, Australia, who turned on the lights all over town.
"Thank everybody for turning them on," he radioed. About there, too he tried the first of the special foods prepared for consumption in orbit, where there is no gravity to let liquids pour or meats stay on a dish. He ate tubes of food and meat, and malted milk tablets.
An odd phenomenon occurred when he was within range of Guaymas, Mexico. He reported "luminous particles around the capsule- just thousands of them- right at sunrise over the Pacific."
The moment of decision came near the end of the second orbit. Colonel Glenn was reporting continued erratic behavior of the controls, apparently even with the manual system- the alternative to the one that originally malfunctioned.
He also was reporting warning light indicating that hydrogen peroxide fuel for at least one of the systems was getting low.
To many experts listening to these events unfold, there seemed no alternative to bringing Colonel Glenn back at the end of the second orbit rather than risking another circuit.
But the astronaut thought he could handle the situation without excessive trouble.
Between the technical talk, there was time for joking- the exuberance of a man, who, no matter how experienced in combat and test flying, had never done anything quite like this.
Then he got down to the business of preparing himself for the critical firing of the braking rockets and the re-entry into the atmosphere.
Today's flight gave the United States, by any standards, its greatest day in space.
The achievement, however, could still not be considered quite up to what the Russians had done.
Colonel Glenn's flight was two orbits more than were flown by Maj. Yuri A. Gagarin, the Soviet space man, last April 12 but fourteen less than another Russian, Maj. Gherman S. Titov, flew on Aug. 6.
In addition, there was some technical respects in which both Soviet orbital flights appeared to observers here to have an advantage: the size of the capsule orbited (five tons as against a ton and a half); the reliability of automatic controls; and the cabin atmosphere in which the pilot had to work.
But Colonel Glenn's trip was considered by most observers here to have gone a long way toward erasing this nation's "second-best" look in space.
BLOG QUESTIONS: SEE SPACE FACT: FIRST AMERICAN TO ORBIT THE EARTH
1) Colonel Glenn was 40 years old when he orbited around the earth, how old were his children son_________ daughter__________ how old was he when his oldest child was born_______.
2) In the word MERCURY what is the fraction of vowels to total number of letters______?
3) The Friendship 7 was lofted into a trajectory that varied between a low point, of about ninety-nine miles, and a high point of 162 miles. What is the difference between the two heights________?
4) The 40-year-old Marine Corps lieutenant colonel traveled about 81,000 miles in 4 hours 56 minutes before splashing into the Atlantic. If we round the 4 hours 56 minutes to 5 hours, and if you divide the 81,000 miles by 5 hours, how many miles did Colonel Gleen travel every hour of his flight_______?
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Ok... we are now into October... first game... is on the 28th ... how EXCITING!
Fri, Oct 28 Carroll College (exhibit.) Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Fri, Nov 11 Eastern Washington Spokane, Wash. TBA
Mon, Nov 14 Washington State Spokane, Wash. 9 p.m.
Sat, Nov 26 Western Michigan (Ronald McDonald House Charities) Spokane, Wash. (Spokane Arena) 1 p.m.
Wed, Nov 30 Notre Dame Spokane, Wash. 8:15 p.m.
Sat, Dec 03 Illinois Champaign, Ill. 12:15 p.m.
Sat, Dec 10 Michigan State Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Thu, Dec 15 Oral Roberts Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Sat, Dec 17 Arizona (Battle In Seattle) Seattle, Wash. (KeyArena) 1 p.m.
Tue, Dec 20 Butler Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Thu, Dec 22 Air Force Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Wed, Dec 28 Portland * Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Sat, Dec 31 Xavier Cincinnati, Ohio 5 p.m.
Thu, Jan 05 Pepperdine * Spokane, Wash. 6 p.m.
Sat, Jan 07 Santa Clara * Spokane, Wash. 5 p.m.
Thu, Jan 12 Saint Mary's * Moraga, Calif. 8 p.m.
Sat, Jan 14 Loyola Marymount * Los Angeles, Calif. TBA
Thu, Jan 19 San Francisco * Spokane, Wash. TBA
Sat, Jan 21 San Diego * Spokane, Wash. 5 p.m.
Thu, Jan 26 Portland * Portland, Ore. 8 p.m.
Thu, Feb 02 BYU * Provo, Utah 7 p.m.
Sat, Feb 04 Pepperdine * Malibu, Calif. TBA
Thu, Feb 09 Saint Mary's * Spokane, Wash. 8 p.m.
Sat, Feb 11 Loyola Marymount * Spokane, Wash. 5 p.m.
Thu, Feb 16 Santa Clara * Santa Clara, Calif. 8 p.m.
Sat, Feb 18 San Francisco * San Francisco, Calif. TBA
Thu, Feb 23 BYU * Spokane, Wash. 8 p.m.
Sat, Feb 25 San Diego * San Diego, Calif. TBA
Remember MATH is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!
Mr. Rott
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