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Date:
Sat, 29 March 2008 9:16 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Boomerang at Endeavour
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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts
off on Mission STS-123 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape
Canaveral, Florida March 11, 2008. The shuttle carries a crew
of seven astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station.
(Pierre Ducharme/Reuters)
Fri Mar 14, 10:32 PM ET |
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
Pilot Gregory Johnson (L) high-fives mission specialist
Rick Linnehan on the aft flight deck of the orbiter during
flight operations in this image from NASA TV, March 11, 2008.
(NASA TV/Reuters)
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Mar 15, 9:51 PM ET |
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International Space
Station Expedition 16 Commander US Peggy Whitson (Front R)
welcomes US space shuttle Endeavour Commnder US Dominic Gorie
(Front L) in the staton's Harmony module on March 13, as the
shuttle's crew is welcomed to the facility. Also seen on the right
are shuttle crew members US Pilot Gregory Johnson and
Takao Doi of Japan.
(AFP/NASA)
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Mar 14, 2:53 AM ET |
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Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takao Doi, looks over his
choices of beverages and snacks at the galley on the middeck of
Space Shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International
Space Station in this March 15, 2008 photo provided by
NASA. (NASA/Reuters)
Tue
Mar 18, 12:03 PM ET
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This image made from NASA TV, Mission
Specialist Rick Linnehan and Expedition 16 Flight Engineer
Garrett Reisman kicked off the STS-123 mission
(AP Photo/NASA-TV)
Thu Mar 13, 10:36 PM ET |
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US space shuttle
Endeavour Mission Specialist Japanese Takao Doi (C),
Commander US Dominic Gorie (R) and International Space
Station Commander US Peggy Whitson (L) as Doi talks while
holding a boomerang, on March 19. In an unprecedented
experiment, Doi threw a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies
back much like on Earth.
(AFP/NASA/File)
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Mar 21, 2:13 AM ET |
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Space Shuttle
Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Center March 26, 2008 in Cape
Canaveral, Florida. Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are home
after carrying Japan's maiden space laboratory and a Canadian repair
robot to the International Space Station on a record-setting
mission.
(AFP/GETTY
IMAGES/Matt Stroshane)
Thu
Mar 27, 12:19 PM ET |
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From L-R: The crew of the
space shuttle Endeavour Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
astronaut Takao Doi, Robert Behnken, Richard
Linnehan, Pilot Gregory Johnson, Commander Dominic
Gorie and Michael Foreman. pose after landing at Kennedy
Space Center in Florida.
(AFP/Stan
Honda)
Thu
Mar 27, 12:19 PM ET |
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Space shuttle
Endeavour returns to Earth
By MARCIA DUNN,
AP Aerospace Writer
Thu Mar 27, 1:37 AM ET
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle
Endeavour and its crew of seven returned to Earth on
Wednesday, making a rare nighttime touchdown to wrap up "a
two-week adventure" at the international space station. The
shuttle swooped through the darkness and landed on NASA's
illuminated runway at 8:39 p.m., an hour after sunset.
"Welcome home, Endeavour," Mission Control
radioed. "Congrats to the entire crew."
Replied Endeavour's commander, Dominic
Gorie: "It was a super-rewarding mission, exciting from the
start to the ending."
The shuttle's homecoming was a bit delayed.
Endeavour was supposed to land before sunset, but at virtually
the last minute, clouds moved in. As the astronauts took an
extra swing around the planet, the sky cleared enough to
satisfy flight controllers and — after asking Gorie for his
opinion — they gave him the green light to head home.
It was only the 22nd space shuttle landing
in darkness. Less than one-fifth of all missions have ended at
nighttime; the last one was in 2006.
Endeavour blasted off March 11 — also in
darkness — on an ambitious, intense space station
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construction mission that had even its
commander wondering at times how everything would go.
In the end, Gorie and his multinational
crew accomplished everything they set out to do during their
voyage, which spanned 16 days and 6.5 million miles. The
astronauts installed the first piece of Japan's Kibo lab, put
together a giant Canadian robot named Dextre, tested a shuttle
repair technique and more.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he
told Gorie after touchdown that "he had really flown two
missions in one for us."
"I can't imagine that the mission could
have gone any better, and they made it look easy," Griffin
said.
The space station is now 70 percent
complete, thanks to the latest additions, with a mass of
nearly 600,000 pounds.
Ten more shuttle flights to the space
station — spread over the next two years — will round out the
numbers. NASA hopes to have its share of the orbiting outpost
finished in 2010 and its three shuttles retired, so it can
focus on human expeditions to the moon.
"This has been a two-week adventure," said
Gorie's co-pilot, Gregory Johnson, before landing. "It's been
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Recent space shuttle mission of Endeavour becomes
meaningful for me for certain reasons.
Among which was because it was launched on 11
March 2008 with a
Japanese astronaut inside, after on 5 March 2008 I wrote a
draft of proposal for my land journey through out Indonesia and browsed
the website of Toyota office in Indonesia for possible sponsorship.
The space shuttle name Endeavour is like
having the meaning of "End A Firman", because my name Firman contains
"fir", whereas in German or Dutch "fir" has the meaning of "four". And the
launching, and later on the landing, of Endeavour this time was done both at
the dark.
It also seemingly contain some signs of
"moving back in time", related with my previous letter of "TV
One, A Chance to Redeem My Mistakes in 1982 And 2001". Because during that
mission of space shuttle Endeavour, the Japanese astronaut Takao Doi made
an experiment of throwing a boomerang and confirmed it flies back much
like on Earth.
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Date: Sat, 29 March 2008 10:18 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Sign of "Moving Back
in Time", Through Sharapova
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The bicycle I used to ride, in the usual
"parking space" on the front porch of an Internet shop, facing to
the left. Some motorcycles, sometimes also cars, usually parked
either facing the shop or with their back toward the Internet shop.
But on Wednesday morning of 26 March 2008, there was only one
motorcycle, placed parallel with the front window of the shop,
causing me to move my bicycle backward, withdrew it, to place
it in the usual front porch of the shop.
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Maria Sharapova listens
to a question during a news conference at the Sony Ericsson Open
tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla., Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
Sharapova withdrew from the tournament due to a shoulder
injury.
(AP
Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Mar 26, 1:20 PM ET |
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Maria Sharapova of Russia
signs autographs at the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Key
Biscayne, Fla. Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Sharapova withdrew from
the tournament due to a shoulder injury.
(AP
Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Mar 26, 3:28 PM ET |
Something related with a message about "moving
back in time" also occurred from the Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova.
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, in the morning when I arrived in
front of the Internet shop, I found a motorcycle parked rather unusual.
Usually, like can be seen in the above photo, motorcycles in front of the
Internet shop were parked facing the Internet shop, or with their back
toward the Internet shop. While the bicycle I used to ride usually
parked in the front porch of the shop, parallel with the shop's window, facing to the left.
But that morning of Wednesday 26 March 2008,
there was only one motorcycle, since it was still around eight o'clock it
the morning, and it was placed parallel with the front window of the
Internet shop, so close to the front porch of the shop. It caused me to
move my bicycle backward, withdrew it, to place it in the usual
front porch of the shop.
In the evening, there was the news at the news
ticker on TV about Maria Sharapova withdrew from the Sony Ericsson
Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Florida, due to a shoulder injury.
For me it becomes like a sign of "moving
back in time", related with my previous letter of "TV
One, A Chance to Redeem My Mistakes in 1982 And 2001".
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Date: Sat, 29 March 2008 10:38 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Sign of "Moving Back
in Time", Through Paris Hilton
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U.S. heiress Paris Hilton, left, and her
fiance Benji Madden are seen at Heathrow Airport, London, Wednesday,
19 March, 2008.
(AP Photo, Steve
Parsons, PA)
Wed Mar 19, 12:32 PM ET
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Of course whenever it is about the sign of
"Moving Back in Time", it should inevitably also involved Paris
Hilton. And I thank God for giving me the chance to move back in time
through the news of Paris Hilton having a new fiancé, Benji Madden,
therefore I can wipe out my mistake of seemingly causing the cancel of
Paris Hilton's engagement with a Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis in 2005.
A few days after I began to write to Paris
Hilton on early May 2005, came the news of her engagement with Paris
Latsis, in mid May 2005. Later on came another stunning news, about
hurricane Katrina, that drowned the city of New Orleans, causing hundred
of thousands of people to fled their houses, and evacuated to other
cities. It was a horrible disaster for human being, since United States
has become the most advanced country, the only super power of the world,
representing the most advanced life style among human civilization on this
earth.
That disaster of hurricane Katrina
becomes more important for me, since in 1989 when I worked at American
Express, a girl named Rina asked me to propose her, and it made me
fell in love with her, though later on I failed.
In my letter to Paris Hilton contemplating the
disaster of hurricane Katrina, I told her that could it be the sign of God
that she and I should have no other choice than to be more serious about
my consent to move to the eternity.
It was then followed by the news of her
canceling the engagement with her fiancé Paris Latsis. And it caused me to
feel guilty, as if I was the one who caused the cancel of her engagement.
I really wish to free myself from anything
that can cause a divorce or a break-up of a couple, like I wrote in my
previous letter of "Avoiding
Myself from Becoming the Cause of Divorce or Break Up".
Now that Paris Hilton has engaged again, with
Benji Madden, I wish none of my activities would inspire her to cancel the
engagement. Otherwise, if I died soon, I would have the tag of "a man who
often cause divorces and break-ups". Not a good tag to attach, especially if my
death would become a "random sample of human species progress on earth".
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