Sunday 17 April 2011

1 lived vermillion lives







1 lived vermillion lives


Kevill Nomenchek found and got this text for us from the internet. 
With that we are proud to present our Eastern Special at MFAPS this coming 21st of april at 8 o'clock.


Featuring Peter Bruce Booth, Jonathan McCready Brewer, Hans
Christian Skovolt, Magnus Vatvedt and Frido BJ Evers.
MFAPS is situated on the 3rd floor of Malmøgata 5, Oslo.


Appropriated By K. Nomenchek



Apollo-13 (29)
    Pad 39-A (7)
    Saturn-V AS-508 ()
    High Bay 1
    MLP 3
    Firing Room 1

Crew:
    James A. Lovell, Jr.     John L. Swigert, Jr.
    Fred W. Haise, Jr.

Backup Crew:
Milestones:
    06/13/69 - S-IVB ondock at KSC
    06/29/69 - S-II Stage ondock at KSC
    06/16/69 - S-1C Stage ondock at KSC
    07/07/69 - S-IU ondock at KSC
    04/11/70 - Launch

Payload:
    Odyssey (CM-109) and Aquarius (LM-7)

Mission Objective:
    Apollo 13 was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area. An explosion on board
forced Apollo 13 to circle the moon without landing. The Fra Mauro site was
reassigned to Apollo 14.
Launch:
    Saturday, April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST.
    At five and a half minutes after liftoff, Swigert, Haise, and Lovell felt a little
vibration. Then the center engine of the S-II stage shut down two minutes early.
This caused the remaining four engines to burn 34 seconds longer than planned,
and the S-IVB third stage had to burn nine seconds longer to put Apollo 13 in
orbit.
    Days before the mission, backup LM pilot Charlie Duke inadvertently exposed
the crew to German measles. Command module pilot, Ken Mattingly, turned out
to have no immunity to measles and was replaced by backup command module
pilot Jack Swigert.
    Ground tests before launch, indicated the possibility of a poorly insulated
supercritical helium tank in the LM's descent stage so the flight plan was
modified to enter the LM three hours early in order to obtain an onboard readout
of helium tank pressure.
    The No. 2 oxygen tank, serial number 10024X-TA0009 had been previously
installed in the service module of Apollo 10, but was removed for modification
(and was damaged in the process of removal). The tank was fixed, tested at the
factory, installed in the Apollo 13 service module. and tested again during the
Countdown Demonstration Test (CDT) at the Kennedy Space Center.beginning
March 16, 1970. The tanks normally are emptied to about half full, and No. 1
behaved all right. But No. 2 dropped to only 92 percent of capacity. Gaseous
oxygen at 80 psi was applied through the vent line to expel the liquid oxygen, butto no avail. An interim discrepancy report was written, and on March 27, two
weeks before launch, detanking operations were resumed. No. 1 again emptied
normally, but No. 2 did not. After a conference with contractor and NASA
personnel, the test director decided to "boil off" the remaining oxygen in No. 2 by
using the electrical heater within the tank. The technique worked, but it took
eight hours of 65-volt DC power from the ground-support equipment to dissipate
the oxygen. Due to an oversight in replacing an underrated component during a
design modification, this turned out to severely damage the internal heating
elements of the tank.

Orbit:
    Altitude: xxx miles
    Inclination: xxx degrees
    Orbits:
    Duration: 05 Days, 22 hours, 54 min, seconds
    Distance: miles
    Lunar Location: None
    Lunar Coords: None

Landing:
    April 17, 1970

Mission Highlights:
    Third lunar landing attempt. Mission was aborted after rupture of service
module oxygen tank. Classed as "successful failure" because of experience in
rescuing crew. Spent upper stage successfully impacted on the Moon.
    The first two days the crew ran into a couple of minor surprises, but generally
Apollo 13 was looking like the smoothest flight of the program. At 46 hours 43
minutes Joe Kerwin, the CapCom on duty, said, "The spacecraft is in real good
shape as far as we are concerned. We're bored to tears down here." It was the last
time anyone would mention boredom for a long time.
    At 55 hours 46 minutes, as the crew finished a 49-minute TV broadcast
showing how comfortably they lived and worked in weightlessness, Lovell stated:
"This is the crew of Apollo 13 wishing everybody there a nice evening, and we're
just about ready to close out our inspection of Aquarius (the LM) and get back for
a pleasant evening in Odyssey (the CM). Good night."
    Nine minutes later, Oxygen tank No. 2 blew up, causing No. 1 tank also to fail.
The Apollo 13 command modules normal supply of electricity, light, and water
was lost, and they were about 200,000 miles from Earth.
    The message came in the form of a sharp bang and vibration. Jack Swigert saw
a warning light that accompanied the bang, and said, "Houston, we've had a
problem here." Lovell came on and told the ground that it was a main B bus
undervolt. The time was 2108 hours on April 13.    Next, the warning lights indicated the loss of two of Apollo 13's three fuel cells,
which were the spacecrafts prime source of electricity. With warning lights
blinking on, One Oxygen tank appeared to be completely empty, and there were
indications that the oxygen in the second tank was rapidly being depleted.
    Thirteen minutes after the explosion, Lovell happened to look out of the lefthand window, and saw the final evidence pointing toward potential catastrophe.
"We are venting something out into the- into space," he reported to Houston. Jack
Lousma, the CapCom replied, "Roger, we copy you venting." Lovell said, "It's a gas
of some sort." It was oxygen gas escaping at a high rate from the second, and last,
oxygen tank.
    (by James A. Lovell, from Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, edited
    by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP; 350, Washington, DC, 1975 )
    The first thing the crew did, even before discovering the oxygen leak, was to try
to close the hatch between the CM and the LM. They reacted spontaneously, like
submarine crews, closing the hatches to limit the amount of flooding. First Jack
and then Lovell tried to lock the reluctant hatch, but the stubborn lid wouldn't
stay shut. Exasperated, and realizing that there wasn't a cabin leak, they
strapped the hatch to the CM couch.
    The pressure in the No. 1 oxygen tank continued to drift downward; passing
300 psi, now heading toward 200 psi. Months later, after the accident
investigation was complete, it was determined that, when No. 2 tank blew up, it
either ruptured a line on the No. 1 tank, or caused one of the valves to leak.
When the pressure reached 200 psi, the crew and ground controllers knew that
they would lose all oxygen, which meant that the last fuel cell would also die.
    At 1 hour and 29 seconds after the bang, Jack Lousma, then CapCom, said
after instructions from Flight Director Glynn Lunney: "It is slowly going to zero,
and we are starting to think about the LM lifeboat." Swigert replied, "That's what
we have been thinking about too."
    Ground controllers in Houston faced a formidable task. Completely new
procedures had to be written and tested in the simulator before being passed up
to the crew. The navigation problem had to be solved; essentially how, when, and
in what attitude to burn the LM descent engine to provide a quick return home.
    With only 15 minutes of power left in the CM, CapCom told the crew to make
their way into the LM. Fred and Jim Lovell quickly floated through the tunnel,
leaving Jack to perform the last chores in the Command Module. The first
concern was to determine if there were enough consumables to get home? The LM
was built for only a 45-hour lifetime, and it needed to be stretch to 90. Oxygen
wasn't a problem. The full LM descent tank alone would suffice, and in addition,
there were two ascent-engine oxygen tanks, and two backpacks whose oxygen
supply would never be used on the lunar surface. Two emergency bottles on top
of those packs had six or seven pounds each in them. (At LM jettison, just before
reentry, 28.5 pounds of oxygen remained, more than half of what was available
after the explosion).    Power was also a concern. There were 2181 ampere hours in the LM batteries,
Ground controllers carefully worked out a procedure where the CM batteries were
charged with LM power. All non-critical systems were turned off and energy
consumption was reduced to a fifth of normal, which resulted in having 20
percent of our LM electrical power left when Aquarius was jettisoned. There was
one electrical close call during the mission. One of the CM batteries vented with
such force that it momentarily dropped off the line. Had the battery failed, there
would be insufficient power to return the ship to Earth.
    Water was the main consumable concern. It was estimated that the crew would
run out of water about five hours before Earth reentry, which was calculated at
around 151 hours. However, data from Apollo 11 (which had not sent its LM
ascent stage crashing into the Moon as in subsequent missions) showed that its
mechanisms could survive seven or eight hours in space without water cooling.
The crew conserved water. They cut down to six ounces each per day, a fifth of
normal intake, and used fruit juices; they ate hot dogs and other wet-pack foods
when they ate at all. The crew became dehydrated throughout the flight and set a
record that stood up throughout Apollo: Lovell lost fourteen pounds, and the crew
lost a total of 31.5 pounds, nearly 50 percent more than any other crew. Those
stringent measures resulted in the crew finishing with 28.2 pounds of water,
about 9 percent of the total.
    Removal of Carbon Dioxide was also a concern. There were enough lithium
hydroxide canisters, which remove carbon dioxide from the spacecraft, but the
square canisters from the Command Module were not compatible with the round
openings in the Lunar Module environmental system. There were four cartridge
from the LM, and four from the backpacks, counting backups. However, the LM
was designed to support two men for two days and was being asked to care for
three men nearly four days. After a day and a half in the LM a warning light
showed that the carbon dioxide had built up to a dangerous level. Mission
Control devised a way to attach the CM canisters to the LM system by using
plastic bags, cardboard, and tape- all materials carried on board.
    One of the big questions was, "How to get back safely to Earth?" The LM
navigation system wasn't designed to help us in this situation. Before the
explosion, at 30 hours and 40 minutes, Apollo 13 had made the normal
midcourse correction, which would take it out of a free-return-to-Earth trajectory
and put it on a lunar landing course. Now the task was to get back on a freereturn course. The ground computed a 35-second burn and fired it 5 hours after
the explosion. As they approached the Moon, another burn was computed; this
time a long 5-minute burn to speed up the return home. It took place 2 hours
after rounding the far side of the Moon,
    The Command Module navigational platform alignment was transferred to the
LM but verifying alignment was difficult. Ordinarily the alignment procedure uses
an onboard sextant device, called the Alignment Optical Telescope, to find a
suitable navigation star. Then with the help of the onboard computer verify the
guidance platform's alignment. However, due to the explosion, a swarm of debris
from the ruptured service module made it impossible to sight real stars. An
alternate procedure was developed to use the sun as an alignment star. Lovell
rotated the spacecraft to the attitude Houston had requested and when he lookedthrough the AOT, the Sun was just where it was expected. The alignment with the
Sun proved to be less than a half a degree off. The ground and crew then knew
they could do the 5-minute P.C. + 2 burn with assurance, and that would cut the
total time of our voyage to about 142 hours. At 73:46 hours the air-to-ground
transcript describes the event:
  
Lovell: O.K. We got it. I think we got it. What diameter
    was it?
    Haise: Yes. It's coming back in. Just a second.
    Lovell: Yes, yaw's coming back in. Just about it.
    Haise: Yaw is in....
    Lovell: What have you got?
    Haise: Upper right corner of the Sun....
    Lovell: We've got it!
  
If we raised our voices, I submit it was justified.
  
"I'm told the cheer of the year went up in Mission Control. Flight Director
Gerald Griffin, a man not easily shaken, recalls: "Some years later I went back to
the log and looked up that mission. My writing was almost illegible I was so
damned nervous. And I remember the exhilaration running through me: My God,
that's kinds the last hurdle -- if we can do that, I know we can make it. It was
funny, because only the people involved knew how important it was to have that
platform properly aligned." Yet Gerry Griffin barely mentioned the alignment in
his change-of-shift briefing -- "That check turned out real well" is all he said an
hour after his penmanship failed him.
    James A. Lovell ( Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, edited by
    Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP; 350, Washington, DC, 1975 )
    The trip was marked by discomfort beyond the lack of food and water. Sleep
was almost impossible because of the cold. When the electrical systems were
turned off, the spacecraft lost and important source of heat. The temperature
dropped to 38 F and condensation formed on all the walls.
    A most remarkable achievement of Mission Control was quickly developing
procedures for powering up the CM after its long cold sleep. Flight controllers
wrote the documents for this innovation in three days, instead of the usual three
months. The Command Module was cold and clammy at the start of power up.
The walls, ceiling, floor, wire harnesses, and panels were all covered with droplets
of water. It was suspected conditions were the same behind the panels. The
chances of short circuits caused apprehension, but thanks to the safeguards
built into the command module after the disastrous Apollo-1 fire in January
1967, no arcing took place. The droplets furnished one sensation as we
decelerated in the atmosphere: it rained inside the CM.    Four hours before landing, the crew shed the service module; Mission Control
had insisted on retaining it until then because everyone feared what the cold of
space might do to the unsheltered CM heat shield. Photos of the Service Module
showed one whole panel missing, and wreckage hanging out, it was a sorry mess
as it drifted away. Three hours later the crew left the Lunar Module Aquarius and
then splashed down gently in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa,
    After an intensive investigation, the Apollo 13 Accident Review Board identified
the cause of the explosion. In 1965 the CM had undergone many improvements,
which included raising the permissible voltage to the heaters in the oxygen tanks
from 28 to 65 volts DC. Unfortunately, the thermostatic switches on these
heaters weren't modified to suit the change. During one final test on the launch
pad, the heaters were on for a long period of time. "This subjected the wiring in
the vicinity of the heaters to very high temperatures (1000 F), which have been
subsequently shown to severely degrade teflon insulation. The thermostatic
switches started to open while powered by 65 volts DC and were probably welded
shut." Furthermore, other warning signs during testing went unheeded and the
tank, damaged from 8 hours overheating, was a potential bomb the next time it
was filled with oxygen. That bomb exploded on April 13, 1970 -- 200,000 miles
from Earth.

Thursday 14 April 2011

Joakim Martinussen - "Doctor T.J. Eckleburg's persistent stare" - Photos


I woke up and found her, that's all i know

Untitled

Rücken

Eyes without a face


Three white t-shirts folded to appear like six white t-shirts

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Monday 11 April 2011

TANGA VOLANTE DESIGNERS CLUB presents ACICS pure affect - Photos









TANGA VOLANTE DESIGNERS CLUB presents ACICS pure affect





TANGA VOLANTE DESIGNERS CLUB presents

ACICS pure affect

by Halvor Rønning and Martyn Reynolds
At MFAPS - Malmøgata Fine Art Project Space

Thursday april 14th 2011 18:00


Sound mind, Sound body, Sound environment.
Staying true to this philosophy, every innovation, every concept, every idea recognizes the essence of the best product.

With social responsibility we conceive products with high functionality and quality design. As consumers take responsibility for the design of their daily lives we answer the needs of these individuals as the body takes on the form of the soul. We are contributing to a long term sustainable society, acting responsibly and with products that are manufactured in an ethical and environmentally sustainable manner. In so doing, we create liberated spaces for self-design that are perceived as areas of integrity, sincerity, and trust.

Acknowledging that politics has already situated itself in the aesthetic field, and as Joseph Beuys celebrated everyone as artists, we facilitate everyone as artist-designers, with ethical, political, and aesthetic responsibility for their environment. Striving to build upon our technological advances we push the limits of what we can learn from the body and its needs. We pledge to bring harmony to the body, the soul and the living world.

Joakim Martinussen - "Doctor T.J. Eckleburg's persistent stare"


Opening Thursday 14th of April 18:00
Saturday - Sunday 12-16

Ahmad Ghossein - My Father is still a communist. Intimate memories to be published

My Father is still a communist. Intimate memories to be published

Video 32 min, HD
2011, commissioned by Sharja Biennal.

When I was a kid I created imaginative stories about a war hero father
fighting with the communist Party.

All what is left from the relationship between Rachid Ghossein and Maream
Hmade is a large number of radio cassettes sent as love letters during the
time of civil war in Lebanon.

Opening Thursday 14th of April 18:00
Saturday - Sunday 12-16

Thursday 7 April 2011

The Educational Art Show Part II (städelschule)


Opening April 7th 18:00
Saturday - Sunday 12-16

The Educational Art Show Part II (städelschule) 

The Educational Art Show was originally a project by Eirik Senje, a student at the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts, as a statement against the working conditions at the academy after the school moved because of a consolidation of art education institutions.

"All students and teaching staff at the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts have been asked to participate with any kind of work or project,
the only limitation being the amount of physical space available in the exhibition space. "


Now we invite you to "The Educational Art Show Part II (städelschule)
Where a group of the students from Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule in Frankfurt will present works for a short period of time.


Collected by Kjersti Gjestrud 

A Winter Journey



A Winter Journey

In 1895 Claude Monet travelled to Norway to paint snow. During his stay he made several paintings of Mount Kolsås outside Sandvika. A Winter Journey is a course in plein air painting where we have taken a closer look at the possibilities to depict place in painting.  We have made a series of excursions to Kolsås and observed the mountain together. A presentation of the work will be shown in Malmøgata 5 on April 7th  between 18 - 21 h. The exhibition will also be open to the public Saturday April 9th hand Sunday April 10th between 12 - 16 h.


Mads Andreas Andreassen
Ragna Bley
Arja Margrethe Wiik-Hansen
Roosmaerjin ten Hoopen
Joakim Martinussen
Mimmi Mattila
Per Joel Sebstian Westerlund
Mona Sjo Leirkjær
Andreas Siqueland
Ruben Steinum