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Number of signatures: 681
Signed on: 3-30-2001 Name: Jason Perry (209.242.85.116)
Comments: Some of the most interesting features that would be seen in this flyby
include Ra Patera, Kanehekili, Inachus and Apis Tholi, Euboea Fluctus and Montes,
Loki, Acala, and Masubi.
Signed on: 3-30-2001 Name: Constantine Thomas (209.172.222.156)
Comments:
Signed on: 3-30-2001 Name: Richard Hendricks (66.25.149.200)
Comments: I think that the $600k required to support imaging is well spent.
Signed on: 3-30-2001 Name: Theodore Stryk (207.65.110.125)
Comments: It is a tragedy to waste the I33 and A34 flyby imaging opportunities,
as they are are wonderful and extremely inexpensive opportunities to do science
which we won't get the chance to do again for years, if not decades.
Signed on: 3-31-2001 Name: Erik Doescher (216.220.107.252)
Comments: Nasa needs to get their priorities straight,, this will be one of their
last chances to image Io in a long time.
Signed on: 3-31-2001 Name: Joshua Kitchener (209.204.177.22)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Don Davis (209.162.44.8)
Comments: It would be senseless to not allow as much data to be gathered by Galileo
as possible considering the many hurdles this mission has had to clear. It would
be sadly ironic if no images were gathered from Galileo's last close passage to
Io, as happened during the first close flyby of this intriguing moon.
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Chris Vancil (172.137.214.75)
Comments: Remote sensing on this last pass would be worth the effort.
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Enzo Cataldo (148.88.0.10)
Comments: I support all points made above. I strongly believe that, spending some
extra money now (for a good reason), will be equivalent to saving a lot of money
for the future! Enzo Cataldo
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Les Kostka (209.166.68.247)
Comments: I think continued funding of the space program is vital to our security
and well being.
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: L.W.Perkins (209.204.91.245)
Comments: I am a astro artist and I would support my tax dollars going to all
the imaging we can get--if you are already there, why be cheap? What's a few more
dollars for some very worthwhile info?
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Robert Pappalardo (128.148.116.29)
Comments: Not funding remote sensing during I33 is simply penny wise and dollar
foolish.
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Keith Martin (12.72.129.235)
Comments: Proportionately, the tiny extra expenditure would pay handsome dividends
and to let this opporunity pass would be scientifically tragic.
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Bjorn Jonsson (194.144.161.27)
Comments: Imaging opportunities like I33 and A34 will not occur again until years
or more probably decades from now so it would be senseless not do use these opportunities.
The cost of doing so is just a tiny fraction of Galileo's total cost of $1,500,000,000.
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Cynthia Phillips (198.102.112.200)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Robert Kline (209.0.184.130)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-1-2001 Name: Joe Bergeron (63.17.145.238)
Comments: NASA: penny wise, pound foolish.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: J. Krucek (165.121.33.5)
Comments: We need to keep our eyes on the stars, lest we rot in the gutter
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Michael Carroll (216.189.14.41)
Comments: I was mystified to note that no imaging would take place on the projovian
side of Io, and that no SSI imaging of Amalthea would be undertaken either. Can
this valuable science be saved? I hope so!
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Paul Bowling
Comments: To waste such an opportunity after going so far is lunacy
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: John Cody
Comments:
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Paul Geissler (128.196.64.91)
Comments: It's important to see what's changed since Voyager days!
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Alex R. Blackwell (204.182.234.218)
Comments: Given the amount of money that NASA has already spent on Galileo, I
find it amazing that the relatively paltry amount needed for imaging during I33
is being denied. Galileo is definitely one of NASA's success stories (a mission
saved from the brink of catastrophe) and in fact may be the last spacecraft to
view the Jovian system up close for nearly a decade.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Elizabeth Turtle (128.196.64.79)
Comments: The most important thing about I33 is that Galileo will get its first
view of the subjovian hemisphere at high resolution. This will give us close up
views of the structures on this hemisphere of Io which is important because there
are volcanic structures on this side of Io that appear to be unlike any of the
other volcanoes on Io, especially the two tholi. Observations of this side of
Io will provide information that is essential to constraining the dissipation
of tidal heating in Io. For example, if the style of volcanism on the subjovian
hemisphere is different or if there are longitudinal variations in the distribution
of volcanism. We have some evidence supporting each of these but won't be able
to confirm them without I33 imaging.
(Galileo will also get an excellent global view at lower resolution on A34
which will be important for determining longitudinal variations in the distribution
of the amount volcanic activity. A34 also provides the best view of Loki in
the entire Galileo mission.)
Understanding the distribution of tidal heating is not only important for understanding
Io, but will also have implications for Europa, which has been described as
being similar to Io covered by ~200 km of ice. The better our understanding
of how Io's interior works the better we'll be able to constrain the conditions
in Europa's deep interior.
Signed on: April 2, 2001 Name: Alfred S. McEwen (128.196.145.107)
Comments: NASA will look silly to the public if Galileo doesn't collect images
in I33 and the camera is still working.
Signed on: April 2, 2001 Name: Jani Radebaugh (128.196.64.103)
Comments: We can't turn off the Little Spacecraft who Could!
Signed on: April 2, 2001 Name: Robert Sullivan (128.84.142.168)
Comments: There are no Io missions even on the drawing boards. Our last chance
to get the most out of Galileo for very, very little additional cost.
Signed on: April 2, 2001 Name: Phil Wilson (152.163.207.211)
Comments: Please consider funding imaging from the next IO flyby. IO has always
been a source of unexpected scientific discoveries. Especially since there are
no successor missions funded.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Doug Dawson (128.196.64.219)
Comments: Come on! This is such a small increase, for a new science opportunity.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Rachel Mastrapa (128.196.64.158)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: E.P. Grondine (63.36.7.122)
Comments: While NASA has pressing needs in regards to comets and asteroids, given
the intial cost of the Galileo proble, any decision not to fund its complete utilization
for as long as possible immediately draws my attention to asking why that decision
was made.
I my opinion, timely money for this imaging could easily be found in the funding
of Mars studies which are not time dependent - those studies may always be continued
at a later date, while imaging Io to better understand geological processes
in general clearly needs to be undertaken while that opportunity is available.
Perhaps this decision reflects questions of radiation safety or of Deep Space
Network availability, but given the asset value of Galileo, I join in others
who are demanding an explanation of your decision.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Steven D. Kadel (128.196.64.158)
Comments: When will we go there for imaging again? We're going by anyway. It wouldn't
make much sense to go on a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation and drive by the
Grand Canyon at night, would it? We should take the images and get the downlink.
The processing can come later.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Nathan Koren (149.169.66.117)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Andreas Ekholm (128.196.145.43)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Joe Plassmann (128.196.64.4)
Comments: The funding/science ratio for for imaging at I33 is ridiculously cheap.
Considering the amount of money it took us to get there, NOT funding I33 imaging
makes absolutely no sense.
Signed on: 4-2-2001 Name: Laszlo P. Keszthelyi (169.197.51.191)
Comments: This is an incredibly short-sighted decision that really raises troubling
questions about how NASA makes decisions about how to spend tax-payer's dollars.
I estimate that it would take 2 or 3 administrators taking "early retirement"
to save enough $$ to keep Galileo working.
I am most disturbed by the fact that NASA has chosen to end remote sensing
(and public interest) in the mission soon after a woman takes charge. Looking
at the researchers most affected by this decision, I see that they are largely
young women. Is this a coincidence or a spectarcular example of sexism?
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Damon Simonelli (128.84.142.131)
Comments: As miraculous as it is that NASA found the money to fund imaging on
the orbits leading up to I33, I can nevertheless feel my ethnic ancestor Galileo
Galilei spinning in his grave over the shortsighted decision to turn his namesake's
camera off before the unique I33 observations of Io's sub-Jupiter face.
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Tilmann Denk (129.247.212.33)
Comments: It is impossible to understand the rationales why imaging on Galileo
should stop after I32; this makes simply no sense!
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Thorsten Denk (129.247.136.13)
Comments: Io is one of the most spectacular bodies of the solar system. More fotos
will serve as very good PR for NASA.
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Frank Chandler (24.181.97.196)
Comments: Completely unreasonable to forego this opportunity
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Sarah Fagents (129.219.55.252)
Comments: This is an excellent opportunity for great science at minimal cost.
It seems foolish to pass up this once-in-a-lifetime event.
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Gary A. Allen, Jr. (32.100.71.158)
Comments: Io is one of the most interesting worlds in the Solar System. It is
absurd not to investigate Io at every opportunity. If the decision to not perform
remote imaging of Io during I33 was for cost cutting reasons alone (and not due
to operational considerations) then that decision represents false economy and
should be reversed. Scientific investigation and technology development is what
NASA is all about. Science should hold priority even if the results aren't sufficiently
entertaining for the 6:00 News.
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Robert Shepherd (64.79.10.230)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-3-2001 Name: Laurence Street (209.52.253.252)
Comments: It's there, it's working - for a (relatively) very small expenditure,
a great deal of valuable information can be obtained.
Signed on: 4-4-2001 Name: John Spencer (192.103.11.40)
Comments: Every time we look at Io we see something unexpected and amazing. I33
gives Io one more chance to blow our socks off! The fact that we will be looking
at a hemisphere not seen close-up since Voyager increases the chances of new and
surprising discoveries.
Signed on: 4-5-2001 Name: Stephen W. Gordon (38.31.167.240)
Comments: For the cost of bribing two or three Olympic commitee members we can
fund this project, how can we not?
Signed on: 4-5-2001 Name: Ingrid Daubar (128.196.145.53)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-6-2001 Name: Rosaly Lopes (137.78.163.77)
Comments: This is a unique opportunity to view Io's Jupiter facing hemisphere
at high resolution using Galileo's remote sensing instruments. It is very hard
to understand the rationale for turning off the remote sensing instruments after
October. With 3 more months of funding, we could have this unique I33 fly-by!
We have already done a lot of the necessary work. The observations are already
planned and designed. One of our team members, who is moving to another job, even
offered to her part for this fly-by on a volunteer basis! Nobody wants to miss
this unique chance.
Signed on: 4-6-2001 Name: William R. Stolpin (199.179.189.119)
Comments: Leave the switch in the on position
Signed on: 4-7-2001 Name: Robert and Kathleen Carlson (209.178.176.146)
Comments: Can get more great science for just a small expenditure!
Signed on: 4-9-2001 Name: Jim J. Secosky (192.156.234.137)
Comments: I urge NASA to spend the extra few dollars to get the extra data from
Io. Not using a spacecraft after it has gone so far is stupid. That's like getting
rid of a car because you have to spend a few dollars to change the oil. Thank
You for Your Time.
Signed on: 4-9-2001 Name: Stephen Floyd CPA (4.42.37.142)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-9-2001 Name: Robert Burnham (169.207.139.137)
Comments: I strongly support the taking of data during the I33 passage by the
Galileo probe
Signed on: 4-10-2001 Name: Josh Mitchell
Comments:
Signed on: 4-10-2001 Name: Shaun Cunningham
Comments:
Signed on: 4-10-2001 Name: Moses P. Milazzo (128.196.145.57)
Comments: With NASA's recent blunders, shutting off a working instrument would
not only be silly, but would damage NASA's credibility even further. It is apparent,
not only to the space science community, but to the public at large that NASA
needs to get their priorities straight. Clearly, shutting off something that has
performed remarkably well (and could continue performing) would indicate there
needs to be a shake-up in the high levels of NASA's management. NASA needs to
look to the future, not bury its head in the sand. Shutting down a working spacecraft
for a measly amount of money is a complete mistake. It's not even a backward step
-- in the '60s and '70s, we could get to the moon. Today, we can't even do that.
When remote sensing on Galileo is turned off, it will be a very sad day for the
future of space exploration.
Signed on: 4-10-2001 Name: Luke James O'Brien (152.163.204.207)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-10-2001 Name: Bern Wheaton (24.237.117.204)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Scott Sturdevant (208.27.20.28)
Comments: Since we have spent the money to get there, we should extend the data
collecting as long as the ship still functions. You never know what you might
find
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Nichole Ortega (204.113.91.19)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Amber Benson (216.183.166.6)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Kurt Brian (208.186.96.5)
Comments: clinton took more than that when he left the white house. let her fly
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Ryan Radebaugh (205.118.9.10)
Comments: Save it!
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Drew Houston (65.88.129.14)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Edward Nelson (208.191.154.26)
Comments: Not using equipment fully whent it is capable and on site is a tragic
waste. The funds could be raised privately, if nothing else. Please please please
do not waste this opportunity to gain important data about an important part of
our solar system. Thanks.
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Richard Hendricks (66.25.149.200)
Comments: It's a ridiculously small amount to do something very valuable. Just
Do It.
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Kelly LeFevre (128.196.201.108)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-11-2001 Name: Paula Williams (216.10.176.73)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-14-2001 Name: Chris KHALIL (212.211.74.77)
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Signed on: 4-14-2001 Name: Michael Streety (63.52.13.165)
City, State, Zip: Antioch, TN 37013 Comments:
Signed on: 4-17-2001 Name: Tanya and Lee Radebaugh (200.176.11.116)
Comments: Please keep funding this mission! Thankyou, Lee and Tanya Radebaugh
Signed on: 4-17-2001 Name: Edwin Kite (195.92.168.165)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-20-2001 Name: Uli Koehler (129.247.212.94)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-20-2001 Name: John William Rich (203.109.252.19)
City, State, Zip: Auckland, New Zealand 1003 Comments:
Signed on: 4-21-2001 Name: David Wright (204.17.16.253)
City, State, Zip: Tempe, AZ 85044 Comments:
Signed on: 4-21-2001 Name: Bruce Moomaw (209.21.20.89)
Comments: Given the tiny cost of extending an existing space mission as opposed
to building and flying a new probe -- and that fact that it will be a long time
before we get another close look at Io -- it is utterly insane not to provide
the few hundred thousand dollars needed to radically improve our understanding
of this strange world. Indeed, if the expanding funding needs of the Space Station
are going to continue eating into NASA's space science budget, it's even more
important to make sure that the funds remaining to space science are used as cost-effectively
as possible. (The same, by the way, is almost equally true of Galileo's following
"A34" orbit of Jupiter; if imaging is funded for that orbit -- for about
$350,000 more -- it could be our only opportunity for decades to get a good really
close look at Jupiter's cloud patterns and its odd little moon Amalthea.)
Signed on: 4-22-2001 Name: Monica Shriver (129.219.245.211)
Comments: The more we know, the better off we are.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Mike James (194.82.103.44)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Daniel R. Zeigler, Ph.D. (140.254.12.181)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Kathleen Milazzo (63.229.94.222)
Comments: Please increase the budget to a reasonable amount. It would be wasteful
if no images were gathered from Galileo's last close passage to Io.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Cecelia Lawshe (128.149.227.118)
Comments: Give mankind the chance to learn as much as possible about Io by funding
this important flyby.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Todd J. Barber (137.78.236.55)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: David A. Williams (129.219.145.90)
Comments: This opportunity to image Io's subjovian hemisphere on I33 should not
be wasted. I urge NASA to allocate the necessary resources to fully fund remote
sensing for this Galileo encounter.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: James Campbell (151.21.49.73)
Comments: Its a good investment, and I'm sure NASA will receive more than 1,000
signatures.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Cammy Cecil (129.219.157.71)
Comments: Please continue funding of the Galileo Mission to do remote sensing
during the orbit 33 flyby of Jupiter's volcanically-active moon Io in January,
2002.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Timothy Glotch (129.219.83.36)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Charles Crawford (24.177.222.175)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Joe Michalski (129.219.83.44)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Veronica Ann Zabala (129.219.55.242)
Comments: I am in total support of the Galileo Mission(s) ! This type of exploration
is crucial to our understanding of our Solar System and beyond. Anything that
I can do to help in this venture, let me know.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Robert A. Root (207.218.167.3)
Comments: As a MS candidate in geology I have kept up on recent developmnets in
the planetary science. There is a tremendous oppurtunity to look spectroscopically
for chemical constituents necessary to support life on Io. This discovery would,
needless to say, be very significant, and a potential basis to look for simple
life on tecnonically active spots in our solar system.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Vicky Hamilton (129.219.157.73)
Comments: To kill any working spacecraft for such minimal savings is silly, especially
when such fantastic data can and should be acquired.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Dr. Gary R. Huss (129.219.157.122)
Comments: We won't go back for decades. Let's take one last close look.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Kelly Bender (129.219.78.123)
Comments:
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Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Shane Thompson (129.219.55.247)
Comments: I have seen and worked with the images returned so far from the galileo
mission and have been overwhelmed. This would be money well spent on a spacecraft
that is allready there and not have to wait for the next one that will probably
be cut after a million dollars have been spent on designs.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Kimberly Butler (63.226.17.142)
Comments: Since the cost of sending orbiters has increased so much since Galileo
was launched NASA needs to get every pennies worth of information from every launch.
Also considering the added expense of "failed" missions it is all the
more reason to continue the successful one as long as possible.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Frank Chuang (130.118.37.74)
Comments: I support this petition and think the scientific return value for such
little money spent on I33 imaging is worthwhile. It is most important that we
squeeze every little bit we can out of Galileo since we may not get another chance
to tour the Jovian system for quite some time.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Chris Perry (129.219.46.199)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Angela Marie Larson (64.12.101.184)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Kelly Hermanson (63.14.199.167)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Rachel Lentz (209.86.37.204)
Comments: We've already seen some amazing images and discoveries from Io, proving
there is still fabulous science that can be done on this moon. Despite the various
obstacles that have been thrown in Galileo's way, it has proven to be an incredible
mission. Keep getting every ounce of info you can out of a successful mission
like this.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Nancy Vandermey (129.219.83.36)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Dennis C. Bluhm (137.78.240.29)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Glenn Macala (129.219.83.36)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Mark Bulmer (160.111.71.51)
Comments: There are well founded scientific justifications for funding I33 that
make it as valuable a dataset as other planned acquisitions by NASA. Very careful
consideration should be given to its funding taking into consideration other missions
and targets. The original plan for the Magellan Mission to Venus called for it
funding to be terminated after the nominal mission. The reversal of that decision
resulted in a spectacular dataset being obtained that has allowed much new information
about the origins of Venus and Earth to be determined.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Dennis Walker (129.219.83.36)
Comments: It's out there. It works. Let's use it!
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Lionel Wilson (128.171.158.51)
Comments: It would be unbelievably wasteful to miss this opportunity to add to
our knowledge about Io.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Janice Bishop (128.102.186.113)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Michael Kraft (129.219.42.160)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Ronald Greeley (129.219.55.254)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Lawrence Foard (216.27.176.143)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Julius W. Cherepy Jr. (24.88.61.156)
Comments: We need to take advantage of every opportunity to continue the study
of this fascinating piece of our Solar System.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Robert Clements (152.91.8.248)
Comments: Is it necessary that all space science stop so that a few Martian enthusiasts
can indulge all of their technological fantasies at once. The antics of NASA hq
certainly would suggest so. Slow down the Mars program to a level with things
can actually be done successfully on budget; & spend the money saved on real
space endeavours like Io, Amalthea & Pluto... or get out of the way; &
let other space nations & groups do the work NASA doesn't want to.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Patrick Whelley (149.169.69.242)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Tilman E. Dodd, Jr., MD (152.163.205.51)
Comments: Please do not throw away this probe.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Gary L. Swaty (152.163.207.203)
Comments: It makes no sense to send a probe so far then not spend the relative
pittance it would take to record the high resolution pass at IO. The opportunity
will not come again.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Dawn Rainstar Dietrich (172.150.226.140)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Rémy Villeneuve (24.200.155.58)
Comments: Come on NASA! How much cash did you wasted on X-33/34, for absolutely
nothing in the air 5 years later. Galileo is a proven spacecraft, so why not use
this opportunity to get science data as long as possible.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Giacomo Wullen (213.224.83.134)
Comments: I just can't understand that Nasa has a spacecraft over there, and not
taking the opportunity to take high resolution pictures, maybe the only chance
for this generation to get such pics.
Signed on: 4-23-2001 Name: Dr Robin Stevens (194.82.103.40)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Damian Ganchev (212.124.67.5)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Judith Perry (129.242.5.30)
Comments: We have spent so much money already on this project it seem silly to
waster something that is already inplace and producing great results.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: John Evans (130.111.60.243)
Comments: Let's do it!!
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Bill Rainey (144.254.248.12)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Jerome Fine(209.161.232.222)
Comments: When you get dressed for a formal party and spend all that time and
effort to be presentable, you don't neglect to have your hair done as well. Once
the basic costs are covered, the cost
benefit ratio for extras is usually extremely high. I guess that while the rocket
science guys are used to produce the project
hardware, the fellows who evaluate the importance of individual missions tend
to be seat warmers.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Jan Panteltje(212.238.6.98)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Max Comess(24.130.18.81)
Comments: Do the right thing, Dan.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Dirk Fabian (144.92.164.198)
Comments: As if the government really understands the phrase "invaluable
scientific worth"
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: pedro leon (213.97.74.21)
Comments: por favor mantengan Remote Sensing funcionando en I33
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Amy McKaskle(128.196.6.203)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Ray Badgerow(206.172.164.24)
Comments: The flybys of I33 and A34 are unique opportunities to view both the
sub-jovian hemisphere of Io and Amalthea,and therefore should not be lost due
to shortsightness on the part of NASA administrators.Don't blow it guys.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Marshall D. Perrin (128.32.92.32)
Comments: Graduate Student in Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: George Dishman(158.152.154.145)
Comments: Io's composition and structure is significantly different to all other
bodies in the Solar system. Imaging this body while the probe is in the vicinity
will cost far less than any specific mission to fill this gap in the body of knowledge
at a later date. Failing to grasp this opportunity will save pennies in the short
term at the cost of pounds later.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Joel McVey (24.177.46.254)
Comments: Keep the eyes open!!!!!
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Cynthia McVey (24.177.46.254)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Nicholas M Schneider (128.138.141.46)
Comments: The Galileo images so far have overturned the longstanding 'geyser'
concept for Io's plumes. (Textbooks are being re-written - I'm rewriting one now.)
Who knows what these upcoming images might do?
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Amanda R. Hendrix (137.78.84.221)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Frank D Williams III (209.181.131.116)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Dave Godwin (198.211.186.75)
Comments: Do it.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: J. Elaina Abbassian (207.173.146.12)
Comments: I think that there would be much more support for projects like this
if NASA would make the photos that are being taken more readily available. Try
to get into the maintstream public. I am a scientist and I still have difficulty
trying to find some of the awesome pictures that exist.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Paul Gootherts (15.255.208.34)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Andrew Steffl (128.138.141.120)
Comments: It would be a tragedy if the funding for the I33 encounter remains cut.
Since no replacement for Galielo is currently planned, we would be losing out
on a unique opportunity to learn more about one of the
most enigmatic objects in the soalr system.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: K. Michael Malolepszy (128.252.144.163)
Comments: The public wants to see pictures, that's usually the only thing they've
paid for that makes sense to most people. Fund the imaging system operation!
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Krzys Kotwicki(165.228.131.11)
Comments: Someone find 600k, how often do we have probes flying around Io, next
to never! This chance will not return for decades, to not image the moon would
be criminal. If NASA can squander 1.5 billon on a fruitless x-33 program what's
600k to capture priceless images of Io.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Melissa Lane (128.157.3.136)
Comments: An opportunity for science and education not to be missed!
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Herb Breneman (152.163.207.54)
Comments: This is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that should not be
passed up.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Herb Breneman(64.12.106.52)
Comments: I'm in favor of exercising the remote sensing option for the final mission
of Galileo. Please do it!
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Michaeleen I. Breneman (64.12.106.52)
Comments: Please add the remote sensing option to the final mission of Galileo.
Signed on: 4-24-2001 Name: Sid Zafran (216.249.87.253)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Abdo Jradeh (194.203.13.66)
Comments: It is imperative that we learn of our place in the universe. This I
believe we will do through studying and understanding that universe. Io is an
important part of our Solar System as it represents a geology both alien and familiar
to our own on a scale not seen here since the birth of the planet.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: matt pickhardt (65.28.80.193)
Comments: i am for using a little money to keep using resources we already have
instead of using a lot of money to replace it later to meet these objectives.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Peter Cresswell (194.83.84.8)
Comments: What about Amalthea in November! It will surely be a while before that
mysterious little world is imaged up close again. Another potentially wasted opportunity.
NASA think again !!!!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Aviv Ofir (213.8.211.90)
Comments: If you can do a lot of science for very little money - just DO IT!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Gero Schmidt (195.252.176.150)
Comments: Who the hell is in charge of making such stupid decisions?! The costs
are rediculous compared with the knowledge we will get about Io (and wonderful
pictures to gain public interest as well). Please reverse this decision!!!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Joseph Kelch (151.148.137.64)
Comments: We've got to stop pinching pennies on space exploration and get it in
gear! We get so much for what we spend out there yet the government is always
trying to cut the budget. Cool it and lets get going to the future!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Karl-Heinz Schmidt (195.252.176.150)
City, State, Zip: Kleve, Germany 47533 Comments: Reverse this decision immediately!!!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Olaf Schmidt (195.252.176.150)
Comments: We want to see more of Io !!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Eric Gondree(63.79.100.2)
Comments: I've been following the Gallileo project for many years now with great
interest- and providing funding for imaging the next pass of Io would be a bargain.
It is a low-risk, high-return, very wise use of funds. Surely, this would be a
common-sense thing to do? How could one consider closing eyes when new sights
beckon?
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Paul Friese (164.58.10.124)
Comments: It seems very shortsighted scientifically and to make no economic sense
not to continue funding and use of a functioning space probe that will have no
replacement for years or decades.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Matt Friars (198.70.148.65)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Matthew R. Giovanelli (209.83.38.105)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Michael Hernitz (192.31.86.35)
Comments: As a taxpayer I expect my government to maximize the effectiveness of
my investment in the Galileo spacecraft. Doing this means to continue to collect
images from the Jupiter environment until the spacecraft fails unrecoverably,
or until lack of propellant makes further operations unproductive or undesirable.
(There is a minimal risk of bio-contamination of Europa if Galileo crashed there.)
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: David Bartlett (131.216.128.250)
Comments: This is a small drop-in-the-bucket figure for such opportune IO research.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Janis Jaunbergs (129.137.75.242)
Comments: It may be 20-30 years before the next chance to image the Jupiter-facing
hemisphere of Io in high resolution. As a taxpayer I urge you to use the Galileo
spacecraft capabilities to the full extent!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Lloyd Duhon (208.30.227.23)
Comments: Spend the small amount of money to extend this truly useful mission,
and add yet another great moment to it's long and wonderful history!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Brian Morehouse (131.187.253.2)
Comments: Considering the cost of getting here, and the reduced data return throughout
the mission due to the loss of the high gain antenna, this mission should be extended
until the spacecraft fails.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: David W. Hall (148.129.143.134)
Comments: It makes no sense to not image during the I33 flyby. We've spend billions
getting to this point only to fly past blind. It sounds like another short-sighted
bottom-line accountant decision to me, but then there have been plenty of those
from NASA lately.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Herve GOURIOU (193.250.154.68)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: joseph banko (143.116.116.196)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Ronald Greeley (129.219.55.237)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Robert Monaghan (129.119.149.31)
Comments: Please reconsider the plans to reduce funding on this project and instead
fund the continuing exploration of these outer planetary bodies! Thanks!!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Ann Gaul (209.240.221.98)
Comments: I'm sure that there are many of you at NASA with the good, common sense
to seriously consider the thoughtful remarks expressed by so many learned contriutors
to this petition and will react favorably in the best interest o our nation and
of the scientific contribution it would make to the world.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Jon Alexandr (64.12.103.39)
Comments: "Because it's there!" How much more clear could the logic
be?
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Julian Ware (62.254.4.92)
Comments: More Io Please
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Craig Sanders (216.144.4.179)
Comments: Considering the fact that, with the exception of the Europa Orbiter,
no new missions to Jupiter are planned, It would seem ludicrous not to take advantage
of this opportunity to image areas on Io at high resolution on the I33 pass. I
would also like to add that the Amalthea pass has to be another UNIQUE opportunity
for great science as well.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Alan Balkin (216.42.3.197)
Comments: The potential loss of such precious scientific data for want of so little
funding is indefensible. Who knows when the chance will come again? It makes no
economic sense for an Agency dedicated to maintaining and extending our knowledge
of the cosmos to turn a blind eye to what is so patently part of it's mission.
Galileo has Been an Angel sent to unveil the mysteries of Jupiter and its environment.
I hope that in the end NASA, like myself is on the side of the Angels.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Paul Mensé (64.229.168.126)
Comments: Come on NASA! I recently learned on the Internet that you guys cancelled
Apollo 18 and 19 back in the early '70s just so you can save a measly $40 million,
even though all the hardware was built and ready to go to the moon, and that costed
what, $500 million or so?! After all the money you guys spent on the Galileo mission,
don't you think you can come up with a measly $1 to $1.5 million to keep on going
with the mission! What's the use of having an extended mission if you have no
intention of doing anything. When will the opportunity arise again to send a spacecraft
that close to Io! I believe it would be well the extra expense to learn more about
Io.
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Stephen Reinhardt (24.4.252.179)
Comments: Please fund the continuing Io mission!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Aaron Wolfe (12.37.116.5)
Comments: I am so tired of seeing money cut for important NASA programs. This
is one of those small projects that deserves the money!!
Signed on: 4-25-2001 Name: Paul Talbot (134.7.134.20)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Murray Niman (24.4.252.179)
Comments: It would be a scandalous waste of the best imaging opportunity if no
cameras are used on I33
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Alfred Breull (212.86.129.141)
Comments: Please, fund the Galileo fly-by over the projovian hemisphere of Io.
After daily work, I often show your published images, videos etc to my daughter
to stir her interest (and exitement) in astronomy, and physics. Hi-res images
from the fly-by would, of course, be another 'adventure'. -- Could we do without
? Yes. However, it's a chance which will not come back so soon again. Sorry for
my poor English. Thank you. Alf Breull.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Michael Greb (12.41.197.35)
Comments: We spend billions to get there, and let an opportunity that we will
never have again slip by for the want of a tiny fraction of the mission cost.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: JOSE MIGUEL APARISI FURIO (213.99.195.149)
Comments: PLEASE
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Dr. Sylvain Doute' (193.54.242.87)
Comments: Laboratoire de Planetologie de Grenoble CNRS
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Giovanni Leone (147.163.21.106)
Comments: No comment!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Lynne lauckner (193.250.92.36)
Comments: An opportunity not to be missed.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Damian Poirier (207.54.160.193)
Comments: WOW Let's loose this opprotunity and call ourselves "scientisks".
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Julie A. Thomas (216.144.4.85)
Comments: Please don't miss the opportunity we have to view this side of Galileo
during the flyby of Io in January 2002. As in any situation, the best approach
is with "eyes" wide open.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Greyson Liles (63.85.34.2)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Todd R. Andrews (63.163.239.219)
Comments: I have no doubt that this mission can provide invaluable information
to not only the scientific community but the average enthusiast as well.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Eric Choi (207.162.95.3)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Mark J Effertz (192.31.106.35)
Comments: At a cost of roughly 1.5 million this shouldn't be an issue. Our planetary
exploration budgets are constantly getting slashed to support the budget black
hole that is Alpha. Let's pull I little money aside to the vehichle that has greatly
exceded expectations instead of the one that is constantly being reconfigurred
due to over spending and failings of our international partners.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Robert LM Bullock (65.160.204.145)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Tim Russell(205.139.240.2)
Comments: Thanks for this opportunity to let my vioce be heard in support of doing
what should go without saying to be done to achieve the fantastic goals of planetary
science. Fly on!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Stephen Dedman (203.59.174.88)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Dr. Hans Rotheneder(195.3.96.126)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Antonin Bouchez (131.215.64.51)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Julian Blake(140.247.105.116)
Comments: Failing to fund remote sensing for the final Io and Amalthea flybys
is a tragic waste of a rare opportunity. The marginal costs of imaging on these
flybys are miniscule compared to total mission costs and NASA's budget. Restoring
sight to Galileo until the very end is the only way to ensure we all get the most
from this highly successful mission.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Erik Boyd (24.4.255.195)
Comments: Even though I have witnessed it time and time again, I still find it
hard to believe the ridiculous shortsightedness of decisionmaking at our national
space agency. If imaging is not funded for this one and only flyby of the inner
hemisphere of Io, history will remember those who did not take advantage of this
unique opportunity as those responsible for the incomplete map of Io. When will
we have the chance to finish the map? Certainly not in my lifetime. Make the right
decision, take advantage of the resource(s) that are already in situ...that would
be the ultimate logical extension of the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" mantra.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Mark G. Bookbinder (66.44.11.89)
Comments: Considering the money we spend for manned operations compared to that
spent for actual astronomy, and considering the money already spent to place the
spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, doesn't it make sense to get the most science
we can while it lasts?
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Joshua D. Ohl (63.65.172.2)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Daniel Lautenbach (64.211.120.108)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Gary Arnold (209.213.209.46)
Comments: We're not going back to Jupiter for awhile...let's get all the data
we can!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Patrick Cooper (206.40.88.131)
Comments: We will not have an oportunity like this for many years, and duplicating
the immages would take hundreds of millions (at least) to achieve with a new spacecraft.
This is the bargan of the year! Please do not waste such a golden oportunity to
gain great science at such a low price. NASA is why I still pay taxes without
griping too much!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Lallemand (132.183.138.104)
Comments: Images of Io AND AMALTHEA !!!!!!!!!!!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Craig Ward (4.3.28.90)
Comments: $1.5 million compared to the NASA budget as a whole, or even to the
Galileo mission budget as a whole, is a tiny price to pay for the imaging data
that would be collected during the I33 flyby. This is a unique opportunity to
collect additional valuable data, heretofore unobtained. When is the next time
we'll have a probe in the Jupiter system? As long as Galileo is still functioning
and gathering new and valuable info, its presence should be exploited to the max.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Alan Wolfe (209.178.168.26)
Comments: Io imaging is relevant to understanding earth geology.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Richard Seiling (209.155.29.146)
Comments: We should get every last ounce of science out of Galileo. When will
we have such a capable probe there again? (Maybe we can charge Denis Tito for
it!!!!!)
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Kevin Round (195.92.67.70)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Thomas Birge (192.31.86.34)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: G. Michael Grote (207.136.129.214)
Comments: It would be extremly shortsighted and "penny wise, pound foolish"
to allow this opportunity to slip by for a lack of just $1.5 million
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Joseph A. J. Clarke (199.247.156.89)
Comments: As long as Galileo can function keep it going. Do the I33 and then do
another flyby even closer. The science data we are getting and can get is priceless.
As a Canadian I ask you to ask our govt. for help in this funding. Please this
is money well spend.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Matthias Arndt (139.174.245.72)
Comments: any sort of new data from space should be collected as soon as possible
- better fund Galileo than a defense shield!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Michael Baker (134.114.22.115)
Comments: This is an opportunity that should not be passed up.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Mark Taylor (195.92.194.14)
Comments: I think that the opportunity is too great to miss. Please reconsider
the decision to remove funding of this part of the project.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Dyami Allen (144.35.21.127)
Comments: "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't
mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward
R. Murrow
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Sara Schoenbaechler (128.149.224.245)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Michael Lichter (63.103.223.185)
Comments: We are there and we have the equipment. We should learn as much as possible.
Do it !!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Robert J. Peters (216.192.33.13)
Comments: I strongly support additional funding to extend the Galileo mission
through orbit pass I33 and beyond. Extending the Galileo mission to image Io prior
to ending the mission makes a lot of financial sense. The valuable data can be
used to plan more precise missions to Jupiter in the future. The detailed study
of Io give us an opportunity to learn things that will help us understand early
geological processes on Earth, other planets and their moons. Io offers a facinating
view of our past and will refine scientific models that explore our future.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: John Hudson MA (62.252.224.5)
Comments: I climbed Everest but kept my eyes shut when I got to the summit!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Stephen H. O'Leary (216.120.9.123)
Comments: It's the only Jupiter probe we have. It's only logical to make maximum
use of it.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Axel Dihlmann (150.162.24.126)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Steve Campbell (157.147.124.31)
Comments: If we can afford billions in tax cuts for the wealthy we can afford
a paltry few million to explore a unique world's violent geology.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Neil Fraser (172.173.121.50)
Comments: Since we are flying by Io anyway, let us at least open our eyes and
look down upon the moon. To do otherwise is a waste of astronomical proportions.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: P. Ouwens (62.251.0.22)
Comments: Let's make as many foto's as possible
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Gerard van Campen (212.187.37.10)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Joshua Griswold (208.213.119.55)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Dan Johnson (205.138.230.86)
Comments: You should use the Galileo probe to its maximum potential until Jupiters
radiation kills it. Given the enormous cost in dollars and time to get to Jupiter
and build the probe, the science cost is cheap. Maximize the science. Thanks.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Joshua Morrison (209.144.169.10)
Comments: I am extremely interested in this opportunity to imate IO once again.
I realize the money has to come from somewhere, but perhaps we can find this.
I have enormous interest in astronomy and planetary science in general. IO is
a very exciting body to explore.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: David J Liddicott (193.237.213.90)
Comments: Don't miss this unique opportunity! Galileo will be flying past Io and
Amalthea so you may as well have the cameras rolling.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Pius Fung (209.144.169.10)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: brian hatch (64.12.103.37)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Ray Gedaly (198.4.86.109)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: William Roskind, PH.D. (24.4.252.231)
Comments: I strongly erge you to fuylly fund the I33 pass of Io, and make the
information collected available to the scientific community.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Tony Cardona (209.186.0.10)
Comments: Personally, I believe the U.S. should take a bigger part and propose
a larger budget that reflects the future of our society as a whole. I believe
the exploration of space, the search for extra terrestrials, and the eventual
colonization of places like the moon and other planets is something that needs
to be addressed thouroughly in our lifetime, so that future generations will have
the benefit of leaving the Earth and continuing our human culture and society
in to the unknown universe. Any extension of planetary satellite missions, flybys,
landings, ideas, should be thouroughly researched and critiqued b4 it is passed
or denied. I also believe a new corporate space agency to compete with NASA should
be introduced. This im sure would create more interest in not only space, but
a global space race would begin to see who could do the most extrodinary things
in the shortest amount of time. It was only 12 years from Sputnik 1 to Apollo
11, competition is crazy. It drives us. Lets see if we can make a base on the
moon in ten years..that would be something. Anyways, im all for the exploration
of IO. We could learn a lot about the history of our planet and what it will face
in the future.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Jerry Johnson (24.4.252.151)
Comments: The best money the Federal gov spends.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Pat Reid (209.144.118.131)
Comments: Given the amount of money already invested in the Galileo project, it
makes very little sense not to take advantage of the unique imaging opportunities
provided by I33 to update our knowledge of the Jovian side of Io.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Gunnar Glitscher (62.158.15.82)
Comments: Please keep GALILEO running as long as it's able to transmit valuable
data. Thank you!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Bruce Clark (24.185.202.188)
Comments: The cost is getting there.Let us now spend the small change to get the
most science out of this mission.When will we be back there again and at what
cost? Do it now!!!!!!!!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: James Higgs (202.53.33.3)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Ahmad Ragab (209.144.169.10)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Dale Gibson (65.100.33.33)
Comments: Keep on flying
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Becky Ramotowski (63.163.164.118)
Comments: Money well spent
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Michael Blair (64.12.102.161)
Comments: I fully support this effort requesting NASA to commit additional funds
in order to allow imaging of Io's Jupiter facing hemisphere during the I33 as
well as the Amalthea flyby. The additional photos of Io's Jupiter facing hemisphere
will allow planetary scientist to further understand the complexities of Io's
volcanic processes on a global level. In addition, the opportunity to obtain close
up pictures of Amalthea during the subsequent flyby will be a vital piece of information
to understanding the origin of the innermost moons of Jupiter and their place
in its system. I sincerely request that Mr. Goldin, NASA headquarters and its
space science division rethink its decision on this matter and fully fund the
continued observations of Galileo during these critical flybys.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Gregory Bain (203.164.3.179)
Comments: It has cost a lot of time and money to get to Jupitor. To pass up the
opportunity to photograph Io is a WASTE of effort. If the machine is working and
providing information then every effort must be made to take every advantage Galileo's
presence provides. A cost of $1.2 million to photograph Io is 'tea money' in comparison
to the cost of sending another probe from Earth. In fact, leaving Galileo 'floating
ou there' means Earth has an 'on the spot', eye on Jupiter. What would we have
learned if Galileo had been available during the Levie-Shoemaker episode? Galileo
is saving Earth's resourses while it is still working. Why throw away a perfectly
good tool?
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Benoit J. Rioux (207.61.124.194)
Comments: Indeed, it will not cost extra dollars to NASA to extend his mission
with this spacecraft GALILEO. Do you know why? Because it is already in place
into the universe towards Jupiter's moon Io and Galileo uses, in a way, a free
energy type; that what I believe. I strongly suggest to NASA go ahead with this
current project and people will not blame NASA to take this initiative by taking
more and more pictures from Io during I33 Fly-By. It is a must for scientits and
amateurs to find or to know much as you can about this volcanic Jupiter's moon.
Every one will benefit over the long run.The only extra costs, perhaps, may be
salaries or unexpected related expenses to the mission control's I33 team. I wishing
you well and thank you for your terrific professionnal duties. I vote and sign
for this petition.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Srdjan Penjivrag (212.62.36.47)
Comments: Go GALILEO ! Go I33!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Tim Judge (203.38.78.204)
Comments: As a non-US tax paying person (I live in Australia) I can't be too bold
but I'd like to see the imaging take place, plus the Amalthea imaging. Us Aussies
have to rely on US, Russia, Japan and Europe. It may be your only chance in the
next few decades so why not do it? Here's hoping!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Rosemarie Colombero (209.240.220.187)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: David Lamont Harper (216.66.160.11)
Comments: I agree that --> "Looking at a hemisphere not seen close-up
since Voyager increases the chances of new and surprising discoveries."
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Chris Beres (204.186.207.231)
Comments:
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Andrew Bossi (64.41.27.142)
City, State, Zip: Ephrata, PA 17522 Comments: "Without life, there is no
science. Without science, there is no life." -Bos
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed
to discover they are not at it." -Bernard Bailey
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted." -Albert Einstein
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Randy Lichter (63.103.223.175)
Comments: I beleive that for every penny we spend on the space program,we get
many times more than that in information and technology. Sincerely, Randy L. Lichter
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Daniel Richards (216.178.77.189)
Comments: I have been watching NASA and the space program since it's infancy.
To not utilize the maximum potential of any program, is to waste all the funding
that took place since it's inception. I would hope that doing whatever it takes
to maximize this project, before hurling it to it's demise, would be strongly
considered. If you really put men on the moon, you know the importance of optimization,
and doing the right thing. If the project is all but ended, shouldn't it end on
a high note rather than with a flash and burn?
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Mark Herring (24.2.25.239)
Comments: As a taxpayer, I support the goals of your petition. It makes no sense
at all not to image the Jupiter side of Io. Thank God the Russians didn't use
this logic in 1959 or else we'd never have seen the images from Luna 3!!!
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: David Powell (151.201.232.232)
Comments: The extra $$$ needed for the I33 imaging is like .1% of the total expenditure
on Galileo...It makes no sense not to get all the data we can while we are there...there
is no guarantee that we'll ever get there again...we thought we'd be right back
on Mars! Still waiting...And anyway, after the taxpayers paid $40+ million to
investigate oral sex in the White House, can we at least get some pretty pictures...we'll
add it to Ken Starr's bill... :)
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Christopher Hirata (131.215.103.70)
Comments: It is important that we look closely at Io and Amalthea. Amalthea is
small, and so many people assume it is uninteresting. I wish to call attention
to the case of Miranda, the small moon of Uranus. Prior to the Voyager II flyby,
it was assumed that Miranda was too small to be interesting and that its only
surface features would be craters. Instead, Voyager found dazzling surface features
that made the larger objects in the Uranus system look dull by comparison. To
date, Amalthea has only been imaged at poor resolution by Voyager and Galileo.
Sacrificing the Amalthea imaging opportunity, in particular, seems extremely short-sighted.
Signed on: 4-26-2001 Name: Jim Sushinski (64.41.28.81)
Comments: Please fund this NASA
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Doug Ellis (65.227.63.88)
Comments:
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: LexusMaxus (165.21.247.6)
Comments: make it count ! Carpe Diem !!
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Dennix D. Hall (64.12.101.182)
Comments: Public interest is high for information on the moons of Jupiter, which
have drawn primary hope for the possibility of some form of life in our solar
system. Mars seems to offer dwindling chances for life, at least currently, and
Callisto and Europa beckon. Io is a powerful player in the Jovian system and its
un-investigated inner face must be researched for any sign that the other satellites
may harbor life. We paid for it; we're there; the instruments will be in position;
the questions are burning in our minds as much as the volcanoes of Io. Turn the
cameras on, boys, and watch what they tell us. We didn't walk all the way to St.
Louis to skip the arch.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Steven R. Buck (64.77.133.126)
Comments: I think it is important to collect as much visual data as possible,
not only for the sake of science, but also to fuel the enthusiasm and sense of
wonder of the people (whose support for space missions could make a difference
in future funding).
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Charles J. Barber (216.37.132.149)
Comments: As one of the original Galileo ACE mission controllers at JPL, I STRONGLY
urge that the funding be found to perform this unique imaging opportunity. Failure
to do this is a shameful act at the very least. It may be an expensive mission,
but for the money - it's money well spent. A last opportunity for perhaps decades
to do this as well.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Ian Miller (64.228.46.184)
Comments: Come on NASA, it really does make sense to continue.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Anali Perry (209.86.194.22)
Comments:
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Chris Hunnell (66.68.121.19)
Comments: While the additional imaging of a unique region of Io's surface is important,
high-resolution images of Amalthea, a body we know practically nothing about,
is also a unique opportunity. Look at the unexpected results of our recent study
of asteroid Eros. Let's fund additional science at both of these bodies.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Valerye Milleson (209.242.85.43)
Comments: Money spent on new scientific knowledge is never a waste. I support
the goals of this petition, and believe that NASA needs to refund I33 for the
sake of not only the scientific community, but for everyone who has wanted to
gain a fuller understanding of this wonderful universe were in. Give I33 a chance.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: David Erbas-White (24.21.61.116)
Comments: Please don't miss this opportunity for further research!
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: B Pivar (128.149.99.89)
Comments: Let's let Gllo complete it's INTENDED JOP mission for crying out loud.
ISS sucks enough matter off the unmanned budget AS IS!!!
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Guy Savoie (64.228.173.183)
Comments: Doesn't make sense to overlook that opportunity.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Jerry W. Stewart (208.40.136.145)
Comments: Since Galileo is already there, it makes no sense not to utilize its
ability to the fullest. Since we are reducing future missions, we must make the
most of those in progress. Otherwise, why bother at all. The greatest waste of
resources is in not using what already exists.
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Glenn Johnson (199.44.53.3)
Comments:
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: John Sheff (66.31.17.179)
Comments: I feel that - as a taxpayer - I am OWED an explanation of the rationale
for not doing imaging of Io's perijove hemisphere during I33. I am dumbfounded
that the richest nation in history, after a period of unprecedented prosperity,
"cannot afford" to leave the camera turned on for a little while longer.
The decision leaves me pondering two questions: If not now, when? If not us, then
who?
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: James M. Busby (207.214.187.188)
Comments: If it ain't broke, don't mess with success...Fly, baby, Fly!
Signed on 4-26-2001 Name: Valentin Pechorin (216.126.164.182)
Comments: We have to extend Galileo mission until spacekraft is operable for two
reasons: 1. Collect a scientific date as much as possible. 2. Estimate electronics
reliability under strong radiation around Upiter.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Chuck Hursch (64.40.162.200)
Comments: It makes sense to make the best possible use of this spacecraft (Galileo)
that we already have on orbit around Jupiter. The scientific return from imaging
the sub-Jovian side of Io far outweighs the cost. We should take advantage of
investments already made, rather than continually making new expensive investments
to do many of the same things.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Dr. Timothy M. Demko (216.112.142.195)
Comments: Io or Bust!
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Shawn Henessee (134.193.27.26)
Comments: It is not rational to use the resources we already have in place at
Jupiter to their fullest
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Jean-Pierre Côté (207.107.254.60)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Jeffrey A. Stvan (24.7.207.254)
Comments: Let's not be "penny wise" but "pound foolish."
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Edwin L. Strickland III (208.2.106.68)
Comments: Amalthea <and other small satellite> imaging and other observations
should be added to the extended mission as well. The origin, collisional history,
and composition of the innermost small satellites is crucial to our understanding
of the accretion disk that formed the Jovian Satellites. It's inconcievable that
imaging would not be attempted on a close encounter with Amalthea.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Eugeny Drokov (212.164.95.253)
Comments: i vote for petition
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Marek Kraus (195.70.136.22)
Comments: When, do you think, would it be the other opportunity to make pictures?
and what would it cost?
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Khotenov Peter (62.102.136.41)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Alexandr Bardash (212.109.32.10)
Comments: Do it, please. Help to all astronomers.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Ralph D. Ditson (205.188.193.162)
Comments: Considering the cost to get Gallileo out to Jupiter, and the cost to
run the mission, it seems stupid not to squeeze every bit of scientific data from
this proven workhorse. I've followed it for years on the net and I feel that the
cost is insignificant. Also, I believe that NASA should run the mission until
the probe fails- then shut it down and let it orbit Jupiter. This is a bit of
space history that will thrill earth people when the probe is retrieved eventually
by future missions. Use it while it still works - preserve it wfor future generations.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Ian Warren (210.215.8.8)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Nicole Townsley (216.144.172.137)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Mark Humphrys (212.219.141.116)
Comments: Don't stop the cameras just to save a few Pennies, the oppotunity to
view the inner most hemisphere facing Jupiter is a rare one. Don't loose that
chance. Keep the cameras rolling
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Peter Funke (57.250.229.136)
Comments: This seems to me like an excelent oportunity to get more data on IO!
Since Galileo is going to be in the neighbourhood anyway might as well use the
oportunity.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Radu Bogdan Mare (134.102.156.88)
Comments: Io is one of the most attractive things to study in the proximity of
earth. shouldnt waste the chance!
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Dave Bossi (12.79.90.59)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Graham House (195.102.211.222)
Comments: After so much data having been gathered, it seems rather silly not to
take full advantage of a valuable resource. I would urge those concerned to allow
the Gallileo mission to return the maximum amount of knowlege that it is possible
to obtain.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Ronald V. Smith (208.14.16.15)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Konstantin Pazychev (212.122.17.91)
Comments: Io is necessary to us
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: peter stohl (62.27.204.93)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: dr ken patterson (194.117.133.196)
Comments: Do the research.. Come on guys. You're going to be there, so do the
job properly!
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Russel Duncan (61.9.192.141)
Comments: Yes please! I want to see it too.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Ed Figarski (167.236.0.70)
Comments: It would be a shame to go there, stay for 8 years and not have the opportunity
of seeing a once in a lifetime view of Io. When the mission does end, Galileo
will be one of the most famouse projects ever. It would be like Voyager, Hubble,
etc...Whats a million dollars in the context of 1 billion over all. Let it take
a look, with us along for the ride.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Francesco Lo Bue (193.190.195.198)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Nick Haigh (152.78.175.11)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Thomas Akers (32.97.239.18)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Jorge Aviles (198.119.9.107)
Comments: I think funding for this will certainly be worthwhile and beneficial
to our better understanding of Io.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Afredo Giachino (206.19.76.162)
Comments: The additional funding requiered for the imaging of Io in this last
fly by is nothing compared with the knowledge of this facinating satelite that
will be collected. I encourage every science and sapce advocate to support this
petition.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Jason Gibson (208.180.233.44)
Comments: It would be a shame not to perform the I33 flyby...the *hard* part,
and the most expensive, was getting to Jupiter in the first place.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Matthew Burger (128.138.141.43)
Comments: It will be much cheaper to observe Io now while we have a spacecraft
at Jupiter than to send another one. We should take advantage of every opportunity
to observe Io, especially when Galileo affords a cheap and easy chance for a unique
data set.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: H. Tracy Hall, Jr. (128.111.8.31)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Francis Bursa (194.82.103.41)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Andrew Rhodes (129.133.126.50)
Comments: If there is a chance it can be done NASA should go for it. Galileo has
exceeded everyone's expectations by not only returning amazing images and by giving
us new questions to ponder, but by surviving thorugh two mission extensions and
more radiation than it was ever built to handle. As astudent set to begin graduate
studies in the planetary sciences soon, I will be much more grateful for Galileo
if it returns images of I33 to us in the upcoming years, instead of simply keeping
its camera off and plunging into Jupiter's cloudtops as planned. The cost will
be small, yet the rewards will be immense. Let NIMS and SSI be for I33.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Philip Stooke (129.100.139.71)
Comments: We need Amalthea up close as well. NASA should seek additional special
funding.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Rusty Jorgensen (63.206.72.7)
Comments: Go for it.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Andrea Mariano (63.98.119.123)
Comments: I believe Galileo's mission should be extended to get as much information
about our solar system as possible.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Howard Banich (146.197.27.16)
Comments: Please reconsider your decision to not fund the I33 imaging of Io. Not
to dispute the prioritization of the extended mission, this seems too valuable
an opportunity to pass up. High resolution imaging of the Jupiter facing side
of Io will undoubtably add to our understanding of this unigue world.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: John R. Gallagher (163.252.42.109)
Comments: Don't turn off Galileo's remote sensing instuments. It will be a long
time before another space probe visits Io and Amalthea!
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Stephen J. Woodward (165.121.125.82)
Comments: Going to IO again is a great idea, to waste the chance for such a small
amount of money is stupid!
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: John M. Thomas Sr. (24.4.252.233)
Comments: The science dollars needed would be well spent to complete this project
as outlined in the petition. Don't hic-cup over this small amount of money when
so much can be achieved. The spacecraft is there, willing and able to do the JOB.
It maybe a long time before we have a chance to add such a vast amount of information
to our knowledge base about "Io" for such a small sum. I hope those
in control will come to the same conclusion and muster up the funds to complete
the full potential of the "Io" flyby.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Larry Ulrey (209.183.71.123)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Andy Ferguson (62.253.64.5)
Comments: What happened to the pioneering spirit of the USA?? As a foreigner (Scotland)it's
hard to understand that if the hardware is there and working superbly, why doesn't
it make sense to use this perfect opportunity to add to our knowledge of such
a unique body as Io. If funds are so tight that a paltry $1.5m can't be found,
stick a dollar on the admission to the Cape or the JSC. I'll be there in June
and won't mind the extra!
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Russell S. Brown (64.12.102.178)
Comments: Take the money from the ISS
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: RYAN J. CADY (64.12.104.158)
Comments: KEEP PLUGGING WE NEED THIS DATA FOR OUR FUTURE
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: kokonov Leonid (195.230.69.1)
Comments:
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Andrew Gorman (216.231.33.94)
Comments: Good Lord! The marginal cost of this is infinitessimal! Keep that probe
turned on- it could be 100 years before we go back to Jupiter.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Dr. J.P. Lofvander (63.90.14.102)
Comments: Take the opportunity to squeeze all possible information from a successfull
experiment. At other times things go horribly wrong and nothing can be learned
(Mars probes come to mind).
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Patrick Holloway (208.63.214.28)
Comments: It seems to me it would be smart science and at the very least 'prudent'
to spend the time and money now in this last and immediate chance to squeeze a
little more out of what has up til now been one of Nasa's best investments. The
opportunity of catching Io's Jupiter side face is an important step in understanding
one of this galaxy's most dynamic moons, let alone the extra opportunity of further
imaging of Amalthea. Please wring out all you can while our equipment is there.
Come on. We are there now. We won't have to wait for another mission to find what
is at our doorstep now..if we'd only open the door. Go for it.
Signed on 4-27-2001 Name: Lindsey McGowen (149.175.35.96)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Ellis D. Miner (66.27.76.20)
Comments: Let's hope NASA can squeeze enough out of the budget for one final flyby!
Go, Galileo!!
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Nick Lewis (213.122.123.50)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Anne Sheppard (213.122.240.150)
Comments: Imaging of the I33 flyby seems to be a good use of resources. In a cost/benefit
analysis I am sure that the benefit would outweigh the cost.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Greg Tjernstrom (206.47.244.61)
Comments: The probe is there. The camera is there. Use it......please.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Richard K Murphy (12.78.2.182)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: James R. McClean (205.188.197.184)
Comments: Please do what ever is necessary to fund and archive the I33 encounter
with Io in January, 2002 on orbit 32. Thank you!
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: R. E. Culberson (152.163.201.189)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Jennifer Davis (208.13.90.152)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Terry Cunningham (4.54.235.168)
Comments: We are going into space. Wether it is now or in a couple of generations.
Who will be in charge? Will we speak English or Russian? That is what we are deciding
today. While we are going past Io, it is important to get as much scientific information
as possible. This is both to understand interplanetary and terrestrial physics.
We are talking of establishing a colony on Callisto/Ganymede/Mars/Luna, how can
we do this if we don't do the ?science first so we know what we're up against?
Or are we going to do another "new world". -- Let the fatcats sweep
all the undesirables up off the streets and prisons, then ship them over (untrained)
to the new land and say good luck, and any profit is ours?
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Jason Hempel (66.24.51.16)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Parminder Sekhon (64.12.103.152)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Matt Caspermeyer (24.177.149.34)
Comments: I hope they can get funding!
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Oleg Strutinskiy (212.5.95.25)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Ms. Melody J. Costas (172.186.167.133)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Debra Coddington (152.163.213.196)
Comments: Please keep the cameras active.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Lauren R. (24.4.252.86)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Jeffrey Olson, Ph.D. (24.1.78.222)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: JoAnne Dickel (206.133.127.136)
Comments: This is an excellent opportunity for obtaining new and unique information!
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Irene G (24.27.195.129)
Comments: Space is our future. Please keep the camera active.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Bill Reed (64.171.19.66)
Comments: Good luck.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Tom Moyer (65.14.122.137)
Comments: I am apalled at the NASA administrators' priorities. If there is life
on Europa or Mars, it will still be there in 10 years. Galileo and Pluto's atmosphere
will not! Funding I33 for Galileo and the Pluto Express mission are vastly higher
priorities at the moment. When funds are tight they must be focused unique opportunities!
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Tomasz Kokowski (150.254.7.131)
Comments: Having such probe as Galileo We've got a significant progress in Solar
System exploration. Let Galileo fly over Io and other Jovian moons as long as
possible. The next probe over Jupiter could happen in the unpredicted future.
Europa Orbiter could be a such one but it is targeted to Europa Moon, however.
So, the unique occasion to get as much knowledge about Jovian System as it is
possible will be lost. Galileo sucess focused hudge number of people - just like
Pathfinder - on space exploration. Do not let Galileo share KPE (Kuiper-Pluto
Express Mission) experience (perhaps abandoned due to NASA budget limits).
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: David Woods (132.185.240.12)
Comments: Just imagine - exquisitely crafted instruments get to fly past Io, capable
of passing their results to Earth... and nobody bothered to listen. Maybe the
ESA could contribute. Have the pass sponsored by commercial interests. Just think.
"This amazing discovery was made during the xxxxx-sponsored pass of the moon,
Io."
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Tony Friedt (24.67.83.240)
Comments: Add the Amalthea imaging too. Check with Canada, ESA, Japan and anybody
else for funding. Who knows when were going back to Jupiter, we have to get all
the science we can. To have gone this far with Gallieo and not complete this last
bit is pennywise and pounds foolish.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Eric Kuntzelman (206.142.157.163)
Comments: Years from now, the extra money we will have spent won't be missed,
but the extra information gained will still be prized. Conversly, if we refuse
to include this flyby, we'll be regretting it for decades.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: N. Cailteux (63.250.85.58)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Donna Bullock (152.163.206.207)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Gunde Froe ( 213.47.240.96)
Comments: don`t let this chance go by, go for these close ups of io !!! compared
with the money spent for thiis mission until now, these bucks are peanuts
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Michael J. Deliz (63.11.47.240)
Comments: The cost of continuing this endevour is insignificant with respect to
the NASA budget sucking entity known as the ISSP. This unique opportunity must
be funded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Jason C. Livingston (65.65.200.126)
Comments: I fully support the extension of Galileo's mission around Jupiter. It
would be foolish just to "turn it off" or destroy it because of budget
cuts. As a taxpayer I am tired of seeing perfectly good spacecraft shut down just
to save a few bucks. It will be some time before another craft goes to Jupiter
if at all. Let's use this opportunity as long as we can.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: C Fiorante (64.12.102.42)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Steven B. Kovner (208.192.101.150)
Comments:
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: Jacki Smith (66.44.13.2)
Comments: Sounds penny-wise, pound-foolish to miss this spectacular opportunity
for the Io flyby.
Signed on 4-28-2001 Name: George C. Jocums (24.176.91.167)
Comments: Please photograph Amalthea! It might be our only chance in decades.
As an American and a lifelong NASA supporter, I always want to get the most out
any mission we've already spent so much time and money on.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Jorge Enrique Villa Quintero (200.24.66.91)
Comments: I sign the petition to NASA, is the best for all the cientific comunity
in this world. Please have the best investigation
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Jorge Enrique Villa Chacon (200.24.66.91)
Comments: I sign this petition to NASA.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Margarita Chacon de Villa (200.24.66.91)
Comments: I sign the petition to NASA.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Lisa Terrell (209.205.163.42)
Comments:
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: James David Jones (152.97.250.14)
Comments: Not viewing the Jupiter-facing hemispere, the most dramatic and interesting
body in the solar system except for Earth, would be like scrapping the whole project
before it even got there. It completes our picture of the dynamics of Io. It's
new science, not just a "rerun!" I support the petition, although I
acknowledge that NASA's budget has become tighter and tighter for decades, trying
to squeeze out more for less each year. It might be more fair, then, to petition
Congress for the extra funds, and that might raise their consciousness toward
future funding as well.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Jeff Lawson (66.68.53.231)
Comments: This flyby would definitely be unique experience and should not be dismissed
so easily!
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: James E. Dudley (216.192.189.132)
Comments: This is a rare opportunity for which the probable scientific return
far exceeds the known cost. Please take every chance to study the projovian side
of Io in detail, using the Galileo craft.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: J. Chamberlain (143.167.1.17)
Comments: It would be a real shame to miss out on this opportunity...
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Andrew Brown (195.92.67.72)
Comments: I thank that the I33 encounter should go ahead. Io may shed many insights
of our of own Earth, before the oceans formed, shortly after the thick solid crust
formed. The volano PELE, erupts material from well within Io, so this is a rare
chance to observe material from deep within another planetary body. The Jupiter
facing hemisphere of Io has not been so well seen as the anti Jupiter side, so
these observations will largely go towards the aim of producing a global high
resolution map of Io. Also don't dump Amalthea. I wrote to JPL in February, to
suggest a close Amalthea flyby (I do not know if encounter A34 was influenced
by this). With the interest in smaller objects (comets & asteroids), Amalthea
will be a boon. Amalthea is similar in size to the main belt asteroids 29 Amphitrite
& 140 Siwa (140 Siwa which the ESA Rosetta spacecraft wil hopefully rendezvous
with). So NASA, planetary exploration is one of your major strengths, don't waste
it please.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Jordi Sánchez (62.82.19.155)
Comments: Not funding remote sensing during I33 is simply penny wise and dollar
foolish.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Ralph van der Geest (217.4.237.31)
Comments: Excellent initiative and good luck!
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Michael Adams (209.214.20.130)
Comments: I watched the launch of Galileo in person in October 1989; because of
that and my strong advocacy in planetary exploration, the Galileo mission means
very much to me. To cease funding of Galileo's imaging systems so close to the
end of its extended mission is a slap in the face of planetary science. Surprises
awaited Galileo on every single jovian orbit; to close the shutter now would hide
potential scientific discoveries that may not be revealed until another Jupiter-
or Io-bound spacecraft is funded and launched, which may take a decade or more.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Dean Leonard (209.234.140.77)
Comments:
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Haylay Malmer (152.163.201.48)
Comments:
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Enrique Paff (200.59.0.13)
Comments: Please use the opportunity !
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Kestutis Laurinaitis (212.59.15.99)
Comments: I believe what “Galileo” explore Jupiter while spacecraft
will be operating. And science is importance than money.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Tim McMahon (208.61.156.33)
Comments: For relatively minor cost we could learn a wealth of information. Nothing
ventured, nothing gained. Please consider this opportunity.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Christopher Allen (64.230.149.189)
Comments:
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Brian Clarke (195.92.67.72)
Comments:
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Colin Kennedy (62.254.96.5)
Comments: Perhaps NASA should ask Dennis Tito for a donation?
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Alan Clark (172.138.239.12)
Comments: I would also like to see imaging from the one and only close-up opportunity
at Amalthea. Surely there is important science in this too. I understand that
the orange colour of Amalthea may be due to sulfur accumulation from Io.
Signed on 4-29-2001 Name: Alan Libert (134.148.4.19)
Comments: I am an American citizen living in Australia.
IP Address: 63.227.244.147
Name = Jeanne Russow
Comments = as long as it's going by anyway... why waste the opportunity to take
pics?? sheesh!!
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IP Address: 208.231.34.57
Name = Diana Siemens
Comments = The decision not to image Io and Almathea tells me that the agency
is seriously underfunded. How else can we explain such silliness? Double NASA's
budget now! The money can come from Star Wars :-
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IP Address: 65.64.8.8
Name = Dawn Hickerson
Comments = I think it would a pity to stop now
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IP Address: 63.21.167.39
Name = ken kremer
Comments = Since the next mission to Jupiter, the europa orbiter, has been delayed
to ca. 2008, we should utilize Galileo to collect as much science data as possible.
It will be at least a decade before we get another chance
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IP Address: 24.14.21.60
Name = DAVID M. GILLASPIE
Comments = TO THINK ,YEARS AGO WHAT WE SAW WITH PIONEERS,10,11,VOYAGERS,1 AND
2 THAT IF WE HAD NOT DONE WHAT WE DID THE LOSS THAT WE WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN,ALL
THOSE IMAGES HAVE SOME MEANING,SCIENTIFIC OR OTHERWISE,I SAY,"NASA,GO FOR
IT"FUND THE IMAGING THIS PROBE HAS DONE SO MUCH MORE THAN ANYONE THOUGHT
IT COULD AND GIVEN US SO MUCH INFORMATIONAND SUCH BEAUTIFUL IMAGES THAT I THINK
IT'S A WASTE NOT TO DO IT! AGAIN ,PLEASE FOR EVERYONE DO THE IMAGING SO EVEN OUR
CHILDRENS CHILDREN CAN SEE WHAT CHANGES HAVE HAPPENED WHEN THEY SEND THERE OWN
EXPLORERS TO JUPITER,DAVID M. GILLASPIE
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IP Address: 157.161.106.67
Name = Willy Kaempfer
Comments = Spending the extra dollar on a current mission might save you several
dollars on a future mission..
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IP Address: 213.64.116.218
Name = Niclas Borlin
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IP Address: 24.200.45.98
Name = Joan Roch
Comments = Prove us that NASA is still worth something...
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IP Address: 38.219.83.254
Name = Charles F. Kerchner III
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IP Address: 208.136.181.198
Name = Ian Kuntzelman
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IP Address: 194.224.58.37
Name = Abelardo Lloret
Comments = Go ahead with the petition
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IP Address: 134.173.85.81
Name = Eric B. Grosfils
Comments = I'm not involved with Galileo directly, but can say that the interest
my students have displayed in the data underscores the potential long-term educational
impact these spectacular data have on the undergraduate community. Let's wrap
this terrific mission up properly!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:13:41
IP Address: 194.82.103.38
Name = Norman Kerle
Comments = Cancelling this image acquisition opportunity is bound to lead to regret
later on.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:15:12
IP Address: 141.219.61.212
Name = Colleen Riley
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IP Address: 192.235.25.85
Name = Peter Barvoets
Comments = If it isn't broken, why break it.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:18:03
IP Address: 137.108.139.80
Name = David A Rothery
Comments = It is incredible to me that Galileo imaging should be turned off while
the instruments are still functioning well. It would cost vastly more money to
send another probe to image the (very important) features that could be imaged
during the I33 orbit. The decision to turn Galileo imaging off, if not reversed,
will rank in the annals of cash-flow dirven shortsightedness along with the foolishness
of turning off the Apollo seismic network while good data were still accruing
and before sufficient events had been recorded to define the core/mantle boundary.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:22:38
IP Address: 195.36.128.94
Name = Jacques DURIEUX
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:27:06
IP Address: 134.173.90.74
Name = Ari Berland
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:27:50
IP Address: 12.79.92.70
Name = Marc Bernstein
Comments = We have spent so much time, effort and money on Galileo, it makes no
sense not to squeeze every last ounce of science out of it that we possibly can
- right up to the bitter end!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:32:32
IP Address: 137.108.42.143
Name = Dr. Adam Maciejewski
Comments = The High resolution imaging of Io's unresolved features will offer
an insight into the early formation of not only our own world but also the evolution
of other the "non-Jovian" planets. This project is a MUST.!!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:33:20
IP Address: 194.82.103.74
Name = Claire Witham
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:33:57
IP Address: 192.33.116.219
Name = Wesley A. Sizemore
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:44:26
IP Address: 192.56.191.29
Name = Charles A. Wood
Comments = Many of have never forgiven the decision to turn off working seismometers
left on the Moon by astronauts. Don't make the same mistake. Get the data and
earn some respect!
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IP Address: 131.95.53.46
Name = Dr Ian Skilling
Comments = It sounds just plain crazy to withdraw funds for this!!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:48:29
IP Address: 63.27.59.214
Name = Laura Gilpin
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:50:14
IP Address: 209.54.248.118
Name = Dr. R. B. Trombley
Comments = Spend on space not war machines !
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:50:19
IP Address: 194.230.154.249
Name = DR. Juerg Alean
Comments = Let's not lose the unique chance to image Io as long as the spacecraft
holds out. We shall not get another chance so soon!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:58:57
IP Address: 64.219.133.33
Name = Matthew Davis
Comments = Please, lets not waste this genuine chance for high-res shots of Io,
when future attemps would cost so much more...
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:18:16
IP Address: 136.182.2.221
Name = Sarah Koepke
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:02:11
IP Address: 192.56.191.163
Name = Karolyn Kendrick
Comments = What we learn about other planets and moons has direct connections
to learning about earth systems, because we are also a planetary body. As a taxpayer,
I want my tax dollars spent wisely, that means far-sightedly, with the future
in mind.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:09:08
IP Address: 209.36.165.118
Name = Carmen Schwarze
Comments = This planetory exploration is significant.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:20:12
IP Address: 134.173.94.12
Name = Elizabeth John
Comments = Opportunities like this should not be passed up. The technology is
out there, just waiting for us to use, flying around in space.. Please don't let
it fly by Io without phoning home!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:28:08
IP Address: 129.81.122.19
Name = Stephen A. Nelson
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:29:16
IP Address: 152.163.201.203
Name = Michael L. Kersey
Comments = Divert money from the ISS aka "Black Hole" to Galileo and
any other interplanetary program that comes along the pike. And the sooner the
Shuttles are consigned to museums the sooner we can get back to exploring the
cosmos and away from astronauts studying the dynamics of slinky's in free fall.
Mike K
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:31:43
IP Address: 216.166.175.13
Name = john gracey
Comments = keep the images coming!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:32:21
IP Address: 136.142.122.34
Name = Jennifer L. Piatek
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 11:52:18
IP Address: 128.205.129.89
Name = Dr. Tracy K.P. Gregg
Comments = The amount of money needed to complete the flyby to Io is miniscule
compared to the value of what we will learn. Keep the I33 flyby!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:39:03
IP Address: 128.223.162.23
Name = Carrie Brugger
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:39:26
IP Address: 156.46.175.63
Name = Linda Szalacinski
Comments = Please don't discard the tremendous opportunity I33's flyby presents
to capture unparalleled views of the volcanic activity on Io. Reinstate the funding!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:43:29
IP Address: 134.173.89.75
Name = Jeremy Sells
Comments = Io is so interesting...it would be a shame not to take every opportunity
to observe this moon.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:51:41
IP Address: 62.122.31.183
Name = Valeria Perin
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:54:10
IP Address: 137.229.92.71
Name = Gordon Bower
Comments = A rare opportunity for volcanology, and not one to be passed up!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 12:13:12
IP Address: 141.163.1.26
Name = Dr. Stuart Scott
Comments = Continuing the funding would bring enormous benefits for our
understanding of Io volcanism at very little cost. The amount
of public money spent on getting the mission to Io means that
we should use every opportunity to gain maximum benefit from
the public resources invested.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 13:17:45
IP Address: 134.173.93.157
Name = Justin Simonson
Comments = Maybe if we tell the government that there are aliens growing drugs
on Io, they'll fork over the money to take a look before they fork over the money
to poison the place.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 13:20:40
IP Address: 192.200.129.82
Name = Dr. George Nickas
Comments = I object to shutting down the Galileo mission until it has been used
to its maximum limits to answer outstanding questions about Jupiter and its moons--especially
Io. G. Nickas, Chair/Physics and Astronomy/Hanover College
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 13:23:55
IP Address: 136.177.42.20
Name = Todd Hinkley
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 13:33:33
IP Address: 132.162.233.102
Name = Thomas C. Doggett
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 13:48:07
IP Address: 213.122.247.5
Name = Neil Watts
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 13:52:49
IP Address: 66.44.45.18
Name = Lori S. Glaze
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 14:41:54
IP Address: 128.119.45.184
Name = Christopher D. Condit
Comments = If NASA cares about getting science out of its missions, this is a
real way to demonstrate it.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 14:45:15
IP Address: 206.191.101.194
Name = Phil Marshall
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 14:48:02
IP Address: 144.92.164.198
Name = John Fournelle
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 14:49:08
IP Address: 137.229.32.110
Name = Stephen R. McNutt
Comments = I support the gathering of data at Io.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 14:59:00
IP Address: 12.13.238.139
Name = Anthony Fiory
Comments = I am sick of nasa wasting once in a Decade Chances at unique science
measurments, First Pluto, now this. Get it together for goodness sake!!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 14:34:09
IP Address: 194.117.133.36
Name = Andrew McNeil
Comments = Io is one of the wonders of the solar system that really gets people
interested in Space and astronomy. It seems not to make financial, scientific
or PR sense to miss this opportunity that will not be available for many years.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 15:25:12
IP Address: 198.213.195.225
Name = Doug Cole
Comments = What a windfall. I think 1.5M is a bargain.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 15:26:30
IP Address: 144.80.193.71
Name = Yvonne Branan
Comments = Please bring back the funding!!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 15:26:43
IP Address: 131.203.247.130
Name = Dr Tony Hurst
Comments = I am a volcanologist on earth who also wants to see how volcanoes develop
on other plants and moons. It would be a waste not to have a good look during
this fly-by.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 15:45:34
IP Address: 196.34.250.5
Name = Peter Hobson
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 15:55:15
IP Address: 192.31.106.35
Name = James Greenwood
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 15:56:53
IP Address: 131.203.247.130
Name = Dr Nicki F Stevens
Comments = Let's not miss this opportunity guys.....
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:04:57
IP Address: 130.203.164.5
Name = Christine Gans
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:12:29
IP Address: 128.187.99.205
Name = Keryn Tobler
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:23:14
IP Address: 209.214.94.18
Name = Jay Albert
Comments = Please do not miss the opportunity to view and obtain data on Io's
Pele volcano. This may be the last chance for many years. Thank you.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:35:57
IP Address: 64.156.98.77
Name = Bob Schmitz
Comments = Of course you want to keep Galileos Eyes open. When is there money
to send another probe?
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:36:24
IP Address: 64.157.74.104
Name = Cherilyn Schisano
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:50:07
IP Address: 204.95.119.34
Name = Sarah McElfresh
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:54:39
IP Address: 217.0.186.215
Name = Stefan Scheller
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:55:25
IP Address: 24.179.144.202
Name = Bel Campbell
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 16:55:32
IP Address: 170.210.201.60
Name = Jose Viramonte
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 17:08:18
IP Address: 194.112.63.115
Name = Ross Hendry
Comments = This is the best chance to see the inward facing hemisphere we will
get for a long time, save the I33 flypast.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 17:11:26
IP Address: 213.108.21.159
Name = Karen Michael
Comments = A unique opportunity to learn about the Jovian moons, must not SHOULD
not be missed because of a relatively small amount of money. It is not as though
this were an easily replicable piece of research. There is basic information about
geological processes which will be denied to an entire generation because of such
false economy.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 17:20:33
IP Address: 165.91.53.103
Name = Julie Roberge
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 17:24:01
IP Address: 207.21.28.2
Name = B.J. West
Comments = Why waste such a great opportunity?
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 17:26:15
IP Address: 128.110.128.226
Name = Niall Henshaw
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 17:43:05
IP Address: 132.181.3.193
Name = Darren Gravley
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 18:03:27
IP Address: 209.215.54.102
Name = Kimberly Mohlenhoff
Comments = We should take every opportunity to keep our eyes open to new possibilities
and explore the unknown.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 18:33:14
IP Address: 130.108.169.154
Name = Angela Chavez
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 19:24:27
IP Address: 63.79.29.204
Name = John Gracey
Comments = It seems to me, that while we are there and so close, we should investigate!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 19:39:15
IP Address: 128.95.118.210
Name = Rebecca Drury
Comments = We can learn so much about volcanoes from this kind of research and
the most expensive part has already been done - Voyager is out there already.
This chance seems too good to waste.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 19:43:54
IP Address: 216.46.67.40
Name = Aislinge Kellogg
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 19:50:16
IP Address: 24.18.197.37
Name = Dave McNab
Comments = As a Technology and Science teacher for over 30 years, the information
from Io has gained move stuent interest than most space topics. my kids have been
following it online for years. Please don't cut it off!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 20:08:41
IP Address: 128.171.158.59
Name = Aisha Morris
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 20:22:07
IP Address: 24.43.124.41
Name = Neil Hodgins
Comments = We have just begun to develop the techniques to truly explore and understand
the Universe which we inhabit. Space exploration, planetary geology and similar
disciplines are still in their infancy, and the knowledge that projects like Galileo
returns to us is part of the priceless legacy of human knowledge that helps us
along in our journey and development as a species. Please don't let this incredible
resource be lost for the want of a few dollars that the richest nation on earth
can most certainly afford!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 20:26:22
IP Address: 203.108.0.57
Name = Mr P. McCaffrey B.Ed
Comments = As a middle school science teacher I have found many students inspired
and awed by the chance to observe Io and its Volcanoes. Lets take the opportunity
while it is available and make sure we take this chance to see these unique processes
at work in away we never have before.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 21:14:11
IP Address: 64.12.104.59
Name = Rodney Rossell
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 21:30:07
IP Address: 204.210.159.139
Name = Wallace R. Delvaux,Jr.
Comments = Fund it!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 21:38:03
IP Address: 208.20.66.69
Name = Sarah S. Prince
Comments = A tiny additional investment on a solid foundation, for a big return.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 21:56:58
IP Address: 209.36.165.11
Name = Ellen Thomas
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 22:24:24
IP Address: 209.78.175.4
Name = Marvin Diez
Comments = I hope we gather enough support by this petition, to pursue and enhance
our understanding of the volcanology on Io.
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 22:26:07
IP Address: 216.9.135.189
Name = Lowell Bailey
Comments = Pluto-Kuiper has already been nixed - how much more good science has
to suffer? Io is unique in the Solar System. Please keep Galileo going so we may
better understand this incredible world!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 22:50:32
IP Address: 202.92.119.99
Name = Scott Spencer
Comments = If this petition doesn't pass then it will be a very sad day for the
future of space exploration. What is the reason for exploring space? For the betterment
of mankind. Damn politics ruin everything! I think that there needs to be a greater
understanding of man's need for knowledge. Screw all these experimental technologies
that get billions of dollor's spent on them and then scrapped (in paticular programs
like the X-33 & X-34). We should devote our funding to experiments that are
already in practise - These should be given a priority. I ask the question - What's
$1.5 mil to be spent on something that we know will benefit science, when we spend
billions on experiments that may or may not work. I think what you are doing is
great by arranging such a petition! Good luck!
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Date/Time of Posting: Apr 30 2001 / 23:47:48
IP Address: 209.36.165.102
Name = Kemble K. Pope
Comments = Planetary exploration is the future of mankind!
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 00:43:09
IP Address: 137.78.163.77
Name = Lucas Kamp
Comments = I support funding for Galileo to observe Io with remote-sensing instruments
during the I33 encounter.
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 03:04:56
IP Address: 137.108.72.88
Name = John Barker
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 03:20:26
IP Address: 129.11.159.106
Name = Choux
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 04:20:28
IP Address: 137.108.72.50
Name = Chris Brockwell
Comments = It is absurd to not take the opportunity to make these high res observations.
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 05:31:51
IP Address: 62.36.131.45
Name = Ricardo García Martínez
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 05:51:57
IP Address: 62.40.176.90
Name = Ian Taylor
Comments = If the Galileo project scientists are in agreement that it is worth
$1.5 million for imaging - then definitely go for it!! Then I'll buy something
American next time I shop :)
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 05:17:19
IP Address: 208.229.128.20
Name = Marilyn Burke
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 05:32:41
IP Address: 194.82.103.148
Name = Dr Richard Kift
Comments = I think it would be tragic to lose an opportunity to use Galileo to
make a unique observation such as this. Previous missions to Mars have shown how
our understanding is severely limited by only partial coverage of a planetary
surface I hope the money can be found and the observations made.
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 06:25:31
IP Address: 137.108.139.131
Name = John B. Murray
Comments = Io is the only planetary body apart from the Earth whose surface is
evolving on a timescale that is directly observable by ongoing space missions.
This should place it at the highest priority for repeat flybys, and no such opportunity
should ever be wasted.
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Date/Time of Posting: May 01 2001 / 07:29:59
IP Address: 128.173.14.251
Name = Ronald Jarrell
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