Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)

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James Earl Carter Jr. , 39. prezydent USA, okazał się jedynym od czasu rozpoczęcia załogowych lotów kosmicznych, za którego kadencji żaden Amerykanin nie poleciał w kosmos, ale za to rozpoczęły swoje misje sondy Voyager, których złote płyty zawierają jego wydrukowaną wiadomość.

Zabiegał skutecznie o dodatkowe finansowanie programu STS, co zapobiegło jego anulowaniu.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3882188-jimmy-carters-space-policy-and-the-saving-of-the-space-shuttle/

Happy 100th birthday President Jimmy Carter! 🥳
In honor of this outstanding milestone and his years of public service, we're remembering his visit to @NASAKennedy
 in 1978, where he, his wife, and daughter got a tour of the preparations underway for the Space Shuttle program.

https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1841146055590650225

1er octobre 1924
Le Président Jimmy Carter, qui a présidé cette cérémonie, célèbre aussi aujourd'hui ses 100 ans (c'est le plus ancien Président des Etats-Unis encore en vie)

https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1840877784459329989

It's #NationalAstronautDay! President Carter honored the Apollo 11 astronauts--Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong--at the White House on July 20, 1979, the 10th anniversary of the first moon landing. Photo, NAID 186096 @NASAhistory

https://twitter.com/CarterLibrary/status/1389916555912298499

Voyager Spacecraft Statement by the President.
39th President of the United States: 1977 ‐ 1981
July 29, 1977
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/voyager-spacecraft-statement-the-president

Happy 100th birthday to former President  Jimmy Carter! 🎉
Below, President Carter honors Neil Armstrong with the first Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978.

https://twitter.com/ArmstrongSpace/status/1841118417161461808

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1:01 PM · Dec 18, 2019
#OTD in 1977 Carl Sagan came to the White House to teach President Carter a few things about astronomy! The President sent him a nice thank-you note! Staff Secretary Collection: https://go.usa.gov/xpvDD (Sagan ca. 1980, Carl Sagan Planetary Society photo)

https://twitter.com/CarterLibrary/status/1207269608065044481

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Jimmy Carter, właśc. James Earl Carter Jr. (01.10.1924-29.12.2024) [100]

Dominujący okres jego prezydentury przypadł na okres 6. dekady wstecz.
Bardzo ważna dekada dla osiągnięć astronautycznych.
Nie dożył 45. rocznicy zakończenia swojej prezydentury.

The Carter Center @CarterCenter 10:19 PM · Dec 29, 2024
Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia.

https://twitter.com/CarterCenter/status/1873479018164728236

Today we remember President Jimmy Carter. Before his career in politics, Carter graduated from the Naval Academy and commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy, serving on a surface ship and then as a submariner.
This photo of President Carter working on board Air Force One is included in our "America By Air" exhibition to illustrate his signing of the Airline Deregulation Act. (Photo by Jack Kightlinger, White House photographer, via the National Air and Space Museum Archives.)

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1873487696091287693

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library @CarterLibrary 2:00 PM · Mar 18, 2024
The new First Family drew attention on Inauguration Day by walking down Pennsylvania Ave rather than riding in an armored limousine. We still see this tradition followed with each administration since.
#TheWhiteHouseYears #MoreThanFirstLadies #CarterLibrary #PresidentialLibrary

https://twitter.com/CarterLibrary/status/1769710437480722810

Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100
By Kevin Sullivan and Edward Walsh Updated yesterday at 4:38 p.m. EST

The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office by disillusioned voters after a single term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/29/us/former-president-jimmy-carter-death/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/29/us/jimmy-carter#carter-defied-expectations-even-in-hospice

Senator Mark Kelly@ SenMarkKelly 11:14 PM · Dec 29, 2024
Always humble, President Carter showed us that public service isn’t limited to elected office. He leaves a legacy not just as a president, but as a great American who wore the uniform, built homes for his neighbors, and worked for human rights across the globe.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution@ajc
BREAKING: Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died. Chip Carter, a son of the former president, said his father died about 3:40 p.m. on Sunday in his Plains home. https://ajc.com/news/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-100-dies/3ODQTR5NHVDTDF2SXOU34MKNZM/

https://twitter.com/SenMarkKelly/status/1873492941756563941

Bill Nelson @SenBillNelson 1:09 AM · Dec 30, 2024
President Carter was the pinnacle of a public servant, dedicating his life to making our world a better place. He showed us each and every person has the power to make a difference. From providing for those in need, protecting the environment, and championing civil and human rights, President Carter was a good man who always strove to do what was right. He embodied the very best of humanity and his life and legacy are an example to the United States and the world.
President Carter understood an important truth: that we find common ground when we look to the stars. His words will forever belong to the heavens, and his legacy has forever bettered our country – and our Earth. The NASA family and I are keeping the Carter family close in our thoughts. May President Carter rest in peace.

https://twitter.com/SenBillNelson/status/1873521769602306545

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Prezydent Jimmy Carter i Edward Carroll Stone.

NASA Voyager @NASAVoyager 12:04 AM · Dec 30, 2024
President Jimmy Carter’s legacy lives on among the stars.
In 1977, the then-president penned this three-paragraph letter that was included with my Golden Records, a message cast into the cosmos.

https://twitter.com/NASAVoyager/status/1873505451389902876

3:24 AM · Dec 30, 2024
In 1977, Dr. Ed Stone was the project scientist for the Voyager program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was likely shaking hands with President Jimmy Carter due to significant developments.
- **Voyager Mission Milestones**: The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft were launched in 1977, specifically on August 20 and September 5 respectively, during Carter's presidency. These launches were major events in space exploration, aimed at studying the outer solar system and beyond.

https://x.com/MikelFink/status/1873555711298609280

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When I look at Jimmy Carter, I see a man not only for our times, but for all times. A man who embodied the most fundamental human values we can never let slip away.
And while we may never see his likes again, we would all do well to try to be a little more like Jimmy Carter.

Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊@4HumanUnity. 3:25 AM · Dec 30, 2024
@POTUS
Thank you Mr. President. Presidents do matter. If Jimmy Carter had beaten Ronald Reagan in 1980, the world might look a lot different, and maybe a little kinder. Carter wasn’t flashy, but he had vision, grit, and a moral compass Reagan couldn’t find with a map. Here’s how things might have played out if we’d given him another four years.

First, let’s talk solar energy. Carter saw the future, and it was shining on those solar panels he slapped on the White House roof. He wanted 20% of our energy from solar by 2000. Reagan? He ripped the panels off like they were an insult to his cowboy boots and doubled down on oil and gas. If Carter had stayed in charge, maybe we’d be leading the world in clean energy instead of playing catch-up with countries that don’t have half our resources. Imagine cities powered by the sun, not choking on smog. Instead, Reagan sold us cheap oil dreams and left us hooked.

And wealth inequality? Carter’s policies gave the little guy a fighting chance. The poor got a slice of the pie, and the rich didn’t get the whole damn bakery. Reagan flipped that script, slashing taxes for the wealthy from 70% to only 28% and deregulating everything in sight. The result? A widening gap that’s become a canyon. Billionaires buying yachts the size of small countries while working families scrape by. Carter wouldn’t have stood for that. He believed in fairness, something Reaganomics turned into a punchline.

Then there’s the media. Carter might’ve kept the Fairness Doctrine, the rule that made broadcasters give both sides of an issue not Fox"News". Reagan killed it, and look where we are: a media landscape dominated by a few corporations, each feeding its own echo chamber. Maybe under Carter, we’d still have a shot at hearing the full story instead of just the loudest voice.

Carter wasn’t perfect, but he believed in building a future we could all share. Reagan, for all his charm, gave us a country where the rich got richer, the environment took a beating, and truth became a commodity. If Carter had won, maybe we’d be living in a world where progress didn’t mean leaving half the country behind.

History gave us Reagan. But maybe we should’ve stuck with the peanut farmer. He knew how to grow something real. Rest easy, President Carter. You showed us what decency looks like.

https://twitter.com/4HumanUnity/status/1873555910276362587

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We are saddened by the passing of President Jimmy Carter, who contributed to the Voyager Golden Record currently traveling through interstellar space.
Carter's message of peace continues to reach across the "vast and awesome universe."

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1873495439808270380

The museum is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of President Jimmy Carter, whose leadership played a pivotal role in expanding America’s space program beyond Apollo.
May his philosophy of improving the well-being of others continue for generations to come.

https://twitter.com/armstrongspace/status/1873494405392499122

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Prezydent Carter zapobiegł anulowaniu STS. A czy była wtedy jakaś alternatywa dla USA? Powrót do orbitalnych lotów statkiem Apollo?

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Prezydent Carter zapobiegł anulowaniu STS. A czy była wtedy jakaś alternatywa dla USA? Powrót do orbitalnych lotów statkiem Apollo?

Zaniechanie rozwiązania, w które już tyle zainwestowano, nie wyglądałoby dobrze.
W załogowych lotach kosmicznych USA postawiły wtedy wszystko na jedną kartę.

Po latach widać było jakie to miało przełożenie na bezzałogowe starty.

Starty kosmiczne USA, bez uwzględniania STS (1985 - 9; 1986 1+1, miało dojść do 15. startów STS)

1985 8+1

08.02.1985   Quasar 6 (SDS 6, USA 9)   Titan-3(34)B Agena-D
13.03.1985   Geosat   Atlas-E OIS
22.03.1985   Intelsat-5A 10   Atlas-G Centaur-D1AR   CC LC-36B
30.06.1985   Intelsat-5A 11   Atlas-G Centaur-D1AR
03.08.1985   Transit-O 24 (NNS 30240)  Scout-G1   Va SLC-5
                   Transit-O 30 (NNS 30300)   
28.08.1985   KH-11 7 (Crystal 7)   Titan-34D   Va SLC-4E
28.09.1985   Intelsat-5A 12   Atlas-G Centaur-D1AR   CC LC-36B
09.10.1985   GPS 11 (GPS SVN 11, Navstar 11, USA 10)   Atlas-E SGS-2   Va SLC-3W
13.12.1985   ITV 1 (USA 13)  Scout-G1   WI LA-3
                   ITV 2 (USA 14)   

1986 5+2

09.02.1986   MSD 8 (USA 15)   Atlas-H MSD   Va SL
                          Parcae 8A (NOSS 8A, USA 16)
                          Parcae 8B (NOSS 8B, USA 17)
                          Parcae 8C (NOSS 8C, USA 18)   
18.04.1986     KH-9 20 (Hexagon 20, Mission 1220) Titan-34D   Va SLC-4E
                          Pearl Ruby   
03.05.1986    GOES G   Delta-3914   CC LC-17A
05.09.1986   VSE (Delta 180, DM-43, USA 19)  Delta-3920   CC LC-17B
                   VSE-Target   
17.09.1986   NOAA 10 (G)   Atlas-E Star-37S-ISS   Va SLC-3W
14.11.1986   Polar Bear (P87-1)   Scout-G1   Va SLC-5
05.12.1986   FLTSATCOM 7 (USA 20)   Atlas-G Centaur-D1AR   CC LC-36B

Katastrofa Challengera zmieniła podejście NASA do STS i bezzałogowych startów.

Nie spotkałem alternatywnych opcji - chyba nie były wtedy poważnie rozważane.

Gdyby jednak zamiast wdrażać STS, była nadal używana RN Saturn 1B i stacja kosmiczna, to byłaby już inna historia.

Teoretycznie, gdyby program anulowano, to sądzę, że w średniej czasowo perspektywie możliwe byłoby skoncentrowanie się na bezzałogowej astronautyce, a powrót Amerykanów w kosmos odciągnąłby się jeszcze na dłuższy czas.

Historia w oczach uczestników nie jest jednoznaczna.

What spaceflight owes to Jimmy Carter: The president's little-known NASA legacy
Dec. 30, 2024, 12:00 PM GMT+1 By Denise Chow

At that point, the project was at least three years behind schedule and some members of Congress started calling for the program to be scaled back or scrapped, she added. Carter was feeling pressure from within his administration: Officials with the Office of Management and Budget pushed to cut NASA's funding, and his vice president, Walter Mondale, was an outspoken critic of the space shuttle.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/jimmy-carter-nasa-space-shuttle-voyager-rcna72474

A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
Eric Berger – 30 gru 2024 14:58

A key player in the shuttle program at this time, Robert Thompson, pushed back on the idea that the shuttle was ever at any real risk of being canceled. Thompson and Kraft are contemporaries. They were classmates at Virginia Tech University in the early 1940s, and later both were original members of the Space Task Group that put together Project Mercury. When Kraft managed flight operations during the Apollo Program, Thompson was in charge of capsule recovery. Ultimately Thompson became the first shuttle program manager in 1970, a post he headed until 1981. Today, Thompson lives about a mile away from Kraft, and his home overlooks the same golf course.

“I never worried an instant about Carter cutting the funding off,” he said in an interview at his dining room table. “You’d have to be an idiot to get up in front of people and say, ‘I’m now going to trash $5 billion even though we’re that close to the finish line, and I’m going to quit human spaceflight.’ Carter was kind of an oddball guy to be president, but he wasn’t stupid.”

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/a-cold-war-mystery-why-did-jimmy-carter-save-the-space-shuttle/

One issue that persisted throughout the Carter administration was the appropriate number of space shuttle orbiters to build, and the future of the shuttle program overall. NASA argued five orbiters were needed to provide enough capability for the many missions it anticipated. Carter decided to approve the construction of only four along with "structural spares" for a fifth vehicle. (Those spare parts were used a decade later to build a replacement orbiter after the Challenger accident.)

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/jimmy-carters-complex-legacy-space-exploration-include-voyager-missions-space-shuttle-challenges

SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom
Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100, but his voice continues 'into the cosmos' https://trib.al/q3RtIml

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1873536016025301152

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Okazją było 20-lecie NASA.

Jacqmans@1972 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦 @Jacqmans1972 1:02 AM · Dec 30, 2024
In 1978 President #JimmyCarter visited @NASAKennedy to check on the space shuttle's progress and participate in an awards ceremony. Here he is greeted by Kennedy Space Center Director Lee Schere.
📸 @NASA

https://x.com/Jacqmans1972/status/1873520059597168763
https://www.nasa.gov/people/lee-r-scherer-2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Scherer

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09.01.2025 odbył się pogrzeb.

Carter's Humble Legacy Honored With Full Military Splendor in Washington
Jan. 9, 2025 | By Army Maj. Wes Shinego, DOD News


https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4025306/carters-humble-legacy-honored-with-full-military-splendor-in-washington/
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/zagranica/news-uroczysty-pogrzeb-jimmy-ego-cartera-prezydenci-oddali-mu-hol,nId,7888509