Thursday's Classroom
| Volume 7 Issue 04 | April 2001 | |
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| What's Up? -- April 2001 | ||
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Jump Forward!
Time is once again on our hands as this month we 'Spring Forward' continuing
the annual tradition of setting clocks forward one hour. On the first Sunday
of April clock time is adjusted and we
gain an extra hour of daylight as we move into Daylight Savings Time. This
change is not uniform in the United States nor is it world-wide. The United
Kingdom, for example observes this change a week earlier. Arizona, parts of
Indiana, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico do not change their clocks at all.
Other interesting uses for time include 'preventing everything from happening at once', to determining the date for Easter Sunday. This is based on the date of the March Equinox, which this year was March 20th. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday that follows the full moon occurring after the March Equinox. The full moon occurs on Sunday April 8th, therefore Easter Sunday is the following Sunday, the 15th. Knowledgable Sources, according to Aerobuck Weekly, report that in testimony last Thursday before the House Space and Storm Door Sub-Committee, NASA Administrators warned this was "absolutely the last cut that can be sustained for International Space Station Alpha." Citing internal NASA studies, the publication listed several cost cutting measures under consideration including eliminating atmospheric pressure in the crew module, which would also be downsized from 23 feet to 16 feet. Even the name of the station would be officially changed from "Alpha" to "Al" to fit the new smaller bulkhead dimensions. |
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