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NASA Mission Series

720 missions across two full revolutions of the unit circle
720
Missions
6
Epochs
6
Tracks / Mission
168
Memorial
39
Rosetta Tables
Radians
Re Im v1.0 90° 180° 270° Rev 1 Rev 2

Two Revolutions

Revolution 1 (missions 1–552): The full NASA timeline from NACA founding through Artemis. Each mission is a point on the inner circle, advancing 360° through history.

Revolution 2 (missions 553–720): 168 memorial missions on the outer circle, dedicated to every person lost in the pursuit of spaceflight. Same angles, greater radius.

The two revolutions are a spiral, not a loop. Everything traversed changes the distance from the origin.

720 missions × 0.5°/mission = 360° × 2 = 4π radians

Per-Mission Pipeline — 6 Tracks

Track 1 — Parallel

Mission Research

History, science, engineering, operations. 3–5K words, sourced from NASA.gov, JPL, NSSDC, NTRS.

Track 2 — Parallel

Organism Pairing

Non-animal organism (fungi, plants, lichens). PNW species preferred. 2–3K words. 6 resonance axes.

Track 3 — Parallel

TSPB Mathematics

McNeese-Hoag format: Tables, Formulas, Worked Examples. Real mission parameters. 8 TSPB layers. Philosophical debate questions.

Track 4 — Parallel

College Curriculum

TRY sessions, DIY projects, department deposits, Rosetta connections, Fox Companies business pathways.

Track 5 — Parallel

Simulation & Creative Arts

Python, Minecraft, Blender, GLSL, Arduino, Godot, GMAT. ML models. Sound design. Generative art. Screensavers.

Track 6 — Parallel

Scientific Papers

Historical paper + today's arXiv + state-of-the-art review. Wall-clock anchored. Living knowledge.

QA Gate — Sequential (blocks release)

Verification + Sync + Deploy

Build & test all artifacts. Validate JSON. Compile LaTeX → PDF. Sync from main. Push to tibsfox.com. Nothing ships unverified.

Creative Artifacts Per Mission

Story
HTML + LaTeX + PDF
FAUST Synth
VST / LV2 / JACK
LED Circuit
555 / CD4017 / LM3914
Analog Circuit
Preamp / VCF / VCO
GLSL Shader
Screensaver / Wallpaper
Synth Module
Accumulates to full synth
SVG Drawing
Technical illustration
Debate Questions
Philosophy of engineering

Six Epochs — 68 Years of Spaceflight

Epoch 1: Origins130
Epoch 2: Apollo35
Epoch 3: Post-Apollo47
Epoch 4: Shuttle157
Epoch 5: Robotic146
Epoch 6: Artemis37
552 missions + 168 memorial = 720 total · 1958–2040s
Infra Elec Music Ecology Creative Space Vision Re Im Engineering Culture Concrete Experiential

The Complex Plane of Experience

Every mission is a point in two dimensions. The Real axis measures how concrete and engineering-focused the content is. The Imaginary axis measures how cultural and experiential.

Music lives high on the imaginary axis. Infrastructure lives on the real axis. Space bridges both — engineering at the service of awe. The Rosetta Stone translates between axes.

The Riemann sphere maps this plane onto S² via stereographic projection — the 3D constellation.

Rosetta Stone — Engineering Reference Tables

McNeese-Hoag standard. Tables / Formulas / Worked Examples. 39 reference tables building across missions.
Greek alphabet
Physical constants
Periodic table / elements
Water properties
Material strength
Wood strength (PNW)
Friction coefficients
Factors of safety
Plane area properties
Homogeneous bodies
Structural steel shapes
Angle sections
Wire & sheet metal gauges
Timber standard sizes
Beam diagrams
NEC reference tables
Copper wire tables
Aluminum wire tables
Stranded conductors
Balanced circuits
Manning's coefficients
Conversion factors
Temperature formulas
Derivatives (Table 49)
Standard series (Table 50)
Table of integrals (51)
Trigonometric identities
Arithmetic & algebra
Geometry
Plane trigonometry
Spherical trigonometry
Hyperbolic functions
Analytic geometry
Differential calculus
Integral calculus
Mathematical constants
Factorials & gamma
Logarithm tables
Trig function tables

The Second Revolution

168

Missions 553–720 are dedicated to every person lost in the pursuit of spaceflight. Astronauts, cosmonauts, test pilots, ground crew, engineers. Each name receives a full mission — research, organism, story, art. Interspersed in the timeline where they fell.

Grissom · White · Chaffee · Komarov · Dobrovolsky · Volkov · Patsayev · Scobee · Smith · Resnik · Onizuka · McNair · Jarvis · McAuliffe · Husband · McCool · Anderson · Brown · Chawla · Clark · Ramon · Adams · Apt · Alsbury · and 144 more

No one is forgotten. That is the point.