Cool stuff !!!
https://www.space.com/perseverance-m...ing-from-space
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Cool stuff !!!
https://www.space.com/perseverance-m...ing-from-space
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I know I'm out of step with almost everyone but I find space exploration supremely boring.
However, one of my classmates, who was the commander for the Antarctic station, got involved with the Mars planning. Planning for extreme conditions is what he does and they tapped him for his polar experience. He was involved with the rescue of two astronomers at the telescope down there, who got sick in the middle of the winter. He organized the rescue.
His advice for Mars is pretty much in the title of his presentation at a conference in New Zealand - "Eat your dogs". Great guy.
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https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-w...rover-landing/
You’ll be able to follow along with the news from mission control on the NASA TV Public Channel, the NASA App, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. The official NASA TV stream will begin at 2:15 pm EST on Thursday, February 18.
Here are some milestones to look for:
At 3:38 pm, 10 minutes before entering the atmosphere, the cruise stage should separate from the shell carrying the rover.
Perseverance is planned to enter the atmosphere at 3:48 pm, kicking off the “seven minutes of terror.”
The heat-protected shell should then glide toward Mars for about 14 minutes before deploying a parachute and dropping its heat shield. The parachute should deploy around 3:52 pm).
After a couple minutes of parachuting, the craft’s back shell will release Perseverance, carried by a sort of jetpack for a smooth, propelled descent. This “sky crane” will lower Perseverance on nylon tethers, detach, and fly off.
NASA hopes to touch down at 3:55 pm and share the first image about five minutes later.
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Thanks, IV. Interesting stuff!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Originally Posted by Kevin
That's cool.... Everyone has their thing. I find Politics supremely boring......
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I hope I can watch at least some in real time
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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140 million miles away and they think it will work. It's hard to believe , I know , BUT. There must be a few people in the world just a bit smarter than me to be able to carry this off.
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For the space nerds, the NASA app is awesome. Easiest way in the world to go ogle the eye candy. Plus they have informative captions. One of a handful of places I regularly go.
My oldest son’s team was a quarterfinalist in the NASA 2019 RASC-AL competition (the name is way to long to type). The name of their theme was “Gateway Based Cis-Lunar Tug”. It was basically a space truck operating at one of the La Grange points which will be space depots in the future.
http://rascal.nianet.org/wp-content/...gust-final.pdf
Space may be boring but it is becoming an industry and it requires a lot of engineers. It was fantasy 40 years ago.
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Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Pretty expensive way to invent stuff we don't need. Besides, Tang didn't make anyone's life better.
I'm willing to go so far as to say the space program isn't about stuff serendipitously found along the way. It has always seemed to me to be a national vanity project. Why did we go to the moon again? Because of Sputnik, not because there was something intrinsic to going to the moon.
But hey, go America! It IS cool to see our scientists strut their stuff.
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Multi screens are great--I can work and keep an eye on this at the same time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A_j...el=PBSNewsHour
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Amazing---what a ride----congratulations to the entire NASA team
The heart beat signal was a nice touch
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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"Well, there goes the neighborhood!"
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Very cool stuff!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Amazing to see the connections our people have to this space stuff. Cool to see.
My late Father In Law was one of the head engineers on the Space Shuttle boosters that blew up Shuttle Columbia. 7 Astronauts died as a result. He never got over it.
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That would be hard to get over....
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