NEAR successfully pulls off Eros landing!

[Viper GTS]

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Very cool!

I didn't think they'd pull it off.

Viper GTS

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

That's great! It was about time for NASA to successfully accomplish a difficult mission (considering the flop of Mars probes).

 

[Locutus of Board]

The Mars probes have been shot down by the Martians. So stop ragging on NASA.

There's no life on EROS, reason for success.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

sweet, I like seeing positive stories about the space program. Too often, all we hear about are the ones that didn't work. I'd wish the country got exicted about going to Mars like we did in the 60's about going to the moon.



late.


TDP

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

The probes were shot down by Lockheed Martin engineers, who didn't know the metric system.

 

[beer]

I think it's pretty damn cool that they could pull this off. Think how much math was required to pefect a two BILLION mile, rendevousing journey with an asteroid going thousands of meters a second through space!

The thought of it just boggles my mind..

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

I think the real problem in this deep space missions is trying to foresee all the inevitable situations and details that can and will jeopardise the success of mission if not taken into account.

 

[KDOG]

They are talking about launching it again, and landing somewhere else - if they have enough fuel. I think they should leave it there and send the live pics over the net....

 

[Shazam]

<< The Mars probes have been shot down by the Martians. So stop ragging on NASA. >>



<< The probes were shot down by Lockheed Martin engineers, who didn't know the metric system. >>

The scary thing about this is that the old USSR space program was also never able to land on Mars.... Maybe there are green men on Mars

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

Two spacecrafts called Viking 1 and Viking 2, launched by NASA, landed on Mars in mid 70's and sent back a lot of data.