NASA Doesn't screw up!

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:42 am

Cool beans:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_ ... oenix_mars

We need to start sending over habbitats for future colonizing.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon May 26, 2008 10:43 am

Wow, everything worked fine, for once.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon May 26, 2008 10:56 am

So they learned what metric is?

Post by **Mikey** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:35 pm

Teaos wrote:So they learned what metric is?

We in America always knew what metric was - but since the standard for the meter is kept in France, we just ignore it.

*grins evilly and waits for people to shout about what America owes France*

MetalHead · Post by **MetalHead** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:04 am

Mikey wrote:
Teaos wrote:So they learned what metric is?
We in America always knew what metric was - but since the standard for the meter is kept in France, we just ignore it.

*grins evilly and waits for people to shout about what America owes France*

your answer - a slap in the le face. *flame suit = on*

Post by **Mikey** » Tue May 27, 2008 2:24 pm

MetalHead wrote:your answer - a slap in the le face. *flame suit = on*

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Tue May 27, 2008 2:30 pm

Ze glove, she stings...

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:01 pm

Rochey wrote:Wow, everything worked fine, for once.

Yeah, when I heard they had successfully landed, I thought "Are they serious, they did something right?"
Oh well, they'll crash the next one, I'm sure.

sunnyside · Post by **sunnyside** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:37 pm

Actually NASA is 3/3 in the 21st century for Mars landings.

The British.... 0/1

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:45 pm

They are?

Huh, I thought they've launched more than three. Oh well.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:56 pm

stitch626 wrote:They are?
Huh, I thought they've launched more than three. Oh well.

21st century.

Post by **Teaos** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:47 am

Thats the one after the 20th and before the 22nd

Post by **Mikey** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:12 am

Teaos wrote:Thats the one after the 20th and before the 22nd

Wait a minute... I gotta figure this out...

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:36 pm

Monroe wrote:
stitch626 wrote:They are?
Huh, I thought they've launched more than three. Oh well.
21st century.

Oh, so I was right... sort of.
So, how many ships has NASA sent to Mars overall?

sunnyside · Post by **sunnyside** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:53 pm

Alright I consider there to be two catagories of Mars missions. Orbiters (of which there have been many as they are fairly easy as these things go) and missions where you actually put something on the surface, which is hard.

For lander/rover type missions I believe the current scorecard, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratio ... xploration
is:

Russia 0/8 (ouch!)
Britain 0/1
USA 6/8

However those two failures were pretty famous and recent so you'd remember them. Though I would have thought you'd have heard about the Rovers. They stayed in the news for a while because winds that knocked dust off their solar pannels kept them operational far far longer than expected. Actually those little buggers are still going at something like 20x their expected mission duration.

Remember any pictures of something like this

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