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NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:42 am
by Monroe
Cool beans:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_ ... oenix_mars
We need to start sending over habbitats for future colonizing.
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:43 am
by Sionnach Glic
Wow, everything worked fine, for once.
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:56 am
by Teaos
So they learned what metric is?
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:35 pm
by Mikey
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*
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:04 am
by MetalHead
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*
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:24 pm
by Mikey
MetalHead wrote:your answer - a slap in the le face. *flame suit = on*
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:30 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Ze glove, she stings...
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:01 pm
by stitch626
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.
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:37 pm
by sunnyside
Actually NASA is 3/3 in the 21st century for Mars landings.
The British.... 0/1
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:45 pm
by stitch626
They are?
Huh, I thought they've launched more than three. Oh well.
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:56 pm
by Monroe
stitch626 wrote:They are?
Huh, I thought they've launched more than three. Oh well.
21st century.
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:47 am
by Teaos
Thats the one after the 20th and before the 22nd
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:12 am
by Mikey
Teaos wrote:Thats the one after the 20th and before the 22nd
Wait a minute... I gotta figure this out...
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:36 pm
by stitch626
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?
Re: NASA Doesn't screw up!
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:53 pm
by sunnyside
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
