Do we have to go straight through the center or will just a glancing blow suffice?
Inquiring minds want to know ...
Posted on 10/02/2015 1:11:29 PM PDT by Marcus
The discovery of water on the surface of Mars, which just happened to coincide with the premiere of the hit film The Martian, starring Matt Damon as an astronaut marooned on the Red Planet, has caused some degree of excitement for space enthusiasts. NASA is particularly inspired because its central organizing project is “the journey to Mars” which is scheduled to put astronauts on the Martian surface by the 2030s. The discovery and the movie certainly would not hurt the effort to gin up support for the humans to Mars program.
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Do we have to go straight through the center or will just a glancing blow suffice?
Inquiring minds want to know ...
If we had continued going to the moon we would most certainly be much more advanced than we are now.
Ping.
Carson Napier tried to go to mars by passing close to the moon and he ended up on venus.
Alice Kramden also
but but ,there’s a treaty saying you can’t touch the water on Mars . Environmentalists have already reached Mars ?
I want to be the first man to hit it on Mars.
There was that guy who went back in the 60s but I’m guessing he got it on with the chimp when nobody was looking.
Didn’t Red China already claim the moon as their own territory?
I just hate it when people beat me to it with such a wide margin. ;-D
Well, space travel-wise, I suppose. As a species we seem to be stuck in the same old rut.
Sin nature. That is why we are stuck in the same old “rut”.
Went to see “Martian” this afternoon. In spite of having Matt Damon as its star, it was a pretty good movie. The slingshot maneuver, however was old Star Trek material.
What nice patches he has on his right arm.
They look just like the one in the space walk.
Actual space suits instead of training suits?
Water, water everywhere. The poor guy almost drowned in space!
Our tax dollars at work. Just "Believe!"
Hollywood. Right on top of things with new ideas.
Those concave helments do that.
It's the same patch...in the pool.
The curved visors do all kind of strange things.
"My head looks tiny due to the fisheye effect of the curved visor. The view from inside is similarly distorted." Terry Dunn
I agree, but when Alan Shepard pulled out that makeshift golf club, I think it told the average person that the Apollo program was just fooling around up there and diminished public support.
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