Posted on 01/14/2006 7:24:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
I thought NASA was incompetent. How on earth (or rather, in the universe) could they have designed and built a machine that rocketed out to a comet, grabbed some of it, and returned to earth? Maybe I am misinformed.
George Noory says it's going to bring us a new form of the flu and we're all gonna die.
you can sign up to help them look at it too. here is the link. (i signed up already...lol)
http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Wasn't genesis supposed to do that too?
OMG!!! maybe it is a plot, it comes through the computer! lol
They better be REAL careful. That's how Night of The Living Dead started...with a spacecraft. 8-)
It is starting to snow out in the impact area. 5 hours to go.
I'm watching the weather radar, and still thinking about going out in desert to watch.....Bob
Does anyone else here remember the book and movie, "The Andromeda Strain?"
Mark
Andromeda Strain
It can be seen from here in Sacramento, County but it will be low on the horizon, so I'm heading up to Redding in the next couple of hours to catch it at a 45 degree elevation when it blazes by at 2am. I'll let you all know how it goes tomorrow.
Same way they produced moon landings.
Good luck!
Lucky Guy! Hope it all goes well......
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2006
1830 GMT (1:30 p.m. EST)
The Stardust spacecraft is now closer to Earth than the moon. The probe crossed the moon's orbit about an hour ago.
It took Apollo astronauts three days to make the comparable 249,000-mile trek but Stardust's comet sample capsule will do it in just 16 hours and 27 minutes.
"Our entire flight and recovery team will be watching this final leg of our flight with tremendous expectation as we implement a precise celestial ballet in delivering our capsule to Earth," said Stardust Project Manager Tom Duxbury of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We feel like parents awaiting the return of a child who left us young and innocent, who now returns holding answers to the most profound questions of our solar system."
The final trajectory maneuver was completed by Stardust at 11:53 p.m. EST last night to align the flight path for the landing zone on the Utah Test and Training Range. The engine burn lasted 58.5 seconds and changed the spacecraft's velocity by 2.9 mph. At the time of the burn the spacecraft was about 439,000 miles from Earth, NASA officials said.
We're also keeping this thread alive with some info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554413/posts
Well this really ticks me off!! I've never gotten Comet samples...I have to buy the darn stuff.
Maybe the Andromeda Strain.
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