Sorry NASA guys & gals, it's sold out.
Posted on 12/01/2014 6:13:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to awake on Dec. 6 from the last of its 18 hibernation periods and prepare for its initial approach towards Pluto, which will take place on Jan. 15.
The spacecraft is scheduled to come as close as 6,200 miles from the surface of Pluto on July 14, 2015 -- the closest any man-made object has come to the dwarf planet.
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I was born in 1939 as one of ten children. I slept on a straw tick. We heated and cooked with a big old Columbian wood-fired cookstove. Our lighting was Aladdin and RayOLite kerosene lamps until 1946. I got my weekly bath in a galvanized tub. Our entertainment was a battery radio. One of my first jobs at 7 years old was to harrow a field for planting corn driving a team of mules, Mary & John. Our “bathroom”: was a two-holer toilet about 60 yards from the house. Every drop of water we used had to be carried from a springhouse 50 yards from the house....the opposite direction from the toilet. And I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
That line delivered by Sagan at the end is SO POETIC! ‘Those other worlds orbit the Sun. Silently, waiting.’ It was writing like that which drew me every week to Cosmos.
And I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
“Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?”
Why didn’t you go before we left?
Me, too. I just read that an unmanned launch and test of the Orion capsule is supposed to take place on Thursday. A manned mission to Mars is tentatively scheduled for sometime in the 2030's. If we can't get around to it by then, maybe the EU or China will go for it instead. We may yet live to see a man walk on Mars!
Is A&T a subsidiary of AT&T? ;^)
The guy that discovered Charon had a wife named Sharon. The IAU does not accept names based on personal attachments of discoverers, but Charon was ferryman of the river Styx which marked the boundary of Pluto’s kingdom.
What are the wealthy Plutocrats? Because Pluto is the wealthiest of kings, he never loses a subject.
Dang it! Ya beat me to the punch!
I did not know they had found other objects around Pluto/Charon. But then I remember when Charon was Pluto’s “moon”.
We'll be watching!
One of our daughters is a Systems Engineer on Orion, so we've been following this project for ages.
Sorry NASA guys & gals, it's sold out.
Looking at it again, I must say — that really is ghastly.
The limitations of combustible fuel rockets.
What’s needed is something that can deliver constant thrust for very long periods of time.
“Telephone call for Mr Lazamataz. Mr Lazamataz, please pick up the red courtesy phone!”
My draughter's roommate from college works on the Delta engines lifting Orion, so we'll be watching! I usually park outside the Air Force gates by North Port Canaveral so it should be spetactular that close.
Two of the other moons are Hydra and Nix.
Considering who it offended, I'd say it has its own beauty.
Me too!
I had the honor of sitting next to Clyde Tombaugh at some Meetings of the Astronomical Society of Las Cruses, NM. I remember him wareing his Walt Disney Pluto watch.
Lol!!
Thanks for that, first good chuckle I have had this day :-)
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