I’ve fixed a lot of things in my day. I’ve made broken-down car engines work. I’ve rebuilt an old scooter from scratch. I’ve built houses. I work as an engineer, and there’s nothing more satisfying than fixing something that’s broken. There’s nothing more satisfying than solving a complex problem.
These guys make what I do look like Erector sets and Lego Technics. This plan is insanely ambitious, if not downright improbable, but our great minds, the men and women who make America’s space program great, will make this work.
I will be checking for the results of this on the morning of August 6th with great anticipation. This is awe inspiring.
Hey, as long as they *hit the planet* they’re ahead of the game. :’) The miss rate is, basically, ridiculous. The Russians are the worst at it; and of course, bad luck plays a role, such as when the Russians got a successful capture for an orbiter, they turned the cameras on just in time to see a formerly unknown “moon” of Mars (basically, a chunk of space debris in orbit around Mars) coming directly for it. Boom, no more probe. :’)