Posted on 02/18/2021 11:58:57 AM PST by nikos1121
Here's some running commentary leading up to the landing. If there are other links that are better please post for the forum.
FWIW, I think it’s about the striving for something.
I was around for the Apollo program.
We were a stronger, healthier, more vibrant country and culture because of it.
I’m not saying we should spend like drunken sailors, or that NASA is perfect, but we need to explore.
can you hear the Martians scream:
“They’re HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!”
Note to Mars: Could be worse. Could be Spaceballs.
He might be ex-NASA? I don’t know anything about him, just that he does a decent job covering space related events, including SpaceX. Worth subscribing to his channel, anyway. Thanks agin, :).
Thanks guys. Enjoyed the coverage.
Headline: US Rover Lands On Mars! The Squad Decry Systemic Imperialism and Specism!
Thanks to all that “white supremacist” math.
Thankfully, the folks who designed the system were educated before ‘edukatorz’ entered the scene.
negative 65F on Mars.
That’s a bit chilly.
bring gloves.
I am usually very supportive of space exploration...but with the communist takeover of The United States...my taste for extraneous activities is somewhat dampened.
negative 65F on Mars.
That’s a bit chilly.
The Pu-238 power source should wam things up
Actually, in the close ups of the folks at the control boards, certainly some of Asian descent, and the announcer lady, who was pretty cool and accurate, is clearly of Indian background, from the forehead dot, and another link shows her name is Mohan Swati.
I was impressed that they all, of whatever background, are on Team USA -- and the masks kind of make it harder to tell, or easier to ignore, people's ethnicity, in favor of their competence and doing a job in a pretty great endeavor, IMHO.
They can build a rover to land on Mars, but can’t sync audio and video on the Youtube live feed...
Actually, in the close ups of the folks at the control boards, certainly some of Asian descent, and the announcer lady, who was pretty cool and accurate, is clearly of Indian background, from the forehead dot, and another link shows her name is Mohan Swati.
I was impressed that they all, of whatever background, are on Team USA -- and the masks kind of make it harder to tell, or easier to ignore, people's ethnicity, in favor of their competence and doing a job in a pretty great endeavor, IMHO.
AND PS -- I had her name backwards -- It is Swati Mohan, and Ms. Mohan isn't just an announcer: PER NASA "Dr Swati Mohan is an Indian-American scientist who is the Mars 2020 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GN&C) Operations Lead. She has led the attitude control system of Mars 2020 during operations. Apart from this, she was the lead systems engineer throughout the development. Moreover, she is the key communicator between the GN&C subsystem and the rest of the project’s team.
More importantly, Dr Swati Mohan looks after the team, scheduled the mission control staffing for GN&C, and is in charge of various the policies and procedures the GN&C uses in the mission control room.
Dr Mohan emigrated from India to the United States when she was just 1 year old. She was raised in Northern Virginia-Washington DC metro area. She later completed her B.S from Cornell University in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and received her M.S. and Ph.D from MIT in Aeronautics/Astronautics."
Their teachers made them get the right answer.
I think that is what has happened to me as well. I feel like the Bruce Willis character in The 12 Monkeys visiting the past. I’m not really all that excited about the immediate future.
Thank God, though it’s a carefully political correct presentation. .
Must admit, those are some great images.
Too bad they can’t use all that technology to better utilize the Oceans.
Something else I agree with you on. And that is we haven’t begun to utilize the space and availability of resources on this planet.
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