Looks like we’re right at the start of this....
NRT
I forgot! I was afraid I missed it.
There is already another thread, several actually, for this! So far all we’ve got is a lot of talking heads, boring waste of time. Show us live video and action of the landing! NASA, I didn’t tune in for a bunch of government workers to waste our tax dollars talking and talking and talking. How about just showing us the live video that they are seeing from the control room?
One of several other FR threads:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3935706/posts
Cool! I almost forgot about the spacecraft landing today. Amazing stuff. So far away it will take about 15 minutes after it has landed to know it’s landed due to the distances and the speed of light/signal.
Having a kid that works in the space industry at a NASA facility, our family naturally takes an interest in many of these huge American accomplishments.
My wife is watching and I’ll cut out from work a bit early to catch the actual touchdown in a half hour.
I hate to say this...but I am not intrigued by this at all...so disgusted with the current occupation of communists in our congress and oval office...I apologise but thats how I feel.
This is the second nuclear powered rover. Someone in a previous thread stated Perservance was the first, but that was Curiosity:
The Curiosity Rover is a car-sized robot sent to the Red Planet in 2011 to study the Martian climate and geology. The nuclear powered, 6-wheel rover landed on Mars in August 2012 utilizing an experimental ‘sky-crane’ system which softly lowered the rover into the Gale Crater landing zone. With an original mission length of 2 years, Curiosity has long since passed this and will continue to explore for years to come.
http://www.spaceopedia.com/space-exploration/space-probes/landers/curiosity-rover/
I can’t believe they are making the staff wear double masks. I hope Fauci is condemned to wear ten masks for eternity in hell.
Hey Doc!
Long time no see / write / read / sign / ride the rail / speed up I 55 to Chi town... / etc.
As a former U S military airborne heavy drop parachute rigger, I would like to give a shout out to the professional NASA parachute riggers that are playing a major roll in the deceleration and landing of the spacecraft.
Rigger motto: I Will Be Sure Always
About 12 minutes until the big show.
And now we wait...
And just then a Klingon battle cruiser intercepts the Perseverance...
This just proves that “white math” isn’t important.