NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity for 15 breathless minutes
While it was indeed meant as a joke, the joke is based upon reality. 🙂
NASA conducted the 17th flight for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Sunday, December 5. Everything went as planned during the helicopter’s 614-foot traverse to the northeast. However, during the final descent phase of the flight, the communications link between Ingenuity and the Perseverance Mars rover was disrupted. It appears the helicopter was able to land successfully. Approximately 15 minutes after the radio link was lost, Perseverance received packets of Ingenuity telemetry indicating the battery and flight electronics were healthy.
We both know exactly that.
My reference was to when Shirley Jackson Lee was at Mission Control in Houston and made some reference to a picture of the flag on the moon and said “Oh, is that the flag they planted on Mars?”.
You’re missing the point. The joke is that retard Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee, who asked about the flag that was planted on MARS (not the moon).
“SJL made this comment to NASA officials gathered during a past Mars mission —
She said, ‘What, what, is it going to go where the astronauts planted the flag?’
“Of course, the staff of the Johnson Space Center said, ‘OK, we’ve got a woman here who doesn’t have the slightest idea that we are talking about Mars, not the Moon. How do we (a) not laugh and then how do we answer her question without embarrassing her because there are a lot of other people there?’”