To: SunkenCiv
Hitting Mars doesn't seem to be the problem. Sending news of the arrival is a problem, however.
13 posted on
01/03/2004 1:45:48 PM PST by
realpatriot
(Leaving the tagline unchanged for now)
To: realpatriot
"Six Minutes of Terror"
"In only six minutes, the spacecraft will slow down from 12,000 to 0 miles per hour."
Hmmm,may be the reason I lost overdrive in my "94" Eldorado yesterday.
17 posted on
01/03/2004 1:52:35 PM PST by
mdittmar
To: realpatriot
Heh heh... sometimes. The first attempt to hit Mars was under Khruschev (sp?), I think in 1962. He made a cryptic reference to the attempt in a speech, but without giving anything away. And the probe was lost. Think I read about that in Oberg? Anyway, the US, Japan, and Russia have all lost probes.
The US has however the first successful flyby of the planet (1964), the first successful surface probes (1970s), the first rovers. And of course, some expensive failures.
61 posted on
01/08/2004 8:05:56 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
([singing] there's no business like snow business)
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