[moovova]

Seriously though...

Hopefully, this thing will be in a museum on Earth one of these days. I can see a landing party arriving on Mars, crating it up, and returning it to earth. Of course, science and space exploration will have to advance greatly before that happens. But, I could see my grandkids or they’re grandkids going thru a huge display at a museum. Sort of like the German U-Boat in the Chicago museum or the Hunley in Charleston.

Don’t laugh. Who would’ve guessed you could shoot a blob of metal at Mars, some 2-3 million miles away... and hit within 5 miles of the target.

[chrisser]

Who would’ve guessed you could shoot a blob of metal at Mars, some 2-3 million miles away... and hit within 5 miles of the target.

I'm sure the overall mission was considered a failure, but it's a pretty admirable accomplishment that the craft made it to the surface.

I think, due to the many successes of the U.S. space program over the years, we tend not to appreciate what these scientists and engineers have managed to pull off. 100 years ago, we had just figured out how to fly. Who would have guessed that air travel would be so commonplace as to be monotonous, that multiple humans would actually go to the moon, land on the surface, and then come home safely. That we would send multiple robots to another planet, and out to the far reaches of the solar system. It's just incredible.