[mhking]

Original title: "Marvin The Martian and Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers Prepare for Upcoming NASA Missions to Mars

[Darksheare]

"I shall have to call Gossamer on you."
Hopefully, these missions won't have any mishaps ala NASA's previous problems.
Like the newton meters to newton feet miscalc, and the probe blowing itself to bits..

[Onelifetogive]

Based on NASA's past history with Mars Projects...this seems reasonable.

[Constitution Day]

[mvpel]

What I want to know is: WHERE DO I GET A SET OF THESE PATCHES??? :-D

[BCrago66]

Thre only interesting observation ever made by Maureen Dowd is the similarity of voice characteristics of Marvin the Martian and Alan Keyes.

And that's all I have to say about that.

[Prof_C_David]

Hey wait a minute, didn't Marvin once declare that he wanted to blow up the Earth?

[avg_freeper]

mickey mouse operation

[xp38]

IIRC the Apollo 10 moon landing rehearsal mission used the Peanuts comic characters as code words for the spacecraft modules.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hey, at least I don't work for a mouse.

[alnitak]

NASA has had a "naming competition" for the 2 rovers: the results are supposed to be announced this weekend. Off the top of my head, I came up with these - feel free to add more:

Lewis & Clark (as a Brit I don't even know who these guys were, apart from the fact they were American explorers, but they seem very famous on t'other side of the pond)

Daffy & Bugs (please!)

Stanley & Livingston

[JesseHousman]

Marvin The Martian and Daffy Duck (as Duck Dodgers)

Yep. It's NASA alright.

[tracer]

Wait until they try to put the enemy of Teddy K. on a patch. Think "flag".....

[Moonman62]

NASA has completed its transformation into a joke.

[jriemer]

Martin wanted to blow up the earth because it blocked his view of Venus.

[jriemer]

Been there, done that...

[Cincinatus]

The backup crew (Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Joe Engle) for the Apollo 14 mission had this patch made up:

CDR Al Shepard was not amused...