The Atlas V rocket that will carry the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto moves from the Vertical Integration Facility, left, to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Monday Jan. 16, 2006. The spacecraft which will take 9 to 14 years to reach Pluto is powered by 24 pounds of plutonium. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Now 87 years of age, Venetia Phair (née Burney) is the only person in the world who can claim to have named a planet.
What takes 3 hours, 14" Channel Locks, 10" Vise Grips, 2 jeweler's screwdrivers and a handful of toothpicks to remove, and 30 seconds to replace because some dumba$$'s Better Ideatm requires a stupid tool I'd only use once in my lifetime?
If you answered a Super Cobrajet engine, you'd be wrong.
The correct answer is the fuel filter from my Explorer
The girl who named a planet
Neat story, PE.
Neat story with the f-o-g. Thanks PE.
Hi PE! There are a lot of Colorado connections with the Pluto mission with CU team designing much of the vehicle. (Yes, there is a part of CU that has nothing to do with dumb jocks or drunken orgies!) I'm sure there will be plenty of surprises when it gets there. I'm so proud and impressed with how NASA has handled the planetary exploration missions.
Hello to everyone in the Foxhole. How about those Broncos!!!