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Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Spirit Lands:
January 3, 2004
about 8:35 pm PST
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tl_entry1.html ^
| 1/3/04
| NASA
Posted on 01/03/2004 1:24:42 PM PST by mdittmar
Step-by-Step Guide to Entry, Descent, and Landing.
On the evening of January 3, 2004, Spirit is scheduled to land on Mars. Here's a step-by-step guide to what will happen. To watch mission controllers live during entry, descent and landing, please tune into NASA TV at 6:45 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: c02; globalwarminghoax; mars; marsrover; nasa; spaceexploration; terraforming
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To: Orangedog
Let's hope the landers get past the old remaining Martian planetary defense systems that took out all the other probes this year. :PAnd if they succeed, maybe they can find some of the billions of taxpayer dollars we've strewn about the Martian landscape.
To: mdittmar
"Our missions are peaceful...not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice." -- Kirk![](http://home.comcast.net/~mrgrumman/BonesKirk.JPG)
They're dead, Jim.
--Bones
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:05:33 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
To: southernnorthcarolina
And if they succeed, maybe they can find some of the billions of taxpayer dollars we've strewn about the Martian landscape. LOL! The most expensive scap-metal in the solar system. Let's hope the Martians don't fine us for littering.
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:09:18 PM PST
by
Orangedog
(Remain calm...all is well! [/sarcasm])
To: mdittmar
12,000 miles an hour! How's your gas mileage?
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:11:24 PM PST
by
Arkie2
To: Arkie2
Worse now that I have to drive in third gear,wallet will be alot worse after my solenoids are replaced;{
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:17:08 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: rs79bm
Maybe we are sending the wrong kind of robot!
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:20:57 PM PST
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(If everything you experienced, believed, lived was a lie, would you want to know the truth?)
To: MeeknMing
"Anytime you can BLUFF me DOCTOR...Alright, lets hope we have time to argue about it later." -- Kirk
"Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate, but a woman always remains a woman." -- Kirk
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:22:53 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:32:16 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
To: yall
I bet that site tracks me down and kills that URL ...
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:34:06 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
To: rs79bm
snicker--my alltime favorite Looney Toon character.
To all--notice how much interest there is in a robotic probe? Could be, sending robots is actually novel?
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:36:22 PM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: MeeknMing
![](http://www.animaart.com/relatedart/images/marvin(new).jpg)
Oh, goody -- more spare parts to rebuild my Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator!
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:37:33 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Let's hope NOT, this time...)
To: furball4paws
If we could figure out what happened to the Beagle, it might help.Lucas electronics (the prince of darkness in the electrical manufacturing world)
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:40:37 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
To: MeeknMing
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:42:38 PM PST
by
al baby
(Ice cream does not have bones)
To: mikrofon
Terrorists on Mars, too ! Ya just cat't escape 'em ...
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:51:21 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
To: al baby
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:51:56 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Hillary is a TRAITOR !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/HitlerTraitor6.JPG)
To: mikrofon
Let's hope not - Marvin already has a new BBQ grill courtesy of the Brits...
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posted on
01/03/2004 2:57:52 PM PST
by
petuniasevan
("War is a race, and the prize is victory!" - Sir Arthur Harris, CinC RAF Bomber Command WWII)
To: al baby
Briefing has started.
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:16:54 PM PST
by
demlosers
(Light weight and flexible - radiation shielding is solved.)
To: demlosers
Lot's of last minute changes going on,parachute,thrusters.
My prediction is smash,crash,no signal.
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:45:04 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: Stars N Stripes
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
Couldn't resist---Newbies are going: Whaaaaaat?
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posted on
01/03/2004 3:50:55 PM PST
by
VMI70
(...but two Wrights made an airplane)
To: SunkenCiv
Sunky!!!!!!
ummm... that doesn't sound right...
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