Posted on 08/09/2005 1:18:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I sure hope it ends up on the "plus" side of the rather ghastly success rate for Mars missions. Last I checked it was something on the order of 60%.
About 60 years from the Wright brothers fist flight to landing on the moon. In the nearly 40 years since the moon landing our manned missions have achieved low earth orbit over and over and over.
Bill Gates was no astronaut!
They found oil?
I saw thoses pic's there are great, now I really have to stop the next time...
"pay dirt"? GOLD! Thars Gold in them thar canals! (rush, rush, rush......)
A $2 billion peep show is all....and the lense got fogged-up.
Actually it's because of the space program that many many many advantages have been had. Muscle stimulation therapy, aircraft design, gold plating (yep), reusable insulation, aviation design software, antenna systems, infrared cameras, portable radiation detectors....just to name a few.
It was a total blast. And, honestly, I went because I'm a wonderful girlfriend. I knew nothing about the space program even though Dad worked on the Apollo/Gemini communication programs, AF Col, etc. I was as interested in this stuff as a dog might be interested in an ironing board before I walked in. PLUS, it's free! Can't beat it with a stick.
I think post 10 brings up what you're referring to.
I know this site doesn't post data real time, but CCAFS still shows back to back launches on the 11th & the 12th.
(I am fortunate to be close enough to step outside and watch them.)
https://www.patrick.af.mil/launch.htm
Yup...
we pay for pictures of dirt.
At least on the moon we got some crud back @ $1billion a pound.
Typical liberal cost basis for most bureaucracies.
Much the same way my car studies the back wall of my garage after I come in the house I'll bet........
I come out in the morning to go to work and it's still staring.......spooky
Gets my vote.
How many decades from Benjamin Franklin did it take to find commercial use for electricity?
We need some serious tax exemptions for industrializing space. (Then somebody on FR will complain about offworlding jobs.)
By the way, is Pratt and Whitney still based out of Connecticut? Perhaps you should go picket in front of their headquarters in Hartford.
That machine is scaring the hell out of the little 1-inch people that inhabit Mars.
Yeah, but it's priceless crud.
It is a testament to the overall success of the Mars program that it is no longer front page news anymore. I'm willing to bet that in my lifetime we will land a man (or woman) on the red planet. That ought to make the front page.
Of course!!
When the Martians come here that's exactly what they will see.
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