Posted on 09/02/2006 11:38:19 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) First European spacecraft to moon makes planned crash landing on lunar surface.
I wonder if the "black box" and "data recorder box" will be recovered? ;)
They COULD have left out the crash and trash part of the mission.
Just wait. The day will come when Americans are gonna have to fork over the dough to clean up the mess.
The "crash" was being monitored here from the Earth.Via _________________________________ (fill in the blank; specify parameters monitored and how this was accomplished as in how those parameters were 'monitored')?
so they are copying the old soviet crash in moon tests and teh old USA crash in moon tests.
SMART-1 Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology was launched into Earth orbit by an Ariane-5 booster rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, in September 2003. The ion engine slowly raised the orbit over 14 months until the moon's gravity grabbed the probe. Because of that, the spacecraft took the long way traveling more than 62 million miles instead of the direct route of 217,000 to 250,000 miles flown by U.S. astronauts on Apollo missions to reach the moon in three days. But ESA did it for a relatively cheap $140 million.So nearly 40 years after we landed men on the moon, they took 14 months to crash an unmanned "probe" onto the lunar surface. And this proves what?
And I bet the little robots will br called "Luna-Tics"
Why not Uranus?
"sorry to burst your bubble, but the technology used for the US Lunar missions was European (Nazi infact)..."
Wasn't the bestknown of these folks named Wernher Von Braun?
Hitlers rocket scientist, inventor of the V-2, he later became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
"That's what I thought. Do they have Velcro, yet?"
Given that the Europeans actually invented Velcro (the name itself is a french portmanteau word 'VELour - CROchet') your post is simply stupid.
Presumably it was an rather unmagnanimous attempt to mock others, which unfortunately backfired when the facts got in the way....ha.
That was my point, exactly.
So Europe is all one country now and deserves kudos for doing something that we did over 50 years ago? I....Don't.....get.....it....head.....hurting!!!!!!
Hey, Euro-weenies, you're about 37 years too late and an unmanned mission to such a nearby target simply doesn't impress..... Yawn..... let us know when you're ready to colonize Mars with some socialist weenies......
SMART-1 Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology was launched into Earth orbit by an Ariane-5 booster rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, in September 2003. The ion engine slowly raised the orbit over 14 months until the moon's gravity grabbed the probe.Have you made any estimates of how long a mission to Mars or Mercury or the gas giants would take? Would the designers of such probes live long enough to see the results of their work?
Because of that, the spacecraft took the long way traveling more than 62 million miles instead of the direct route of 217,000 to 250,000 miles flown by U.S. astronauts on Apollo missions to reach the moon in three days. But ESA did it for a relatively cheap $140 million.
Yeah - it's hilarious to make fun of the Europeans constantly. Despite the fact that they're going to be taking over our scientific role soon.
It is like that on many (if not most) science threads these days.
but....
The whole thing about technology and history and German superiority is that it didn't really matter that they excelled in one area (Rockets) because we whooped them on all the other fronts. They shot themselves in the foot by the whole oppressive regime thing since most people with a brain and means (including scientists) fled the coutnry.
Germany never effectively used its V-2 Rockets. More people were killed assembling them than were killed by them landing. Their best scientists fled to the good ole US of A. Verner Von Braun became a Naturalized US citizen. He was arrested briefly by the Nazi's too. He's American now. Einstien revoked his German citizenship by request and became a US citizen. They are just the most famous of thousands.
In the 15th Century China had the best Navy in the world. They could have "discovered" America before Columbus, but they refused to put it to good use.
Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower
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Getting kinda huffy aren't we?
>>>presumably it was an rather unmagnanimous attempt to mock others, which unfortunately backfired when the facts got in the way....ha.
I thought TN's mockery was pretty good. I like science but can also enjoy a good laugh at the expense of science.
Thanks EuroVelcro
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