[NormsRevenge]

Phoenix Mars Lander

JoJo Aguilar dusts a full-scale model of the Phoenix lander Thursday, May 22, 2008, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The lander will reach Mars on Sunday, May 25, to begin a three-month mission studying an arctic site on the Red Planet. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)

[NormsRevenge]

earlier thread

Robot digger set to land Sunday at Martian pole (Phoenix Mars lander & “seven minutes of terror”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018263/posts

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Incorrigible]

Scientist 1: Good thing we all used Metric system calculations for landing the craft this time.

Scientist 2: You used Metric calculations???!

[KevinDavis]

Enjoy this.. Under Obama you can kiss this type of stuff goodbye when he guts NASA...

There will be a live thread tomorrow...

[fanfan]

It lands tomorrow?

How exciting!

Thanks for posting.

Ping!

[bubbacluck]

I hope all goes well. I’d like to watch it live; I wonder what time zone Mars is? ;=0>

[Puddleglum]

I hope all goes well. I remember the lander of a few years ago that smashed into Mars instead of gently landing because of some silly metric-to-English conversion or something like that.

Anyway, I have been a big space exploration fan since I was a boy in the 70’s and always look forward to these missions. I remember the first moon landing thanks to my dad calling me to the set to watch.

[onedoug]

Here’s hoping....

[WorkingClassFilth]

Fewer than half of the world's attempts to land on the Red Planet have succeeded.

Is this legit, or is it more PC globalist crap? Who else but the US oF A has been sending craft to Mars? If I'm not aware of others I apologize, but this smacks of more globalist community crap to me...