[meteorite-list] Annother succesful landing, who said NASA was ineficient?
From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:09 2004 Message-ID: <005201c3e30d$365117b0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C3E2D2.89B69640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi everyone, I attended a special party at the LPL at the University of = Arizona tonight. We were linked up live with JPL and watched the entire = landing sequence live. It was great. I am still in awe that people can = send a machine 100 million miles away, send it at 12,000 miles per hour = burning like a meteor, and land it safely.=20 It is on one side, so the rover is not upright like Spirit was, so it = will take a little longer to get the petals open, but not a problem. People could learn alot from NASA, and I hate to listen to whiners = until they can show proof that it can be done better than NASA has done. = WAY TO GO JPL, NASA, and all who are working on these landers.=20 Another great day for the USA space program.=20 Mike Farmer OH yeah, Dr David Kring showed NWA 998 to all the people, nice to look = at a piece of Mars while a machine was burning through it's atmosphere. = Gave me chills. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C3E2D2.89B69640 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi everyone, I attended a special party = at the LPL=20 at the University of Arizona tonight. We were linked up live with = JPL and=20 watched the entire landing sequence live. It was great. I am still in = awe that=20 people can send a machine 100 million miles away, send it at 12,000 = miles per=20 hour burning like a meteor, and land it safely. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>It is on one side, so the rover is not = upright like=20 Spirit was, so it will take a little longer to get the petals open, but = not a=20 problem.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> People could learn = alot from=20 NASA, and I hate to listen to whiners until they can show proof that it = can be=20 done better than NASA has done. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>WAY TO GO JPL, NASA, and all who are = working on=20 these landers. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Another great day for the USA space = program.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Farmer</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>OH yeah, Dr David Kring showed NWA 998 = to all the=20 people, nice to look at a piece of Mars while a machine was burning = through it's=20 atmosphere. Gave me chills. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C3E2D2.89B69640-- Received on Sun 25 Jan 2004 01:33:57 AM PST |
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