[AccessD] OT: Space nerds

And the mechanical stuff that had to go right - ejecting the heat shield,
deploying the parachute, running to engines on the lander that had to hiver,
lowering the robot on the tether - tricky stuff for a mechanical engineer.

Really impressive achievement.

R


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It really is amazing!  Just think of the calculations they had to get right.
How about the logic?  I'm so happy everything went so well.
T

Tina Norris Fields
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On 8/6/2012 9:30 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I watched the NASA site with only a couple of buffer delays.  But then 
> I'm a lot closer to JPL so probably first in line. :)
>
> Quite extraordinary when you think of all the things that could have 
> gone wrong.
>
> Rocky
>
>
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>
> LOL.  I had the feed all set up and working.  I went to bed at 09:30 
> PM and woke back up at 12:45 AM to start watching.  I had several 
> instances of firefox open on various feeds.  Closed down one that 
> supposedly had nothing to do with the feed and EVERY INSTANCE of 
> firefox closed!.  Then the server was overloaded and I couldn't get back
in!
>
> I could NOT get back in.  I ended up watching some guys at some 
> university discussing what was happening and occasionally switching to 
> show me the feed I had been watching direct.
>
> I have rarely been so pissed!
>
> But hey, the landing worked!  We are back on Mars with the most 
> powerful laboratory ever.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 8/5/2012 11:53 PM, Darryl Collins wrote:
>> Landing on Mars in a couple of hours...
>>
>> <<http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html>>
>>
>> Watching from work via Nasa TV - gotta love the net. : )
>>
>>
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