Five Year Retrospective: Mars Pathfinder

Posted by michael on Friday September 27, 2002 @03:10AM from the go-where-no-RC-car-has-gone-before dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Five years ago today, on September 27, 1997, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began to lose communication with the Mars Pathfinder and ended its highly successful mission. The interview with Matt Golombek, Project Scientist, highlights Mars' warm and wet past. The still remarkable landing sequence, with first signal only 3 minutes after touchdown, seemed a rare combination of luck (bounced 16 times and landed on its base petal). Not mentioned, it cost less than the making of even a medium-sized Hollywood movie." NASA is getting ready to publish their future plans for deep-space missions.

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Re:funding possibility by Betelgeuse · 2002-09-27 03:59 · Score: 5, Funny

NASA could pull my dollars directly if they were to include an IMAX camera setup on their future space missions

Done.

When can NASA expect your check in the mail?

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Re:funding possibility by elefantstn · 2002-09-27 04:18 · Score: 5, Funny

When can NASA expect your check in the mail?

Every April 15.

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