Spirit 'Will Be Perfect Again'

G. Holst writes "NASA technicians are preparing to wipe Spirit's flash memory clean of science and engineering files that have stymied its software. The fix, likely to be made Friday, could completely restore Spirit. "I think it will be perfect again," says the Mission Manager. Chalk this one up for earth!" There are numerous stories about Spirit and Mars: one describes being careful with rm -rf. Reader Tablizer sends in an interesting site: "I discovered Bill Momsen's website where he describes his experiences working on the first successful photographic mission to another planet: Mariner IV to Mars."

Comments

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[Daen Kolarin]

820 Million for a rover... you think they could have picked an OS that wouldn't require a reformat and reinstall quite so soon.

Someone should have told them not to use a Microsoft OS.

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[stratjakt]

I dont think nasa is quite ready to shove the lander up their ass.

Oh - you mean the other thing you do with your fancy TI graphing calculator.