ESA Venus Mission Delayed

MrShaggy writes "The BBC is reporting that the ESA has announced that they have to hold the Venus Mission. According to the article, contamination is being blamed. From the article: 'Esa said the delay had been prompted by the discovery that insulation from the rocket launcher had contaminated the Venus Express spacecraft. "The satellite is contaminated, so they will have to dismantle and re-mount it again," a spokesperson for the space agency told the BBC News website.'"

Comments

Re:It will never go

[MrShaggy]

I have a book. Men are from Mars, women are nuts.

What to do with all the Carbon Dioxide on Earth

[NewKimAll]

Well, we are thinking about building a Space Elevator, so we could get rid of some of it that way. I mean, Carbon Nanotubes requires Carbon afterall. Then once we build a couple (cuz, you know one won't be enough), we can extract even more Carbon from the Oceans and send it out into space.

Then we could mine Iron asteroids and use the Carbon we sent from Earth to make steel. It could happen....

Uh...

[NekoIncardine]

Did anyone other than me think the (US's) Entertainment Software Association rather than the European Space Administration (name right?) when they first read this article? The Venus Mission... Sounds kinky when you're thinking games.

In other news...

[Alias777]

A monstrously large bulge seems to have formed on the surface of Mars, largely consisting of Martian male strippers in pyramid fashion.

Contamination has been identified

[No2Gates]

The contaminent has been put through a battery of tests and after careful analysis , it was determined to be a double shot decaf latte from Starbucks.