I had the opportunity to ask Ed Stone, the JPL Director & Voyager scientist, this question. His rather glib answer was, "well, Titan was 3 hours away, and Pluto was 3 years away - and I had to make payroll."
I think the broader answer is that JPL assumed they'd get another mission funded if they simply skipped it (and they almost did).
Another sad turn for our once-glorious space program. The simple motivation here? Not wanting to spend money on the landers for lunar surface access, or the base(s) we'll build once we get there. The shuttle program was short-changed grievously during its design phase, and while its design was compromised, its mission expectations were not - and this led to catastrophe. Going down the path of expecting miracles without adequate funding for them will, once again, lead to grief.
I use Treecomp with my 16GB and 32GB memory sticks every day, to shuttle work files to & from home (as an academic, work never ends...) Works great, and it's free. It has just the right amount of nagging built-in to avoid any problems with sync'ing the wrong direction.
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Anyone remember the Pirates of Puget Sound? dsPPS, gsPPS, etc. Somewhere there's an old Sider hard drive that still contains all that code ...
Something all hackers knew? The frequency of the most well-known tone of a blue box.
Just like God intended.
SpaceX *is* the only game in town: they have 2 landing attempts and a 3rd imminent. Blue Origin, ULA, and Airbus have PowerPoint, nothing more.
I had the opportunity to ask Ed Stone, the JPL Director & Voyager scientist, this question. His rather glib answer was, "well, Titan was 3 hours away, and Pluto was 3 years away - and I had to make payroll." I think the broader answer is that JPL assumed they'd get another mission funded if they simply skipped it (and they almost did).
Radar imaging posted by JPL (http://go.nasa.gov/1thVyOO) reveal the asteroid has a moon.
The star's ID isn't HP 56948, but HIP 56948 (from the Hipparcos satellite catalog), aka HD 101364, SAO 15590...
... but I'd gladly give money for any effort in this direction.
Another sad turn for our once-glorious space program. The simple motivation here? Not wanting to spend money on the landers for lunar surface access, or the base(s) we'll build once we get there. The shuttle program was short-changed grievously during its design phase, and while its design was compromised, its mission expectations were not - and this led to catastrophe. Going down the path of expecting miracles without adequate funding for them will, once again, lead to grief.
I use Treecomp with my 16GB and 32GB memory sticks every day, to shuttle work files to & from home (as an academic, work never ends...) Works great, and it's free. It has just the right amount of nagging built-in to avoid any problems with sync'ing the wrong direction.