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  1. EROS strikes back... on NEAR to Fly Once More · · Score: 1
    Monday, Feb 12, 2001 at the Applied Physics Lab...

    APL Engineer 1: "You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake; well, this could be it, sweetheart."

    APL Engineer 2: "I take it back. NEARs going to get pulverized if it stays out there much longer."

    APL Engineer 1: "I'm going to take it in closer to one of the big ones."

    APL Engineer 2: "Closer?"

    Gold, robotic APL Engineer: "Closer?"

    Furry APL Engineer: "Bark!"

    APL Engineer 2: "I hope you know what you're doing."

    APL Engineer 1: "Yeah, me too."

    NEAR sucessfully lands in a crater of EROS...

    Two days later...

    APL Engineer 2: "I don't know. I have a bad feeling about this."

    NEAR begins to shake

    APL Engineer 1: "All right, lets get out of here!" ...

    I just hope they get some decent pictures of the space slug on the way up...