LostCosmonaut Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Here's to Orion, SLS (both block 1 and definitely not theoretical block 2), and a faint glimmer of hope for missions beyond LEO. Here's to where we should have been in 1980. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 I'm glad you posted a tribute because I was about to. I woke up to watch the launch scrubbed yesterday but I couldn't justify getting up at 4 am PST twice in a row. The replays on the NASA channel are neat. Also I dig the retro feel of the mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 One of my lecturers had the livestream of the launch sharing half the projector space with his presentation, it would have been cool if they lifted when I was watching live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 It might be worthy of a separate thread but the Mars Rover has detected measurable levels of methane on Mars. I grant that it might still be too early to brush the dust off of your great great grand-pappy's Confederate cavalryman uniform in hopes of meating a Martian princess... But if there's natural gas on Mars, let me be the first to start the chant of "Drill, baby, drill!" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 From the boys with the slide rules at NASA. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4413 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 It might be worthy of a separate thread but the Mars Rover has detected measurable levels of methane on Mars. I grant that it might still be too early to brush the dust off of your great great grand-pappy's Confederate cavalryman uniform in hopes of meating a Martian princess... But if there's natural gas on Mars, let me be the first to start the chant of "Drill, baby, drill!" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Why do I get the feeling this wasn't freudian at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Notice how America lost interest in space travel when it became readily apparent that there weren't buxom alien women waiting for wholesome, square-jawed American men to find them? Let's bring the romance back into space! But for schnerious, there has been a ton of cool stuff with Mars of late and it's a lot more interesting than race riots, Islamic terrorists and Bill Cosby filling up the news cycle here on Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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