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- RogerStrong, on 05/23/2008, -0/+7Sorry, but "Bush's manned Mars mission" is dead. He made a nice speach about it, but didn't follow through with the promised funding or political support.
NASA is concentrating on just getting to the moon, and even those plans will likely change or die after the election thanks to Obama's plan to cut NASA funding. The other candidates are unsupportive at best.
That doesn't mean a Mars mission won't happen - but it'll be part of a later president's grand plan. For those who don't remember, Bush Sr. also announced plans for a manned mission to Mars. (Though there were better reasons why they were quietly forgotten.) - inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+5Dugg and submitted to today's DDD.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+4I guess the mirrors they left on the moon, that we bounch lasers off of, just happend to land there and set themselves up perfectly...
- RapidEye, on 05/23/2008, -0/+4I'd go to Mars in a heartbeat - where do I sign up!
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+3I am so thoroughly psyched about this. As a kid, I remember watching CNN as the Mars Pathfinder landed and started transmitting images back. Watching those first black-and-white images come through, I felt a little like I imagine people felt on watching the first moon landing. I know the experience is hardly comparable, but for my generation, it was the best we had.
- cplusplus, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Do you think they planned to have the landing in the Desperate Housewives timeslot after the season is over? If so that's amazing tech.
- jamesrdorn, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Oh... that's where the term came from
http://www.wired.com/science/space/multimedia/2008 ...
oh and Windows FTL! - SoIcanDigg, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Dugg for giant-sized man-made objects that are really cool.
- KyloOb, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Must be a pretty hectic and exciting place during launch and landing.
- eecue, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2I just love the name Deep Space Network. That's got to be to coolest network ever.
Btw, this was a fun gallery to shoot!
=] - psevium, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2The Voyager probes have left the solar system and were launched ~30 years ago. By your logic, "we've gone out of the solar system but we haven't gone to Jupiter hmmm?". Like Roger said, there's a difference between firing a hunk of metal off into space and hoping it survives for a while, than being able to guarantee that humans return to earth safely
- eecue, on 05/24/2008, -0/+2Good luck! =]
Did I meet you when I was there? - raceit, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1IRIX it looks like.
- RogerStrong, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1There's a bit of a difference in cost between sending a small robot to Mars and sending a manned mission to the moon.
- eecue, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1You wouldn't happen to be the guy I met in Mission Control with the Ruby book?
- Gauthic, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Is that KDE I see?
http://www.wired.com/science/space/multimedia/2008 ... - Gauthic, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Looking closer, it might be Solaris (didn't see the Sun logo on the mouse and keyboard at first glance).
- majordanger, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1This slideshow has a nice tour inside Goldstone. The Phoenix Lander has quite the biolab.
Even the Vatican issued a decree a few days ago saying it's okay to believe in aliens.
Sounds like the Pope is hedging his bets before the Phoenix Lander finds critters..maybe.
That whole Galileo thing you know.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -3/+4America should bring back the Star Wars program.
- RogerStrong, on 05/24/2008, -0/+1>> Well stop sending the shuttle up 20 times a
>> year and we could go to the moon right?
Fo that price you *might* get a stripped-down "flags and footprints" mission - accomplishing little that wasn't done 40 years ago.
The point this time is to have something more sustainable - still much lower cost than Apollo, but with longer stays and a build-up to a permanent presence.
Simply put, until now NASA hasn't had any support from congress for a return to the moon. What they DID get support for, was the space station. And even then it largely as a way to keep Russian rocket scientists and manufacturers employed - rather than them being hired by Iran and friends.
And so at four launches a year, there haven't been 20 launches to cancel to raise money for a moon landing. It was hard enough to get a Hubble servicing mission approved.
Nor would cancelling a bunch of flights save much money, unless you end the shuttle program altogether. Most of the costs are fixed - the standing army of shuttle technicians, and the people manufacturing the SRBs, external tanks etc. - McShr3dd3r, on 05/23/2008, -1/+2I heard the Large Hadron Collider was gonna blast Mars out of orbit right before the rover lands.
I am sure I read that somewhere. Really...
kthnx - spankaccount, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1No. I actually spend very little time in the pedestal. Because these are Unix machines, it's very easy for me to do my work from my office at JPL. I've been with JPL for over 7 years and I've probably only been to DSS-14 5 or 6 times.
- eecue, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1It's Solaris.
=] - kencurran, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1I just hope that everything extraordinary isn't automatically taken in by the gov. and hidden from the public. So many citizens want to see what happens :)
- spankaccount, on 05/24/2008, -0/+1Cool. I maintain many of the Sun and Linux machines in DSS-14 (Mars), some of which are seen in the 4th picture. Sunday is going to be hectic - wish us luck.
- eecue, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1It's not a rover it's a digger. It doesn't move it digs. (diggs?)
- eecue, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1Despite the OPs negative sentiment, it is true that the same platform has failed NASA before. Hopefully this will work out, NASA has worked hard to make it go smoothly and has addressed the 12 possible failure points of the ill-fated Mars Polar lander.
- claytonjs, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0My guess is yes. More than likely it's running Solaris on that Sun equipment.
- winginit118cl, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0hope they remembered to convert the units this time. as long as they did, i'm with rapid. and yeah, that looks like kde. sign me up!
- WordsnCollision, on 05/23/2008, -4/+4I'll bet any potential astronauts for Bush's manned Mars mission will also be hoping everything goes well.
- Jem7vwh, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0Well stop sending the shuttle up 20 times a year and we could go to the moon right?
And your telling me we don't have the money since the 60's to go to the moon again yeah right.
Never mind all the probes we have sent out there. - sesstreets, on 05/23/2008, -3/+1Unless megatron ***** up the rover.
- CrispRain, on 05/23/2008, -6/+3Stunning Images. But lets see if all things go according to plan for NASA this time around :(
- Jem7vwh, on 05/23/2008, -3/+0Funny we send the shuttle up every other week. Now we are going to mars but yet we haven't gone back to the moon hmmm?
- Jem7vwh, on 05/23/2008, -4/+0And are you going to pay for it?
Or are you on welfare? Like everyone else who wants to "bring back and build things" and want "free heath care". - Jem7vwh, on 05/23/2008, -11/+0I just hope we are not being duped like the moon landing's.
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