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Phoenix Lander touch down being Broadcast...TODAY!

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:50 pm
by Duper
The Phoenix Lander on Mars touches down about 3 hours from the time of this post and will be broadcast live on the Discovery Channel.

More info HERE

HERE too.

(sorry, just found out about this)

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:53 pm
by Tunnelcat
Supposedly at 4:08 PDT U.S.A. time. Can't wait.

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:14 pm
by toms
congratulations nasa and to all humanity

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:20 pm
by Cuda68
Sweet - now just get my butt off this planet.

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:34 am
by roid
neooowwwwwwwwww
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thunk!

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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:18 am
by Top Wop
roid wrote:neooowwwwwwwwww
PSSHHHH PSSHHH PSHSHSSHHHHP SHSHHHHHHPSHSHPSPSPHS....

thunk!

zzzwiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, clikck lcikc click zwirrrrrrrrrr

...and the academy award for the best sound effects in text representation goes to...

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:56 pm
by Dakatsu
If there is one place I would like to see before I die, it would be the surface of another planet...

Assuming I live for 100 years, then NASA better hurry it's ass up and create a colony on the Moon/Mars before 2093!

Although technically if I wanted to jump around nsht, I would have to be lower than 50 years, so they better have a damn colony by 2043!

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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:03 pm
by Duper
I think they'er shooting manned for a Mars shot in 2030. We're going to tyr building on the moon in 2018 as practice.

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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:27 pm
by Dakatsu
Duper wrote:I think they'er shooting manned for a Mars shot in 2030. We're going to tyr building on the moon in 2018 as practice.
Okay, so I just gotta get mega-rich before I am 37, so I can build a spaceship and fly to Mars :P

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:54 am
by Aus-RED-5
hehe - Would be cheaper to fly with the Russians.

Only cost ya about a million. :P

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:51 pm
by Tunnelcat
Lots of pretty pictures!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/

LOL. They have to use the Russian toilet on the space station now since the newfangled main one broke the other day! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeew!

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:02 pm
by Spidey
The ISS is a piece of crap, ought to scuttle it. :P

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:30 pm
by woodchip
Really cool pic of lander parachuting down with a huge crater:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/phoenix/ ... escent.tif