Quote from: JonBuoy on 18 February, 2021, 08:24:40 pmI find it vaguely amusing to see the people in Mission Control (or whatever it is called) flicking through mahoosive ring binders full of dead trees.Redundancy- having an analogue copy of the flight and mission plans is what they do, in case the hamster faints or the elastic band breaks.
I find it vaguely amusing to see the people in Mission Control (or whatever it is called) flicking through mahoosive ring binders full of dead trees.
Well, seeing as how, within the next hour and a quarter, a device, manufactured on earth, that has my name microscopically laser engraved on it somewhere will either be sitting pretty in Jezero Crater, Mars OR spread across the Martian landscape in a several of pieces, I for one am a little exited.
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 18 February, 2021, 07:45:48 pmWell, seeing as how, within the next hour and a quarter, a device, manufactured on earth, that has my name microscopically laser engraved on it somewhere will either be sitting pretty in Jezero Crater, Mars OR spread across the Martian landscape in a several of pieces, I for one am a little exited.You've one-upped me there dude. I'm stoked for you :fistBump:
We forgot about it until almost too late, and switched on just in time to catch the jubilation. Sorry I missed it. I hope some novel data will come out of it now.