So much fun to see the unbridled joy in that room.
That was an amazingly short entry and deceleration. Astounding that the parachute deploys at supersonic speed. The atmosphere is very thin, but still, it felt like that was a key make-or-break point; imagine the chute just shredding.
I'm thinking back to playing the LEM game (BASIC program) on our high-school teletype circa 1976, linked to the local university's mainframe computer a few miles away. You had to type a number in for fuel usage on the retrorockets and then wait to see the results in decreased speed and altitude before typing in a new number. Sometimes the fuel ran out and you augered in; sometimes you'd open the throttle too much and the damn thing would start to go up again.
Elzhi: with an uncooperative Republican house najority unwilling to properly fund NASA's budget, yes. This is the space program we get.
Please re-read the comment above comparing the taxpayer cost s between this mission and just ONE of the useless wars recklessly started by the republicans. We'll wait.
Done now? Good. Now go fuck yourself, thanks.
I remember playing lunar lander (or something similar) back in middle school during math class. Those of us lucky enough to finish assignments/tests early could hop on an old mac computer and play some games.
http://www.upi.com/blog/2012/08/05/Watch…
(So does the player at the "Watch on UStream" link on the page Jonathan gave.)
Only if the cars are designed by a Chinese-born engineer and driven by a teenage African American girl.
That was an amazingly short entry and deceleration. Astounding that the parachute deploys at supersonic speed. The atmosphere is very thin, but still, it felt like that was a key make-or-break point; imagine the chute just shredding.
I'm thinking back to playing the LEM game (BASIC program) on our high-school teletype circa 1976, linked to the local university's mainframe computer a few miles away. You had to type a number in for fuel usage on the retrorockets and then wait to see the results in decreased speed and altitude before typing in a new number. Sometimes the fuel ran out and you augered in; sometimes you'd open the throttle too much and the damn thing would start to go up again.
Adam Steltzner, NASA's hipster rocket engineer —EE Times
Cost per American for the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and their consequences: $10,000.
Please re-read the comment above comparing the taxpayer cost s between this mission and just ONE of the useless wars recklessly started by the republicans. We'll wait.
Done now? Good. Now go fuck yourself, thanks.
No problem with that, it's what the government is good at. Teaching gangbangers and baby mamas to use condoms? Not so good at.
I remember playing lunar lander (or something similar) back in middle school during math class. Those of us lucky enough to finish assignments/tests early could hop on an old mac computer and play some games.
@34 I loved submitting multiple versions of the code with different added capabilities.