One Year on Mars

**Full Otto** · 08-09-2013, 02:40 PM

Thought you guys might like this site.
http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/

Got it in an email a little while ago and I'm still going through it finding things

**N/A** · 08-09-2013, 02:46 PM

Been checking in on that at least once a week. They don't update as often as they used to.

**5.56NATO** · 08-09-2013, 02:50 PM

When i see that thing I always think "no disassemble!"!!!

**Full Otto** · 08-09-2013, 02:55 PM

I didn't know about how it landed. I thought it was one of those big bubble wrap thing
Pretty impressive wish I'd known about it earlier figures I'm usually late to the table on stuff like this

**davepool** · 08-09-2013, 06:53 PM

Every time i see it i think how amazing our world has become, and that the guys operating the rover may have been like the kid in larsons cartoon

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.co...-far-side.html

**Schuetzenman** · 08-09-2013, 08:13 PM

Yes I saw this the other day on Fox News On line. A great achievement, now if we could only get people there.

**N/A** · 08-09-2013, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Schuetzenman

Yes I saw this the other day on Fox News On line. A great achievement, now if we could only get people there.

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/vid_troy.html

**davepool** · 08-09-2013, 11:12 PM

Hey, there's a chance i could live to see that happen, i'll only be 78. I changed my eating habits last november and lost 60lbs, i'm back to what i weighed when i finished boot camp, maybe i'll actually live another 18 years.

**Krupski** · 08-10-2013, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Full Otto

Thought you guys might like this site.
http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/

Got it in an email a little while ago and I'm still going through it finding things

I watched the landing live on NASA TV. It was really exciting and strange at the same time. At the moment we were all cheering, the lander had already been on the ground for 23 minutes........

It was funny how they all acted "surprised" when the little black and white haz-cam images came in... yeah like they DIDN'T KNOW it was going to send them.

**Krupski** · 08-10-2013, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by N/A

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/vid_troy.html

I can't see engines, propellant tanks and guidance electronics staying man-rated for years in space.

I also can't see spending probably 9 months looping from Earth to Mars, then staying on Mars for over a year, then spending 9 more months coming home.

Even astronauts with the "best of the right stuff" would go bat-shit crazy cooped up for so long, not to mention the physical degradation caused by microgravity in space and 1/3 gravity on Mars.

With our current (chemical) propulsion, a manned trip to Mars and back is not possible.

**El Jefe** · 08-11-2013, 05:44 PM

This is a great read. Trust me.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-ebook/dp/B009IEXKXI

**Krupski** · 08-11-2013, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by Jefferson

This is a great read. Trust me.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-ebook/dp/B009IEXKXI

I checked out the preview. Looks very interesting. And technically accurate too.

**El Jefe** · 08-11-2013, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Krupski

I checked out the preview. Looks very interesting. And technically accurate too.

Its a hoot, Roger! My wife even liked it.

**mrkalashnikov** · 08-12-2013, 10:45 AM

I would love to see America revive the NASA program to it's glory days of the 60's, 70's, & 80's.

Maybe if we stopped squandering trillions of $$$$ on entitlement programs & wars in the ME we could afford to do so again.

**1 Patriot-of-many** · 08-14-2013, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by N/A

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/vid_troy.html

That's pretty damn ambitious! So what are we going to use to put all the parts into earth orbit to build everything?

**1 Patriot-of-many** · 08-14-2013, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Jefferson

This is a great read. Trust me.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-ebook/dp/B009IEXKXI

Figures sold to a book publisher and maybe we'll see a copy in 2014. Think a movie is coming?

**1 Patriot-of-many** · 08-14-2013, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Krupski

I can't see engines, propellant tanks and guidance electronics staying man-rated for years in space.

I also can't see spending probably 9 months looping from Earth to Mars, then staying on Mars for over a year, then spending 9 more months coming home.

Even astronauts with the "best of the right stuff" would go bat-shit crazy cooped up for so long, not to mention the physical degradation caused by microgravity in space and 1/3 gravity on Mars.

With our current (chemical) propulsion, a manned trip to Mars and back is not possible.

Depends if you're cooped up with a supermodel astronaut slut.(with a good supply of lingerie) I for one would cause the use of extra propellant to keep the spacecraft in the proper "trim".

**El Jefe** · 08-14-2013, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by 1 Patriot-of-many

Figures sold to a book publisher and maybe we'll see a copy in 2014. Think a movie is coming?

It would be a good one I think. I read it on a whim and because it was an inexpensive download on my kindle, but it turned out to be very entertaining. The science made sense and the guy is funny as hell, especially when he realizes he has gotten himself in yet another jamb.

I would think it'll be back out in kindle & or paperback before long, I'd read it again.

**Krupski** · 08-14-2013, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by 1 Patriot-of-many

Depends if you're cooped up with a supermodel astronaut slut.(with a good supply of lingerie) I for one would cause the use of extra propellant to keep the spacecraft in the proper "trim".

Nah. Just bang her on the port side one day, then the starboard side another day. Balance out the accelerations....