hehe, sorry to mislead you from my first post. I wasn't actually in the ops lab, only mission related peoples are allowed in that facility. I was watching the landing in my own building on TV, which I believe was just the nasa tv stream.
I think the project manager (on Lockheed martin's side)...
Hey I work for NASA!! :P
In fact I saw the "landing" live at JPL (where all the operations guys were) this morning at work. I wasn't a part of the genesis project, so I don't know much about what kind of failsafes were planned. What I do know is that this was a JPL managed project. It was...
weezer's first 2 album's are all tuned a half step down, other bands do this too. The combination of a different tuning and a capo have endless possibilities. Sometimes I like playing songs in a different tuning for the heck of it.
The goo goo dolls are the worst to play, because you have to...
dunno if any of you guys saw this, but this is a pretty good deal also.
behringer vtone package
Same price, but comes with the amp (a good amp I should add). Guitar is not as nice, but still an awesome deal.
a while ago there was a thing on NASA's webpage where you could enter your name. Basically they kept a running list of all the names people entered, then I think they stored them on some form of media, I imagine a dvd disc of some kind. Anyways they attached that with the spacecraft, so in...
cool! I actually wrote a program that can calculate the light time delay between earth and any mars orbiting spacecraft, however it runs by extracting certain ephemeris data from kernels, and I don't have any of the newest kernels at home.
I stand corrected.
Ripped from the microsoft website...
I do use photoshop elements to do all my work, but I never noticed a quality loss using the quick rotate feature in windows. I will have to change my ways.
Actually it does for me. If I rotate an image and close it that image will be saved rotated whenever I open it from that time forward. I'm pretty sure it's just a plain rotate too.
If you wanna see something that's really cool you should check out the antennas that NASA uses to communicate with these rovers among many other spacecraft all over our galaxy.
NASA's 70m dish out in the mojave desert of CA
The picture doesn't do it justice.
It's really a marvel of engineering. The spacecraft will enter the martian atmosphere at 12,000 mph and have only about 5 minutes to slow down to a speed where the craft won't be vaporized. The airbags are incredibely strong too. linky
I work at Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA's facility that built and is flying these 2 spacecraft). In fact, I work in telecommunications and I know a few people who work for this mission and are currently quite busy managing the landing.
Shame on you guys for having so little faith! The spacecraft...
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