wont be long now, till...

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Touchdown!

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Touchdown!

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The United State's Mars Mission Rover Perseverance waves from Jezero at China's months away mission Tianwen-1 whose rover doesn't even have a name! !



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WHAB

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Btw, I once worked at JPL. True story....

Installing a cookline exhaust system

It is a true story regardless my work there...

***I did apply for work there once. I thought for sure my ordnance experience would at least get me an interview. It didn't, unfortunately...***

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WHAB

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one of the crew at the crags been at jpl forever
hes the gravity waves guy on a future mission to one of the Lagrange points

back when curiosity hit orbit i asked him
"couldnt you have developed a more complicated way to land?!!?"

he laughed
explained the ropes were static lines, so
ONE less variable almost cornered

a couple years laters
found a pic of top of the rover

with wiring harnesses snaking all over
lots of hold downs

and i realized

how extensive the testing must have been regarding those cables and chaffing

how a team must have been tasked with choosing those holddowns
and precisely where to put each one

fuck

and they did it again...

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one of the crew at the crags been at jpl forever
hes the gravity waves guy on a future mission to one of the Lagrange points

back when curiosity hit orbit i asked him
"couldnt you have developed a more complicated way to land?!!?"

he laughed
explained the ropes were static lines, so
ONE less variable almost cornered

a couple years laters
found a pic of top of the rover

with wiring harnesses snaking all over
lots of hold downs

and i realized

how extensive the testing must have been regarding those cables and chaffing

how a team must have been tasked with choosing those holddowns
and precisely where to put each one

fuck

and they did it again...

I envy your friend and your friendship with your friend! Great story!

It's truly incredible the lengths they go through to destroy something on the ground so it survives out there

Incredible!

Even more incredible is Ingenuity has to operate in 1/3 Earth's atmosphere. Making it 3x's harder to even lift off.

Infinitely Incredible!

I'm very excited about this one, and it won't be about wondering what Intellectual Properties China stole from the United States for Tianwen-1 or will steal for their future stolen properties missions.

There! I found a name for China's unnamed Rover that's parked for at least a month (I think I read it was 2 months) as it stares down at the amazing work being done by America and her allies! - Stolen Properties - Mission Rover.

Check out this guy's intro. Starting at 0:20 in and lasting about 20 seconds.



IF Clarence "Kelly" Johnson had a son - he didn't - it would be Mike Patey (my modern day engineering/aviation hero).

Peace, Ben ,
WHAB

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USA USA!!!

Perseverance Martian landing point named after Octavia E Butler

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... a-e-butler" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Science-fiction author honoured in Nasa’s chosen name for Mars rover’s touchdown.

“Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it’s heaven in a way,” Octavia E Butler wrote in her acclaimed novel Parable of the Sower. Decades later, Nasa has informally named the touchdown site of the Mars rover Perseverance after the late science fiction novelist.

Nasa said there was “no better person” to mark the landing site than Butler. “Her guiding principle, ‘When using science, do so accurately,’ is what the science team at Nasa is all about. Her work continues to inspire today’s scientists and engineers across the globe – all in the name of a bolder, more equitable future for all,” said Nasa’s Thomas Zurbuchen.

Butler, the first African American woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the first sci-fi writer honoured with a MacArthur “genius” grant, is the author of novels including Kindred Bloodchild, as well as the remarkably prescient 1993 dystopia Parable of the Sower. The latter was set in the 2020s, where climate change and inequality have turned America into a place of chaos; its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents, sees a violent, far-right president ascend, promising to “make America great again”. Butler died in 2006.

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ive know the name for years now
been meaning to find a book or two of hers...