Re: FACT CHECK: Huygens is 6th other-world landing
From: Louis Scheffer (lou_at_cadence.com)
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: 21 Dec 2004 10:59:30 -0800
"Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> writes:
>I'm gonna write sort of like this -- anything embarrassingly STOOPID in this
>paragraph?
>"The Huygens mission will be attempting the sixth landing of a human robot
>on an alien world. After the 'Space Race' years when craft reached the
>surface of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, there was a pause for the development
>of more advanced technology for more difficult targets. Galileo dropped a
>probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter in 1995, and a small NASA probe landed
>on the asteroid Eros in 2001, while a Russian attempt to land on the Martian
>moon Phobos failed in 1988. A series of new probes are now aimed at landings
>(or just impacts) on other asteroids and comets."
One obvious point - it's not the 6th landing, it's the 6th world. There
were multiple landings on the Moon and Mars, for example.
Lou Scheffer
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