Controlled vs. uncontrolled
From: Reed Snellenberger (rsnellenberger_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:04:26 GMT
Jim Oberg wrote:
> I'm gonna write sort of like this -- anything embarrassingly STOOPID in this
> paragraph?
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> "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."
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Pedants will point out that Ranger et al "landed" on the moon, and that
Surveyors 1, 3, 5, 6, & 7 soft-landed. If we're going to count Eros, we
ought to at least count the Moon missions.
If you're going to leave out the Venera landings as well... you ought to
put a "sixth landing since 1983" in there...
Or do you mean "the sixth world we've attempted to land on..." (lessee
-- Venus, Mars, Moon, Eros, Phobos (attempt), Jupiter (twice, assuming
powdery bits of both Galileo & probe have drifted inward to the core).
Glad I'm not a pedant :-)
-- Reed Snellenberger GPG KeyID: 5A978843 rsnellenberger-at-houston.rr.com
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