swanny
Senior Member
They can't even get a parachute to deploy?
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Originally posted by xyswany@Sep 8 2004, 12:49 PM
They can't even get a parachute to deploy?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5942268/?GT1=5100
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Originally posted by DarkHand@Sep 9 2004, 10:24 AM
"Let's have it drop through the sky like a bullet then deploy a chute and CATCH IT MID AIR! It'll be awesome!"
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Originally posted by DarkHand+Sep 9 2004, 09:24 AM-->I guess it was bound to happen, but I was really hoping they'd catch it.
I mean, come on, they KNOW they have trouble with the whole "probes hit planet faster than we usually plan" thing, look at the Mars missions. Now, before you say, "But this is hard!" think which plan is more failure prone - leave probe in orbit, catch it with the shuttle or a soyuz or hell, have it cruise past the ISS, or just let it sit for a few years, nice and safe in orbit or "Let's have it drop through the sky like a bullet then deploy a chute and CATCH IT MID AIR! It'll be awesome!"
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Because launching a shuttle to go get an orbiting probe is expensive. Cost of fuel, crew, things like that. Also because of the Columbia accident, the Shuttles are for the most part grounded.
TDaddy@Sep 9 2004, 09:24 AM
Great...and they want us to shell out more money for them to fuck some more overpriced shit up. yay.