by johnnydeep » Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:49 pm
neufer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:56 pm
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/science/nasa-mars-launch.html wrote:
NASA Launches Perseverance Rover to Mars, Capping Summer of Missions to Red Planet
By Kenneth Chang, nytimes, July 30, 2020
NASA’s Perseverance rover is headed to Mars, the third spacecraft to head that way this month.
Perseverance, a robotic wheeled vehicle designed to look for signs of past life on Mars, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday at 7:50 a.m. Eastern time. The launch was pushed back a couple of weeks by a series of technical delays and overcame challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which required many of its engineers to work from home.
Damn. I wanted to watch live but I mistook the launch time as PM instead of AM! I was thinking of the Space X launch a few months ago, which was PM. So glad it all went well. With NASA always strapped for cash, I wonder why some U.S. billionaires don't ever contribute to keep important science missions funded, or even sponsor new ones. I would have thought someone like Paul Allen (a Microsoft founder who died in 2018 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma leaving an estimated 20+ billion estate) would have put NASA funding in his will. Of course, he did do a lot of scientific and medical philanthropy while still living, and it is his money after all, so I can't really complain
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NASA Launches Perseverance Rover to Mars, Capping Summer of Missions to Red Planet
By Kenneth Chang, nytimes, July 30, 2020
NASA’s Perseverance rover is headed to Mars, the third spacecraft to head that way this month.
Perseverance, a robotic wheeled vehicle designed to look for signs of past life on Mars, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday at 7:50 a.m. Eastern time. The launch was pushed back a couple of weeks by a series of technical delays and overcame challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which required many of its engineers to work from home.
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Damn. I wanted to watch live but I mistook the launch time as PM instead of AM! I was thinking of the Space X launch a few months ago, which was PM. So glad it all went well. With NASA always strapped for cash, I wonder why some U.S. billionaires don't ever contribute to keep important science missions funded, or even sponsor new ones. I would have thought someone like Paul Allen (a Microsoft founder who died in 2018 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma leaving an estimated 20+ billion estate) would have put NASA funding in his will. Of course, he did do a lot of scientific and medical philanthropy while still living, and it is his money after all, so I can't really complain :ssmile: