Congratulations to NASA

[Broch]

Congratulations to the whole team involved in the successful landing on Mars minutes ago. Fantastic engineering and an exciting project to unfold. As a technologist I'm in awe with the capability shown.

 

[Tengu]

A lot of tense faces at first. Getting to Mars is no easy journey.

Of course, this is just machines, -when humans travel any distance in space they will have to learn to build things themselves...and presumably grow food.

I suspect they will have a lot in common with us.

Tengu (Probably only person in her generation to have read Percival Lowell).

 

[Tony]

Yeah, it's an impressive undertaking, hugely complicated and prone to failure, I take my hat off to the brains behind it all

 

[Bishop]

Space flight is one of those really counter intuitive conundrums. Some say the secret is not to throw things into the air until they do not come down but rather to hurl objects toward the ground and miss.

 

[Broch]

Space flight is one of those really counter intuitive conundrums. Some say the secret is not to throw things into the air until they do not come down but rather to hurl objects toward the ground and miss.

I think you have to do the former before you can do the latter

 

[TeeDee]

The First time is always regarded a Fluke until you can repeat it.

Just like Basketball..

 

[MrEd]

Amazing human achievement

 

[cipherdias]

And the parachute for the lander was made in this country


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[mimozine]

yep its amazing they can manage such a feat. my hermes cant even find my house

 

[fenix]

I made some optical kit about 20 years go that's sitting on Mars, hopefully not in the wreckage of one of the crashed landers. Same company did bits for Hubble. Think we made 100 units, shipped 10, they used the best three.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

NASA has just released footage of the landing on Mars by the onboard cameras. The Rover is also equiped with a microphone & for the first time, Mars can be heard......wind mostly.