Perseverance Rover has just landed on mars

I hope and Pray The Lord lets me live long enough to see us(People) land on Mars.
I watched most of the Landing this afternoon. Maybe a little tear when they revealed the first picture. What a great job NASA did. JC
 
I wonder how my dad would react. He started with NASA back in the Gemini program. Worked with the X1 project. Ended his career simulating what solar winds would do to the antennas on the ISS and wind tunnel testing on solar sails materials.

why go to Mars? Why get in a leaky wooden boat with rotten food and rats and sail the seas?
 
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dwna1a said:
why go to Mars? Why get in a leaky wooden boat with rotten food and rats and sail the seas?
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That's a bit different... you were still on earth. I am not sure how Mars has any long or short term benefit to earth.... if I am wrong please enlighten me.
 
I guess is all just in your point of view. All I can think of right now is the opening line in StarTrak, “Space the Final Frontier”
 
Those who ask why when it comes to space exploration probably don't have the mindset to understand the excitement from us space nerds. My guess is, there were a lot of whys when explorers set out to sail off the edge of the earth, yet here we are.
 
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Those who ask why when it comes to space exploration probably don't have the mindset to understand the excitement.
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Hey I resemble that remark.... we have incredible problems right here on earth...just pick one...how about the deficit ?.. tell me how going to Mars is going to solve that problem even a remote chance and I am all for it. Saran Wrap or a new space food recipe is not something we need right now... but before you go crazy I could care less.... we have a drone on Mars attached to a rover....you won
 
@Blueone, I get the argument that we are spending valuable treasure to unlock the secrets of the universe and for the most part the only people it directly benefits are egg head academics trying to figure out if what happened on Mars may eventually happen to earth. Most of us living our lives here in the US are more worried about waking up one day in a communist re-education camp than what will happen to earth over the next 10,000 years. I look at it this way, We are spending a boat load of money in space exploration but still as compared to what we spend in entitlements and bullet trains to nowhere and cancelling already built XL pipeline ect.. its a drop in the bucket.
Carpe Diem
 
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Blu, as a kid growing up I remember groups would say those same lines. Bulked at the cost of a Saturn Five.

when they lunched one from FL they would alway show it at Hampton NASA. You’d see those same folks on the news glued to a tv some where. You’d always see the look of pride in their faces.

I see your point, I just don’t agree. Maybe it’s because I grew up as a NASA brat. I got to see some of the on earth projects they were working on. The biggest was how to smooth out a train ride. They got two GE Locos and three passenger cars, loaded them with sensors and rode from Newport News to the Upper New York area. It was found to be track welds and bad welds on the hubs of the wheels. Stress cracks where born. Sometimes it’s something stupid and simple. Our VacFlush heads. To save space there’s no bowl just tubing, no holding tank just out the side. One of the last projects was the adhesive to attach the tiles. It’s now know as SuperGlue.
 
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