Mon, 10 May 2004
Happy fun stuff
Well, I dunno about happy and fun, but it's not actively
bad ...
The Cassini/Huygens deep space mission is now
within sight of Titan, towards which it has been cruising
for the past several years. In July, the Huygens
lander will parachute into Titan's atmosphere, hopefully
telling us a bit about what conditions are like on the
largest moon in the solar system.
And the head of the Russian space agency is quoted as saying
that a
manned Mars mission by 2011-13 is feasible using
off-the-shelf hardware. The report is a bit short on details,
but if this is referring to the unused Mir modules and the
Kliper
Soyuz-replacement (and Onega booster), it's promising.
I really want to be around to see live video from the
surface of Mars. And no, robots
don't count.
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