The news conference is underway - Sean O'Keefe currently offering congrats. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wiggins [mailto:paw@trilobyte.net] Sent: Sat 1/3/2004 10:25 PM To: Utah Astronomy Cc: Subject: [Utah-astronomy] News conference Dale Hooper wrote: > > I don't know about Patrick, but I went to http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html and then clicked on the link for "Watch NASA TV now". Yes, much better than my brief, poorly spelled reports. > I believe they will have a news conference about 10:30 pm. Correct. The last I heard there was going to be a news conference at 10:30 followed by "commentary" at midnight, however, I just checked the NASA TV schedule and those events are not mentioned. Patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com
And...and... What about deployment into full operational configuration? Thanks for the play-by-play, Patrick! C. --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Dale Hooper wrote:
The news conference is underway - Sean O'Keefe
currently offering congrats. And serving champagne.
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Chuck Hards wrote:
What about deployment into full operational configuration?
My contact at NASA tells me we may not see the first pictures until this time tomorrow and the rover may not leave its landing pad for over a week. However, there is also a possibility of some pictures late tonight. Happily, the assembly came to a rest right side up. BTW, did anyone happen to notice a certain local TV station's coverage of the landing in which they aired bits and pieces of video from the 1999 missions? Kind of "funny" to know it was sitting safely on the surface and to see the video of the MCO breaking up in the atmosphere. Oops! Patrick
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Happily, the assembly came to a rest right side up.
That's 2 for 2 for airbags, right? Didn't Sojourner come to rest right-side-up too?
Kind of "funny" to know it was sitting safely on the surface and to see the video of the MCO breaking up in the atmosphere.
What always slaps me in the face during planetary encounters like this is the time-lag between the actual events and MC getting the signal. Planets are a looong way off! But Mars is nothing compared to Neptune. Remember "Neptune All Night"? Jeez, that was a long time ago. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003
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