New Horizons Arrives At Ksc |
New Horizons Arrives At Ksc |
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NASA Press Release
APL press release Space.com Article Coming up... October: communications checks November: hydrazine loading and Atlas V countdown rehearsal December: integration with Atlas V January: LAUNCH!  No pictures on the KSC webcams yet.  But still pictures here.   Is that the flight RTG attached to the spacecraft?  Or just a dummy?
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Nov 5 2005, 02:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
It's amazing to me that such humble-looking machines are the first man-made objects to travel so far. The king of Spain couldn't send out a little probe to determine whether there was a quick route to India.
 And yet, these humble-looking machines will show us things we could never have imagined (until we see them, and then it will all be perfectly obvious, but I digress), and New Horizons will likely outlive me (and you, and that other guy).Thanks for the pictures. |
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Nov 5 2005, 04:27 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (mike @ Nov 4 2005, 09:39 PM) It's amazing to me that such humble-looking machines are the first man-made objects to travel so far. The king of Spain couldn't send out a little probe to determine whether there was a quick route to India. And yet, these humble-looking machines will show us things we could never have imagined (until we see them, and then it will all be perfectly obvious, but I digress), and New Horizons will likely outlive me (and you, and that other guy).Thanks for the pictures.  Will anything of note other than a microchip full of names be placed on NH before it is launched? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Nov 7 2005, 03:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Nov 4 2005, 11:27 PM) Will anything of note other than a microchip full of names be placed on NH before it is launched? It is sad that there are so few poets on this site. Only the fifth probe ever being sent out of our solar system - 28 years after the Voyagers - and nothing more than a US flag and a microchip full of names on it to serve as any kind of "greeting" to either our distant descendants or starfaring ETI who may find it one day. Anyone going to do something about this? The Voyager Records were "rush" jobs, but they made it. And they did it without the Web or even cell phones to facilitate things. Why hasn't The Planetary Society said word one about doing something? And speaking of lack of poets and poetry, what is with the lame names given to US space probes these days? New Horizons? Deep Impact? Mars Observer? My, how obvious and uninspired. Why don't we just name them Big Metal Shiny Things Sent Into Space on a Rocket. There are plenty of relevant explorers and astronomers who deserve some kind honor by having their names on our robot adventurers. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Nov 7 2005, 06:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
Who's to say what some alien species will think of our microchip when they find it? Maybe they'll think it's the Magical Word of God, or maybe they'll think it's recipes, or lists of star names, or the people who built the probe, or a table of some obscure scientific data that they'll someday be able to decipher, if they just keep trying, and trying, and trying some more..
A microchip with names on it could very arguably be more interesting than a simple gold phonograph and line etchings of naked people. Poetic enough? |
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Nov 7 2005, 07:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (mike @ Nov 7 2005, 01:19 PM) Who's to say what some alien species will think of our microchip when they find it? Maybe they'll think it's the Magical Word of God, or maybe they'll think it's recipes, or lists of star names, or the people who built the probe, or a table of some obscure scientific data that they'll someday be able to decipher, if they just keep trying, and trying, and trying some more.. A microchip with names on it could very arguably be more interesting than a simple gold phonograph and line etchings of naked people. Poetic enough? No, it isn't. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Redstone New Horizons Arrives At Ksc Sep 26 2005, 09:56 PM
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