Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Nov 28 2005, 03:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
...starting a new thread for Hayabusa's sampling feedback and the return voyage.
After its nail-biting success in November, will there be enough fuel for the Falcon to make it home? -------------------- --O'Dave
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Dec 19 2005, 10:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 498 |
QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Dec 19 2005, 02:54 PM) One other thing I don't understand, though, is what your whole point is. Are you saying NEAR should have been put off for five years in order to get more advanced infrared detector technology? Or perhaps you are saying the United States should have scuttled the NEAR and Deep Space 1 programs, waited for some other nation (perhaps Japan) to fly both a dedicated asteroid mission and ion engine driven spacecraft first, and then build our own programs on their experience more cheaply? I thought that the general mood of the board, the spirit of this thread, was that Hayabusa is a success of comparable magnitude to NEAR even without the sample return. It seemed to me that it is you that has a point to make, Holder, to whit that NEAR was hugely better than Hayabusa. Your brinkmanship in suggesting that the participants here would like to see any exploration programs whatsoever scuttled, no matter the host nation, is political posturing.
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