Congratulations To Alan Et. Al., Now hurry up and wait... :) |
Congratulations To Alan Et. Al., Now hurry up and wait... :) |
Jan 19 2006, 08:51 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Just a quite post-sep thread to say congratulations to Alan and the team, here's to a clean checkout and small TCM's Many thanks for taking the time to share the experience to date with us here, your efforts are very much appreciated.
Doug |
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Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 13-November 05 From: Edmonds, Washington Member No.: 552 |
Like everyone else, let me say congratulations to the entire NH team. Amazing. Dramatic, beautiful, and with just enough tension to make the whole process a real nailbiter.
I also think this was an excellent job of outreach, everything from Alan's appearances on this board to the signature disk. I took more than a couple of skeptics and had them excited after running upstairs and printing out a quick certificate proving that their name was going in to space. Thanks and congratulations! --Nick |
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Jan 20 2006, 01:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 532 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
QUOTE (just-nick @ Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM) Like everyone else, let me say congratulations to the entire NH team. Amazing. Dramatic, beautiful, and with just enough tension to make the whole process a real nailbiter. I also think this was an excellent job of outreach, everything from Alan's appearances on this board to the signature disk. I took more than a couple of skeptics and had them excited after running upstairs and printing out a quick certificate proving that their name was going in to space. Thanks and congratulations! --Nick Thanks to all of you for being interested and for your good wishes. New Horizons is operating flawlessly, and it looks like the Atlas gave us an almost perfect injection, with the consequence being that we will have far more fuel for KBO exploration than we had planned for in our nominal models. More later. Thanks again to all. -Alan |
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Jan 21 2006, 12:17 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 06:07 AM) Thanks to all of you for being interested and for your good wishes. New Horizons is operating flawlessly, and it looks like the Atlas gave us an almost perfect injection, with the consequence being that we will have far more fuel for KBO exploration than we had planned for in our nominal models. More later. Thanks again to all. -Alan You're quite welcome, Alan, and thanks for the wonderful news! May a nice, fat multiple KBO be found within the post-Pluto trajectory cone... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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