Congratulations To Alan Et. Al., Now hurry up and wait... :) |
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Congratulations To Alan Et. Al., Now hurry up and wait... :) |
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I was a wreck - I don't think I've ever been as nervous about a launch as NH - I was hands-over-face-saying 'go go go go' in that quiet way you see people doing at the launch site - not even the MER launch had me so nervous. It's astonishing what effect these missions can have
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Jan 21 2006, 11:48 AM
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>I was a wreck - I don't think I've ever been as nervous...
Shouldn't worry that much. If the launch is under sub-optimum conditions you end up with loss of vehicle and/or lives. --Bill -------------------- |
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Jan 21 2006, 08:25 PM
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I'm an undergraduate student at university and I'm curious about learning more about this mission. I was wondering whether there are some more "scientifically advanced" descriptions about the mission than those available at the official websites. That is, are there any documents that presume a far higher level of knowledge in physics? A scientific paper would be preferable.
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Jan 24 2006, 07:08 AM
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 02:07 PM) 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.  During the pre launch pressconference you told that the opening for the post Pluto trajectory was only 0.1 degrees. How much further will this open due to the fuel you saved ? -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jan 24 2006, 08:20 AM
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QUOTE (DEChengst @ Jan 24 2006, 07:08 AM) During the pre launch pressconference you told that the opening for the post Pluto trajectory was only 0.1 degrees. How much further will this open due to the fuel you saved ? ...Perhaps now 0.3 or 0.4 deg. |
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Jan 24 2006, 05:50 PM
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I wasn't nervous because...I MISSED IT!!
 Congratulations to the amazing people envolved in this amazing mission...Time will fly and, in a blink, we'll be there. Thank you for building up your dreams. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 24 2006, 06:11 PM
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jinydu, check the books & resources folder of this forum for publications on unmanned spacecraft
 Alan, congrats for the NH mission to the entire team behind it ! The fact that some of the NASA engineers & scientists are reading ( & replying on ) this forum once more highlights they are very open to spaceflight enthusiasts and media alike ( O.K. the latter 'sell' the stuff to the general public ). In over 30 years I have been delighted by the 'openess ' of people involved in spacemissions ... compared to some astronauts ( no I do not mean Dr Armstrong but some 'guys' currently training ). ... ... ... 
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Jan 24 2006, 07:39 PM
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Wow, that extra fuel should really open the search area. I saw in the presentation linked to earlier that there is an option to look for Centaurs in the flight path as well. I presume you'll know more in a few weeks?
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
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Jan 24 2006, 08:08 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 24 2006, 06:50 PM) I wasn't nervous because...I MISSED IT!! I was nervous as hell. I didn't get much sleep on all three of the nights before the launch attempts In the end I got to see a sucessfull launch so I guess it was worth it.
-------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Feb 11 2006, 07:57 PM
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Universe Today Podcast: There Goes New Horizons
Summary - (Thu, 09 Feb 2006) Take a look through any book on our Solar System, and you'll see beautiful photographs of every planet - except one. Eight of our nine planets have been visited up close by a spacecraft, and we've got the breathtaking photos to prove it. Pluto's the last holdout, revealing just a few fuzzy pixels in even the most powerful ground and space-based telescopes. But with the launch of New Horizons in January, bound to arrive at Pluto in 9 years, we're one step closer to completing our planetary collection - and answering some big scientific questions about the nature of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Alan Stern is the Executive Director of the Space Science and Engineering Division, at the Southwest Research Institute. He's New Horizon's Principal Investigator. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/po...ons.html?922006 -------------------- "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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