First UMSF Awards, Starting March 1st |
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First UMSF Awards, Starting March 1st |
 Feb 22 2010, 07:55 PM
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Founder  Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1  |
Something that we've been bouncing between the admins for a while, is a means to thank and celebrate the work and creativity of science teams, engineering teams or outreachers who try to share their exploratory spirit. To that end, we are about to award the first 6 UMSF awards, to mark the 6 years of UMSF. From this year onwards, we intend to issue two awards per year, but after 6 years we've got some catching up to do so we've awarded 6 different teams or individuals in this inaugural round.
The actual awards are already in the mail out to their various recipients either directly (on pain of death if they reveal their award before we do!) , or with the help of agents of subterfuge who are holding them until the day of the actual award to keep it a surprise (you know who you are, and thankyou!) A special thanks, as ever, to Astro0 for his typically awesome work with Photoshop to produce not only the graphics for the awards, but also for the certificates that accompany them. The first six will be announced from March 1st to March 6th! Please don't try and play a guessing game in the mean time, you may end up causing accidental offence or disappointment. We'll be taking nominations for the 2010 awards from UMSF members, but NOT YET... because you don't know who's won a 2009 award yet! The first six awards will be announced at www.umsfawards.com or you can be exceptionally 21st century and keep track via @umsfawards |
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Feb 23 2010, 03:31 PM
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 Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I can't wait to receive mine !
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Feb 23 2010, 05:41 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
I'm patient. I can wait for the lifetime achievement award.
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Feb 24 2010, 03:53 AM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Will the awards also be posted here?
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Feb 25 2010, 09:42 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Wow man they look awesome...
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Feb 25 2010, 10:13 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Wow, they're shaped like Steins! That's a nice touch!
Yeah it's nerdy but funnily enough that's what I thought when I saw them... So all the winner announcements will be staggered over 6 days? |
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Feb 25 2010, 11:07 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Yup - Monday thru to Saturday. I'm hoping that recipients will have hands-on their awards before they're announced, but that might not be the case for everyone. Fortunately the first one is a hand delivery in a few days time. I'll post here when te announcements occur, but the details will be on the awards site.
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Mar 1 2010, 12:03 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The first award has been announced. There was only one choice :
http://www.umsfawards.com/?p=34 Steve Squyres, Jim Bell & the MER Science team, for establishing the new standard for rapid release of raw imagery from spacecraft exploring the solar system with MER and Pancam. |
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Mar 1 2010, 05:33 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Congratulations to Steve Squyres, Jim Bell and MER Science Team!
From a "viewer" who has benefitted greatly from this award winning idea! Cheers! -------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Mar 1 2010, 05:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
I'll add my congrats, too! I didn't doubt they'd get one or the other anyway...
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Mar 1 2010, 06:49 PM
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So well-deserved that it must count as a no-brainer. Congratulations to the MER team!
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Mar 1 2010, 07:02 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
bah! what have those guys done to deserve this award, this was all fixed I tell you...
 seriously...would we be around here if it weren't for them? I doubt it. Great initiative Doug and crew! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 1 2010, 09:05 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Cool idea! I'm sure that the recipients will be deeply honored; this is recognition by the public, not from fellow professionals, and that's a qualitative difference.
-------------------- 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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Mar 2 2010, 06:01 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Mar 1 2010, 11:02 AM)  this was all fixed I tell you... seriously...would we be around here if it weren't for them? I doubt it. Great initiative Doug and crew! I do seem to remember another little forum called http://mer.rlproject.com/  It's right in the name! Seriously, MER wrote the book on how to write the book on outreach. A perfect storm of a principled principle investigator, available technology, orbiter relay and in incredible hard work and dedication of so many involved with the mission. Thank you for setting the bar so high for future missions to match! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Mar 2 2010, 09:46 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
Squyres' statements over the years have taken on the gravitas of "One small step..."
Besides soaking up the glory of a successful launch or landing, SS has the additional challenge of knowing that each unmanned mission will one day come to an end. His descriptions have helped a lot of enthusiasts, myself included, cope with that part of a mission. |
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