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: 14431 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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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 24 2006, 07:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
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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Member Group: Members Posts: 529 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 173 |
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Jan 24 2006, 05:50 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
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!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Jan 24 2006, 08:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 24 2006, 06:50 PM) 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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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
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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