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 would like also to congratulate Dr Stern. It has been amazing.
And really hope that you won't leave us and the forum  Our interest on NH, Pluto, KBO is persistent
-------------------- Orlin
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Jan 20 2006, 12:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
Congratulations !!!
to Alan and the whole New Horizons Team on this exciting journey to Pluto and beyond !!! as I write this she is more than halfway to the moon in the space of just a few short hours To Infinity and BEYOND !!! ken (pluto loon) |
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Jan 20 2006, 12:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
Today was a good day! Congratulations to both the NH team and the Atlas launch team. Best wishes for a successful mission.
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Jan 20 2006, 01:34 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 26-March 05 Member No.: 219 |
Congratulations to the entire New Horizons team!! A great example of persistance, patients, and commitment. They are an inspiration to me.
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Jan 20 2006, 01:54 AM
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Congratulations!! A treasure trove of discoveries awaits us and it wouldn't have been possible without the hard work, dedication and perseverance of Alan, John, and the entire NH team. Congrats on a successful launch and good luck the rest of the way!
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Jan 20 2006, 02:04 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Just got off a plane and saw the happy news...Congratulations to Dr. Stern and the New Horizons & Atlas teams!!!!
 And how profound it is that Clyde Tombaugh will, in abstract terms, be the only human being to visit a planet he himself discovered and also be the first of all men to leave the Solar System...a very fitting and awe-inspiring memorial. -------------------- 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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Jan 20 2006, 02:10 AM
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QUOTE (Orlin Denkov @ Jan 20 2006, 12:13 AM) Our interest on NH, Pluto, KBO is persistent  Are we there yet? Are we there yet? 
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Jan 20 2006, 03:59 AM
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To Alan, John and all others from the NH team who might poke their heads into this space on occasion:
Jolly good show! I know that, even after the metal is cut, the wiring installed, the instruments tested, spun, shaken and jarred, and the whole thing taken out to the pad and attached to a monster of a rocket... it wasn't going to be REAL until that monster flung your baby on its way. Now it's real. New Horizons is on its way. Nothing, no one can call it back. As I write this, your baby is passing the Moon's orbit. It's flashing away from us faster than any other man-made object ever has. And yet, even as it leaves us, it takes us with it. Our hearts and our souls. And our enduring sense of wonder. Jolly, jolly good show!!! Now, let's go see what Pluto looks like! -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jan 20 2006, 04:07 AM
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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, 10:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Congratulations for that beautiful (and sometimes tense) launch and for this outstanding work, and also hope the best for the journey that has just started.
Thanks to share with us this wonderful experience! |
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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 20 2006, 01:12 PM
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Jan 20 2006, 01:07 PM) 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 It gets better and better. Heartiest congratulations! Chris |
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Jan 20 2006, 08:02 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 19 2006, 03:12 PM) Wonderful news. I am glad to know that the first human to leave our Sol system for the larger Milky Way galaxy (in some form at least) will be Dr. Tombaugh. He certainly deserves the honor. Does anyone have or know where images of the capsule holding his ashes can be found? Where were they placed on the probe? Did a commemorative plaque or other message accompany them? And if NH is ever found by starfaring ETI or our descendants, perhaps they will also have the technology to analyze Dr. Tombaugh's remains to learn something about a representative sample of a Twentieth Century human being from Earth. I did a Google search for the news, and this is the odd place I found it (scroll way down): http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9170836 It's gonna take Buffalo and Minnesota 2.1 billion years to win the Super Bowl?? I can't wait that long!! 
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Jan 21 2006, 12:17 AM
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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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Jan 21 2006, 01:31 AM
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Congratulations to Alan, John and others involved who might be lurking here.
I also want to mention that it is great to have someone from the NH team active in this forum - thanks to Alan and John for lots of interesting postings here. Hopefully everything works during cruise and the Jupiter/Pluto/KBO flybys. I'm already looking forward to the Jupiter flyby. (and I'm definitely not going to complain about the fact that I was extremely unproductive for several hours last Thursday  ).
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