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.
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Jan 19 2006, 08:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
Thanks especially for your time in replying to questions here. This public outreach really gives a sense of involvement in the mission.
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Jan 19 2006, 09:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
Yes, congratulations and best hopes for a problem-free cruise. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
If Accoutrements ever comes out with spacecraft PI action figures, they should use Alan and Steve Squyres for the models! -------------------- --O'Dave
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Jan 19 2006, 09:20 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 19-January 06 From: Chicago Member No.: 649 |
I think it's amazing that people like Alan and his crew can put together such a mission and initiate it. I mean, there must only be a handful of people on this earth that have the technical knowledge to do that.
My question is that once the craft wakes up 6 months prior to the Pluto encounter, will it have time to take one or two pictures and send us a teaser image of Pluto? I think it'll drive me crazy to know that NH has a ton of images but we'll have to wait a few weeks before we can see any of them. David |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Congratulation too!!
(and hope NH isn't really going to encounter Venus, as launch director said!) -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Jan 19 2006, 09:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
QUOTE (Boxcarx @ Jan 19 2006, 04:20 PM) My question is that once the craft wakes up 6 months prior to the Pluto encounter, will it have time to take one or two pictures and send us a teaser image of Pluto? I think it'll drive me crazy to know that NH has a ton of images but we'll have to wait a few weeks before we can see any of them. Alan addressed this at the press conference. Observations from the approach will be transmitted to earth on a daily basis until shortly before the approach. If I recall correctly, 6 weeks before the encounter, NH images will supass the best that Hubble can do. So there should be lots of pictures of Pluto looming larger. TTT P.S. Alan also announced that some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are on board, as was surmised by many members here. |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
I join to this topic to express that I am very grateful to hear from your replies and also of your friends from NH team. I am very impressed of the organization NH team that is composed many groups (NASA, Boeing, Lookheed Martin, UJHAPL, Alan's university, what else that I cannot recall it or haven't heard of it).
Also many thanks for the USMF manager, Doug, to provide us the great tool so that we can join and share about the NH's ride to Pluto! Rodolfo |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:36 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Jan 19 2006, 09:32 PM) I join to this topic to express that I am very grateful to hear from your replies and also of your friends from NH team. I am very impressed of the organization NH team that is composed many groups (NASA, Boeing, Lookheed Martin, UJHAPL, Alan's university, what else that I cannot recall it or haven't heard of it). Also many thanks for the USMF manager, Doug, to provide us the great tool so that we can join and share about the NH's ride to Pluto! Rodolfo Congratulations! To Jupiter, to Pluto, and beyond! -------------------- |
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Jan 19 2006, 09:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Congratulations to a good return on all the hard work! There's a reason things go right and that is due to the dedication and professionalism of the team leaders and members. And thanks for visiting us as well -
To Infinity and Beyond! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jan 19 2006, 10:01 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 19-January 06 From: Chicago Member No.: 649 |
Assuming that there are quite a few people working on the NH program, what do they do during the big gaps of no activity of the space craft? Are they shared among other programs within NASA? I can't imagine a job where I'm free to go for 7 or 8 years and then I have to come back!
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Jan 19 2006, 10:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
QUOTE (Boxcarx @ Jan 19 2006, 03:01 PM) Assuming that there are quite a few people working on the NH program, what do they do during the big gaps of no activity of the space craft? Are they shared among other programs within NASA? I can't imagine a job where I'm free to go for 7 or 8 years and then I have to come back! David Spend those 'tween years trying to get New Horizons 2 funded. -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Jan 19 2006, 10:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jan 19 2006, 04:27 PM) P.S. Alan also announced that some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are on board, as was surmised by many members here. 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 Audio of Clyde's widow, Patricia, talking about her husband: http://web.dailycamera.com/video/todd/Patr...-2006-01-15.mp3 And just to throw this in, interesting article from last May by Alan Stern explaining how he came up with the probe's final name of New Horizons: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/369/1 Voyager 3 had actually been considered, but Voyager was a JPL project. They better start naming some other deep space probes Voyager 3 and so on, otherwise we won't have V'Ger to deal with in 300 years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V'ger -------------------- "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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Jan 19 2006, 10:20 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 19 2006, 10:12 PM) 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? I'd have thought that would be something of a private matter between Clyde's family and Alan. Doug |
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Jan 19 2006, 10:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 19 2006, 05:20 PM) The container and commemorative plaque for Eugene Shoemaker aboard Lunar Prospector was shown in public and with a fair amount of pride by its makers and his family. I wasn't asking for a view of the ashes, just wondering if they had some kind of marker for it. It's just nice to know that I once shook the hand of the first man to leave the Sol system. -------------------- "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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Jan 19 2006, 10:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
Voyager 3 would have been a very good name for historical reasons, in spite of the fact that the spacecraft looks quite different from Voyagers 1 and 2. (But in a hundred years no one will care about that.) It's a pity they couldn't use it.
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