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[chris]

I stumbled upon mer.rplproject ways back when.... I think it had something to do with Bad Astronomy's bulletin board (r.i.p.), though my memories are overshadowed by the wealth of imagery this forum has yielded.....

Same here, though it seems so long ago I struggled to remember the exact details. And yes, I'm addicted.

Chris

[MahFL]

Via the #maestro channel.

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

Googling for what was happening with Oppy and Spirit. I first found just a poor thread with two or three posts, letting me think that this forum was not vey interesting. But after abandoning "another" forum, I explored this one and found interesting stuff.

[Tesheiner]

Searching for "Victoria crater" on Google

[jaredGalen]

I also came from SDC after TheChemist posted that link most likely.
Can't quite remember, time looks about right

I pretty much stay around here, going back to SDC for shuttle related stuff and CEV etc.
Some very good discussions there, IMHO, with regard to those, espeicially return to flight things.

[Guest_Myran_*]

I was already viewing Exploratorium and considered the official Mars rover page was to slow to bring news and description of what I was seeing. So I googled too, but lurked for quite some time - think I did so without having registred at first.

[Rakhir]

I followed a link from the following spacedaily article who brought me to this amazing forum.

Robot From Earth Climbs Mountain On Mars
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-05zzzp.html

Since that day, I spend some time every day reading the new posts, and posting a few.
Chris already used the right term : addiction.

Rakhir

[Rob Pinnegar]

Google for me. I was running searches on planetary science and one of the hits brought me here.

[Bill Harris]

I had been following the Rovers for several months on my own when I found the Mark Carey board. I learned of the mer.rplproject from that board, joined here October 2004 and the rest is history. I'm here to stay.

--Bill

[Toma B]

Googling for MARS FORUM... Find Mark Carey's "MARS FORUM" and I was happy for a while...
There I find a link (or somebody mention "Unmaned spaceflight") so I dicided to look for it... It was THE BEST FIND EVER!!!

This is THE BEST ASTRONOMY FORUM that I know of...

Since then I'm comming here almost every day. I only regret that my english is not that good so it's much more dificult for me to write post's...

Thank you for making it this good!!!

Tomislav Bandin...

[ElkGroveDan]

I used to just take what was dished out at the NASA MER web page, and the occasional article on Space.com, as I had done with Pathfinder and MGS. Man I loved those early televised MER press conferences, then my cable company dropped NASA TV and for a while I was able to get the press conference streams on CSPAN's web site. But then CSPAN quit saving the streams. I even have a friend who worked on data security at JPL who used to forward me email updates, but then my friend got sick and had to go on longterm disability.

I seem to recall that the information and details just dried up after Oppy left Endurance. Out of frustration one day (while they still had heatshield photos up on the MER web page after two weeks) I did a Google search using terms like Vostok and "etched terrain" hoping to find some article I may have missed. That's when I found the Mars Exploration Rover Forum. I even recall telling my wife (who has little interest in all of this). "Wow. I struck gold here."

[RNeuhaus]

I discovered this forum by the link: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-05zk.html
After that, I found it a very good site to start to learn anything related to manned and unmanned spacecrafts and am start to listen to the most complicated things about the astronomy. Besides, I found the people from Forum to be very educated and friendly.

Rodolfo

[tty]

I also found it through the same SpaceDaily link.

tty

[Orlin Denkov]

I also learned about this site from spacedayly.com when they cited unmanned spacefliht as a source for the news that Opportunity has stucked in the sands and that was the first information about that. Since then - that was back in april - I visit every day the forum. I do not feel myself enough competent (my professional activity is very very far from the science) to participate in the discussion, but I appreciate the level and have spent many hours enjoying the readings. It's simply great!

[Bob Shaw]

I could be wrong, but I think I followed a not-quite-link posted on the Yahoo! Space Model Group (which likewise suffers fools rarely!). It's been a pleasure to follow the discussions here, and to sometimes contribute when my limited knowledge maps onto the subjects in hand - oh, and as for the glorious, hand-crafted images...

Bob Shaw