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Coming of Age with Unmanned Spaceflight
belleraphon1
post Feb 20 2009, 12:55 AM
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Well said Stu! I had the same thrill from Voyager and Galileo. And on top of that there is Ganymede and Callisto... forgive me folks, but there is something very intriguing to me about the sublimating seltzer surface of Callisto, and the tectonics on Ganymede...... and how the freak does Callisto have an ocean when it formed too cold to differentiate.?

We stand to learn do much...

Craig ... 72 in 2025

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post Feb 20 2009, 04:37 PM
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QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Feb 20 2009, 01:55 AM) *
Craig ... 72 in 2025

I wonder if this board has a bi-modal age distribution? Those of us in our 50s who got hooked with Viking and Voyager and those in their 20s & 30s who got hooked with the recent wealth of missions.


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post Feb 21 2009, 02:09 AM
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I was in high school from 1969 through 1973. Mariners 6 and 7 flew past Mars in the summer before I started high school. Mariner 9 went into Martian orbit when I was a junior.

I can remember watching the live feed of Ranger IX images broadcast on TV, and seeing for the first time *ever* the title on my screen "Live from the Moon." Heck, the *launch* of Ranger IX was covered live on television.

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post Feb 21 2009, 08:50 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 20 2009, 09:09 PM) *
I was in high school from 1969 through 1973. ... seeing for the first time *ever* the title on my screen "Live from the Moon." Heck, the *launch* of Ranger IX was covered live on television.

-the other Doug

Same here. "Live from the moon" gave me goose-bumps. And the launches in those days were adventures. Fair failure rate.
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