Mars Curiosity Rover

That is absent from my memory. I vaguely remember some Gemini launches and the Apollo 1 fire. But my first real vivid sound-and-picture space memory is of Apollo 8's Christmas Eve reading of Genesis while live video of the lunar surface rolls by.

 

Apollo 1 was originally named Apollo 204, until it was later changed. I remember Alan Shepherd and his Fredom 7 launched with a Redstone rocket, the same type that launched the first US satellite, the Explorer 1.

 

Yes, it's weird. I'm a Mandarin speaker, and I deal with a lot of Chinese branding. Roewe isn't a pronouncable set of sounds in Chinese - Rover would actually be easier to approximate than Roewe. And Roewe doesn't reflect the romanisation "Rong wei" either. If you're going to have a name in the roman alphabet, why not stick to the original?

I like what SAIC-Nanjing Auto did with MG, though. Instead of "Morris Garages", it now stands for "Modern Gentleman".

 

Yes, I agree.

 

This is the opening line from my Professional Resume......

"On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. I was in High School Electronics training. I found a broken color TV that July. I slaved for 16 days repairing that TV. The day of the Moon Landing the set worked! That night I watched, coincidentally, Jules Bergman, ABC News Science Editor bring live coverage of what I consider to be one of mans most significant endeavors. That was when I new I needed to work in Live TV!"

I was quite lucky as a child, after 3 years of Penguins & Priests, my parents found Public School (Gasp The Horror, our son in PUBLIC SCHOOL) to be a better environment for me educationally! This particular school had a Principal that believed in the Space Program, and I loved TV, so I joined AV Club! I watched every launch, next school, Yep AV Club!
You know the nerds that roll the TV's into the classrooms and set them up so everybody could watch EVERY launch possible! I was one of those Nerds! I really did prefer ABC NEWS coverage of the launches so I always set the TV's to ABC!
Now later in life, I have, and still work for the ABC Network in Los Angeles, it was meant to be!
I did watch the playback of landing on the NASA Channel from last night!
What a cool thing it was just to be able to watch the team work.
I gotta move up a notch, get a job with NASA or JPL!

On a side note I was a member of the ABCNEWS TV crew at Edwards AFB for Shuttle Landing coverage!
I saw 4 landings!
That was way cool!

 

I watched it live, and it really was a very intense thing.

I am very, very jealous.

 

I think the MSL is totally amazing. The programming involved to get it to operate on its own in such hostile conditions is a feat in itself, but with that 14 minute signal time lag too? Amazing. Obviously some bright folk working on it. And on that note, there was a documentary about it on tv here a week ago and the scientist they were interviewing drove a Prius

BBC News - Rover shoots movie during descent

 

That's even vaguer than Prius steering

 

Fond memories on working on the Viking programs in the past.

The latest landing on Mars is just a sampling of what america is all about and what she can do.

lets' start planning to go to the red planet!!!

DBCassidy

 

I read somewhere that a one way journey to Mars is being seriously considered. At first I thought that a crazy idea, but apparantly it cuts costs and development down significantly. I guess if the people signing up know the full facts beforehand, then fair enough.

It was less than a hundred years ago that emigrating to the US was considered a one way trip and that you'd never see your old homeland again. So perhaps the one way Mars idea is the way to go?

Mars to Stay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia