So today Orion is tested. In case you're unaware, Orion is intended to be the next launch system to take man beyond Earth and ultimately to Mars. |
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So today Orion is tested. In case you're unaware, Orion is intended to be the next launch system to take man beyond Earth and ultimately to Mars. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
-Carl Sagan
Impressive looking piece of equipment. Wonder why they don't build up to Mars by returning to the moon? Surely there has to be worth wile reasons to go back there, or perhaps even build a small lab or base sort of like the orbital space station? |
That was worth getting up early for!! |
Wow! That seemed like a perfect test! |
-Carl Sagan
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