coldel Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 The mind absolutely boggles that we are looking at images from so far away, was chuffed it all worked out this morning, clearly so were the mission controllers with that handshake https://news.sky.com/story/nasas-insight-spacecraft-successfully-lands-on-mars-11564652 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Watched it live last night, another amazing achievement for the human kind. Mind boggling, 6 months travel time, about 300,0000,000 miles and close to $1,000,000,000 cost! We could do so much more if we spent the resources in research and development rather than wars and lobby. With the private companies like SpaceX, Blue Origins and Virgin Galactic joining the space race, let's hope we will see more stuff like this happening in the near future. Seen this? http://uk.businessinsider.com/nasa-sls-replacement-spacex-bfr-blue-origin-new-glenn-2018-11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldel Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Its all swings and roundabouts with NASA - they fund SpaceX with huge contracts anyway so they are all kind of in it together. It would be good in my lifetime to see a bit more space exploration, seeing things for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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