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Posted by tourdemars to Mars Exploration Rovers at May 6, 2004 09:10 AM
NASA gave the go-ahead for both Mars Exploration Rovers -- Spirit and Opportunity -- to keep on rolling. Each robot has been handed up to five months of overtime assignments after completing their individual three-month prime mission. "Even though the extended mission is approved to September, and the rovers could last even longer, they also might stop in their tracks next week or next month," said Firouz Naderi, Manager of Mars Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where the rovers were built and are controlled.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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We may be going on Mars like the energizer bunny but on Earth Nasa is crawling slowly backwards away from manned space flight aboard the Shuttle.
Side bar article notes:
Future of Space Shuttle Program Discussed Lawmakers Consider Allowing Russians To Finish Building Outpost.
http://www.wesh.com/spacenews/3275615/detail.html
How can Russia do any better than Nasa on this issue. Like Nasa they have no other heavy lifting rocket for manned or unmanned flight for the weight of the remaining modules.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at May 6, 2004 09:55 AM