🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:50:50 -0700 (PDT), dp <dp@tgi-sci.com> wrote:

>On Aug 6, 9:43 am, Jon Kirwan <j...@infinitefactors.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> What impresses me the most is that this trip was about 350
>> million miles, ending in a tight coordination with two
>> orbiting satellites, the ODY and MRO, and deploying novel
>> technologies to land a 1 ton vehicle (if I heard correct.)
>> Hard to believe that all of this could come together as well
>> as it did.
>>
>> Jon
>
>Same feelings here - very well done. I just cannot imagine
>how tense it must have been for the people (person?) whose
>baby this is; I know I have had my tense moments shipping
>overseas the first spectrometers and waiting for them to
>call home and work with HPGe detectors (each being generally
>a unique personality) they have never seen; I also know the
>relief at the end of it.
>And the scales are simply not comparable; how do these
>people survive the wait is just beyond me, I guess.
>

I have met some of these people, and i couldn't tell the difference in a
few moments talking to them.  Just the same they seem to be made of
sterner stuff than Dale six-pack.

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