Article View: sci.electronics.design
Article #127Re: nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing
From: Mark Borgerson
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:23
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:23
22 lines
2350 bytes
2350 bytes
In article <a8b09dF2tcU1@mid.individual.net>, 5V@2.5A says... > > On 07-Aug-12 8:13 AM, Jordan wrote: > > > > > >> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-06/nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing/4180454 > >> > > > > Great achievement, but have we forgotten something? > > I was surprised when I mentioned to some friends that there have been successful landings on Mars since at least 1976 - > > they were astonished and disbelieving. > > Try and get people to believe that the Concord and 747 first flew in 1969, or that the B52 proto took to the air in 1952. > > BTW The B52 is still a current work horse. > Only 6 new heads and 3 new handles. :-) Right up there is the first flight of the A-12 (predecessor to the SR- 71) in 1962. Of course, only a limited number of people really knew about it at the time! ;-) Mark Borgerson
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<MPG.2a8a463db586771e98992b@news.eternal-september.org>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!n2ni107200027win.0!nntp.google.com!feed-C.news.volia.net!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news-feed.eu.lambdanet.net!texta.sil.at!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<a895o7Fa95U1@mid.individual.net> <akXTr.204$Wo3.102@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com> <a8b09dF2tcU1@mid.individual.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: a5a6238865,7af901c0b69fae4
X-Google-Attributes: gida5a6238865,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Received: by 10.180.106.199 with SMTP id gw7mr1193120wib.0.1344850271918;
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:31:11 -0700 (PDT)
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!n2ni107200027win.0!nntp.google.com!feed-C.news.volia.net!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news-feed.eu.lambdanet.net!texta.sil.at!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Mark Borgerson <mborgerson@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,aus.electronics,comp.arch.embedded
Subject: Re: nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 22:23:41 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <MPG.2a8a463db586771e98992b@news.eternal-september.org>
References: <a895o7Fa95U1@mid.individual.net> <akXTr.204$Wo3.102@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com> <a8b09dF2tcU1@mid.individual.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d11051a4cab8a24ff015e72263c3e1cd";
logging-data="18686"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xNm5u/xs5JlAWsjXie+wralKaVr19qFI="
User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4
Cancel-Lock: sha1:oXQdwgrxDEjkEur9WR8ab6wWpjo=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit