Never mind that. Think of how much stuff you find in the landfill.;-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Roshchin Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: For you, stargazers! -- The sky is falling! (kind of)
Tom, Think of the price of one modern fighter plane or the Stealth. And they crash too... - and how much useful has been learned from that? By the way, - for most satellites/stations/etc, the mass of the rocket (i.e. what is burnt or destroyed) is very large compared to the payload. So, - what's left for crashing is a small portion anyway.. Igor Thu Oct 8 17:52:57 CDT 2009 Tom C wrote: I'm a little dismayed at all this crashing business. You'd think with the millions of dollars spent, we could do something better than junk it into the moon or an asteroid. I understand it's part of the mission and why, but still... These miilion dollar space probes must be as disposable as Pentax cameras. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Igor Roshchin <str at komkon.org> wrote: > > For those who likes watching the Moon falling apart. > (well, kind of... :-) ) > > Tomorrow at 7:30am EDT, the LCROSS satellite will slam into the Moon. > You can watch it live starting at 6:15am EDT on NASA TV. Also, tonight > there will be live coverage of the mission as it passes L1 on the way to > the Moon at 10:30pm EDT. > > http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
