Kudos To NASA

Found a job too.

In fact, just started this month at KSC.

$69K/year with full benefits.


"fatchance" wrote in message
...
keith wrote:

"I just have some basic concerns of whether our faltering economy, under
the
Bush administration, can sustain the increased spending needs and goals
he
has set.

Maybe you don't read. Or maybe you don't own a TV. I will bring you up
to
date on the current world. The economy is not faltering. Have you heard?
The
economy is growing thanks to the policies of our President.

Stop being so narrow minded.

I guess you don't know anybody that's tried to get a decent paying job
with benefits lately.


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Exeter wrote:

wrote in
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After a string of failures, from the Shuttle Challenger disaster in
1986, and the Columbia disaster more recently, it is very refreshing
to see the unmanned Spirit rover succeed.


Succeed? Getting a bit ahead of yourself aren't you? All it's done so
far is land successfully. While that's a great beginning, the real
mission hasn't even started yet...plenty of time for failure.

Killjoy.

What's behind are the highest risk portions of the mission. Sure, Mars
carries a 66% failure rate. But all of those failures were prior to
landing. So far, everything that's made contact after landing has done
an exemplary job and exceeded expectations. (as long as you don't expect
to see life waving to you)

Besides, by the time I've written this response, I've seen the
back-looking camera shot of the reentry vehicle that Spirit just drove
off of - the next high-risk task. Now we just have to avoid tumbles and
the like, and it should be clear sailing.

Dale Pontius

In article , Dale Pontius wrote:

What's behind are the highest risk portions of the mission. Sure, Mars
carries a 66% failure rate. But all of those failures were prior to
landing.

Mars 3, first sucessful softlander on Mars... for twenty seconds.
Granted, it was probably *due* to the landing, but it landed, worked,
died quickly.

We also don't know if Beagle 2 landed sucessully or not; there's, at a
guess, maybe a 20-30% chance it landed and just broke thereafter.

So far, everything that's made contact after landing has done
an exemplary job and exceeded expectations. (as long as you don't expect
to see life waving to you)

cf/ Mars 3, above...

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-Andrew Gray