Shades of 2001! Crew Announced for New Jupiter Mission

Juno, NASA's next mission to orbit Jupiter, will be the first manned
mission to the giant planet, it has been announced.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-241

Juno's launch window opens this Friday, August 5th. The one-way
journey will take 5 years, arriving in 2016.

On 8/4/2011 1:55 PM, wrote:
Juno, NASA's next mission to orbit Jupiter, will be the first manned
mission to the giant planet, it has been announced.


If Jupiter and Juno were to see how they were being portrayed, there
would be some harpies or snakes showing up at JPL pronto. ;-)
What's Juno carrying? A tambourine, or a frying pan to whack Jupiter
with if he gets out of line with Europa again?

Pat

On 8/4/2011 8:44 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 8/4/2011 1:55 PM, wrote:
Juno, NASA's next mission to orbit Jupiter, will be the first manned
mission to the giant planet, it has been announced.


If Jupiter and Juno were to see how they were being portrayed, there
would be some harpies or snakes showing up at JPL pronto. ;-)
What's Juno carrying? A tambourine, or a frying pan to whack Jupiter
with if he gets out of line with Europa again?




....Oh; magnifying glass... I don't think they had those back then, they
probably mean a mirror of some sort.
(It would have been fun if they did have magnifying glasses, as the
telescope's invention could have been occurred around a thousand years
or so before it did.)

Pat

So, my question - why did the Legonauts have to be made out of
aluminum rather than the "standard" Lego figure plastic?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/04/legonauts/

To much risk/worry about parts separating or cracking in the cold?

Or do they figure that the Legonauts have a better chance of surviving
a launch accident without an LES if they are aluminum?-)

rick jones
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