Comments on: Phoenix Landing on Mars

By: Pitambharadharaya

Pitambharadharaya — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:27:42 +0000

thanks very much for posting this!

By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:39:00 +0000

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By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:59:00 +0000

Yeah! I so agree, Blackburn and Kathleen… (clever choice of words too, Kathleen… “already spinning in space”… hehe). It is nice to feel optimism and witness a program is essentially based in optimism.

Be sure to catch my Friday Feature post, which features more on space travel… both pros and cons… and again to do with who and what we are…

By: blackburn1

blackburn1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:01:00 +0000

Great post for a great event.

With all the grim reality of current events, this is one piece of news that is all good, and truly awe-inspiring.

Cheers to those who made it happen.

By: kathleenmaher

kathleenmaher — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:08:00 +0000

Fabulous!
Ordinarily, I fall into the camp of space-travel cynics: too many problems on this planet, which after all (a common space-cynic refrain), is already spinning in space.
But this story and the pictures, which I didn’t see on tv, because my husband won’t have one in the apt., opened my eyes. Thanks.

By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:49:00 +0000

Me too! I love those goosebumps! Perhaps our children will have the option of living and working there…

By: CrazyKinux

CrazyKinux — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:12:00 +0000

I'm always amazed at the photographs that we get back during these missions. When I think that they were taken on a different world I get goose bumps!

I look forward (crosses his fingers and toes) when humankind sets a foot on Mars and starts building permanent Moon bases.

Until then, I'll enjoy my goose bumps!

By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:33:00 +0000

p.s. You know, I had no idea Canada even HAD a Canadian Space Agency, never mind what they DID there, until I wrote this article…
The mandate of the Canadian Space Agency is:

To promote the peaceful use and development of space, to advance the knowledge of space through science and to ensure that space science and technology provide social and economic benefits for Canadians.
If you want to know more about what they do or are about, here is their website: http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/default.asp

By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:21:00 +0000

Oh dear, Rick…. I so agree (well, not about the hanging so much… but about the sad way the whole process has gone…) It’s like we all “grew up” and let people convince us that, well, that kind of stuff is “irresponsible”, it’s for kids, for dreamers… They killed a dream. It’s through dreams that we live and ironically that we learn and grow and thrive…

By: Rick LeBlanc

Rick LeBlanc — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:44:00 +0000

Y’know, when I was a kid, I was sure that I would have at least visited the moon by now. There’d be colonies on both moon and Mars and we would have robotic missions to other planets that would have supplied resources to Earth or L5 colonies. Somewhere along the way, we strayed from our adventurous path and let the bureaucrats pinch the pennies until there’s a mere shadow of what may have been. We might have an independent space program instead of piggy-backing onto the US, if Diefenbacher hadn’t fried the Avro Arrow. I still think he should hang for that. Most of the aeronautic folks ended up at NASA.

By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:17:00 +0000

Wonderful, isn’t it. It takes me back to when we first landed on the moon…. so exciting!

By: Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:56:00 +0000

This really caught my eye when the Phoenix landed. The BBC story online I had bookmarked on delicious, Stumbleupon & Facebook.

By: sfgirl

sfgirl — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:17:00 +0000

Yeah! HAR! And it’s as exciting as the first time, isn’t it?

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid (still do…). When I played dolls with my big sister it wasn’t “Ken and Barbie go to the beach”… It was a cast of thousands (humans and aliens) exploring in outer space!

To glimpse our vast universe from out there or experience another planet would be transporting in the least… certainly magical… Well, perhaps in another life-time…

By: dan

dan — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:17:00 +0000

I watched the landing live on CNN the day it happened, here in Taiwan, I think it was morning here. I remember sunshine coming through the bedroom window….

30 years ago and now now. Still boggles the mind. ”HOW do they do it?” asks this landlubber….