Milky Way Radiation Reveals Itself to Distant NASA Probes

[delldude]

Humans explore. It seems to be in our genetic make up. We went to the moon because we had never been off our planet. The amount of technology that traces it's way back to military and space exploration is massive. Just do a web search. Everything from GPS to scratch resistant glasses to bonding agents ....

Going to Mars is the next step. If we are ever going to leave our solar system we need to be able to travel and live in space for long durations. Far longer than anyone has lived on the ISS or Soyuz (438 days by Russian Valeri Polyakov). Mars is the closest planet to Earth that could be colonized.

Granted the space program has been wasteful in some ares but it seems the tighter budgets have done them good. There are unmanned probes going to Mars. The last rovers sent to Mars lasted far longer than their anticipated life span (IIRC one of them is still operational).

We were in a race to out do USSR....Sputnik sealed the fate of our space commitment.

Yeah and those probes are the early scouting for a manned visit. Just like the moon probes were.

 

[tech2101]

Tech...you best source your Tang comment.

Ok, here it is.

 

[delldude]

Ok, here it is.

Poon Tang? B)

Tech, Tang was around before we went into space was what I meant.

Wiki:

Tang is a fruit-flavored breakfast drink. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell in 1957, it was first marketed in powdered form in 1959.

Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight,and subsequent Gemini missions.

Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the misconception that Tang was invented for the space program. The Tang brand is currently owned by Kraft Foods.

 

[tech2101]

Poon Tang? B)

Tech, Tang was around before we went into space was what I meant.

Wiki:

Nice work. I knew you had it in you.

 

[delldude]

Nice work. I knew you had it in you.

Just helping out, after all, you taught me to source things before I post them you know

 

[Dog Wonder]

Yeah and those probes are the early scouting for a manned visit. Just like the moon probes were.

Take it back to the JoePa thread.

 

[delldude]

Take it back to the JoePa thread.

Why you up for some probing?

 

[Dog Wonder]

No thanks,

I think I'll skip the manned visits, too.