It’s Over
Galileo Ends 14-Year Mission in Jupiter.
(Interesting choice of prepositions there…)
Update: Well, these moonbats turn out to have been wrong. [Cue mad-scientist Theremin crescendo] SO FAR…..
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Rocket Science: Hybrid Rockets
What is a hybrid rocket, how does it work, and what are the advantages and disadvantages versus conventional solid and liquid rockets?
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Another Galileo Obituary
Moreover, it is pointing the way for future missions, including one proposed to study Jupiter’s moons that would launch no sooner than 2012.
“It’s forwarded our understanding to the point where we have new questions to ask,” Alexander said.
Which is what good science should do. Why, then, do we have such a ho-hum, “been there, done that” attitude towards the Moon? You’d think we’d explored the whole thing already, but we’ve sent what, two probes there since the end of Apollo?
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