Take me to Mars

17 responses to “Take me to Mars”

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   jurvetson

   Dec 16, 2010 at 6:34 am

   SpaceX just posted photos of this Dragon flight and a mission summary. Post-flight:

   
   Orbital Path:
   

   Flight highlights video

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   jimheid

   Dec 16, 2010 at 6:35 am

   A thing of beauty — the photo and spacecraft alike.

   BTW, if you haven’t seen this 4-min no-budget video, you might enjoy:
   http://www.petapixel.com/2010/12/15/modern-times-points-to-futur...

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3. 

   rocketmavericks

   Dec 16, 2010 at 8:12 am

   Steve –

   You need to experience Mars in 3-D. I have several shots outside my office at NASA. Next time you have time for lunch, I can let you experience it with the 3-D glasses. I often spend my lunch with them on literally standing on the planet’s surface, or so it looks to me….

   Funny thing is it looks a lot like where we spend our summers flying rockets.

   Let me know. It is an amazing experience.

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Dec 16, 2010 at 11:16 am

   A beautiful thing! Just read their email. Great summary.

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Dec 16, 2010 at 11:22 am

   Imaginative video Jim….what would they have created had they had a budget? I think I was born 20 years too early. Had I been born later creating CGI would have been a wonderful career.

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   jurvetson

   Dec 16, 2010 at 5:47 pm

   She is. I call her g-shot. That’s her holding court in the back left of my photo.

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/14579294@N08] – yes! Sounds like a lovely stroll

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124272887@N01] kids these days…. wow.

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   solerena

   Dec 16, 2010 at 6:06 pm

   yep, cool, love walking on Mars in 3-D idea also…

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8. 

   Vanita

   Dec 17, 2010 at 2:47 pm

   Oh that’s nothing! We’ve got a big pic of Uranus in our guest bathroom.

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   jurvetson

   Dec 17, 2010 at 3:38 pm

   a thematic placement… =)

   Eppie: ground station transponders for points of contact (for data exchange, video feed, etc.)

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    sbove

    Dec 21, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    Simply amazing what Space X is accomplishing.

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11. 

    jurvetson

    Mar 28, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    P.S. Some passionate political rhetoric from Washington D.C.

    "The influence of the moon, of the planets – our next-door neighbors of the solar system – of the fixed stars scattered over the blue expanse in multitudes exceeding the power of human computation, and at distances of which imagination herself can form no distinct conception… but to the vigilance of a sleepless eye, to the toil of a tireless hand, and to the meditations of a thinking, combining, and analyzing mind secrets are successively revealed, not only of the deepest import to the welfare of man in his earthly career, but which seem to lift him from the earth to the threshold of his eternal abode; to lead him blindfold up to the Council Chamber of Omnipotence, and there stripping the bandage from his eyes, bid him look undazzled at the throne of God." John Quincy Adams, 1840

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12. 

    jurvetson

    Nov 8, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    and from Nature today "Dragon offers ticket to Mars"
    

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13. 

    jurvetson

    Nov 11, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    right you are…. and there would be takers of a one-way ticket

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14. 

    jurvetson

    Nov 11, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    I’d rather do a lunar orbital fly by. Good views and a nice gravitational hook to get back home.

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15. 

    solerena

    Nov 11, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    i would go to Mars (kidding) but first we need to terra-form Mars with nanobots… free ourselves from biological prison and leave happily ever after as elves:D it means free from illness of ignorance, old age and all sorts of other sickness-corruption of seven deadly sins (greed, pride etc.)
    Create elfy society of beauty and harmony in Solar system and beyond. Is it too much to ask?? Kidding… not sure that back to Earth is in fact going home.

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16. 

    jurvetson

    Sep 22, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    And now we have a new addition on that wall…

    

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17. 

    jurvetson

    Apr 27, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    This just in: the first Dragon landing on Mars may come in 2018

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