The Martian

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   jurvetson

   Feb 18, 2021 at 10:17 pm

   With my son at JPLWe were guests of Scott Hubbard, the former “Mars Czar” at NASA. From his book Exploring Mars:

   “Chapter 1 — Mars is Hard: The history of modern Mars exploration is a cautionary tale. The Soviet Union (and, later, Russia) has been singularly unlucky in exploring Mars. [They] attempted twenty missions to the red planet. Of that, only four were minimally successful, and none could be called fully successful."

   And visiting the wind tunnel where they tested the parachute that performed so perfectly today… and the Mars helicopter that will soon take flight: the largest windtunnel

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   jurvetson

   Feb 21, 2021 at 3:49 pm

   Thanks to some photo-jockeys on FB, we now know what I was looking up at: I always love the first shipment of a new EV… especially with the extended range nuclear batteries!

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