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There were about 240,000 concurrent users on the web feed at touchdown. But not a single TV news channel was covering the event live that I could find.
cnn.com is, but they're just repeating the nasa feed unmodified.
They could have cutover to Ryan Seacrest interviewing a rock.
what's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki: > ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR > Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency. > Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space f…
The US paid for the vast majority and are responsible for getting this to Mars. The crazy landing, and $2.5 billion at risk on a project with a 30% historic success rate, wase not shared. US total annual space spending is about $60 billion a year. The entire rest of the world combined is only about $22. The entire EU is under $6 billion. This is an American achievement. If you aren't from the US, you should try to en…
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The US paid for the vast majority and are responsible for getting this to Mars. The crazy landing, and $2.5 billion at risk on a project with a 30% historic success rate, wase not shared. US total annual space spending is about $60 billion a year. The entire rest of the world combined is only about $22. The entire EU is under $6 billion. This is an American achievement. If you aren't from the US, you should try to en…
NASA's budget is about 18B, not all of which is space related. Where does your other 42B come from?
One thing they mentioned is that one advantage to the sky hook is that it will be a soft landing - no dust will go everywhere and land on delicate instruments. Isn't this easily solvable with some sort of skin it can just dispose of once the dust has settled?
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NASA's budget is about 18B, not all of which is space related. Where does your other 42B come from?
The total 2010 US Space budget was $64.6B. The entire rest of the world combined spent only $22.5B. NASA's 2010 budget was $18.7B, 83% of the spending for the rest of the world. The Air Force Space Command is the remainder, they run many projects, including GPS.
Is there anything left to be done by NASA HQ? For example, are they still controlling the trajectory of the probe to Mars or is that mostly done by probe's onboard computers? I'm genuinely curious about what kind of things the HQ is doing right now. I've been watching the live stream and there's not much activity besides milling around screens and resizing windows on the huge screen.
what's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki: > ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR > Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency. > Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space f…
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The total 2010 US Space budget was $64.6B. The entire rest of the world combined spent only $22.5B. NASA's 2010 budget was $18.7B, 83% of the spending for the rest of the world. The Air Force Space Command is the remainder, they run many projects, including GPS.
Thanks for the info, but shouldn't we be comparing civilian space budgets? Obviously dual use projects like GPS should be included but most of that 40B+ is purely military in nature.
what's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki: > ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR > Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency. > Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space f…
The US paid for the vast majority and are responsible for getting this to Mars. The crazy landing, and $2.5 billion at risk on a project with a 30% historic success rate, wase not shared. US total annual space spending is about $60 billion a year. The entire rest of the world combined is only about $22. The entire EU is under $6 billion. This is an American achievement. If you aren't from the US, you should try to en…
It also plays well to the people who don't know any better, the people who say 'why are we spending all this money on space when I can't get a job?'. You'll notice that the straighter and more senior heads - Pete Theisinger the PM, and John Grotzinger the chief scientist, did not go all Team America during the press conference, but did make similar points - 'The money isn't sent to Mars, it's spent here on Earth' - again speaking to the pressure that they're under.
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Thanks for the info, but shouldn't we be comparing civilian space budgets? Obviously dual use projects like GPS should be included but most of that 40B+ is purely military in nature.
It would be almost impossible to get a reliable estimate for other countries, most do not have separate civilian and military space programs like the US. For example, the ESA is building Galileo, a positioning system similar to GPS, primarily for strategic military needs. The Russians and the Chinese, who make up almost the entire remainder of global space spending after the EU, spend quite a bit on military space, b…
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