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Space Science

Columbia Memorial Station 35

Posted by michael from the risky-business dept.
EngrBohn writes "NASA has named the Mars Spirit landing site the 'Columbia Memorial Station'. They've obviously been planning this, as there's even a plaque at the CMS."
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  • A fine memorial (Score:4, Interesting)

    by ferralis ( 736358 ) on Tuesday January 06, 2004 @07:18PM (#7897304) Homepage Journal
    What better memorial? A plaque on the first permanently occupied extra-planetary base, I guess, but this is definitely a close second. I just hope that we (humans) can get out there to put some flowers around it someday.

  • On a related note, a question.... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by KarMann ( 121054 ) <karmannjro.yahoo@com> on Tuesday January 06, 2004 @09:06PM (#7898371) Homepage

    I first noticed these jack-o'-lantern faces [nasa.gov] on the propellant tanks of the cruise stage while taking a look at the craft with Celestia [shatters.net], and at first I was thinking it was just some humour on the part of the person creating the skin for Celestia. But then I saw the picture linked to above, and obviously it wasn't just the programmer having a lark. I haven't been able to find anything on the Web about who came up with the idea, and why, though. I've developed a pet theory of my own, which would be that they needed a certain amount of dark surface on the gold-foil-wrapped tanks to maintain the proper thermal balance, and decided to do something more catchy than just a big bulls-eye dot on them or something like that.

    Anyway, anybody know just what the real story is, and whodunnit?

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