Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8

New submitter el borak writes "Never mind all the talk about the revival of the American auto industry. What may be the greatest car the U.S. has ever built is currently a tidy 78 million miles (125m km) away from this world — resting on the edge of Endeavour crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. It was on January 25, 2004 that the rover Opportunity bounced down on Mars for a mission designed to last a minimum of three months and a maximum of just a year or two."

Re:Medals

[spidercoz]

Those engineers have already been honored the American way, their jobs were outsourced.

Re:Great engineering!

[lemur3]

Of course You can afford to

Pay for quality

You're the Pope!!

  you probably bathe in a golden bathtub..

Re:the flipside of reliability

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone sounds a little bitter. What's the matter, NASA turn you down for a job?

Which is strange, because during his interview he kept stressing to them that he was "just good enough" for the job.