It looks like, outside of the Area 51 scientist from Independence Day, NASA fired anyone under 40..

If you're part of the team who made this thing, I wonder how nervous and/or sick you are right at this point.

Wasn't it a Mars ship a while back that was killed because of the metric/English mixup?

I probably shouldn't talk about that. It's jinxy.

LMAO

I'm just glad he was able to find work after that debacle.

NASA's not a growth industry.


When I joined the defense industry in the mid-80s, we noticed at one point that all of the engineers were either in their 20s or older than 50. That didn't bode well, and sure enough, a lot of us got laid off in the next down cycle.

They're getting antsy. THIS IS HAPPENING (somewhere between 36-250 million miles away)!

Its a rover mission, along with Spirit that was launched in 2004.

Spirit died, but Opportunity is still working.

They were only supposed to work like a couple yrs, maybe, not sure.

Oh crap, I knew that. I mistook Opportunity for Curiosity. Whoops.

Made it through entry! PBJ

Not the first time in my life I've done that! #rimshot

That post applies to the two posts immediately preceding it.

LOL...it's decreasing speed to Mach 2! Holy crapola!

Three minutes to finding out what happened a while back.

Parachute deployed, woot!