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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: The Perils of Dante
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.233228.26902@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 23:32:28 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- Lessons learned from Dante:
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- A) NASA should never work with spools of wire or cable :-)
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- B) The more moving parts, quadruple the chance of something breaking.
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- Hopefully they'll come back next summer and run it without someone spraying
- lubricants all over the fiber optic cable, or other human intervention.
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- Further, I'd hope they'd eventually work out a package 5 years down the
- road where they drop the Dante/Carrier combo out of a C-130 and run a TOTALLY
- hands-off mission as a dry run to Mars. For that matter, they could/should
- run practice runs on rovers down South. ....
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- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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