Vandenberg did change its name yesterday... LOL
There can be only one.
I loved the comment I read that "the Chinese did in one go what it took the US decades to do"... Um. Uh-huh. Our first lander has been on Mars since, what, 1976? And our first rover started making tracks in the Martian soil in 1997.
Kudos to the Chinese for making the trip, and welcome to the party. Parking right over there, and please try not to hit one of our old cars, OK? Nothing to do with Mars is easy, but It's always easier to do something when you can watch someone else do it for 45 years and see in great detail exactly what has worked for them, I guess.
I loved the comment I read that "the Chinese did in one go what it took the US decades to do"...
.. but It's always easier to do something when you can watch someone else do it ...
That made me chuckle when reading that line. You can bet there was a lot of shared technology between the US and China, and probably a little stolen technology as well.
Hey, watched, stolen, whatever. I figure some things are or should rightfully be knowledge in the public domain for the good of mankind, regardless of who paid to develop that knowledge. So sure, let them stand on the shoulder of giants. Let’s just not pretend they did it without those giants and their shoulders.yeah, "watch someone"...and "probably a little stolen technology"
definitely elicited a chuckle from me...
The fact is, all the NASA stuff is public, and information is freely disseminated. It's *supposed* to be picked up and used by other entities.
Maybe they'll encounter the Viking lander we put there in the 1970s.