re: MER Mission Extended 18 Months
"I think Gary had the idea of sending more MERS in 2009 since MSL looks like it will slip to 2011. If NASA doesn't get least two more of these on Mars in 2009 they are absolute idiots. I'd love to see one land here:"
Megadittos Buckster!
As to MERs in '09, we ever get a final word up on the class of Delter launcher we'd need for the transfer orbit?