Mars Pathfinder = Sagan Station

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Mars Pathfinder = Sagan Station

Socrates II — 6/10/2009 3:38:21 PM (archived)

Actually after Viking they expected to have rovers on Mars sometime
in the 1980s, so not only would it not have been a huge surprise but
they would have wondered what took us so long.

Check out these plans for future Vikings from 1974 here:

http://robotexplorers.blogspot.com/2009/02/viking-79-rover-traverses-1974.html

The first successful Mars rover mission and its landing craft, Mars
Pathfinder, was renamed the Carl E. Sagan Memorial Station after it
landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997.

http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/releases/97/sagansta.html

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/pathfinder/eosweek4.html

And in the 1985 novel Contact written by Sagan, one paragraph dealt
with two rovers on Mars circa 1999, one of which was stuck in a dune
and radioing Earth for help.

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Damn, I miss this guy! - Eri - 6/7/2009 6:20:29 AM
- Me Too - REB - 6/8/2009 12:59:11 PM
  - That was cool. Thank you! (n/t) - Eri - 6/9/2009 3:38:56 AM
    - Rocky Mountain High. - REB - 6/9/2009 5:03:38 PM
- What do John Denver, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have in common? - Bowser - 6/7/2009 9:43:52 PM
  - I don't know....tell me (n/t) - Lindy - 6/8/2009 12:26:58 AM
    - OK - Bowser - 6/8/2009 2:10:08 AM
      - Armstrong - Raoul - 6/8/2009 5:23:55 AM
        
        Cognitive dissonance - Bowser - 6/8/2009 7:22:48 AM
        
        What reason was there to bring that up? - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 2:09:22 PM
        
        Simple. - Bowser - 6/8/2009 6:59:57 PM
        
        re: Simple. - Lindy - 6/8/2009 8:53:17 PM
- He was born in Roswell, NM. Hmmmmm. (n/t) - ER - 6/7/2009 12:06:25 PM
  - From Roswell, NM. he grew up seeing... - REB - 6/8/2009 1:17:10 PM
  - I know, I know. I thought about that. - Eri - 6/7/2009 6:25:54 PM
    - His dad worked at Area 51. - ER - 6/7/2009 7:22:07 PM
      - Sunshine makes him HIGH? - carl - 6/10/2009 2:30:14 PM
- Oh Eri...so do I.. - Jody - 6/7/2009 7:47:17 AM
  - John Denver interviewed Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show in 1977 - Socrates II - 6/7/2009 12:57:31 PM
    - Strange to see VIKING PICS - carl - 6/10/2009 2:59:31 PM
      - Mars Pathfinder = Sagan Station - Socrates II - 6/10/2009 3:38:21 PM
        
        And some day... - Socrates II - 6/10/2009 4:35:26 PM
    - I think I saw that when it originally aired. - Eri - 6/7/2009 6:25:15 PM
      - Sagan was on Carson about 38 times, so... - Socrates II - 6/8/2009 2:13:47 PM
        
        Sadly they have changed.. - Eri - 6/9/2009 3:42:46 AM
        
        re: Sadly they have changed.. - Socrates II - 6/9/2009 2:56:25 PM

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