Not sideways neither capsized, but upright on its feet, completing the mission and embarking on the journey back, the 'νόστος' of Homer's Odyssey, only much less tutted, as if it were a routine event, thus deserving
κύδος
for both the ethos and the accomplishment.
¹Success: in reference to #NASA's Bill Nelson calling Intuitive Machine's Odysseus barely surviving landing a "success" and a "triumph".
Le rover Curiosity a brisé une roche en roulant dessus, dévoilant des cristaux clairs et laiteux. La zone étant riche en sulfates, il est très probable que ce soit des cristaux de gypse, parmi les plus beaux que je vois depuis le début de la mission ! 1/3
Plotting wireframe drawing of the 34-meter Antenna at Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, part of the Deep Space Network on the Roland DPX-2000 #PenPlotter
#PPOD: This scene is a mosaic of two Right Mastcam-Z camera images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on 27 May 2024 at a local time of 3:15 pm. The color approximates natural human vision. Most boulders are largely basaltic, with evidence of being rounded by wind. We can't wait to learn the composition of the lighter-toned one in the middle of the scene, though, as it appears to be something different. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne
On Sol 1168 the rover moved to RMC 52.5032 across the ancient riverbed and stopped a few meters away from a light colored layer of rock at the foot of the northern bank, which appears to be the same layer with that of Bright Angel.
¹"the bacon strip": unofficial name for a light colored layer of rock back at the Three Forks area.
I’m not working this program so I can’t speak to this particular thing, but I have worked several launches on console in Mission Control.
A scrub this late, at least for me with Space Shuttle, was so hard mentally! You get into a mindset when, over many hours (our ascent shifts ended ~ 1 hr after Post Insertion, so we arrived on console ~ 7 hrs before launch), you psych yourself up for liftoff. It’s very deflating to be so close & not go! #nasa
Preparations for NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch are in progress.
Launch time: 12:25 pm ET
"The two NASA astronauts aboard, flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, will test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system, including launch, docking, and return to Earth. After a one-week stay docked to the International Space Station, the Starliner and crew will land under parachutes in the western United States."
Starliner launch is now scheduled for 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5.
"The ULA team identified an issue with a single ground power supply within one of the 3 redundant chassis that provides power to a subset of computer cards controlling various system functions, including the card responsible for the stable replenishment topping valves for the Centaur upper stage."
The faulty chassis have been replaced with a spare unit.