Comments on: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record https://www.habitablezone.com/2019/01/02/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-enters-close-orbit-around-bennu-breaking-record/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2019/01/02/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-enters-close-orbit-around-bennu-breaking-record/#comment-42734 podrock Thu, 03 Jan 2019 04:29:38 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=75171#comment-42734 The expertise that have guided these crafts on their journey is the absolute pinnacle of thousands of years of navigation technology. New Horizons is hauling ass out of the system and can collect tons of data in a few hours, so far away it'll take years to transmit it all. Meanwhile OSIRIS is doing a slow dance around a boulder. Damn, humans can do some amazing things. "Not because they are easy, but because they are hard." The expertise that have guided these crafts on their journey is the absolute pinnacle of thousands of years of navigation technology. New Horizons is hauling ass out of the system and can collect tons of data in a few hours, so far away it’ll take years to transmit it all. Meanwhile OSIRIS is doing a slow dance around a boulder.

Damn, humans can do some amazing things. “Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

]]> By: RL https://www.habitablezone.com/2019/01/02/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-enters-close-orbit-around-bennu-breaking-record/#comment-42733 RL Thu, 03 Jan 2019 04:02:18 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=75171#comment-42733 The other %96 are wondering when they will get paid again... The damage this is doing to many missions schedules is immense. The other %96 are wondering when they will get paid again…

The damage this is doing to many missions schedules is immense.

]]> By: ER https://www.habitablezone.com/2019/01/02/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-enters-close-orbit-around-bennu-breaking-record/#comment-42732 ER Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:02:09 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=75171#comment-42732 NASA has had a very good week. NASA has had a very good week.

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