Fixerger
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I'm surprised no one made a thread about our achievements in the human space flight and science in a year 2010 and thoughts/hopes about our future year (Or i failed to find such thread %) ).
So... what was this year for me?
Hard to tell all the exciting (and sad) news i've read so i think for me that will be Falcon 9 success... some settlement for NASA (it was a hard year for them), Hayabusa mission and other asteroid encounters, Venus Climate Orbiter, SDO mission (got really nice images, look at them!... and our Sun is finally woke up); China's new probe to Moon is the great step. Cassini is doing a very good job (just look at that close-up images of Saturn's moons...and new discoveries). Special thanks for that Japan solar sail (which is flying pretty fast)! Discoveries of the new extraterrestrial planets (with some exciting images) will provide more understanding to our scientists of how our and other planetary systems form etc. China will probably have more launches than US in 2010 and Russia is doing well (except of that failed Glonass launch but it is not that bad).
In the coming year i hope for... launch of MSL (or in 2012) to assess ancient martian terrain; the arrival of our probes to Venus (or it is already there) and Mercury; NASA will make some final decisions about the new heavy lift (or whatever...) and their path (and oh... some funding will arrive). New Horizons is still on its way to Pluto and will (or already) cross Uranus orbit soon (don't forget this is a flyby mission - a big disappoint for me
). I hope the Space Shuttle will have better year (without delays like now) and the ISS will be soon completed. I can bet the next merged(hope) COTS Falcon 9 launch to ISS will be really hot event for us! Chinese and Russians maybe will launch some probes... to Moon and Phobos (or Grant mission is delayed again to 2012?). I'm really waiting for some Chinese lander on the Moon that year... images and videos will be great. For now Mars and Moon orbiters are pretty stable for me (really glad to see 'water research' on both targets). Oppy is running well but sooo sloooow (speed of light is limitation... Where are you Humans on Mars? Or perhaps some EDL technology research at least... R. D. Braun has good paper on that) and Spirit is still asleep. There's many probes waiting for their job which i don't mention so I will be happy to see them soon on orbit.
So, Happy New Year and don't forget to express your thoughts about
So... what was this year for me?
Hard to tell all the exciting (and sad) news i've read so i think for me that will be Falcon 9 success... some settlement for NASA (it was a hard year for them), Hayabusa mission and other asteroid encounters, Venus Climate Orbiter, SDO mission (got really nice images, look at them!... and our Sun is finally woke up); China's new probe to Moon is the great step. Cassini is doing a very good job (just look at that close-up images of Saturn's moons...and new discoveries). Special thanks for that Japan solar sail (which is flying pretty fast)! Discoveries of the new extraterrestrial planets (with some exciting images) will provide more understanding to our scientists of how our and other planetary systems form etc. China will probably have more launches than US in 2010 and Russia is doing well (except of that failed Glonass launch but it is not that bad).
In the coming year i hope for... launch of MSL (or in 2012) to assess ancient martian terrain; the arrival of our probes to Venus (or it is already there) and Mercury; NASA will make some final decisions about the new heavy lift (or whatever...) and their path (and oh... some funding will arrive). New Horizons is still on its way to Pluto and will (or already) cross Uranus orbit soon (don't forget this is a flyby mission - a big disappoint for me
). I hope the Space Shuttle will have better year (without delays like now) and the ISS will be soon completed. I can bet the next merged(hope) COTS Falcon 9 launch to ISS will be really hot event for us! Chinese and Russians maybe will launch some probes... to Moon and Phobos (or Grant mission is delayed again to 2012?). I'm really waiting for some Chinese lander on the Moon that year... images and videos will be great. For now Mars and Moon orbiters are pretty stable for me (really glad to see 'water research' on both targets). Oppy is running well but sooo sloooow (speed of light is limitation... Where are you Humans on Mars? Or perhaps some EDL technology research at least... R. D. Braun has good paper on that) and Spirit is still asleep. There's many probes waiting for their job which i don't mention so I will be happy to see them soon on orbit.So, Happy New Year and don't forget to express your thoughts about
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