This Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure of talking to a NASA engineer (yes, a rocket scientist) about the space program. We talked about "Faster, Better, Cheaper", the space shuttle, budgets, and the little rover that keeps on ticking on Mars. We talked about one of his projects, the Cassini Probe, which is currently circling Saturn. The project has gone well, but there is reason for concern. Europe has a probe that is piggybacking on Cassini. It has a manual release but no one is sure that it will actually release. As a fan of astronomy, I'm hoping it does, but I'm really glad that even if it doesn't, the egg is not on NASA's face.
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