I will watch the crash tonight, since you told me about it. Before you did that I had no clue it was even taking place
The project is like many of these projects, in that it has taken many years. It came out of the European space agency as a concept in 2015 - which means people had already been working on it for years. That's kinda amazing. Many of these folks will spend their career on just one program/mission.
I actually got to help with a satellite's math. It measures the fluctuation in Earth's gravity. I got to go see it launch and my name was inside it in magic marker from the only time I was ever allowed in the clean room. The radiation will have long since destroyed the ink, so I can't fly up and take a picture. That was a project assigned to me as a grad student. I made no money, not even a stipend. They did pay for the bus to take us down to launch. I think we had to cover our own food and lodging. I'm not sure, as that was a long, long time ago.
That's as close as I've come to space.
That's closer than I. My name has never left the surface more than in an airplane. Except when I left universe and was appointed the master of the universe. But I did not use a spacecraft
LOL We hit the fucker!
We'll be studying this for another decade. Well, they'll be studying it. I mean 'we' as in the global us. This is just the start. We shall see what happens!
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