ABCNEWS.com : Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn’s Orbit: “Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn’s Orbit
Cassini Spacecraft Enters Saturn’s Orbit Between Two of Its Rings”
I can’t imagine that it was 7 short years ago that a Titan IV lifted off from Cape Canaveral at Complex 41 on its mission to explore Saturn. It was the success of that Launch that meant I would be hired by Lockheed Martin as a Tech on the program, and finally get promoted to where I am today.
I did get to work on the clean up activities of that launch, but I worked with all of the talented people on the program that worked on launching that space research vehicle.
There was a lot of controversy about the fuel cells of that spaceship, since it had “Radioactive” fuel on board to power it for its long journey. (Note: it would be too far from the Sun to have effective solar power.) But today, the earth survived the flybys needed to slingshot the craft across the galaxy.
This is really going where ONE has gone before. We could discover amazing things about our own solar system. And this could mean rethinking about how life exists, especially if we find life.
Keep watching Cassini and the Hyugens Probe as we get to the moon of Titan.
Maybe I’ll make some articles that will be of disinformation, and fun none the less.