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had a planning meeting for next year. here we go again! |
the crew is on their third day here.. spent a second night on the SPR last night. wrapping up today! |
starting a 3-day SPR traverse today. The crew (Gernhardt and Garry) willl sleep in the rover tonight and tomorrow night! |
comparing some basic geology tasks with and without the rover today.. |
Finished a long rover drive today. they went around 14km with stops for rock sampling, etc. A very good day! We're off to a good start! |
back to the test site for a 6 hour UPR run! |
All the gear is enroute to Arizona for testing.. most team members travel this week! |
Preparing for some tests of the SPR and UPR vehicles in AZ. Oct 20-30. more info soon! |
@Space_cOOp thank you! |
The D-RATS integrated field test has been rescheduled from this October to Spring 2009, to allow time for more engineering evaluations.. |
@Space_cOOp Here are the photos you requested from the June Field test! http://science.ksc.nasa.gov... |
@Space_cOOp yes, the website will be worked.. we don't have all the details worked out yet .. everyone is assembling rovers/suits/gear = ) |
@KeithCowing I'll pass along the request for an earlier press release! |
@NASA_EDGE yes, north of Flagstaff, about halfway to the grand Canyon. ancient lava flow |
@NASA_EDGE thank-you for the b-roll! Can't wait to see it! |
@KeithCowing Looks like end of October (last two weeks). everything else in your post is TBA |
@suziqb77 thank you!! |
Looks like we're going to explore here in October! 2.4 million year old basalts!: http://tinyurl.com/5cv5wd |
Great info about SPR (now in fabrication!!) can be read (starting on slide 4) here: http://tinyurl.com/64k4vy |
We'll be exploring 10km from the simulated lunar base in Oct, using an unpressurized and a "small pressurized rover" (SPR)!! |
