[jpdoctor]

> I am still amazed that the Rovers are still operational.

A lot of people are. I had the pleasure of chatting with the NASA program manager in charge of one of the rovers. She was a bit hilarious: When it came time to set the height of one of the mission cameras, someone whipped out a ruler and measured the distance from the floor to her eyes -- and then wrote it in the spec.

Her comment on the first manned mission: Inevitably it leads to a discussion about one-way missions to mars. The next discussion is "who would volunteer", next followed by "who would you volunteer?"

[btw, she said NASA will not officially consider one-way missions as a matter of principle.]

[paparoger]

Ha, now that's comical!