Phobos Grunt Is Away!

Y'herd thisun?

“Thus far, radiation has not been a major problem for crews on the shuttle, whose maximum stay [prior to EDO - smith] has not exceeded 10 days. Skylab crews did not suffer ill effects from radiation even on the longest voyage of 84 days. And cosmonauts who have been in space for a full year have not shown evidence of damage from radiation. The radiation dosage received by astronauts (and cosmonauts) is routinely monitored”

from Space Commerce, Materials Processing by Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. John L. McLucas

Posted November 08, 2011 12:36PM by Robert Smth

Monitoring all the major TV networks and not a peep. But the Bankok Post and Atlanta Journal Constitution both broke to the top of Google News two minutes ago...

Successful lift off. Red Mars has begun.

"The Phobos-Grount (Phobos-Soil) craft was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 booster rocket at 12:16 a.m. Moscow time Wednesday (2016 GMT Tuesday) from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will take the robotic probe a few hours to conduct a series of preliminary maneuvers before it can shoot off to the Red Planet."

Geeze, CNN HLN is doing an in-depth analysis of Dancing With The Stars. Dancing With The Stars. Can I trade in my passport somewhere?