I just looked at a live video feed form the Genesis landing site and there are about 8 guys standing around it appearing to be trying to figure out how to get it out of the ground as delicately as possible. It is about ½ berried. It touched down about a ½ mile form a commonly used dirt road. The road is burmed up because it is hard to get vehicles out in that area because the mud is soft out there. JG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now.
OK. Now there are 12 guys standing around and I can see one shovel. They are gett'n serious. They just put a shroud over the Genesis, probably to protect it from further contamination JG. Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote: I just looked at a live video feed form the Genesis landing site and there are about 8 guys standing around it appearing to be trying to figure out how to get it out of the ground as delicately as possible. It is about ½ berried. It touched down about a ½ mile form a commonly used dirt road. The road is burmed up because it is hard to get vehicles out in that area because the mud is soft out there. JG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now.
They just took off the heat shield and carried it away. The interior module where the goodies are is in tact! That is a good sign. JG Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote: OK. Now there are 12 guys standing around and I can see one shovel. They are gett'n serious. They just put a shroud over the Genesis, probably to protect it from further contamination JG. Jim Gibson wrote: I just looked at a live video feed form the Genesis landing site and there are about 8 guys standing around it appearing to be trying to figure out how to get it out of the ground as delicately as possible. It is about ½ berried. It touched down about a ½ mile form a commonly used dirt road. The road is burmed up because it is hard to get vehicles out in that area because the mud is soft out there. JG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
Jim, when I was at Dugway they told me the interior module was broken open too. Are you sure it's intact? thanks, Joe
Naw, they're not prisoners, but I'm surprised to see county workers out there... -- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Quoting Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com>:
OK. Now there are 12 guys standing around and I can see one shovel.
Are they wearing orange jump suits and do the vehicles say Salt Lake County?? ;)
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I swear the same crew was in my neighborhood last week repairing a sprinkler head...
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Are they wearing orange jump suits and do the vehicles say Salt Lake County?? ;)
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Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
I'm surprised to see county workers out there...
Somebody's got to fill that big 'ol pot hole. What's next for NASA? The way I see it, NASA has 16 months to determine what size net they will need to stretch across the desert to catch "Stardust". A few years back, I built a special "net" gun for use in a State Wildlife sponsored live animal relocation project headed by a team from New Zealand that fired a large net to humainly capture Bullwinkle and his buddies so they could be safely moved into higher country. Can you imagine the thrill in capturing a run away satellite with a net gun? How cool would that be... Guy
-- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Quoting Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com>:
OK. Now there are 12 guys standing around and I can see one shovel.
Are they wearing orange jump suits and do the vehicles say Salt Lake County?? ;)
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I would think that if Bullwinkle weighed in at 2 tons, and was traveling 200 mph, 5000 feet up, it would be a whole other matter ;-) Cheers, JH diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
I'm surprised to see county workers out there...
Somebody's got to fill that big 'ol pot hole.
What's next for NASA? The way I see it, NASA has 16 months to determine what size net they will need to stretch across the desert to catch "Stardust".
A few years back, I built a special "net" gun for use in a State Wildlife sponsored live animal relocation project headed by a team from New Zealand that fired a large net to humainly capture Bullwinkle and his buddies so they could be safely moved into higher country. Can you imagine the thrill in capturing a run away satellite with a net gun? How cool would that be...
Guy
-- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Quoting Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com>:
OK. Now there are 12 guys standing around and I
can see one shovel.
Are they wearing orange jump suits and do the vehicles say Salt Lake County?? ;)
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Ah.... that would be Rudolph, I think.... And you want to watch out for the big guy in a sleigh following him....:) Jo At 10:56 PM 9/8/2004 -0600, you wrote:
I would think that if Bullwinkle weighed in at 2 tons, and was traveling 200 mph, 5000 feet up, it would be a whole other matter ;-)
Cheers, JH
diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
I'm surprised to see county workers out there...
Somebody's got to fill that big 'ol pot hole.
What's next for NASA? The way I see it, NASA has 16 months to determine what size net they will need to stretch across the desert to catch "Stardust".
A few years back, I built a special "net" gun for use in a State Wildlife sponsored live animal relocation project headed by a team from New Zealand that fired a large net to humainly capture Bullwinkle and his buddies so they could be safely moved into higher country. Can you imagine the thrill in capturing a run away satellite with a net gun? How cool would that be...
Guy
-- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Quoting Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com>:
OK. Now there are 12 guys standing around and I can see one shovel. Are they wearing orange jump suits and do the vehicles say Salt Lake County?? ;)
The science module which looks like a flying saucer is still stuck in the mud edge on. There are now at least 3 shovels at work there and no vehicles are present because of the softness of the ground. I am guessing that they should have it out of the ground fairly soon. I can see what's going on but I have no autio. JG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping.
They dug a pit around the module and the mud was sticking to the shovels as the lifted it (the mud) out of the pit. All the work has stopped now and only 4 guys remain in the picture. The module is still in the gournd. I anticipate that they are waiting for something to arrive; rope maybe. JG Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote: The science module which looks like a flying saucer is still stuck in the mud edge on. There are now at least 3 shovels at work there and no vehicles are present because of the softness of the ground. I am guessing that they should have it out of the ground fairly soon. I can see what's going on but I have no autio. JG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping.
wouldn't be surprised if they just helicopter yank it out. Once they get the superficial mud out of the way, and wash away the Dougway contaimination (;-)) it shouldn't be that difficult to get it about 10 feet up and lowered onto a flatbed from the proving grounds. Keep up the blow by blow... its nice to read, while still at work. Cheers, JH. Jim Gibson wrote:
They dug a pit around the module and the mud was sticking to the shovels as the lifted it (the mud) out of the pit. All the work has stopped now and only 4 guys remain in the picture. The module is still in the gournd. I anticipate that they are waiting for something to arrive; rope maybe.
JG
Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote:
The science module which looks like a flying saucer is still stuck in the mud edge on. There are now at least 3 shovels at work there and no vehicles are present because of the softness of the ground. I am guessing that they should have it out of the ground fairly soon. I can see what's going on but I have no autio.
JG
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Someone showed up with a tarpoline or shroud and they wrapped it up then lifted it out of the pit and carried if off. I have been told that we can take a look at the module later on in the "Clean Room" they have set up here at Dugway. JG Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote: They dug a pit around the module and the mud was sticking to the shovels as the lifted it (the mud) out of the pit. All the work has stopped now and only 4 guys remain in the picture. The module is still in the gournd. I anticipate that they are waiting for something to arrive; rope maybe. JG Jim Gibson wrote: The science module which looks like a flying saucer is still stuck in the mud edge on. There are now at least 3 shovels at work there and no vehicles are present because of the softness of the ground. I am guessing that they should have it out of the ground fairly soon. I can see what's going on but I have no autio. JG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
Jim, Are you out at Dugway? How are you following this? Thanks very much! -- Joe
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