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Originally Posted by Robert
As exciting as watching the early Apollo flights. Do we realize what has been accomlished and in how many different ways this could have gone wrong? Amazing! I was surprised the images were as clear as they were.
good work NASA, JPL.
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Agree 100%. The "sky-crane" concept is as novel as it is ambitious, and I felt a lot of tension as it was coming down. With the airbag landings they used for Spirit and Opportunity, it was sort of assumed that unless the bags failed to inflate it was pretty much impossible for the mission to fail once it got on-target for the landing zone.
With the Sky Crane it seemed that things could so easily go awry at each stage.
If anyone can do this, it's NASA. Proving again they're the cream of the crop.
I hope I live to see a manned mission to Mars.