:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 6.29.2003 ::
:: 2nd Mars Rover Launch Delayed ::
From Discovery.com:
June 29, 2003 — NASA late Saturday delayed the launch of its second Mars space probe for 24 hours, due to strong winds over the launch site, a spokesman said early Sunday.
The first of NASA's twin Mars rovers left Earth on June 10 for a seven-month journey to the Red Planet and the start of an ambitious mission to hunt for signs of water.
"If we have any hope of finding an answer to the questions 'Is there life on Mars; Was there life on Mars?' we have to show that water not only exists on Mars but persevered for long, long periods of time," said Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for space science, when the first rover was launched.
"And if it did, and if evidence for past or present life on Mars ultimately is found, humanity would finally have solid evidence Earth is not unique in a vast and forbidding universe," he said.
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