Monday, June 06, 2005
Bureaucracy To The Rescue?!
One of the Mars rovers has been stuck in sand for the last month or so. Apparently, they got it unstuck.
Mission managers took weeks to plot out a strategy for getting out of the dune, going so far as to try out scenarios with a test model of the rover in a simulated Martian sandbox at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.I am glad it worked, but I cannot help but recall the old saying, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee."
