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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by slg on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:54PM (#19157943)
I wasn't just commenting on the physical durability of the rovers themselves although that is a huge part of it. It is also impressive from both a political and an organizational standpoint to keep a program like this running successfully for so much longer than initial plans dictated.
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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by greglindahl on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:39PM (#19159436)
NASA has numerous programs running for this length of time. One of the people working on Voyager showed up at my grad school to get a degree between Uranus and Neptune.

NSF, too. The VLA opened in 1978 and the first data recorded by it can be reduced by the current radio astronomy analysis software. In fact the software data format developed for the VLA (FITS) is now popular with high-end camera people... 41 years later.

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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by kumarharsh on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:46PM (#19159687)
> One of the people working on Voyager showed up at my grad school to get a degree between Uranus and Neptune.

So, did he make it beyond Pluto or not?

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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by greglindahl on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:14AM (#19159982)
She.
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