May 26, 2008 Favorite Analogy of the NightPosted: 01:06 AM ET
I am always striving to find analogies to explain the challenge of navigating a spacecraft more than 400 million miles and landing in an ellipse 40 long and 15 miles wide. Well the head of space science for NASA – Ed Weiler came through for me (as he often does) with this one: It is like hitting a tee shot in Washington and making a hole-in-one in Sydney. Thanks Ed. Helps history majors like me understand what rocket science is all about. - Miles Filed under: Mars NASA Space
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