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...cluster of cubicles that serve as J.P.L.'s modest mission control, the engineers seated at consoles leaned forward, looking for the telemetry numbers that would indicate that the ship was indeed decelerating as it should. Support engineers stood behind them, squinting at the screens. At his console, chief engineer Rob Manning scanned the numbers flowing back from space. "Spacecraft is now slowing down very rapidly," he said reassuringly...
...inelegant method of landing by slamming into the planet at 55 miles per hour, then bouncing like a basketball up to as much as 150 feet in the air until coming to rest. Still, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were pleased. "It's been wonderfully dull," Flight Director Rob Manning said after the lander completed its seven-month journey. Whether the craft survived the impact intact was not immediately known, but NASA received radio signals from the Martian surface that suggested that it landed in the best position, with its base petal on the ground. Scientists were also happy...
...thought those Gen X kids were lazy, ignorant losers, but I guess I was wrong. They're actually brilliant, ambitious, ironic folks who live at home till they're 30 and watch as much TV as they can!" I hope I'm not going to be redefined next issue. ROB GLASER Chicago
...tried every which way to find something on myself on the Internet using directions from your report "No Privacy on the Web." Bummer...I am a nobody big time. Not even the Web knows I exist. I have to do something. Maybe I'll go out and rob a bank. The disappointment of not having everything known about me all over the Web is too much to bear. AL DEMROSKE Brimley, Mich...
...power play stank. Outside of the solo brilliance of Rob Millar, the offense was impotent. Freshman goalie J.R. Prestifilippo looked young, especially suspect in standing up to high shots...