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...tell the celebrations apart at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) in Pasadena, Calif. They back-slapped and high-fived when the Pathfinder lander bounced down on Mars in 1997 and when the Spirit and Opportunity rovers followed in 2004. They cheered when the Cassini probe went into orbit around Saturn last summer and when the Huygens lander reached the surface of the planet's moon Titan months later. If it's possible to grow tired of popping corks and raising glasses, the J.P.L. engineers may be getting close...
...there's one thing the twin tragedies of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia taught NASA, it's that when a spaceship ain't broke, the last thing you want to try to do is fix it. The Apollo moonships and the Saturn rockets that launched them had an extraordinary safety and success record, relying on the old concept of throwaway parts: When one stage of a rocket is spent, dump it in the ocean; when you're through with your lunar lander, leave most of it on the moon...
Some upperclassmen just aren't as welcoming as we are. They've responded to 2009's legions of facebook whores with groups like the vicious "Holy shit the class of 2009 should perform a David Koresh-style mass suicide," complete with a Goya painting of Saturn devouring his young. A quote from the group warns first-years that prefects may "poison [their] study break fare with arsenic or tricky laxatives." We're just trying to get all of them quadded...
...Distance Saturn's innermost ring has moved since 1981, according to new images from the Cassini probe...
...Area, roughly the size of Kuwait, of a topographical feature discovered last week on Saturn's moon Titan that scientists believe could be a lake...