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Offline Martin FL

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Caption Contest 2/14
« on: 02/14/2007 06:45 pm »

Offline James (Lockheed)

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #1 on: 02/14/2007 09:51 pm »
NASA ELV managers discuss Generic Username's latest posts on NASASpaceflight's forum.

Offline mastronaut

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #2 on: 02/15/2007 12:50 pm »
"The folks at NASA don't realize they're knee deep in sheep sh*t, that's my back yard!"

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #3 on: 02/15/2007 01:06 pm »
These pictures are so recent that even NASASpaceflight.com doesn't have them.

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #4 on: 02/15/2007 01:40 pm »
...and there's where Flash Gordon dropped his helmet in 1936.  It's held up pretty well, don't you think?

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #5 on: 02/15/2007 02:20 pm »
(For those who don't know, this a shot of JPL higher-ups looking at the first pictures from Spirit after it landed; the director of JPL, Charles Elachi, is the guy on the right.)

Simon ;)

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #6 on: 02/15/2007 02:23 pm »
I hope he has a sense of humor... ;)

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #7 on: 02/15/2007 03:59 pm »
"Two years now, and people still haven't noticed that it's the Mojave Desert!"
Writer of Book and Lyrics for musicals "SCAR", "Cinderella!", and "Aladdin!". Retired Naval Security Group. "I think SCAR is a winner. Great score, [and] the writing is up there with the very best!"
-- Phil Henderson, Composer of the West End musical "The Far Pavilions".

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #8 on: 02/15/2007 05:29 pm »
"NASA managers share a laugh over finding a Twinkie wrapper on the surface of Mars".

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #9 on: 02/15/2007 05:42 pm »
"How could James Brolin's white jumpsuit still be so clean after he hiked and crawled all the way across the desert...and ate that snake?"
"This is Mercury Control..."

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #10 on: 02/15/2007 06:51 pm »
"They're calling it Stumpy."

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #11 on: 02/15/2007 07:03 pm »
"That's nuthin, y'all should see it on my brand new home theater system I bought for the Superbowl!"

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RE: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #12 on: 02/15/2007 07:49 pm »
See, I told you Flomax and Tang would work.

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #13 on: 02/15/2007 08:05 pm »
All your bases are belong to us!

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #14 on: 02/16/2007 09:02 pm »
I told you us old folks could land this buggie on Mars with nothing but slide rules and FORTRAN code!

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #15 on: 02/18/2007 07:53 pm »
"And if you look here (snicker) you will see the end of Super-Dave Osborn's X-prize attempt."

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #16 on: 02/19/2007 07:58 pm »
OK who wins?

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #17 on: 02/19/2007 08:24 pm »
Some people here actually think we will be back on the Moon this century!

Offline William Graham

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #18 on: 02/19/2007 09:56 pm »
Nice holiday snaps, boss.

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Re: Caption Contest 2/14
« Reply #19 on: 02/19/2007 10:34 pm »
The first "kick me" sign on Mars!

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