How about something like this?"We stand on the shoulders of giants. Marco Polo, Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Christopher Columbus, Lewis and Clark, Roald Amundsen, Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong. Today we take this step as one species on a journey that will take us to the stars. Humanity's story has only just begun."It is cheesy and it is "Hollywood" but it is something I would say if I was the first human to land on Mars.Would the colonial undertones be problematic? Should they name drop great inventors and scientists like Edison, Ford, Oppenheimer, Einstein, Musk, etc. instead of those explorers?
"Well, here we are!"
Quote from: neoforce on 01/24/2023 12:28 pm"Good luck, Mr. Gorsky"
"Good luck, Mr. Gorsky"
"I'm home" (Natalie York, Voyage) Quote"Well, here we are!"Those are John Boone first words in KSR Mars trilogy, correct ?
If it's SpaceX: "Let's get to work".
For IVA comms, clearly something like, "SpaceX, the Starship has landed."Then they'll have a week or two (more?) of physical therapy for gravity adaptation inside the vehicle to practice their "first step" sound bite before they can realistically suit up to go outside for an hours-long walk. Or maybe they have like space wheelchairs or mobility scooters for an early EVA? But that's not really the kind of footprint we've had in mind.
Scott Kelly, after spending a year in space on the ISS, got off of a plane and was walking and standing, all unassisted, at a press conference in Houston well within 24 hours of landing on Earth.
Quote from: whitelancer64 on 02/13/2023 09:56 pmScott Kelly, after spending a year in space on the ISS, got off of a plane and was walking and standing, all unassisted, at a press conference in Houston well within 24 hours of landing on Earth.Scott Kelly himself disagrees. As anyone who has known or worked with anyone with a fatigue disability will be aware, the ability to exert on a single task is not representative of the ability to exert repeatedly or over a continuous period.