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**onelovemp** · 08-07-2012, 03:35 AM

I picked up The Boy from pre-school and we drove out to Tidbinbilla in the hope of catching the landing. Cars were parked either side of the access road for a couple of hundred metres back from the entrance to the centre. As we got there people were streaming out. We must have missed the landing signal by about 10 minutes at most. There were still at least a hundred people there plus some media.

I blame the son for missing the live signals, as he kept dithering about playing in the playground, going to the toilet and washing his hands. It's so hard to explain historic events to four year olds...

Anyway, he had fun there climbing into a spacesuit they have on display, asking me about the 1:1 scale Spirit/Opportunity rover model they have on display and watching kids trying to land Curiosity on the computer game (all unsuccessful that I saw).

After the other kids had left I had a go, and landed it successfully first time. *preen preen*

(At least I got to see Sojourner's first roll onto Mars back in 1997.)

08-07-2012, 03:35 AM	#64
onelovemp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	I picked up The Boy from pre-school and we drove out to Tidbinbilla in the hope of catching the landing. Cars were parked either side of the access road for a couple of hundred metres back from the entrance to the centre. As we got there people were streaming out. We must have missed the landing signal by about 10 minutes at most. There were still at least a hundred people there plus some media. I blame the son for missing the live signals, as he kept dithering about playing in the playground, going to the toilet and washing his hands. It's so hard to explain historic events to four year olds... Anyway, he had fun there climbing into a spacesuit they have on display, asking me about the 1:1 scale Spirit/Opportunity rover model they have on display and watching kids trying to land Curiosity on the computer game (all unsuccessful that I saw). After the other kids had left I had a go, and landed it successfully first time. preen preen (At least I got to see Sojourner's first roll onto Mars back in 1997.)
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