Dave's other cars keep going

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by dlavery

To get a sense of what Victoria Crater is like, take a look at this image:



... keep watching here - this should be good!

Not too bad for a little rover that was only supposed to last 90 days and drive 600 meters.

-dave

Thanks, Dave.

As I stare at this image, a flood of deep-stashed memories comes back to the surface: as a wide-eyed pre-first-grader in the summer of 1965, watching the Gemini 4 launch on television, and later getting to stay up past bedtime to listen to the man on the news talk about the space-walk; riding home from a soccer game late on a summer night in 1969, staring at the moon through the rear window of my parents' station wagon and thinking about the Apollo 11 astronauts, up there; stunned disbelief in the winter of 1986 when, coming out of a quantum mechanics lecture, I heard someone say that Challenger had exploded 73 seconds after liftoff.

And for the last three FRC seasons, the continuing saga of rovers that just keep going and going and going. Long after we've forgotten that absurd pink bunny, Dave's other car is still on Mars.

It is a great privilege for all of us in FIRST to hear and read the Mars exploration story told by someone who has a direct role in its planning and execution. It is inspiration, pure and uncut, straight from the source.