Highest mileage Disco

[apg]

How about 185 million miles....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/09/nasa.shuttle.landing/index.html?npt=NP1

 

[jhmover]

How about 185 million miles....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/09/nasa.shuttle.landing/index.html?npt=NP1

Give me about 500 years and I'll beat it.:rofl:

 

[az_max]

I also read that it spent exactly 365 days orbiting in it's 23 year career. I wonder if they did that purposely?

 

[knewsom]

I also read that it spent exactly 365 days orbiting in it's 23 year career. I wonder if they did that purposely?

I bet they did. Scientists have to find little ways of being creative to maintain sanity.

 

[Tugela]

I bet they did. Scientists have to find little ways of being creative to maintain sanity.

This must explain why NASA lost that Mars-bound satellite a few years ago. They lost control of it because some of the control code was written using metric units and the rest used standard. Partway there the satellite got confused by the difference in units and flipped out. It floated away into space, never to be heard from again. That was an expensive mistake. Or was it a prank by a creative (but grumpy) scientist?

 

[az_max]

This must explain why NASA lost that Mars-bound satellite a few years ago. They lost control of it because some of the control code was written using metric units and the rest used standard. Partway there the satellite got confused by the difference in units and flipped out. It floated away into space, never to be heard from again. That was an expensive mistake. Or was it a prank by a creative (but grumpy) scientist?

Naw, that was NASA and JPL not knowing what the fuck the other was doing.

 

[champana]

they extended the mission by 2 days after they got up there.