South Africa helped NASA Mars rover make it to the red planet

[Jeremy Proome]

NASA Mars rover helped by SA

The SA National Space Agency is proud to of assisted in NASA’s Mars mission

 

[Rosaudio]

Supplying Rooibos tea does not count as helping

 

[Jola]

Plutonium battery !

That thing probably glows in the dark !!!

 

[LazyLion]

Just glad it wasn't hijacked.

 

[ToxicBunny]

How exactly did SANSA assist in Curiosity getting to Mars?

 

[Jabberwocky]

Wouldn`t mind working at hartbeeshoek, some clever people there.
They do lots of satellite tracking and launch support for the Americans because we`re on the other side of the globe.

NASA built the original dish there back in the 60`s so they could track the Apollo launches

 

[gregmcc]

Poor article - so how exactly did SA help?!

 

[R13...]

Poor article - so how exactly did SA help?!

Very poor indeed.

 

[Brakanjan]

Very poor indeed.

Very very very poor indeed, this is not an article, it is almost like gossip. The heading is misleading.

Let's cross over to some real news, the strange weather...

 

[Slootvreter]

Poor article - so how exactly did SA help?!

They followed the news feeds in anticipation...

 

[noswal]

perhaps all the copper cable stolen locally was used in its construction

 

[ginggs]

The SA National Space Agency is proud to [-]of[/-] have assisted in NASA's Mars mission

FTFY.

 

[R13...]

FTFY.

LOL, the "could of", "would of", "must of" illness strikes again.

 

[FrankCastle]

FTFY.

ouch

Prolly sent over some wire and pliers in case the brakes of the rover failed.

 

[chrisc]

Zuma had Juliaas ready to push-start the rocket if it did not fire the first time

 

[Rosaudio]

The SA National Space Agency is proud to of assisted in NASA’s Mars mission

My word.. how do you people even get these jobs?

 

[daserraf]

We cleaned the windscreen during takeoff

 

[Edduck]

Very very very poor indeed, this is not an article, it is almost like gossip. The heading is misleading.

Let's cross over to some real news, the strange weather...

I agree and what worries me is this seems to be a trend in online reporting now days. News24.com is a particular culprit in this regard...


Anyway... for those that are interested here is the Hartbeesthoek website http://www.hartrao.ac.za/ They seriously need to do an upgrade on that site, there isn't a single line of CSS on that page!!! :erm:

 

[Shake&Bake]

So WTF did they do?

 

[Arthur]

Maybe our "help" was like the article: content-free.

By breathing in and out we all helped.