Happy (Belated) Birthday, MRO!
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Yesterday was the 3-year anniversary of MRO’s launch. A number of people on our team sent MRO birthday wishes over email; here’s a blog card, too.
If spacecraft ages are like cat ages (and I don’t really know why they would be…), MRO is 28 in human years. That actually sounds about right to me – the mission has matured to the point where things are fairly routine (although there are always exceptions!), we’re past the difficult teenage-angst period, and we’re (hopefully!) wiser now about the way we do things, with many life lessons learned. But we’re not “over the hill” yet! In fact, we’re really in our prime right now. 
In honor of this date, here’s a present – a video of the MRO launch: a smaller .ram version for Real Player (2 KB) or a larger .mov version for QuickTime (5.4 MB).
