Day 216
Mood:  happy
We're back! Yesterday, we aerobraked with Earth's atmosphere and met up with the quarantine space station in Earth orbit. The aerobraking with Earth was somewhat more stressfull than with Mars. But as you can see, survived. Keith made what you might call a prelininary estimate of how the ICSE held up against aerobraking. And so far, he says that we came fairly close to breaking up in the atmosphere. And to that, Leonid again said that that's what we got for building such a cheap space ship. That sort of structural integrity might delay the ICSE's next Mars flight by at least two years. But however long the delay, at least we got to go to Mars. Mars, Mars, Mars! Yeah, yeah, yeah!