Help SOHO!

If you haven't heard, NASA are running Mission Madness to vote for "the greatest [NASA] mission of all time". It seems to be done in the style of Basketball (I think) with a "bracket". The bracket looks like the final stages of the football (soccer) World Cup with knock-out rounds through to a final. The voting is now in the final round with the excellent solar observatory SOHO pitted against a balloon that hardly anyone has heard of. SOHO is currently trailing by around several thousand votes with less than 11 hours to go. To let the greatest comet discoverer of all time lose to a balloon would be a travesty. Please go vote for SOHO.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Tuesday 07th Apr 2009 (22:09 BST) | 2 Comments | Permalink

Comments: Help SOHO!

I just tried but voting has ended...

Posted by Andy Lawrence on Wednesday 08th Apr 2009 (04:57 UTC)

gravatarSPB won. I don't usually like to sound like a punk, but WTF? Heck, SOHO wouldn't have even made it in my book. But, SPB? Who has ever even heard of that? This was a great concept by NASA, but someone has blown it.

Posted by Moonage on Wednesday 08th Apr 2009 (13:45 UTC)

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