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Mission Madness!
Mission Madness!

NASA is running a cute game to match March Madness (basketball madness). In it, you get to vote for your favorite missions.

We’re in the third round of voting, which ends in a few hours and totals for the quarterfinals will be posted shortly thereafter.

My own personal favorites at this point are any Mars Mission, any outer solar system mission, and JWST (yeah, I know– I’m crazy — but I like orbiting space telescopes).

My other personal faves got knocked out in early voting, so I had to readjust — which is fine.  I’m flexible.

Anyway, here are the two sets of current matchups for slots in the quarterfinals, which begin on March 30:

  • Apollo 11 vs LRO
  • Freedom 7 vs Mars Pathfinder
  • Vikings I and II vs Pioneer 10
  • Soho vs Skylab

The winner inthe first set will eventually battle the winner in the slots below:

  • SPB vs Expedition 1
  • X-29 vs Orion
  • Expedition 16 vs JWST
  • Voyager 1 and 2 vs New Horizons

Interested in voting for your favorite missions?  Get on over to 2009 Mission Madness and vote early and often!