Trying to dock with a working spacecraft in the operational GEO belt could potentially create debris right there. This would endanger every GEO satellite.

Those were a tense few minutes while we waited for the first signals back. When it came through, there were a lot of cheers and shaking of hands. We will start to point it towards earth and deploy the solar panels to power it.

The hopping penguin is an interesting concept. Jumping a mile means that crater edges, like the ones that cause problems for the Mars rovers, are not a big issue.

That kid was awesome. He was trying to do these really difficult dives and he's just a freshman. He'll be tough to beat.

It doesn't matter how fast the pitcher throws, you still have to hit it. I just have to keep trying to improve.

We're trying to find uses for this land that's not useful for anything else.