On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 05:41 AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List wrote: > Actually, Mission Control for the Spirit mission is at JPL. My wife works on MER (it was exciting this weekend) and I can tell you the Mac plays a big part on this project as it did in the operation of the recently completed Galileo Project that was crashed into Jupiter (she was on that project for over 15 years). That project had been using Macs so long that they had to keep a Quadra 950 running to the bitter end for some of the early development software that they didn't have money to rewrite to run on the PowerPC chip. Ross Clark