EROS strikes back... (Score 1)

Monday, Feb 12, 2001 at the Applied Physics Lab...

APL Engineer 1: "You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake; well, this could be it, sweetheart."

APL Engineer 2: "I take it back. NEARs going to get pulverized if it stays out there much longer."

APL Engineer 1: "I'm going to take it in closer to one of the big ones."

APL Engineer 2: "Closer?"

Gold, robotic APL Engineer: "Closer?"

Furry APL Engineer: "Bark!"

APL Engineer 2: "I hope you know what you're doing."

APL Engineer 1: "Yeah, me too."

NEAR sucessfully lands in a crater of EROS...

Two days later...

APL Engineer 2: "I don't know. I have a bad feeling about this."

NEAR begins to shake

APL Engineer 1: "All right, lets get out of here!" ...

I just hope they get some decent pictures of the space slug on the way up...