Bravo!
Just got the first images- awesome piece of engineering. Looks like Skycrane is the way to go when humans land there.
Congratulations to the men and women at JPL!
Aerojet here in Sac built the rockets that carried curiosity to Mars and also the rockets that landed Curiosity on the surface. Congrats to Aerojet and everyone else who helped. This is spectacular!
I’m still watching the stream. Unbelievable planning. Incredible success.
Well done.
“It’s a wheel! It’s a wheel! We’ve got wheels on Mars.”
The NASA feed was fantastic. That was a fast 7 minutes. The powered descent and the skycrane maneuver seemed like they lasted only a few seconds. Fabulous.
Well, I hope it moves!
Fantastic
Must have been nerve-wracking for those guys to know that by the time they got the telemetry from entry the thing was already on the surface for five minutes.
>> Good work to the JPL.
Seriously? JPL didn’t build that.
Good work. to JPL, and all the contractors that made the pieces of Curiosity.
USA! USA! USA!
-THEY- BUILT IT, MR. PRESIDENT!
-THEY- DESIGNED IT, MR. PRESIDENT!
-THEY- PROVED THAT IT WORKED, MR. PRESIDENT!
Way to go JPL!!! Awesome job!!!
Have they found any Muslims there yet?
I turned on Coast to Coast AM briefly to hear what was being said.
Understandably, there was an air of celebration for the successful landing itself, but there was also giddy speculation that an announcement of confirmed life on Mars was to be Obomba’s October surprise, and that would “put him over the top” for the election.
What a way to ruin a great event. Radio off.