[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: JPL, NASA]

[notatard?]

ibtb

[Chode]

damn lot of Crit-1's in a row...

[martin_fierro]

Geez, the old airbag thing seems a lot less complicated.

[SamAdams76]

Mars is far away from here. I hope that the landing is successful but I will not know until August 5.

[Balding_Eagle]

I wish them the best, but my faith in NASA disappeared long ago, even before they decided global warming was their mission.

I hope to dine on crow over this issue. I’ll put some Chick=Fil-A sauce on it.

[dragnet2]

Touchdown times here in the United States 10:31 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, August 5, or 12:31 AM Central Time and 1:31 AM Eastern Time on Monday morning August 6.

Mars Rover Curiosity, Front View

This photograph of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011. The location is inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. This mission will land Curiosity on Mars in August 2012. Researchers will use the tools on the rover to study whether the landing region has had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and favorable for preserving clues about whether life existed.

[21twelve]

Nice video at the link - cool stuff. Hope to remember to be looking for it on Aug. 5th

“This magic day when super-science
Mingles with the bright stuff of dreams”

[ArrogantBustard]

"Curiosity", eh?

From Robert Heinlein, we know that there are cats on Mars ...

So it's obvious that this rover will land on one and kill it.

[tet68]

Just a bump to keep this in the awareness.
We’re getting close less than a quarter of a million
miles to go.
I will be monitoring the live threads and Nasa so
see you all there.

History in the making.