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Mars Rover Curiosity Lands successfully!! LIVE THREAD
Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) ^ | 5 Aug 2012 | JPL

Posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:03 AM PDT by hattend

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To: TXnMA

I was at least able to pull someone in my family from the boob-tube to watch it - my 14 year-old daughter. Pretty cool to have her see scientists and explorers see the fruits of their HUGE efforts.

Ha - it sounds like they WERE betting on some of the landing parameters. (landing velocity of 0.14 g - congrats Alex)


521 posted on 08/05/2012 11:01:44 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: TXnMA

I’m going out tomorrow night with my telescope and look at Mars knowing my name is on the planet!!!

“Send Your Name To Mars On Board NASA Mars Science Laboratory Rover”

http://www.mydigitallife.info/send-your-name-to-mars-on-board-nasa-mars-science-laboratory-rover-msl/


522 posted on 08/05/2012 11:02:35 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: dragnet2

Beautiful!!


523 posted on 08/05/2012 11:02:35 PM PDT by colinhester
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To: DoughtyOne

So Curiosity stuck that gymnastic landing and won the gold !


524 posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:12 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: colinhester

Thanks everybody for participating

GREAT NIGHT

USA USA USA

Good night!


525 posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:37 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: LibWhacker; All

Okay, I’m gettin’ silly. Lack of sleep. Night all!


526 posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: PA Engineer

I’m glad that there are many people still interested in this stuff.

I sent up a little embedded systems guys prayer as the craft was landing...lol. I have sent up many others before as some project I had built was getting its first smoke test.

I’m just so happy for those engineers! Many had tears streaming down their face...I admit to a few here as I cheered for them.

I just love this kind of stuff... I wish I had been able to work on the control systems on board the craft! Oh what joy that would have been :-)

I can now sleep soundly knowing it’s on the ground.


527 posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:44 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh

So is everyone looking for life on other planets an atheist?


528 posted on 08/05/2012 11:05:15 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Dimez_Recon
Awesome dude, served his country with honor and deserves our thanks and respect. But he sucks as the head of NASA. But that has more to do with his boss then him.

Exactly. Put him under a different President with an actual vision of greatness for this country, and give NASA the support it needs, and this country could be doing many great things, to the point where things like this landing aren't such a big deal.
529 posted on 08/05/2012 11:05:43 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: JRandomFreeper

I wonder of Odyssey was able to video the landing and how long before the data is returned. That would be icing on the cake.


530 posted on 08/05/2012 11:05:43 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’m going to have another daily bookmark to check. Thanks for the picture.


531 posted on 08/05/2012 11:06:13 PM PDT by PA Engineer ("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
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To: PA Engineer

I thought that too, but I don’t do alcohol so I grabbed a glass of Hawaiian Punch and almost dropped the glass on the floor. I am still shaking and excited and not even oscama could ruin this. For once. G-d bless the USA!


532 posted on 08/05/2012 11:06:37 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: prisoner6

Yes I read somewhere they had a camera set up to do that.


533 posted on 08/05/2012 11:06:48 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: colinhester

I love this stuff!


534 posted on 08/05/2012 11:06:56 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (Let's get the hell rid of Zero)
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To: af_vet_rr

I pretty much agree. I’d sure like to see some big incentives to get the private sector to meet more achievement targets in short order though.

As long as the private sector gets us where we need to go, I think it’s much more healthy. It means that finally we’ll be entering space on for-profit ventures.

I would dearly love to be able to spend a week in a space hotel before I go toes up.


535 posted on 08/05/2012 11:07:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Vote Obama he's unqualified on so many subjects, citizenship, history, economics, racism, allies...)
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To: DoughtyOne

And couldn’t you Martians dust? You knew company was coming.


536 posted on 08/05/2012 11:07:00 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: prisoner6
I wonder of Odyssey was able to video the landing and how long before the data is returned. That would be icing on the cake.

I don't know, but images are pouring in, just their site can't keep up - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
537 posted on 08/05/2012 11:07:07 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr

Thanks for link!


538 posted on 08/05/2012 11:08:59 PM PDT by colinhester
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To: hattend; All

Anybody know where you can get a model kit of Curiosity, or anything approaching it? Would make for a great birthday gift for my great-nephew. I may just have to settle for one of the posters, but it’d be great to have him build a model of it.


539 posted on 08/05/2012 11:08:59 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Exactly. How embarrassing for them...


540 posted on 08/05/2012 11:09:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Vote Obama he's unqualified on so many subjects, citizenship, history, economics, racism, allies...)
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