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NASA MARS InSight Mission - November 26, 2018 - Landing Status
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| 11/26/18
| NASA
Posted on 11/26/2018 11:41:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge
InSight in Position for Mars Landing November 26 at 10:30 AM PT
Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have completed the final adjustments for landing NASA's InSight spacecraft on Mars.
Atmospheric entry is expected around 11:47 a.m. PST (2:47 p.m. EST) and touchdown, about seven minutes later.
TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; insight; mars; nasa; resistyroll; science; spaceexploration; spacex
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To: Blue Highway
No actual video of the landing?
No. The martians are holding out for more money ...
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:04:26 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: NorthMountain
Correct. Zero qualifications, competence, or expertise.
42
posted on
11/26/2018 12:04:28 PM PST
by
Magic Fingers
(Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
To: NorthMountain
Live feed it’s down successful landing.
Returned image.
Waiting on dust to settle before deploying solar panels.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:04:57 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Blue Highway
I thought that was Matt Drudge?
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:05:01 PM PST
by
angcat
(THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
To: Blue Highway
just watching the Jep Propulsion Laboratory people laughing and acting like they were taking selfies for Facebook during the descent portion. Also a hipster wearing a derby hat as a technician at the JPL? WTH?
That and the childish touchdown dances were very unprofessional. It was very much different in my days during the Shuttle program. This behavior is very disappointing.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:05:47 PM PST
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: Blue Highway
Eight years of a 24/7 news cycle of the “Me-Me-Me ...I ...I ...I” president will do that.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:06:24 PM PST
by
Justa
To: DannyTN
and then drill a deep hole and sit on it for 2 years ... exciting. Does martian grass grow as fast as grass on Earth?
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:06:48 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Red Badger
Don’t make me pull this Mars Lander over!
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:06:52 PM PST
by
nevergore
(I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
To: Travis T. OJustice
They should just move the camera to show the flag the astronauts planted.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:08:12 PM PST
by
freefdny
To: Blue Highway
Weighs waaaaay too much!................
50
posted on
11/26/2018 12:08:48 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: JoSixChip
The sort of calm professionalism and decorum some of us expect is largely lost. ‘Tis a pity.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:09:01 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Probably wouldn’t survive launch ...
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:09:55 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NormsRevenge
My son is a newly graduated astronautical engineer. He works at a NASA facility and was keeping us all posted by Facebook Messenger.
He works on a current satellite mission but I can’t imagine the stress among all the engineers and those in the control room over the last seven minutes after years of research and work.
Take that rest of the world. When you can land stuff on other planets, you can criticize the United States. Until then, you are welcome to shut up.
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:11:41 PM PST
by
cyclotic
( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
To: NormsRevenge
WOW!!👍🏻MAKE NASA GREAT AGAIN 🇺🇸!!👏🏼👏🏼
To: JoSixChip
That and the childish touchdown dances were very unprofessional While it was goin' on, I was imagining Kranz lowering the boom on all that hoopla .. LOL
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:21:21 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: RoseofTexas
I would have loved to see some cigars fired up like the Apollo days!!!!
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:24:31 PM PST
by
1217Chic
To: NormsRevenge
Obammy sez that oughtta give the world’s Islamicists a feeling of self-worth and pride
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:25:14 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: JoSixChip
Actually, I thought them very professional during the
descent and only showed their excitement as each successful
report came in. Once touch down occurred there was a lag
in which there was not a lot they could actually do so
celebrate all you want. Amazing feat!
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posted on
11/26/2018 12:28:43 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Blue Highway
I don’t know if you are just kidding or are truly uninformed.
To: Blue Highway
17 meters and then nothing? Then touchdown? I was waiting for 5 meter intervals, then 5..4..3..2..1.. touchdown. This seems phony as hell. Event telemetry is not in real-time. We don't yet have workable quantum entangled particle communication. Transmissions from the spacecraft on Mars, traveling at the speed of light, take about 6 minutes to reach Earth.
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