-
#180
by
Kaputnik
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:19
-
It's the lead item on BBC news website.
-
#181
by
saturnapollo
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:20
-
CNN International covered it all.
Keith
-
#182
by
Lars_J
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:26
-
Right after it landed I went to check CNN and FoxNews, and other TV stations. Nothing. No mention of it. I was appalled.
Huh? Both CNN (domestic) and Fox News carried the landing LIVE. NASA feeds with guest commentary. I'm not sure what you were watching..
-
#183
by
Mapperuo
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:29
-
Right after it landed I went to check CNN and FoxNews, and other TV stations. Nothing. No mention of it. I was appalled.
It's there now on CNN. Did you check it a millisecond after touchdown or something?
-
#184
by
PeterAlt
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:30
-
Congrats NASA on its SEVENTH lucky Mars landing!
Woohoo
It's been a good week for NASA and America's space program!
-
#185
by
Bubbinski
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:45
-
What a night. The whole lecture room erupted in celebration! And I got a Mars bar after handing in my Mars quiz that they handed out to us. It was the first time I took a quiz in a classroom in a very long time. Brought back some memories.
-
#186
by
Jason1701
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:48
-
-
#187
by
seawolfe
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:49
-
What a night. The whole lecture room erupted in celebration! And I got a Mars bar after handing in my Mars quiz that they handed out to us. It was the first time I took a quiz in a classroom in a very long time. Brought back some memories.
British and Canadian Mars bars are way superior to the American Mars bar!
-
#188
by
ugordan
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:50
-
-
#189
by
spectre9
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:53
-
JPL is awesome.
Always been my favourite NASA center.
Well done to all the contractors that helped out too. Without your fantastic technology this wouldn't be possible.
Now I look forward to the mission starting.
The search for life is ON!!!!!!!!!!
-
#190
by
manboy
on 06 Aug, 2012 07:55
-
Whoopie! Congrats to to the team at JPL.
-
#191
by
racshot65
on 06 Aug, 2012 08:16
-
-
#192
by
Tea Party Space Czar
on 06 Aug, 2012 08:48
-
This was just awesome. We need some more Odyssey's screaming around Mars so we can consume more data
Selfishly speaking, I cannot wait to start looking at the pics!
Did we really have 140 kg of fuel left? I have seen that in three sources now and that is just simply crazy.
Respectfully,
Andrew Gasser
TEA Party in Space
-
#193
by
ugordan
on 06 Aug, 2012 08:52
-
Did we really have 140 kg of fuel left? I have seen that in three sources now and that is just simply crazy.
Why? That's called
margin. That's also about the same mass as one of two sets of tungsten balance weights that were discarded after various points in EDL.
-
#194
by
TheFallen
on 06 Aug, 2012 08:53
-
Congrats to JPL and the MSL team!!!
It's a testimony to all the awesome work done by the fine folks at JPL that Curiosity's landing actually seemed quicker and less eventful, to me that is, than Phoenix's landing in 2008 (I attended Planetfest for both). Just gotta hand it to NASA for making the most daunting achievements look easy...
-
#195
by
ugordan
on 06 Aug, 2012 08:58
-
Curiosity's landing actually seemed quicker and less eventful, to me that is, than Phoenix's landing in 2008
To me, as well. I think it was because the MSL people appeared to be calmer than the Phoenix folks (some of whom I recognized this time around as well) and more (and more nervous!) event callouts during the powered flight phase.
-
#196
by
bolun
on 06 Aug, 2012 10:43
-
Congrats NASA, Great Work!
-
#197
by
sanman
on 06 Aug, 2012 10:45
-
Congratulations to NASA! Looks like the Force was with you!
-
#198
by
jtrame
on 06 Aug, 2012 11:33
-
Congratulations to everyone at NASA-JPL (and the contractors)!
Thanks to NSL we were able to see Curiosity assembled, packed and launched. We saw the deployment of the cruise stage from the perspective of the TMI stage. We could check in to the JPL site onroute and see the progress of MSL on a schematic. On NASA Live we witnessed the successful landing event and cheers. And the first images. Then some of us went back to bed and here we are the next morning waiting for some great descent images at an upcoming press conference. Thanks Chris for your great website--it ties everything together along with a lot of bonuses along the way.
-
#199
by
Kaputnik
on 06 Aug, 2012 11:49
-
It was pretty special to be watching the sim in real time whilst listening to the webcast from JPL confirming that events were unfolding as planned.
I got a bit of a rush when I heard then confirm the decel that showed the chute had deployed- I hadn't realised that we could get that info during descent.
(You have to click to on the image to see the animation)
(You have to click to on the image to see the animation)
Selfishly speaking, I cannot wait to start looking at the pics!