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Operations => Aerospace Education => Topic started by: PHall on August 06, 2012, 05:44:12 AM

Title: Curiosity Is On Mars
Post by: PHall on August 06, 2012, 05:44:12 AM
The Mars Rover Curiosity survived it's "Seven Minutes of Terror" and made a sucessful landing on Mars. :clap:
Title: Re: Curiosity Is On Mars
Post by: CAP4117 on August 06, 2012, 05:47:35 AM
There are a lot of tears of joy in that control room! NASA is streaming live.
Congratulations to everyone involved!  :clap:
Title: Re: Curiosity Is On Mars
Post by: Майор Хаткевич on August 06, 2012, 05:50:36 AM
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html (http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html)

This is a great event!
Title: Re: Curiosity Is On Mars
Post by: AngelWings on August 06, 2012, 05:52:46 AM
It's so awesome to watch live! I had it going on the TV and laptop. The TV feed was a few seconds behind the laptop feed, so I could recap and watch things over again.
Title: Re: Curiosity Is On Mars
Post by: HGjunkie on August 06, 2012, 06:07:21 AM
Watched the lading on my Xbox, it was great to see the cheers of success from control after landing confirmation!


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