Curiosity: the Moment of Truth

[Occulus]

[lastlib]

1. I hope it didn't land on a cat........

I could just see the headline:

"NASA's Curiosity Killed the Cat".......



An AMAZING achievement!! Go NASA!! GO USA!!

[railsback]

2. I watched the live feed from the control room last night

Fun to watch. Not only the huge success of landing a car on Mars, but to see how important it is that We The People have only the best and brightest on our payroll, working for US.

[Marrah_G]

3. These guys are amazing- I just want to hug them all

[pokerfan]

4. MRO Captures Amazing Image of Curiosity Rover’s Descent

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured an impressive picture of the Curiosity rover’s nail-biting and extremely successful descent.



http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/mro-curiosity-descent/

[DreamGypsy]

5. Hey, did anybody else see Ray Bradbury...

... standing there in the control room?? I did.

Tears in his eyes and a big smile on his face.

[Fumesucker]

7. Bradbury died on June fifth of this year..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury

[DreamGypsy]

8. Exactly...

...and I reread The Martian Chronicles two weeks later on a flight to Amsterdam. The stories gave me the same inspiration that they had when I first read them about 50 years ago.

Ray was in the control room. A little fuzzy, but he was there.

[JesterCS]

6. i heard a holy shit in there lol