NASA livestream - 'Curiosity' rover will touch down on Mars @ 10:31 PST

[rachelholladay]

How cool! It was so exciting to see the pictures come back. I hope I can do something as awesome as Curiosity when I'm older..

[RyanN]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

How cool! It was so exciting to see the pictures come back. I hope I can do something as awesome as Curiosity when I'm older..

For my senior design project we're making a blimp for autonomously navigation and mapping a building for use in emergency situations where human lives are at stake.

I guess that's a starting point, right?

This years design team is moving from a quad rotor to the blimp. It was a weird idea pitched to me which I don't initially like, but then I started to think of the air drafts in a building with non-consistent ground, or even buildings with doorways [SARCASM] and good thing those don't exist very much [/SARCASM] which create weird air drafts that make to UAV unstable. Plus the 12 minute battery life is abmyssal.

The blimp gets rid of the air draft problems, and we have much longer battery life.

It'll be cool to see the end result I this project. I just hope the rest of the team is ready to work at the pace I'm accostomed to with FIRST.

[Dick Linn]

Time to start a used rover lot up there. Dave's Mars Cars maybe?

[Wendy Holladay]

Mazel Tov Dave and the Curiosity Team

from your friends at SSC

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Dick Linn

Time to start a used rover lot up there. Dave's Mars Cars maybe?

I think a mechanic's shop would be better. Then Dave could have them install heated seats, a sunroof, and refurbish the old rover's so they don't need to send any more new ones!

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by dlavery

This was my sixth Mars landing, fourth one with wheels.

And this was definitely the best one yet.

-dave



.

I don't even know how you would be able to figure out the best one but that would be an awesome problem to have.

Congratulations to all of you, Dave!

Jane

[Alan Anderson]

Yeah! In your FACE, Great Galactic Ghoul!

[IndySam]

It was the peanuts.

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by IndySam

It was the peanuts.

"Is it time to open the peanuts?"
"You are go to break out the peanuts."
"Copy that."

[JVN]

I got the chance to fly out to JPL and "attend" the landing. It was an AWESOME trip. Good to be there with good friends, watching history unfold.

I summarized my experience here:
http://blog.iamjvn.com/2012/08/curiosity-part-1.html
http://blog.iamjvn.com/2012/08/curiosity-part-2.html

Big congratulations to Dave Lavery, and everyone else at NASA on a successful landing. It was great to be there at JPL experiencing the energy of the event.

I hope everyone else had the same profound experience I did!

-John
#daremightythings

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by JVN

I got the chance to fly out to JPL and "attend" the landing. It was an AWESOME trip. Good to be there with good friends, watching history unfold.

I summarized my experience here:
http://blog.iamjvn.com/2012/08/curiosity-part-1.html
http://blog.iamjvn.com/2012/08/curiosity-part-2.html

Big congratulations to Dave Lavery, and everyone else at NASA on a successful landing. It was great to be there at JPL experiencing the energy of the event.

I hope everyone else had the same profound experience I did!

-John
#daremightythings

Was this your first lunch ever?

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Was this your first lunch ever?

I missed the lunch. I've still never been to one.

-John

[Akash Rastogi]

Pretty jealous of anyone who was at JPL to share this excitement in person.

Not gonna lie - as soon as the rover touched down, and everyone in JPL was standing up and cheering, I cried a little. This is what we really need, and I'm so happy that it happened the way it did. It's no moon landing of '69, but I'm sure the Curiosity landing of '12 will cause a similarly large spike in the interested of science and technology, something we've really needed for a long time.



I love NASA....

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Not gonna lie - as soon as the rover touched down, and everyone in JPL was standing up and cheering, I cried a little. This is what we really need, and I'm so happy that it happened the way it did. It's no moon landing of '69, but I'm sure the Curiosity landing of '12 will cause a similarly large spike in the interested of science and technology, something we've really needed for a long time.



I love NASA....

Agreed... NASA's timing was off by 12 hours though - it would have been really amazing to have the landing happen in the middle of the day so millions of students across the nation could watch it live!