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deSitter
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MSL makes final maneuver before landing today
      #5339868 - 07/28/12 11:25 AM
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

At 1 AM EDT

-drl

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      #5340072 - 07/28/12 01:32 PM
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Cool. I'm on CDT, so I'll be watching at midnight. Thanks for the link.

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      #5340142 - 07/28/12 02:15 PM
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8 days - woohoo! My name will be on Mars!

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      #5340474 - 07/28/12 06:13 PM
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Can't wait.

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      #5340588 - 07/28/12 07:58 PM
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The landing happens a week from Sunday right after midnight (so Monday morning early). Man I am sweating this one This is SO important.

-drl

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      #5340622 - 07/28/12 08:33 PM
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It is 1:30 or 2:30am local time next Sunday night when it is happening, but I am debating whether or not I will stay up (or set the alarm). Interesting to know if it will be live-covered on TV - I would like to PVR it and watch it with my 6 yr old son who is a big space buff (maybe not tell him it already happened... one of those little white lies that I would be okay with).

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      #5341201 - 07/29/12 06:27 AM
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You can be there --> http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/events/planetfest-2012/

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      #5341737 - 07/29/12 02:15 PM
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Quote:

My name will be on Mars!



Me too! Oh and my wife's, two daughters', and seven grandsons'.

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deSitter
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      #5341782 - 07/29/12 02:47 PM
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Quote:

It is 1:30 or 2:30am local time next Sunday night when it is happening, but I am debating whether or not I will stay up (or set the alarm). Interesting to know if it will be live-covered on TV - I would like to PVR it and watch it with my 6 yr old son who is a big space buff (maybe not tell him it already happened... one of those little white lies that I would be okay with).



Yes live coverage starts at 11:30 EDT on Sunday night. As someone whose Dad cut lots of bedtime slack to watch space missions, I'd say give the little dude a chance to see history

-drl

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      #5341820 - 07/29/12 03:14 PM
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Live coverage of the landing, as in live Video of Mars?!?!

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      #5341903 - 07/29/12 04:10 PM
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No, just we hope a shot of JPLers going nuts...

-drl

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      #5354229 - 08/06/12 03:30 AM
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They ate nuts and went nuts!
Joe.

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      #5354824 - 08/06/12 01:17 PM
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I am going to lock all but one of the MSL threads so we can consolidate. I am leaving the "Congratulations to JPL" thread unlocked for this discussion to continue.

Thanks,

Jarad

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