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Mars Science Laboratory

Great job by the engineers who put this together! Congrats to NASA, well done!:medals: People talk that China will be ahead of us when it comes to space exploration, to that I say Bull****!! Lets see China do something like that!!!!!!!
 
There were a few of us watching it live while on the SOH TS server last night and it was an amazing feat of engineering and technology. Just watching the reactions of the flight team was riveting as you could see the tension rising in the operatives as it got closer to touch-down. Each successful phase was greeted with applause and as the last 7 minutes or so were fully automated they had to hope that their programming was correct. Some of the reactions clearly showed that the positive outcome of a specific phase was a huge weight off their shoulders. I can remember the point where one of the orbiting Mars satellites made initial contact with Curiosity and started receiving data and there was a huge yell of 'YES!' from one of the operatives.

Fascinating stuff and I hope the remainder of the mission is equally successful for them.

:applause::applause::applause:
 
Yeah, I thought Adam Seltzner, the EDL Engineering Lead was going to wear a hole in the floor (maybe he did) with his frantic pacing those last seven minutes. :icon_lol:

They have not released the results yet, but I think they bullseyed the landing zone.
 
I'm waiting for the manned missions to Mars. I know a few people I'd like to send.
 
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