*flails IRL*

[sgmajorshipper]

Curiosity has landed. NASA's most technologically advanced rover has just completed the seven minutes of terror and we're already seeing images of the surface. It's been a hell of a journey, but my god, it's worth it. Crying from happiness isn't a crazy reaction, is it? I mean, the entire JPL Mission Control team erupted when we got confirmation.

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[regularamanda]

Wheeeeeee!!! :D :D :D

This isn't my first following of the Rovers (I've followed Spirit and Opportunity for a looonnngggg time, I have so much love for those little gals) and I watched when Phoenix landed a few years ago but WHEEEEE I'm so excited!! :D And they have pictures and she can see her shadow!! :) Also, totally been interested in it as well because I know a few other missions have been cut because of budgets etc etc

This is why I want to work at NASA. How could you not find this incredible?

Me tooo, me toooo. Though, if when we land people on Mars...I'm not going to be able to handle the stress because it was sooo stressful even with just a ROVER! Can you imagine if lives were at stake?! THE STRESSSSSS

[sgmajorshipper]

Well, I've followed Spirit and Opportunity, but I only really got seriously into space stuff about five or six years ago, and I remember when the Mars Science Laboratory was announced and they started to talk about it seriously, all those years ago. And now it's finally on the surface, and it's so surreal. I mean, she made it so far, through all the cuts and all the roll-backs and just...ugh, so invested and it's so incredible. I have feels all over the place.

I'm incredibly excited for the next steps involving people...I mean, hell, we're the generation who is gonna get to watch humans walk on Mars; hell, we're gonna be the generation that does the walking. We have every right to be invested in all this stuff.

[regularamanda]

So trueeeeeeee. I keep having to remind myself that it's a rover (they kept saying "heartbeat" and I'm like "you're killing me here!!!") and you know...not real and alive but it just...feels alive, ya know? Just like Spirit and Opportunity do (the little rovers that could ♥ )

Truuueee fact. I just hope it doesn't take us decades to get there (My dad's been interested in space since the Apollo landings when he was a kid and he always thought that by now we'd have went to Mars with humans), I just wish more people our age were interested in it because they're not. And it's just so sad. All of my speeches/persuasive papers in High School and college have been about NASA....good times.

[sgmajorshipper]

IKR. And, like, they are, in a way.

Eh, I know it'll take at least twenty years to get a mission, rockets, training, and more into place. We don't have the technology to send a manned mission for another ten years at least. If we'd kept going at the same pace we were at with Apollo, we'd be there by now, but things changed. That's life. But I hope we do go as soon as we can, that we push for Mars and we make it a reality.