Mars Science Lab Curiosity Lands!

[vocalista001]

I am very, VERY happy about this success for NASA/JPL and my marswalker!

Mike and I watched the live coverage from

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

and

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

Mike was able to break from his fast and furious note-taking to answer my questions.  I really tried not to ask too many.

I suppose my dumbest question was "Where,

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie]

**applause**

This is so exciting.

[vocalista001]

Yes it is!!

[pondhopper]

Manolo and I were in awe.
:)

[marswalker]

No dumb questions... it's a sort of "in the know" thing.

It sure looked like it was all preplanned and rehearsed, mostly because it was.

Nothing is tested quite so well as we test robotic space probes.

[yellowrosetx]

It's pretty awesome stuff! :)