NASA timed this landing perfectly along with the Olympics. They won the gold medal tonight, and rightfully so!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > Man, that was fun to watch. What a bunch of ecstatically > happy folks. I've never seen so many people hugging so > many other people. There must have been 10 minutes straight > of hugs and high-fives after they got the first telemetry > back that Curiosity had landed safely. > > Wonderful headline on the NYTimes Lede live blog of the > landing, on the item explaining that it takes 14 minutes > for the data to get from Mars back to earth, so they > didn't know the landing was successful until 14 minutes > later: > > "Whatever Has Happened Has Already Happened." > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > Cheers! > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/abc-news-live-stream-coverage-20120309.html > > >
